Osborn MS b 50
A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf with clasps. c.1630s.
Grosvenor MS 36. Eaton Hall bookplate Case XXI no. 25.
Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 266. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, 21 January 1968, item 1, vol. II.
ff. 1r-14v
• FeO 100: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
Copy.
First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).
ff. 17r-30v
• BcF 75.9: Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate
Copy.
Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.
Osborn MS b 52/1
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.
p. 6
• BcF 164.5: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
A brief summary, headed ‘Confession of ffayth by Sr Fr Bacon’.
First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.
pp. 8-11
• RaW 1119: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine
Copy.
A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.
p. 12
• CtR 204: Sir Robert Cotton, A declaracon how the king by assent of Parliamt should publish himself against the two treatyes with the King of Spaine touching the Mariage & deliverye of ye Palatinate Written by Sr Robt. Cotton. March 27th. 1624
Copy, on one page, incomplete.
A tract beginning ‘by these precedent passages...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS and apparently unpublished.
pp. 106-8
• FuT 5.273: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
Extracts, headed ‘Choicest English Prouerbs collected out of Howell's Tetragl. & Fullers Worthies’.
First published in London, 1662.
p. 120
• HrJ 90: Sir John Harington, In Romam (‘Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread’)
Copy, headed ‘of Rome’ and subscribed ‘Colb. Claney. 30th. Augt. 63’.
First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.
p. 135
• DoC 240: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)
Copy, untitled, followed by the note ‘Dr Stillingfleet his Sermon of ye Mischeif of Separation - 2 May. 1680.’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
p. 155
• MaA 188: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.
p. 161
• MaA 497: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye parliament &c’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
pp. 174-6
• MaA 249: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Sr Robt Vynar's setting vp ye Kings statue on horsback in Woolchurch Markett London’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
pp. 178, 177
• MaA 210: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)
Copy of lines 1-34, headed ‘An old Prophecye of Nostradamus written Originally in french, now turned into English by’ and here ascribed to ‘Poet Bayes’, incomplete.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Osborn MS b 52/2
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
pp. 1-108
• RaW 600: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Copy, complete with Dedication to the King, in a non-professional hand.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
p. 122
• HeR 160: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amongst ye Myrtles as I walked’.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
pp. 123-5
• MaA 468: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
pp. 145-59
• MaA 163.98: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)
Copy, dated ‘25o ffebr. 75’.
A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).
p. 159
• MaA 97: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Bloud's stealing ye Crowne out of ye Tower of London Anno 16’, the poem (or subject) dated ‘25o. ffebr. 75’.
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.
p. 159
• MaA 275: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Englished’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).
For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.
p. 162
• ClJ 220: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)
Copy, headed ‘Of Oliver Protector’ and here beginning ‘A Protector: what's that? It is a stately thing’.
Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.
pp. 164-7
• RoJ 541: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr vpon Tunbridge Wells by ye E. of Rochester An°. 1673’, largely written sideways the length of the page.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
pp. 170-3
• RoJ 104.63: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)
Copy, ‘from Ra: Gregge iunr. 8o. March 77’. 1677.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
pp. 173-4
• RoJ 601: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy, headed ‘vpon Nothing Composed by ye Earle of Roshester’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
pp. 175-7
• MaA 83: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)
Copy, without ‘The Answer’, untitled, subscribed ‘Had these from Cosen Ambrose Scudamor 2°. Decr. 1675’.
This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Margoliouth.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
pp. 180-7
• DoC 358: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)
Copy, inscribed ‘from Mr Ellesby Minr. of Chiswick. 18th. septbr. 80 /Returnd ye originale to him agen 22th Septbr. by ye boy sealed vp’.
Two unspecified Osborn MSS collated in POAS.
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the Ld Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
Osborn MS b 54
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
p. 873
• RoJ 134: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)
Copy of a version headed ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees. 1676’ and beginning ‘Monmouth ye wittiest’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker.
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees’.
p. 876
• MrJ 75: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)
Copy.
pp. 877-9
• DrW 117.56: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)
Copy, headed ‘A prayer for ye Kinges 5 senses. 1623’.
Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
p. 880
• RaW 379: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
Copy, headed ‘vpon sr Rob: Cecill Earl of Salisbury & Ld Treasurer’ and subscribed ‘by sr Walter Raleigh’.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
p. 882
• HrE 19: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy upon ye princes death’.
First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.
p. 881
• MrJ 90: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Dukes voyage to ye Isle of Rheez 1627’.
p. 884
• CaE 30: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’, here ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
p. 887
• DeJ 75.8: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)
Copy, headed ‘In obitu Thomæ wentworth comitis se Strafford; D. Locu tenent: Hiberniæ &sc. qui de collabus erat aput turro Londinensem. maii 12o. 1641’.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
pp. 895-9
• MaA 507.5: Andrew Marvell, The Alarme
Copy, headed ‘The Alarum written in Nov. 1669 & sent in a letter to a member of ye House of Commons’.
An unpublished tract, beginning ‘Like the dumb man that found his tongue when he saw an arm lifted up to kill his father...’. Discussed as a work of ‘doubtful’ authorship in Legouis, pp. 470-1.
p. 930
• BrW 177: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
Copy.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
p. 931
• HeR 104: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘To a false Lover’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
pp. 931-2
• RnT 110: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye Incomparably Beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Stanly/Digby’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
pp. 932-3
• RnT 212: Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River (‘When bashfull day-light now was gone’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon 6 Cambridge Lasses bathing themselues in a riuer, and espied by a Schollar’.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.
p. 933
• RnT 398: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye Losse of a finger’ and subscribed ‘T: Randoll’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
p. 965
• DrJ 259: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts (‘How unhappy a Lover am I’)
Copy, headed ‘A song.1674’.
California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond, I, 244-5.
p. 965
• ShJ 169: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of lines 1-13 of the dirge, headed ‘A song made as some say By James Shirley and others say by Alexander Brome about 40 years agoe, with a new supplement by T. Fuller D.D. 1677’, imperfect, the rest excised.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
pp. 974-7
• RoJ 36: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against the present poetts Being an Allusion to Horrace Satyr: X: Booke: 1:...Written by the Earle of Rochester 1677’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
pp. 1015-16
• MaA 189: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)
Copy, headed ‘A Lampoon Writt by the Lord Buckhurst: 1667’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.
pp. 1021-2
• RoJ 259: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Supposed Author of the Defence off Satyr: vid: pag: 1012: 1677’ and subscribed ‘Writt by the Lord Rochester’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
p. 1094
• RoJ 201: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Cary Frazier (‘Her father gave her dildoes six’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon Betty Frazer 1677’ and subscribed ‘Rochester’.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Vieth, Attribution (1963), p. 237. Vieth (1968), p. 137. Walker, p. 123, as ‘Upon Cary Frazer’. Love, p. 294, in his Appendix Roffensis.
pp. 1113-19
• MaA 84: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)
Copy without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Exchequer Inn, or the Supper made by Thomas, Earl of Danby upon the Parliament's Clearing of Him A.D. 1675’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
p. 1137
• LeN 20: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, V, i, 31-57. Song after the Fourth Act (‘Ah Cruel bloody Fate’)
Copy of the song, headed ‘A song. 1680’ and with an additional stanza.
Published separately, as ‘The True Lovers' Tragedy’, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).
pp. 1143-7
• DoC 60: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre 1679’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
pp. 1147-51
• MaA 139.97: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Mengel.
First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
p. 1158
• MaA 276: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Blood who stole ye crown’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).
For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.
pp. 1180-1
• EtG 12: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
pp. 1181-2
• RoJ 619: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
pp. 1182-3
• RoJ 215: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
pp. 1183-4
• RoJ 200: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
p. 1196 et seq.
• RoJ 11.92: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)
Copy.
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
p. 1200
• RoJ 284: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Rochester Extempore (‘And after singing Psalm the Twelfth’)
Copy, headed ‘Rochester extempore 1670’.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 22. Walker, p. 122.
p. 1214
• CoA 172: Abraham Cowley, Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act. 2.Chor. (‘Upon the slippery tops of humane State’)
Copy, headed ‘The paraphrase by Abraham Cowley’.
First published, in the essay ‘Of Obscurity’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.
pp. 1225-6
• MaA 213: Andrew Marvell, Scaevola Scoto-Brittanicus (‘Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras’)
Copy.
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xlviii. Margoliouth, I, 213-14. Smith, pp. 421-2, with English translation. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Osborn MS b 59
An indenture quadripartite, concerning land in Kent and elsewhere, signed by Sedley, William Savile, second Marquess of Halifax, William Sherrard, and John Brockett, 30 July 1697. 1697.
*SeC 140: Sir Charles Sedley, Document(s)
Osborn MS b 60
A vellum indenture signed by Suckling, on 1 May 1638, for the sale of the Manor of Roos Hall in Suffolk, to Theophilus Kent, George Cocke, and John Dusgate, one of eight largely vellum documents relating chiefly to Suffolk estates, one signed by the poet's father, Sir John Suckling (1569-1627). c.1638.
*SuJ 188: John Suckling, Document(s)
Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 458.
Osborn MS b 62
A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
p. 1
• StW 338: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
Copy, headed ‘On a tanners marieinge a butchers Daughter’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
pp. 1-2
• CwT 434.5: Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)
Copy, headed ‘A loue sonnet’ and here beginning ‘Rise louely Celia, & be kinde’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.
p. 3
• DnJ 1775: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, headed ‘On a cripple’ and here beginning ‘I cannot go nor stand the cripple cryes’.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
pp. 4-5
• StW 225: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)
Copy, headed ‘A leter to ones Mris’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
pp. 6-9
• RnT 359: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)
Copy, headed ‘One a very deformed creature hauinge a voyce vncomparable sweet’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
pp. 9-14
• RnT 249: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.
p. 16
• RaW 477: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue’.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
pp. 19-20
• StW 867: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
pp. 20-2
• WoH 256: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Duns Goodnight to the world’.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
p. 22
• HrJ 49: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)
Copy.
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
p. 24
• StW 833: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to his Mris’.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
pp. 24-5
• HoJ 143: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)
Copy, headed ‘On a fart let in the Parliament’.
pp. 25-6
• KiH 92: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘Answere’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
p. 26
• CwT 1209: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy, headed ‘On a silken ribband’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
pp. 27-8
• PeW 204: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one vnmariagable’ and here beginning ‘Why should thy passions lead thee blind’.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.
pp. 28-9
• RnT 14: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)
Copy, headed ‘To ones Mris thinking her selfe too younge’ and here beginning ‘Dear doe not your fair beauty wronge’.
First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.
pp. 29-30
• MoG 79: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Nightingale’ and here beginning ‘My limbs being wery & my head opprest’.
pp. 32-3
• CwT 232: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris hauing stayed longe fro her’.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
pp. 35-6
• PoW 75: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘On Mris Poole’.
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
pp. 39-40
• KiH 134: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer to one dispraising his Mris’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
p. 41
• HrJ 209: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a puritan maide’ and here beginning ‘A holy maid with one of her society’.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
p. 42
• DkT 35: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘On the corps of Queene Elizabeth beinge brought by water from Greenewidge to Whitehall’.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
pp. 46-7
• RaW 290: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘One Mans life’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
pp. 47-51
• RnT 200: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)
Copy, headed ‘Randolps Dun or his petition to his Creditours’.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
p. 54
• CoR 749: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)
Copy, headed ‘Pure Nonsence Dr Corbet’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
p. 55
• CoR 454: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)
Copy.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).
pp. 56-8
• EaJ 59: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)
Copy, headed ‘In obitur Gulielmi Pembrocensis Cancellarij Oxonij. Erleso Merton’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
pp. 60-1
• RnT 571: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
p. 70
• CwT 834: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘one the same Tom: Carewe’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
p. 75
• DaJ 40: Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors (‘A Lady faire two suiters had’)
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘On A Lady’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.
p. 79
• CoR 388: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on his Mris Lute’ and here beginning ‘I prethee Lute when I am gone’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.
pp. 81-5
• EaJ 43: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Death of Toby Mathew, Archbishop of York. 29 March 1628 (‘And why should I not share my tears and be’)
Copy.
Unpublished.
pp. 87-9
• CwT 489: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of ye Earle of Carlieles daughter’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.
p. 92
• StW 1338: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, headed ‘on to his Mris’.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
pp. 94-5
• HrJ 184: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a precise Taylor’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
p. 95
• DnJ 1906: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy.
This MS or DnJ 1907 recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
p. 96
• HrJ 271: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)
Copy, headed ‘One Treason’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
p. 96
• GrF 46: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘alter’ [i.e. another on Treason] and here beginning ‘Treason is like the basiliske his eye’.
Bullough, II, 118.
p. 97
• PeW 265: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy of a version headed ‘A gentlewoman to a gentleman busy with her [ ]’ and beginning ‘Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith, but will you, fie’.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
pp. 97-8
• DnJ 3217: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Dun. to his Mris’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and (this MS?) in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
p. 99
• PoW 99: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon K James elegy’.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
p. 101
• CoR 628: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye ladyes of ye newe dresses’
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.
pp. 106-7
• CoR 161: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)
Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On ye Lady Harrington diing on ye smale pox’ and here beginning ‘O ye deformed vnwomanlike disease’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
p. 114
• HrJ 228: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)
Copy, here beginning ‘A certaine preist once riding on the way’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.
p. 115
• WoH 55: Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.
p. 126
• CwT 762: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)
Copy.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
pp. 127-31
• JnB 651: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Copy, headed ‘A Songe by Benn. Johnson’.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
p. 132
• DaJ 217: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses doe to bedd soone lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 132
• BrW 142: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of a Vertuous Lady’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
p. 132
• CwT 902: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy, headed ‘On A Mistresse’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
pp. 134-5
• BcF 51: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, headed ‘On the Worlds Vanity’ and subscribed ‘Sir Fran: Bacon’.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
p. 138
• StW 834: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
pp. 139-48
• RnT 280: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Sic lucit Thom: Randalph’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
Osborn MS b 63
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands suggesting communal use, paginated 5-309, in mottled calf. c.1697-1702.
pp. 5-9
• WaE 623: Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (‘The rising sun complies with our weak sight’)
Copy, subscribed ‘By ED: WALLER Esq. 1660.’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.
pp. 17-22
• WaE 155: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye victory over ye Spaniards at St Lugar: 1656’ and subscribed ‘E.W’.
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
See also WaE 765.
pp. 109-10
• CoA 298: Abraham Cowley, Extracts
Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
pp. 197-240
• MnJ 64: John Milton, Comus
Copy, transcribed from the text in Poems (1645), the title-page dated ‘Anno Domi: 1658’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 261.
First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of ‘Comus’. The Poem, originally called ‘A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.’, ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].
p. 248 et seq.rev.
• FuT 5.245: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
Extracts.
First published in Cambridge, 1639.
Osborn MS b 65
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, probably associated with Cambridge, densely written from both ends in a minute hand, paginated 11-264 (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 15 February 1928, lot 500. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 550 (1931), item 310.
pp. 11-23
• SpE 27: Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time (‘It chaunced me on day beside the shore’)
Copy, beginning at stanza 24 (‘But me no man bewaileth, but in game’); imperfect, lacking the first part and a title.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.
pp. 24-36
• SpE 31: Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses (‘Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine’)
Copy, headed ‘Musarum Lachrymae Dominae Strange dedicatae’.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.
pp. 37-52
• SpE 35: Edmund Spenser, Virgils Gnat (‘We now haue playde (Augustus) wantonly’)
Copy, headed ‘Virgiliana Culex’.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
pp. 53-63
• SpE 20: Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale (‘It was the month, in which the righteous Maide’)
Copy, incomplete.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.
pp. 138-46
• RnT 445: Thomas Randolph, Tom Randolf's Salting
Copy of the first 314 lines, here beginning ‘No salting here these many yeares was seene’, incomplete, on nine pages.
Edited from this MS in Richek, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 102; discussed in Fredson Bowers, ‘Thomas Randolph's Salting’, MP, 39 (1941-2), 275-80, and in Bentley, V (1956), 991-3. Collated in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), II, 204-13.
A humorous academic Lent graduation ceremony, beginning ‘No salting heere these many yeares was seene...’. First published (a short version) in Roslyn Richek, ‘Thomas Randolph's Salting (1627), Its Text, and John Milton's Sixth Prolusion as Another Salting’, ELR, 12 (1982), 102-31. The complete version edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 79-96.
pp. 193-192 rev.
• SuJ 238: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre (‘Sir John got him on an ambling Nag’)
Copy.
First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.
pp. 248-4 rev.
• FuT 5.25: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
Extracts.
First published in Cambridge, 1639.
Osborn MS b 67
Copy, in a professional hand, on 23 quarto pages, the work dated 1628, followed (pp. [25-7]) by Charles I's speech in parliament 17 March 1627, lacking covers. c.1630.
CtR 200: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
Osborn MS b 71
An octavo miscellany, 25 pages, in contemporary vellum (cut from a deed). Late 17th century.
p. 25
• HeR 40: Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung (‘Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
Osborn MS b 77
MS of ‘Cases & Discourses Controversial in Matters Divine’, Volume I, 117 quarto pages (plus blanks), in 17th-century calf. Written by William Stanton (b.1673). 1697.
The name ‘Sam: Rea:’ inscribed on the front pastedown.
Formerly Chest I/45.
pp. 15-20
• DrJ 267.8: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
‘A Conference, between Montezuma Emperour of Mexico, an Indian Priest; & Cortez ye Spanish General, & a Jesuit, concerning some chief poynts, in Popery’, in riming couplets, adapted from Dryden's play.
First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.
pp. 74-8
• DrJ 294.3: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man
‘A Dialogue between ye Angel Gabriel, & Adam in Paradise; concerning freeWill, & Predestination’, in riming couplets, adapted from Dryden's play.
First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.
Osborn MS b 86
A quarto verse miscellany, written in a single professional hand on rectos only, 53 leaves, disbound. Late 17th century.
ff. 26r-40r
• DeJ 19: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)
Copy of a version beginning ‘Sure there are Poets which did never dreame.’
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.
ff. 45r-7r
• DrJ 214: John Dryden, To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse (‘Whether the fruitful Nile, or Tyrian Shore’)
Copy, subscribed ‘John Dryden’.
First published in Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 387-9. California, II, 172-4. Hammond, II, 218-22.
Osborn MS b 93
A pocket-book-size octavo volume of verse and prose works by John Cleveland, densely written in a small non-professional hand, 105 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650s.
Inscribed (p. 202 rev.) ‘May Bowling... 1783’. Hodgson'S, 20 November 1959, lot 521, to Dobell.
p. 1
• ClJ 160: John Cleveland, <Greek> -- Anacreon (‘The fruitfull earth carouses, and’)
Copy, with a Latin version.
Morris & Withington, p. 74.
pp. 3-4
• ClJ 50: John Cleveland, Fuscara; or the Bee Errant (‘Natures Confectioner, the Bee’)
Copy.
First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.
pp. 5-8
• ClJ 133: John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe (‘Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.
pp. 9-11
• ClJ 158: John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him (‘Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.
p. 12
• ClJ 165: John Cleveland, News news News (‘News news News is come from the North’)
Copy, headed ‘Juvenilia not entrd’.
This MS recorded in Morris.
Morris & Withington, pp. 74-5.
p. 13
• ClJ 60: John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new (‘It is no Curranto-news I undertake’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Commencement’.
This MS recorded in Morris.
First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
pp. 15-16
• ClJ 166: John Cleveland, ‘No Hubbub surnamd Hue & cry’
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
Morris & Withington, pp. 75-6.
pp. 17-18
• ClJ 10: John Cleveland, The Authours Mock-Song to Marke Anthony (‘When as the Night-raven sung Pluto's Mattins’)
Copy, headed ‘Mark Antony’.
This MS recorded in Morris.
First published in Character, the edition with additional material (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 42-3.
pp. 19-20
• ClJ 167: John Cleveland, On an Alderman who married a very young wife (‘Let's charme some Poet from his grave’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
Morris & Withington, pp. 77-8.
pp. 21-2
• ClJ 149: John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas (‘I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Death of Mr King’, docketed ‘not entrd’.
First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.
p. 23
• ClJ 171: John Cleveland, Vpon Lee & Owens Fencing, a Dr Roan & a Jeffray (‘The Tables spread & they begin’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
Morris & Withington, p. 78.
pp. 25-7
• ClJ 144: John Cleveland, Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising (‘The sluggish morne, as yet undrest’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.
p. 29
• ClJ 48: John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her (‘Stand off, and let me take the aire’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
pp. 31-3
• ClJ 140: John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite (‘Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
pp. 37-40
• ClJ 55: John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse (‘Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade’)
Copy.
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.
pp. 41-2
• ClJ 117: John Cleveland, To Julia to expedite her promise (‘Since 'tis my Doom, Love's under-Shreive’)
Copy, incomplete.
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions never before Printed (1653). Morris & Withington, pp. 60-2.
pp. 43-5
• ClJ 37: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)
Copy, incomplete.
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
p. 47
• ClJ 77: John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day (‘Astrologers say Venus, the same starr’)
Copy.
First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.
pp. 49-51
• ClJ 14: John Cleveland, The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems (‘Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.
pp. 53-4
• ClJ 83: John Cleveland, Parting with a Freind upon the Rode (‘I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus’)
Copy.
Morris & Withington, p. 63.
pp. 57-73
• ClJ 246: John Cleveland, An Answer to a Pamphlet written against the Lord Digby's Speech concerning the Death of the Earl of Strafford
Copy, untitled.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 130-42,.
p. 74
• ClJ 260: John Cleveland, Petition to the Protector
Copy, subscribed ‘John Cleveland’.
A petition to Cromwell dated [February ‘1656’]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.
pp. 79-80
• ClJ 38: John Cleveland, Epitaphium Thomae Spell Coll. Divi Johannis Præsidis (‘Hic jacet Quantillum Quanti’)
Copy.
First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, p. 64.
pp. 83-5
• ClJ 121: John Cleveland, To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb (‘Stay, should I answer (Lady) then’)
Copy.
This MS discussed in Helen Duffy and Paul S. Wilson, ‘A Note on John Cleveland's “To Mistress K.T.”’, N&Q, 220 (December 1975), 546-8.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.
pp. 87-92
• ClJ 93: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
pp. 95-9
• ClJ 247: John Cleveland, The Answer to the Newark Summons
Copy, untitled.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 169-72.
pp. 101-4
• ClJ 244: John Cleveland, The Answer [to a letter by W. E.]
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 84-5.
pp. 107-12
• ClJ 245: John Cleveland, The Answer [to another letter by W. E.]
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 88-91.
pp. 115-18
• ClJ 106: John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
pp. 121-3
• ClJ 80: John Cleveland, On the Archbishop of Canterbury (‘I need no Muse to give my passion vent’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 38-9.
pp. 125-30
• ClJ 67: John Cleveland, The Kings Disguise (‘And why so coffin'd in this vile disguise’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 6-9.
pp. 131-2
• ClJ 152: John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland (‘Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence’)
Copy.
First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.
pp. 133-9
• ClJ 125: John Cleveland, To P. Rupert (‘O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!’)
Copy, headed ‘Rupertismus’.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.
pp. 144-141 rev.
• ClJ 238: John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
Copy, dated ‘martij 12 1641’.
Oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
pp. 148-146 rev.
• ClJ 228: John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio ad Acad. Cantab. Cancellarium, & Legatum Gallicum, publice habita
Copy, headed ‘Oratio habita cora Academiæ Cant Cancellario et Legato Gallico’.
Oration, beginning ‘Quam Augusta sit vestra præsentia, & quam sacro horrore...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 135-6.
pp. 152-150 rev.
• ClJ 251: John Cleveland, Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cum factus essex Archiepiscopus Eboracensis
Copy, headed ‘Ad Episcopu cu factus erat Archb: Eboracensis’.
J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as ‘Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem’).
pp. 160-159 rev.
• ClJ 265: John Cleveland, To the Earl of Holland
Copy, headed ‘To the Ld of Holland then Chancellr of C’.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.
pp. 164-163 rev.
• ClJ 267: John Cleveland, To the Earl of Newcastle
Copy.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 146-7.
pp. 168-167 rev.
• ClJ 248: John Cleveland, Domino Edvardo Littleton, Sigilli Custodi
Copy, headed ‘Ad Episc Ebor’.
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 229-30.
p. 170 rev.
• ClJ 269: John Cleveland, To the Lady Bowes
Copy.
Letter, beginning ‘Madam / We should altogether excuse our presumption in writing...’.
pp. 172-171 rev.
• ClJ 229: John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis habita cum Junior Baccalaureus in Tripodem deputaret. Cantab
Copy.
Oration, beginning ‘Quos nè videre possum citrà Oculorum Hyperbolen...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 139-40. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 173-4.
pp. 182-181 rev.
• ClJ 242: John Cleveland, Ad Magistrum Wandesforth
Copy.
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 234-5.
p. 184 rev.
pp. 186-185 rev.
• ClJ 256: John Cleveland, [Untitled letter]
Copy.
Untitled letter, beginning ‘Ubi aurita satisst filii pietas...’. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 236-7.
p. 188 rev.
• ClJ 252: John Cleveland, Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cum factus essex Archiepiscopus Eboracensis
Copy, headed ‘Ad Archiepiscopu Cantuariensem’.
J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as ‘Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem’).
pp. 198-197 rev.
• ClJ 240: John Cleveland, Vinum est Poetarum Equus
Copy.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 238-9.
pp. 212-217 rev.
• ClJ 230: John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis Publicis habita cum Patris Officio fungeretur. Cantab
Copy.
Latin oration beginning ‘Quam equivocum sit nomen Patris...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 146-50. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 185-8.