Sir Arthur Gorges

'A happles man of late'

Sandison, No. [39], pp. 45-7.

GgA 1

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 33v-4v)

Another of the same Armories ('Whylome this subject Crowne, a soveraigne crowne pursu'd')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [105], pp. 128-9.

GgA 2

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 108v)

GgA 2.5

Copy, in gilt, in the second of two rectangles beneath the Prince of Wales's coloured arms.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 4r)

The Answer ('My trustie servants matchless faith')

Sandison, No. [24], p. 25.

GgA 3

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 18v)

'But this and then no more'

The incipit first published, in a musical setting, in W. Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture (London, 1596), sig. Dv of the third part. Sandison, No. [25], pp. 26-7. May EV 4157.

GgA 4

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 19r-v)

GgA 5

Copy, untitled, subscribed FYNIS. G O R.

This MS collated in Sandison. Edited from this MS, and misattributed to Edward Dyer, in Bernard M. Wagner, New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (pp. 468-9).

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 ff. 27v-8r)

Carnation, whit and watchede ('I saue of late a Ladie weare a shoo')

Sandison, No. [8], pp. 9-10.

GgA 6

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 6v)

GgA 7

Copy.

This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, p. 117 (No. 192).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 f. 36r)

The Conclusion to the Kings Majestie ('Of manie now that sound with hopes consort')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [106], p. 129.

GgA 8

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 109r)

GgA 9

Copy, dated 1^o: Janua: 1609.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 5r)

D ('Full lytle knowes my deare and sweeteste frynde')

Sandison, No. [63], pp 65-6.

GgA 10

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 52v)

D ('That to revive which wronge of tyme might weare')

Sandison, No. [66]. pp. 67-8.

GgA 11

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 54r)

D ('To shunne the fury off the hoote Sunnebeame')

Sandison, No. [44], p. 54.

GgA 12

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 41v-2r)

D ('Yff other love then yours do lodge within my Breste')

Sandison, No. [52], p. 59.

GgA 12.5

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 46v)

D-- Sonnett ('My deare, take in good parte this fortune badde')

Sandison, No. [48], p. 57.

GgA 13

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 44v)

'Decayde I fynde my favor and my fate'

Sandison, No. [80], pp. 78-9.

GgA 14

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 61v)

Dido to Æneas ('Lyke as the swann snow white')

Sandison, No. [90], pp. 87-106.

GgA 15

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 69r-92r)

Didos true Complainte ('Itt was the sylente tyme')

Sandison, No. [91], pp. 106-10.

GgA 16

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 93r-4v)

'Downe came desire from heaven this other daye'

Sandison, No. [9], pp. 10-11.

GgA 17

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 7r)

An Ecloge betwen a Shephearde and a Heardsman ('Cumme gentle Heardman sitt with mee')

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.

GgA 18

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 101v-4v)

GgA 19

Copy, in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on one sheet of paper.

Headed An Eglogue between a shepheard and a heardsman, endorsed A verse of S^r Philip Sidney.

c.1600

May EV 4798.

Berkeley Castle (Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 31/6.)

GgA 20

Copy of lines 1-52, in a musical setting, headed A dialogue.

This MS collated in Sandison.

A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco.

c.1614-30

Inscribed (f. 1v) John Shurlane His Booke, and (f. 24v rev.) This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11, with dates 28 Nov. 1630 and 1633. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 15117 ff. 10v-11r)

GgA 21

Copy, headed between a sheapheard & a heardsman an eglogue.

This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 132-4 (No. 205).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 ff. 39v-40r)

'False Cræssyde have yow chaungde your mynde'

Sandison, No. [38], pp. 44-5.

GgA 22

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 32v-3r)

'Farewell Crueltye lodged in greate Bewtye'

Sandison, No. [21], p. 23.

GgA 23

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 17r)

'From your fayr eyes the kendlynge sparks were sent'

Sandison, No. [3], p. 5.

GgA 24

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 3v)

'From whence doth this proceade'

Sandison, No. [40], pp. 47-9.

GgA 25

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 35r-6r)

'Henceforth I will nott sett my love'

Sandison, No. [94], pp. 113-14.

GgA 26

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 97v-8r)

'Her face Her tongue Her wytt'

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 79. Sandison, No. [79], pp. 77-8.

See RaW 136-145.

'How durste a selye Paynter undertake'

Sandison, No. [72], pp. 71-2.

GgA 27

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 57r)

'Iff all my thoughtes were open unto yow'

Sandison, No. [59], p. 63.

GgA 28

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 50r)

'If mortall men so grevous paynes would taste'

Sandison, No. [15], pp. 19-20.

GgA 29

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 13v)

'Iff this be love, to fyxe the Eyes onn grownde'

Sandison, No. [76], pp. 74-5.

GgA 30

Copy. The poem followed (f. 59v) by a copy of Thomas Churchyard's Of Mounsieur (On worthy Queen on mighty Realme on God above) which is deleted.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 59r)

'If under your fair looks so sweete in shewe'

Sandison, No. [18], p. 21.

GgA 31

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 15r)

'Let Castyls Phillip gratefully confess'

Sandison, No. [111], p. 133.

GgA 32

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 113v)

'Lett those that lyve in love, lament the lovers fitts'

Sandison, No. [11], pp. 12-13.

GgA 33

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 8v)

'Like as the Adamante by vertue straunge'

Sandison, No. [14], pp. 18-19.

GgA 34

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 12v-13r)

'Love as a Prynce to shew his power and myght'

Sandison, No. [858], p. 84.

GgA 35

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 66r)

'Lyke as the Princely faulcon on the fyste feedynge'

Sandison, No. [77], p. 76.

GgA 36

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 60r)

'Mars and the Muses weare att mortall stryfe'

Sandison, No. [97], p. 118.

GgA 37

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 101r)

'My harte I have oftymes bydd the beware'

Sandison, No. [6], pp. 7-8.

GgA 38

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 5r)

'My mistrs waveringe mynd full well compare I might'

Sandison, No. [23], p. 25.

GgA 39

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 18v)

'My werye ghooste charged with to highe desyre'

Sandison, No. [68], p. 69.

GgA 40

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 55r)

'Myne eyes thinke yow that still myne eyes yow are'

Sandison, No. [37], pp. 43-4.

GgA 41

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 32r)

An new Yeares guift to the Kings Majestie alluding to the time that hee Was proclaimed heere in England 24th March ('When time our styled yeare did end')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir Egerton Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [101], p. 126.

GgA 42

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 107r)

*GgA 43

Autograph

Copy, with Gorges's autograph signature.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 1r)

'O fayre and cruell hande that me enchaynde'

sandison, No. [31], p. 37.

GgA 44

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 27r)

'Of love fayne woolde I frame my style'

Sandison, No. [42], pp. 50-2.

GgA 45

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 37v-40r)

Of Syr Phyllypp Sydney ('Summe for thy sake rych Monuments doo frame')

Sandison, No. [96], p. 117.

GgA 46

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 100v)

of the Q. ('To the greate Macedon my fayre Queene I compare')

Sandison, No. [61], pp. 64-5.

GgA 47

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 51r)

of the Q. Sonnet ('Prodigall was nature fruitfull and devyne')

Sandison, No. [47], p. 56.

GgA 48

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 44r)

The Olympian Catastrophe ('This princely Crowne, the marke of Monarchye')

First published edited by Randall Davier (Kensington: Cayme Press, 1925). Sandison, pp. 135-82. The poem To the Reader (beginning No praise for Poesie do I affect) was recycled by Sir Arthur Gorges Jr and published as his contribution to Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1650) on the death of Henry Lord Hastings.

*GgA 49

Autograph

A quarto manuscript, 56 leaves, plus three blank leaves, in vellum.

Principally in the neat hand of an amanuensis, in a predominantly secretary hand with italic headings, with occasional autograph corrections by Gorges, a number of alterations and substitutions (ranging from single words to two whole lines) on pasted-on slips of paper (notably on ff. 10v, 17v-19r, 22v, 24r, 29r, 32r, 33v, 43v, 45v, and 49r); with a title-page dedicated to the deceased Prince Henry (f. 1r), and dedicatory poems to Queen Anne (To the Queenes Maiestye, beginning If sorrow comment on a text of woe, f. 2r); to Princess Elizabeth (To the most Excellent & vertuous Princes the Lady Elizabeths Grace Countess Palatine of Rheyne, Duchess of Bavyere &c., beginning When greife w^th mutiny disturbs the hart, f. 2v); and To the Reader (beginning No praise for Poesie do I affect, f. 3r); with the Prince's emblem and motto and the first stanza of the main text in italic on a pasted-on leaf (f. 4r); the 1182-line poem in sextains (ff. 4r-54r); followed by The Author to his Muse (beginning To those that (w^th a squint malignant eye), f. 54r-v); Sonet To his Entombed Bodye (beginning Sume for thy sake prowed Monnume[n]ts will frame, f. 55r); and The Lamentation of Richmond Sonnet (beginning Like to a lampe whose flaiminge light is dead, f. 56r).

1612

From the Bridgewater Library.

Edited from this MS in Davier and in Sandison.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 1130)

'Once as I dyd contemplate with myn Eyes'

Sandison, No. [13], pp. 16-17.

GgA 50

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 11v-12r)

A Pastorall unfynyshed ('Dianas darlinges in a rownde')

Sandison, pp. 124-5.

*GgA 51

Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Sandison. Facsimiles of f. 106v in Sandison, facing p. 124, and of ff. 106r-v in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, Nos 17 and 18.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 106r-v)

Philomela. ('Nothinge on earth remaynes to shew so ryght')

Sandison, No. [85], pp. 81-2.

GgA 52

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 64r)

Q Sonnet ('In that yow sway the Scepter and the Crowne')

Sandison, No. [49], pp. 57-8.

GgA 53

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 45r)

'Restore agayne that colloure to the golde'

Sandison, No. [20], p. 23.

GgA 54

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 16v)

'Retire from me yow pensive thoughts awhile'

Sandison, No. [7], pp. 8-9.

GgA 55

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 5v-6r)

'Sence course of kinde ordaynes itt to be so.'

Sandison, No. [4], p. 6.

GgA 56

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 4r)

'She that holdes me under the lawes of love'

Sandison, No. [17], pp. 20-1.

GgA 57

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 14v)

'She whome I holde so deare'

Sandison, No. [10], pp. 11-12.

GgA 58

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 7v-8r)

'Since that the date drawes on'

Sandison, No. [26], pp. 28-34.

GgA 59

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 20v-4v)

'Some will commend and prayse their mistres crsped hayre'

Sandison, No. [2], pp. 4-5.

GgA 60

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 3r)

Sonnett ('As I drawe neere with fearfull stepps to see')

Sandison, No. [28], p. 35, and second text, No. [55], p. 61.

GgA 61

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 48r)

GgA 62

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 25v)

Sonnett. ('Erect thy flighte on hye with Eagles winges')

Sandison, No. [75], pp. 73-4.

GgA 63

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 58v)

Sonnett ('Hadd not Pirythous to hell gone downe')

Sandison, No. [50], p. 58.

GgA 64

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 45v)

Sonnett ('How gravelye wise was that Senatours counsaile')

Sandison, No. [54], pp. 60-1.

GgA 65

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 47v)

Sonnett. ('In that faire face of yours where joyes so ryffe doo shyne')

Sandison, No. [73], p. 72.

GgA 66

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 57v)

Sonnett. ('Itt gladdes the harte to see faire Phæbus ryse')

Sandison, No. [67], p. 68.

GgA 67

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 54v)

Sonnett. ('Like to a lampe whose flaming lyghte is deade')

Sandison, No. [65]. p. 67.

GgA 68

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 53v)

Sonnet. ('Myghtye is death and mightie Shee lylewise')

Sandison, No. [62], p. 65.

GgA 69

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 52r)

Sonnett ('My mynde desyrous off my Bodies wracke')

Sandison, No. [86], p. 82.

GgA 70

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 64v)

Sonnet. ('Neither amongste the Nimphes, in shady woodes')

Sandison, No. [74], p. 73.

GgA 71

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 58r)

Sonnett. ('O love how my sweete Mistres in bewty all excellethe')

Sandison, No. [71], p. 71.

GgA 72

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 56v)

Sonnett ('Our long sweet sommers day of youthfull yeares')

Sandison, No. [110], p. 132.

GgA 73

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 113r)

Sonnett ('The fayrest scornynge to see my lybertye')

Sandison, No. [81], p. 79.

GgA 74

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 62r)

Sonnett ('Vauntinge sometymes how I had bynn a thralle')

Sandison, No. [58], pp. 62-3.

GgA 75

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 49v)

Sonnett ('Waying the cares that cause me thus to crye')

Sandison, No. [84], p. 81.

GgA 76

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 63v)

Sonnett ('When att your handes of love the sugred fruite')

Sandison, No. [16], p. 20.

GgA 77

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 14r)

Sonnett. ('Whilste all on fyre victorius Rome blazed')

Sandison, No. [60], p. 63-4.

GgA 78

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 50v)

Sonnet. ('With his owne hande dyd love her feature frame')

Sandison, No. [70], p. 70.

GgA 79

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 56r)

Sonnet ('Your selfe the Sonne, and I the meltinge froste')

Sandison, No. [64], p. 66.

GgA 80

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 53r)

Sonnet. D ('Harde is the happ wherto my lyfe is Bownde')

Sandison, No. [53], p. 60.

GgA 81

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 47r)

Sonnett. D ('He that cann number by his skill or payne')

Sandison, No. [57], p. 62.

GgA 82

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 49r)

Sonnett D ('Mistres, thinke nott it is alone the flattringe hue')

Sandison, No. [29], p. 36.

GgA 83

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 26r)

Sonnett D ('Nott the disdaynes of her prowde youthly mynde')

Sandison, No. [69], pp. 69-70.

GgA 84

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 55v)

'Tell me my harte how wilte thow doe'

Sandison, No [19], pp. 22-3.

GgA 85

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 15v)

'That yeelds yow due prayse I am the meanest of manye'

Sandison, No. [56], p. 61.

GgA 86

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 48v)

'The gentell Season of the yeare'

First pub in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 87. Sandison, No. [1], pp. 3-4.

GgA 87

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 2r-v)

GgA 88

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf.

c.1586-91

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 85 ff. 17v-18r)

GgA 89

Copy, untitled, subscribed in different ink S: P. Sidney added afterwards.

This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 ff. 63v-4r)

GgA 90

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 136-7 (No. 208).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 f. 40v)

'The lytle droppes off raine that fall from hye'

Sandison, No. [5], pp. 6-7.

GgA 91

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 4v)

'The prisone sweet that Captyve holdes my mynde'

Sandison, No. [87], p. 83.

GgA 92

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 65r)

'The unrype fruyts of wanton youthes desyre'

Sandison, No. [33], p. 40.

GgA 93

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 29r)

'To frame a sadd discourse of languysshinge desyre'

Sandison, No. [92], pp. 110-11.

GgA 94

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 95r-v)

'To my unspotted fayth I may compare'

Sandison, No. [82], pp. 79-80.

GgA 95

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 62v)

Upon the death of the Young lord Harrington. ('Sorrow and Honor were at strife')

Sandison, No. [105], pp. 130-1.

GgA 96

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 111r)

Verses of the Queenes Armes beinge the three Lyons of Denmarke ('Perfections Queene, these Lyons three')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [103], pp. 127-8.

GgA 97

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 108r)

GgA 98

Copy, in gilt, in a rectangle beneath the Queen's coloured arms.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 3r)

Verses sung to Queene Elizabeth by a Mairmead as shee past upon the Thames to Sir Arthur Gorges house at Chelsey. ('O blessed eyes, the lyfe of sights yee see')

Sandison, No. [109], pp. 131-2.

GgA 99

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 112r)

Verses to bee sett over the Rose and Thisle enterlaced together with the Harpe in the middle of the Wreath. And the kings Moat over it which is ... ('Devynelie did your Royall Moate presage')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [102], p. 127.

GgA 100

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 107v)

GgA 101

Copy, in gilt, in an oval beneath the coloured royal arms.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 2r)

Verses to bee sett over the three Crownd plumes the Princes Armores ('Bellona vaunts that this brave Prince to her belongd')

First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [104], p. 128.

GgA 102

Copy, among the eleven later poems.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 108v)

GgA 103

Copy, in gilt, in the first of two rectangles beneath the Prince of Wales's coloured arms.

Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.

MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf.

The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself.

1 January 1609/10

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 A. XLVII f. 4r)

'What fier encreaste by rage of wynde'

Sandison, No. [32], pp. 38-9.

GgA 104

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 27v-8v)

'What man on earth doth lyve like me'

Sandison, No. [43], p. 53.

GgA 105

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 40v-1r)

'What was is nott: what may shalbee:'

Sandison, No. [401], pp. 49-50.

GgA 106

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 36v-7r)

'What wordes may well suffyse'

Sandison, No. [95], pp. 114-17.

GgA 107

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 98v-100r)

'wheare hap or harme shall me betyd'

Sandison, No. [99], pp. 123-4.

*GgA 108

Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Sandison.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 105v)

'When I complayne I doo butt fayne'

Sandison, No. [35], pp. 41-2.

GgA 109

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 30v-1r)

'When yow shall have a harte fraughhte full of love'

Sandison, No. [34], pp. 40-1.

GgA 110

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 29v-30r)

'Wher leaste of all I dyd susspecte'

Sandison, No. [78], pp. 76-7.

GgA 111

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 60v)

'Whilste hope high honnors place to have'

Sandison, No. [93], pp. 112-13.

GgA 112

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 96r-7r)

'Who hath released yow myne Eyes from griefe'

Sandison, No. [27], pp. 34-5.

GgA 113

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 25r)

'Who so desires to vewe'

Sandisin, No. [12], pp. 13-16.

GgA 114

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 9r-11r)

'Who woulde more sweete Contentment crave'

Sandison, No. [83], p. 80.

GgA 115

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 63r)

'Whom love commaundes and holdes as humble thrall'

Sandison, No. [51], pp. 58-9.

GgA 116

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 46r)

'Why were myne eyes so forewarde to my harme'

Sandison, No. [30], pp. 36-7.

GgA 117

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 26v)

'Woolde I were changde into that golden Showre'

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 81. Sandison, No. [46], pp. 55-6. Latham, pp. 81-2. The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999). Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.

GgA 118

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Sandison.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf.

c.1586-91

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 85 f. 46r)

GgA 119

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 43r)

GgA 120

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled, cancelled.

This MS text recorded in Sandison.

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 f. 27v)

GgA 121

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS. RA.

This MS collated in Sandison. Edited from this MS in Hoyt H. Hudson, MLN, 46 (1931), 386, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 8.

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 f. 36v)

Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie ('Whilst my heart bleeding writes that deadlie wound')

Sandison, No. [107], p. 130.

GgA 122

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 110r)

'Yee heavye sighes drawne with my latest breath'

Sandison, No. [36], p. 43.

GgA 123

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 31v)

'Yf ever I doe tribute yeelde agayne'

Sandison, No. [22], pp. 24-5.

GgA 124

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 17v-18r)

'Yf teares avayle to ease the gryved mynde'

Sandison, No. [405], p. 55.

GgA 125

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 f. 42v)

'Yf theis my humble lynes thy presence to to boldely wronge'

Sandison, No. [89], pp. 84-7.

GgA 126

Copy.

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.

Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).

c.1586-1625

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3165 ff. 67r-8v)

Introduction

Prose Works

Verse

Letters

Abbreviations

Verse

Prose

Miscellaneous

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