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Stephen Hawes

fl.1503–1511

Introduction

There are no known examples of Hawes's own handwriting. Extracts from three of his works appear in two sixteenth-century miscellanies (HaS 1-2, HaS 4). There survives also a manuscript of an elegy on Henry VIII (HaS 3) which used to be attributed to John Skelton, but which has been more recently assigned to Hawes on stylistic grounds.

Abbreviations

Gluck & Morgan
The Minor Poems of Stephen Hawes, ed. Florence W. Gluck and Alice B. Morgan, EETS 271 (London, 1974).

Verse

The Comfort of Lovers ('The gentyll poetes vnder cloudy fygures')

First published [in London, 1515?]. Gluck & Morgan, pp. 93-122.

HaS 1

Copy of anonymous love poems made up of lines transcribed from an early printed edition of The Comfort of Lovers.

This MS edited in Frederick Morgan Padelford, The Songs in Manuscript Rawlinson C. 813, Anglia, 31 (1908), 309-97. Recorded in Gluck & Morgan, pp. xx-xxii.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in various hands, 167 leaves (plus blanks), in calf.

Mid-16th century
Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 813 f. 14v et seq. (poems No. 13, lines 148-54, and No. 16))
The Conversion of Swearers ('The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkes')

First published in London, 1509. Gluck & Morgan, pp. 73-84.

HaS 2

Copy of lines 234-89, untitled and here beginning Worth your harts so planted in pryde), added to the volume in a secretary hand, with other verses, at the end of the volume. Early 16th century.

This MS recorded in Gluck & Morgan, p. xx.

A 15th-century folio book of verse questions and answers, in a professional secretary hand, partly rubricated, 82 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

An Elegy on the Death of Henry VII. ('O wauering Worlde all Wrapped in Wretchidnes')

First published [c.1509]. Edited in Poetical Works of John Skelton, ed. Alexander Dyce (London, 1843), II, 399-400.

HaS 3 c.1509

Copy.

Edited from this MS and attributed to Hawes in G.V. Scammell and H.L. Rogers, An Elegy on Henry VII, Review of English Studies, NS 8 (1957), 167-70.

A large quarto-size register of priory business transacted by the prior principally between 1484 and 1519, in chaplains' formal secretary hands, 215 leaves of vellum, in modern half blue morocco.

Among the Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments, formerly in Prior's Kitchen.

Durham Cathedral Archives (DCD Registrum Parvum IV ff. 176v-7r)
The Pastime of Pleasure ('Oh my lady dear both regard and see')

First published in London, [1509]. Edited by William Edward Mead, EETS 173 (London, 1928).

HaS 4

Copy of anonymous love poems made up of lines transcribed from an early printed edition of The Pastime of Pleasure.

This MS edited in Frederick Morgan Padelford, The Songs in Manuscript Rawlinson C. 813, Anglia, 31 (1908), 309-97. Recorded in Mead, p. xxxviii.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in various hands, 167 leaves (plus blanks), in calf.

Mid-16th century
Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 813 f. 14v et seq. (poems No. 13, 14, 15, 47, 48, and possibly 1 and 51))

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