On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange
('Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won')
See
Nathaniel Lee
1645/52–1692
Introduction
Lost Papers
Nat Lee — the extravagant, brain-sick tragic dramatist whom Allardyce Nicoll regarded as, next to Dryden, possibly the most influential man of his age
— has left not a single known example of his handwriting, let alone any literary papers. The sole evidence of such materials is the testimony of William Oldys (1696-1761), in the prolific notes on Lee he wrote in his exemplum of Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (Oxford, 1691), now in the
There is or was lately a brother of Nat Lee's somewhere in or near the Isle of Axholm in Lincolnshire, who has a trunk full of his writings, as I have been informed by Old Mr Sam Westley, the late parson of Epworth in that isle.
In a letter to Edward Harley, dated 23 February 1730/1, Oldys mentions having heard about these remains a year earlier (see HMC, Portland VI (1901), Appendix, p. 37; cited in J.M. Armistead, Nathaniel Lee (Boston, 1979), pp. 25, 186). One wonders whether these writings might have included the play of 25 acts which, according to the less-than-reliable testimony of the satirist Tom Brown (in Letters from the Dead to the Living, Part II (London, 1703), pp. 130-1), the mad Nat Lee wrote during his sojourn in Bedlam (i.e. between November 1684 and 11 April 1688). Lee's brother, the Rev. John Lee, Rector of Bigby and Cadney in Lincolnshire, died in 1730, bequeathing his estate to his wife Sarah, who, as Armistead has conjectured (op. cit., p. 25), might conceivably have passed on such remains to their married daughter Ann Langdon, or over to some of her cousins, perhaps to Ann Lee Pitman Holmes
. Needless to say, there has never been any subsequent sighting of Lee's trunk — which would be a fascinating literary cornucopia if it ever came to light.
Nor are there any contemporary manuscripts of any works by Lee that can claim authority. One only of his few occasional poems had limited circulation in the poems on affairs of state of the period (
The Rival Queens
Although Lee's most respected play today is his pro-republican Lucius Junius Brutus (1680), by far the most popular, most influential and most enduring of his plays on the stage was his The Rival Queens: or The Death of Alexander the Great (1676), which was more commonly known by the title Alexander the Great or simply Alexander. Although subject to later adaptations — notably in the 1750s by the Irish lawyer and playwright Macnamara Morgan (c.1720-62) — this play held the stage, and was performed by most of the leading British actors and actresses, for nearly two centuries; its last recorded performances in the London area occurring in 1843, in the provinces in 1860 and, last of all, in New York in 1863. Its stage transmogrifications included at least one operatic
version (
- Birmingham Central Library, Cat. No. 660473, Iron Room 501, Box 1, Prompt No. 25 [by Wood St. Benson, Birmingham, 1844, together with a set of manuscript music parts for
the March & Chorus
]. - Boston Public Library (K. 47. 5 No. 6) [signed in 1824 by John G. Gilbert of Boston].
- Clark Library, Los Angeles. [Possibly for a school production, after 1684].
- Folger: (Prompt A9 [by J.P. Kemble]); (T. a. 10) [J.P. Kemble's autograph part of Alexander, 1795].
- Garrick Club [by J.P. Kemble].
- Harvard Theatre Collection: (i) (TS 2478.74, no. 4) [by James (?) Stokes and William Powell for J.P. Kemble, probably 1795]; (ii) (TS 2587.600 [by the Nottingham Company of James Robertson and T.H. Wilson Manly, 1807]; (iii) (TS 2587.605) [unidentified]); (iv) (TS 2587.610) [
E. R. Davenport
, Boston]. - Huntington: (i) (RB 227383) [by Henry Betty, c.1838-42]; (ii) (RB 479142) [Francis Mundy's, 1795].
- Library of Congress (PT 2452.R 5Z33) [Boston, unidentified].
- University of Michigan [by J.P. Kemble and others].
- New York Public Library, Library & Museum of the Performing Arts: (i) (Acc. 34190) [
J. Burrows Wright
, Boston, 1838]; (ii) (Acc. 162636) [James Stark
, New York, 1847].
In addition, three of the burlesques on Alexander discussed in Beal's dissertation survive in the Lord Chamberlain's licensed manuscript copies, namely:
- Ralph Schomberg, The Death of Bucephalus (1765), revived as The Rival Favourties; or, The Death of Bucephalus the Great, 1769. Huntington (Larpent MS 203). Beal, II, 702-22.
- An anonymous adaptation of Colley Cibber's The Rival Queans, renamed Alexander the Little, 1791. Huntington (Larpent MS 901). Beal, III, 876-82.
- An anonymous burletta, The Rival Queans, or Little Alexander the Great!, 1843. British Library (Add. MS 42967, ff. 459r-508r). Beal, IV, 1235-48.
A prologue and epilogue (possibly written earlier by the Earl of Roscommon) for a performance of Lee's Alexander on the 14th of October 1685
at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, are preserved at Harvard (fMS Eng 674, pp. 5-8: Beal, II, 422), and are edited in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, IV, 593-6 (and see III, 47-8).
A roughly sketched Symphony for Alexander ye Great by Daniel Purcell occurs in a manuscript music book of John Channing, c.1697, in the
Other Plays
An anonymous prologue to Lee's second most enduring tragedy, Theodosius, as it was Acted in a private family
in 1687, is preserved in two texts among papers of Anthony Hammond, M.P., in the Bodleian (MSS Rawl. D. 360, f. 72r, and Rawl. poet. 129, ff. 6v-7r), and is edited in Danchin, IV, 630-2. There are also a few eighteenth-century promptbooks of Theodosius: see Edward A. Langhans, Eighteenth-Century British and Irish Promptbooks: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York, Westport, Conn., & London, 1987), pp. 111-12.
An early-eighteenth-century promptbook of Oedipus (the tragedy by Lee and Dryden) — a marked-up exemplum of the second edition (London, 1682) from the collection of promptbooks given by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps to the Morrab Library, Penzance — was sold at Sotheby's, 27 May 1964, in lot 699, to Rota and is now at the University of Texas at Austin (Prompt Books Box 1, No. 90) (a microfilm is in Edinburgh University Library, Mic. P. 305). This is discussed, with facsimile examples, in Leo Hughes and A.H. Scouten, Dryden with Variations: Three Prompt Books, Theatre Research International, 11/2 (Summer 1986), 91-105, and in Edward A. Langhans, Eighteenth-Century British and Irish Promptbooks: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York, Westport, Conn., & London, 1987), pp. 46-8.
A Prologue to Oedipus by a Person of Honour
[i.e. Lord Roscommon] (I come to tell you, Gentlemen, you may
) is at Harvard (fMS Eng 647, pp. 10-12). The prologue is edited in Danchin, III, 139-41.
Music by Henry Purcell, was written for a revival of Oedipus in 1692, and is published in Alan Gray (ed.), The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1917), 1-18. Scores, including the masque in Act III, scene i, lines 300-44 (Hear, ye sullen Pow'rs below
) [Stroup & Cooke, I, 369-449 (p. 412)], are in: Bodleian (MSS Mus. C. 27, ff. 37r-44v [collated in the California edition of Dryden's works]; Tenbury 338, No. 4); British Council (op. 45); British Library (Add. MSS 31447, ff. 2v-4v; 31452, ff. 40r-6r; 31455; 62671, ff. 42r-51v; R.M. 24.e.13 (4)); Christ Church, Oxford (Mus. MS 32);
The Canon
The canon of Lee's known works has been established in Stroup & Cooke (and see also A.L. McLeod, A Nathaniel Lee Bibliography, 1670-1960, Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, 1 (1962), 27-39). Included below is also a song attributed to Mr Lee
in a manuscript source (
Miscellaneous
Although no personal papers of Lee himself appear to survive, the will of his presumed father, Richard Lee, Rector of Hatfield, dated January 1684/5, is now in the Hertfordshire Record Office (81 HW 41). It is discussed in J.M. Armistead, Nathaniel Lee and Family: The Will of Richard Lee, D.D., N&Q, 222 (April 1977), 130-1. Of incidental interest, a publisher's assignment of the later copyright in Lee's plays, dated 1768, is in the British Library (Add. MS 38730, f. 45r).
Notes on Lee by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861) in his Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum (Volume IV) are in the British Library (Add. MS 24490, f. 224v). A set of Lee's Dramatic Works (3 vols, London, 1734) annotated by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is in the Bodleian (Thorn-Drury f. 5-7).
Abbreviations
- Stroup & Cooke
- The Works of Nathaniel Lee, ed. Thomas B. Stroup and Arthur L. Cooke, 2 vols (New Brunswick, N.J., 1854-5).
Verse
Song
('You told me you lou'd me')
A song of two ten-line strophes, which might conceivably be one of Lee's incidental compositions, or perhaps a song introduced in a production of one of his plays. Unpublished.
LeN 0.5
Copy, headed Song by Mr Lee
.
A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.
A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.
c.1680s-1700s
Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS:
Edinburgh University Library
(MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 110)
To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage
('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')
First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won
, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.
LeN 1
Copy of the 65-line version, headed On ye Marriage of the Prince & Princess of Orange
and beginning Hail happy Warrior Whose arms have Won
.
A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf.
Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709).
c.1720
Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.
The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999
(Add. MS 22640 ff. 47r-8r)
LeN 2
Copy of the 85-line version, headed On the Prince and Pricess of Orange
and beginning Haile happy Warriour whose Armes have won
.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
End of 17th century
The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end
(Harley MS 7312 pp. 45-7)
LeN 3
Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the prince & princess of Orange upon their Marriage by Mr: Nat Lee
and beginning Hail, happy Warriour! hail! Those Arms have won
.
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703
.
c.1703-9
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708
. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These
.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS:
Edinburgh University Library
(MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 37r-8v)
LeN 4
Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the Prince and Princess of orrange
and beginning Hail happy Warriour! whose Armes haue won
.
A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).
c.1690s
Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS:
Harvard, other MSS
(fMS Eng 636 pp. 236-40)
LeN 5
Copy of the 85-line version, headed To ye Pr: & Princess of Orange. By Mr N: Lee
and beginning Hail happy warior, hail whose Arms have won
.
A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).
c.1690s
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
(Cod. 14090 ff. 91v-3r)
LeN 6
Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the Prince and Princesse of Orange. By Mr Nat: Lee
and beginning Hail happy Warriour! Hail! whose Armes have won
.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).
This MS is closely related to
c.1690s-1700
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes
.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS:
Victoria and Albert Museum
(Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 168-71)
Dramatic Works
Caesar Borgia. Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth, Act IV, scene i, lines 1-12. Song
('Blush not redder than the Morning')
First published in London, 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 65-145 (p. 117). Musical setting of the epithalamium by Thomas Farmer first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Third Book (London, 1681).
LeN 7
Copy of the Epithalamium to Borgia and Bellamira, headed Song in Cæsar Borgia
.
A small quarto miscellany of chiefly Restoration songs and ballads, many from plays, in one or more small hands, 48 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf.
Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.
c.1686-94
Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.
The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end
(Add. MS 64060 f. 4v)
LeN 8
Copy, untitled.
A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702
Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin
(Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book p. [xxiv])
The Duke of Guise
Written by Lee and Dryden.
See
The Massacre of Paris, Act V, scene i, lines 17-29. Song
('Thy Genius, lo, from the sweet Bed of rest')
First published in London, 1690. Stroup & Cooke, II, 1-63 (p. 48). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in A Collection of Songs Set to Musick by Mr. Henry Purcell & Mr. John Eccles (London, 1696). The song published separately [1697?] (Wing L881).
LeN 9
Copy of Genius's song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song in ye Play calld ye Massacre in Paris
.
A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).
Early 18th century
Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 1721
; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764
; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die
; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent
; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab.
Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.
The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series
(MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 134-5)
Mithridates King of Pontus
First published in London, 1678. Stroup & Cooke, I, 285-365.
LeN 10
Copy, transcribed from a printed source and prepared as an acting version at one of the English Roman Catholic colleges in Douai.
This MS discussed in A.L. McLeod, The Douai MS. of Lee's Mithridates, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 69-70, and in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, The Douai Manuscript Reexamined, PBSA, 73 (1979), 1-18.
MS volume of plays, used for amateur staging by one of the English colleges in Douai.
1694/5
This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France
(MS 787 ff. 210r-51r)
Oedipus
By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.
LeN 10.3
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.
A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one P. D
, 123 leaves, the first entry dated Ap. 18. 1687
.
1687-9
Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.
Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS
(MS Eng. misc. c. 34 f. 26r)
LeN 10.5
Extracts.
An octavo compilation of extracts from plays and poems, in a single italic hand, written on rectos only from both ends (the two sections, 48 leaves each, virtually identical), 96 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, remains of clasps.
Late 17th century
Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.
The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299
(MS V.a.226 Part I, pp. 40-3)
LeN 10.8
Extract, six lines beginning To you Good Gods, I make my last Appeal
.
This MS recorded in California, XIII, 584.
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single possibly female hand, 36 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Mid-18th century
Inscribed (f. 36r) M Lowthers Jun:
, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.
The British Library: Stowe MSS
(Stowe MS 971 f. 13r)
The Princess of Cleve, I, i, 4-15. Song
('All other Blessings are but Toyes')
First published in London, 1689. Stroup & Cooke, II, 147-227 (p. 157). Musical setting of the song by William Turner first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Fourth Book (London, 1683).
LeN 11
Copy of the Eunuch's song, headed Song
.
A small quarto miscellany of chiefly Restoration songs and ballads, many from plays, in one or more small hands, 48 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf.
Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.
c.1686-94
Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.
The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end
(Add. MS 64060 f. 26v)
LeN 11.4
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Evans, p. 279.
A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one P. D
, 123 leaves, the first entry dated Ap. 18. 1687
.
1687-9
Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.
Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS
(MS Eng. misc. c. 34 f. 120v)
The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great
First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.
LeN 11.6
Extracts.
A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards.
Inscribed W. Harte 1726
: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate.
c.1726
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts
(MS M.a.47 pp. 133[f]-44, 177)
LeN 11.8
c.1730
Copy of Roxana's speech, beginning Away, begone and give a Whirlewind room
, headed A Description of passion in its purity without mixture of Reason from Nath: Lees Alexander
.
A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly one neat rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Miscellany Poems on Different Subjects To which is subjond pastorals by Mr Philips 1730, ii + 37 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.
1730
University of Chicago
(MS 551 f. 1r)
LeN 11.9
Extract.
A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequently used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages.
1785-9 [-c.1800]
Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
(161/198 f. [12r])
LeN 12
c.1695-1701
Copy of a musical score for an operatic
version of the play, Acts II-V, the music by Daniel Purcell (c1670-1717) and Gottfried Finger (c.1655-1730), headed The Musick In the Opera of the Rivall Queens
.
The music is chiefly incidental music, songs or choruses near the beginning or end of the four last acts; the libretto is partly Lee's original verses, partly new verses (by the politician Anthony Henley (d.1711), according to John Le Neve in 1713).
This version discussed in Peter Beal, The Fortunes of Alexander: A Stage History of Nat Lee's The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great (unpub. Ph.D. diss., 4 vols, University of Leeds, 1973), I, 314-31; IV, Addenda, p. i.
A large folio composite volume of English operas.
c.1695-1701
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
(MU MS 87 pp. 99-165 (ff. 45v-77r))
The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great, Act V, scene i, lines 1-20. Song
('Is Innocence so void of cares')
The song published, in Daniel Purcell's setting and as Sung by Mr Pate
, in A Collection of the Choicest Songs & Dialogues Composd by the Most Eminent Masters of the Age (London, [1715?]), pp. 86-7. Stroup & Cooke, I, 272.
LeN 13
Copy of the song by the Spirits of Queen Statira and Darius at the opening of the last act, untitled.
A quarto miscellany of verse, mathematical exercises, religious texts, and musical scores, written from both ends in various hands, unpaginated, mostly blank pages, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1713
Owned in 1713 by one Millicent Rasby, whose name occurs repeatedly. Among the papers of the Elmhirst family of Houndhill, Worsbrough Bridge, Yorkshire.
Sheffield Archives
(EM 1144 f. [7r])
Sophonisba
First published in London, 1675. Stroup & Cooke, I, 73-144.
LeN 13.5
Extract from Act I, headed The interview of Hannibal and Scipio
and beginning Han. Are you the cheif whom men fam'd Scipio call...
.
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf.
Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723
.
c.1723
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection
(MS Lt 15 pp. 88-91)
Theodosius: or, The Force of Love
First published, with some of Henry Purcell's music as an appendix, in London, 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 229-314.
LeN 14
Copy of the opening chorus (I, i, 1-5: Prepare, prepare! the Rites begin
) and the Priests' chorus (I, i, 321;70: Canst thou, Marina, leave the World
), in musical settings by Purcell.
A folio volume of songs and musical works, chiefly by Henry Purcell, 49 leaves.
End of 17th century
Bodleian Library, Music MSS
(MS Mus. c. 27 ff. 33r-6r)
LeN 14.5
MS, described as a play
, with The Force of Love
, with the actors in the original castcorrections and authority
by Charles Killigrew (1655-1724/5), Master of the Revels.
c.1680
Later owned by S. George Christison. Puttick & Simpson's, 19 December 1850, lot 316, to Oliver.
Untraced, miscellaneous
([Theodosius MS])
Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song after the First Act
('Now, now the Fight's done, and the great God of War')
Stroup & Cooke, II, 251.
LeN 15
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
An oblong quarto music book, 39 leaves.
Used apparently from 1673 by one Elizabeth Henthorne, who Aprell the 9: 1700: began to learn the flute
.
c.1670s-80s
Bodleian Library, Music MSS
(MS Mus. Sch. G. 640 f. 39r rev.)
Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Act III, scene ii, lines 1-20. Song.
('O, Chrysostom! look down and see')
Stroup & Cooke, II, 267-8.
LeN 16
Copy of the Votaries' chorus.
Edited from this MS, as The Royal Nun
, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 166-8.
A folio verse miscellany, in vellum.
Late 17th century?
Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662
and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke
: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.
Untraced Tixal MSS
(Tixall MS 3 [unspecified page numbers])
Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act]
('Hail to the Mirtle Shade')
Published separately, as Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).
LeN 17
Copy.
A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.
Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner
.
Early 18th century
Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199
(MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 15v)
LeN 18
Copy.
A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.
A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.
c.1680s-1700s
Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS:
Edinburgh University Library
(MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 44)
LeN 18.5
Copy, headed A Song
.
An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII
and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated 3d. Jany 1740/1
.
c.1729-41
Inscribed (f. iiv) purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8th
. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection
(MS Lt 24 f. 1r-v rev.)
Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, V, i, 31-57. Song after the Fourth Act
('Ah Cruel bloody Fate')
Published separately, as The True Lovers' Tragedy, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).
LeN 19
Copy of the song, headed A ballitt Song's
.
A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.
Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner
.
Early 18th century
Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199
(MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 16r)
LeN 20
Copy of the song, headed A song. 1680
and with an additional stanza.
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.
Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99
(Osborn MS b 54 p. 1137)
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Lee
Extracts
LeN 21
Extracts from works by Lee, chiefly The Rival Queens.
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703
.
c.1703-9
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708
. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These
.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS:
Edinburgh University Library
(MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 60v-1v, 70v)