William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke

1580–1630

Introduction

William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, became in the reign of James I a wealthy and powerful courtier and politician, rising to the high office of Lord Chancellor. He was also a cultivated and influential patron of the arts. Numerous printed books were dedicated to him by a variety of writers, artists and composers, the most famous being the Shakespeare First Folio of 1623. Pembroke's personal dealings with poets and dramatists such as Jonson and Chapman also extended to his cousin, the author Lady Mary Wroth, with whom he had an extended affair which produced two children, William and Katherine Wroth.

The Verse Canon

Pembroke was himself a lyrical poet of no mean abilities, whose poems achieved a considerable measure of circulation in manuscript copies both before and after his death in 1630. While a number of them are clearly ascribed to him in manuscript miscellanies, a few sources (such as Huntington, HM 198) containing whole groups of poems by him, as well as the survival of one poem in his own hand (*PeW 13), the canon remains uncertain. Besides conflicting attributions for some poems in manuscript, the canon of his poems is permanently complicated by the nature and circumstances of the very first posthumous printed edition of them. This was Poems, written by the Right Honorable William Earl of Pembroke…many of which are answered by way of Repartee, by Sr Benjamin Ruddier, Knight. With several distinct Poems, written by them occasionally, and apart, published in London, 1660. The characteristically unreliable and incompetent editor of this whimsical compilation was John Donne Jr (1604-63), who, while signalling the supposed authorship of some of the contents with a superscribed P (for Pembroke) or R (for Rudyerd), also managed to incorporate a number of other miscellaneous poems of uncertain or spurious authorship, presumably to flesh out the volume for commercial purposes. This edition remains the only early published collection of poems by either Pembroke or Rudyerd, unreliable as it may be.

Until a new edition is prepared, the only attempt hitherto to establish a canon of verse by Pembroke, as well as by Rudyerd, based partly on the edition of 1660 and partly on manuscript sources, is Robert Krueger's edition of these poems in his unpublished dissertation of 1961. He classifies them according to poems probably by Pembroke or by Rudyerd or by both, on the one hand, and poems of uncertain or spurious authorship on the other. Although certain poems in the latter category can indeed be attributed to other authors (and are here given appropriate entries accordingly), Krueger's canon is the basis for that adopted for present purposes, with one major difference. The Pembroke-Rudyerd poetical canon is here treated in much the same way as that of Beaumont and Fletcher, whose works are similarly linked by virtue of lack of distinction in the first posthumous collected edition of their works (even though modern editors have been able to identify the authorship of some individual works by stylistic analysis). The entries below therefore incorporate all currently known manuscript copies of all poems included in the 1660 edition, with cross-references or pointers as appropriate concerning their authorship status. Besides reflecting the unavoidable uncertainty of the canon, it is hoped that this decision puts the relevant poems in their publishing and also manuscript contexts, opens the way to textual comparisons, and presents at least some evidence for matters of attribution.

Letters and Speeches

Pembroke also wrote numerous letters during his career, some of which survive in the National Archives, Kew, and elsewhere, and he also spoke on occasion in Parliament, his brief speeches or interjections recorded in various manuscript parliamentary journals. These sources have not been given separate entries below.

Sir Benjamin Rudyerd

While the verses attributed to Rudyerd in the 1660 Poems are given entries in the present section on Pembroke, other poems and an entertainment attributed to Rudyerd, as well as his parliamentary speeches, are treated separately below (RuB 1-208).

Abbreviations

Krueger — The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961); in Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871.
Poems (1660) — Poems, written by the Right Honorable William Earl of Pembroke…many of which are answered by way of Repartee, by Sr Benjamin Ruddier, Knight. With several distinct Poems, written by them occasionally, and apart (London, 1660).

Poems in the Supposed Pembroke and Rudyerd Canon

Verse: (1) Poems probably by Pembroke or by Pembroke and Rudyerd

'Disdain me still, that I may ever love'

PeW 1

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded (erroneously as RP 160) in Krueger.

In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 53v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 2

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed J D:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 f. 103v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 3

Copy, headed Loues Constancie, subscribed J. D.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 f. 50v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 4 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a mixed hand, with other verse on a folio leaf.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

Early-mid-17th century

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 52r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 5

Copy, headed Coynesse importuned. A Song.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is S^r. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 91v) | Catalogue

PeW 6

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 135v) | Catalogue

PeW 7

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 170v) | Catalogue

PeW 8

Copy, headed A Louer y^t would not be beloud againe.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 78r) | Catalogue

PeW 9

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 173)

PeW 10

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis).

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

c.1620-33

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 42v)

PeW 11

Copy, headed That hee would not bee beloued:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 139) | Catalogue

PeW 12

Copy, untitled.

In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672.

c.1629-72

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office (ER 93/2 f. 192v) | Catalogue

Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury ('You that read in passing by')

Krueger, p. 57, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

*PeW 13

Autograph

Autograph, untitled, on the first page of two small octavo conjugate leaves, endorsed Epitaph on L^d Salisbury.

[1612]

Edited from this MS in Krueger and also with his diplomatic transcription (p. 72).

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 140/116)

PeW 14 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with other verses, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 82 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Volume XVIB (Series II) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 69883B f. 66r)

PeW 15

Copy, headed In memory of the thrice noble and renowned Robert Earle of Salisburye, by the Earle of Penbrok composed, here beginning You that reade passing by.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

c.1600-1620s

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 98v (p. 161)) | Catalogue

PeW 16

Copy, headed The Earle of Penbrockes Memoriall for the earle of Salsebury deceased.

Edited from this MS in John Pitcher, Samuel Daniel: The Brotherton Manuscript (Leeds, 1981), p. 173, and in online Early Stuart Libels.

In: Copy of two poems on Sir Robert Cecil, in a neat secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1612

University of Nottingham (Cl LM 24 item [1]) | Catalogue

'Had I loved but at that rate'

Krueger, pp. 53-4, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Edited, as a Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).

PeW 17

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Krueger. Collated in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 125r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 18

Copy, superscribed E: P:.

This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 ff. 119v-20r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 19

Copy, superscribed E: P:.

This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte hono^ble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 f. 130v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 20

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed Pembrooke.

This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 f. 33v-4r) | Catalogue

PeW 21

Copy, in Lady Mary Wroth's hand, untitled, here beginning Had I loued butt at thus rate, with one line deleted.

Edited from this MS in Roberts's editions and in Pritchard, p. 201.

In: Autograph MS of the Second Part of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, in two folio volumes.

1621

Inscribed inside the front cover of Vol. I Charles Morgan.

Newberry Library, Chicago (Case MS fY 1565. W95 f. [10r-v] (foll. 5, pp. [3-4])) | Catalogue

'Had she a glass and feared the fire'

Krueger, p. 55, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts.

PeW 22

Copy, headed When my Carliles Chamber was on fire, subscribed Pembrocke.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 49v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 23

Copy, untitled, subscribed W: P:.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio volume of 121 poems and the Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne, almost entirely in a single predominantly secretary hand, 109 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Transcribed from the Puckering MS (DnJ Δ 13).

c.1620s-30s

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire.

Among other connections the Fielding family was related to the Hamilton family by the marriage of Mary, daughter of William Feilding (d.1643), first Earl of Denbigh, to James, third Marquess of Hamilton (1606-49), son of the second Marquess (1589-1625) whose elegy Donne wrote (see DnJ 1587). John Donne the Younger (1604-63) was chaplain to Basil Feilding, second Earl of Denbigh (d.1674), to whom he dedicated his father's Fifty Sermons (1649). The MS was owned by the Denbigh family when recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697). The MS was sold in 1851.

Cited in IELM, I.i as the Denbigh MS: DnJ Δ 7.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18647 f. 109v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 24

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth.

Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS.

c.1622-9

Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), Andrew Ramsey. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dalhousie MS II: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 S4 f. 32v) | Catalogue

PeW 25

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 189v) | Catalogue

I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain ('Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall')

Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 28, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 26

Copy, headed On y^e Losse of his m^rs. and regaining her.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 42r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 28

Copy, headed I lost you & now the gaine is double to me.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 91) | Catalogue

PeW 29

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of y^e ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 255)

'If her disdain least change in you can move'

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 30

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623.

1623

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 p. 133) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 31

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 30r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 32

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 50r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 33

Copy, headed A Dialogue between S^r H Wootton and M^r Dunne.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 199v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 34

Copy, headed Songe. Eccho, subscribed S^r H W.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

c.1640s-60s

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 81-2) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 35

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 109v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 36 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Verses Made by the Earle of Pembrooke, with other verses on a folio leaf.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 52v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 37

Copy, headed To his friend disdained by his M^ris. A Song.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.

c.1640s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 91v-2r) | Catalogue

PeW 38

Copy, headed Earle of Pembroke.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 ff. 22v-3r) | Catalogue

PeW 39

Copy, untitled but headed P.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 252r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 40

Copy, headed The Earle of Pembrocke.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 111v-12r) | Catalogue

PeW 41

Copy, headed of Loue W: E: of Pembroke.

In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 4138 f. 49v)

PeW 42

Copy, headed A dialogue betweene S^r Henry Wotton and M^r Donne.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.125 Part I, f. 51r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 43

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt.

Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother S^r Hugh Cholmley (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent.

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Cholmley MS: CwT Δ 27.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 20r) | Catalogue

PeW 44

Copy, untitled, here beginning If her disdaine in yo^w least Change can moue, subscribed J. D.

In: A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1620s-33

Inscribed inside the rear cover J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carnaby MS: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 966.1 p. 82) | Catalogue

PeW 45

Copy, headed Earle of Pembrock to S^r Benia. Ruyer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 138)

PeW 46

Copy, in a rugged secretary hand, untitled, subscribed E of pembrok.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 91r) | Catalogue

PeW 47

Copy, headed Verses made by the Earle of Pembroke, followed (pp. 29-30) by The Answere.

This MS collated in Kueger.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B pp. 27-8)

PeW 48

Copy, headed Verses made by the E: of P:

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 138) | Catalogue

PeW 49

Copy, headed To his Freind beeng disdained by his m^rs By s^r. hen: Wotten.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke An^o. 1640.

c.1640s

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/2 pp. 13, 15)

PeW 50

Copy, headed His rivalls answer.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

The initials M W stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.

The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for M^r Locker 1634; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 55)

PeW 51

Copy, headed To his friend being disdayned by his Mistresse, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbet. Followed (ff. 225v-6r) by A reply in the behalf of the party disdayned (Tis love breeds loue in me, and cold disdaine), subscribed S^r Ben Ruddiard / D^r John Donne.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 225r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 52

Copy, untitled.

In: 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]) S^r 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 f. 43v) | Catalogue

PeW 53

Copy, headed Earle of Penbrooke.

This presemably the Osborn MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to J. D), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt.

c.1622-33

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 p. 132) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

'It is enough, a Master you grant Love'

Poems (1660), pp. 11-13, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 9-12, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 54

Copy, headed Ea: Pembrock. ansuer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 141-3)

'Men sad and settled, love not to contend'

Poems (1660), pp. 20-1, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 19-20, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 55

Copy, headed Earle Pembrock:.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 146-7)

'Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing'

Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 29, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 56

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r G.H.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 69r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 57 Mid-17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 54r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 58

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 54r)

PeW 59

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 59) | Catalogue

PeW 60

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 100)

'No praise it is that him who Python slew'

Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed R.. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 62

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 31v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 63

Copy, untitled but headed R.

This MS recorded in Krueger

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 ff. 254r-6r) | Catalogue

PeW 64

Copy of lines 21-64, 73-8, headed ffragmet to his m^rs: when shee would haue gone as his footboy, here beginning Now why should loue a footboyes place despise.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 217r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 65

Copy, headed S^r. Ben: Ruyers ansuer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 139-41)

PeW 66

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 8v)

PeW 67

Copy of lines 21-64.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 280)

'Nor will I now your wound exulcerate'

Poems (1660), pp. 21-2, superscribed R.. Krueger, pp. 20-1, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 68

Copy, headed P Ben: Ruyer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 147)

'Not like a skeptick equally distract'

Poems (1660), pp. 13-20, superscribed R.. Krueger, pp. 12-19, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 69

Copy, headed S^r Beni: Ruyyers ansuer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 143-6)

Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 70 c.1630s

Copy, headed On ffreindship D^r. Donne.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 124r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 71

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage.

c.1620s-37

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 781 p. 162) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 72

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 270r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 73

Copy, headed ffreindship's fledge, & flowne.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 110r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 74

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Baskerville MS: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 88v)

PeW 75

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 172r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 76

Copy, headed Of Frendshippe.

A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1620-33

The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).

Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand [Thes?] for [M^r Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.

Cited in IELM as Cambridge Balam MS: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 5778 f. 82r)

PeW 77

Copy, headed Of frendship.

In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 55r-v)

PeW 78

Copy, headed Of Freindship.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B p. 30)

PeW 79

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index).

c.1630s

Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Grey MS: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 47-8)

PeW 80

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 111) | Catalogue

PeW 81

Copy, headed On friendeship.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 113)

PeW 82

Copy, headed Frendshipp.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 164r) | Catalogue

PeW 83

Copy, headed All loves Lost.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 29v-30r)

On one heart made of two ('If that you must needs go')

A version of Michael Drayton's poem The Heart: see DrM 37. The later version first published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Poems (1660), pp. 43-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 37-9, among Pembroke's Poems. See Richard F. Hardin, A Variant Text of Drayton's The Heart in an Unknown Miscellany, PBSA, 69 (1975), 393-4.

PeW 84

Copy, untitled, here beginning If thus you must needs goe.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 53r-v)

'Shall Love that gave Latona's heir the foyle'

Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as Verses on Reason and Love, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 85

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 31r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 86

Copy, untitled but headed P.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 ff. 253r-4r) | Catalogue

PeW 87

Copy, headed Earle of Pembrock to Ruy. and here beginning Should Loue that gaue Hero the foyle.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 138-9)

PeW 88

Copy, untitled, but superscribed P.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II ff. 8r-9r)

Song ('Soul's joy when I am gone')

Poems (1660), p. 24, headed Song. P.. Krueger, pp. 26-7, among Pembroke's Poems.

For Pembroke's original version and George Herbert's Parodie of it, see (mixed together) HrG 195-197.5.

Sonnet ('A Restless Love I espy'd')

See GrJ 1-10.

Sonnet ('Blind Beauty! If it be a loss')

See GrJ 37.1-40.

Sonnet ('Can you suspect a change in me')

Poems (1660), pp. 1-3, ascribed to Earle of Pembroke, Lord Steward:. Krueger, pp. 23-4, among Pembroke's Poems.

Sonnet ('Canst thou love me, and yet doubt')

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 23. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 64. Poems (1660), p. 23, headed Sonnet. P.. Krueger, p. 25, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 89

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Mid-17th century

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 79v)

PeW 90

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r 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 f. 44v) | Catalogue

A Sonnet ('Dear leave thy home and come with me')

Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 32, among Pembroke's Poems. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

PeW 91

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47111 f. 17v)

PeW 92

Copy, headed To his mistris.

This MS recorded in Krueger and in Moore Smith (1927).

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 f. 31r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 93

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 36r)

PeW 94

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 143-5) | Catalogue

PeW 95

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 53v)

PeW 96

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B pp. 25-7)

PeW 97

Copy, headed Song.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r 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 f. 129r) | Catalogue

A Sonnet ('Doron the sad Shepherds swain')

Poems (1660), pp. 40-2, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 34-6, among Pembroke's Poems.

A Sonnet ('Saint did never yet object')

Poems (1660), p. 49, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 43, among Pembroke's Poems.

That he will still persevere in his Love ('Nay, I must love thee still')

Poems (1660), pp. 36-7, superscribed P. Krueger, pp. 30-1, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 98 Mid-17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse, imperfect, lacking the ending.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 54v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 99

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 129r)

That he would not be belov'd ('Disdain me still, that I may ever love')

Poems (1660), pp. 5-7 (untitled), superscribed P., and again on p. 45 (with heading), also superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 40, among Pembroke's Poems.

See PeW 1-12.

''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

PeW 100

Copy.

1623

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 p. 134) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 101

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 30v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 102

Copy, headed Pemb: answerd by S^r B: R.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 50r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 103

Copy, untitled.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 199v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 104

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 p. 81) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 105

Copy, untitled.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 ff. 109v-10r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 106

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 52v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 107

Copy, headed Answer by Ben: Rudyard.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 f. 23r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 108

Copy, untitled but headed R.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 ff. 252v-3r) | Catalogue

PeW 109

Copy, headed Answere.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 112r) | Catalogue

PeW 110

Copy, headed An answer by S^r. Ben: Rudiard.

In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 4138 ff. 49v-50r)

PeW 111

Copy, headed Answer.

In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt.

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Cholmley MS: CwT Δ 27.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 20r) | Catalogue

PeW 112

Copy, headed S^r: Beni: Ruyers answer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 138)

PeW 113

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 128r)

PeW 114

Copy, in a rugged secretary hand, untitled, headed B Redier.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 90v) | Catalogue

PeW 115

Copy, headed The Answer.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B pp 29-30)

PeW 116

Copy, headed The Answeare.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 138) | Catalogue

PeW 117

Copy, headed The Answere by D^or: Donne.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke An^o. 1640.

c.1640s

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/2 pp. 15, 17)

PeW 118

Copy, headed To his coye loue and here beginning Twas loue bred loue in mee, and colde disdaine.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 54)

PeW 119

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r 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 f. 44r) | Catalogue

PeW 120

Copy, headed Ben Rudiar.

c.1622-33

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 pp 132-3) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

To his Mistress, of his Friend's Opinion of her, and his answer to his Friend's Objections, with his constancy towards her ('One with admiration told me')

Poems (1660), pp. 50-2, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 44-6, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 121

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 7v)

PeW 122

Copy.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 90-2) | First Lines Index

To his Mistris on his Death ('Oh let me groan one word into thine ear')

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 233. Poems (1660), p. 52, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 47, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 123

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 10r)

PeW 124

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 132) | Catalogue

PeW 125

Copy, headed To his M^ris at his death.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 290)

'When mine eyes, first admiring your rare beauty'

Poems (1660), pp. 54-5. Krueger, p. 48, among Pembroke's Poems.

PeW 126

Copy, headed The picture of his Mistris.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 140) | Catalogue

PeW 127

Copy, untitled, run on directly after ShW 26.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 256-7)

'Why with unkindest swiftness dost thou turn'

Poems (1660), pp. 56-8, where it is divided by a rule from Why do we love those things which we call Women (GrJ 92) and is untitled and unattributed. Krueger, pp. 49-51.

PeW 128

Copy of lines 1-18.

This MS collated in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 101r)

PeW 129

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 105r)

Verse: (2) Poems of Uncertain or Other Authorship

Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 130

Copy of an untitled version beginning Chloris sighd & sung & wept sighing sung, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 14v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 131

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 38v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 132

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi.

c.1623-32

Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 16 fol. 2v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 133

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) M^r Daniell Leare eius Liber: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Inscribed also John Leare (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773; and (f. 164v) John Scott (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 160v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 134

Copy of an untitled version beginning Cloris sigh'd, & sung, & wept, in a musical setting by M^r Balls.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 26v-7r) | Catalogue

PeW 135

Copy, untitled, here beginning Cloris sight & songe and wept.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 172r) | Catalogue

PeW 136

Copy, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: MS songbook.

Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.

c.1624-30s

Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, M^ris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 87 f. 1r) | Catalogue

PeW 137

Copy, headed Amintas & Alexis.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 147) | Catalogue

PeW 138

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning Cloris sighte, and sange, and wepte.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a Table at the end.

c.1620s-30s

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4175 No. lii)

PeW 139

Copy, headed Cloris.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 42)

PeW 140

Copy, headed A Song.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 f. 39v)

PeW 141

Copy.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 237) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')

First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

PeW 142

Copy, headed Vpon younge maides.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 48v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 143

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked).

c.1635-44

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Natley MS: CwT Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 f. 63v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 144

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 pp. 86-7) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 145

Copy, headed Apollo's oath A Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 74r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 146

Copy, headed On Maidens.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 p. 53) | Catalogue

PeW 147

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of y^e lead 1657; Tho: Wise; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury; and Edward Watt. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 ff. 21v-2r) | Catalogue

PeW 148

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 18r) | Catalogue

PeW 149

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 34) | Catalogue

PeW 150

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 f. 204r) | Catalogue

PeW 151

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 19) | Catalogue

PeW 152

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 48)

PeW 153

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 189-90)

PeW 154

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 p. 23)

Benj. Rudier of Tears ('Who would have thought there could have been')

Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

PeW 155

Copy, headed Doctor Brookes of Teares.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 85v-6r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 156

Copy.

In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Mid-17th century

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 466 f. 5v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 157

Copy, headed D^r. Brookes of teares.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

c.1620-50

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 94r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 158

Copy, headed of teares by D^r Brookes.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

c.1674-84

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and M^r Richard Wilkin^sn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, ff. 25v-6r) | Catalogue

PeW 159

Copy headed D^r: B. of teares.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 112-13) | Catalogue

Benj. Rudier To the Prince At his Return from Spain ('Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store')

Poems (1660), pp. 63-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

See GrJ 77-79.

B.R. his Ballet ('Since every man I come among')

Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

See GrJ 70-76.

A Compliment to his Mistris ('Ask me no more whither do stray')

Poems (1660), superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew.

See CwT 205-234.

Description of a wisht Mistris ('Not that I wish my Mistris')

See GrJ 45-67.

A Dialogue ('Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim')

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man are ascribed to P. and those by Woman ascribed to R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

See GrJ 11-13.9.

A Dream ('When as the cheerful Light was over-spread')

Poems (1660), pp. 113-14, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 160

Copy, headed A Dreame.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 206 p. 77) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

The Epicures Paradox ('No, worldling, no; 'tis not thy Gold')

Poems (1660), p. 83, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew.

See CwT 664.5-672.

Epigrames p[er] B. R. ('Baldus did neu^r sweare since he was borne')

See RuB 1.

An Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke ('Vnderneath this sable Herse')

Poems (1660), p. 96, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by William Browne.

See BrW 180-230.

For an Ear-Ring ('Tis vain to add a Ring or Gemm')

Poems (1660), p. 101, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by William Strode.

See StW 73-84.

'If shadows be the Pictures Excellence'

Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R.

See PoW 1-77.

In praise of his Mistris Ironice ('My Mistris hath a precious Eye')

Poems (1660), pp. 110-11, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 161

Copy, headed In the praise of his M^ris.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 73r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 162

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 86v)

PeW 163

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 33)

A Lover to his Mistris ('The purest piece of Nature is my choice')

First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (1639), p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 49. Poems (1660), p. 78, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Richard Cleark.

PeW 164

Copy, untitled, subscribed R: Cl:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 ff. 157v-8r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 165

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 f. 171v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

A Lover's Dedication of his Service to a vertuous Gentlewoman ('What I in Woman long have wisht to see')

Poems (1660), p. 85, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 166

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 76r)

'Marke how yond Eddy steales away'

Poems (1660), p. 68, superscribed P. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew.

See CwT 1098.5-1101.

'O God! my God! what shall I give'

Poems (1660), p. 47, superscribed R.. Not a separate poem but part of Who would have thought there could have been by Dr Samuel Brooke and listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.

PeW 167

Copy, headed on a gentlewoman vnmarriageable and here beginning White should thy passion lead thee blynd.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 37v-8r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 168

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 19r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 169

Copy, headed Cant 3. and here beginning Why shold passion quell my mind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

1647

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 22r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 170

Copy, headed On a virgen not yet ripe and here beginning O why Should passion quell my mind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 85r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 171

Copy of a twelve-line version headed To a g^tman whose Loue pu'd vnconstant being not yet marriageable and here beginning Why should sad care possess y^r minde.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

c.1620s-30s

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 10 fol. 91v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 172

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman vnmarriagble.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 128-9) | Catalogue

PeW 173

Copy, headed On a young Gentlewoman unmarriageable and here beginning Why should thy passion quell thy mind.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 86v) | Catalogue

PeW 174

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 86v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 175

Copy, headed A Ditty and here beginning Why should my passion lead mee blind.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 206 p. 73) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 176

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 ff. 95v-6r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 177

Copy, headed On a maide not marriagable and here beginning Would you haue me leade ye blind.

This MS recorded in in Krueger.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 19v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 178

Copy, headed On a mayde manageable and here beginning Wold you haue me lead y^e blind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 ff. 59v-60r) | Catalogue

PeW 179

Copy, headed On a faire gentlewoman scorch [?scarce] marrigeable and here beginning Why should passion lead the blind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 ff. 9v-10r) | Catalogue

PeW 180 c.1620s

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 69 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 791 f. 54v) | Catalogue

PeW 181

Copy of a version headed Of a Coy young Lady and beginning Oh! why should passion quell my mind.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

c.1636-77

Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13^th. Me tenet. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 8)

PeW 182

Copy, headed A Gentleman on his too young m^rs and here beginning O why should passion quell my mind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 27v) | Catalogue

PeW 183

Copy, headed On a mayd unmarriageable.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 25r) | Catalogue

PeW 184

Copy, headed One to his Fireinde who was a Lover and, impatient to stay till his spouse was of age.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.103 Part I, f. 33r) | Catalogue

PeW 185

Copy, headed On a faire young gent:woman not yet marriagable.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 19r) | Catalogue

PeW 186

Copy of a version headed On a mayde not mariageable and beginning Would you have mee lead thee blinde.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.245 f. 68v) | Catalogue

PeW 187

Copy, headed A Lover on his M^ris and here beginning Why should I think thee to bee blind.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum.

Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 153) | Catalogue

PeW 188

Copy, headed Vpon a wench vnder 14, here beginning Why should passion make thee blind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 17r) | Catalogue

PeW 189

Copy, headed Vppon a wench vnder : 14., here beginning Why should passion make thee blinde.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 33) | Catalogue

PeW 190

Copy, headed Vpon a Gentle=woman vnmarriageable, here beginning Why should thy Passions lead thee blind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 73)

PeW 191

Copy, headed On Lidea.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. [82f^r])

PeW 192 c.1630s-40s

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed Patience yong Louer and here beginning Why should passion lead y^ee blind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Early-mid 17th century

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D f. 531 rev.) | Catalogue

PeW 193

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Why should passion leade mee blinde.

c.1620s-30s

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4175 No. xxi)

PeW 194

Copy, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of contents, 229 leaves.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

c.1630s-50s

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 19)

PeW 195

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman not marriageable.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 119)

PeW 196

Copy, headed On his Mistres beeing to yonge, subscribed Walton Poole.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 3)

PeW 197

Copy, headed A gentlewoman not marriadgable.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 28)

PeW 198

Copy, untitled.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 196v-7r) | Catalogue

PeW 199

Copy, headed One to his Friend who was a Lover and impatient to stay till his spouse were of age.

In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (Epitaphs, Satyricall, Love Sonnets, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 69) | Catalogue

PeW 200

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r 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 f. 35r) | Catalogue

PeW 201

Copy of a version headed On A Mayd not mariageable and beginning Would you haue passion lead me blind.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 123) | First Lines Index

PeW 202

Copy, headed Vpon a Virgin not marriageable and here beginning Why doth thy passion leade thee blind.

In: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 23v)

PeW 203

Copy, headed To his louesicke friend and here beginning Why should passion strike thee blind.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 p. 84) | First Lines Index

PeW 204

Copy, headed Vpon one vnmariagable and here beginning Why should thy passions lead thee blind.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 27-8) | First Lines Index

Of deformity in a Man ('What if rude nature hath less care exprest')

Poems (1660), pp. 64-5, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

See GrJ 90.

Of Jealousie ('From whence was first this Fury hurl'd')

Poems (1660), pp. 69-70, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew.

See CwT 305-313.

On a Fountain ('The Dolphins trifling each on others side')

Poems (1660), p. 107, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by William Strode.

See StW 608-622.

On a Strawberry ('How like a Virgin, white and red')

Poems (1660), pp. 97-8.

On black Hair and Eyes ('If shadows be the Pictures Excellence')

Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. as by Walton Poole.

See PoW 1-77.

On his Mistress ('Keep on your Mask, and hide your Eye')

Poems (1660), p. 108, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by William Strode.

See StW 835-867.

One that was a Suiter to a Gentlewoman more virtuous then fair, wrote these to a friend of his that disliked her ('Why slights thou her whom I approve')

Poems (1660), pp. 81-2, superscribed R. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry King.

See KiH 104-134.

On the Countess of Pembrokes Picture ('Here (though the lustre of her youth be spent)')

Poems (1660), p. 26, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 205

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 96r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 206

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B p. 5)

On Venus and Adonis ('Venus that fair loving Queen')

Poems (1660), pp. 99-100, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 207

Copy, in a secretary hand, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio commonplace book, including (ff. 133r-45r) Certaine pretie songes hereafter Drawn together, by Richard Shanne i6ii, 254 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

Compiled by members of the Shann family, of Methley, Yorkshire, and mainly in the hand of Richard Shann (1561-1627).

c.1611-32

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38599 ff. 137v-8r) | Catalogue

PeW 208

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 111)

Opportunity neglected ('Yet was her Beauty as the blushing Rose')

Poems (1660), p. 84, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 209

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 f. 94v)

PeW 210

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 33r)

A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

PeW 211

Copy of a version headed A Mayds Denyall and beginning Nay pish, nay pue nay fayth, and will you fye.

In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

c.1638

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 150) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 212

Copy of a short version, headed A mayds denyall and here beginning nay pish nay phew....

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 54r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 213

Copy of a version headed On a gentleman and a gentlewoman and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, in faith but will yo^w? fie.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

1647

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 44b^v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 214

Copy, headed D^r Dun In praise of a panted gentlewoman.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 83r-82v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 215

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 185) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 216

Copy of the short version, headed A discourse of a gentlewoman to a Gentleman courting her and here beginning Nay pish, nay fie, in faith but will you? fie.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 149-50) | Catalogue

PeW 217

Copy of the shorter version, untitled and here beginning Nay phew, nay pish, in faith, & will yow? fflye.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards.

c.1620s-30s

The name George Brown inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 75-6) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 218

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger. anon

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 74r-5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 219

Copy, headed M^r W^m Bakers paradox in prayse of a painted face.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 ff. 29v-30r) | Catalogue

PeW 220

Copy of a version headed Deniall and here beginning Nay pew, nay pish, in faith and will you? fly.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 pp. 10-11) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 221

Copy of an untitled twenty-nine-line version beginning Naye, phewe nay pishe? nay faythe, and will ye, flye, subscribed Finis S.P.S. [i.e. Sir Philip Sidney].

In: 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. 4r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 222

Copy, headed A paradoxe in praise of a painted face, here beginning Not kisse? by Joue and make impression, subscribed Baker.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 63-4) | Catalogue

PeW 223

Copy of a short version, headed A Denyall and here beginning Nay phew, nay pish, begon & will you fye.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22582 f. 43v-4r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 224

Copy of a short version, headed A Gentlewoman, while a Gentleman Courted her and here beginning Nay pish, nay pew, in faith but will you? fye.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22602 f. 19v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 225

Copy of the short version, headed On a maides Deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pray, nay faith, & will y^u; file.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 53r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 226

Copy of a version headed A Maydes deniall and beginning Nay pish, nay pray, & will you fly.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 65r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 227

Copy, headed A paradox in prayse of a paynted face.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco.

c.1630s [-1777]

Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus, the date 1638 possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for M^r Thorpe, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3^rd Aug^t. 1835.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS: DnJ Δ 42.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2230 f. 24r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 228

Copy of a version headed A Venerous discourse and beginning Nay, pish; nay phew; In faith but will you? fie, deleted.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 21r) | Catalogue

PeW 229

Copy, with the first three lines and half of line 12 deleted, headed A Paradox on a painted face by my lo: of Cuntfolower M^r Baker.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 ff. 20v-1v) | Catalogue

PeW 230

Copy of the shorter version, headed A Songe and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay faith and will you fye.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6057 ff. 48r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 231

Copy of the shorter version, headed A Maides Denyall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, in faith, but will you fie.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 36r)

PeW 231.5

Copy of the short version, headed A Maides Deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pray, nay faith.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 125r-v)

PeW 232

Copy, headed A Paradoxe of a painted face, subscribed Finis / A P.

In: A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical Table (ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1623-33

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM as Stowe MS I: DnJ Δ 15.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 961 ff. 70r-1r) | Catalogue

PeW 233

Copy, headed A paradox on a paynted face, subscribed J: D: finis.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 49r-50r) | Catalogue

PeW 234

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio collection of 28 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in two independent units (ff. 1-60v, 61r-78r), each in a different secretary hand, bound with a tract (MS Ee. 4. 13), in quarter-calf on boards.

c.1620-33

From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Moore MS: DnJ Δ 46.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ee. 4. 14 ff. 77r-8r) | Catalogue

PeW 235

Copy, headed A Paradoxe of a Painted face, ascribed to James Shirley.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 327 ff. 15v-16v) | Catalogue

PeW 236

Copy, headed In y^e praise of a painted face.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 32r-3r) | Catalogue

PeW 237

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 32r) | Catalogue

PeW 238

Copy.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 87r) | Catalogue

PeW 239

Copy, headed A Paradox on the praise of a painted face p. 97.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, 22 leaves, in modern marbled boards.

Inscribed (f. 4r) The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12^mo voll Cal[led] Parnassus Biceps...1656.

c.1750s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.a.118 ff. 6v-7v) | Catalogue

PeW 240

Copy of the short version, headed A gentlewoman a gentleman courting her and here beginning Nay pish, nay pew, in faith but will you? fie.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 52-3) | Catalogue

PeW 241

Copy, headed The praise of a paynted face, subscribed J: Sherly.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 165-7) | Catalogue

PeW 242

Copy, headed The Paradox.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.245 ff. 7v-9r) | Catalogue

PeW 243

Copy of the shorter version, headed A Maydes denyall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay fayth, and will you? fye.

Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 pp. 74-5) | Catalogue

PeW 244

Copy of the shortened version, headed A Maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, nay faith, & will you fie.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 50r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 245

Copy of the short version, headed A maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, nay fayth, and will you! fye.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 43) | Catalogue

PeW 246

Copy, headed The Paradox.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 pp. 130-4) | Catalogue

PeW 247

Copy of the short version, untitled but with a marginal note Against M^rs Joseph, here beginning Nay pish, nay pewe nay faghs & will you? fie.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 f. 188v) | Catalogue

PeW 248

Copy of the short version, headed A Coy mistress and here beginning Nay pish, nay pu, In fayth but will you? fie.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 7-8) | Catalogue

PeW 249

Copy, headed A Paradox of a Painted face.

In: A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) 19^th, Julij 1620.

1620

Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Stephens MS: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.6 (MS Eng 966.6 pp. 326-30) | Catalogue

PeW 250

Copy of the abridged version, untitled and here beginning Nay pish, nay phew, in faith & will you? flye.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28^th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 35r) | Catalogue

PeW 251

Copy, headed A maides deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay faith and will you? fy.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 6r)

PeW 252

Copy, headed The Parradox.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 ff. 57r-8r)

PeW 252.5

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon M^r Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [16r rev.])

PeW 253

Copy, headed A Paradox in praise of a painted fface:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 43-5) | Catalogue

PeW 254

Copy of the short version, headed A maide denyall and here beginning nay pish, nay phue, nay faith but will you, fy.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 157)

PeW 255

Copy of the shorter version, untitled, here beginning Nay pish; nay pue, nay faith [but] will you fie.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 3) | Catalogue

PeW 256

Copy, headed In praise of a Painted Woman, here beginning Not kisse? by Joue I must, & make impression.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 24-7)

PeW 257

Copy of the shorter version, headed y^e Maids Deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay phew, and will you? phie.

In: A quarto commonplace book, c.360 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

Inscribed (p. 99) J: Alsop Darbiensem: i.e. John Allsop (b.c.1668), Fellow of St John's Collee, Cambridge, who is probably the compiler.

c.1688

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 17 (James 411) p. 117)

PeW 258

Copy, headed A Paradoxe in praise of a painted face.

In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1620-5

Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the Dalhousie MS I: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in And, having done that, Thou hast done: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.

Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely conduit to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 28r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 259

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth.

c.1622-9

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 S4 f. 12r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 260

Copy of a version headed Of my M^rs her coynes in the Act of Loue and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith but will you? fye.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 232v-3r) | Catalogue

PeW 261

Copy, headed To his M^rs vsing the Art of painting, subscribed D^r John Donne.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 244r-5v) | Catalogue

PeW 262

Copy of the short version, headed On his M^rs Coynesse in the act of love and here beginning Nay pish, nay leave, nay faith, but will you, fie.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 23v)

PeW 263

Copy of a version headed A Maydes denyall and beginning Nay pish, nay peu, infayth but will you fly.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 430-1)

PeW 264

Copy, headed The paradox.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 30r-1r) | First Lines Index

PeW 265

Copy of a version headed A gentlewoman to a gentleman busy with her [ ] and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith, but will you, fie.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 97) | First Lines Index

A Paradox, that Beauty lyes not in womens faces, but in their Lovers Eyes ('Why should thy look requite so ill all other Eyes')

Poems (1660), p. 77, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 266

Copy, untitled, here beginning Why should thy eies requite soe ill All other eyes.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 61v) | Catalogue

A Pastoral ('Shepherd, gentle Shepherd hark')

Poems (1660), pp. 88-9, the Lover's speech attributed to P., the Shepherd's to R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 267

Copy, headed A Pastoral betweene a Louer, and a Shepheard uppon hearing a faire Nimph singe in the woods.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 47r-v)

PeW 268

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 134r)

A Posie for a Neck-Lace ('Lo, on my Neck whilst this I bind')

Poems (1660), p. 100, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by William Strode.

See StW 249-263.

A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice ('Before the sixth day of the next New-year')

Poems (1660), p. 118, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Sir Walter Ralegh.

See RaW 203-223.

Song ('Come saddest thoughts possess my heart')

Poems (1660), pp. 102-3, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 269

Copy, headed The Lovers Elegy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 38r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 270

Copy, headed A louers ditty in Despaire.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 70) | Catalogue

PeW 271

Copy, headed A louers ditty in dispaire to the tune of Barlowe.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 114-15)

A Song ('Draw not too near')

Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

PeW 272

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 33v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 273

Copy, headed Cloras Epitaph.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 f. 43r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 274

Copy, untitled, written across the page with the spine of the volume turned upwards

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

c.1623-30

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29492 f. 41r-v) | Catalogue

PeW 275

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37719 f. 186v) | Catalogue

PeW 276

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 ff. 60r-1r) | Catalogue

PeW 277

Copy, headed in the margin Clora.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 141v-2v) | Catalogue

PeW 278

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham.

c.1628-30s

Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 f. 64v)

PeW 279

Copy, under a running head A Sonnet. W S.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 pp. 31-2) | Catalogue

PeW 280

Copy.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 307-8) | Catalogue

PeW 281

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed An epitaph on Queene Elizabeth.

This MS recorded in Krueger. Edited in Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1925), p. 27.

In: A folio miscellany of Latin and English ecclesiastical writings, in several neat secretary and italic hands, one small neat italic hand predominating, ii + 151 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf boards.

Mid-17th century

Ex dono bookplate of Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761), Bishop of London, 1761.

St Catharine's College (MS F. III. 16 (James 18) f. 120v)

PeW 282

Copy.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 30) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Song ('Say pretty wanton, tell me why')

Poems (1660), pp. 73-4, superscribed P..

PeW 283

Copy, here beginning Come pretty wanton....

In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27879 f. 241v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 284

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning Come pretty wanton tell me why.

In: A quarto songbook, in a secretary and italic hand, 193 leaves (including ten blanks).

Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire.

c.1676-90

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.

Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1959. 003 Cantus 86: ff. 77, 88)

Sonnet ('A Restless Lover I espy'd')

Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. First published in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12.

See GrJ 1-10.

Sonnet ('Blind beauty! If it be a loss')

Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

See GrJ 37.1-40.

Sonnet ('Fye that men should so complain')

Poems (1660), pp. 72-3, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

PeW 285

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.

c.1640s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 101) | Catalogue

PeW 286

Copy, headed A Song.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 41r-v) | Catalogue

Sonnet ('Go Soul, the Bodies Guest')

Poems (1660), pp. 104-7, ascribed to P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Sir Walter Ralegh.

See RaW 147-177.

A Sonnet. ('He that his mirth hath lost')

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 29-33, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

See DyE 15-25.

Sonnet ('Ladies flee from Loves sweet tale')

Poems (1660), p. 71, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew.

See CwT 841.5-853.2.

Sonnet ('Now being caught in Cupid's Net')

Poems (1660), pp. 96-7, superscribed P..

No MSS recorded.

A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')

Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.

PeW 287

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 54v-5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 288

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 81v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 289

Copy, headed Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47111 f. 21r-v)

PeW 290

Copy, untitled, subscribed M^r Renolds:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.43 f. 28v) | Catalogue

PeW 291

Copy.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 65v)

PeW 292

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 16v)

PeW 293

Copy, headed On Loue and subscribed M^r. Reynalds [i.e. Henry Reynolds (c.1564-1635), schoolmaster and poet].

In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

c.1636-41

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 72)

Sonnet ('Wrong not dear Empress of my heart')

Poems (1660), pp. 35-6, headed Sonnet P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

See RaW 500-542.

A stragling Lover reclaim'd ('Till now I never did believe')

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed P. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.

PeW 294

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank).

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

c.late 1630s-early 1640s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 13 p. 52) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 295

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 ff. 151v-2r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 296

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.

c.1640s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 108) | Catalogue

PeW 297

This MS recordeded in Krueger.

In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 84v)

PeW 298

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 49r-v)

PeW 299

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 34r)

That Lust is not his Ayme ('Oh do not tax me with a brutish Love')

Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.

PeW 300

Copy, headed That lust is not his ayme, subscribed S^r. G. H.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 68v-9r) | Catalogue

PeW 301 c.1630s-40s

Copy, untitled, with an authorial revision in one line, in a series of poems by North (ff. 6r-54r) neatly written by an accomplished amanuensis with North's autograph corrections.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto composite volume of works, in verse and prose, by Dudley North (1582-1666), third Baron North, poet, in various hands, 235 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North e. 41 f. 43v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 302

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 73r)

PeW 303

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 133) | Catalogue

PeW 304

Copy, with corrections in darker ink, untitled.

In: A quarto volume comprising A Forest of Varieties by Dudley North, third Baron North, in the italic hand of an amanuensis with North's autograph corrections and revisions, 85 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

c.1640s

Inscribed inside the front cover Given to V. A. N. by her Father-in-law Lord North Aug 1932. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 82 p. 66) | Catalogue

That she is onely Fair ('Do not reject those titles of your due')

First published in Dudley North, A Forest of Varieties (1645). Poems (1660), pp. 26-7, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition and as by Dudley North, third Baron North.

PeW 305 c.1630s-40s

Copy, untitled, in a series of poems by North (ff. 6r-54r) neatly written by an accomplished amanuensis with North's autograph corrections.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

In: A quarto composite volume of works, in verse and prose, by Dudley North (1582-1666), third Baron North, poet, in various hands, 235 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North e. 41 f. 38r-v.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 306

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 71v)

PeW 307

Copy, with a correction in darker ink, untitled.

c.1640s

Inscribed inside the front cover Given to V. A. N. by her Father-in-law Lord North Aug 1932. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 82 pp. 55-6) | Catalogue

To a Friend ('Like to a hand which hath been us'd to play')

Poems (1660), p. 108, ascribed to P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Thomas Carew or William Strode.

See StW 1065-1083.

To a Lady residing at the Court ('Each greedy hand doth catch and pluck the flowr')

Poems (1660), pp. 114-15, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Joshua Sylvester. It appears in Sylvester's Du Bartas his divine Weekes and Workes (1641), p. 651. The commonest version in MSS begins Beware fair maids of musky courtiers' oaths. There are numerous MS texts of this poem, not listed here, some of them recorded in Krueger.

PeW 308

Copy, headed A caveat for maids.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 35v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

PeW 309

Copy, headed Good Aduice to a Gentlewoman being at Court.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 313) | Catalogue

To a Lady weeping ('Dry those fair, those Christal Eyes')

Poems (1660), p. 91, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry King.

See KiH 537-557.

Translated out of French ('Love the great Workman, a new World hath made')

Poems (1660), pp. 111-12, unattributed.

No MSS recorded.

Verses made by Sir B. R. ('Oh faithless world, and thy most faithless part')

Poems (1660), pp. 34-5. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

See WoH 219-257.5.

'When mine eyes, first admiring your rare beauty'

Poems (1660), pp. 54, where it is divided by a rule from B.R. his Ballet (GrJ 70-76) and is untitled and unattributed.

No MSS recorded.

'Why do we love these things which we call Women'

Poems (1660), pp. 55-6, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

See GrJ 92.