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The poem here, Hearke yee virgins y^t soe prize, is quite different from the song in Valentinian, II, v, 24-43.

Dyce, V, 243-4. Bullen, IV, 248. Bowers, IV, 308.

This is actually a different poem by Behn: see BeA 20.3.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI, 389. Todd, I, No. 92, p. 356.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

This volume is not compiled by William Camden but is entirely in the hand of Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald.

This is a poem is by Francis Quarles, not Bacon's poem.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

This entry in IELM, II.i, is a typographically garbled repetition of CoR 272.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

Not present. This entry, in IELM, I.i, was apparently confused with DaJ 251.

This text here is not the letter by Fulke Greville. See EsR 181: Second Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland.

An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance..., dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

Volume XI of the Castle Ashby Manuscripts formerly owned by the Earl Compton. Probably once owned by William Compton, first Earl of Northampton (d.1630). Christie's, 5 July 1978, lot 47, with a facsimile of one page in the sale catalogue.

This translation is not by Harington: see Simon Cauchi, Sir John Harington and Virgil's Aeneid IV, EMS, 1 (1989), 242-9, with a facsimile page.

This translation is not by Harington: see Simon Cauchi, Sir John Harington and Virgil's Aeneid IV, EMS, 1 (1989), 242-9, with a facsimile page.

The poem copied here is not Donne's The Curse.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

Not present. Confused with DnJ 3914.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

No entry.

First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

Not the poem by Donne, but the anonymous A: Paradox (Who so termes loue a fire may like a Poet).

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

No entry.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

Unpublished. Not by John Donne the poet. See Alan Pritchard, TLS.

Unpublished. Not by John Donne the poet. See Alan Pritchard, TLS.

This is not Dorset's poem but one based on it, to the tune of To all you Ladies and beginnng To all you Tories far from Court.

First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

This page contains only the heading Observations out of Juvenal without any further text of Dryden's translation.

First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Thorpe, p. 61.

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.5.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Thorpe, p. 61.

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.8.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Thorpe, p. 61.

This is not the poem by Marvell, but an anonymous Advice to a Painter poem of 1679: Osborne No. 27.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

Now catalogued as VaJ 3.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Thorpe, p. 61.

This is not part of Harington's lost succinct collection of historie: his compendious & apt obseruatios in the Emperors liues but a work by Sir Henry Savile, published with his 1591 translation of Tacitus's History and Adricola.

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

This is not the poem by Jonson but one by Owen Felltham: see FeO 1-6.

First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

This is not the poem by Henry King but a 60-line version of Francis Quarles's Like to the damask rose you see.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

This is a duplicate of RaW 315.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

This letter by Ralegh to his son is not the Instructions to his Son and to Posterity.

A treatise in ten chapters, beginning There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends.... First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

Not present here.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 85-6.

This poem is not Strode's but an Imitation of it beginning I saw fair Flora take the air.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).