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HlJ 10.5: Joseph Hall, The Best Bargain: A Sermon Preached to the Court at Theobald's on Sunday, September 21, 1623 ('')

Extracts, as by Dr Hall.

First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 174-85.

HlJ 51.5: Joseph Hall, The Great Impostor: Laid open in a Sermon at Gray's Inn, February 2, 1623 ('')

Extracts, as by docter hall.

First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 158-73.

CgW 14.5: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single octavo leaf.

c.1690s.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

RaW 924: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Ralegh's wife.

RaW 778: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618) ('')

Copy.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

RaW 56: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy, headed The night before hee died.

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).

WaE 720: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')

Copy.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

DoC 149.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')

Copy, headed Upon M^r Edward Howards Vtopia &c., on a single folio leaf.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

BrT 5.95: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici ('')

Extracts.

First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

PsK 430.5: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664 ('That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred')

Copy, headed To my L of Canterburies Grace, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Late 17th century.

First published, as To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664, in Poems (1667), pp. 166-8. Saintsbury, pp. 600-1. Thomas, I, 239-40, poem 116.

RoJ 104.32: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

DrJ 43.81: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

MaA 337: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

Copy, subscribed S^r. J. D.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

MaA 375: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')

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First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

MaA 407: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

Copy, ascribed to S^r J: D[enham].

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

MaA 429: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')

Copy.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

MaA 133: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')

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First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

MaA 285: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

MaA 295: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

MaA 72.5: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')

Copy, headed The Exchequer Ballad..., on three folio pages.

Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

MaA 307.5: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')

Copy, untitled, on two folio leaves.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….