The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end

Copy.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

Copy of lines 1-6, headed Benjamin Johnson at first bred in a private school in S^t martins & yⁿ in westminster School, witness his own Epigra.

First published in Epigrammes (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.

Extracts.

First published in London, 1589. Grosart, VI, 1-146.

Copy of the song, in double columns, undated.

California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 244-5.

Copy of Autolycus's song, undated.

Copy of the song, headed Sonnets 20.

The play first published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, X, 293-370 (pp. 335-6). Bullen, VII, 438-97, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 451). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1683-1713 (p. 1690). The play is now generally attributed to Thomas Middleton.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

Copy of the song, undated.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy, untitled.

First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

Copy, untitled.

Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

Copy.

First published in The Amorous Prince (London, 1671). Todd, p. 58, No. 22.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

Copy.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1619).

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As careful Nurses on their beds doe lay.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Copy, untitled.

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).

Copy, headed Excuse for absence.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 491.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

Copy, headed Silence.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 119-20. Sparrow, pp. 118-19. Collected Works, II, No. 52, pp. 83-4.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 124-7.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy, headed A Messe of Nonsence and here beginning Like to y^e graceful tone of inspoke speeches.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

Copy, headed A ffarewell to folly.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy, headed Sonnets, 130. on man's life.

First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Grosart, I, 31.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

Copy, set out calligraphically in patterned formation, headed On the glorious Passion & Resurrection of our Lord, & Saviour Jesus Christ and beginning Behold O Lord IN RIvers of my Tears.

Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy of a version headed E. of Rochester's Character of K. Ch. 2^nd and beginning Here lives a great & mighty King.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

Copy, in shorthand, headed On a zealous Lock=Smith.

Whitlock, p. 108.

Copy, headed On a young gentlewoman.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

Copy, headed On a man drown'd in y^e snow.

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

Extracts.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

Copy, headed S^r Walter Raughly on mans life.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29B, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

Copy, headed On Queene Elizabeth carried to buriall by water.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

Copy, headed On D^or. Rauis Bishop of London.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Copy, headed On y^e death of y^e Lady of Rutland by Beaumont.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

Copy, headed On a musing Lady.

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

Copy, headed On y^e Countesse of Pembrocke.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

Copy, headed Rawley upon Noell.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

Copy, headed in a different hand upon a lady that sang lately, subscribed W^m Strowde.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

Copy, headed In y^e comendation of Black Gentlewoeman, annotated in another hand M^rs Beata Poole.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS T).

First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

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

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed One to his Mistresse.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Copy, headed One finding a Lute instead of his mistresse.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed A song on his Mistresse and here beginning In your faire cheeks two pitts doe lie.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins to his sonne and here beginning My little sonne whilst thou art yong.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

Copy, headed An elegie on y^e queene of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

Copy, headed On S^r Thomas Ouerbury.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

Copy, headed On S^r Walter Rawly.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading Dor Donne.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

Copy, headed An Epitaph and here beginning As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Copy, untitled, subscribed By S^r. Ed: Harbert.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

Copy, headed a louers passion on a fayre Mayde.

First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

Copy.

Unpublished?

Copy, headed A ridle proposed by S^r Walter Rawley to y^e Lady Bendbow.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 37, p. 105. Recorded in Latham.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

Copy.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 462.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2969).

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

Copy, headed Song, subscribed By S^r: Hen: Wotton.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

Copy, headed Vpon a sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading D^r. Dunn.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy, stanzas 2 and 3 placed first, headed Melancholy and here beginning Wellcome folded armes, & fixed eyes, then stanza 1, also headed Melancholy.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

Copy.

Copy, headed on a Gentlewoeman walkinge in the snowe.

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).

Copy, inscribed in the margin in another hand by Carew.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

Copy, headed A conference between two Louers.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon a flye. Tho. Carie.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy, headed Upon an illfauored Gentlewoman by D. C.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett to Madam Mallett.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

Copy of the shortened version, headed A Maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, nay faith, & will you fie.

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].

Copy, headed a lady to a Lawyer.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

Copy, headed Of Grey eyes.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

Copy, headed A new yeares guift to M^rs. Porter from W^m. Dauenant, subscribed W. D.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

Copy, headed To Ben Jonson, in answer to the railing verses written by Alex Gill (upon the Magnetic Lady).

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

Copy, headed songe sung to Prince Henry at his departinge.

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

Copy, headed His answere.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Copy.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

Copy, headed Songe.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

Copy, headed Songe, here beginnining Deare doe not your fayre beauty wronge, inscribed in another hand T. May.

First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

Copy of Bacon's letter to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599.

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, pp. 311-12.

Copy of an English translation.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

Copy of fourteen letters and petitions by, or probably by, Chapman, to unidentified ladies and other correspondents (5); to George Buc; to King James I (2); to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; to ? Sir Edward Phelips; to Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk (2); to Mr Crane; and to Lord Ellesmere; and to the Privy Council; all undated, but probably ranging between 1600 and 1615.

Braunmuller Nos 38, 49, 73, 86-9, 112, 124-6, 136, 138, 139.

Various letters edited, some with discussions of authorship, in Eccles, p. 185; in Robert D. Parsons, Chapman's Letter to Mr. Sares: A Hamlet Parallel, N&Q, 214 (April 1969), 137; in Tucker Orbison, The Case for the Attribution of a Chapman Letter, SP, 72 (1975), 72-84; and elsewhere.

Copies of a series of nine letters and petitions by Jonson, to Mr Leech; Thomas Bond; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk [?]: Sir Robert Cecil; an unidentified lord; Lucy, Countess of Bedford [?]; Esmé Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny [?]; Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; undated but the first two probably 1613 and the rest probably 1613.

Braunmuller, Nos 93-4, 127-33. Eight letters edited in Herford and Simpson, I, 193-4, 197-201.

Copy, headed two Louers.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

Copy, headed On Two Louers.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Copy, headed To you Ladyes & Yo^r. women that doe black Cyprus vayles.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

Copy, headed The Ladies answere.

An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

Copy, subscribed B: J:.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.

Copy, subscribed B: J.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

Copy, headed A Gratulatory to M^r Jonson for his voluntary adoption of mee to bee his sonne., subscribed T: R:.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

Copy, headed An Epigram one S^r Kenelme Digby.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

Copy, headed Vpon M^rs Venetia Stanley. The Body.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

Copy, headed The Mind, subscribed B: J:.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

Copy.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

Copy.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

Copy, subscribed B: J:.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

Copy, headed Ode Pindærick. On the death of S^r Hen: Morison, subscribed B: J.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

Copy, headed On Q: Elizabeth caried to Buriall by water.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

Copy, headed On Doctor Ravis Bishop of London, by D^r Corbet added in another hand.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Copy, headed On the death of the Lady of Rutland, subscribed Fran: Beamont.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

Copy, headed On the comendation of a black gentlewoman.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS Z).

First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

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

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed One to his mystres.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Copy, written as two separate poems, stanza 1 headed On Melancholly and stanzas 2-3 headed Melancholly.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed The Lady Arabella, inscribed in a different hand D^r Corbet.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

Copy, headed An elegye on y^e Queene of Scotts and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Copy, untitled, inscribed at the top D^r Dunn.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy, headed The Nightingale.

Copy, headed An elegye vppon a flye: Carew.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy, headed Upon an ilfauored gentlewoman.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

Copy, headed D^r Corbett to Madam Mallett.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

Copy of the short version, headed A maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, nay fayth, and will you! fye.

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].

Copy, headed Of Grey eyes: W: Stroude.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

Copy, headed A new-yeeres guift to M^rs Porter from W: Dauenant.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

Copy, headed A Lady to a Lawyer, inscribed in different ink S^r John Harrington.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

Copy, headed On S^r Thomas Ouerbury.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

Copy, headed On S^r Walter Rawley, by B^p. King added in a different hand.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

Copy, headed On a Lady singing, subscribed W. Stroude.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

Copy, headed A song on his mystres and here beginning In your fayre cheekes two pitts doe lye.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Edward Harbert.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

Copy, headed A louers passionate song on a fayre mayde.

First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

Copy of lines 1-6, headed Song. D^r Donne.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 463.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2970).

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

Copy, headed Song, subscribed S^r Hen: Wotton.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

Copy.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

Copy, headed Song and here beginning Deare, doe not your fayre beauty wrong.

First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

Copy, headed Song.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

Copy, headed His answere.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Copy, untitled.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

Copy, headed A Song sung to Prince Henery at his departinge.

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

Copy.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

Copy, headed A sonnet against his M^rs:.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

Copy, headed Sonnet 2.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

Copy, headed Sonnet: 3:, subscribed D^r: H: King:.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

Copy, headed Carmina inter duos fratres Reynoldes Oxon:.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

Copy, headed Thus Englished, subscribed D^r Alablaster.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

Copy, headed An Elegy vpon y^e K of Sueden, subscribed D: K:.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

Copy, subscribed D^r H. King.

First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

Copy, headed Randall on y^e losse of a finger.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

Copy, headed A Sigh.

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in William Shakespeare, Poems (London, 1640). Evans, pp. 472-3.

Copy, headed On a sighe.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

Copy, headed Of Caelia's letting blood. To y^e Chirurgian, and here beginning Foole that beleevst her clearer blood.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

Copy, headed To his mistris that prou'd false.

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 215-16. Evans, pp. 468-70.

Copy, headed Song, subscribed John: Grange.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

Copy, headed Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount S^t Albanes, subscribed Lord: virulam.

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.

Copy.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

Copy, headed Englished and subscribed Tho: Randolph, following the Latin version.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.

Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamoured, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

Copy, headed The Masq[ue] of Vices, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

Copy, untitled.

First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

Copy, subscribed Tho Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolphe.

First published in Day (1932), p. 36.

A forgery by J.P. Collier.

See Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 4).

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

Copy, headed An Eglogue To his worthy Father M^r. Ben: Jonson, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

Copy, headed The Paradox.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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].

Copy.

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).

Copy, headed Perswations to Loue.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

Copy, headed Loues Progresse or Instructions in wooing to begin at the right end, subscribed Jo: Donne.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

Copy, headed An Answer.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

Copy, headed Englished and preceded by the Latin version headed In Eclipsem Solis Christo Patienti Contingentem, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

Copy, headed M^r Ionsons farewell to the stage, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with the answer by Randolph (RnT 23), subscribed Ben: Jonson.

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.

Copy, headed M^r Randolophs Parody, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

Copy, headed M^r Strouds Translation, on rectos only, facing Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed Willm Stroade.

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

Copy, on rectos only, headed M^r Randolphs Translation, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Thus dazelled with height of place, subscribed S^r: Hen: Wotton.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

Copy, subscribed S^r Tho Jay.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

Copy, subscribed Ro: Herricke.

Printed from this MS in Farmer.

First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

Copy, headed A Gentleman too a Chirurgian Letting his Mistris Blood, subscribed Tho: Cary.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

Copy, headed On M^r: Francis Beaumonts death, by D^r Corbet added in another hand.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

Copy of the beginning and end, deleted; imperfect, lacking all pp. 191-6.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

Copy, headed To his false Mistris, ascribed to John Grange.

A poem based on Ben Jonson's song If I freely may discouer in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.

Copy, headed The prologue to y^e late play acted before the Prince Charles at cambridge. 1641.

Facsimile in Jean F. Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 31, p. 99.

First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

Copy, subscribed Cowley. Author.

First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

Copy, subscribed M^r Denham Author.

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 51.

First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.

Copy of a 340-line version, beginning Sure wee haue poetts that did neuer dreame, subscribed M^r Denham (originally Dodderidge which is deleted).

This MS collated in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 et seq. (and described pp. 51-3).

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

Copy, headed Verses on a fart lett by S^r Henery Ludlow at a Parliament held: 1628 and here beginning Downe came graue Serieant Crooke.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

Copy, ascribed to Richard Wheeler.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

Copy, subscribed G.S..

Edited from this MS in Davis, loc. cit.

First published in Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys and Two Uncollected Poems, HLQ, 12 (1948-9), 105-11 (pp. 109-11).

Copy, headed D^r: Androes Paraphrase on the Lords prayer, beginning If any be distrest, & faine would gather some comfort, let him hast vnto -- our ffather.

Unpublished.

Copy, headed in the margin Life's description.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

Copy of the Latin epigram, followed by an English translation beginning Knowest thow a moneth should end thy dayes, all ascribed at the side to S^r. Tho: Moore.

Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 130-1, with English translation.

Copy, untitled.

This sonnet first published in Martin Peerson, Mottects (London, 1630). Bullough, I, 134-5. Wilkes, I, 154.

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed S.D.

Grosart, I, 72-3. Sprague, p. 33, as Sonnet XLV.

Copy, headed A discription of a most noble Ladye.

First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

Copy, untitled, a forgery by J.P. Collier.

See Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 9).

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1559). Padelford, No. 13, pp. 63-4. Jones, pp. 1-2.

Copy, headed A charminge Beuty.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

Copy, headed The flie.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy, headed on A lady singinge to her Lute.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

Extract, untitled and beginning at Canto II, stanza 7 (Fond men, whose wretched care the life soone ending).

First published, as Brittain's Ida, ascribed to Edmund Spenser, [London], 1628. Boas, II, 343-63. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 305-24.

Copy of a 42-line version, headed The departure from his M^rs.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

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.

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].

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 500; recorded in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 114.

First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.

Copy, untitled.

First published as Of the foure Elements in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 55>. Authorship unknown.

Copy, untitled, subscribed T.S[?].

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561, and in Robertson, p. 438.

Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 197.

Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

Copy, headed The distracted puritan to y^e tune of Joviall tinker, partly in double columns.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed in a later hand B Jonson.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.

First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

Copy.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Rollins, p. 354.

Sonnet 138 first published as poem 1 in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599).

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 83-4.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Deare doe not y^r faire beowty wronge.

First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

Extracts, untitled.

First published in London, 1597.

Copy, ascribed in another hand to W. R.

Edited from this MS in Latham.

First published in Latham (1951), p. 169, as a doubtfully ascribed fragment.

Copy, headed S^r Tho: Overbury's wife.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

Copy, headed in the margin Tyme and here beginning Whie this is time that takes in trust, subscribed S^r W: Ral:.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

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).

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife (1603) and to Sir Robert Carr (1618).

Copy, untitled.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

Copy.

First published in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree (London, 1660). Wynter, IX, 699-700. Davenport, p. 155.

Copy of part of a letter by Ralegh to James I, headed The Remaind^r of S^r Walter Ralies ler begunn 5 leaues before, the earler part now lacking.

Copy, headed Choyce of a Mistresse.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

Copy of lines 1-64, headed Canto.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 167-9.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

Copy, headed in the margin a messe of nonsense and here beginning Like to the tone of unspoke speeches.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

Copy, headed A heart lost.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

Copy, headed The ffart.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

Copy, subscribed in a different hand Hen Kinge.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

Copy.

Copy, headed Vpon the Crowne of a hatt dranck't in for want of a Cupp.

Copy, as by D^r Corbett.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

Copy, headed Epigram made by Thomas Randolphe on the losse of his Little ffinger.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

Copy, headed His Answer.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Copy, untitled.

Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

Copy, headed M^r Randolphs vses vpon his empty purse.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.

Copy, headed responsus.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.

Copy, headed Upon Cicells Death and here beginning Here lies Hobbinall o^r Shepherd whileare.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 146.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Evans.

First published as Verses on the death of the Right Valiant S^r Bevill Grenvill, Knight (1643). Works (1651), pp. 303-6. Evans, pp. 555-8.

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596): see HrJ 317-24. 1618, Book I, No. 47. McClure No. 48, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 89, p. 125.

Copy, headed in the margin A prooesie and here beginning The first day of the nex new yere.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

Copy, untitled, with four additional lines and the marginal note A couplet or two fastned to S^r Io: Harrington his Epigra, to doe his Townes knight yeomans seruice?.

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

Copy, headed Vpon the Hearse of W^lm Ea: of Pembrooke.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

Copy, untitled, inscribed M^r Thomas Randulph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.

An extract from D^r Thomas Browne.

Extracts from Jonson's works, including an example on p. 69.

Extracts from Chapman's works, including examples on pp. 31-2, 66, 74, 76, and 84.

Extracts, including examples on pp. 49-50, 55-6, 64, and 79.

First published in London, 1636. Hooper, I, 91-195; II, 195-310.

Some of Henry Lawes's musical settings published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Musical settings by Henry and William Lawes also published in Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (London, 1648).

Copy, headed In iuuenem morte pemptu and here beginning As careful nurses in their beds do lay.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Copy, headed Vppon a criple and here beginning I can neither go nor stand y^e criple cryes.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

Copy of lines 59-82, headed On a woman deformed w^th y^e Pocks, here beginning O thou deformd unwoman like disease, docketed in the top margin see more of these verses page 88.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

Copy of the short version, headed A Coy mistress and here beginning Nay pish, nay pu, In fayth but will you? fie.

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].

Copy, headed Verses written on a lute she y^t. owed it being absent and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gon.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

Copy, headed A sighe.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

Copy, headed Another [i.e. verse employing a double sense], with a prose preamble concerning King Edward at Berkeley Castle, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

Copy, headed Of man.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

Copy, headed On King James, incomplete, subscribed See the rest of these verses pag 80.

A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed Do: Corbet on Tom y^e great bell of C:C:.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

Copy, headed To the intricate example of policy, euen in this vniversity. y^e plot of vnion, y^e delighte & defenders of factions, y^e freind of ppetual Rage, The reuiuers of Mallavil & macro, The subtil & sublimed corporacon of plot... [etc.].

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

Second copy, headed A Criple and here beginning I can neither goe nor stand y^e criple cryes.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

Copy, headed A conference betwixt 2 louers, deleted.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

Copy, headed Of a Lady musing, with four additional lines.

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawlighes verses the nighte before he was beheaded in London 1619.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

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).

Copy of a version headed In Docett. Comitem Thesaur: and beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

Copy, headed A Country suter to his loue and here beginning fayre wench I can not court thye sprightly eyes.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

Copy, headed The conference of 6 puritanicall wenches, partly deleted.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

Copy of an imitation, untitled, beginning The man and wife that kinde and louing are.

Recorded in Deborah Aldrich Larson, John Donne and the Astons, HLQ, 55 (1992), 635-41 (p. 640). Complete facsimile in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), pp. 156-7.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A [ ] sister w^th one of her society, partly deleted.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

Copy, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 8. McClure No. 206, pp. 232-3. Kilroy, Book I, II No. 99ter, pp. 207-8.

Copy, headed M^r Lewis of Oriel vppon his loue who dyed before she was married.

First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

Copy, headed of y^e fiue senses by James Johnson 1623.

Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

Copy, headed D^r Co. vppon his love: M^rs Poole y^e Ld Shandoys sister.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS X).

First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

Copy, headed S^r Hen: wootton on a pvate life.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

Copy, headed A louers ditty in Despaire.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 102-3, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

Copy, headed A Louer on his supposed death.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy of lines 9-32, headed A Description of y^e hart, or rather loue in it and here beginning Ah what a trifle is a hart.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

Copy of the last ten lines, headed Epitaph on King James and here beginning ffor two and twenty yeares long care, inscribed in the margin See more of this pa: 16.

A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

Copy, D^r Dunne to his m^rs going to bed.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

Copy, headed Idem to his m^rs.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

Copy, headed D^r Dunne, on y^e death of his m^rs.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

Copy, headed D^r Corbet on the death of y^e Lady Hay.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

Copy of lines 83-100, headed On a woman disfigured w^th y^e smal pocks, here beginning Thou shouldst haue wrought on som such Lady mould, superscribed Part of y^e former verses sup pag 6.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

Copy of a 42-line version, headed At the Departure of his mistres.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

Copy, headed A silent wooer.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

Copy, headed To his mistres.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

Copy, headed D^r Corbet on B^p Ravis.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Copy, headed An Invocation of y^e Ghost of Robert wisdom.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

Copy, headed On the death of M^r. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together, unascribed.

This MS recorded in Doelman.

A twelve-line epitaph. First published in Baird W. Whitlock, The Authorship of the Couplet on Sir Albertus Morton and His Wife, N&Q, 226 (December 1981), 523-4, where (through a misreading of G. H. in HrG 290.6 as J. H.) it is attributed to John Hoskyns. Edited and attributed to George Herbert in James Doelman, Herbert's couplet?, TLS, 19 February 2010, p. 15.

For lines 5-6, beginning The first deceased. He for a little try'd, a couplet which in various forms circulated independently for many years and has traditionally, though uncertainly, been associated with Sir Henry Wotton, see WoH 175-198.

Copy, headed On y^e Q. of Scots Execution and here beginning When doom of death by iudgment soe appointed, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Copy, subscribed in monogram form HK.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

Copy, headed In obitum Do^mi Thomae Ouerbury. D^r Corbet.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

Copy, headed Antidotum Cæcilianam. D^r Corbet.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Edited in online Early Stuart Libels.

Copy, headed In obitum Ro: Ceciliij., here beginning Here lyes old Hobinol our shephard while heere, and ascribed to S^r wall. Rawleigh.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 47, pp. 120-1. Recorded in Latham, p. 146.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

Copy, headed The remoual of her body from Richmond to white hal by water.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

Copy, headed D^r Corbet ag^t D^r Price Aniversaryes on Prince Henry.

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.

Copy, headed A Reply to y^e Defence.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

Copy, headed D^r Corbet to M^r Alesbury on y^e Comet ibid.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

Copy, headed In Eandem [i.e. on Mrs Mallet] D^r. Corbet.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

Copy, headed D^r Corbet. A Newyeares gift to y^e Duke of Buckingham 1621.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

Copy, headed On y^e Lord Chancelour and here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e gout of goout feeling.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

Copy, headed To his mistresse.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Copy of a version, headed D^r Dunne on his Departure from his Loue and here beginning Dearest Loue, I doe not goe.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

Copy, headed D^r Corbet of y^e Princes iorney into Spaine.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 705).

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

Copy, headed A Song and here beginning Now I see thy lookes are fained.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

Copy, headed D^r Corbet, on Com:.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

Copy, headed Of mans misery S^r fr: Bacon:.

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.

Copy, headed A charme ffran: Beaumont.

Rejected from the canon in Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.

Copy, headed On D^r Hut: daughter of C.C..

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).

Copy, headed Spes Altera A song.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Edited and discussed in Mary Hobbs, Shakespeare's Sonnet II: A Sugred Sonnet?, N&Q, 224 (1979), 112-13.

Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

Copy.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

Copy, headed Amintas & Alexis.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

Copy, headed An Elegy on Q: Anns Death.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

Copy, headed On y^e Queen of Bohemia S^r Hen: Wootton.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

Copy, headed Palinodia Loues folly.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

Copy, headed An elegy on the death of King James.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

Copy, headed Anagramma Romæ. p G Herbert.

An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.

Extracts, comprising (p. 159) versions of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed On a Ring and here beginning Nature hath fram'd a Jem beyond compare; lines 479-80, headed On a Nose gay with a netle in it and here beginning Such is y^e posy loue composes; (p. 167) Book I, Song 1, lines 241-2, headed of a fayr woman, here beginning The powers aboue deny, and followed by four other lines not found in the printed text; and (p. 169) the same six lines followed by a further six lines, headed Vppon a fayre woman and inscribed in the margin al this is taken out of brittanis pastorals; c.1630.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

Copy of the first stanza, here beginning Dearest tel me what is loue, together with the second stanza of the version which appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle (III, 29-42).

This MS collated in Beaurline and in Cyrus Hoy's edition of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Bowers, I, 93.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 217-328 (pp. 258-9). Bowers, I, 550-650, ed. L.A. Beaurline (pp. 583-4). A version of this song appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, III, 29-42 (London, 1613).

Copy.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.

Copy.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading Sir Walter Rawley, subscribed See y^e rest immediately before.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

Copy, headed Ben John: The Divells feast.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

Copy of 45 characters, with a title-page and list of charactes.

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

Copy.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

Copy of an 18-line version, headed D^r Dunne of his m^rs rising and here beginning Ly stil my deare why dost thou rise.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Copy, headed On M^r Beaumont.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

Copy, headed Vppon a Locksmith.

Whitlock, p. 108.

Copy, headed On the Lord Noel.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that sung very wel.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

Copy, headed On Smith of magdalens.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

Copy, headed Old wooing.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

Copy, headed M^r Tichbornes Elegy in the tower.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

Copy, headed A health to a louer.

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

Copy, headed A Louer.

Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.

Copy, here beginning In yo^r faire cheekes 2 pits doe ly.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

Copy, headed Playing for kisses.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

Copy, headed On Cate.

Krueger, p. 132.

Copy.

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.

Copy, headed Good Aduice to a Gentlewoman being at Court.

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.

Copy of Bacon's speech in the Lords, 19 March 1620.

Copy of a receipt for A Excellent Cordiall ielly a Comforter of the harte and helpe to digesture > of S^r water raleigh.

Copy of three poems elaborating at greater length on the original version attributed to Ralegh, the first beginning Faine woulde I shoote in a bowe y^t I knowe.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

Copy, headed Tam arte quam Marte:.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 503-10.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, Raleigh's disputed Authorship of A Description of Loue, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

Copy, untitled, here beginning What if a day or a weeke or a year.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

Copy, untitled.

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

Copy of a version beginning As you come fro Walsingham.

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

Copy, headed An oulde man to a yonge woman.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

Copy, headed The matter beginnes heare: Nashes Dilldo, with the dedicatory To y^e right Ho^bl. y^e Lorde Strainge (Pardon sweete flowre of matchlesse poetrie).

This MS discussed and collated in Robert C. Evans and Kurt R. Niland, The Folger Text of Thomas Nashe's Choise of Valentines, PBSA, 87 (1993), 363-74.

Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

Copy of 26 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6, 8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 26-8, 31, 35-7, 39, 41-2, 61-2), here beginning Flee merrie Muse vnto y^t merrie towne.

This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 439.

58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

Copy of an adapted thirteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning There was a time when sylly Bees coulde speake.

This MS text recorded (as very corrupt) in May, p. 111.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy of Bacon's speech in Parliament, 16 January 1620/1.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Beaurline, Plays, p. 143. The song published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).

Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning Come let's away, to the Tavern I say, with two additional lines.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

First published, with a separate title-page, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 1-32 (p. 27). The song published in A Musicall Banquet (London, 1651).

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Henry V and Twelfth Night.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Copy of the opening lines only, untitled and here beginning O wretched man (why loust ye earthly life, in a musical setting by Jo: Wilby.

First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

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.

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Verses made by himselfe.

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).

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, in a cursive secretary hand.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Apologie of S^r Walter Raleigh.

Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, 1603, in a cursive secretary hand, on three pages of two leaves after the printed Declaration.

Copy, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

Copy of a version, as written by Robarte Southewell, transcribed from the first edition, with changes made by an Anglican editor.

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

Copy, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

Edited from this MS in Brown (1973), with a facsimile of f. 54r as the frontispiece.

Southwell's letter to Cecil from the Tower, 6 April 1593, beginning Honorable Good Sir: The usual effect of a languishing and afflicted life is an unwillingness to live.... First published in Brown, Two Letters (1973), p. 75-85.

Copy in a musical setting (? by John Wilson), untitled.

Copy, on a leaf (f. 9r-v) extracted from an octavo verse miscellany which is now Folger MS V.a.96.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

A quarto volume, entitled (f. 1v) Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, Directing to the performance of our duties, towardes God and Man drawne out of y^e holy Scripture..., in two neat italic hands, predominantly Elizabeth Ashburnham's and with her copious autograph revisions throughout, inscribed by her (f. 2r) written at Ashbornham in Sussex anno. domin 1606. p. Elizabeth Ashbornham and the volume subscribed (f. 86v) Finis. Elizabeth Ashbornham, two other hands adding (f. 6r) a list of plate dated The 6^th of Feby. 1699 and some even later scribbling (ff. 54r-57v passim) including a list of books.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 2r, in Victoria E. Burke, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's motherlie endeauors in Manuscript, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113. A facsimile of f. 2r in Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), p. 253. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

Unpublished.

Elizabeth Richardson's précis of, and meditation on, the Countess of Pembroke's translation, in an unidentified hand, with her autograph corrections, headed A discourse of y^e teadiousnes of life and profitt of death and listed in her table of contents at the end (f. 86v) as a Treatise declaring the troble of life, and profit of death. Finis. Elizabeth: Ashborn ham.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 84r, in Margaret P. Hannay, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke's Discourse, EMS, 9 (2000), 114-28.

Extracts from Joseph Hall 1st Vol, Books I -III, including examples in the MS ff. 1r-11, 30r-7.

Copy of lines 11-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning Look at my h~ f n suc quintce but kno y I in, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 178-9.

Copy of parts of lines 3-4, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning my ow wri lik bad sr shew my b~, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, p. 175.

Copy of lines 9-12, 21-9, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning hir tongu wak sti^l refu. giv frank nig no, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 202-3.

Copy of lines 45-8, 53-66, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning g^rt o g^rt but spe (al) fail me fear on to pa^s, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 217-21.

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning And streight therew^t like, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, p. 173.

Copy, in two cursive secretary hands, subscribed with a note about the tract's presentation to the King on 29 January and Council meeting on 17 March, inscribed in the margin By S^r Rob^t Cotton and i Car R 1625.

Facsimile of p. 282 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

Copy, in a secretary hand, as written by S^r: Robert Cotton knight and Barronnett.

Facsimile of p. 283 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Copy, in a competent secretary hand, with dedicatory epistle to James I, with an affixed slip of replacement text on p. 447, inscribed in the margin S^r Walt Rawley.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

A series of references to Arcadia under headings (Defensio, Expurgatio, Narratoria, Disputatoria, Gratulatoria, etc.), on pages including ff. 5v, 7r, 10r, 11r, 15v, 16r, 18r, 23r, 25r, 26r, and 31r-2r.

Inserted in the 1693 edition of Arcadia, Book III, between OA 65 and OA 66. Ringler, Other Poems No. 5, pp. 256-7.

Extracts.

First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.