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WoH 40.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')

Copy, headed A Perfect happy man described by Sir H. W.

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).

HoJ 230: John Hoskyns, Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins, riding on the way ('Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature')

Copy, headed Verses extempore betweene Sir. H. Wotton & M^r. Hoskins, as they rode together from Oxford to London. y^e theame a mistris.

First published in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (London, 1651), p. 517. Osborn, pp. 211-12.

WoH 211.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')

Copy, headed A chorus upon the suddaine restraint of a great favourite, here beginning Thus dazle'd with height of place.

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.

SuJ 47.5: John Suckling, On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge ('What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed')

Copy.

First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.

CwT 60.5: Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')

Copy, headed D^r. Donnes comparison.

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

BrW 173.2: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')

Copy, headed On a Man drown'd in the snow.

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

FeO 33: Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')

Copy, headed On Absence and here beginning When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

HeR 349.5: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')

Copy, headed Oberon Kinge of the Fairyes, his apparrell.

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.

PoW 53: Walton Poole, If shadows be a picture's excellence

Copy, headed Verses in prayse of a black wench.

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.

WoH 62.8: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wottons verses of the Queen of Bohemia, here beginning Yee meaner beautyes of the night.

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.

BrW 53.5: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde ('After a march of twenty years and more')

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sir John Stroude.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.

RaW 73.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy, headed The coppy of that w^ch was deliver'd by S^r Walter Rawley to the Deane of Westminster upon the scaffold, for his Epitaph.

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).

CoR 199.5: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')

Copy, headed Doctor Donnes Epitaph.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

WoH 58.2: Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')

Copy, headed An Ode made upon the Kings speedy returne to the Queene from his coronation in Scotland.

First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

WoH 160.8: Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')

Copy, headed Att the tombe of Sir. Albertus Morton by Sir H. W. one of his nearest freinds.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

WoH 174.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the original sense ('My soul exalt the Lord with hymns of praise')

Copy, as by Sir. H. Wotton.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 525. Hannah (1845), pp. 36-9.

WoH 165.5: Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')

Copy, headed A hymne or meditation by the same Author at Venice in y^e time of a languishinge Feaver.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

PeM 4: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, The Countesse of Pembrokes meditation & sonnet ('Out of y^e depth of all afflictions smart')

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First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

PeM 5: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of a little River in Oxfordshire neare Kiddington ('By silver'd streams sweet murmur, sad delight')

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Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

PeM 6: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of a little spring hard by Kiddington house which droppes out of a Rock ('Teare-like from aged Rocks incased side')

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Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

PeM 8: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Upon the death of the Countesse of Rutland daughter to S^r Philip Sydney ('That thou art dead (faire life) & cannot dye')

Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

PeM 7: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of the River Bankes between Meziers & Liege ('So huge, so faire so goodly to behold')

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Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

StW 1284.5: William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')

Copy, headed D^r. Valentines verses on the church.

First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

BcF 38.5: Francis Bacon, The world's a bubble, and the life of man

Copy, headed A description of mans life.

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.

BrW 57.5: William Browne of Tavistock, The Happy Life ('O blessed man! who, homely bred')

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First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 5-7.

WaE 9.5: Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')

Copy, here beginning They who never knew the use.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.

ClJ 28: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')

Copy, headed A dialogue between two zelotts concerning Et Cætera in y^e new oath.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

KiH 345.5: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

Copy, headed D^r. Kinges Elegie upon his wife.

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

HeR 209.5: Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee ('Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee')

Copy, headed Of one in despaire of his M^rs, and here beginning Fly to my mistresse yellow-footed bee.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

MrC 2.5: Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander ('On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood')

Copy of First Sestiad, line 269 et seq., headed On a mayden-head and beginning Theif [sic] idoll which you terme virginity.

First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

StW 762.2: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

Copy, headed Of his M^rs.

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).

CwT 1047.5: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')

Copy, headed To his M^rs comparing himselfe to a ship.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

WoH 257.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A short hymn upon the birth of Prince Charles ('You that on stars do look')

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First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519.

SuJ 40: John Suckling, Loves Offence ('If when Don Cupids dart')

Copy, headed Songe.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 52-3.

SuJ 139.8: John Suckling, Womans Constancy ('There never yet was woman made')

Copy of a version headed Songe and beginning There was no woman ever made.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 61-2.

WaE 253.5: Edmund Waller, Of Sylvia ('Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 97.

WaE 74.5: Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')

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First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.

WaE 237.5: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

WaE 539.5: Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 125.

WaE 452.5: Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.

WaE 737.8: Edmund Waller, While I listen to thy voice

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

WaE 441.5: Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.

WaE 85.5: Edmund Waller, Go, lovely Rose

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First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

WaE 37.5: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.

WaE 446.5: Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

WaE 78.5: Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')

Copy of the 18-line version beginning at line 7, here Let brutes & vegetalls that cannot think.

First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

WaE 585.5: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')

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First published, as To the wife being marryed to that old man, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

WaE 128.5: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

WaE 626.5: Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')

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First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.

WaE 207.5: Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

WaE 692.5: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

WaE 31.5: Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

WaE 420.5: Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')

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First published, as The Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

WaE 219.5: Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')

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First published, headed The Reply on the Contrary, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to Tho. Batt. in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.

WaE 118.5: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

WaE 496.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')

Copy, headed To a Lady in retirement.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

WaE 361.5: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

WaE 314.5: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')

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First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

WaE 481.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

WaE 340.5: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')

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First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

WaE 225.5: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

WaE 71.5: Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos')

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First published in Poems (London, 1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53.

WaE 460.5: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

WaE 653.5: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.

WaE 599.5: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')

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First published, as The cunning Curtezan, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

WaE 593.5: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.

WaE 470.5: Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.

WaE 571.5: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

WaE 5.5: Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.

WaE 353.5: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')

Copy, headed On y^e freindship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett.

First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

WaE 519.5: Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

WaE 525.5: Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

WaE 559.5: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')

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First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

WaE 565.5: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

WaE 647.5: Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')

Copy, headed To M^rs. Broughton.

First published, as To Mistris Braughton, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.

WaE 514.5: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')

Copy, headed To y^e Lady Lucy Sidney.

First published, as To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

WaE 579.5: Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.

WaE 269.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

WaE 295.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

WaE 188.5: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

WaE 331.5: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')

Copy, headed Of the Lady Dorothy Sidneys picture, here beginning Such was Philoclea, such was Dorus flame.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

WaE 20.5: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')

Copy, here beginning Had Dorothæa liv'd when mortally made.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.

WaE 25.5: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.

WaE 47.5: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')

Copy, headed To y^e Countesse of Carlisle in mourning.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

WaE 54.5: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

WaE 174.5: Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.

WaE 97.5: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')

Copy, headed In answeare to etc.

First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

WaE 633.5: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')

Copy, headed To y^e Queen-Mother upon her landing.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

WaE 306.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.

WaE 14.5: Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')

Copy, headed The Apologie of sleep for not approaching y^e Lady who can doe any thing but sleep when she pleaseth.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.

WaE 414.5: Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')

Copy, here beginning Yee Gods that have y^e power.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.

WaE 639.5: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

WaE 249.5: Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')

Copy, headed Of Salley.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.

WaE 681.5: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

WaE 613.5: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

WaE 199.5: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

WaE 260.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

DeJ 75.4: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')

Copy, headed Verses made upon the Earle of Strafford.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

DaW 69.5: Sir William Davenant, To the Queen ('Madam. so much peculiar and alone')

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First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 139-40.

CoA 190.5: Abraham Cowley, To my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ('How much you may oblige, how much delight')

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First published in The Foure Ages of England ([London], 1648).

ClJ 201: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')

Copy, headed Verses upon the Earle of Strafford and here beginning Here rest wise & valiant dust.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

WaE 290.8: Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')

Copy, headed To a faire Lady, of the late marriage at court of the the [sic] two Dwarfes of my L^d Chamberlaines & the Dutchesse of Lenox.

First published, as On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

WaE 503.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')

Copy, headed Songe.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

CoR 210.5: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

KiH 78.5: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')

Copy, headed An answeare to y^e Black-more Wench, following (on pp. 258-9) Of a Black-more Wench in love with a pretty boy.

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).

HrE 73.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')

Copy, headed My Lord Herbert of my Lady of Oxford, here beginning That rare beauty thou dost show.

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

JnB 180.5: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')

Copy, headed The Picture of 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).

JnB 218.5: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')

Copy, headed The Mind.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

CoA 136.5: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')

Copy, headed A Prologue & Epilogue to a play acted before the Prince at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge 19^th Martii 1641.

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).

CoA 78.5: Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')

Copy.

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).