New York Public Library, Arents Collection

RaW 791: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618) ('')

Copy, untitled, on three pages, endorsed on the fourth page S^r Walter Raleigh's Execution.

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

RaW 79: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy, on a slip pasted at the bottom of the third page.

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).

DnJ 2742: John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

Facsimile of p. 3 in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), p. 195, No. 191.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

DnJ 2772: John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

DnJ 2804: John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

DnJ 2834: John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

DnJ 2866: John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

DnJ 1938: John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

DnJ 3068: John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')

Copy, headed The Storme to S^r Basill Brooke.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

DnJ 380: John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

Facsimile of p. 3 in Tobacco: A Catalogue of...the Arents Tobacco Collection..., [Supplement], comp. Sarah Augusta Dickson, Vol. I (New York Public Library, 1961), p. 195, No. 191.

First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

DnJ 696: John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')

Copy, headed Elegia 2^da.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

DnJ 2560: John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')

Copy, headed Elegia 3^ia.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

DnJ 1688: John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')

Copy, headed Elegia 4^ta.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

DnJ 2454: John Donne, Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve

Copy, headed Elegia 5^ta.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

DnJ 2343: John Donne, Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love

Copy, headed Elegia 6^ta.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

DnJ 2209: John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')

Copy, headed Elegia 7^ma.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

DnJ 3178: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')

Copy, headed Elegia 8^ua.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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.

DnJ 631: John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')

Copy, headed Elegia 9^na.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

DnJ 54: John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')

Copy, headed Elegia 10^ma.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

DnJ 2508: John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')

Copy, headed Elegia 11^ma.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

DnJ 1537: John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')

Copy, headed Elegia 12^ma.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

DnJ 1042: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')

Copy, headed Elegia 13^ma.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.

DnJ 3734: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')

Copy, headed To his loue vpon his departure fro her.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 2695: John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

DnJ 830: John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 352: John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

DnJ 2141: John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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.

DnJ 2243: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

DnJ 496: John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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.

DnJ 554: John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

DnJ 3704: John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

DnJ 1202: John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

DnJ 865: John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

DnJ 2296: John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 188: John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

DnJ 3005: John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 438: John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 2891: John Donne, Selfe Love ('He that cannot chuse but love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 73-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 107-8 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 80.

DnJ 1328: John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

DnJ 2921: John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

DnJ 593: John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

DnJ 3662: John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

DnJ 2112: John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

DnJ 965: John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

DnJ 121: John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

DnJ 1647: John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

DnJ 303: John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

DnJ 3909: John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed His last will and Testament.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

DnJ 3845: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

DnJ 670: John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

DnJ 2088: John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

DnJ 1175: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

DnJ 1263: John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

DnJ 3960: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

DnJ 263: John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

DnJ 1971: John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')

Copy, headed Mummie.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

DnJ 3786: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')

Copy, headed A Valediction of my name engrauen.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

DnJ 3110: John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')

Copy, headed Ad Solem.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

DnJ 2009: John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 1807: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')

Copy, headed Loues Phylosophie.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

DnJ 23: John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

DnJ 3626: John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardener. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

DnJ 3816: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

DnJ 3292: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')

Copy, headed A Letter.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

DnJ 3465: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')

Copy, headed Another Letter.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

DnJ 751: John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

DnJ 3495: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

DnJ 1455: John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

DnJ 2639: John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

DnJ 1071: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

DnJ 2424: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

DnJ 793: John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Facsimile of p. 110 in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28 April 1952, lot 12, and in Variorum, 2, p. 392.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

DnJ 3858: John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')

Copy, headed Elegia 17^ma.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2, with a facsimile of p. 110 on p. 392. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

Facsimile of p. 110 in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28 April 1952, lot 12.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

DnJ 2718: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')

Copy of lines 1-30, 55-64, headed Eleg. 18^th

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

CoR 362: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')

Copy, headed To the Lord Marquess Buckingha, vpon his Journey into Spayn Richard Corbett.

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

CoR 336: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')

Copy.

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

CoR 304: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

Copy, headed D^r Corbett his relation of his iourney Northward from Oxford.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

CoR 680: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')

Copy, headed Vpon M^rs Malletts being in loue w^th him.

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

PeW 252.5: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')

Copy.

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].

HeR 46: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')

Copy.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

PoW 58: Walton Poole, If shadows be a picture's excellence

Copy, headed On the Black Ladie.

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.

CoR 594: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')

Copy, untitled.

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

CoR 253.5: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

Copy, untitled, subscribed R: C:.

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.

RnT 198: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')

Copy, headed Tho: Randall to his Creditors.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

StW 295: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')

Copy, headed On the blisterd lip of his m^ris:.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

CwT 1238: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')

Copy, headed On his m^ris: sicke of a Calenture.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

StW 1204: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')

Copy, headed Of ye translatinge of ye nightingale out of Strada by W: Stroud.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

KiH 346: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

Copy, headed D^r Kinge on his wifes death.

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

HoJ 139: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e parliament house.

KiH 297: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')

Copy, headed On y^e Earle of Dorsets death.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

WoH 192: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

Copy, headed on one dying p^rsently after her husband and here beginning He first deceasts, she after liv'd & tryed.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

CoR 494: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')

Copy, headed On ye Death of John Dawson Butler of Christ=church.

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

JnB 673: Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song ('Beauties, haue yee seene this toy')

Copy, headed Cupid runs from Venus.

First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).

KiH 128: Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')

Copy, headed Verses sent to his friend who blameinge him for not likeinge his M^ris: and saying she was foule and blacke.

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

HeR 158: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')

Copy, headed On his M^ris and here beginning Amg y^e woods as I walked.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

CwT 143: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')

Copy, here beginning We read of gods…

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

CwT 1017: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')

Copy, headed An admonition to coy acquaintance.

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

DnJ 2976: John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')

Copy of a four-line version, headed A Louer and here beginning Sweete alas why doe you 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.

CoR 305: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

KiH 161: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')

Copy.

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.

RnT 102: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie on the death of that Renowned and Noble Knight Sir Rowland Cotton of Bellaport in Shropshire ('Rich as was Cottons worth, I wish each line')

Copy, headed On S^r Rowland Cottons death.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. G4v-Hv. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 89-92.

CwT 391.5: Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid ('Since I must needes into thy schoole returne')

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

StW 589: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')

Copy of lines 1-12, headed On the death of an old man.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

JnB 554: Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke ('I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find')

Copy of lines 1-4.

First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

JnB 420: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

JnB 391: Ben Jonson, On Banck the Vsvrer ('Banck feeles no lamenesse of his knottie gout')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xxxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 36.

JnB 405: Ben Jonson, On Margaret Ratcliffe ('Marble, weepe, for thou dost couer')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xl) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 39.

JnB 409: Ben Jonson, On Some-Thing, That Walkes Some-Where ('At court I met it, in clothes braue enough')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 30.

JnB 498: Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne ('Donne, the delight of Phoebvs, and each Muse')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.

StW 56: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')

Copy, headed On the praise of gray eyes.

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

HrJ 46: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')

Copy, here beginning In older times an auncient custome was.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

StW 428: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')

Copy, headed on a gentlewoeman y^t had y^e pox.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

TiC 41: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

Copy.

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.

HrJ 240.5: Sir John Harington, Of cursing Cuckolds ('A Lord that talked late in way of scorne')

Copy.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning A gallant talking late in way of skorne.

RnT 109: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')

Copy, headed on the Lady Verona Digby.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

CoR 681: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')

Copy, headed D^r Corbett to his M^ris: Mallett.

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

CoR 527: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

StW 406: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')

Copy, headed On A Ladye that songe And plaid on a Lute.

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

DnJ 1089: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

RaW 121: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')

Copy, headed A fancy and here beginning Callinge to minde eyes went longe aboute.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

StW 740: William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')

Copy, headed A strange gentlwoman passinge by his window.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

StW 1348: William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

StW 377: William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')

Copy, headed A songe on y^e absence of a friend.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

CoR 546: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')

Copy.

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

StW 1162: William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers ('Gold is restorative. How can I then')

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.

CwT 1097: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

CwT 1207: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

DnJ 1379: John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

RnT 464: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

Copy.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.