The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239

Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), including a page of MS dialogue on the verso of the title-page, occasional new lines and stage directions in MS (including examples on pp. 2-5, 7, 12, 20 and probably 26), and a quarto-sized leaf of MS dialogue tipped-in before p. 5.

First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).

Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning Ladyes, we have made choyce to shew this Daye) signed W: K:, on a quarto leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Epilogue (beginning Our Author, sent his Epelogue so late), also signed W: K:, on a quarto leaf tipped-in at the end.

The verses edited from this MS in Joseph S. Johnston Jr and J.P. Vander Motten, Some Unpublished Restoration Prologues and Epilogues: New Light on the Stage History of Sir William Killigrew's Plays, Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 159-63.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

Autograph additions, in a printed text of Love and Friendship (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning Though Most men Love, and some doe Frindship owne), signed W: K:, on an octavo-size leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Prologue (beginning Since Presidents, be as knowne Lawes alowd), also signed W: K:, on a tipped-in quarto leaf at the end.

The verses edited from this MS in Joseph S. Johnston Jr and J.P. Vander Motten, Some Unpublished Restoration Prologues and Epilogues: New Light on the Stage History of Sir William Killigrew's Plays, Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 159-63.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

Autograph additions, in a printed text (1669), lacking the original title-page, the title in Killigrew's hand facing the Dramatis Personæ, with some corrections or revisions by him (pp. 13, 21, 47), and signed by him at the end (p. 51) W^m: Killigrew.

First published London, 1669.

Copy, headed A Song on Prince Charles his birth and here beginning Welfare y^e Muses w^ch in well chimed verse.

This MS recorded (as M540) in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

Copy, headed An ode to the King, at his return, subscribed J R.

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.

Copy, with full title and here beginning Now did heavens Charioter y^e day.

The first line sometimes reading Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 40 leaves, the title-page inscribed in another hand By Francis Bacon.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Propositions presented to Prince Henry...Answered and Confuted by S^r Ro: Cotton K^t & Baronet, on 43 leaves, docketed at the end Plegi Martij 9^no 1673/4. Jo: Witham.

A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

Copy, headed Of Spaine & y^e Netherlands by S^r W. Raleigh 1^o Jac., in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 15 leaves, docketed at the end Plegi febr. 25. 1673/4 Jo: Witham.

A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, on seven leaves, lacking a title-page, docketed at the end Plegi J. W:.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 102).

A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page Sir Robert Cotton's Advise concerning y^e executing or imprisoning of Iesuites 1613, on twenty folio leaves, subscribed An^o Dni 1613. Aug 11. R. C., and docketed at the end pelegi. febr. 2. 1673 Jo: Witham.

Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

Copy.

A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?

Copy of the speech, untitled, subscribed M^r Driden.

Kinsley, II, 561, and California, XV (1976), pp. 299-300, both as Mercury's Song to Phædra (Fair Iris I love, and hourly I dye). Hammond & Hopkins, III, 239.

Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleigh the night before his death.

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, headed The World, subscribed Fran: L^d 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, untitled, subscribed Sir W. Raleigh.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 157.

First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

Copy, untitled, subscribed A: Cowley.

First published, at the end of the essay Of Liberty, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.

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

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

Copy, subscribed D^r. Donne.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

Copy, headed A Hymn made by S^r H: Wotton in y^e time of is sickness.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

Copy, headed An other Hymn made by him on the same occasion.

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

Copy, subscribed H: Wotton.

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).

Extract from a speech by St Catherine in Act IV, scene ii, eight lines here beginning Thus with short plummits heavens deep well we sound, untitled, subscribed M^r Driden.

First published in London, 1670. California, X (1970), pp. 105-93.

Extracts from poems.

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.

Copy, subscribed M^rs. P:.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

Copy, subscribed M^rs. K: P.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

Copy, untitled, subscribed A: C:.

First published, in the essay Of Greatness, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 428.

Copy, subscribed A: C:.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.

Copy of stanza 9, eight lines here beginning This only grant me.

First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 48-50. Sparrow, pp. 9-12. Stanzas 9-11 (beginning This only grant me, that my means may lye) reprinted in the essay Of My self, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 456-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 70-1.

Extracts from Cowley's works.

Copy, subscribed A: C:.

First published, in the essay Of Obscurity, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.

Copy, headed D^r Browns dormative to bedward.

Cited in Religio Medici as Browne's Colloquy with God and the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. The poem was also published later, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693), in an anonymous musical setting. Edited in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Geoffrey Keynes [1st edition, 6 vols, London, 1928-31], 2nd edition, 4 vols (London, 1964), I, pp. 89-90.

First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

Copy, headed La grandeur d'esprit, subscribed M^rs. P:.

First published, as La Grandeur d'esprit, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as A Resvery. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

Copy, headed Contempt of y^e World, subscribed By S^r Kenelme Digby.

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, subscribed A: C:.

First published in Poems, by Several Hands (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 448-53.

Extract, headed On Poetry and beginning at line 17 (here Chast moral writing we may learn from hence), subscribed M^r Waller.

First published in Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, Horace's Art of Poetry. Made English (London, 1680). Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 86-8.

Extract, headed On y^e Scriptures, beginning at line 15 (As late philosophy our globe has graced), subscribed m^r Waller.

First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.

Copy, headed An Elegy vpon S^r Water R:, subscribed B^p. King.

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

Copy, subscribed B^p. King.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

Copy, subscribed B^p King.

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

Copy.

Kinsley, IV, 1740-1. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 28-9.

Copy, as by M^r Dryden.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 845. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 243-4.

Copy, headed M^r. Wallers last Verses.

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

Copy, headed An Epitaph on a young Lady Inter'd at y^e Bath.

First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 386-7.

Copy, headed The Character of a good Parson imitated from Chaucer, and inlarged by M^r. Dryden.

First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1736-40. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 559-66.

First published in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.

Copy, headed M^r Waller on y^e death of y^e Lord Protector in y^e Year 1658, subscribed M^r. Waller.

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

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.

Copy, as by y^e same hand [i.e. M^r. Waller].

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 116.

Copy, subscribed By y^e Earle of Dorcet.

Unpublished?

Extract from Act I, untitled, lines 372-7 beginning Love is an airy good, subscrobed M^r Driden.

First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

Copy, subscribed M^rs. K: P.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

Copy, subscribed M^rs K. P.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

Copy, subscribed B^p King.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

Copy, subscribed B^p K:.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

Copy, subscribed D^r: King.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

Copy, subscribed D^r. K.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Miscellaneous extracts from Dryden.

Copy, subscribed D^r King.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

Copy, headed M^r Thomas Haywood on Queen Elizabeth.

Unpublished? Of uncertain authorship.

Copy, headed Orinda on her Sisters Nuptial.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

Copy, subscribed B^p. King.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

Copy, subscribed B^p. King.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

Copy of lines 17-28, headed M^r Waller to Henry Lawes y^t had set his song had this passage viz^t, here beginning As a Church Window thick with Paint.

First published in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, I, 19-20.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 62-3.

Copy, headed Written in a Ladys Book by M^r Waller.

Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger. Its authorship is uncertain.

Copy, subscribed S^r J: Suckling.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 59-60.

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, subscribed S^r. J: S:.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 48-9.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r. J. S.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 41-2.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r J. Suckling.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 65-6.

Copy, subscribed S^r. J: S:.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.

A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).

Copy of lines 386-95, headed An imperfect coppy of Wil: Shackespeares, here beginning One of her hands one of her Cheeks lay vnder and followed by three other lines.

This version appears in Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646), pp. 29-30.

First published in London, 1594.

Copy, headed A Song by S^r. George Etheridge.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 59-61. Thorpe, p. 34.

Copy, headed On M^rs. Arabella Hunt singing a Pindarique Ode By M^r. Congrave.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

Copy, headed A Song in praise of Musick.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

Copy, headed A Song.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

Copy, headed An Epitaph.

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 of lines 13-28.

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 A song Apologetique: In defence of womens inconstancy.

First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.

Copy beginning at line 7 (Deare Vincent Corbet, who so long).

First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

Copy, here beginning Dear Vincent Corbett....

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

Copy, headed Another by Ben:.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 172.

Copy of lines 17-24, beginning Doe not you aske to know her, she is worse.

This MS recorded in Beal.

First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

Copy, headed Epitaph on the lady Villers: by T. Carew.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

Copy, headed A Song by T. Carew.

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

Copy, headed Another Rapture of Carew's.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

Extracts from several characters, headed Blounts Characters.

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, headed Vpon an Incomparable foule lady that had a very sweet voyce.

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

Copy, headed On a Gentw: w^th black eyes & haire.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS I).

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 Th: Randall on y^e loss of his litle finger, incomplete.

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

Copy.

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.

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

Copy, headed A duell fought at Wisbech betwene a Norfolk & a wisbech Cock, 1637, inscribed at the side Wild.

(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.

Copy, headed Vpon his M^rs. playing for a kiss.

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 Chloris in the snow and here ascribed to D^r. Corbet.

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 In praise of a black wench.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS J).

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 Ladie, 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 of a ten-line version headed A Puritan maide and here beginning A Puritan maide by one of her society.

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 of an early version headed In praise of his M^rs. Shirley and beginning Her haires are Cupids nets.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.

Copy, inscribed at the side Cowley.

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

Copy, headed Tobacco and here beginning He that would learn to drink a health in hell.

Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

Copy, headed Women.

First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

Copy, headed His last goodnight. D^r Don.

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, inscribed at the side Randol.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.

Copy, inscribed at the side Sherley.

Unpublished.

Copy, headed Ag^st. Ladies wearing great bands.

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 Upon K. James.

First published in Epigrammes (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 38.

Copy of lines 9-16, headed Secrecy in loue and here beginning Ther's none shall know that we Can tell.

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 Vpon a young man and here beginning As Carefull nurses in their beds doe lay.

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

Copy, headed Vpon the King of Sweden, inscribed at the side By S^r. Th. North.

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 Upon Qu: Eliz:; c. 1660.

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 of Nightingale's song.

Copy, headed Upon the burning of a gramar school, subscribed Th: Ran:, deleted.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

Copy.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 66bis.

Copy.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 old man a suitor and here beginning Why should old age disgrace my high desire, inscribed An old paper of my Coz. Burrows.

Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

Copy, headed Cleuelands petition for liberty being a prisoner / To his Highnesse the Lo: Protector, incomplete.

A petition to Cromwell dated [February 1656]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.

Copy, headed Cleuelands letter to the Earle of Westmorland.

Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 149-53.

Copy, headed Th. Randall vpon y^e burning of a gramer schoole, subscribed Th. Randall.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

Copy.

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, headed A Song Apologetique for drinking and inscribed This I had from Jack Chaytor.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Copy, headed Vpon a hand some lady y^t had y^e small pocks.

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

Copy of lines 1-4, here beginning Lye still my dear why dost thou rise?.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

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 Vppon a faire gentlewoman haueinge Blacke haire, inscribed at the side in another hand Poole.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS E).

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 an vnhansome woman.

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 On a Bellowes-maker and here beginning Browne lyes here the maker of bellowes.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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, untitled.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godly maide by one of her society.

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, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

Copy, untitled and here beginning As carefull Nurses to their bedds do lay.

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

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordaunt.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

Copy, headed ffrom Doctor Corbett to M^r Alesburye on y^e Comett.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed _______ Iter Boreale and ascribed to J: Earle.

Unpublished.

Copy, untitled, subscribed B. Johnson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton on a private 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 To his Mistresse.

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

Copy, headed An old Prophecye.

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; imperfect, the ending on a leaf missing after f. 27.

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

Copy, beginning at line 23 (here Ther had wee venison such as Virgill slew).

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

Copy, headed D.C. his verses to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine.

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

Copy, headed On y^e Lady Haddington who dyed of y^e small poxe, inscribed at the side DC.

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 Ben Johnsons Verses on the burning of his Studye.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

Copy, headed The Parliament ffart, subscribed Hoskins.

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

Copy, headed To a Lady whose chaine was lost by [?]D.D.J.D..

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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.

Copy, headed The Nightingale by G: M.

Copy of the sequence.

Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

Copy, headed On y^e late King.

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, headed Vppon Jealousy.

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

Copy, ascribed to Hoskins.

Ascribed to Hoskyns in one MS source.

Copy, headed D.C. on S^r Tho: Ouerbury.

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

Copy, headed Vppon the death of S^r Walter Rawleigh who was beheaded Anno Dⁱ 1619

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

Copy, headed Vppon one whom J.D. taught to loue and complement.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 52v in McLeod, Obliterature, EMS 12 (2005), 84.

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.

Copy, untitled, heavily inked over.

Facsimile of these two pages, and of a portion of f. 53r in infrared photography, in McLeod, Obliterature, EMS 12 (2005), 84-5, 96-7, with full transcription on pp. 98-100.

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 of a version headed Inventa Bellica and beginning O mortis longaeua fames, verterque perennis, subscribed G: Herbert.

First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

Copy, headed On a great hollow Tree, inscribed at the side W. S.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

Copy, inscribed at the side W.S.

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

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

Copy of the second stanza.

Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

Copy.

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

Copy, headed A Roman Catholick demanding of his friend what he should report his Religion to be, he answereth thus, in double columns, the page turned to oblong format.

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.

Copy, headed A Dialogue of Zealotts concerning the Oathe and here beginning S^r Roger fro in peice of Zealous Freeze, subscribed Cleveland of S^t Iohns in Cam s^d.

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

Copy, headed On the Earle of Strafford and here beginning Here rests 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).

Copy, subscribed P Iohn Cleueland Advocat G[?] Newack[?].

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

Copy of the Latin only.

Copy, headed Englished thus, subscribed Tho: Rand:, following (pp. 3-4) the Latin version.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum.

Copy, untitled and here beginning She that loves a Rosie cheek.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) in Patrick.

First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy, headed Of a Flye flyeinge into his M^rs. Eye.

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

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

Copy, subscribed Tho. R.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.

Copy, subscribed Th: R:.

First published in Day (1932), p. 35.

Copy, subscribed Th: R:.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.

Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a M^r. and beginning I have no humour to adore y^e face, subscribed T.R..

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

Copy, headed Of one that lou'd a great Mistresse and durst not discouer it.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.

Copy, subscribed T: R.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 46-8.

Copy, headed The Curtizan.

First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of Cupid's Call (Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.

Copy, subscribed P: M:.

First published in A.K. McIlwraith, The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.

Copy, headed Dialogue in Songe Betweene a Nymphe & a Shepheard.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

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, untitled.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

Copy of Lady Purbeck's fortune, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

Copy.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

Copy, headed His old Age to M^r. Weekes.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

Copy, headed A Madrigall.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

Copy, headed Against Tyme.

First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.

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

Copy of a version headed To his M^rs. whome hee lou'd to enioye and beginning Ladye what's your face to me.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.

Copy, headed In Lesbiam.

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

Copy, headed An Ode, or an Incitation to the Countrie.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 79-82.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.

Copy, untitled.

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, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

Copy, untitled.

A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

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).

Copy, headed The Picture of y^e Minde.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

Copy, untitled.

First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

Copy, following the Latin version which is headed In Natalem Principis ad Mariam Reginam.

First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Dum Rex Paulinas..., subscribed S: H.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

Copy, following (pp. 90-1) the Latin version.

First published, following a Latin version beginning Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum, in Day (1932), p. 35.

Copy, following a text of Hoskyns's Latin verses.

First published in Day (1932), pp. 33-4.

Copy.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

Copy, headed In Nat: Prin: &c..

Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

Copy, subscribed Th: R:.

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

Copy, headed The Masque of Vices, subscribed Th: R:.

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

Copy, headed Vpon the losse of a Finger, with a Latin subscription (Quam miser est…) added in a different ink, subscribed Th: R:.

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

Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamoured, subscribed Th: R:.

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

Copy, subscribed Th: R:.

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

Copy, subscribed Th: R..

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

Copy, untitled.

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 Paraphras'd, following (p. 118) the Latin version, both subscribed T. R.

First published, following a Latin version beginning Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.

Copy.

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

Copy, subscribed T: R., following the Latin version.

First published, following a Latin version beginning Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat, in Day (1932), p. 35.

Copy, headed A maydes Deliberation, with four additional strophes.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

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, headed Of a proud Ladie that had her haire drest & stucke with Iewells.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

Copy, headed To his Freind that was enamour'd on a Deformed woeman.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

Copy of lines 37-48, untitled and here beginning Those curious locks soe twin'd

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

Copy of an eight-line version, untitled and here beginning Ladie your tresses are not threads of gold.

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

Second copy, headed To his false Mistresse.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

Copy, headed Epitaph and here beginning The man dy'd first, shee livd a while & try'd.

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.

Copy of the second couplet.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

Copy of the last four couplets, here beginning I here stand keeper.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

Copy of the seconde stanza, here beginning Loe on my necke.

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

Copy.

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, untitled.

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

Copy, headed His Answeare.

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, ascribed to Sir Thomas 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, untitled.

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

Copy, untitled.

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 An Epitaph on a Child.

First published (anonymously) in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Ascribed to J. Fletcher in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). English Madrigal Verse, ed. E.H. Fellowes, et al., 3rd edition (Oxford, 1967), p. 644.

Copy, headed An Epitaph, subscribed W. Strode.

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.

Copy, headed D^r Corbett on Henr Booling.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

Copy, headed On M^r Francis Beaumonts death.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed Esaihs woes by D^r. Hen: Kinge.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

Copy, headed Mr Ben: Johnsons Petition to the Kings most Excell^t Ma^tie the humble Petition of yo^r Poet to your Ma^tie doth shewe it and here beginning Whereas late your Royall Father.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.

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

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, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy of a version.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Unpublished. Discussed, and Earle's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

Copy, headed On the Parliament fart.

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 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, headed On womens beawtie.

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

Copy, headed On M^ris Poole by D^r Corbett.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS B).

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 To his coy mistresse.

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

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 A gentleman constrainde from his m^ris and here beginning You will ask perhaps….

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

Copy, headed An old man to a maide.

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

Copy.

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 On the Lady Elizabeth.

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 The gentlemans reply vpon her consent and scruple of his secrecy and here beginning Think not….

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 On a fly.

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 on goeinge to bed to his mistresse.

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.

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 Vpon a Gentlewoman walkinge in y^e 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, headed On a sigh and here beginning Go 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 of lines 41-74, 79-96, headed Loves Voyage into the Netherlands and here beginning The hair a forrest is of ambushes.

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 S^r Walter Rawleigh to his M^rs, here beginning Passions are likened to floods & streams, and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 537).

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16.

First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

Copy, prefixed by Passions are likened to floods & streams (see RaW 336).

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.

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 Vpon a Lord who would haue inclosed a Common.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 68. McClure No. 322, p. 275. Authorship uncertain.

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed On his mistresse risinge, here beginning Lye still my deare why dost thou rise, and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

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.

First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 194. Arber, p. 124.

Copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason is like a Basiliske his eye.

Bullough, II, 118.

Copy, headed Vpon a maide which still replyed she was too yonge and here beginning Deare do not your faire beauty 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.

Copy, headed On Caelia.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

Copy, headed On a faire gentlewoman y^t sunge well.

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

Copy, headed On praferment.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

Copy.

Copy, headed On the fiue senses.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 198-200.

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 Another to K: James.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 200-2.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed A flout for his mistresse.

Osborn, p. 301.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 29, among Pembroke's Poems.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 99-100, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

Copy, headed M^ris keepe one your maske.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

Copy, headed A songe and here beginning Now I see thy lookes were 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 A louers ditty in dispaire to the tune of Barlowe.

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 On a gentlewoman not marriageable.

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, here beginning In your faire cheekes two pitts doe lye.

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

Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line songe beginning Lowe in a vale and here sate a sheaperdesse.

This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

Copy.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

Copy, headed D^r Corbetts verses on the guard to the Lord Mordant.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

Copy.

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

Copy.

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 A godly exhortation....

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.

Copy, headed On murtheringe bewty.

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

Copy of the short version, headed A maide denyall and here beginning nay pish, nay phue, nay faith but will you, fy.

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 On a butchers daughter marryed to a Tanner.

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

Copy, untitled.

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 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, headed A gentlewoman to her loue.

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 The conference of 6 Puritan wenches.

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 lines 529-34, headed Another [i.e. on Night] and here beginning Now the worlds comforter with weary gate.

These lines published as a separate poem in Englands Parnassus (London, 1600).

First published in London, 1593.

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

Copy, headed The Lord Verulams' verses and here beginning at line 8 (The rural parts are turned into a den).

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 The Hermophrodite translated.

A version (a translation of a Latin poem by Pulix) first published in Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes (London, 1577). 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 37. McClure No. 238, pp. 246-7. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 32, p. 221.

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

Copy, headed To the intricate example of plotting...[etc].

This MS (Rosenbach 189) recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

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

Copy, ascribed to S^r W.R..

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 130-1.

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, untitled.

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.

Copy, headed The rusticke gallants wooinge and here beginning ffare wench I cannot court thy spritelike eyes; c. 1634.

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

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On the smallpox.

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 On two louers playinge 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 a knife giuen to his Valentine.

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

Copy, headed On a Learned wife and here beginning One proferd mee a wife, rich, faire & yonge.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

Copy, headed On the shortnesse of mans life.

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 his M^rs sicke of a Calenture.

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

Copy, headed Cruell bewty.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

Copy, headed Vpon one that desired to conceale his M^rs.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman mard with y^e small pox.

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

Copy, headed To a gentleman for a freind.

Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

Copy, headed On the burninge of a schoole att Battles.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

Copy, headed On Kate.

Krueger, p. 132.

Copy, headed On an vnkind Lady and here beginning We read of gods….

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

Copy, headed On his mistresse singinge to y^e Lute in a Gallery.

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

Copy, headed A complaint ag^t Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured. by T. Randolfe.

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

Copy, headed On a painted Lady.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a Puritan and here beginning A holy made, by one of her society.

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, headed On a downright suitor and here beginning Faith wench I loue thee, but I cannot sue.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.

Copy, headed Randolfes petitio to his Creditors.

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

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

Copy, headed To the queene. T. R..

First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed On the Greene sickness.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

Copy, headed A Gratulatory to my ffather Johnson for his voluntary adoptio of mee to bee his sonne.

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

Copy, headed A dialogue on Prince Charles his birth betwene 4 sheaphards....

Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

Second copy, headed On a sigh.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.

Copy.

First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Copy.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

Copy, headed Another.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

Copy, headed Of Saxham house.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Another on y^e same.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy, headed To a bashfull Lover.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

Copy, headed A distressed Lover.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed A dialogue….

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

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

Copy of the last two stanzas, headed To his M^ris.

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

Copy, headed A blush and here beginning Stay hasty blood….

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

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

This MS recorded 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 One a cherry stone haueinge a deaths head one the one side, & a gentle woman on the other.

This MS collated in Patrick.

First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

Copy, headed One Loue; c. 1634.

Grosart, III, 349-50.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Another [i.e. on Queen Elizabeth].

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 Prince Henryes death.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed On the death of M^r. James Van Otten an expert Chirurgion, who dyed att Oxford: March: 1. 1622.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 85-6. Forey, pp. 218-19.

Copy, headed On the death of a twinne.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

Copy, headed An Elegy on the Lady Hayes death 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.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

Copy.

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

Copy of the sequence.

Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

Copy, headed On the death of Kinge James.

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.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

Copy.

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.

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

Copy, headed Another [i.e. on a young child] and here beginning As carefull mothers in there beds doe lay.

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

Copy, headed Upon M^r Smith.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed An Epitaph.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

Copy, headed On the shortness of mans life.

First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, 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. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

Copy, headed Vpon one dyinge of the pox.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

Copy, headed An Elegy made by D^r Kinge on y^e k: of Sweden. a:d: 1637.

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

Copy.

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

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.

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

Copy, headed On the Earle of Carleles daughter.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

Copy.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

Copy, headed A Louers rapture.

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

Copy, headed A Louer to one that misjudg'd his mistresse.

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

Copy, headed A Gentleman to his freind who kissinge her att his departure left a signe of blood vpon her.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

Copy, headed On a very deformed Gentlewoman havinge a voyce incomparable sweet.

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

Copy, headed A Letter sent to his M^ris in her praise.

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

Copy, headed M^r Hericks farewell to sack.

This MS collated in Patrick.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

Copy, headed The time beinge expired Hericks wellcome to sacke.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

Copy, headed An answer to Melancholly.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

Copy, headed M^r Randolph one the losse of his little finger cutt off.

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

Copy of lines 29-32, 33-46, on separated pages.

This MS 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.