Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center

SC 149

A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

p. 24
SoR 56: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode ('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.

p. 24
SoR 211: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

p. 25
SoR 18: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')

Copy of lines 5-16, beginning Loves seetest mark, Lawdes highest theme, mans most desired light and headed Op Xt.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

p. 26
SoR 38: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

p. 27
SoR 117: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

pp. 27-8
SoR 128: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot ('Love mistris is of many mindes')

Copy.

Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

p. 28
SoR 75: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

p. 28
SoR 97: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

p. 29
SoR 6: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven ('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.

p. 29
SoR 104: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

p. 29
SoR 260: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

p. 30
SoR 91: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

p. 30
SoR 123: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

pp. 30-1
SoR 63: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

pp. 31-3, 25
SoR 227: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')

Copy of poems i-xii.

Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

p. 33
SoR 26: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.

p. 33
SoR 33: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.

p. 33
SoR 282: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse ('What mist hath dimd that glorious face')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 71-2.

p. 34
SoR 190: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde ('if that the sicke may grone')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.

p. 34
SoR 205: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse ('Remorse upbraids my faults')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.

p. 34
SoR 271: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side ('O pleasant port, O place of rest')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.

p. 35
SoR 254: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares ('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.

p. 35
SoR 280: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Upon the Image of death ('Before my face the picture hangs')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 73-4.

p. 36
SoR 135: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.

p. 36
SoR 182: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

p. 37
SoR 220: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.

pp. 37-44
SoR 325: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death ('')

A MS abridgement, headed Comfortes por the apflicted of the that haue lost a sister or such like, with lines 5-6, 13-18 of the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville, here beginning Fame, honor, grace, gaue aire vnto his breath, and lines 3-4, 9-10 of the Latin epitaph, here beginning Dotibus ornauit, superauit moribus ortu.

First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

p. 44
SoR 248: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')

Copy of lines 3-10, 17-18, beginning Give sobrest countnance leave sometime to smyle.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.

pp. 44-51
SoR 199: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint ('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares')

Copy, with 12 lines of The Author to the Reader arranged in the sequence of lines 7, 9, 8, 10-12, 20-1, 23-4, 3-4 (beginning If equities even-hand the balance held).

First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.