Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) A Letter Written by Sir Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching her marriage with Monsuer.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 224 (No. 20.1) and p. 280 (No. 36).

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) A Leetter written by Sir Phillipp Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile, the final subscription Your assured louing brother Phillipp Sidney possibly also in another hand.

A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Considerations for the repressing of the increase of Preists Jesuitts & recusants without drawing of blood written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett.

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, in a professional secretary hand, as written by S^r. Robert Cotton.

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

Copy of about four-fifths of the work, in a secretary hand, headed A Supply or Additiou to the Cataloge of Bishops to the yeare 1618: And ferste of M^r Docto Parker, stained and imperfect, breaking off in the section on Dr Edwin Sandys.

First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Tract beginning Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed in another hand Copia vera, unascribed.

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

Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, as layd downe by M^r Cotton.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed M^r Beniamin Ruddyers speech 28^th Ap 1628.

Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Exeter.

Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiott his speech 1640.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

Copy of a version, in a secretary hand, headed The Lo: Straford his Pilgrymage, here beginning Gyue me my Cockell Shells of quiett, 24 lines, imperfect and lacking the rest, among other poems on Strafford.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 141.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford.

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, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons / Written by the Right hon^ble: ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chauncello^r of England.

A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Collected by S^r Robert Cotton Esq^r At the Comandment of her Maty Anno dni 1590.

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

Extracts, in a professional secretary hand, headed Out of the Booke called the Vocacon of John Ball to the Bishpricke of Ossory in Ireland, his psecucon in the same, and finall deliuerance.

First published in Rome, 1533. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany (London, 1745), VI, 402-28 (1810 edition, VI, 437-64).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Consideracons for the repressinge of the increase of Preistes Jesuites and Recusantes without drawinge of blood, stained.

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, in two professional secretary hands, principally that of the Feathery Scribe (ff. 2r-39v, 64r-5v, 97r-112v), the title-page in flourished italic possibly in yet another hand, 112 leaves (plus two blanks).

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 225 (No. 21).

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed W^m Camden.

A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by S^r Ro: Cotten knight vppon command of Georg Duke of Buckingham 27 April (1624.

Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamen Rudyards his Speech the 28 of Aprill 1628 in the house of Commons.

Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

Copy of all Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 and 30 April 1621, in a professional

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with italic headings, untitled.

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 rounded hand, a title-page in another hand, as By S^r Robert Cotton / Printed: 1628: & written 1639.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by S^r Walter Rawleigh...1602.

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 a professional secretary hand, headed Consideracons for the repressing of the encrease of priests Jesuits and Recusants, without drawing of blood written by S^r. Robt: Cotton K^t and Baronett, a separate title-page supplied in another hand.

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 of the second half of the treatise, with a title-page, A: Shorte Discours, proveinge That princes extremityes haue been Beyound, the ease, of their Sub^ts: by Reason of Warres Wrytten By. S^r: Robte Cotton, knight, and Barronett, &c, here beginning Haveinge: thus farre, w^th as light a hand as I could drawe downe the many and mighty Burthens of the Common Wealth..., principally in an unidentified professional secretary hand, the title-page (f. 306r), heading and first word of the main text (f. 307r) in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 226 (No. 22.2).

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 of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed An other Discourse of the Antiquity of Parliaments, subscribed William Cambden.

A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, headed The Effects Off the Charge given to the Grand Jurie att yorcke by S^r John Dauis Knight...1620.

Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you.... First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as wrytten by Sir Robte Cotton to S^r: Edward Mountague, Anno Dni: 1621:.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 227 (No. 23.7).

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

Copy, in two professional cursive secretary hands, headed Sir Robert Cottons opinion Concerninge the Diminucon of Coyne.

Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyard his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliament 29^o Decembris 1640.

Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ridyards Speech in the Comons howse Novembr: 1640.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed M^r Waller his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliam^t novemb: An^o Dni 1640.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.

A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.

Copy, headed Satyre.

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

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

Copy, headed Satyre 2.

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

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

Copy, headed Satyre.

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

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

Copy, headed Satyre, inscribed in the margin J: D.

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

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

Copy, headed Satyre.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie, inscribed in the margin J. D.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie, inscribed in the margin J. D.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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, untitled, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, untitled, inscribed in a different hand in the margin Jo: D: to H: W.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie, inscribed in the margin J. D.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2, with a facsimile of f. 34v on p. 276. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 34v in Variorum, 2, on p. 276.

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, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, headed Sun Riseinge, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, inscribed in the margin J. D.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

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

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

Copy, headed Elegie to the La: Bedford.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

Copy, untitled.

First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Mummy.

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

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

Copy of lines 1-33.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy of lines 31-70, beginning Or Nature, by whose strength the world endures, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning.

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

First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, headed Extasie.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

Copy, headed Epithalamium.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson, 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 The Blossome.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

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

Copy, inscribed in the margin J: D.

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

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

Copy, inscribed in the margin J: D.

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

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

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of the Lo: Effingham, inscribed in the margin R: Cor.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross. See also DnJ 3338.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

Copy, immediately following on from Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare (see DnJ 3364).

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

Copy, headed To S^r. Henrie Wotton, at his going Ambassadour.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

Copy, headed To S^r H.G. moueing him to Trauell.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

Copy, headed To S^r. E. H.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

Copy, headed To the Countess of B.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

Copy, headed To the Countess of B.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.

Copy, headed To the Countess of B.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

Copy, headed To the Countess of B:.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

Copy, headed To the Countess of B. at Newyeares tyde.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

Copy, headed To the C: of H.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.

Copy, headed To the Countess of S.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

Copy, headed To the La: Co: of C:.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy, headed Elegie.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed ffever.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

Copy of stanzas 1-2.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Platonique Love.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, the first poem under a general heading Songs w^ch were made to certaine Aires w^ch were made before.

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

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

Copy of stanzas 1-3, 5, untitled.

The fourth stanza written in a later hand on f. 274v, as stanza 5, belongs to this text.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, under a general heading Epigrammes.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa) and 10.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall).

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and 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.

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

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.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion, headed Eclogue Induceing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

Copy, headed Elegie Prince Henrie.

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

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as Elegie on Prince Henry). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

Copy, headed Elegie Lo: Harrington.

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

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

Copy, in an italic hand.

This MS recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

This MS collated in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, under a general heading Divine Poems.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 1.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 21. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 2.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 21. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. II, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. IV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 3.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 22. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 4.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 22. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 5.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 23. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. IX). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 6.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 23. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. X). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 7.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 24. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 8.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 24. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 9.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 25. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. IX, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 10.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 25. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. X, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 11.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 26. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. XI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin 12.

12.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 26. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. XII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XVI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

Copy, headed A Litanie.

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

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

Copy, headed Good friday Made as I was Rideing westward that daye.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

Copy, headed Vppon the Annuntiation, when Good-friday fell vppon the same daye.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.

Copy, headed On the Crosse.

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

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

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, A Text of Resurrection. Imperfect, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

Copy, headed A Hymne to Christ.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

Copy, headed To Christ.

Edited from this MS in Grierson, I, 370. Collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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, untitled.

This MS recorded in Beecher, p. 351.

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

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 48-50. Beecher, pp. 201-2.

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 50-1. Beecher, pp. 202-3.

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-8. Beecher, pp. 200-1.

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.

First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 17 Problems.

This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 416. Problems II, XII, and XVIII edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 24, 38, 47.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

Copy.

This MS text collated in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

Copy, in a roman hand, headed S^r Henry Wottons verse of the Queene of Bohemya.

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 Frendshipp.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.

Copy, headed How vaine a thing is Man, subscribed Visc: s^t Alb:.

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

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 Against Vaineglorie, subscribed G. Herbert.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

Copy, untitled, subscribed H Watton.

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, untitled, subscribed Lord Herbert.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 307, this MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed Strood.

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, untitled.

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

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

Copy, run on directly following ten lines headed Vpon parting w^th a deare frend beginning As soules from bodies part, so part wee twoe.

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

Copy, headed An Epigram.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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 Epigram to y^e Queens health.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.

Copy, headed Bee not so coye and here beginning at line 11 (When my soule was in her owne bodie sheath'd), subscribed J Donne.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Pure Simple Loue, here beginning Hide not thy Face and myne shal be, the word Face underlined and the word Love written in the margin in another hand, the poem subscribed Townesend.

Edited from this MS in Chambers and in Brown.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

Copy, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.

Copy, subscribed in another hand Ben: Johnson.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, untitled.

A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

Copy, headed De Lamberto Carolo.

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, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 301-11. Greg, Burley version, lines 277-86. Windsor version, lines 271-80.

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, p. 55, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts.

Copy, untitled.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 357; this MS collated in Smith, p. 128.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.

Copy, untitled.

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, untitled, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

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

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

Copy, untitled.

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, untitled.

This MS text collated in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy of lines 9-24, untitled and here beginning I heard me say tell her anone.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

Copy, untitled.

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, untitled, subscribed Fr: Beaumont.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS text recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

Copy, headed Vpon the death of the Earle of Pembroke Lo: Steward of the Kings house who dyed 10^mo: Apr: 1630.

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

Copy, headed To the King on Newyeares day. 1631.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

Copy, untitled.

First published, as To Clarinda: On Her Perfection, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda: In a Forrest of Fancies (1650?), sig. B1^r-v. Dunlap (1949), p. 193.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

Copy, untitled.

Formerly MS G.2.21, this MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

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.

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed Alablaster.

This MS collated in Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-9 (No. XXVIII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).

Copy, headed To his Mistresse on her perfections.

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

Copy, headed On his M^rs adorned w^th seuerall Jewells, here beginning Seest thou those rubies which she wears?.

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

Copy, headed Vpon his M^rs walking in a gentle Snow, subscribed William Stroude.

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 To his friend being disdayned by his Mistresse, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbet. Followed (ff. 225v-6r) by A reply in the behalf of the party disdayned (Tis love breeds loue in me, and cold disdaine), subscribed S^r Ben Ruddiard / D^r John Donne.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

Copy of lines 1-24, headed To his M^rs hauing black eyes, subscribed Will: Stroude.

This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 32.

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 a Lady whom I will not name / Because you shall not know whom to blame, subscribed Walton Poole.

This MS collated in Grierson.

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 On his M^rs being sick of A burning feauer and subscribed John Chudleigh.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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 To his M^rs as shee sate playing on the Lute, subscribed Will: Stroude.

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, headed To his M^rs in the prayse of Musick, subscribed John Chudleigh.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Hen: Wotton.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed On his M^rs proouing false to his affections, subscribed Robert Wisedom.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

Copy of a version headed Of my M^rs her coynes in the Act of Loue and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith but will you? fye.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

Copy, ascribed to Francis Beaumont.

Printed from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

Copy, headed On the death of a deboist young fellow.

First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

Copy, headed On his M^rs: what he would haue her to be, subscribed John Grange.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, headed On the 2 first verses of the former Copye for the Lady Denham, subscribed Walton Poole.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

Copy, headed To his disdainefull M^rs he being feruently in loue w^th her.

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

Copy, headed On the same subiect [i.e. the God of Loue his Mistress] by D^r Donne, subscribed John Donne.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Loues immutabilitie, subscribed in another hand Aurelian Townsend.

This MS text recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

Copy, headed Vpon the crowne of a hatt drunke in for want of a Cupp, subscribed George Markeham.

Copy of lines 1-94, headed Vpon his M^rs her enforced departure, imperfect, lacking the ending.

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

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

Copy, headed On the Vnion betweene Scotland and England by King James, subscribed James Stuart K: of England.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, headed To one thinking herselfe too young for the buisiness, here beginning Deare doe not your fayre beauties wrong and ascribed to Humphrey Hide.

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 In imitation of the former, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

Copy, headed To his M^rs vsing the Art of painting, subscribed D^r John Donne.

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 To his M^rs on her blushing and presently growing pale again, subscribed William Arundell.

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

Copy, headed The greife of Loue, subscribed D^r John Donne.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

Copy of the six-stanza version, headed To his M^rs entreating her to shunn the concealem^t: of her affection.

This MS recorded in Chambers and in Brown.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

Copy, ascribed to [Walton] Poole.

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, subscribed Fran: Beaumont.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

Copy, headed On the death of the Countesse of Pembrooke, subscribed William Browne.

This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi, and in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, headed On one that dyde att the age of Six yeares, subscribed Will: Browne.

This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi.

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

Copy, headed On the death of the Countess of Rutland, subscribed Francis Beaumont.

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

Copy, subscribed Cecill Turner.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in A. B. Grosart, Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, Englische Studien, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 16-17).

Copy of lines 1-8, headed On the death of a most fayre and vertuous Lady, subscribed S^r Edw: Hastings.

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

Copy, headed On the death of the Lady Markheam, subscribed John Donne.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

Copy, headed The prayse of a priuate life, subscribed S^r Henry 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).

Copy, headed To his Mistresse as shee sate singing, subscribed Geo: Markham.

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

Copy, headed Vpon a Butcher that had married a Tanners daughter.

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

Copy, headed An Apologie for drinking, here beginning The fruitfull earth doth drink the rain and ascribed to Robert Wisedome in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by John Donne.

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 S^r Walter Aston to the Countesse of Huntington and subscribed S^r Walter Aston.

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

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

Copy, headed On the greene sicknes.

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

Copy, headed To the greene sicknes.

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

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, followed by the first stanza of Randolph's answer (RnT 32) and two Latin versions (one StW 1414), all these verses then repeated, followed by the second stanza of Jonson's poem and the second stanza of Randolph's answer.

First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

Copy, headed A Parody to M^r Johnsons Ode.

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

Copy, headed M^r Ben: Johnsons farewell to the stage.

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

Copy, after a false start.

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

Copy, untitled, here beginning Drinke to me Cælia w^th thine Eye.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed W: Strode.

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 A Gratulatory to M^r Ben: Johnson on his voluntary adoption of Tho: Randolph to be his sonne, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

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

Copy, subscribed Phill: Messinger.

Edited from this MS in Edwards & Gibson, IV, 389-91.

First published in Poems consisting of Epistles & Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elegies [chiefly by John Eliot] (London, 1658).

Copy, as By Phill: Messinger.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Edwards & Gibson.

First published in A.B. Grosart, Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 6-7). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 393-4.

Copy of the second verse of the couplet (beginning A Fart for the Louvre, a T--d for Paris), at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich (Non Orbis Gentem, Non Urbem Gens habet ulla) and its English translation (No Earth such Realm, No Realms such Town afford) followed by Thus Ironically by L^d. Buckhurst (Fraudibus, ac fastu, Levitate, Libidinis aestu).

Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.

Copy, headed Thus English'd, here beginning Lorain Thou stole, by Fraud Thou got Burgundy, following two Latin distichs under the heading On the French King.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

Copy, headed To S^r William D'Av'nant on his Gondibert.

First published, as To Sir W. Davenant, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

Copy, as By Lord Buckhurst, after Earl of Dorset.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

Copy, headed Dildoides A Burlesque Poem by Lemuel Butler Gen^t.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

Copy.

First published in The Diverting Post (13-20 June 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 150.

Copy, headed A Song by M^r. Dryden, followed (ff. 201v-2r) by a Latin verse translation.

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

Copy, together with translations, headed The Jesuit's Double-Facd Creed, In Three Languages. 1679.

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 Epigram on Milton by M^r Dryden.

First published in John Milton, Paradise Lost, 4th edition (London, 1688). Kinsley, II, 540. California, III, 208. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 200.

Copy, as by M^r. Dryden...Novem: 22^d 1697.

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 3-18.

Copy, headed Epigram by S^r. Ch: Sedley / To Cloe.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (November 1693), pp. 365-6. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 54.

Copy of a speech by Wilson against Mary Queen of Scots, in a journal of proceedings in the Parliamentary session from 8 May 1572.

Unpublished?

Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, with (f. 137r) a formal italic title-page, preceded (f. 136r) by a note in a cursive italic hand This is written By S^r Robert Naunton secretary to King James.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the last section.

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.