Bodleian Library, Don. MSS

MS Don. b. 8

A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

pp. 156-68

ClE 96: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667 ('')

Copy.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

pp. 194-7

BuS 19: Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')

Copy, as supposed written by S^r Charles Sidley.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 205-6

MaA 476: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')

Copy, headed A new advice to the Painter. 1670.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

p. 210

MaA 84.2: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty')

Copy.

Sometimes called Upon the cutting of S^r John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

p. 212

HoJ 161: John Hoskyns, Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')

Copy, headed Epitaph on S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Wards, who dyed on Christmas day.

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

pp. 217, 561

MaA 199: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')

Copy, headed The Prophecy of Nostre-Dame written in French, now done into English./ January 1671/2, the second part headed A Libell and written later separately.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 218-21

MaA 389: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. 237-46

MaA 315: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

p. 248

DrJ 154: John Dryden, Prologue To the Second Part of The Conquest of Granada ('They who write Ill, and they who ne'r durst write')

Copy, headed Prologue to the first part of y^e Conquest of Granada. Spoken by Mohun and here beginning Those who write ill & those….

This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 133-4. California, XI, 103-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 240-2.

p. 249

DrJ 32: John Dryden, Epilogue to the First Part of The Conquest of Granada ('Success, which can no more than beauty last')

Copy, headed Epilogue to the Second part of the seige of Granada. Spoken by Hart.

This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 129-30. California, XI, 99-100. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 236-7.

pp. 283-4

MaA 59: Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress ('Had we but World enough, and Time')

Copy, untitled and here beginning Had I but world enough, & tyme.

Edited from this MS in Hilton Kelliher, A New Text of Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, N&Q, 215 (July 1970), 254-6; and see also Thomas Clayton, Morning Glew and Other Sweat Leaves in the Folio Text of Andrew Marvell's Major Pre-Restoration Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 356-75 (p. 356). Facsimiles in Kelliher (1978), p. 53, and in Smith, pp. 79-80.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 27-8. Lord, pp. 23-5. Smith, pp. 81-4.

pp. 284-5

DoC 264: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')

Copy, headed On M^r Edward Howards poeme, the L^d. Buckhurst y^e supposed Authour.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

p. 368

HoJ 162: John Hoskyns, Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')

Second copy, headed On S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Court of Wards, who died on Christmas day.

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

pp. 368-9

MaA 233: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')

Copy, headed Vpon S^r Robert Viners setting up y^e Kings statue on Horsebacke, &c..

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

p. 409

RoJ 260: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')

Copy, headed Lampoone by y^e Earl of Rochester.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

pp. 409-11

RoJ 47: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

p. 411

MaA 163.3: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

pp. 457-63

ClE 127: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York ('')

Copy.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

pp. 463-4

DrJ 118: John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna ('As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands')

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 270-3.

p. 464

DrJ 17: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] ('A Poet once the Spartans led to fight')

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 273-4.

pp. 465-7

MaA 435: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Edited from this MS in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

p. 475

RoJ 123: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')

Copy, following the Latin version and here beginning You Loraine stole; by fraud you got Burgundy.

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.

pp. 477-8, 480-2

RoJ 359: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')

Copy, headed To the Tune of Peggy's gone to Sea with a Souldier, together with (pp. 480-2) Additions to Seigneur Dildoe.

This MS recorded in Vieth; recorded and the Additions printed in Walker, pp. 186-8.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

pp. 490-4

RoJ 136: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')

Copy, with a sidenote This poeme is supposed, to bee made by y^e Earle of Rochester, or M^r Wolseley [i.e. Robert....who wrote the Preface to Valentinian].

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 495-8

RoJ 287: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr, with a side-note This satyre is supposed to be a Translation of y^e Earle of Rochesters out of Italian.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

p. 498

RoJ 512: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')

Copy, headed Seneca's Troas Act 2. Chorus.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

pp. 499-501

MaA 508: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675 ('')

Copy, headed A pretended libellous speech prepared for his Ma^ty in February 1674/5 to be spoken to both Houses at the meeting of the parliament on y^e 13^th of Aprill following.

Edited from this MS in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 461-4.

A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

pp. 525-6

MaA 215: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')

Copy, headed Verses on y^e Statue att Charing-Crosse of King Charles y^e ffirst. 1675.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 526-7

MaA 63: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')

Copy, with The Answer (which is headed Supplement to the Chequer Inn), the poem here dated 1675.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 527-9

RoJ 104.3: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

pp. 535-9

MaA 99: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

pp. 558-9

DrJ 34: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode ('Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown')

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley, in California and in Dearing.

First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.

p. 561

RoJ 4: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Constancy ('Tell me no more of constancy')

Copy, headed Songe of y^e Earle of Rochesters.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, A New Song by Rochester, TLS (6 November 1953), p. 716 (and see also related correspondence on 19 and 26 February 1954, pp. 121, 137). Edited in part from this MS in Vieth (1968) and in Love. Collated in Walker.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rochesters.

p. 568

RoJ 129.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')

Copy of a version beginning Monmouth's Witty.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

p. 569 et seq.

MaA 139.1: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

pp. 573-7

MaA 140: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 579-81

MaA 302: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')

Copy, headed The City Maggott.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

pp. 585-6

RoJ 338: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')

Copy, headed A base copy.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

p. 586

SeC 100: Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to S^r Charles Sidley.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, I, xxvii, and Vieth, loc. cit.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

pp. 598-600

DoC 37: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')

Copy, headed A Satyre.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

pp. 602-3

RoJ 606: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')

Copy, headed An Heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia by Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

pp. 617-20

MaA 164: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem ('Of a tall Stature and of sable hue')

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, II.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

p. 634 et seq.

DrJ 43.71: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

pp. 640-4

DoC 337: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

p. 645

DoC 220: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')

Copy, headed A short poeme upon y^e Chitts.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

pp. 654-5

RoJ 565: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

Copy, headed Rochesters Verses upon Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

p. 697

MaA 210.2: Andrew Marvell, Oceana and Britannia ('Whither, O whither, wander I forlorn?')

Copy.

Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.

MS Don. b. 9

A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum.

Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

c.1640s.

Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wyburd MS: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).

f. 2r-v

CwT 145: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 2v

CwT 366: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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).

f. 2v

CwT 873: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 3r-v

CwT 1133: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')

Copy, headed Of one like his Celia.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 3v

CwT 1185: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')

Copy, headed A Ribban.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 4r

CwT 11: Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')

Copy, headed The Princess Song.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

ff. 4r-6r

CwT 305: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')

Copy of the four songs.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 244. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

f. 6r-v

CwT 345: Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue ('Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

f. 7r

CwT 501: Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse ('Stay coward blood, and doe not yield')

Copy, headed Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N..

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 7r-v

CwT 1071: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')

Copy, headed An other of the same [i.e. after Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N.].

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 7v

CwT 1282: Thomas Carew, On the Green Sickness. Song ('Bright Albion, where the Queene of love')

Copy, headed Againe an other of the same [i.e. on The Greene Sicknesse of M^ris. K.N.]

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 149. Dunlap. p. 194.

f. 8r

CwT 600: Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 ('Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.

ff. 8r-9r

CwT 602: Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 ('Good god vnlock thy Magazines')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.

f. 9r-v

CwT 604: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 ('Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.

ff. 9v-10

CwT 610: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

f. 11r

CwT 620: Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 ('Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.

f. 11r-v

CwT 622: Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 ('When the seed of Jacob fledd')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.

ff. 11v-14v

CwT 623: Thomas Carew, Psalme 119 ('Blest is hee that Spottless stands')

Copy of verses 1-64; imperfect, lacking the end.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 186-91. Dunlap. pp. 144-9.

f. 14r-v

CwT 989: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')

Copy of lines 41-84, here beginning That eye, which now is Cupids nest; imperfect, lacking lines 1-40.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 14v-15v

CwT 1112: Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')

Copy, headed A winters entertainement att Saxham.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34. Facsimile MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 15v-16v

CwT 1220: Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse ('Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

ff. 16v-17v

CwT 459: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 18r-v

DrM 6: Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')

Copy, untitled.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

ff. 18v-19v

HoJ 260: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')

Copy, imperfect, half of the second leaf torn away.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

f. 20r-v

CwT 1084: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 27. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 20v-1v

CwT 546: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Copy, imperfect at the end.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 22r

CwT 541: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak')

Copy, beginning at line 12 (here Those streaks of doubtfull light vsher not day); imperfect, lacking the beginning.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

f. 22v

CwT 963: Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind ('Wonder not though I am blind')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

ff. 22v-3

CwT 941: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 23r

CwT 923: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 23v

CwT 420: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

ff. 23v-4r

CwT 1102: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')

Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking all the remainder.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 24v

CwT 512: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')

Copy, headed On a Mistresses face in the water.

This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

f. 26r

CwT 1024: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')

Copy of the last nine lines, here beginning From Conquerd Author, be as Trophies worne; imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 84. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 26r-v

CwT 440: Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason ('Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

f. 26v

CwT 436: Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse ('Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne')

Copy, headed The Amazons song.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

f. 27r

CwT 15: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')

Copy, headed The Marygold.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 27r-v

CwT 481: Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda ('Those that can give, open their hands this day')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41, and in Dunlap, p. 227. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.

ff. 27v

CwT 1083: Thomas Carew, To my Honoured friend, Master Thomas May, upon his Comedie, The Heire ('The Heire being borne, was in his tender age')

Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 167. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Thomas May, The Heire (London, 1622). Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 92-3.

f. 28r

ToA 10: Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew ('I had and have a purpose to be kind')

Copy of lines 36-58, here beginning Till hands are found fitt for a Monarchy, imperfect, lacking the first 35 lines.

This MS text collated in Brown.

Brown, pp. 48-9.

ff. 28r-30r

CwT 350: Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject ('Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian')

Copy, headed Thomas Carew his answere to Aurelian Townesend.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

f. 30r

CwT 1182: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Mole in Celias bosome ('That lovely spot which thou dost see')

Copy, headed A mole betwixt Celias breasts.

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, pp. 113-14.

f. 30v

CwT 952: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')

Copy, headed To a gent. curious to know his Mris.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 30v-1

CwT 202: Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. ('The harmony of colours, features, grace')

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Psalter.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 241. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.

f. 31r-v

CwT 444: Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit ('And here the previous dust is layd')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

ff. 31v-2r

CwT 594: Thomas Carew, The prologue to a Play presented before the King and Queene, att an Entertanement of them by the Lord Chamberlaine in Whitehall hall ('Sir, Since you haue beene pleas'd this night to vnbend')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 143-4. Dunlap. p. 127.

f. 32r-v

CwT 198: Thomas Carew, The Epilogue to the same Play ('Hunger is sharp, the Sated Stomack dull')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 144-5. Dunlap. pp. 127-8.

ff. 32v-3

CwT 920: Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband ('Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.

f. 33r-v

CwT 527: Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham ('When in the brazen leaves of Fame')

Copy, headed The Inscription on the Tombe of the Duke of Buckingham.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.

f. 33v

CwT 1: Thomas Carew, An other ('Reader, when these dumbe stones have t')

Copy of lines 1-2; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.

f. 34r

DnJ 3860: John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')

Copy of lines 53-82 (beginning Formlesse at first but growing on it fashions).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

ff. 37v-9v

BcF 721: Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death ('')

Spedding, VI, 600-4; discussed p. 594.

Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

ff. 50r-5v, 59r-61v

DnJ 4083: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems ('')

Copy of 8 Paradoxes and 9 Problems, imperfect, beginning Laughing thou must knowe....

This MS described by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 3 (1927), 129-45. Facsimile of f. 59 in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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.

f. 56r-v

DnJ 3601: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')

Copy, headed Elegie to the Lady Bedford.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross. Facsimile in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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

ff. 56v-7v

BmF 1: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of this MS in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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

ff. 57v-8v

DnJ 3194: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')

Copy, headed Elegie.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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.

MS Don. b. 33

Annotated exemplum of Britannia, newly translated...by Edmund Gibson (London, 1695), viii + 529 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked).

With annotations to the text, maps and plates by William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher.

1694/5-c.1714.

Originally owned in 1694 by one Elias Mason, and by Stukeley in 1714. Bookplate of Charles Eve, 1 September 1767. Christie's, 9 November 1983, lot 48.

Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.

CmW 13.5: William Camden, Britannia

Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

MS Don. c. 54

A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace.

c.1628.

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

f. 3v

RaW 16: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy.

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).

f. 3v

RaW 230: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

Copy.

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.

f. 3v

JnB 309: Ben Jonson, The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles ('That whereas your royall Father')

Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons peticion to y^e k^s: ma^tie and here beginning Whereas yo^r late roial father.

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

f. 3v

JnB 413: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')

Copy, here beginning Never was bargaine better driven by fate.

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

ff. 4r-5r

OvT 13: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind')

Copy, in double columns, ascribed to S^r Thomas Overbury Knight.

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

ff. 6v-7r

DaJ 82: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')

Copy of poems 1-6, in double columns, headed A libell upon M^r Edw: Cooke, then Atturney generall and sithence Cheefe Justice of the Comon pleas vpon some disagreemt betweene him & his wife being widow to S^r. W^m Hatton k^t. and daughter to the now Earle of Exeter then S^r. Tho: Cecill.

This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 438.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

f. 7v

DaJ 159: Sir John Davies, On his Love ('My Love doth flye with winges of feare')

Copy, headed Of the last Queene by the Earle of Clanricard.

c.1620s.

First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.

f. 8r-v

DnJ 3473: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')

Copy, untitled but headed By M^r. JOHN DVNNE.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 8r-9a^r

DnJ 3506: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')

Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Here's no more newes (DnJ 3473).

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 9a^r

DnJ 3329: John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')

Copy, untitled but headed By Mr. JOHN DVNNE once secretary to the Lorde Keeper Egerton, disgraced by him...since proceeded Doctor of Divinitie one of the kings Chaplens; and now this p^rte Moneth of April 1624 Deane of Powles.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 9a^v-9b^r

DnJ 570: John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 11r

JnB 414: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')

Second copy, headed Vpon the Vnion by Ben: Johnson and also beginning Never was bargaine better driven by fate.

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

f. 11r

RaW 17: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Second copy, with a sidenote: said to be done by S^r. W: Rawleighe.

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).

f. 11r

RaW 231: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

Second copy, untitled.

ff. 21r-2r

HoJ 260.5: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')

Copy.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

f. 22v

RaW 390: Sir Walter Ralegh, ICUR, good Mounser Carr

Copy.

Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

ff. 23v-4r

CoR 23: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')

Copy, in double columns, headed Of the k^s enterteynm^t. at Cambridge.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

ff. 24v-5r

DnJ 400: John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')

Copy, in double columns, headed A gent hauinge lost a bracellet of a gentlew: being enioyned by her to cause an other to be made of vi angells, writes as followeth.

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.

f. 25v

DnJ 4086: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems ('')

Copy of Paradox II, headed (That woemen ought to paint themselues).

f. 29r

CoR 257: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett: ag^t. one Price an idle writer as beneth, dated at the end 23 June 1628.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

MS Don. c. 55

A folio verse miscellany, in a cursive hand, i + 37 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards (rebacked). c.1702-4.

Once owned by the Harrington family. Inscribed Bought of Mr. King, Junr. Tavistock Street at the sale of Dr. Harrington's Library, 1806. Afterwards owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright; by Thomas Thorpe, in his sale catalogue of 1836, item 1308; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9105. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372, and 5 June 1899, lot 344. Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

f. 18v

DrJ 74: John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')

Copy, headed A song by M^r Dryden May Day 1691.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 247-8.

MS Don. c. 57

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

c.1640s-60s.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

ff. 6v-8r

RnT 477: Thomas Randolph, Hobson and Charon ('Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou')

Copy, in a musical setting.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.

f. 11r

HeR 49: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).

Edited from this MS in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1253-5; collated in Martin.

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).

f. 14v

PeW 130: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')

Copy of an untitled version beginning Chloris sighd & sung & wept sighing sung, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

f. 16r

B&F 158: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song ('Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

f. 17v

HeR 369: Robert Herrick, A Song ('Loose no time nor youth but be')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

f. 19r

PeW 168: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

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.

f. 19v

B&F 176: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 35 (collated pp. 140-2).

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

f. 20r

RaW 483: Sir Walter Ralegh, A songe made by Sir Water Rawley ('What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all')

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 12.

First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

f. 21r

CwT 874: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 198); recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.

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

ff. 21v-2r

SuJ 81: John Suckling, Upon A.M. ('Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy')

Copy of an untitled variant version in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

ff. 23v-4r

CwT 982: Thomas Carew, The tinder ('Of what mould did nature frame me?')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 104.

ff. 24v-5r

ShJ 121: James Shirley, Would you know what's soft?

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199).

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

f. 26r

CwT 675: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

f. 28v

HeR 212: Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires ('Am I despis'd because you say')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200); collated in Martin.

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).

f. 29v

DnJ 2956: John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')

Copy of an untitled version beginning Lie still, my dear, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Doughtie pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner, p. 245.

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.

f. 29v

WoH 56: Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting.

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.

f. 30r

StW 1309: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 182; collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200).

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

f. 31v

CmT 29: Thomas Campion, Fire, fire, fire, fire!

Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

f. 32r

FlJ 1: John Fletcher, Hither we come into this world of woe

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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.

f. 33v

PeW 272: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

f. 35v

CrR 227: Richard Crashaw, A Song ('Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in Poèmes de Donne, Herbert et Crashaw mis en musique par leur contemporains, ed. André Souris (Paris, 1961), pp. 24-6; and in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1222-4; collated in Martin, p. xciv.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.

f. 36v

RaW 478: Sir Walter Ralegh, Shall I, like an hermit, dwell

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 124.

First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.

f. 36v

CwT 724: Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated (no variants) in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202), Recorded in Dunlap, p. 290. Edited in Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130 (p. 110).

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.

f. 38v

RaW 232: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202).

f. 39r

WoH 67: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202-3).

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.

f. 40r

CoA 207: Abraham Cowley, Loves Riddle, IV, i, Song ('It is a punishment to love')

Copy of Bellula's song, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 203).

First published in London, 1638. Waller, II, 67-147 (p. 115).

Musical setting of the song by William Webb published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).

f. 40v

ShW 42: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II, iii, 19-27. Song ('Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

Printed from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke harke ye larke, PMLA, 60. i (1945), 95-101; also discussed in George A. Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941), 32-5, and printed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 6.

f. 40v

CmT 106: Thomas Campion, Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white

Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

f. 41r

HeR 373: Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me')

Copy of an untitled three-stanza version, ascribed to Herrick, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, in Patrick and in Buchan, p. 102.

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

f. 42r

B&F 159: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song ('Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan')

Second copy, also untitled and in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

Edited from this MS in English Songs (1625-1660), ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 17; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

ff. 47v-8

CwT 800: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

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

f. 48v

JnB 322: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204). Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.

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

ff. 45v-6v

KiH 36: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204); recorded in Crum.

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).

f. 49v

DrM 52: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

f. 51v

WoH 6: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')

Copy of two stanzas, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).

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).

f. 52v

HeR 222: Robert Herrick, To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel')

Copy of an untitled eight-line version, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 206); collated in Martin.

First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.

f. 53r

JnB 608: Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song ('Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide')

Copy of the incipit, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in David Fuller, The Jonsonian Masque and its Music, M&L, 54 (1973), 440-52 (p. 451); edited in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 35. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.

First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).

ff. 53v-5

HeR 364: Robert Herrick, Orpheus and Pluto ('How! not you Ghosts and Furies while I sing')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay.

Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, and in Patrick.

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 135. Martin, pp. 421-2. Patrick, p. 555.

f. 55r

WiG 40: George Wither, Withers song he made in prison ('I who ere whiles the worelds sweet aire did draw')

Copy, in a musical setting, anonymous.

Ten quatrains, unpublished.

ff. 57v-8v

HeR 31: Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 59v

KiH 578: Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

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).

f. 60r

HaW 26: William Habington, To Cvpid, Vpon a dimple in Castara's cheeke ('Nimble boy in thy warme flight')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated (no variants) in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207).

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 24.

f. 60v

StW 771: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Hilton.

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).

ff. 61v-2r

KiH 611: Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

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

f. 63v

B&F 79: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song ('Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 161-2.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

f. 64v

StW 897: William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')

Copy of the first part, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson (1595-1674).

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres (London, 1659).

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

f. 67v

B&F 40: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Chances, V, iii, 92-119. Song ('Come away, thou lady gay!')

Copy of Vecchio's incantation, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 52-3 (collated pp. 149-50).

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 211-304 (pp. 296-8). Bullen, IV, 435-531, ed. E.K. Chambers (pp. 524-5). Bowers, IV, 550-629, ed. George Walton Williams (pp. 621-2).

f. 68v

CwT 842: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.

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).

f. 69r-v

GrJ 1: John Grange, A Lover once I did espy

Copy, untitled and here beginning A Louer once I did espy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

f. 70r

CwT 843: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')

Copy of the second stanza, untitled and here beginning Young men fly when beautye's dart, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Cutts, loc. cit., p. 208.

f. 71v

B&F 101: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, i, 13-24. Song ('Oh, fair sweet goddess, queen of loves')

Copy of a version, here beginning O divinest God of Love, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 73-4, 162-4.

Dyce, VI, 194. Bullen, III, 198-9. Bowers, V, 79-80.

f. 72r

CwT 547: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Copy of a ten-line version in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 208); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

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

f. 72v

HeR 228: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 72v

HeR 286: Robert Herrick, The Willow Garland ('A Willow Garland thou did'st send')

Copy in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

ff. 73v-4r

CwT 953: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 208); recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.

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

f. 75r

ShW 99: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

This MS reproduced in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 147; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 132-3.

f. 75v

B&F 2: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

f. 77r

BrN 63: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

This MS collated in Spink, p. 196.

First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

f. 80v

StW 1360: William Strode, A Sonnet ('Sing aloud, harmonious sphears')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 303; also collated and the two additional stanzas printed in Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 209).

First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 92v-3r

CwT 238: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlop, p. 293.

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

f. 93v

CwT 358: Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.

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

f. 94r

HaW 10: William Habington, To Castara, Looking backe at her departing ('Looke backe Castara. From thy eye')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210).

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 29.

ff. 94v-5r

HeR 250: Robert Herrick, Upon Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis ('Sweet Amarillis, by a Spring's')

Copy of an untitled version beginning Amarillis by a spring's, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

Printed from this MS in Martin, p. 467.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 46. Patrick, p. 65.

f. 95v

HeR 26: Robert Herrick, The Bag of the Bee ('About the sweet bag of a Bee')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 31. Patrick, p. 45. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

ff. 96v-7r

MsP 22: Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be')

Copy of the Courtier's Song of the Citizen, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS and discussed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 78-80, and in Edwards & Gibson, I, 97-103 (Appendix B); V, 107.

Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

f. 97r

HeR 147: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

MS Don. d. 55

A quarto volume of 75 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, 76 leaves (ff. 43r-76v blank), in vellum gilt, with remains of ties.

With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication To the Queene (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date 14 of Jvne 1665.

c.1640s.

Covers inscribed on the inside at various times Gentilles Colte her Book, Th Whitfield Sept^br. 18: 1764 and b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.

Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Colte MS: WaE Δ 1.

f. 2r

WaE 116: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 2r-v

WaE 351: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')

Copy, headed On the Freindshipp betwixt Zacharissa and Amorett.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 2v-3r

WaE 360: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 3r

WaE 458: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 3r-v

WaE 294: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 3v-4v

WaE 524: Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 4v

WaE 35: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')

Copy, headed Songe.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 4v

WaE 223: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 5r

WaE 479: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 5v

WaE 312: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 5v

WaE 494: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')

Copy, headed To a Ladie in Retirement.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 6r

WaE 444: Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 6v

WaE 267: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 6v-7r

WaE 187: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 7r

WaE 329: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 8v-9r

WaE 651: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 9r

WaE 96: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')

Copy of a four-stanza version, headed In Answer to &c..

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 9v-10r

WaE 557: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 10r-v

WaE 563: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 10v-11r

WaE 512: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')

Copy, headed To my Younge Lady Lucie Sidney.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 11r-v

WaE 577: Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 11v

WaE 18: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')

Copy, here beginning Had Dorothea liv'd, when mortalls made.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 12r-14r

WaE 258: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 14r-v

WaE 198: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 14v-15v

WaE 679: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 16r-v

WaE 637: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 17r-v

WaE 205: Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 17v-18v

WaE 624: Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')

Copy, headed Vpon the Mutable ffaire.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 18v

WaE 734: Edmund Waller, While I listen to thy voice

Copy, headed Songe.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 19r

WaE 597: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 19r-v

WaE 537: Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')

Copy, headed To Flavia.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 19v-20r

WaE 611: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 20r-v

WaE 247: Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')

Copy, headed Of the takinge of Salley.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 20v-1r

WaE 12: Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')

Copy headed The Apologie of Somnus for not approaching the Ladie whoe can doe any thing but sleepe when she pleaseth.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 21r-v

WaE 52: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 21v

WaE 81: Edmund Waller, From a Child ('Madam, as in some climes the warmer sun')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 94.

f. 22r-v

WaE 45: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 22v-3r

WaE 23: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 23v

WaE 1: Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 24r

WaE 77: Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')

Copy of the 18-line version.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 24r-v

WaE 83: Edmund Waller, Go, lovely Rose

Copy, headed Songe.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 24v

WaE 338: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 25r

WaE 172: Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 25r-v

WaE 217: Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 25v-6v

WaE 304: Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 26v

WaE 126: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 26v

WaE 583: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 26v-7r

WaE 413: Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 27r

WaE 735: Edmund Waller, While I listen to thy voice

Second copy, headed Songe.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 27v

WaE 451: Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 27v-8r

WaE 418: Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 28r-v

WaE 468: Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 29r-32r

WaE 30: Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 32-3v

WaE 690: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 33v

WaE 631: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 34r

WaE 439: Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 34r-v

WaE 645: Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')

Copy, headed To M^rs: Braughton.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 34v-5r

WaE 591: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 35r

WaE 70: Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 35v

WaE 518: Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

ff. 35v-6r

WaE 569: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 36r-v

WaE 235: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 36v

WaE 72: Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 37r

WaE 39: Edmund Waller, The Bud ('Lately on yonder swelling bush')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 98. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 37r

WaE 252: Edmund Waller, Of Sylvia ('Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 37v

WaE 290: Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 37v

WaE 502: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 38r

WaE 674: Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson ('Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.

f. 38v

WaE 544: Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible ('How bold a work attempts that pen')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.

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WaE 42: Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas ('Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published, as On the approaching Spring, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.

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WaE 667: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')

Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Helen was….

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published, in a six-line version headed To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture and beginning at line 3 (Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

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SuJ 6: John Suckling, Against Fruition I ('Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise')

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton. Facsimile in Edmund Waller, Poems 1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1971).

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

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WaE 93: Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses ('Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971). Collated in Clayton.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 116-19. The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), pp. 181-3.

f. 40v

WaE 475: Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know')

Copy, headed To A:H: of the different success of their Loves.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published, as The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

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WaE 8: Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

f. 41r-v

WaE 658: Edmund Waller, To Zelinda ('Fairest piece of well-formed earth!')

Copy, headed Palamede to Zelinde Ariana: Lib: 6.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published, as The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6 in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.

MS Don. d. 58

A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647.

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

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KiH 329: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 4r-v

CoR 258: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

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CoR 138: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')

Copy.

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.

f. 6v

CwT 1255: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')

Copy, headed On his Mistresse that died a little before he shold haue maried her and here beginning Was she not wondrous faire? O but I see.

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.

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BcF 6: Francis Bacon, The world's a bubble, and the life of man

Copy, headed Doctor Kinge before his death.

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.

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CwT 263: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')

Copy, headed On a floe.

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

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StW 604: William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')

Copy, headed Another [i.e. on one who dyed of a consumption].

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

f. 14r

JnB 583: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')

Copy of the second stanza, headed His choice and here beginning Giue mee a forme, giue me a face.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

f. 15r

HoJ 155: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes ('Who wo'ld live in other's breath')

Copy, headed On one Sands.

f. 15v

BrW 185: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')

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.

f. 18r

CoR 482: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')

Copy.

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

f. 18r

DrW 177.2: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')

Copy of a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

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CaE 2: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')

Copy of a version headed Upon the Duke of Buckingham and beginning Reader, beneath this ground interred I am.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

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WoH 68: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode vpon the Quene of Bohemia.

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PeW 169: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')

Copy, headed Cant 3. and here beginning Why shold passion quell my mind.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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RaW 504: Sir Walter Ralegh, Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed Cant 5.

This MS recorded 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).

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SoR 143: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')

Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 13-18, headed Cant 8 and here beginning With my loue my life was nestled.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

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CwT 571: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Copy, headed Cant 10.

Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, this MS recorded (as D2) in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.

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

f. 26v

JnB 13: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')

Copy of lines 21-30, headed Cant 17 and here beginning Haue yo^u seene the white lillye grow, with two additional stanzas.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

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DnJ 454: John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

Copy, headed Cant 19.

This MS recorded 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.

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DrM 53: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')

Copy, headed Cant 22.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

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DyE 73: Sir Edward Dyer, The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall

Copy, headed Cant 23 and here beginning The lowest shrubs haue topps, the ant her gall.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

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JnB 694: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')

Copy, headed Cant 25.

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CwT 104: Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')

Copy, headed Cant 27.

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

f. 30v

CwT 741: Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')

Copy of a four-stanza version, headed Cant 28.

Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, edited from this MS (as D2) in Dunlap, pp. 263-4.

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HrJ 187: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a maid gott w^th child and here beginning A godlie maid w^th one of her societie.

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.

f. 36r

CoR 377: Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')

Copy, headed These written upon a lute the gentlewoman being absent who was the owner and here beginning I pray thee lute when I am gone.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

f. 36v

CmT 153: Thomas Campion, When to her lute Corrina sings

Copy, headed On Corinna singing.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

f. 37r

CaE 3: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')

Copy of the six-line epitaph.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

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DnJ 1898: John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')

Copy, headed In meretricem.

This MS recorded 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.

f. 37v

DnJ 1753: John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')

Copy, headed In Claudipedem and here beginning I can neither go nor stand, the cripple cries.

This MS recorded 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.

f. 43r

CwT 69: Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')

Copy, headed On his Mistresse.

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

f. 44a^v

StW 1310: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')

Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

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

f. 44b^r

StW 392: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman singing.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 44b^v

PeW 213: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')

Copy of a version headed On a gentleman and a gentlewoman and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, in faith but will yo^w? fie.

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].

f. 45r

CwT 219: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')

Copy, headed An excuse of absence from his Mistresse.

This MS collated (as Δ 2) in Dunlap.

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

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MrC 9.4: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. II, iv ('I meane not to defend the scapes of any')

Copy, headed Ouid Amor: Lib: 2 Eleg. 4 and here beginning I will not seek to excuse the faults of any.

Bowers, II, 345-6. Tucker Brooke, pp. 585-6. Gill et al., I, 39-41.

f. 46a ^r-v

MrC 9.6: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. III, xiii ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')

Copy, headed Ouid Amor: Lib: 3. Eleg: 13.

Bowers, II, 390-2. Tucker Brooke, pp. 625-6. Gill et al., I, 82-3.

f. 46b^r-v

MrC 6: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v ('In summers heate, and midtime of the day')

Copy, headed Corinne concubitus Aeleg 5. Lib: Amorum.

Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published Middleburg [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).

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StW 1149: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')

Copy, headed vpon a gent who had a bone taken out of his Thighe.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

f. 48r-v

DnJ 77: John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')

Copy, headed Vpon 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.

f. 48v

PeW 142: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')

Copy, headed Vpon younge maides.

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.

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CoR 214: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')

Copy, headed An ehortacon to m^r John Hamond at Bewdley for the battring downe the Maypole.

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.

f. 54r

RnT 451: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

Copy.

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

MS Don. d. 93

Copy, headed Observations politicall & civil, subscribed T. B, v + 135 folio leaves, in calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas Bushell. Bookplate of [E. W. Harcourt]. Acquired from Blackwell's, 1949.

RaW 1043: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

MS Don. d. 197

Autograph MS, with revisions in line 11, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1693-4.

Once owned by James Baker. Sotheby's, 26 May 1855, lot 16, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Christie's, 29 June 1995, lot 327.

Edited from this MS and discussed in McKenzie. Facsimile in his article Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410 (p. 402).

*CgW 3.5: William Congreve,

Edited from this MS and discussed in McKenzie. Facsimile in his article Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410 (p. 402).

Four untitled quatrains. First published in D. F. McKenzie, A New Congreve Literary Autograph, Bodleian Library Record, 15/4 (April 1996), 292-9. McKenzie, Works, II, 466.

MS Don. d. 205

Autograph draft of a 16-line version, with revisions, on a single octavo leaf.

Later owned by Roger W. Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, Rare Books Ltd, sale catalogue (1998), item 29, with facsimile.

Edited from this MS in Hodges, Man, p. 88 (with a facsimile following). Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VII, and in DLB, vol. 84, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Second Series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider (Detroit, 1989), p. 77. Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in D.F. McKenzie, Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410.

*CgW 4: William Congreve,

A version of the first eight lines first published, as the last two stanzas of The Reconciliation, in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 141. Dobrée, p. 241. McKenzie, II, 322. The 16-line version first published in Hodges, Man (1941), p. 88 (with the suggested title A Complaint to Pious Selinda).

MS Don. d. 209

An unbound file of MS and printed materials chiefly relating to Cowley.

Assembled by John Sparrow (1906-92).

ff. 5r-10r

CoA 170: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')

Copy, headed The Puritan & y^e Papist / A Satyre, in a MS pamphlet comprising four pairs of quarto conjugate leaves, dated on the first page May. 20^th. 1643 / A.C.

This MS briefly discussed by Sparrow in Anglia, 58 (p. 102).

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

MS Don. e. 5

MS of a dramatic adaptation of Congreve's novel by Alexander Dalrymple, partly in his hand. c.1795.

CgW 54.3: William Congreve, Incognita

First published in London, 1692. McKenzie, III, 1-62.

MS Don. e. 6

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century.

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

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RnT 190: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')

Copy, headed Randolphs paying his Creditors.

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

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BrW 28: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')

Copy, headed D^r. Donnes Elegy on his Wives Death.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

f. 7r-v

WoH 222: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')

Copy, headed S^r Kellam Digbyes farewell to the World.

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.

f. 15v

ClJ 213: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')

Copy.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

f. 16r

WoH 175: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 16v

HrG 53: George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')

Extract.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

f. 16v

RaW 308: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')

Copy.

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

f. 17r

WoH 176: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

Second copy, headed Altero p Hen: Wootton K^t.

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.

f. 17v

CaW 61: William Cartwright, Women ('Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)')

First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.

f. 17v

JnB 733: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall ('')

Copy of the couplet beginning He that will thrive in state, he must neglect (III, 736-7).

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

f. 18v

JnB 268: Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry ('If to a Womans head a Painter would')

Long extracts, subscribed Translat Ben: Johnson, following the Latin of Horace Arte Poeticâ (f. 18r).

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.

f. 21r

CaW 15: William Cartwright, Horat. Carm. lib.4. Ode 13. Audivere Lyce ('My Prayers are heard, O Lyce, now')

First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.

f. 22r

JnB 395: Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione ('Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

f. 22v

JnB 485: Ben Jonson, To Fine Lady Wovld-Bee ('Fine madame Wovld-Bee, wherefore should you feare')

Copy, headed Ben. Johnson on the fine Lady Would-bee.

First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.

f. 22v

JnB 473: Ben Jonson, To a Friend ('To put out the word, whore, thou do'st me woo')

Copy, headed Ben Johnson to a frind.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 54.

f. 23r

JnB 392: Ben Jonson, On English Mounsievr ('Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see')

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.

f. 23r

RnT 499: Thomas Randolph, On Sir Hen: Leigh nere Salisburie and his Concubine pictured kneeling beside his tomb ('Here old Sir Henry Lee doth lie')

Copy of a variant version.

Unpublished?

f. 23v

JnB 500: Ben Jonson, To Mary Lady Wroth ('Madame, had all antiquitie beene lost')

First published in Epigrammes (cv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67-8.

f. 24r

JnB 123: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')

Copy, headed Epitaph.

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

ff. 25r-7r

SaG 36: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1615.

f. 28r

SiP 63: Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph ('His being was in her alone')

Copy of lines 1-2, untitled and here beginning Her being was in he alone.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.

f. 29v

ClJ 172: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')

Copy, headed Cleavelands Epitaph upon the death of y^e Earle of 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).

f. 36v

RnT 295: Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')

Copy, headed M^r. Randolph in Comendation of Musick.

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

f. 37r

BuS 0.1: Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')

Extracts.

Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

ff. 42r-40v rev.

WoH 259.2: Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1624.

ff. 55v-48v, 45v-42v rev.

BrT 5.1: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

ff. 65v-63v rev.

BcF 54.923: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning ('')

Extracts.

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

MS Don. e. 23

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, chiefly Advice to Painter poems, 82 leaves, in quarter-brown morocco. Late 17th century.

Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, 1938.

ff. 9r-15v

MaA 324: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

Copy, here ascribed to Denham and the poem dated 1667.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

ff. 15v-22r

MaA 366: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

ff. 22v-4v

MaA 395: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

ff. 24v-6v

MaA 425: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

ff. 27r-9r

MaA 130: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

f. 29r

MaA 283: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

f. 29r

MaA 292: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

f. 29v

RoJ 221: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

ff. 30v-8r

WiG 31: George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum ('Renowned patriots, open your eyes')

Copy, including the prefatory poem and the postscript (beginning If e'er you leave us in a lasting peace).

First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.

MS Don. e. 24

A quarto verse miscellany, 50 pages, unbound. Late 17th century.

Once owned by one James Raine, of Durham. Sold by Blackwell's, 1938.

pp. 22-5

DrJ 202: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

Copy.

This MS collated in California.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

MS Don. e. 176

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

p. 17

CoA 179: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')

Copy, headed English'd at y^e late Kings Comand at Oxford, by M^r Ab. Cowley; he not knowing it was y^e Kings Sors Virginiana.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

pp. 21-2

WaE 733: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')

Copy, headed On y^e Ld Protectors dying in a storm by Ed. Waller; the text followed (pp. 22-5) by Godolphin's answer.

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.

pp. 27-39

CoA 169: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')

Copy, headed A Satyre. The Puritan Papist and here ascribed to Cowley.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

pp. 41-3

RoJ 599: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

pp. 45-52

DrJ 63: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')

Copy, headed Heroick Stanzas consecrated To y^e memory of Cromwell by J. Dryden.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.

p. 54

RoJ 268: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')

Copy, headed Essay. L^d R.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

pp. 87-97

RoJ 165: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 98-107

RoJ 330: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy, headed A Satyre. L^d Rot:.

pp. 109-12

RoJ 89: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')

Copy, headed My L^d R. to my L^d M; imperfect, lacking p. 113.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

p. 116

EtG 38: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')

Copy, headed Answer by G.E..

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

pp. 132-3

RoJ 258: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')

Copy, here ascribed to L^d Dorsett.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

p. 135

WoH 196: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

Copy, headed On a Lady y^t dyd soon after her husband and here beginning He first deceased she liv'd, and 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.

pp. 138-9

StW 505: William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete ('Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare')

Copy.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

MS Don. e. 747

Randolph's printed exemplum.

Inscribed on the title-page, undoubtedly in the poet's hand, Thomas Randolph Trin: Coll: Cambridge and the same hand has also written the abbreviation T:R:T:C:C: on sig. Aiiij^v. Probably three other early hands were responsible for assorted marginalia which appear elsewhere in this volume, one of them the gentleman who inscribed the last page (p. 336) JosePhiper liber 1618 [or 1628] Oct^r: 28.

Early 17th century.

Although offered in sale catalogue No. 56 (1912), item 305, by the Charing Cross Road bookseller Arthur Reader and sold at some time before then by Sotheby's, this volume seems to have escaped the attention of Randolph scholars until its acquisition by the Bodleian in 1968.

It was first effectively recorded in Davis's unpublished thesis on Randolph (1970), pp. 167-8.

*RnT 594: Thomas Randolph, New Testament in Latin, with commentary by Theodore Beza (London, 1581)

It was first effectively recorded in Davis's unpublished thesis on Randolph (1970), pp. 167-8.

MS Don. f. 29

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

c.1669-74.

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

fols 23r, 24r

RoJ 300: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy of lines 1-28, headed A satyr on man, deleted.

fol. 24r

SeC 50: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')

Copy, headed A Copy of v^rses to M^rs. M: K: from — and ascribed to Char: Sidley.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

fols 24v, 23v rev.

RoJ 58: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

Copy, lacking the last three stanzas.

This MS reproduced in facsimile, transcribed and discussed in Clive T. Probyn, A New Draft of Rochester's Disabled Debauchee, The Scriblerian, 8 (1975), 1-4, and see also David Vieth's corrections to Probyn's transcript in Errata, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 147-8; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

fols 61r, 62r, 63r, 64r, 65r, 66r

RoJ 299: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

fols 69r, 70r, 71r, 72r, 73r, 74r, 75r

RoJ 531: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')

Copy, headed Upon y^e Wells by my L^d Rocheseter.

This MS collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

fols 80r, 81r

DrJ 165: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman ('What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew')

Copy, headed A Prologue in y^e vniversity. By the Kings house.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.

fols 82r, 83r

DrJ 160: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart ('Poets, your Subjects, have their Parts assign'd')

Copy, headed Prologue to y^e vniversity. By y^e Kings house.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 372-3. California, I, 151-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 289-91.

fols 83r, 84r

DrJ 26: John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal ('Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat')

Copy, headed Epilogue at y^e same time.

First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 291-2.

fols 104r, 105r

DoC 265: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')

Copy, headed A Prologue to Edward Howards Utopia, made by y^e Lord Buckerst.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

MS Don. f. 37

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

fol. 12r

CwT 114.5: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')

Copy, untitled, here beginning We read of Gods & Kings, y^t kindely tooke.

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

fol. 13r

SuJ 44.5: John Suckling, Lutea Allison: Si sola es, nulla es ('Though you Diana-loke have liv'd still chast')

Copy, subscribed J. S.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 25-6.

fol. 13v

SuJ 86.8: John Suckling, Upon Mrs. A. L. ('Thou think'st I flatter when thy praise I tell')

Copy, subscribed J. S.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 26-7.

fol. 14v

SuJ 136.5: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')

Copy, subscribed J. S.

First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

fol. 15v

SuJ 48.5: John Suckling, Prefer'd Love rejected ('It is not four years ago')

Copy, subscribed J. S.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 54-5.

fol. 15v

SuJ 86.5: John Suckling, Upon L. M. weeping ('Whoever was the cause your tears were shed')

Copy, subscribed J.S.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 34-5.

fol. 48v-r rev.

CwT 544.8: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Copy, untitled.

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

fols 53v-53r

RaW 320.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')

Copy, headed S^r w. R. to his M^rs, here beginning Passions are likned....

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.

fols 54r-53v rev.

TiC 4: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

Copy, headed Tichbourns Elegy in y^e Tower before is Execution.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

fol. 58v rev.

JnB 8.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')

Copy of lines 21-30, headed On a M^rs and here beginning Haue you seene y^e Lilly grow, followed by the Answer (Have you seene a black-head maggott).

fol. 59r rev.

CoR 560.5: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')

Copy, headed Bishop Corbet to his young Sonne Vincent.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

fol. 69r rev.

RaW 232.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

Copy, headed On Mans life.

fol. 69v rev.

HoJ 2: John Hoskyns, A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late

Copy, headed On a Locke-smith.

Whitlock, p. 108.

fol. 82r rev.

CwT 1185.5: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')

Copy, headed On a Ribban giuen by his Mistris.

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

Don. b. 24 (24)

Proofsheet, of the outer forme of sheet G (G1^r .2^v .3^r .4^v), in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1639. 1639.

Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.

Discussed in D. F. Foxon, The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.

CaW 85: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

Discussed in D. F. Foxon, The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.

First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

Don. d. 27, 28

A printed exemplum with (partly eroded) Milton's autograph inscription on the flyleaf, Jo[:] Milton pre:[12]^s [6]^d 1634, and numerous autograph annotations in the text among notes in other hands.

c.1634.

Including notes by Joshua Barnes, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and editor of Euripides in 1694). The initials D S inscribed twice on a flyleaf apparently by Daniel Skinner.

The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 304-20. Discussed in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, Milton's Annotations of Euripides, JEGP, 60 (1961), 680-7. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 108-10 (Plate XV); in Friends of the Bodleian: Ninth Annual Report (Oxford, 1933-4), after p. 4 [two full pages]; and in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 2; in LR, I, 282; and in Boswell, No. 553.

*MnJ 121: John Milton, Euripides. Tragoediae quae extant, 2 vols (Geneva, 1602)