Victoria and Albert Museum

Clements Collection CLE E15

Lady Anne Clifford's exemplum, with her wyvern crest and initials A. D. [ie. Anne, Countess of Dorset] in gilt on the calf covers. Early 17th century.

CdA 14: Lady Anne Clifford, Boemus, Johann, trans. Edward Aston. the Manners, Lawes, and Customes of all Nations (London, 1611)

Dyce MS 9 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.9)

Copy in the hand of Jhon: i.e. Edward Knight, book-keeper and prompter of the King's Company, prepared for use as a prompt book, inscribed by Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, This Play, being an olde one and the Originall Lost was reallowed by mee, This 7 Febru. 1624[/5], 34 folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Gerritsen and in Ioppolo. Collated in Dyce and in Bowers. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 288-93.

B&F 58: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Gerritsen and in Ioppolo. Collated in Dyce and in Bowers. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 288-93.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 329-452. Edited by Johan Gerritsen (Groningen, 1952). Bowers, X, 16-111, ed. Cyrus Hoy. Edited by Grace Ioppolo, Malone Society, 2009 (Manchester, 2012). For Fletcher's poem on this play see FlJ 8-14.

Dyce MS 17 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.16)

A quarto volume of seven poems by Donne, in a single hand, fifteen leaves.

A later title-page inscribed Poems written about the Year 1616; and believed to be unprinted; viz Five Satires; A Storme; and A Calme. P Neve: i.e. ? Philip Neve, author of Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (1789).

Early 17th century.

Possibly the quarto MS of Dr. Donne's Satires and Poem of the Storm in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 599. Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Neve MS: DnJ Δ 33.

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DnJ 2748: John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2778: John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2810: John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2839: John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2871: John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 3073: John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 13r-14r

DnJ 559: 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.

Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17)

A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages).

Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625.

c.1625.

Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Nedham MS: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).

ff. 5r-6r

DnJ 2743: John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2773: John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2805: John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2835: John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 12v-13v

DnJ 2867: John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 1939: John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 16v-17r

DnJ 3069: John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 17v-18r

DnJ 555: 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.

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DnJ 381: John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')

Copy.

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.

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DnJ 697: John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')

Copy, headed Elegia secunda. El: 2^ia.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2561: John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')

Copy, headed Elegia tertia.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 21r-v

DnJ 1689: John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')

Copy, headed Elegia quarta.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 21v-2r

DnJ 2455: John Donne, Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve

Copy, headed Elegia quinta.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 22r-v

DnJ 2344: John Donne, Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love

Copy, headed Eligia sexta.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2210: John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')

Copy, headed Elegia septima.

Edited from this MS in Waldron. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 23r-v

DnJ 3179: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')

Copy, headed Elegia octaua.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

f. 24r

DnJ 632: John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')

Copy, headed Elegia nona.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 55: John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')

Copy, headed Elegia decima.

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. 25r-v

DnJ 2509: John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')

Copy, headed Elegia undecima.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 25v

DnJ 1538: John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')

Copy, headed Elegia duodecima.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 26r

DnJ 1043: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')

Copy, headed Elegia decima tertia.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 26v

DnJ 3735: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')

Copy, headed To his Loue upon his departure fro her.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2696: John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 27r-v

DnJ 831: John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 353: John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 2142: John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

f. 29r-v

DnJ 2244: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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DnJ 497: John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 30r-v

DnJ 3705: John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 30v

DnJ 1203: John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 30v-1r

DnJ 866: John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 31r

DnJ 2297: John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 31v

DnJ 3006: John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 31r-v

DnJ 189: John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 31v-2r

DnJ 439: John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 32r

DnJ 2892: John Donne, Selfe Love ('He that cannot chuse but love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 32r-v

DnJ 1329: John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 32v-3r

DnJ 2922: John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 33r-v

DnJ 594: John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 33v-4r

DnJ 3663: John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 34v

DnJ 2113: John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 34v-5r

DnJ 966: John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 35r-v

DnJ 122: John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 35v

DnJ 1648: John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 35v-6r

DnJ 304: John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 36r-v

DnJ 3910: John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 36v-7r

DnJ 3846: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 37r

DnJ 671: John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 37r-v

DnJ 2089: John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 37v-9r

DnJ 1176: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

ff. 39r-40r

DnJ 1264: John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 40r

DnJ 3961: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 40r-v

DnJ 264: John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 40v-1r

DnJ 1972: John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')

Copy, headed Mummie.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 41r-2r

DnJ 3787: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 42r

DnJ 3111: John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 42v

DnJ 2010: John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 42v-3r

DnJ 1808: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 43r-v

DnJ 24: John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 43v

DnJ 3627: John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 43v-4v

DnJ 3817: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 44v-5r

DnJ 3293: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')

Copy, headed A Letter.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 45r-v

DnJ 3466: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')

Copy, headed Another Letter.

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. 45v-6v

BrW 33: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')

Copy, headed Elegia.

Edied from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 3-5, whence collated in Goodwin, II, 348.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

f. 46v

DnJ 752: John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 46v-7v

DnJ 3496: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')

Copy.

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.

ff. 47v-8r

DnJ 1456: John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 48r

DnJ 2640: John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 48r-9r

DnJ 1072: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

ff. 49r-52v

DnJ 2425: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

ff. 52v-3r

DnJ 794: John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 53r-4r

DnJ 3859: John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')

Copy, headed Elegia decima. 7^a.

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.

f. 54v

DnJ 2719: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')

Copy, headed Eleg: 18^th

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 65r-71v

CoR 313: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

Copy, headed D^r Corbett his relation of his iourney Northwarde from Oxforde, transcribed from CoR 304.

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

f. 72r-v

CoR 339: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')

Copy, transcribed from CoR 336.

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

ff. 73r-4r

HeR 47: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')

Copy, here ascribed to Dr Corbett, transcribed from HeR 46.

Edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 5-8.

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

Dyce MS 39 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.33)

Copy, in a professional hand, made for use in the theatre, with corrections in the fourth and fifth acts in another hand, imperfect, probably the copy submitted to Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, for licensing in 1624.

The scribe also responsible for the MS of Dekker's Welsh Embassador (DkT 46).

c.1624.

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Edwards & Gibson. Literal transcript and facsimile pages in Malone Society edition, ed. K.M. Lea and W.W. Greg (Oxford, 1929). Facsimile example in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 177.

MsP 31: Philip Massinger, The Parliament of Love

First published in The Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. William Gifford (London, 1805). Edwards & Gibson, II, 107-76.

Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38)

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700.

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

pp. 1-6

MaA 137: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')

Copy, headed A House Warming to Chancellour Hyde.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

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.

pp. 16-20

SdT 6: Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley ('Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Summers.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.

pp. 20-3

WyW 4: William Wycherley, The Answer [to Mr. Shadwell] ('That I have only answer'd Mum')

Copy.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying Letter…to Mr. Wicherley, see SdT 2-6.

p. 26

RoJ 40: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')

Copy.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.

pp. 34-5

DoC 239: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')

Copy, headed Satyr.

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. 43-5

MaA 248: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')

Copy, headed Upon S^r: Robert Vyners setting up the Kings Statue.

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.

pp. 59-60

RoJ 115: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')

Copy, headed One Tyme the King was a prayseing the Translation of the Psalmes, And my Lord Rocheter being by (Says he) 'an't please Your Ma^ty Ile show you presently how they Run, And thus begun.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; recorded in Walker.

First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

p. 60

MaA 272: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')

Copy, headed On Bloods stealing the Crowne.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

pp. 61-4

RoJ 147: 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 of lines 171-264, headed Satyr and here beginning You smile to see me (whom the world perchance.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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.

p. 70

WoH 196.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

Copy, headed On the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife.

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.

pp. 76-81

RoJ 104.62: 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). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

pp. 82-96

MaA 163.97: 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. 105-6

RoJ 390: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')

Copy, followed (pp. 106-7) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

pp. 107-8

RoJ 421: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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

pp. 108-9

RoJ 629: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')

Copy, headed Womans Honour a Song

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

pp. 109-10

RoJ 468: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')

Copy, headed Song.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

pp. 110-12

RoJ 344: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')

Copy, headed The Earle of Rochesters verses For which he was Banish'd.

This MS 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.

pp. 113-119

BuS 34: Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 119-24

RoJ 361: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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. 124-8

DoC 83: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')

Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Government from Monarchical to Democratical The Duell and here ascribed to Dorset & H Savile.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

pp. 133-62

RoJ 638: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah ('')

Copy, entitled The Farce of Sodom.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 148, in Edwards, BC (1976).

First published (?) at Antwerp [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.

pp. 168-71

LeN 6: Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage ('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')

Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the Prince and Princesse of Orange. By Mr Nat: Lee and beginning Hail happy Warriour! Hail! whose Armes have won.

First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

pp. 195-200

MaA 313: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')

Copy.

This MS collated 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. 223-4

RoJ 264: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')

Copy, headed Essay.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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. 234-40

RoJ 529: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. 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.

p. 241

DoC 36: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Catch ('When rebels first push'd at the Crown')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.

pp. 241-2

RoJ 501: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')

Copy, headed Verses to the Post Boy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

pp. 270-2

WaE 777: Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 ('Welcome, great Prince, unto this land')

Copy.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

pp. 297-302

DoC 59: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')

Copy, headed A Satyr on severall Women. 1679.

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.

p. 343

RoJ 11.91: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')

Copy.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

pp. 355-8

MaA 187: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')

Copy, headed Royal Resolutions.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

pp. 395-407

SdT 20: Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse ('Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife')

Copy, here ascribed to M^r Sommers.

First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.

pp. 407-10

EtG 109: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

pp. 441-5

CwT 312: 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.

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

pp. 484-6

MaA 230: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')

Copy.

This MS collated 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. 525-32

MaA 82: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')

Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inn. Or a Pleasant New Ballad to the Tune of I tell thee Dick.

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.

p. 546

SeC 64: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')

Copy, headed To a Scornfull Beauty.

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.

p. 547

DrM 39.4: Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda ('When these my Letters come into thy view')

Copy of the later version of lines 149-52, headed The Encouragement.

First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

p. 575

DoC 326.96: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.

pp. 575-6

DoC 138: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

pp. 620-2

EtG 79: Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

pp. 666-9

EtG 55: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

pp. 669-72

DrJ 209: 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.

pp. 672-4

EtG 33: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

pp. 708-10

DoC 70: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')

Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametas.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

pp. 729-31

EtG 120: Sir George Etherege, Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley ('Whether we mortals love or no')

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.

p. 736 et seq.

DoC 361.95: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

pp. 748-66

DoC 101: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')

Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

p. 784

BeA 33: Aphra Behn, The last Nights Ramble. 1686 ('Warm'd with the pleasures w^ch: debauches yield')

Copy.

Ascribed to Aphra Behn in BeA 32. Various other MS copies of this poem are anonymous.

Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39)

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

ff. 2-4

NaT 6: Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')

Copy of an abbreviated 161-line version, partly written in cryptography, headed Lector abj si to scelerjs contagio vexat | At tibi si mens sit sanctificata venj., with the dedicatory sonnet.

This MS collated in McKerrow.

Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

f. 5r-v

CmT 237: Thomas Campion, What if a day, or a month, or a yeare

Copy of a four-strophe version.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

f. 12r

CoH 93: Henry Constable, To his Mistrisse ('Grace full of grace though in these verses heere')

Copy, the first of the sequence headed H. C. Sonets and followed by the prose summary The order of the booke.

Edited from this MS in Park and in Grundy. Facsimiles of f. 12r in Grundy, facing p. 113, and in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 48.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 113.

f. 12v

CoH 15: Henry Constable, The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne')

Copy.

First published, as Sonetto primo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.

f. 13r

CoH 33: Henry Constable, Of the byrth of his loue. Sonet 2. ('Fly low (deare Loue) thy sun dost thow not see?')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto quinto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 116.

f. 13v

CoH 35: Henry Constable, Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. ('Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto nono, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.

f. 14r

CoH 46: Henry Constable, Of the suddeyne surprizing of his hearte, and how vnawares he was caught. Sonet 4. ('Delight in youre bright eyes my death did breede')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 118.

f. 14v

CoH 39: Henry Constable, Of the discouragement he had to proceed in loue through the multitude of his Ladies perfections and his owne lownesse. sonet 5. ('When youre perfections to my thoughts appeare')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto decinoue, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 119.

f. 15r

CoH 17: Henry Constable, How he encouraged himselfe to proceede in loue and to hope for favoure in the ende at Loues hands. Sonet 6. ('It may be Loue doth not my death pretend')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto secundo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 120.

f. 15v

CoH 11: Henry Constable, An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. ('Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto terzo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.

f. 16r

CoH 50: Henry Constable, The second 7 of his Ladies prayse. An exhortation to the reader to come and see his Mistrisse beautie. Sonet 1. ('Eyes curiouse to behold what nature can create')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 122.

f. 16v

CoH 55: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto decimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.

f. 17r

CoH 41: Henry Constable, Of the excellencye of his Ladies voyce. Sonet 3. ('Ladies of Ladies the delight alone')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 124.

f. 17v

CoH 23: Henry Constable, Of her excellencye both in singing and instruments. Sonet 4. ('Not that thy hand is soft is sweete is white')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 125.

f. 18r

CoH 42: Henry Constable, Of the prowesse of his Ladie. Sonet 5. ('Sweete Soueraigne sith so many mynds remayne')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 126.

f. 18v

CoH 40: Henry Constable, Of the envie others beare to his Ladie for the former perfections. Sonet 6. ('What beautie to the world vouchsafes this blisse')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 127.

f. 19r

CoH 45: Henry Constable, Of the slander enuye giues him for so highlye praysing his Mistrisse. Sonet 7. ('Falselye doth envie of youre prayses blame')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto tredeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 128.

f. 19v

CoH 81: Henry Constable, The thyrd 7 of seuerall occasions and accidents happening in the life tyme of his loue Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of her walking in a garden. Sonet 1. ('My Ladies presence makes the roses red')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto decisette, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 130.

f. 20r

CoH 92: Henry Constable, To his Ladies hand vpon occasion of her gloue which in her absence he kissed. Sonet 2. ('Sweet hand the sweet (yet cruell) bowe thow art')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto vinti, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 131.

f. 20v

CoH 28: Henry Constable, Of his Ladies vayle wherewith she covered her. Sonet: 3. ('The fouler hydes as closely as he may')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto deciotto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 132.

f. 21r

CoH 95: Henry Constable, To his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a Petrarch he gaue her, shewing her the reason why the Italian Commenters dissent so much in the exposition thereof. Sonet 4. ('Miracle of the world I neuer will denye')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 133.

f. 21v

CoH 31: Henry Constable, Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. ('A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto settimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.

f. 22r

CoH 25: Henry Constable, Of his Ladies goeing over earlye to bed, so depriving him to soone of her sight. Sonet 6. ('Fayre sun if yow would haue me prayse youre light')

Copy.

First published, as Vltomo Sonnetto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 135.

f. 22v

CoH 48: Henry Constable, Of the thoughtes he nourished by night when he was retired to bed. Sonet 7. ('The sun his iourney ending in the west')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto quatro, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 136.

f. 23r

CoH 49: Henry Constable, The second parte. The first 7 to oure Q: and the K. of Scots. To the Q: after his returne oute of Italye. Sonet 1. ('Not longe agoe in Poland traveiling')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 137.

f. 23v

CoH 162: Henry Constable, To the Queene touching the cruell effects of her perfections. Sonet 2. ('Most sacred prince why should I thee thus prayse')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 138.

f. 24r

CoH 161: Henry Constable, To the Q: vpon occasion of a booke he wrote in an answer to certayne obiections against her proceeding in the Low countryes. Sonet 3. ('The loue wherewith youre vertues chayne my sprite')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 139.

f. 24v

CoH 154: Henry Constable, To the K. of Scots whome as yet he had not seene. Sonet ('Bloome of the rose I hope those hands to kisse')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 140.

f. 25r

CoH 149: Henry Constable, To the K. of Scots touching the subiect of his poems dedicated wholie to heauenly matters. Sonet 5. ('When others hooded with blind loue doe flye')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 141.

f. 25v

CoH 151: Henry Constable, To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of a sonet the K: wrote in complaint of a contrarie winde which hindred the arriuall of the Queene oute of Denmark. Sonet 6. ('If I durst sigh still as I had begun')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 142.

f. 26r

CoH 152: Henry Constable, To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of his longe stay in Denmarke by reason of the coldnesse of the winter and freezing of the sea. Sonet 7. ('If I durst loue as heertofore I haue')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 143.

f. 26v

CoH 51: Henry Constable, The second 7. To particular Ladies whome he most honoured. to the princes of Orange. Sonet 1. ('If nature for her workes proud euer were')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 144.

f. 27r

CoH 147: Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Shrewsburye. Sonet 2. ('Playnlie I write because I will write true')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 145.

f. 27v

CoH 144: Henry Constable, To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. ('Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine')

Copy.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.

f. 28r

CoH 97: Henry Constable, To my Ladye Arbella. Sonet 4 ('That worthie Marquesse pride of Italie')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 148.

f. 28v

CoH 155: Henry Constable, To the Ladye Arbella. Sonet 5. ('Only hope of oure age that vertues dead')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 149.

f. 29r

CoH 99: Henry Constable, To my Ladie Rich. Sonet 6. ('O that my songe like to a ship might be')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 150.

f. 29v

CoH 158: Henry Constable, To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.

f. 30r

CoH 82: Henry Constable, The thyrd 7 to seuerall persons vpon sundrye occasions. To the princesse of Orange vpon occasion of the murther of her father and husband Sonet 1. ('When murdring hands, to quench the thirst of tyrannie')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 152.

f. 30v

CoH 148: Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Shrewsburye vpon occasion of his deare Mistrisse whoe liu'd vnder her gouer[n]ment. Sonet 2. ('True worthie dame if I thee chieftayne call')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 153.

f. 31r

CoH 146: Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Pembroke. Sonet 3. ('Ladie whome by reporte, I only knowe')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 154.

f. 31v

CoH 145: Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Essex vpon occasion of the death of her first husband Sir Philip Sydney Sonet 4. ('Sweetest of Ladies if thy pleasure be')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 155.

f. 32r

CoH 156: Henry Constable, To the Ladie Clinton. Sonet 5. ('Once onlye I sweet Ladie ye beheld')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 156.

f. 32v

CoH 4: Henry Constable, A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. ('Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3^r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.

f. 33r

CoH 96: Henry Constable, To Mr. Hilliard vpon occasion of a picture he made of my Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('If Michael the archpainter now did liue')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 158.

f. 33v

CoH 77: Henry Constable, The thyrd parte. The first 7 of seuerall complaynts of misfortune in loue onlye. Sonet 1. ('Now now I loue indeed and suffer more')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 159.

f. 34r

CoH 59: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Wonder it is and pitie tis that she')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto quaterdeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 160.

f. 34v

CoH 65: Henry Constable, Sonet 3. ('Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto sedeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.

f. 35r

CoH 5: Henry Constable, Complaint of his Ladies melancholynes. Sonet 4. ('If that one care had oure two hearts possest')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 162.

f. 35v

CoH 7: Henry Constable, Complaynt of his Ladies sicknesse. Sonet 5. ('Vnciuill Sicknesse hast thow no regard')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto sesto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 163.

f. 36r

CoH 72: Henry Constable, Sonet 6. ('Deare though from me youre gratiouse lookes depart')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 164.

f. 36v

CoH 76: Henry Constable, Sonet 7. ('If euer any iustlye might complayne')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 165.

f. 37r

CoH 159: Henry Constable, To the Marquesse of Piscats soule endued in her life tyme with infinite perfections as her diuine poems doe testefie. Sonet 3. ('Sweete soule which now with heauenly songs dost tell')

Copy.

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 166.

f. 37v

CoH 136: Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule. Sonet 4. ('Giue pardon blessed soule to my bold cryes')

Copy.

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 167.

f. 38r

CoH 137: Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sidneyes soule. Sonet 5. ('Great Alexander then did well declare')

Copy.

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 168.

f. 38v

CoH 138: Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule Sonet 6. ('Euen as when great mens heyres cannot agree')

Copy.

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 169.

f. 39r

CoH 36: Henry Constable, Of the death of my Ladie Riches daughter shewing the reason of her vntimelye death hindred her effecting those things which by the former calculation of her natiuitye he foretold. Sonet 7. ('He that by skill of stars doth fates foretell')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 170.

f. 39v

CoH 22: Henry Constable, The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto quindeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.

f. 40r

CoH 57: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.

f. 40v

CoH 62: Henry Constable, Sonet 3. ('My reason absent did myne eyes require')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto dodeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 173.

f. 41r

CoH 67: Henry Constable, Sonet 4. ('Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.

f. 41v

CoH 71: Henry Constable, Sonet 5. ('Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto vndeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.

f. 42r

CoH 75: Henry Constable, Sonet 6. ('If true loue might true loues reward obtayne')

Copy.

First published, as Sonnetto ottauo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.

f. 42v

CoH 8: Henry Constable, Conclusion of the whole. Sonet 7. ('Sometymes in verse I prays'd, sometymes I sigh'd')

Copy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 178.

f. 43r

CoH 150: Henry Constable, To the diuine protection of the Ladie Arbella the author commendeth both his Graces honoure and his Muses aeternitye ('My Mistrisse worth gaue wings vnto my Muse')

Copy.

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 179.

f. 56v

DaJ 228: Sir John Davies, To a woman fallen from Horseback ('Madam, what needs this care to make it knowne')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 305-6.

f. 57r

DaJ 42: Sir John Davies, Love's All ('I love thee not for sacred chastitie')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 174. Collated in Krueger.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 179.

f. 57r-v

DaJ 61: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')

Copy, untitled and here beginning Fayth wench I cannot courte thy piercing eyes.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 175. Collated in Krueger.

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

f. 57v

DaJ 69: Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier ('Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

f. 60r

RaW 389.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')

Copy of an eight-line version, here beginning Heere lyeth y^t noble Counselloure | That never kept his worde.

First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

f. 62v

CmT 82.5: Thomas Campion, Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely

Copy.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

f. 64r

HrJ 208.8: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godlie mayde 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. 64v

HrJ 122.5: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 65v

HrJ 70: Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

f. 70v

RaW 288: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

Copy, headed Epitaphium.

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. 71r

RaW 376: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')

Copy, untitled and here beginning Heere Hobinol lyes oure shepheard while ere.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

f. 72r

HrJ 98.5: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')

Copy, untitled and here beginning A tyme vncertayne when as a certayne preacher.

The text followed (f. 72v) by an answer (here beginning That no man yet could in y^e bible finde) and subscribed S^r. J.H..

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

f. 77r-v

DnJ 3122: John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')

Copy, headed Ad Solem.

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

f. 78r

DnJ 468: John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 78v

DnJ 905: John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

f. 78v

DnJ 1487: John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')

Copy.

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

f. 78v

DnJ 1728: John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')

Copy, untitled and here beginning Clockius so deeplye vow'd ner more to come.

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

f. 78v

DnJ 1773: John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')

Copy, untitled.

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. 78v

DnJ 1774: John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')

Copy of a three-line version, untitled and here beginning Lord helpe lorde helpe y^e beggar cries.

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. 78v

DnJ 1905: John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 79v

HrJ 48: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 79r

DaJ 99: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')

Copy of poems 4 and 5, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

f. 79v

HrJ 227: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')

Copy, here beginning A certayne priest once riding on y^e way.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

f. 80r

DaJ 14: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

Krueger, p. 132.

f. 80r

DaJ 15: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 9. In Librum ('Liber doth vaunt how chastely he hath livde')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

Krueger, p. 133.

f. 80r

DaJ 17: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 14. In Leucam ('Leuca in presence once a fart did let')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

Krueger, pp. 134-5.

f. 82r

HrJ 159: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

f. 84r

HrJ 183.5: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')

Copy, untitled and here beginning A taylor ta'ne to be of vpright dealing.

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

f. 97r

RaW 411.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ICUR, good Mounser Carr

Copy.

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).

f. 107v

NaT 17: Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')

Copy.

First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

f. 116v

OxE 41: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde

Copy.

This MS collated in May.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

Dyce MS 46 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.41)

Copy, in a neat cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, The Life and Death of Sir Tho: More K^t: somtyme Lo: Chauncellor of Eng: written by W^m Roper his Sonne in lawe: An: Do: 1535, 52 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in modern morocco gilt. c.1600.

This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described pp. xvii-xviii.

MrT 104: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described pp. xvii-xviii.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Dyce MS 848 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.18)

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1619 with approximately 60 MS corrections, possibly derived from a MS of the play or from the recollection of a performance. Early-mid-17th century.

Edited from this exemplum in Dyce. Recorded in Williams, p. 176.

B&F 61: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King and No King

Edited from this exemplum in Dyce. Recorded in Williams, p. 176.

First published in London, 1619. Dyce, II, 231-347. Bullen, I, 243-354, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 182-281, ed. George Walton Williams.

Dyce MS 2045 (Pressmark Dyce 26 Box. 5/5)

An exemplum of the first printed edition with MS corrections. [1613?].

This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60.

ChG 16: George Chapman, The Memorable Masque

This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60.

First published in London, [1613]. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 557-94. Also in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 253-63.

Dyce 3199

A printed exemplum with Drayton's autograph inscription to Sir Henry Willoughby. 1627.

Facsimiles of the inscription in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate VIII(c), and in Bernard H. Newdigate, Michael Drayton and his Circle (Oxford, 1961), facing p. 207.

*DrM 73: Michael Drayton, Drayton, Michael. The Battaile of Agincourt (London, 1627)

Facsimiles of the inscription in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate VIII(c), and in Bernard H. Newdigate, Michael Drayton and his Circle (Oxford, 1961), facing p. 207.

Dyce MS 4719 (Pressmark Dyce 26 Box 18/5)

An exemplum of the edition of 1609 with the text of the missing leaf sig. H1 supplied in MS. 17th century?

HyT 9: Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece

First published in London, 1608. Dramatic Works, V, 161-257. Edited by Allan Holaday (Urbana, 1950).

Dyce 5363 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.97)

A printed exemplum of The New Inn (London, 1631) with MS annotations made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, collating the text of the Ode to himselfe with a 17th-century MS once in his possession. Early 19th century.

This item collated in Herford & Simpson.

JnB 381: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe

This item collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Dyce 6209 (Pressmark Dyce 25.D.40)

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1598 with the text of the missing first two leaves (title-page and 70 lines of text) supplied in MS in an italic hand, probably transcribed from the edition of 1594. 1598-early 17th century.

This item has been thought to demonstrate the existence of a 1593 edition: see Bowers, II, 3 et seq. Facsimiles in W.W. Greg's edition, Malone Society (Oxford, 1925), and in Bakeless, II, facing p. 24.

MrC 21: Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

First published in London, 1594. Bowers, II, 1-119. Tucker Brooke, pp. 307-85. Gill et al., vol. III.

Dyce 6323 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.106)

A printed exemplum of The Duke of Milan (London, 1623) presented by Massinger to Sir Francis Foljambe. c.1623.

flyleaf

*MsP 9: Philip Massinger, To my Honorable ffreinde S^r ffrancis ffoliambe knight and Baronet ('S^r. w^th my service I praesent this booke')

Autograph verses written on the flyleaf.

Edited from this MS in Gifford and in Edwards & Gibson. Facsimiles in The Handbook of the Dyce and Forster Collections (London, 1880); in R. Garnett and E. Gosse, English Literature, II (London, 1903); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XIV(a); and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 175.

A transcript made by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary, is in the British Library, Add. MS 28655, ff. 194v-5r.

First published in The Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. William Gifford, 2nd edition (London, 1813). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 396.

*MsP 17: Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan ('')

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1623 with about 50 autograph textual corrections.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson. Discussed, with a facsimile of the first page of the text, in W.W. Greg, Massinger's Autograph Corrections in The Duke of Milan, 1623, The Library, 4th Ser. 4 (1923), 207-11. Reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 110-19.

First published in London, 1623. Edwards & Gibson, I, 213-300.

Dyce 6561 (No. 1) (Pressmark Dyce 25.D.42)

Copy, here beginning A hormless game: royd only for delight and preceded by a note on the success and suppression of A Game at Chess, inscribed in an exemplum of the first printed edition of that play. c.1625?

Edited from this MS in Capell, and, with a facsimile, in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, A Middleton Forgery, PQ, 12 (1933), 33-6. Tannenbaum considered this MS a forgery (perhaps by George Steevens), but see Bernard M. Wagner, A Middleton Forgery, PQ, 14 (1935), 287-8.

MiT 1: Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James

First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

Dyce 8980

An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1600, marked up with cuts and with dramatis personae. Mid-late 17th century?

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 333, No. 1.

ShW 68.5: William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 333, No. 1.

First published in London, 1600.

Dyce 10,790 (Pressmark Dyce S 8vo 10790)

An exemplum of the first printed edition with Wycherley's autograph presentation inscription on a flyleaf, For Anthony Henley Esq^r from his most oblig'd and most humble servant W. Wycherley (subsequently heavily deleted).

Most of the spaces left by the printer in the text of the poem filled in Wycherley's own hand: namely, his autograph insertions on pp. 26 (2 lines), 27 (2 lines), 28 (1 line), 29 (½ line), 30 (1 line and a one-word change), 32 (1½ lines), 34 (one word), 37 (five-word alteration), 39 (two words), 41 (4 lines and a three-word alteration), 46 (1 line), and 74 (one letter added to a word).

[1669].

Later owned by one F. J., whose notes on endpapers are dated 2 March 1789 and 9 March 1791. Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor. Formerly pressmark D.17.P.55.

This volume briefly discussed, and some of the MS readings quoted (not always accurately), in McCarthy, pp. 37-9, 45 (where also the later notes are misattributed to Alexander Dyce).

*WyW 6: William Wycherley, Hero and Leander in Burlesque

This volume briefly discussed, and some of the MS readings quoted (not always accurately), in McCarthy, pp. 37-9, 45 (where also the later notes are misattributed to Alexander Dyce).

First published (with lacunae) in London, 1699. Posthumous Works, Vol. II (London, 1729). Summers, IV, 73-102. The complete text unpublished.

Forster MS 21 (Pressmark 48.D.3)

A quarto volume containing two works by Francis Bacon. Early 17th century.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 19, to Forster.

item 1

BcF 164: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith ('')

Copy, eleven leaves.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

item 2

BcF 524: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy.

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

Forster 3077 (Pressmark F.26 Q. 5)

An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton July 3°. 1682. giuen me, by the author. 1682.

Sotheby's, 20 March 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 1399.

Facsimile of the inscription in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 45.

*WtI 169: Izaak Walton, Flatman, Thomas. Poems and Songs, 3rd edition (London, 1682)

Facsimile of the inscription in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 45.

Forster MS 8vo 4818

A MS copy of Killigrew's epilogue, beginning Our Author, sent his Epelogue so late, written opposite the last page of Selindra (sig H8^r) in a printed exemplum of Killigrew's Three Playes (London, 1664). c.1665.

The verses edited, and discussed, in J.P. Vander Motten, An Unnoticed Restoration Epilogue, English Studies, 67 (1986), 308-10.

KiW 8: Sir William Killigrew, Selindra

The verses edited, and discussed, in J.P. Vander Motten, An Unnoticed Restoration Epilogue, English Studies, 67 (1986), 308-10.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

Forster MS 5895 (Pressmark F. 48. D. 51)

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, 5 November 1674. 1674.

Later owned (before 1833) by J.L. Anderdon.

Margoliouth, II, 331-2.

*MaA 549: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Margoliouth, II, 331-2.