Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d

MS Eng. poet. b. 5

A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

p. vii

SoR 247: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')

Copy, imperfect.

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

p. viii

BrW 4: William Browne of Tavistock, Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears

Copy, imperfect, largely torn away.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

p. 14

SoR 219: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')

Copy.

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

p. 15

SoR 134: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')

Copy.

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

p. 15

SoR 269: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side ('O pleasant port, O place of rest')

Copy.

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

p. 16

SoR 181: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')

Copy.

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

p. 17

SoR 189: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde ('if that the sicke may grone')

Copy, headed A song called S^t. pete^rs afficted minde.

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

p. 21

SoR 103: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 21r-2r

SoR 279: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Upon the Image of death ('Before my face the picture hangs')

Copy, headed verses vpon the Image of Death.

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

p. 43

SoR 116: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 51

SoR 164: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe ('Behold a silly tender Babe')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.

p. 52

SoR 12: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe ('As I in hoarie Winters night')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.

p. 53

SoR 62: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')

Copy, imperfect.

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

p. 71

SoR 319.5: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life ('')

Extract, comprising A short meditation, of mans misery, here beginning What was I O lord, What am I..., transcribed from an early printed source.

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

pp. 76-83

SoR 226: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, beginning with A meditation on y^e Conception of o^r Blessed lady: S^t mary the virgin.

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

p. 81

SoR 25: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')

Copy.

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

p. 81

SoR 32: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')

Copy.

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

p. 84

SoR 266: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Complaint of the B. Virgin having lost her Sonne in Hierusalem ('How may I live, since that my life is gone?')

Copy of lines 1-42, headed Our Blessed ladies complaint when she had lost her sonne.

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 54-7. Brown, pp. 114-17.

p. 85

SoR 281: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse ('What mist hath dimd that glorious face')

Copy.

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

p. 85

SoR 270: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side ('O pleasant port, O place of rest')

Second copy.

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

p. 91

SoR 17: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')

Copy.

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

pp. 101-2

WiG 13: George Wither, A Christmas Carroll ('So, now is come our ioyfulst Feast')

Copy.

First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 915-19. Sidgwick, II, 178-81.

MS Eng. poet. c. 9

A miscellany of verse and prose, entitled Miscellanies, many pages excised.

Compiled by one Thomas Phillibrown of London.

c.1740-58.

Once owned by J.L. Lawford. Given to the library on 5 October 1901 by Mrs Green, of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.

p. 6

DnJ 572.5: John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')

Copy.

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

p. 17

DrJ 199.2: John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire ('How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life')

Copy.

Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 190-201.

p. 51

DrJ 382.2: John Dryden, Extracts ('')

Extracts from Dryden's Virgil.

p. 85

WaE 320.2: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

p. 235

CgW 24: William Congreve, Lesbia ('When Lesbia first I saw so heavn'ly Fair')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 79. Dobrée, pp. 284-5. McKenzie, II, 369.

MS Eng. poet. c. 18

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). c.1700 [-1745].

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

ff. 9r-11r

SdT 2: Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley ('Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale')

Copy.

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

ff. 11r-12v

WyW 1: 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.

ff. 13r-14v

RoJ 150: 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 171-260, headed Satyr by E Rochst^r: and here beginning You Smile to see me (whom the World perchance).

This MS 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.

ff. 18v-19v

MaA 174: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')

Copy, headed Royal Resolucons.

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.

ff. 21r-3r

DoC 73: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')

Copy, headed A Duel between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Governm^t. from Monarchical to Democraticall. By Hen Savile. Esq^r.

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.

ff. 44r-54r

DoC 90: 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 1687.

This MS collated 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.

f. 68v

DrJ 223: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')

Copy.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

f. 79r-v

DoC 8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')

Copy, headed Answer. By L. Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

ff. 87r-8r

DoC 288: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')

Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giveing....

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

ff. 101r-2r

DrJ 136: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')

Copy.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

ff. 125r-6r

DoC 114: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')

Copy, headed On the Fr. King & Madam Maintenon. By L^d Dorset. 1692..

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

ff. 135v-6r

DoC 163: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')

Copy, headed A Madame, Madame, B, Beaute Sexagenaire (Ldy Manchester) By L^d Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

MS Eng. poet. c. 25

A composite volume of verse and prose, iii + 155 leaves.

Collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire, and chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1629-1705).

Late 17th century.

W.H. Robinson, sale catalogue No. 74 (1944), items 21 and 271.

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8.

f. 75r

RoJ 124: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')

Copy, untitled and following the Latin version, with other verses on a folio leaf.

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.

MS Eng. poet. c. 42

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

f. 2r

*TrT 204: Thomas Traherne, The Salutation ('These little Limmes')

Autograph, stanza 6 deleted.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.

ff. 2r, 3v

*TrT 228: Thomas Traherne, Wonder ('How like an Angel came I down!')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler. Facsimile of f. 2 in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.

ff. 3v-4r

*TrT 134: Thomas Traherne, Eden ('A learned and a Happy Ignorance')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.

f. 4r

*TrT 166: Thomas Traherne, Innocence ('But that which most I Wonder at, which most')

Autograph, with revisions, here beginning But that which most I wonder at, which most.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.

f. 4r-v

*TrT 192: Thomas Traherne, The Preparative ('My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown')

Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.

f. 4v

*TrT 170: Thomas Traherne, The Instruction ('Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure')

Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.

f. 5r

*TrT 225: Thomas Traherne, The Vision ('Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight')

Autograph, with revisions, a deleted annotation in Philip Traherne's hand Adam. p. 12.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.

f. 5r-v

*TrT 194: Thomas Traherne, The Rapture ('Sweet Infancy!')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.

ff. 5v-6r

*TrT 158: Thomas Traherne, The improvment (''Tis more to recollect, then make. The one')

Autograph, with revisions, stanza 8 deleted, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand [Childhood deleted] p. 120 & p. 9. News p. 133.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.

f. 6r

*TrT 73: Thomas Traherne, The Approach ('That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.

f. 6r-v

*TrT 130: Thomas Traherne, Dumnesse ('Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things')

Autograph, with deletions and revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.

ff. 6v-7r

*TrT 209: Thomas Traherne, Silence ('A quiet Silent Person may possess')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.

f. 7r-v

*TrT 176: Thomas Traherne, My Spirit ('My Naked Simple Life was I')

Autograph, revised.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.

f. 8r

*TrT 70: Thomas Traherne, The Apprehension ('If this I did not evry moment see')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as Right Apprehension II. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]).

f. 8r

*TrT 146: Thomas Traherne, Fullnesse ('That Light, that Sight, that Thought')

Autograph, headed Fulnesse.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.

f. 8r-v

*TrT 178: Thomas Traherne, Nature ('That custom is a Second Nature, we')

Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand The Inheritance p. 113.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.

f. 8v

*TrT 132: Thomas Traherne, Ease ('How easily doth Nature teach the Soul')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.

f. 9a

*TrT 213: Thomas Traherne, Speed ('The Liquid Pearl in Springs')

Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and the heading changed from The Designe.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.

f. 9a^r-v

*TrT 122: Thomas Traherne, The Designe ('When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought')

Autograph, the title altered in Philip Traherne's hand to The Choice.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published, as The Choice, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.

f. 9a^v

*TrT 189: Thomas Traherne, The Person ('Ye Sacred Lims')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.

ff. 9a^v-9b^v

*TrT 140: Thomas Traherne, The Estate ('But shall my Soul to Wealth possess')

Autograph, with revisions, with other alterations in Philip Traherne's hand, stanza 3 deleted.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.

ff. 9b^v-10r

*TrT 136: Thomas Traherne, The Enquirie ('Men may delighted be with Springs')

Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and annotated [The Return deleted] p. 2 The Evidence p. 3.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.

f. 10r-v

*TrT 116: Thomas Traherne, The Circulation ('As fair Ideas from the Skie')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 70-3. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, pp. 45-7.

ff. 10v-11r

*TrT 50: Thomas Traherne, Amendment ('That all things should be mine')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 74-6. Margoliouth, II, 155-6. Ridler, p. 48.

f. 11r-v

*TrT 121: Thomas Traherne, The Demonstration ('The Highest Things are Easiest to be shewn')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 77-80. Margoliouth, II, 156-9. Ridler, pp. 49-52.

ff. 11v-12r

*TrT 60: Thomas Traherne, The Anticipation ('My Contemplation Dazles in the End')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 81-6. Margoliouth, II, 159-63. Ridler, pp. 52-6.

f. 12r-v

*TrT 198: Thomas Traherne, The Recovery ('To see us but receiv, is such a Sight')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 87-90. Margoliouth, II, 163-5. Ridler, pp. 56-8.

ff. 12v-13r

*TrT 196: Thomas Traherne, Recovery ('He seeks for ours as we do seek for his')

Autograph, with revisions, with one alteration in Philip Traherne's hand.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published, as Another, in Dobell (1903), pp. 91-3. Margoliouth, II, 165-7. Ridler, pp. 58-60, as Another.

f. 13r

*TrT 172: Thomas Traherne, Love ('O Nectar! O Delicious Stream!')

Autograph, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand Insatiableness p. 133.138.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 94-5. Margoliouth, II, 167-8. Ridler, pp. 60-1.

f. 13r-v

*TrT 218: Thomas Traherne, Thoughts I ('Ye brisk Divine & Living Things')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 96-9. Margoliouth, II, 169-72. Ridler, pp. 61-4.

f. 13v

*TrT 112: Thomas Traherne, Blisse ('All Blisse')

Autograph, deleted.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 154. Margoliouth, II, 171-2. Ridler, p. 64. This poem is closely related to stanzas 5 and 6 of The Apostacy (TrT 62-3).

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*TrT 219: Thomas Traherne, Thoughts II ('A Delicate and Tender Thought')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 100-2. Margoliouth, II, 172-3. Ridler, pp. 65-6.

f. 14r

*TrT 232: Thomas Traherne, Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink

Autograph, with revisions, headed in Bertram Dobell's hand The Influx.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published, as [The Influx], in Dobell (1903), pp. 103-4. Margoliouth, II, 174-5. Ridler, pp. 66-7.

f. 14v

*TrT 220: Thomas Traherne, Thoughts III ('Thoughts are the Angels which we send abroad')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 105-7. Margoliouth, II, 175-7. Ridler, pp. 67-9.

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*TrT 124: Thomas Traherne, Desire ('For giving me Desire')

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 177-9. Ridler, pp. 70-1.

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*TrT 221: Thomas Traherne, Thoughts IV ('Thoughts are the Wings on which the Soul doth flie')

Autograph, untitled but headed In thy Presence there is fulness..., headed in Philip Traherne's hand —IV.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 111-14. Margoliouth, II, 179-82. Ridler, pp. 72-4.

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*TrT 149: Thomas Traherne, Goodnesse ('The Bliss of other Men is my Delight')

Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand & p. 143.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 115-18. Margoliouth, II, 182-4. Ridler, pp. 75-7.

MS Eng. poet. c. 50

A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s.

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

f. 13v

MrJ 78: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')

An anonymous copy.

f. 23v

MoG 2: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')

Copy, headed One y^e late kinge James.

A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

f. 25r-v

DrW 117.1: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')

Copy, untitled.

Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

f. 26r

CoR 600: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')

Copy, headed Ladies y^t weare black Cypresse vailes.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

f. 26r

GrJ 16: John Grange, Black cypress veils are shrouds of night

Copy, headed in the margin The Ladies answere.

An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

f. 27v

MrJ 21: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

An anonymous copy.

f. 31v

RaW 19: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy, headed in the margin Rawleighs Meditation.

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. 32v

HoJ 213: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')

Copy, here beginning Greate Verulm is very lame y^e gout of god not feelinge.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

f. 33r

BaR 3: Richard Barnfield, A Comparison of the Life of Man ('Man's life is well compared to a feast')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 33r

BmF 150.1: Francis Beaumont, A Charm ('Sleep, old man, let silence charm thee')

Copy.

Rejected from the canon in Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.

f. 34r

CmT 244: Thomas Campion, Whether men doe laugh or weepe

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.

f. 34v

StW 749: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

Copy, untitled.

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).

f. 35r

DrM 54: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')

Copy, headed in the margin Sonett.

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

f. 35v

WiG 27: George Wither, Sonnet ('Lordly Gallants, tell mee this')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 894-900. Sidgwick, II, 160-5.

f. 36v

B&F 111: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, 335-42. Song ('Peace and silence be the guide')

Copy of the last song, untitled.

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 144.

First published in London, [1613?]. Dyce, II, 451-69 (p. 469). Bowers, I, 124-38, ed. Fredson Bowers (p. 138).

f. 37r-v

HeR 401: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')

Copy, headed in the margin One a Cherrie stone sent to y^e tip of m^rs Jemiammas werldgraues eare one y^e one side a delicate face on y^e other side a deathes head.

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

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PoW 4: Walton Poole, If shadows be a picture's excellence

Copy, headed in the margin of a gentlewoman y^t would not belieue she was faire because her haire & eyes were black.

First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

f. 39r

HeR 50: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

Copy, headed y^e womans farewell to her louer who under pretence of trauill forsooke her.

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. 39r

B&F 174: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 24-43. Song ('Hear, ye ladies that despise')

Copy, untitled, here beginning Hearke you ladies y^t dispise.

Dyce, V, 243-4. Bullen, IV, 248. Bowers, IV, 308.

f. 42v

DnJ 3195: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')

Copy, untitled.

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. 43r-v

CwT 47: Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 43v

DnJ 2254: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')

Copy, untitled and here beginning If that I haue not all thy love.

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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HeR 332: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')

Copy, headed in the margin Kinge Oberons apparrell.

This MS collated in Farmer.

First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

f. 46r-v

HeR 172: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')

Copy, headed in the margin The feast Oberon Kinge of fayries and without the preliminary lines.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

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CoR 291: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

Copy headed Docter Corbets Journey.

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

f. 52r

CwT 605: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 ('Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell')

Copy.

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

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CwT 611: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')

Copy.

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. 53r-v

WoH 161: Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')

Copy, headed A Hymne made by S^r Hen Wootton In y^e vnquiet nights of his late Sicknes.

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

f. 55r

HrE 10: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Echo in a Church ('Where shall my troubled soul, at large')

Copy, headed The Ecchoe.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 47-8.

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BcF 54: Francis Bacon, A Translation of certain Psalms. Psalm 104 ('Father and King of pow'rs, both high and low')

Copy, subscribed ffr: vio^t: s^t Alban:.

First published in London, 1625. Spedding, VII, 273-86 (pp. 281-4). Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 281-9 (p. 289).

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EaJ 11: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')

Copy, headed A ffunerall Elegie vpon y^e death of y^e Noble valiant & experienced Souldier S^r John Borroughs slaine before y^e fort of S^t Martin in The Isle of Ree w^th a Muskett bullet as he was veiwinge y^e worke in the night.

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

f. 58r

RnT 533: Thomas Randolph, A Sonnet ('Come, silent night, and in thy gloomy shade')

Copy.

Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 115.

f. 58r-v

JnB 533: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state')

Copy, headed Benn Johnsons Newyears gift To my lord Treasurer.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

f. 59r

PlG 12: George Peele, A Sonet ('His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd')

Copy, headed Certain verses causd to bee songe to the Queenes Ma^tie by S^r Hen: Lea K^t. when hee yealded vp his Helmit & Launce to the Earle of Cumberland at The tilt yard An. do: 1590 and here beginning My goulden lockes Time hath to siluer turnd.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

f. 59v

KiH 282: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Rich: -- Earle if Dorset who dyed on Easterday.

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

f. 60r-v

HrG 294: George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia ('Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne')

Copy, complete with L'Envoy (beginning Shine on, Maiestick soule, abide).

This MS collated in Pebworth.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.

ff. 60v-1r

BcF 7: Francis Bacon, The world's a bubble, and the life of man

Copy, untitled.

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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StW 1190: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')

Copy, headed Betwixt a Lutanist & a Nightingall These sweete expressions of musicke in a shady Groue / Translated by two ffrendes.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

f. 63r-v

HeR 333: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')

Copy, headed Kinge Obrons Apparell, subscribed S^r Simon Stewarde.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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HeR 173: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')

Second copy, headed The feast of Obron Kinge of the ffayries, without the preliminary lines, subscribed S^r Simon Stewarde.

f. 64r-v

DnJ 3682: John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')

Copy, headed of one comeinge into the Springe Garden and here ascribed to Herricke.

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. 64v

HeR 374: Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me')

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed Of a proud M^rs.

This MS colalted in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

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

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CwT 48: Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')

Second copy, also untitled.

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

f. 65r

HeR 223: Robert Herrick, To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel')

Copy of a sixteen-line version.

Edited from this MS in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 89).

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

f. 65r-v

DnJ 1212: John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')

Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning So, so, leaue off this last lamenting kisse.

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.

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RnT 237: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch')

Copy, subscribed T: R.

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

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CwT 187: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')

Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of the Lady Peniston sent to his M^rs out of ffrance, subscribed T C.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

f. 68r-v

CwT 1224: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')

Copy, subscribed T. C.

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

ff. 68v-9r

PeW 300: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That Lust is not his Ayme ('Oh do not tax me with a brutish Love')

Copy, headed That lust is not his ayme, subscribed S^r. G. H.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.

f. 69r

PeW 56: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r G.H.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

ff. 69r-71r

CwT 629: Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')

Copy, subscribed T. C.

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

f. 71r

CwT 393: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')

Copy, subscribed T. C.

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

f. 71v

CwT 1038: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')

Copy, here beginning Lost in a troubled Sea of Greifs I floate.

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

f. 72r

CwT 239: 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 fflye, subscribed T. C.

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

ff. 73v-4r

CwT 1035: Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity ('As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 75v

FeO 23: Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')

Copy, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

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

f. 75v

FeO 59: Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee')

Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

f. 76r

HeR 1: Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')

Copy, untitled, here beginning See'st thou those Jewills that she wears.

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

f. 76r

CwT 989.5: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')

Copy of lines 37-48, untitled, here beginning Those curious Lockes soe aptly twin'd.

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

f. 76v

CwT 676: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')

Copy, untitled.

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. 77r

WoH 70: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.

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. 78r

HeR 323: Robert Herrick, Hide not thy love and mine shall be

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 78v-80

FlJ 9: John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 80r-v

GrJ 38: John Grange, Come you swarms of thoughts and bring

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees, subscribed I. G. Listed in Krueger.

f. 82r

CwT 354: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris ('You, that will a wonder know')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 82r-v

FeO 37: Owen Felltham, On a Jewel given at parting ('When cruel time enforced me')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 84r

HeR 328: Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.

ff. 84-6

HeR 108: Robert Herrick, An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie ('Now, now's the time. so oft by truth')

Copy, of a twenty-one-stanza version, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.

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HeR 164: Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')

Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed Epithalamie.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

ff. 89r-91r

HeR 128: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')

Copy, headed His ould age to M^r. Weeks.

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

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HeR 353: Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more')

Copy, headed My Daughters Dourie.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

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HeR 195: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')

Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Go & with this partinge Kisse.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

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HeR 142: Robert Herrick, The Lilly in a Christal ('You have beheld a smiling Rose')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.

f. 94v

HeR 28: Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.

ff. 94v-5r

HeR 402: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')

Second copy, headed On a Carued Cherrie Stone.

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

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HeR 317: Robert Herrick, The farewell ('Sweetest Loue since wee must part')

Copy, untitled.

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

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RnT 576: Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of S^r Edward Burton being blind ('Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true')

Copy.

Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.

ff. 97r-v

RnT 580: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Newes of his Recoverie ('Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast')

Copy.

ff. 97v-8r

RnT 328: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')

This MS recorded in Davis.

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

f. 98r

RnT 156: Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished ('By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe')

Copy, following the Latin version headed In eanden Distcon.

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

ff. 98v-101r

RnT 40: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine')

Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured.

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

f. 101r

RnT 252: Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?')

Copy, following the Latin version headed In Ecclipsin solis Christo Patienti contingente and beginning Quid Templum abscindit.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

f. 101r-v

RnT 20: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')

Copy, headed A Paradise to M^r. Johnsons ode and subscribed T: R.

This MS collated in Davis.

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

f. 102r

RnT 164: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')

Copy, headed englished, following the Latin version headed In Natalem Principis ad reginam mariam.

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

f. 102r

RnT 152: Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished ('Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince')

Copy, headed Englished, following the Latin version.

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

f. 102r

RnT 428: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go')

Copy of the song of the Seven Deadly Sins, headed The Maske of Vices, subscribed T. R.

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

f. 102r-v

RnT 407: Thomas Randolph, When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse

Copy, headed In Archimedis Spheram ex Claudiano.

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

ff. 102v-3r

RnT 161: Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem ('I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane')

Copy, headed In Lesbiam, subscribed Tho: Ran:.

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

f. 103r-v

RnT 61: Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano ('Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent')

Copy, subscribed T. R.

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

ff. 103v-4

RnT 52: Thomas Randolph, De Magnete. Ex Claudiano ('Who in the world with busy reason pryes')

Copy, subscribed T. R.

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

f. 104v

RnT 149: Thomas Randolph, In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd ('Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!')

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

ff. 104v-5r

RnT 15: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicum Litigantem ('Would you commence a Poet S^r, and be')

Copy, headed Excludit Sanos Helicone Poetas Democritus ad amicum Litigantem, subscribed T. R.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 97-8.

f. 105r

RnT 55: Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna ('Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye')

Copy, subscribed T. R.

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

ff. 105r-6r

RnT 68: Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage ('My Lalage when I behold')

Copy, subscribed T. R.

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

f. 106r-v

RnT 171: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia ('Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud')

Copy, subscribed T. R.

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

ff. 106v-8v

MsP 10: Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character ('Such as doe Trophies striue to raise')

Copy, subscribed P. M. ffinis.

This MS collated in Edwards & Gibson.

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

f. 108v

ShJ 24: James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris ('O how I blush, to have ador'd the face')

Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman that magnified his M^rs. the prayse of a M^r. and beginning I haue noe humour to adore the face.

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

f. 108v

ShJ 122: James Shirley, Would you know what's soft?

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 109r

RaW 297: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')

Copy, untitled.

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

f. 109r-v

RnT 322: Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')

Copy, headed Against tyme.

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

f. 109v

RnT 282: Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')

Copy, headed a Madrigall.

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

f. 110r

ShJ 51: James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris ('I can no longer hold, my body growes')

Copy, headed one that Lou'd a great M^rs. & durst not discouer it and here beginning I cannot longer hold, my body grows.

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

f. 110r

ShJ 2: James Shirley, Another ('Harke, harke how in euery groue')

Copy, headed Curtisan.

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

f. 110v

ShJ 44: James Shirley, Love for Enjoying ('Fair Lady, what's your face to me?')

Copy of a version headed To his M^rs. whom hee Lou'd to enioy her and beginning Ladie w^hts your face to mee.

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

f. 111r-v

JnB 155: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')

Copy.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

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JnB 197: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 113r

HeR 379: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 113r

HeR 51: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

Second copy, untitled.

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

f. 113r

JnB 273: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

ff. 115v-16r

CwT 548: 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.

f. 116v

CwT 206: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')

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

ff. 116v-17v

HeR 313: Robert Herrick, Elegy ('Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS. 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

ff. 117v-18r

DnJ 2064: John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')

Copy of lines 1-12, 21-30, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

f. 118r

JnB 354: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind')

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

ff. 118v-20r

RnT 138: Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ ('The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine')

Copy, headed Of a Snake w^ch embrac'd Lycoris when she slept.

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

f. 120r-v

DnJ 202: John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')

Copy, headed Apparition.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 120v

JnB 715: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')

Copy of Karolin's song, untitled.

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

f. 121r-v

ClJ 39: John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')

Copy, headed The ffayre Mayde Scorninge The blacke Boye, subscribed John Cleueland.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

ff. 121v-2r

CwT 983: Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty ('Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext')

Copy of lines 23-80, headed To my dearest that is mistrustfull of her owne Beautie and here beginning Looke my onely dearest on my Loue=like heart.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.

f. 122r

ClJ 173: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')

Copy, headed On 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. 122v

WaE 121: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')

Copy, under a general heading Verses written by M^r Dauenant M^r Carey & M^r Kelligraue Anno 1640.

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

f. 122v

WaE 365: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')

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

ff. 122v-3r

WaE 356: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')

Copy, headed On the frendeshippe betweene Sacharissa & Amorett.

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

f. 123r

WaE 5: Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 123v

WaE 464: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')

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

ff. 123v-4r

WaE 528: Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')

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

f. 124r

WaE 38: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')

Copy, headed Songe.

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

f. 124r-v

WaE 227: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')

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

f. 124v

WaE 484: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')

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

ff. 124v-5r

WaE 448: Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')

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

f. 125r

WaE 273: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')

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

f. 126r

StW 1291: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 127r

CwT 549: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')

Second copy, headed A Sigh.

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

f. 127r-v

CwT 115: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')

Copy, headed Of an vnkind m^ris.

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

f. 127v

StW 693: William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')

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

f. 127v

StW 4: William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

f. 127v

StW 1215: William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')

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

f. 127v

StW 143: William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')

Copy of a sequence of five couplets.

Text from this MS in Forey.

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

ff. 127v-8r

StW 967: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')

Copy, here beginning Like to the rowlinge of an Eye.

First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

f. 128r

StW 227: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')

Copy, headed To his M^ris.

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

f. 128r

CoR 484: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')

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

f. 128v

StW 644: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 128v

StW 1339: William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

f. 128v

KiH 430: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

Copy, headed Mans miserie

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

f. 128v

HoJ 3: John Hoskyns, A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late

Copy, headed on a black smith and here beginning a zealous blacksmith died of late.

Whitlock, p. 108.

f. 129r

StW 195: William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

f. 129r

CoR 517: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')

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

f. 129r

CoR 719: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')

Copy, headed on y^e blasinge starr.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

f. 129v

StW 412: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman y^t had y^e small pox.

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

f. 130r

StW 927: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 130r-v

B&F 114: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')

Copy, headed on Melencholie.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

f. 130v

StW 302: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')

Copy, here beginning Fitter a match hath neuer beene.

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

f. 130v

DaJ 167: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')

Copy, headed de susante immatura morte perempto and here beginning As carefull mothers to y^e beads doe lay.

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

f. 130v

BrW 110: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')

Copy, headed In eundem.

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

f. 130v

StW 677: William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')

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

f. 130v

StW 75: William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')

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

f. 131r

StW 610: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')

Copy, headed On a fountaine.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

f. 131r

StW 991: William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

f. 131r

CoR 436: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

f. 131v

JnB 342: Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')

Copy of lines 7-24, untitled, here beginning You are not tied by any painters Law.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

f. 131v

RnT 300: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute')

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

f. 131v

RnT 429: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go')

Second copy, also headed The Masque of vices.

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

f. 132v

RnT 504: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')

Copy.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

f. 132v

RnT 253: Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?')

Second copy, headed Ecclips solis and without the Latin verses.

f. 132v

RnT 485: Thomas Randolph, On Feild and Day standing for the Procteourshippe ('Fortune contended whether she should yeeld')

Copy.

First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).

f. 133r

StW 242: William Strode, A Musical Contemplation ('O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth')

Copy, headed The deuines comendation of a good voice.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

f. 133r

HeR 380: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')

Second copy, headed a Complaint.

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

f. 133r

HeR 2: Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')

Second copy, headed A fancie.

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

f. 133v

CoR 535: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')

Copy, headed on y^e death of y^e Lady Arabella.

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

f. 133v

MoG 56: George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')

Copy, headed The Nightingale.

MS Eng. poet. c. 53

A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

f. 1v

DrM 7: 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.

f. 2v

JnB 323: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')

Copy, headed Two Ladies invitinge each other to singe.

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

f. 3r

CoR 565: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

f. 3r

CoR 697: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

f. 3v

StW 462: William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')

Copy.

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

f. 4r

SuJ 234: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre ('Sir John got him on an ambling Nag')

Copy.

First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

f. 5r-v

DaW 5: Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland ('Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!')

Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of Francis late Earle of Rutland.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

ff. 5r-6r

RnT 543: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')

Copy.

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

f. 7r-v

CwT 1163: Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

f. 7v

GrJ 77: John Grange, Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 63-4, as Benj. Rudier To the Prince At his Return from Spain. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

f. 8r

RnT 452: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

Copy, ascribed to T. R.

(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.

f. 9v

DnJ 2065: John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')

Copy of lines 1-18.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

f. 12r

MyJ 10: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')

Copy.

Unpublished?

f. 13r-v

BmF 2: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 14r-v

HeR 116: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')

Copy.

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

ff. 14v-15v

HeR 263: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')

Copy, headed His reconciliation to Sacke.

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

ff. 16r-17v

CwT 644: Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')

Copy.

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

ff. 18r-19r

SuJ 93: John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

f. 22v

SuJ 198: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

f. 38r et seq.

RnT 457: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

Copy, ascribed to T.R..

(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 Eng. poet. d. 3

The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

c.1604-9.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

f. 1r

SiP 59: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 ('Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

Ringler, pp. 161-2.

f. 2v

RaW 151: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')

Copy of lines 1-54; imperfect, lacking the ending.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

f. 21r-v

NaT 21: Thomas Nashe, Extracts ('')

A series of brief extracts from Nashe's prose works, from Christs Teares over Ierusalem (1593), Have With You to Saffron-Walden (1596), Nashes Lenten Stuffe (1599), Pierce Penilesse (1592), and Summers Last Will and Testament (1600).

f. 26r

MrT 45.3: Sir Thomas More, Utopia ('')

Extracts from Robynson's English translation.

Discussed in Elizabeth McCutcheon, More's Utopia as Commonplaced in Edward Pudsey's Booke (Circa 1600), Moreana, 27 (September 1990), 33-40.

The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.

f. 31r-v

BcF 205.8: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral ('')

Extracts.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

f. 32r-v

BcF 304.8: Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacrae ('')

Extracts.

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 227-42. His translation, pp. 243-54.

f. 33r

BcF 231.5: Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil ('')

Extracts.

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.

f. 36r

SiP 60: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 ('Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust')

Copy of lines 1-4 written in a later hand (probably that of a vicar).

Ringler, pp. 161-2.

f. 39v

JnB 605: Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1600. Herford & Simpson, III, 405-604.

f. 40r-v

JnB 567: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

f. 40v

MrJ 9: John Marston, Jack Drum's Entertainment ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1601. Edited by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (1912).

f. 41r

ChG 8: George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria ('')

Extract, headed Irus.

Printed from this MS in Richard Savage, Shakespearean Extracts from Edward Pudsey's Booke (Stratford-upon-Avon, [1887]), p. 7, and in Greg, pp. vi-viii.

First published in London, 1598. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1928). Edited by Lloyd E. Berry in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 7-58.

f. 41r

JnB 602: Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, III, 191-403.

f. 41r

ShW 61: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ('')

Extracts.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 1-6.

First published in London, 1600.

f. 41v

MrJ 1: John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, The First Part ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-93. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1965).

f. 41v

MrJ 2: John Marston, Antonio's Revenge ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1966).

ff. 41v-2r

JnB 692: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602. Herford & Simpson, IV, 185-325.

ff. 41v, 42v, 86r

MiT 7: Thomas Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable ('')

Extracts.

This MS discussed in Juliet Gowan, Edward Pudsey's Booke and the Authorship of Blurt Master Constable, RORD, 8 (1965), 46-8 (where Dekker's authorship of the play is argued).

First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-98. This play is not now generally attributed to Middleton.

f. 42v

DkT 44: Thomas Dekker, Satiromastix ('')

Extract, headed Pl. vntruss: of y^e Poet: Dekker.

First published in London, 1602. Bowers, I, 299-395.

f. 63v

DaS 47: Samuel Daniel, The Worthy tract of Paulus Jouius, contayning a Discourse of rare inuentions, both Militarie and Amorous called Imprese ('')

Extract from Daniel's translation of Giovio's Dialogo dell' imprese militari et amorose.

First published in London, 1585. Grosart, IV, 1-27, and V, 297-304 (extracts).

f. 64v

BcF 83.5: Francis Bacon, Apology in Certain Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.

f. 73r-v

SiP 178: Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry ('')

Extracts, headed Apolog: of Poetry. s^r P.S..

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

f. 78r-v

LoT 11: Thomas Lodge, The Divel coniured ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1596. Gosse, Vol. III.

f. 78v

BrN 113: Nicholas Breton, A Merrie Dialogue betwixt the Taker and Mistaker ('')

Extract.

First published in London, 1603. Grosart II (i), printed from the edition of 1635 entitled A Mad World my masters, Mistake me not.

f. 80r

DkT 43: Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part I ('')

Extracts, continuing from DkT 42.

First published in London, 1604. Bowers, II, 1-130.

f. 80r

JnB 558: Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered ('')

Extracts, headed Tis a mad world.

First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, III, 93-190.

ff. 80v, 81r

MrJ 10: John Marston, What You Will ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1607. Bullen, II, 317-419.

ff. 80v-1v

ToC 7: Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist's Tragedy ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1611. Nicoll, pp. 173-255.

f. 81r-v

WeJ 11: John Webster, The White Devil ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

f. 86r

HyT 7: Thomas Heywood, How a Man may chuse a Good Wife from a Bad ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602.

f. 86v

LyJ 1: John Lyly, Campaspe ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1584. Bond, II, 313-60.

f. 86v

LyJ 4: John Lyly, Loves Metamorphosis ('')

Extracts.

First published in London, 1601. Bond, III, 289-332.

f. 86v

ShW 86: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ('')

Extracts.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 10-22. See also ShW 87.

First published in London, 1597.

f. 86v

ShW 105: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus ('')

Extracts.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 8-9.

First published in London, 1594.

Eng. poet. d. 47

A verse miscellany, entitled Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time, much relating to Oxford, iv + 180 leaves. Mid-18th century.

Signed (f. iv) by Frances Lidmoll. Acquired in 1941 from J. Kyrle Fletcher.

f. 160v

WaE 351.8: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')

Copy.

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

MS Eng. poet. d. 49

Folio, 296 pages; exemplum of the first edition of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681).

Folio, 296 pages; exemplum of the first edition of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681) with additional MS material, namely: (a) the printed text contains various MS corrections, deletions and emendations (notably on pp. 3-5, 7-11, 14, 19-24, 27-8, 42-3, 46-7, 49, 51-8, 61-70, 72-6, 78, 80, 85, 87-90, 92-3, 95-6, 99-100, 111-14, 132), as well as other crosses, annotations and renumberings; (b) some missing stanzas in seven poems on cancelled (i.e. excised) pages of text are replaced in MS (on pp. 35[-7], 38, 103[-10], 115a-u [115-29], 116a-b [130]); (c) a series of 18 poems in MS (including at least three probably by poets other than Marvell) are bound-in at the end, on pp. 141-285 (those on pp. 272-85 crossed through); the main series of emendations in the printed text and the additional MS pages are in a single hand of c. 1700 except for the lines on p. 269, the second half of On the Monument (When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vain) which are added in another hand to replace the heavily deleted same text on p. 271, and the final poem on pp. 277-85, which is in yet another hand; some annotations and deletions, as well as a series of crosses made subsequently, are in two or three further hands, including notes by the editor captain Edward Thompson (the first dated 1775) on pp. 157, 258; lines by Sir Philip Meadows are added at the foot of p. 63 in a hand resembling that of William Popple the Younger (d. 1772).

This volume, which may originally have been prepared as a collection of Marvell's poems for an intended edition, was evidently used by Edward Thompson in connection with his edition of Marvell in 1766 (see his vol. I, xxxviii et passim, and see further the Introduction for the distinction between this volume and another MS owned by Thompson). It is evident, from details of correspondence, that this is the volume known to have been lent to Thompson by T.J. Matthias, whose wife was a descendant of Marvell's brother-in-law, Edmund Popple, the son of whom was William Popple (1638-1708), Secretary of the Board of Trade; thus it may have been compiled principally by or for William Popple. However, this conjecture cannot at present be proved beyond doubt (see particularly the caveat in Chernaik, pp. 206-7).

Cited in IELM as the Thompson Volume: MaA Δ 1. Described in BLR, 2 (May 1945), 125; in Hugh MacDonald, Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems, 1681, TLS (13 July 1951), p. 444; and in Margoliouth, I, 233-5.

Facsimiles of select pages of this volume containing MS material are in Miscellaneous Poems, 1681 (1973), and see also Kelliher, p. 65. The various MS corrections and emendations in the printed text are recorded in Margoliouth, but are not given separate entries. The volume has been discussed by all editors since 1776 and also in Kelliher, pp. 63-4, and Chernaik, pp. 206-14. It is largely used as the basis for Lord's edition (1968). For comments on the relation of this volume to the canon, see further the Introduction.

p. 35

MaA 53: Andrew Marvell, The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers ('See with what simplicity')

Stanza v at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 40-1. Lord, pp. 37-8. smith, pp. 114-15.

p. 38

MaA 47: Andrew Marvell, The Match ('Nature had long a Treasure made')

Stanzas i-v supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 42-3. Lord, pp. 38-40. Smith, pp. 126-7.

p. 103

MaA 61: Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax ('Within this sober Frame expect')

Stanzas lxxxxv-lxxxxvii at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 62-86. Lord, pp. 61-88. Smith, pp. 216-41.

p. 115

MaA 1: Andrew Marvell, The Character of Holland ('Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land')

Lines 147-52 at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 100-3. Lord, pp. 88-93. Smith, pp. 250-6.

pp. 115a-e

MaA 32: Andrew Marvell, An Horation Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland ('The forward Youth that would appear')

Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla (except one in the British Library). Margoliouth, I, 91-4. Lord, pp. 55-8. Smith, pp. 273-9.

pp. 115e-u

MaA 27: Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. ('Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze')

Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

This MS collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.

p. 116a

MaA 38: Andrew Marvell, In Legationem Domini Oliveri St. John ad Provincias Foederatas ('Ingeniosa Viris contingunt Nomina magnis')

Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 99. Lord, pp. 238-9. Smith, p. 258, with English translation.

p. 116b

MaA 46: Andrew Marvell, A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, then with my Lord Whitlock, Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden ('Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli')

Copy of the title and lines 1-8 supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 104-7. Lord, pp. 240-3 (with translation pp. 243-7). Smith, pp. 261-4, with English translation (pp. 265-6).

A version of lines 1-70, with an additional unknown couplet, as copied by Jean Scheffer (1621-79) from Marvell's original Letter (a copy owned in 1751 by Jean Etienne Bernard (1718-93)), was printed in Jean Arckenholtz, Memoires concernant Christine, reine de Suede (Amsterdam, 1751-60), II, Appendix XXXVIII, pp. 68-70: see Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, RES, NS. 20 (1969), 50-7.

pp. 141-53

MaA 55: Andrew Marvell, A Poem upon the Death of O.C. ('That Providence which had so long the care')

Lines 185-234 edited from this MS in Margoliouth and in Lord. The rest collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973) [pp. 148-53 following p. 144 of printed text; pp. 141-7 of MS at the end]. Facsimile of p. 150 in Kelliher, p. 65.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 129-37. Lord, pp. 105-13. Smith, pp. 304-12, as A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness the Lord Protector.

pp. 157-71

MaA 314: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

Copy, the poem here dated 1666.

Edited from this MS in POAS, I.

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.

pp. 172-86

MaA 361: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')

This MS collated in POAS, I.

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.

pp. 187-92

MaA 125: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')

Edited from this MS in POAS, I; collated in Margoliouth.

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. 193-234

MaA 500: Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in POAS, I, and in Lord. Collated in Margoliouth. See also Michael Gearin-Tosh, Marvell's Last Instructions: Textual Errors and their Poetic Significance, SN, 42 (1970), 309-18. Discussed, with a facsimiles of p. 223, in Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343.

First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

pp. 235-7a

MaA 171: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')

Copy of lines 1-39, 43-54, headed The Vows.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

pp. 237b-47

MaA 191: Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')

First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

p. 246

MaA 85: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')

Copy, headed The same translated.

Edited from this MS in Lord.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

p. 246

MaA 253: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')

Edited from this MS 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. 247-9

MaA 84.3: 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.

pp. 250-1b

MaA 232: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')

Copy, headed Upon S^r Robert Viners Setting up the Kings Statue in Woolchurch Market.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and 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. 265-7

MaA 163.1: Andrew Marvell, The Doctor turn'd Justice ('Lewellin, though Physician to the King')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thompson.

Edited in Thompson (1776), I, xlix-l. Grosart, I, 467-9.

pp. 251c-4

MaA 301: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')

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. 255-7

MaA 214: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')

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. 258-63

MaA 62: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')

Copy, without The Answer.

Edited from this MS 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. 264-5

MaA 211: Andrew Marvell, Scaevola Scoto-Brittanicus ('Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras')

Copy.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xlviii. Margoliouth, I, 213-14. Smith, pp. 421-2, with English translation. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 268-9

MaA 210.6: Andrew Marvell, On the Monument ('When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vaine')

Copy.

First published, as On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).

pp. 272-6

MaA 434: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Copy, ascribed in another hand to Mr Aylof and deleted.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

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.

pp. 277-85

MaA 98: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')

Copy, ascribed in another hand to M^r Aylof and deleted.

This MS collated in POAS, I, with a facsimile of p. 277 of the MS facing p. 228.

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).

MS Eng. poet. d. 53

A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards. c.1700.

Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

p. 4

CoA 174: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')

Copy.

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.

p. 23 et seq.

RoJ 11.3: 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. 59-66

DaW 37: Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian ('Before by death you newer knowledge gain')

Copy, headed The Rationall Sceptist by a Person of Honour and here beginning Vnlesse by Death, you nu knowledge gain.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

ff. 86-93

DoC 339: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')

Copy, headed The E: of Rochest^rs: last Fairewell to y^e Co^rt. 1686.

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.

MS Eng. poet. d. 152

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Late 17th century.

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

f. 79v

DoC 328: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

f. 10r-v

DoC 254: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays ('Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave')

Copy, headed To M^r Bays by y^e E: of Dorsett 1685, in a small quarto verse miscellany.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

ff. 12r-v, 15r-16r

MaA 444: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Copy, headed The fourth advice to A Paynter written by Andrew Marvel Esq^r AD: 1670.

ff. 16v-17r

DaW 62: Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode ('The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth')

Copy in a small verse miscellany.

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

f. 20r

HaW 4: William Habington, To a Wanton ('In vaine faire sorceresse, thy eyes speake charmes')

Copy, headed To a wanton woman, on a single quarto-sized leaf.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 16.

f. 36r et seq.

DoC 361.2: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')

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.

ff. 52r-v, 54r-v, 56r-v, 58

DoC 39: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')

Copy, headed A Satyre, on quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

ff. 70r-1r

RoJ 301: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy of lines 1-95, headed Satyre ag^st Mankind, in a portion of a quarto miscellany.

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).

f. 79r

SeC 101: Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

This MS recorded in 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.

f. 96r

HrJ 127: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')

Copy, untitled and here beginning A Gentle Lady sitting in a muse, transcribed by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) from a MS. written 1612.

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. 98r-v

CrR 204: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer ('Love is lost, nor can his Mother')

Copy, headed Loues Hue & Cry, on a single octavo leaf.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.

f. 103v

DaJ 120: Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')

Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10 (The Wyfe), headed A new married Bride and beginning The first of all our Sex came from the side of man.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

ff. 103v-4r

CrR 45: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together ('To these, Whom Death again did wed')

Copy.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).

f. 106v

StW 1010: William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')

Copy, headed On his Mistris.

This MS collated in Forey.

f. 107r

KiH 579: Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')

Copy, headed To a faire but unkind Mistrisse.

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. 107r

HeR 145: Robert Herrick, Long and lazie ('That was the proverb. Let my mistresse be')

Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 141. Patrick, p. 191.

f. 107v

DrM 8: Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')

Copy.

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

f. 108r

CwT 220: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')

Copy.

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

f. 108v

HeR 139: Robert Herrick, An Hymne to Love ('I will confesse')

Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 296. Patrick, pp. 389-90.

f. 186r

DoC 124: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')

Copy, here beginning After fourteen days thinking of whigg and of Tory, on a single quarto-size leaf.

This MS collated 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.

MS Eng. poet. d. 197

Autograph verse epistle, sent to Lady Carew; addressed To the Honorable lady the lady Carew. [1611-12].

Formerly among the muniments of the Montagu family, Dukes of Manchester. Sotheby's, 23 June 1970, lot 267, to Martin Breslauer.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Appendix, Part II (1881), p. 63, No. 593. Identified as autograph in 1970 by P.J. Croft. Reproduced, transcribed and discussed in A.J. Smith, A John Donne poem in holograph, TLS (7 January 1972), p. 19 (with correspondence from Helen Gardner, A.J. Smith and P.L. Heyworth on 21 January (pp. 68-9), 4 February (p. 129) and 24 March (p. 337)). A Scolar Press facsimile, ed. Helen Gardner (1972). Nicolas Barker, Donne's Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche: Text and Facsimile, The Book Collector, 22 (Winter 1973), 487-93. Facsimile examples in Keynes, Bibliography (1973), facing p. 183; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 25-6; in Nicolas Barker, Goodfriday 1613: by whose hand?, TLS (20 September 1974), pp. 996-7; in Derek Parker, John Donne and his World (London, 1975), p. 16; in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 84-5; and in Facsimiles in Laetitia Yeandle, Watermarks as Evidence for Dating and Authenticity in John Donne and Ben Franklin, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 81-92 (pp. 85-7).

*DnJ 1858: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens

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