Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149

Copy, headed Verses made by the Quenes M^atie.

Edited from this MS in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses or English poemes written by the Lo: the E: of E: and here beginning There was a time....

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy of a three-strophe version, headed The fickle estate of our vncartayn lyfe to A pleasant new tune.

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 305.

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

Copy, including the preface To the Reader, apparently transcribed from the first edition.

This MS collated in California.

First published in London, 1687. Kinsley, II, 467-537. California, III, 118-200.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

Copy.

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

Copy, headed The Answeere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Copy, headed When my Carliles Chamber was on fire, subscribed Pembrocke.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed Pemb: answerd by S^r B: R.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning Haue you scene the white Lilly grow, written lengthways along the inner margin.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.

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

Copy, headed Elegye.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed To my Lady salisburie, subscribed By M^r Tounsall.

This MS recorded in Brown.

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

Copy, headed one of twelue yeares old of him selfe and here beginning As carfull mothers that to sleeping lay.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed of a Gentlewoman y^t dyed being 7 yeares old.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed To a proud Lady.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded (erroneously as RP 160) in Krueger.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 492.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Passions are like to floods & streames, written lengthways along the inner margin.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled and here beginning Ah had shee not bin faire, and soe vnkind, written lengthways along the inner margin.

Grosart, I, 40-1. Sprague, p. 13.

Copy, headed Of a flie.

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

Copy, headed Discription of a wisht mistris.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed H: K:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

Copy, headed Of Absence.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.

Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Copy, headed on a Buchers son, to a Tanners daughter, written lengthways along the inner margin.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded (erroneously as MS Rawl. poet. 117) 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).

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed Against Platonick Loue -- or LDD Desire.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

Copy, headed Fuscara stunge or the Bee Errant, written lengthways along the outer margin, subscribed Cleveland.

First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.

Copy, headed Waler to a Lady who sent him a Groue of Trees cut out in white Paper.

First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

Copy, headed The qualitie of his loue.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

Copy, headed Loues Prime and here beginning Deare doe not y^r faire beauty wrong.

First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

Copy.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 283.

Copy, headed Constancy.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

Copy, headed Hoskins in the Tower to his little sonne Beniamen and here beginning My little Ben nowe thou art yonge.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

Copy, headed Vppon M^ris Mallet.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

Copy, untitled and here beginning There is a bowe wherin to shoote I sue.

The text followed by a six-line Answer beginning You bended have the bowe wherin to shute you sue.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet one my Lady Haddington who dyed of the small pox.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

Copy.

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.

Copy, headed Dunne his discription of a storme suffered in the Ilande voyage. 1597 And sent to M^r Xpo: Brooke.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed A Caulme described.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Agaynst Solitarines.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

Copy, headed M^r W^m Bakers paradox in prayse of a painted face.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Extracts.

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Cleveland.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning Your face; your tongue; your witt.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. E. H. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

Copy, headed Vppon a Ladye walkinge in Grais Inn walkes when it snowed.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

Copy.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.

Copy.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

Copy, untitled and here beginning We read of gods….

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed Ben Johnson vppon kinge James his vnion of England and Scotland and here beginning Never was marriage better driven by fate.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, headed Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

Copy, in double columns, headed Verses presented to the kinge and here beginning We hold as faith.

First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Second copy of a two-stanza version, untitled, also beginning Your face; your tongue; your witt.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

Second copy, also untitled.

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

Second copy, also untitled, run on directly from CwT 136.

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

Copy, headed The Bubble by RW.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett one a mother w^th hir Infant dying in travell.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

Copy, headed Vppon a fayre Ladye whose hayre was cole black.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, headed Verses in Comendacions of an others wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

Copy, headed D^r Corbett to the Ladyes of the new dresse Night Rayles.

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.

Copy, headed The Answer.

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.

Copy, under a general heading Epitaphes.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy.

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.

Copy, headed An Elegye one the death of the Lady Rutland, ascribed to M^r Donne.

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

Copy, here beginning Like to the silent tone....

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, in double columns.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

Copy, headed The Elegye.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

Copy, headed The Parliament fart.

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

Copy, ascribed to S^r Joh Davis.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

Copy, untitled.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

Copy, headed Sonnett.

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.

Copy, headed A Dialogue between S^r H Wootton and M^r Dunne.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes extasye.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed M^r Dunne.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, subscribed M Dunne.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunne of the Cross.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes sonnett.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes sonnet.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes diett for loue.

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.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes Elegie.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes curse.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Makinge of men.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Discovered by a perfume.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, subscribed Dunne.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy of a version, headed Dunnes Sonnet and here beginning Sweet hart I goe not for weariness of the.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed In a garden at Twicknam.

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.

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Dunnes Legacye.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Epithalamiu.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

Copy, headed M^r Dunnes sonnett.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunnes sonnett. The Message.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy of a 42-line version, headed His partinge w^th his M^ris.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed To hir offeringe to goe w^th him as his page.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, immediately following on from On his Mistris (see DnJ 2513).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Dunne.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner. See also DnJ 440.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Copy, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (see DnJ 2949).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed M^r Dunnes prayse of middle age.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, under a general heading Dunnes sonnets.

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.

Copy, headed Dunnes tale of a citizen and his wife.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

First published, as Eleg. XVI, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 105-8 (as Elegie XIV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 101-3 (among her Dubia). Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 437-8, among Dubia. Not in Shawcross.

Copy, headed The Anagram. Dunn the old womans prayse.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

Copy, headed Dunne. To a gentelwoman whose bracelet having lost she demands a dozen angels to be turnde into an other, and here beginning Not for in cullor, it was like thy hayre.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

Second copy, untitled.

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

Extracts.

First published in London, 1615.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

Copy, inscribed in another hand By D. Donne.

This MS collated in Crowley.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

Copy, headed Epitaph of the same [i.e. Countess of Pembroke].

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

Copy of lines 3-6, headed An Epitaph and beginning Vnderneath this stone doth lye.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

Copy, run on directly from other verses, subscribed Noele.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

A couplet quoted from Orlando Furioso.

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled.

First published in London, 1598.

Copy of the final couplet, untitled and here beginning And to yo^r sence obiect this sentence euer.

First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

Copy of a 28-line version, headed A proper old and new Ballad.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.

Copy, complete with the prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope (It is a statute in deep wisdom's lore) and The Author to the Reader (I sing the fortune of a luckless pair), the last leaf in another hand (possibly replacing a lost original leaf) and subscribed Finis/ Francis Beaumont/ 1634.

This MS recorded in Sell.

First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.

Copy of lines 395-456 on a single quarto leaf; imperfect, lacking the leaf or leaves containing the first 394 lines.

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.

Copy of lines 1-165 in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), headed Satyr upon Man.

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).

Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), misbound out of sequence.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham, the poem dated 1678; imperfect, lacking two leaves containing lines 49-150. [1678-83].

This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth; recorded in Kinsley. The volume briefly described in Harold F. Brooks, A Bibliography of John Oldham the Restoration Satirist, Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 5 (1936-9), 1-38 (p. 10).

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of M^r King drownd in y^e Irish Seas.

First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

Copy, ascribed to Thomas Randolph.

(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.

Copy, headed Cleueland to y^e Chauncelour.

Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.

Copy of lines 15-20, untitled.

Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

Copy.

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

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.

Copy, headed To His Bombasted Frind.

First published in James Shirley, The Gratefull Servant (London, 1630). Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 143.

Copy, headed A Comparison.

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

Copy.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 171.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 24-5.

Copy of lines 1-5, 21-30, headed A Hyme in sickness.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.

Copy of lines 13-28, headed On M^rs Venetia Stanlye to ye paynter and here beginning Draw first a cloud all saue her neck.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Extracts from Randolph's poem, line 17 et seq., adapted into a 34-line poem headed Louers and beginning Ith Bosome of this groue lets lye

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

Copy, untitled.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.

Copy, headed Hermaphrodite vindicated by Cleaueland.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy of lines 1-22, 33-4, 53-4, headed A sweet Compariso.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed On a deformed Gentlewoma with a sweet Voyce, subscribed TR.

This MS recorded in Davis.

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

Extracts.

First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.

Copy, headed Ankor.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 16.

First published as Amour 13 in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). Hebel, I, 104. II, 337 (sonnet 53 of Idea).

Copy, subscribed J:C.

Smectymnuus

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Bac: Vtrulamius.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

Copy, headed On the death of King James, ascribed to Poole.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

Copy, headed Fredirick Elizabeth on Valent: day.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

Copy, headed Rose in Hur bosome.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 12.

Copy, headed Mopsa, transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 424.

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

Copy.

First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.

Copy, headed Black eyd M^rs.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy.

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

Copy of stanzas 10-16, 18-19, 21-3, here beginning Not in y^e evenings eyes, imperfect.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

Copy of part of the poem, untitled, here beginning Come, Pembroke liues, ôh! doe not fright our ears, subscribed M^r Earles, Merton.

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

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 96-7.

Copy, untitled.

Osborn, p. 301.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy of a version headed The Devonshire Travailer and beginning Riddle riddle, neighbar Tom.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, pp. 117-18; collated in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

Copy of an abridged 38-line version, headed To M^r Hamon of Beaudly. D^r Corbet and beginning at line 5 (here My verse is gone, I haue all rimes defied).

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

Copy, headed Melancholly opposd by M^r Stroud.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

Copy, headed M^r Strouds thanks for a wellcome.

Printed from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

Copy, headed Th. Carew on Carlisles daughter.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

Copy of part of the poem, headed J. Earles on S^r John Burroughs killd by a bullet at Reez and beginning Why did wee thus expose the; whats now all.

Edited from this MS in Bliss.

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).

Copy of lines 1-15, headed B. Johnson, to Burlace the Painter and here beginning What though I be of a prodigious wast.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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.

Copy, headed Vpon Entetainm^t at Saxham in Kent.

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

Copy of the first and third poems (lines 1-44, 85-106).

Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

Copy of an abridged version, headed Herricks Sack and here beginning Springs meet with Smiles

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.

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

Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here In a Cobweb shirt most thin), garbled with HeR 180 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet & apparrell.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded 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.

Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here Now you must imagine first), garbled with HeR 339 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet, & apparrell.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.

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.

Extracts, including Amorphus's song beginning Thou more then most sweet gloue (IV, iii, 305-16).

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

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

Copy, untitled.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

Copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666).

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed An old man to his younge M^rs, subscribed Herricke.

This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.

First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy, headed On a gnatt w^ch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkshorne, here beginning Silly Buzzing wanton Elfe and ascribed to Tho: Vincent Coll. Trin..

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.

Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 292-3. Martin, p. 393.

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), p. 405.

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 293-4. Martin, pp. 395-6.

Copy, headed An Elegie on y^e death of the Lady Parker.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 403-4.

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

Copy, subscribed Cornwallis.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 402-3.

Copy, headed On the Spring, subscribed S^r H. Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.

Copy, headed On y^e New Comencem^t and here beginning No Coranto newes I undertake.

First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.

Copy, subscribed Cornwallis.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 401-2.

Copy, headed A songe and here beginning O Loue whose force & might.

Osborn, p. 301.

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 290-2. Martin pp. 394-5.

Copy, subscribed H. Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

Copy, headed To Lady Diana Cecill.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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

Copy, headed On Strafford, subscribed J. Denham.

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

Copy, subscribed M^r Waller.

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

Copy, subscribed G. Herbert.

Edited from this MS in Pickering. Collated in Hutchinson.

First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.

Copy, headed In the prayse of Musicke, subscribed W. Strode.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

Copy, untitled.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

Copy, headed Songe. Eccho, subscribed S^r H W.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

Copy, headed An Answere to D^r Donnes curse.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.

Copy, headed D^r Corbett to his sonne Vincent on his birth-day, Nouemb. 10. 1630.

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

Copy, headed The same translated by M^r Strode.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

Copy, headed The Platonique Louer, subscribed Cleveland.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

Copy, headed An Ode Vpon Kg Charles's returne to y^e Queene from his Coronacon in Scotland, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

Copy, originally headed S^r H.W. (on y^e Duke of Somer.) and headed in another hand On the suddaine restraint of a Favorite. Impressa, subscribed S^r H: W.

This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

Copy, headed A Meditation, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

Copy, headed On the Duke of Buckingham sicke of a feaver, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519. Hannah (1845), pp. 16-17.

Copy, headed The Faerey King, subscribed Sir Simeon Steward.

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.

Copy, headed To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady, ascribed to Townly.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

Copy, headed On the Death of S^r Albertus Morton, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

Copy, headed Songe, subscribed Rich. Louelace.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy, headed The same done into Latine [i.e. LoR 13], subscribed J Cleveland.

Morris & Withington, p. 71.

Copy, here ascribed to Cl[ement] P[aman].

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

Copy, headed Capt. Tyrell. Of M^rs Winchcombe. The text followed (p. 158) by an answer by M^r Womack.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 88.

Copy, headed Of o^r p^rsent warr w^th Spain, & first victory at Sea., subscribed Edmund Waller.

First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

Copy, headed Ode Vpon Orindas Poems, subscribed Abraham Cowley.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.

Copy, ascribed by S^r. J Denham.

First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

Copy, headed On November.

First published as a broadside, undated. Reprinted in London, 1671. Evand, pp. 560-3.

Copy, headed New Instructions to the Painter, subscribed Incerti Autoris.

This MS recorded in Osborne.

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

Copy, headed An Epigr. on y^e Princes birth. may. 29. 1630, subscribed Ben Johnson.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

Copy, headed Song, subscribed S. Briggs.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.

Copy, headed The answer, subscribed id. est. Nowell, following Th'offence of the stomacke, with the woord of disgrace, which is headed A Ridle and subscribed id est. Rawly.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19A, p. 28.

First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

First published in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), p. 227. Bradner, p. 7, one line as A Latin Hexameter, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 13, pp. 409-10. Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.

Krueger, pp. 134-5.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.

Krueger, p. 141.

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 303.

Copy, untitled and here beginning The bow is not yet bent, wherin to shoot I sue.

The text followed by a six-line Answer, beginning The man that sued to shoote, in this well bended Bow.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

Copy, ascribed to I: D.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

Copy, ascribed to D[avies].

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 466.

Ringler, p. 108. Robertson, p. 265.

Copy.

A mnemonic couplet, first published in Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorique ([London], 1553).

Copy, imperfect, lacking the first four stanzas, here beginning But from those leaues no dram of sweet I drayne, subscribed quod Mr Iohn Lilly.

Printed from this in Doughtie, No. [103], pp. 96-8; discussed pp. 178-80. Recorded in May, p. 111.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy, subscribed qd M^r Dier.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.

Copy, with (f. 113r) a musical setting.

First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.

Copy of the last stanza (beginning And when he saddest sits in homely Cell) written as the last stanza of a poem headed In yeeldinge up his Tilt staff: hee sayd, beginning Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease, and subscribed q^d S^r Henry Leigh.

This MS recorded in Horne, p. 170.

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.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 424, 558.

Ringler, p. 144.

Copy.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 45A, p. 116. Collated in Bowers.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

Copy, headed Her answer.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 45A, p. 117. Recorded in Latham, p. 112.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.

Copy, subscribed Incerto. Sir Edward DIER.

Edited from this MS in Sargent.

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

Copy of a two-strophe version.

Edited from this MS in Greer, p. 305.

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

Copy of lines 1-4, with music.

First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.