Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199

Copy, untitled, on a single small leaf; end of 17th century.

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

Copy, headed The petition of poet Midleton Autho^r of y^e Game at Chess, to King Iames.

Edited from this MS in Wagner, PQ, 14 (1935), 288. Facsimile in Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

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

Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

Copy.

Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

Copy, in a non-professional hand, among other verses on both sides of a leaf, untitled and here beginning how oft when thow, deere deerist musick plaiest.

This MS edited and discussed in R.H.A. Robbins, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Shakespeare's Sonnet 128, N&Q, 212 (April 1967), 137-8. Facsimile in Bruce R. Smith, Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History, in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, 2003), pp. 4-26 (p. 8).

Copy on eight quarto leaves.

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, headed The Debauch.

This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411; collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

Copy of the Sixth Satyr [of Juvenal], beginning In Saturn's Reign, at Nature's Early Birth; end of 17th century-early 18th century.

First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

Copy of Book I, song 3, knot poem at the end (beginning This is love and worth commending).

Goodwin, I, 103.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

Copy.

First published in The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Kinsley, II, 765-71. California, IV, 311-21. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 172-8.

Copy, headed To Mary Snow, on a quarto leaf.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (September 1693), p. 297. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 51.

Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves; imperfect, lacking the ending.

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

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

Copy, headed Vpon the Three Praises of Gondibert not then Published, on a single quarto leaf.

First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

Copy on two quarto leaves.

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

Copy, headed A true M^ris on a single quarto leaf.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

Copy, heavily dust-stained.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walkinge in the snow.

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

Copy, headed On the Transportation of Q. Elizabeths dead body from Richmond to Whitehall Camd: Rem:

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.

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

Copy, headed A fancy on his beutifull M^rs:.

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

Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

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

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

Copy, headed Melancholy.

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.

Copy, headed Vpon Cælias face.

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

Copy, headed On his M^rs:.

First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

Copy, headed A Poeme made by D^r: Donne a little befor his death.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy, headed A Songe.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

Copy, headed Another and here beginning Why didst thou say, I am forsworne.

This MS recorded in Dosia Reichardt, Some Unnoticed Lovelace Manuscripts, N&Q, 247 (2002), 336-8.

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 A Denyed Louer to his Loue.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

Copy, headed A ffancy.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

Copy of lines 3-6, headed An Epitaph and beginning Here vnderneath this stone doth ly.

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

Copy of Cuculus's song, headed On dispraise of Tabacco and here beginning He that will learn to drink a health in hell.

First published London, 1629; Dyce, I, 1-106p. (p. 66); Bang, pp. 1-86 (p. 67, lines 1629-33).

Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

Copy of the first strophe, untitled.

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

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

Copy, headed On a woman dyinge in Travell the child vnborne.

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.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 195-6. Evans, pp. 459-60.

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), p. 219. Evans, p. 472.

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-19. Evans, pp. 471-2.

Copy, headed One Marryed to a Old man.

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

Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10, headed A new married Bride.

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.

Copy, headed M^r F^s Epitaph and here beginning Reader it was borne and cryd.

Copy, in two columns, headed The Church Papist, slightly imperfect.

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

Copy.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy of Hall's commendatory verses, headed Ad Autorem, prefixed to a copy of William Bedell's poem A Protestant Memorial (here The Shepheards Tale of the Powderplot, ff. 11r-25r) and subscribed Joseph Hall. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Wynter, IX, 707.

First published in William Bedell, A Protestant Memorial: or, The Shepherd's Tale of the Pouder-Plott (London, 1713). Davenport, p. 123.

Autograph.

Autograph, the poem made June 28 1683.

Unpublished.

Autograph, the poem dated 7 January 1687/8.

Unpublished.

Autograph, the poem dated 18 March 1683.

Unpublished.

Autograph, the poem dated 30 March 1684.

Unpublished.

Autograph, the poem dated 8 April 1684.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph.

Unpublished.

Autograph of a shorter version of the poem.

Unpublished.

Copy, headed The Second Saul and here beginning When Israel disobey'd their sovereign Lord.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

Copy, in a professional hand, on three quarto leaves, endorsed Conditional Recantation. 1689/90.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

Copy, ascribed to Marvel and the poem dated 1676, on four quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

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).

Copy, in a professional hand, on two quarto leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 120v) On the Statue at Charing Cross 1676.

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.

Copy, in a professional hand, headed S^r. Hen: Wooton on his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia and here beginning You meanest Beautyes of the Night, on one side of a quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

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, in a professional hand, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 156-69). Late 17th century.

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

Copy, dated 1685.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

Copy, ascribed to Marvell.

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

Copy.

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.

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.

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

Copy, subscribed Fran: Beamaunt.

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

Copy.

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, headed On the death of Mistris Boulstead.

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, headed An other [i.e. epitaph on Mrs Bulstrode] and here beginning Wilt thou heare w^t. man can saye.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, each stanza separately headed Aliud [i.e. epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke] and the whole subscribed Browne.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

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

Copy, headed An Epithalamie Or Nuptiall Hymne vpon the Marriage of the Paltsgraue & the Ladye, Elizabeth.

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 of a Latin and an English version, the former headed 30^o: May 1630, here beginning (correctly) Dum Rex Paulinas accessit Gratus ad Aras, subscribed Ser: Hoskins; Med: Temp; the latter headed In English thus, and here beginning Where as o^r gratefull king went to Paules shrine.

This MS cited in Osborn.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

Copy, headed An Eclogue To his worthy father Mr. Benjamin Johnson.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

Copy, headed The Lo Keepers verses on the life of man.

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, here beginning Was ever contract driven by better fate.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy, headed In Nive Tumulatu Tumul:.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

Copy, headed Elegie vpon the Victorious King of Sweden.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

Copy, headed D^r: Kinge On his deceased Wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, here beginning Euen as yow see two lovers in a night.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

Copy, headed R: Herrick: his charge vnto his wife and here beginning Go & with....

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton.

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

Copy of lines 1-39, headed Against & For Fruition.

This MS collated in Clayton.

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

Copy, subscribed J. D.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed The Nightingale.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

Copy, headed Vpon An infant & y^e mother dying in travaile.

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, subscribed Tho: Carew.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

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

Copy, headed Vpon The Kings sicknes 1633.

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

Copy, headed Sir Walter Raleighs Pilgrimage.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54B, pp. 128-30. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

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

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

Copy, untitled, subscribed Tho: Carewe.

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

Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

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).

Copy, complete with L'Envoy, which is subscribed G: H:.

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.

Copy, headed A Hyme By S^r Henry Wotton In tyme of his Sicknes.

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

Copy, headed Doctor Brookes of Teares.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

Copy of Book I, song 3, knot poem at the end (beginning This is love and worth commending).

Goodwin, I, 103.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed J D:.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Copy, headed An Other [i.e. sonnet].

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, untitled, subscribed J. D:.

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.

Edited from this MS in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

Copy.

First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Copy, headed In Absence.

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

Copy, headed Another.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 289.

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

Copy, headed On my Princesse and M^rs. the Lady Elisabeth elected Queene of Bohemia and here beginning Yow violets y^t doe first appeare, subscribed S^r: Hen: Wotton.

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

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed T. Carew.

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

Copy, headed Ben Ionson To the Painter.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

Copy, headed To His M^rs:, subscribed J: D.

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 On Do^r: Corbets wife walking in y^e Snowe.

This MS recorded in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.

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

Copy, headed A Sonnet On his M^rs singinge.

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

Copy, headed To his M^rs.

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

Copy, headed Sir Walter Ralegh to Queene Elizabeth and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 508).

Edited from this MS in Gullans, p. 325; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

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, prefixed by Our passions are most like to floods & streams (see RaW 325).

Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 284-5; collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

Copy.

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 Sence and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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

Copy, headed The Fart Sensured in the Lower howse of Parliament and here beginning Puffing downe comes graue auncient S^r. John Crooke.

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

Copy, headed The farts Epitaph in the Parliament howse.

Copy, headed On the Earle of Somsett.

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

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shaawcross.

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

Copy, headed M^r: Herick his farewell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Copy, headed The Time expired, he welcomes his M^rs. Sacke as followeth.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Copy, headed King Oberons Pallace and without the preliminary lines, subscribed R: Herick.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

Copy, headed King Oberons Apparel, subscribed S^r Simon Stewards.

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 King Oberons Feast and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

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.

Copy, headed An Eligie, subscribed J: D.

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 Vpon A gold cheyne lent and loste, subscribed J: Done.

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.

Copy, headed Ben Iohnsons Maske before the Kinge &c;.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

Copy, headed A Song.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

Copy of a version headed Ben Jonsons grace and beginning God blesse y^e king, y^e queene, god blesse.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

Copy of the first six lines.

Copy.

Copy, headed By y^e moste Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham &c. and here beginning Dazeled w^th y^e height of place.

Printed from this MS in Pebworth, pp. 154-5. On p. 82 of the MS are three Latin versions added later by one James Harvey.

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.

This MS collated in Davis.

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

Copy, headed The same Ben: Jhonsons description of m^rs Venetia Stanly, since wife of S^r. kel: Digby.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

Copy of precepts 1-36, untitled, on three folio leaves, endorsed (f. 77v) Instruccions.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

Fragment of a copy, stanzas 129-44 only, here beginning My Sonne (quoth hee) for in that name of zeale, in an italic hand, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

This MS collated in Mellor.

First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

Copy, headed In Bludius, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves of Latin verse on writing and printing.

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

Copy, headed Englisht, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves.

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).

Copy.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 411-13.

Musical setting by Pelham Humfrey published in Choice Songs and Ayres for One Voyce (London, 1673).

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.

First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

Copy, headed A Ladies Answere to... and here beginning A beutuouse ladie sittinge in a muse.

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, untitled, imperfect.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

Copy of an 11-line version, headed A Discription of loue and here beginning What thinge is loue for sure loue is a thinge.

This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 546-7.

Prouty, lines 12-20, 25-6. This song published separately, in an eight-line version, in The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (London, 1600), and in John Bartlet, A Book of Ayres (London 1606).

This MS collated in Pigman, p. 624.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 340. Prouty. p. 139. Pigman, No. 43, pp. 257-8.

Copy, headed A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 238-9.

Copy, headed Carelesse Affection and here beginning O loue whose force and might.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, p. 301.

Copy, headed Ould age.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 558-9, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14, headed To a frend & lover.

This MS collated in Pigman, pp. 615-16.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 92. Prouty, p. 74. Pigman, No. 32, p. 245.

Copy, headed The follie of men.

This MS collated in May.

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

Copy, headed Tichbourne and here beginning My prime of youth is but a fast of cares.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

Copy, headed Mans life compared to a stageplay.

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, headed The Parliament fart and here beginning Downe came graue auncient Sergeant Crooke.

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

Copy, headed A Riddle.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

Copy of a variant 16-line version, headed A saintlike sister and here beginning A saintlike sister late turnd votarie.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

Copy, headed A precise Taylor and here beginning A Taylor tane to be of vpright dealinge.

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

Copy, with two additional stanzas, headed D^r Latworthe lye to all estates.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5 and in Höltgen, p. 435

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

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

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

Copy, headed An other aunswere by S^r Wal R.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 22, p. 45. Collated in May, p. 127.

As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

Copy, headed My Lord of Essex his Bee.

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 lines 5-9, 12-14, headed Laydie Rich: and here beginning Towardes Auroras courte a Nymph did dwell.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 473.

Ringler, p. 183.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Heare lyeth Lord haue mercie vppon her!

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

Copy, untitled and here beginning Heare lieth old Croker the mender of bellowes.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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, headed Vppon D^r Fletcher B[...].

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

Copy, headed The puritan Papist or y^e popish puritan alias y^e Papist & y^e Puritans satyre, on two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, imperfect, lacking the last 54 lines.

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

Copy, headed Y^e Lecturer o^r New preacher, with other poems on a folio leaf.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

Copy, headed On y^e last great frost.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.

Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e K. & Q. and here beginning The solemn triumphs..., in a cursive hand, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

Evans, p. 251.

Copy, headed Y^e Eplogue to y^e K. & Q., in a cursive hand, on the second page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

Evans, p. 195.

Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e Vty, in a cursive hand, on the third page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

Evans, p. 252.

Copy, headed To the Kinge and Queene at Hampton-Court, on a folio leaf.

Evans, p. 198.

Copy, headed The Epilogue and here beginning The absent Author..., on a folio leaf.

Evans, p. 253.

Copy, headed In M^r Cartwrights Comedie The Preists Songe when y^e slaue was invested on the Royall Robes, on a folio leaf.

Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

Copy of the Attendant's song, headed In M^r Strowdes: The Passions mett at Desparato's Banquett, this songe, on one side of a folio leaf.

Dobell, pp. 228-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Copy on a folio leaf.

This MS collated in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

Copy, headed verses made by D: D: made vppon a fflea.

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, headed Of the Ashes of a dead Lover put in an hower glasse.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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.

Copy of the Lord Keeper's, the Lord Steward's, the Lord Treasurer's and the Lord Chamberlain's fortunes, on a folio leaf.

Herford & Simpson, lines 565-84, 631-43, 588-97, 681-97; Greg, Windsor version, lines 392-411, 455-67, 414-23, 373-89. This MS collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 551.

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).

Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled, imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

Copy, headed On two Lou^res y^t must forsake each oth^r, with other poems on a folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

Copy, headed On his M^ris, with other poems, on a folio leaf.

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

Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, subscribed L^d Buckhurst. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

Copy, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

Copy, under a general heading Poems By M^r Farquhar.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 279-82.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282-3.

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

Copy, in a professional hand, docketed D^r Corbett Iter Boreale, on sixteen quarto leaves.

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

Copy, headed Second Part by S^r John Denham, on two conjugate quarto leaves.

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 7-192, headed The Creation. Out of the first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Together with his Four Ages of the World. Translated by M^r. Dryden and here beginning Before the Seas, and this Terrestrial Ball.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 799-828. California, IV, 362-431. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 230-84.

Copy, headed The Beginning of the Second Book…Nature and Right Reason, Life's best Guide.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 403-4. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 312-15.

Copy, headed Out of the later part of the third Book. The Epicurean Arguments against the Fear of Death.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 405-13. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 317-31.

Copy, headed From his 4th Book…Of the Nature and Effects of Love, with Instructions and Remarks thereupon, illustrated with Examples, &c..

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 413-21. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 332-44.

Copy, headed From his 5th. Book…Nature more, indulgent to Brutes, than Man-Kind.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 421. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 345-6.

Copy.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 424-7. California, III, 69-72. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 352-5.

Copy, headed Idyll: 27. Daphins & Chloris. an amorous Dialogue.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 427-31. California, III (1969), 73-7. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 356-61.

Copy, headed The 9^th. Ode of the first Book. by M^r. Dryden The Epicurean's Improvement of Time.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 432-4. California, III, 79-80. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 366-8.

Copy.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

Copy, headed Book 2^d. Ode. 16…by M^r. Otway. Tranquility of mind, so much desir'd by all, is attainable only by Bridling the appetite.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Ghosh, II, 447-8.

Copy, headed Lib: 2. Eleg: 9^th. To Love. By L^d. Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

Copy, headed Lib: 3. Eleg: 4. To a man that lockt up his Wife. By S^r: Ch: Sedley.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 97-8.

Copy.

Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

Copies of, or extracts from, 27 poems by Cowley.

Copy, headed A Catch on the French King, out of French. by M^r. Dryden.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

Copy, headed Voitures Urania. Love more prevalent than Reason.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

Copy, headed The Pleasing Virgin. by M^rs. Phillips

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

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

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

Copy.

First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

Copy, headed On his Isabella playing on a Lute.

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

Copy.

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

Copy of lines 177-255, headed The Cheating Whore. or, a Caveat to young Fops. Out of L^d Roch:'s Poems and here beginning This in my time was an observed Rule, and lines 147-68, headed On a Witty Whore and here beginning I took this time to think, what nature meant.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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, headed Epelia (a Deserted Lover) to Bajaset, which may serve as a Caveat to Women. By L^d R[ochester].

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

Copy, headed His answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

Copy, headed Upon an affected Court Lady. By M^r. Fleetwood shepherd.

This MS collated in POAS and 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.

Copy, headed The Yielding Nymph.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

Copy, headed Woman's Frailty. A Song. by L^d. Ro:.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

Copy, headed Advise to Lovers. or, Faint Heart ne're won fair Lady. by S^r. Ch: Sedley.

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.

Copy, headed Catch by L^d. Dorset.

This MS collated in in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

Copy, headed The perplexed Lover to his Cruel mistress. S^r. Ch: Sedley.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by His Grace, George, Late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 149-50.

Copy, headed To Celia. Fair, but not Favourable. by S^r. Ch: Sedley.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

Copy of stanzas 1 and 3, here ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667). Thorpe, p. 2.

Copy, headed Lasting Love. By S^r. Ch: Sedley.

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

Copy, headed A Song by S^r. Geo: Etherege. Love's last Tryall.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

Copy, headed A Song by S^r. Ch: Sedley, a Given Heart hardly regain'd.

First published, in a 28-line version beginning When Aurelia first became, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 10-11.

Copy, headed To Chloris. by S^r. Ch: Sedley. The Entire Lover.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.

Copy, headed Amyntas Courting Caelia for her last Favour. S^r Ch: Sed:.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 17-19.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed On the Countess of - Mistress to K. J. 2. 1680. by E. of Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

Copy.

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

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

Copy.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (August 1693), p. 258. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 35-6.

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

Copy, ascribed to M^r Cleveland.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

Copy, the text followed (ff. 107v-8v) by Godolphin's answer.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

Copy.

First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

Copy.

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

Copy.

First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 75.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed L^d. Roch:'s Lampoon on K. Ch: for which he was banishd the Court, and turn'd Mountebank.

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

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.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

Copy of (i) lines 30-43, headed A Fragment out of L^d Rochester, which may serve as an apology for the whole collection and here beginning Perhaps Ill verses ought to be confin'd, and (ii) lines 89-98, headed Upon Fame — by the same and here beginning There's not a thing on Earth that I can name.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

Copy, headed A Satyr on M^r Edward Howard. by the E of Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

Copy, ascribed to S^r. Geo: Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Examen Miscellaneum (London, 1702). Thorpe, pp. 59-60.

Copy, headed Against Pleasure. By M^rs. Phillips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

Copy, headed Upon drinking in a Bowl.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sr. Geo: Speak, the good son and good mother exemplyfy'd.

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.

Copy, headed The Advantages of approaching Death to a good old man.

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

Copy, headed To M^rs. Wogan on the Death of her Husband. a Good man. By M^rs. Phillips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

Copy, headed To Liber. The Voluptuous Epicure. By S^r. Ch: Sedley.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 40-1.

Copy.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 45-6.

Copy, headed To Quintus. An Atheisticall Libertine. by S^r. Ch: Sedly.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 59-60.

Copy, headed To Stertorius, a Greedy Buyer. By S^r. Ch. Sedley.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 54.

Copy, headed To Classicus. a Covetous Smell-Toast. by S^r. Ch: Sed:.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 52-3.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Love.

First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8, in his Appendix Roffensis.

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

Copy.

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.

This MS collated in POAS.

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

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunton.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

Copy.

First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 137-9.

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, here beginning When from the blacke no part of skie is cleere.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Another of the same and here beginning Had Dorothea liu'd when Mortalls made, subscribed with a note in a late 17th-century hand In the printed copy follow these lines… and the text of four lines (lines 17-20) copied and marked for insertion after line 16.

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

Copy, with a note in a late 17th-century hand inserting four lines (3-6) after line 2.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed To my young Ladie Lucie Sidney.

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

Copy, headed To M^rs Broughton.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Of a freindship betweene Sachariza & Amorett.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Another to the same.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed To a Ladie in Retirement.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, here beginning Whilst she pretends to make the graces known.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Song.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Song.

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

Copy.

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

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Vpon S^r Roberts setting up y^e statue, on the rectos of two quarto leaves.

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.

Copy, at the foot of a quarto leaf.

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.

Copy.

First published in The Garland of Good Will (London, 1596?. The earliest known extant edition [exemplum at Yale] is London, 1628). Mann, pp. 328-30.

Copy, on three quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Younger Brother or the Amorous Jilt a Comedy acted at the Theatre royal By his Majestys Servants Written by the late Ingenious M^rs. Behn and with (ff. 2r-3r) [Charles Gildon's]. An account of the Life of the Incomparable M^rs. Behn, on 34 folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1700.

First published (in an edited version, and with a biographical preface, by Charles Gildon) London, 1696. Summers, IV, 311-99. Todd, VII, 359-417.

Copy of the song.

Collated in Thomas.

First published in London, 1639. Dyce, III, 1-99 (pp. 40-1). De Vocht, pp. 329-408 (p. 363, lines 1011-26).

Copy of the song.

First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 420-1.

Copy of the song.

Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.

A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).

Copy, headed Songs.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 58. Lord, p. 51. Smith, p. 191, as The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes.

Copy of the dirge, headed Songs.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

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).

Copy.

Published separately, as Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

Copy of the song, headed A ballitt Song's.

Published separately, as The True Lovers' Tragedy, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).

Copy of the song, with corrections in another hand.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

Copy of the first stanza, subscribed M[ary] N.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 201-2.

Copy.

First published in London, 1634. Bowers, IV, 242.

Copy, headed Songs.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

Second copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

Copy of the song.

First published in London, 1688. Summers, IV, 191-283 (p. 224).

Copy of the song.

First published in London, 1690. California, XV (1976), 221-318 (p. 283). Kinsley, II, 560-1. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 238.

Copy of Venus's song.

California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 266-7.

Copy.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 53. Sparrow, pp. 52-3.

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 34. Dobrée, pp. 375-6. McKenzie, II, 462. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus, Book II (London, 1694).

Copy.

First published, as A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

Copy, headed On his M^rs singing in the Dukes gallery at Yorkehouse.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.

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

Copy, headed On the L: Eliz., here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the East, and docketed in another hand S^r H: W:.

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

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in a snowy morning.

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

Copy, headed On a yong Gentlewomans death.

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

Copy, headed A Sonet.

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).

Copy, headed The Reply.

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 On an vnkind M^rs.

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

Copy, headed Hor: Lib: 4^o: Ode 13, subscribed W: C:.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.

Copy, headed Beauty and deniall, subscribed WC.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-18. Evans, pp. 470-2.

Copy, headed To his M^rs and here beginning ffaire sweet I cannot court thy sprightly eyes.

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

Copy of a version headed Deniall and here beginning Nay pew, nay pish, in faith and will you? fly.

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 of the song, headed To his M^rs:.

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

Copy, headed On a faire woman that sung sweetly.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

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

Copy, headed On M^rs Beata Pool with blacke eyes.

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 On his M^rs: going to bed.

This MS recorded 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, untitled, subscribed W: C:.

Evans, pp. 311-12.

Copy, subscribed R: Corbet.

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

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

Copy, headed D:C: To the D: of Buckingham.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

Copy, headed B: C: to his Sonne Vincent.

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

Copy, headed On M^rs Mallet, subscribed R: Corbet.

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

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

Copy, headed On M^rs Anne King's tablebooke of pictures, subscribed J: M:.

Unpublished?

Copy, headed on the great frost and snow, subscribed W: C:.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.

Copy, headed Pidgeons songe.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.

Copy, headed On a gentlewomans silke: hoode.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.

Copy, headed On a Nightingale, subscribed G: M:.

Copy, headed Strada's Nightgale, subscribed W: Stroud.

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

Copy, headed A Dialogue and here subscribed H: R:amsay.

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

Copy, headed On D^r Ravis Bishop of London.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Copy of lines 1-18.

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 on a woman dying in travaile with child.

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.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

Copy, headed On the death of S^r John Burrowes.

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, headed On the death of K. 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.

Copy, subscribed D^r C.

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 On the death of W: Earle of P:.

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

Copy of lines 21-30, headed A song and here beginning Have you seene the lilly grow.

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, headed A song and here beginning Oh love whose force & might.

Osborn, p. 301.

Copy, headed The blush and here beginning Stay hasty bloud where canst thou seeke.

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

Copy, headed On an entertainement.

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

Copy, headed To his Mistris.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

Copy, untitled, subscribed D^r: J:K:.

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.

Copy.

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

Copy, headed Death and Resurrection and here beginning Like to the rolling 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.

Copy, with an additional stanza, headed A Dialogue betw: T: C: and S^r: I: S: and subscribed T: C:.

This MS collated in Clayton. The additional stanza edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), p. 535.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 30-2.

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).