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Extracts labelled Mr Camden, among others labelled Mr Burton, in a section with the running title money and Coynes, almost illegible due to permeation of the ink.

A tract beginning It is a receaued opinion that in most auncient ages there was onely batterie.... First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 196-210.

Various extracts and quotations.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

Extracts.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

Copy of Obseruations of the State of ffrance, Observations vpon the Provinces vnited, and Obseruacons vpon the ArchDukes Countrye, all ascribed to S^r Thomas Ouerburye Knt.

A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

Copy of the second couplet, here beginning My stringes can doe what noe man cold.

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

Copy, headed On a Butcher maryeing a skynners daughter.

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

Copy, headed Coynesse.

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

Copy, headed On a Cripple and here beginning I can neither goe nor stand the cripple cryes.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

Copy of lines 191-216, headed Ben: Johnson against Vulcan and beginning Pox on your flameship, Vulcan; if it be.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

Copy, headed Wooing stuffe and here beginning ffaire wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes.

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

Copy, headed On Tom the great Bell of Christ Church Oxford.

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

Copy of a couplet in Sestiad III (lines 231-2), headed Loue and here beginning Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames.

Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed A nosegay w^th nettles and here beginning Such is the posye love composes, and of lines 481-2, headed A Girdle and here beginning This dureing light I give to clipt your waist.

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

Copy, headed A sonnett.

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 On the preserueing of Lincolns Inn Chappell windowes in the tyme of the warr.

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

Copy, headed Vpon Secretarye Da: fall, subscribed ff. B..

Edited from this MS (or from the second copy: WoH 203) in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

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 of a version headed Est natura hominum nouitatis auida 1618 and beginning The starr that rose from Virgo's trayne.

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

Copy, headed An inuectiue against Grace Cooke and here beginning Hayle, shamelesse model of a cursed whore.

First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

Copy, without the preliminary lines.

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

Copy, headed Cappes.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

Copy, beginning at stanza 2 (here Lament, Lament old Abbyes).

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

Copy, headed A ballad vpon one Greene a quaker and a mare.

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

Copy, headed vpon the death of s^r John Boroughe 1628.

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 Teares at the graue of S^r Albert morton by S^r Henry Wootton K^t.

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

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First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

Copy, headed S^r Henry wootton on Mr Roger Askam.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

Copy, headed On Secretarye Dauison fall and subscribed F. B..

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, subscribed J. S..

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 230. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 19-20.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 291. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 33.

Copy, subscribed J. S..

This MS collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 20-1.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 21.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed On Dunkirke house and here beginning Here doth lye the Sacred bones.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Answeare to M^r wilbraham the speaker.

Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons.... First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.

Copy, headed Queene Elizabeth in the Parliam^t house march 15^th 1576.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

Copy.

Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.

Copy.

Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiii^th of June. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.

Copy, headed To Queene Elizabeth about the mariage with monsieur the Duke of Aniou, with the subscription when God long p^rserve your ma^ties most dutifull and humble subiect & seruant / Ignot.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 8.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

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Copy, headed Bishop Hall vpon his emprisonm^t, dated from the Tower 1641 and subscribed To my much respected & obliged freind m^r A. B these.

An epistle beginning Sir, whiles you pitty my affliction, take heed lest you aggravate it.... First published in Three Tractates (London, 1646). Wynter, VI, 539-50.

Copy.

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood.

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Latham & Youings.

A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

Copy by Hopkinson of a letter by Hall to Thomas Fuller, from Higham, 30 August 1651.

Wynter, X, 524-5 (from Fuller's Church History of Britain, p. 478).

Copy.

Copy, headed The Execution of Robert Earle of Essex in the Tower the 25^th of ffebruary 1600.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett against Doctor Prince his Anniversary upon this princes death.

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

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

Copy, headed M^r [John] Cleueland to Captaine [John] Scott vpon his returne into England from beyond Seas.

Letter, beginning Sir, though no man's arms can be opened wide to receive you on shore....

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode upon this mariage [i.e. of the Prince Elector with the Princess Elizabeth].

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 of an account of the execution, headed The vntimely and vnfortunate death of S^r Walter Rawleighe K^nt. 1618.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

Copy, headed Vpon his death and Elegie.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

Copy, headed His Epitaph, made by himselfe and here beginning O cruell time, which takes in trust.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Copy, headed The Parliament fart / About this tyme was scattered and dispoesed abroad this worke[?] following compiled (as then was said) by m^r John Hoskins Barraster of the midle Temple London.

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

Copy, under a general heading Elegies, Epitaphes &c vpon this kings death and here beginning Those that have eies awake & weepe.

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, with prose preamble.

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

Copy, headed Upon the same [i.e. Strafford].

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

Copy, headed Vpon the same.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

Copy, headed A speech against peace.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

Extract from one of Hall's meditations.

Copy, headed The forme and first modell of this State of England in a letter to S^r Edward montague by S^r Robert Cotton...1621.

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.

Copy, with (f. [iii^r]) a title-page: Greene=Sleeues OR Leicesters Commonwealth...Ex libris Roberti sancti Gerardi 1630. / Nil temere. / transcribed in Anno Dni 1674. by J H.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

Copy of lines 15-32, headed Vpon the death of King James of happye memorie, here beginning If noe Uriah lost his life, subscribed G: M:.

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, headed my Lord of Essex his confession before his death the 25^th of February vpon the scaffold Anno 43^o Regine Elizabeth, including His prayer before his execution.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

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 Upon a shrewd m^rs.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 37. McClure No. 291, p. 266. Kilroy, Book II, No. 88, p. 162.

Copy, headed Upon a vertuous Ladye falling asleepe.

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.

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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 of poem 5, headed Upon R.F. Bp of London, and poem 4, headed Upon E.F. his wife.

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

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First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

Copy, headed Vpon the death of Kinge James of famous memorie and here beginning All who haue eyes awake & weep, subscribed G. M:.

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, headed A songe.

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, the date in the title rendered as 20 December 1615, subscribed R. Corbet.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

Copy, headed Vpon Docter Rauis Bishop of London.

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

Copy, headed Upon the life of man.

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 vpon a gentlewoman painted.

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

Copy, headed A New Yeares guifte to the marquess of Buckingham by Doctor Corbett.

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

Copy, headed Epitaph upon S^r Walter Rawleigh made by himselfe and here beginning O cruell tyme, w^ch takes in trust.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Copy.

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

Copy, headed These verses were found by k: James 1618 scattered by whome vn certaine, vpon the blasing starr and here beginning The starre itt rose in Virgins traine.

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

Copy, headed Vpon the blasing starr by Doctor Corbett to M^r Alesbane.

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

Copy, headed In Eandem [i.e. upon a Mistresse] and with the second stanza appearing first (beginning Send home my harmlesse heart againe).

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

Copy, headed Vpon M^r Francis Beamont.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

Copy, headed The Nightingale, subscribed G: M:.

Copy, headed vpon a priuate life.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Countess of Rutland, subscribed F. B.

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

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

Copy, headed Docter Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham may 1^mo 1623°.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

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, headed Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

Copy, headed A paradoxe in praise of a painted face, here beginning Not kisse? by Joue and make impression, subscribed Baker.

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, headed The fiue senses.

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 In Eosdem [i.e. The fiue Senses].

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

Copy, headed Vpon a faire gentlewoman haueing blacke haire / M^rs. P.

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.

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First published in 1618, Book I, No. 15. McClure No. 16, p. 154. Kilroy, Book I, No. 24, p. 102.

Copy, headed A gentlewomans answeare to a Lawyer.

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

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First published in 1618, Book II, No. 80. McClure No. 176, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 174.

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First published in 1615. 1618, Book II, No. 46. McClure No. 142, pp. 203-4. Kilroy, Book II, No. 80, p. 159.

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First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.

Copy, headed The praise of the Countess of Derby married to the Lord Chancellour.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.

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First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.

Copy, headed Of Blessing w^thout the Crosse.

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

Copy, headed Vpon M^rs m. An invectiue against her.

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

Copy, headed Vpon Comending a wife to a gent. and here beginning I wish yo^w to a wife rich, faire & younge.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

Copy, headed Upon a precise Taylor.

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

Copy, headed A rimeing prophecye alludeing to the Cards and Dice in Christenmas.

First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

Copy, headed Vpon the death of S^r Walter Rawleighe beheaded 1619.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

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

Copy of the sequence, the first headed An Elegie upon the death of M^rs M. P.

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, headed An epitaph vpon the Earle of Strafford.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

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First published in 1618, Book I, No. 82. McClure No. 83, pp. 179-80. Kilroy, Book I, No. 72, pp. 118-19.

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

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Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

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

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

Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.

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

Copy, headed Prologue before the play acted at Camebridge to his ma^tie and the Prince march 1641.

First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

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First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

Copy, headed An Elegie upon the death of the Earle of Strafford.

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

Copy, headed A speech against peace.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

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Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

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Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

Copy of various letters by Bacon.

Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

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

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I, and to Lady Ralegh.

Copy, headed Verses found in S^r Walter Raleighs Bible in y^e Gate house.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Copy, headed D^r Joshua Hall, Bishopp of Exeter his Message to y^e Lower House of Parliam^t.

Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

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One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities.... First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

Copy, headed D^r Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

Copy, headed In obitum Ro: Cecillij and here beginning Here lies old Hobynoll, o^r shepheard while here.

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

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

Copy, headed Of the remoue of her bodie from Richmond to whitehall by water.

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, headed D^r Corbett against D^r Brice's annyversaries on P: Henrie.

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

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

Copy, headed A replie to the defence.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

Copy, headed On yong Tom of C: C: D^r Corbet.

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

Copy of a 28-line version, headed on the Lord chancellor and here beginning Greate Verulam is verie lame, the goute of goe=out feeling.

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

Copy, headed D^r Donne on his departure from his loue and here beginning Dearest loue! I do not go.

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

Copy, headed In Duce reduce.

A second copy of Dryden's Character of Zimri, on two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

Copy of Dryden's Character of Zimri, here beginning In the first Rank of there did Zimri stand, followed by a Latin translation, headed Translated by W S. At. 15, beginning Hos inter Princeps primo stetit Ordine Zimri, evidently written as a schoolboy exercise, on the second and third pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.