The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999

*RaW 728: Sir Walter Ralegh, Notebook ('')

A largely autograph notebook, with some pages in the hands of two amanuenses, compiled during Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower of London; containing a glossary of geographical notes (used for his History of the World), several annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of his books, and a poem, partly arranged under letters of the alphabet.

This MS described by Walter Oakeshott (with a facsimile example) in An Unknown Raleigh MS, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7; in The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960) (with facsimile examples facing pp. 119, 223); and in Sir Walter Ralegh's Library, The Library, 5th Ser. 23 (1968), 285-327 (with facsimile examples after p. 288, but plates I and II are not in Ralegh's hand). Facsimile examples also in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 97; John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 288; and Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 47-8.

*RaW 200: Sir Walter Ralegh, Now we have present made

Autograph, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Oakeshott; in George Seddon, A Newly Discovered and Unknown Poem in Sir Walter Raleigh's Autograph, ILN (28 February 1953), p. 330 (with a facsimile), and in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), pp. 205-6 (with a facsimile facing p. 141). Facsimiles also in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 12, p. 24, and of last two stanzas in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 48.

First published in Walter Oakeshott, An Unknown Ralegh MS, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.

CgW 27.5: William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')

Copy, in double columns, subscribed sent to my L^d Cobham in a letter from Bath 24 August 1728, in a letter (ff. 31r-2v) by George Grenville to his brother Richard (who was Lord Cobham's nephew and heir), written from London, 19 March 1728/9.

Edited from this MS in Descriptions of Lord Cobham's Gardens at Stowe (1700-1750), ed. G.B. Clarke, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 26 (1990), pp. 24-7.

First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

KiH 325: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile of first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 26 June 1974, p. 116.

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

KiH 279: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the truly Noble Richard Earle of Dorsett.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

CoR 333: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')

Copy.

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

DaJ 182: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')

Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As carefull Nurses in their bed's doe lay.

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

CwT 617: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')

Copy, here ascribed to Do^r: Dunne.

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).

BrW 159: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')

Copy.

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

StW 793: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

Copy.

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

KiH 174: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')

Copy, headed On prince Henry. An Elegie; c.1625-30s.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

KiH 191: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')

Copy, headed On S^r. Walter Rawleigh.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

KiH 669: Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

KiH 712: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

KiH 315: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

KiH 797: Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum, pp. 220-1.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

CoR 298: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

Copy, headed Do^r. Corbett's Northerne Journey.

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

CoR 63: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')

Copy.

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

CoR 145: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')

Copy.

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

JnB 166: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')

Copy, headed The Body. Vpon m^ris. Ven: S:.

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).

JnB 204: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')

Copy.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

KiH 101: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

JnB 67: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')

Copy.

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.

CoR 521: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')

Copy.

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

KiH 426: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

KiH 520: Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

KiH 110: Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')

Copy, imperfect at the end.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

KiH 358: Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')

Copy of the last four lines; imperfect, lacking all the beginning, subscribed R. Dorset.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

CoR 573: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')

Copy.

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

CwT 197: Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne ('Can we not force from widdowed Poetry')

Copy.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

CoR 193: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. John Donne].

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

KiH 768: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind D^r. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

MsP 21.2: Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song ('Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue')

Copy, headed Choyce of a Wife.

First published, as by P. M. and N[athan] F[ield], in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).

ShJ 109: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')

Copy, here beginning Wellfare their Muses that w^th well climbe verse

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

KiH 532: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')

Copy, headed Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

KiH 229: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

KiH 212: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')

Copy, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

WoH 88: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

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

KiH 153: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

KiH 164: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')

Copy, headed An Elegie upon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.

KiH 221: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.

KiH 388: Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

KiH 146: Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

KiH 477: Henry King, Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man ('Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?')

Copy.

This MS (erroneously cited for The Pink) recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.

KiH 475: Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love ('Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still')

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.

MyJ 31: Jasper Mayne, Wert thou an ancient Corse of a grey head

Copy.

BrW 200: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')

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.

CwT 897: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')

Copy, untitled.

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

RnT 346: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')

Copy, headed On an vnhandsome Gentlewoman, that sang very sweetly and here beginning Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heare.

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

StW 71: William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott ('Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You')

Copy, headed Vpon the Callot.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.

BrN 52.2: Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde ('From silent night, true register of mones')

Copy, headed The Copie of those verses that y^e Earle of Essex made before his Death in ye Towre.

First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.

CoR 219: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')

Copy, headed a godly exhortation... and here ascribed to John Harris of Christchurch.

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.

HoJ 60: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')

Copy.

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

*SiR 27: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 1 ('Yow purest stars, whose neuer dijng fyres')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 128-9.

*SiR 9: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 1 ('O eyes, o lights deuine')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 130-3.

*SiR 28: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 2 ('The pains w^ch I vncessantly susteine')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 134-5.

*SiR 29: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 3 ('Beauties born of the heauens, my sowles delight')

Croft, pp. 136-7.

*SiR 30: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 4 ('These purest flames, kindled by beauties rare')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 138-9.

*SiR 4: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 2: Shepherd, Nymph ('Shepherd, iffaith now say how wel')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 140-7.

*SiR 10: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 3 ('Loue not who haue not lou'd')

Autograph, with a revised line.

Croft, pp. 148-55.

*SiR 31: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 5 ('Of trauailes past oft when I thincking ame')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 156-7.

*SiR 32: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 6 ('When rest locks vp the treasures of delight')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 158-9.

*SiR 33: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 7 ('The hardy Captein vnusde to retyre')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 160-1.

*SiR 34: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 8 ('If that her worth I kowld as wel forget')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 162-3.

*SiR 35: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 9 ('Oft had I past the ioies and greefs in loue')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 164-5.

*SiR 11: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 4 ('My sowle in purest fyre')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 166-71.

*SiR 36: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 10 ('Shee whoe I serue to wryte did not despyse')

Croft, pp. 172-3.

*SiR 1: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, A crown of sonnets, but unfinished ('Thogh the most parfet stile kannot attaine')

Autograph, with revisions.

A sequence of sonnets numbered 11, 2 Sonnet. 12, 3 Sonnet 13, 4 Son: 14, and 5 Son:, subscribed The rest of the 13 sonnets doth want. Croft, pp. 174-81.

*SiR 12: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 5 ('If those deuotions now noe more')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 182-3.

*SiR 13: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 6 Lady. Pilgrim. ('Yonder comes a sad pilgrim')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 184-95.

*SiR 37: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 15 ('Yow that haue power to kil, haue wil to saue')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 196-7.

*SiR 5: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 7 ('Lysa sweet Nymph did sit')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 198-201.

*SiR 38: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 16 ('Most fayre when first w^th pleasd but cursed eyes')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 202-3.

*SiR 39: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 17 ('The endless Alchymist, wth blinded will')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 204-5.

*SiR 6: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 8 ('Shepheard, why doest thow so looke still on mee')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 206-9.

*SiR 40: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 18 ('Most faier: The feeld is yowrs: now stay y^or hands')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 210-11.

*SiR 41: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 19 ('When other creatures all each in theyr kinde')

Croft, pp. 212-13.

*SiR 42: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 20 ('Shine on fayre stars: giue comfort to these eyes')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 214-15.

*SiR 43: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 21 ('Alas why say yow I ame ritch? when I')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 216-17.

*SiR 44: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 22 ('On vnknown shore, w^th wether hard destrest')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 218-19.

*SiR 45: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 23 ('Absence what floods of plaints gainst thee would ryse')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 220-1.

*SiR 46: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 24 ('Canst thow turn from the haue of thy rest')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 222-3.

*SiR 47: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 25 ('Yow that take pleasure in yowr cruelty')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 224-5.

*SiR 48: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 26 ('Ah deerest lims my lifes best ioy and stay')

Autograph, with revisions.

Facsimile of this page in Croft, p. [117].

Croft, pp. 226-7.

*SiR 7: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 9 ('Day w^ch so bright didst shyne, how darck art thow?')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 228-31.

*SiR 14: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 10 ('Yow whoe fauor doe enioy')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 232-5.

*SiR 49: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 27 ('Falshood: how long did I yowr stings endure')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 236-7.

*SiR 50: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 28 ('Ayre w^ch about these wanton leaues dost play')

Autograph, with revisions

Croft, pp. 238-9.

*SiR 51: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 29 ('Yowr hate to mee, must needs bee violent')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 240-1.

*SiR 15: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 11 ('Thowghts vnto mee so deer')

Autograph, with revisions

Croft, pp. 242-7.

*SiR 16: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 12 To a french Tune Ou estes vous allez mes belles amourettes ('Since now those fayre eyes doe shyne in theyr cleer light')

Autograph, written sideways up the length of the page, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 248-51.

*SiR 52: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 30 ('Absence I cannot say thou hyd'st my light')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 252-3.

*SiR 53: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 31 ('Forsaken woods, trees w^th sharpe storms opprest')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 254-5.

*SiR 54: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 32 ('All yow fayre minds whome chois or destiny')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 256-7.

*SiR 55: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 33 ('Fayrest of fayre, on whome the heaues bestow')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 258-9.

*SiR 56: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 34 ('W^th how wyde iawes would I my poison drinck')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 260-1.

*SiR 17: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 13 ('Vpon a wretch, that wastes away')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 262-5.

*SiR 57: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 35 ('Time cruel time how fast pass yow away')

Autograph, with a revision.

Croft, pp. 266-7.

*SiR 60: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Vpon a Snufkin ('Goe happy furres the hands preserue')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 268-9.

*SiR 59: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Translated out of Spanish ('Shee whome I loued, and loue shall still')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 268-9.

*SiR 58: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Translated out of Seneca ('Yow vnto whome hee that rules sea and land')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 270-1.

*SiR 3: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, In another place ('So when w^thout all noyse of mee')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 270-1.

*SiR 8: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 14 ('What a change is this I see')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 272-5.

*SiR 18: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 15 ('Heauen if any heauen there is')

Autograph, with a line deleted.

Croft, pp. 276-9.

*SiR 2: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Elegy 16 ('Fayrest of Venus greate posteritee')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 280-5.

*SiR 19: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 17 ('The Sun is set, and masked night')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 284-5.

*SiR 20: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 18 ('How oft sayd I, delaies are death')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 286-7.

*SiR 21: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 19 ('Sun bee hencefourth from shyning parted')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 288-9.

*SiR 22: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 20 ('Senses by vniust force banisht')

Autograph, with revisions.

Croft, pp. 290-3.

*SiR 23: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 21 ('So did the morning crymson ryse')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 294-5.

*SiR 24: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 22 ('But alas why do yow nowrish')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 296-9.

*SiR 25: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 23 ('Greefs sent from her whome in my sowle I bless')

Autograph.

Croft, pp. 300-3.

*SiR 26: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 24 ('Absence I fled to thee')

Autograph, with two revisions.

Croft, pp. 304-7.