Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Aberdeen University Library

  • Macbean Collection

    Copy, in a professional hand, transcribed from a printed edition, on sixteen quarto pages.

    End of 17th century.

    This MS recorded in Brown, I, 397, and in Brown, HLQ (1974), p. 334.

    • HaG 26
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1687. Foxcroft, II, 361-78. Brown, I, 250-64.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Letter to a Dissenter

  • MS 28

    A small quarto commonplace book, of ballads, proverbs and poems, in a single hand.

    Compiled by Andrew Melville (1593-1640), Doctor in the Song School of Aberdeen in 1621-36.

    c.1621-40.

    Owned in 1886 by John Anderson, London.

    Selectively edited in Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Andrew Melville, ed. William Walker (Aberdeen, 1899).

    • DyE 35 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of an eight-stanza version, headed Off Ane Contented Mynd.

      Edited from this MS in Walker, pp. 56-7.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'

  • MS 29

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

    Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

    • CoR 279 pp. 1-15

      Copy, headed Iter Boreale: R: C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 630 pp. 15-21

      Copy, headed To my Lord Mordant: R: C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
    • CoR 342 pp. 21-4

      Copy, headed To ye Marquis on his iourney into spaine: R: C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
    • CoR 389 pp. 24-5

      Copy, headed To ye Duke of Buckingham: R: C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
    • HeR 261 pp. 25-8

      Copy, headed Hericks wellcome to sack:.

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

      Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
    • DnJ 3750 pp. 28-9

      Copy, headed I: D: to his friend trauailing:.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • StW 1066 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed To a friend: W: S:.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

      William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
    • EaJ 9 pp. 30-4

      Copy, headed An Elegy on ye death of Sr Iohn Burrowes: I: E:.

      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).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
    • CoR 247 pp. 38-9

      Copy, headed Against Price his Anniversary upon Prince Henry: R:C:.

      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.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 227 p. 40

      Copy, headed An Answear to Dctr. Price his reply.

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

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
    • CwT 1123 pp. 41-2

      Copy, headed A winters entertainment: T: C:.

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

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • CwT 1162 pp. 43-4

      Copy, headed To ye king: T: C:.

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

      Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')
    • CoR 16 pp. 44-9

      Copy.

      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).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • CoR 163 pp. 49-50

      Copy, headed On Byshopp Rains: R: C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
    • CoR 205 pp. 51-4

      Copy, headed A godly exhortation....

      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 Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      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')
    • StW 301 p. 54

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
    • MoG 87 pp. 55-6

      Copy, headed Vpon ye crowne of an hat drunk in for want of a cupp.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • CoR 79 pp. 56-7

      Copy, headed On Doctor Corbetts Father: R: C:.

      First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
    • HrJ 256 p. 57

      Copy, headed Vpon Treason:.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • DnJ 1595 pp. 58-9

      Copy, headed On Marques Hamledons death: I: D:.

      This MS recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

      John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
    • StW 1140 pp. 61-3

      Copy, headed Vpon ye recouery of a Gentleman: W: S.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

      William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
    • DnJ 2577 pp. 63-5

      Copy, headed Of perfumes: I: D:.

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

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • StW 105 pp. 65-8

      Copy, headed An Epitaph upon Mr. Fisborne ye geat London benefactor: W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor ('What are thy games, o death, if one man ly')
    • StW 438 pp. 68-70

      Copy, headed On a glasse falling on ye stones Without breaking: W: S:.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.

      William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking ('How can the Embleme of Mortality')
    • StW 945 pp. 70-3

      Copy, headed A song of Capps: W: S:.

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

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
    • StW 92 p. 74

      Copy, headed An Epitaph: W. S.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.

      William Strode, An Epitaph ('Man newly borne is at full age to die')
    • StW 365 pp. 74-5

      Copy, headed On a friends absence: W: S:.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

      William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
    • StW 742 pp. 75-7

      Copy, headed A Song: W: S.

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

      William Strode, Song ('Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys')
    • CoR 316 pp. 78-80

      Copy, headed To Sr. Thomas Aylesbury: R: C.

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

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • JnB 654 pp. 80-2

      Copy of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses, headed To ye king: B: I:.

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

      For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
    • JnB 152 pp. 82-3

      Copy, headed The body: B: J:.

      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).

      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')
    • JnB 195 pp. 83-5

      Copy, headed The minde. B: I:.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      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')
    • StW 1214 p. 88

      Copy of the second couplet, here beginning My strings cann doe what noe man could.

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

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • KiH 192 pp. 89-90

      Copy, headed On Sr. Gual. Rawleigh: J:D:.

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

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • StW 598 pp. 99-101

      Copy, headed On the death of ye young Baronet Portman, dying of ye impostume in ye head. W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

      William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
    • StW 574 pp. 101-3

      Copy, headed On ye death of Sr Thomas Pelham: W: S:.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
    • StW 624 p. 103

      Copy, headed On ye death of a twin.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

      William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
    • StW 550 pp. 103-5

      Copy, headed On ye death of Doctor Langton: W:S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.

      William Strode, On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg ('When men for injuries unsatisfied')
    • StW 529 pp. 105-6

      Copy, headed On Sr. Thomas Sauil dying of ye small poxe: W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

      William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
    • StW 97 p. 106

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Mr Bridgman: W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman ('One Pitt containes him now, who could not die')
    • CoR 456 p. 106

      Copy, headed On Mr Bowling: R: C:.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

      Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
    • StW 29 pp. 107-8

      Copy, headed An answeare to an old Soldier of ye Queenes: W: S.

      Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

      William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes ('With a new beard but lately trimd')
    • StW 926 pp. 109-10

      Copy, headed A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferrment: W: S:.

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

      William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
    • CoR 421 p. 110

      Copy, headed Vpon Tom Bell of C: Ch:.

      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).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • CoR 687 pp. 113-14

      Copy, headed On Fayrford windowes R: C.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
    • StW 484 pp. 114-16

      Copy, headed Alias. W: S:.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

      William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
    • StW 633 pp. 117-18

      Copy, headed On Westwell downes: W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

      William Strode, On Westwell Downes ('When Westwell Downes I gan to treade')
    • StW 1235 pp. 118-22

      Copy, headed On a great hollow Tree. W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

      William Strode, Westwell Elme ('Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree')
    • CoR 472 pp. 122-3

      Copy, headed On John Dawson ye Butlers Death. W: S:.

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

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • StW 443 pp. 123-5

      Copy, headed On a good legg, and a good foot: W: S.

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

      William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
    • StW 341 pp. 125-6

      Copy, headed On a Dissembler. W: S.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

      William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
    • StW 538 pp. 126-8

      Copy, headed On ye Bible: W: S:.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

      William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
    • StW 692 p. 128

      Copy, headed A register for a Bible. W: S.

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

      William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
    • StW 3 p. 128

      Copy, headed Alias. W: S.

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

      William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
    • StW 116 pp. 129-30

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sr. John Walter. Lord chiefe Baron. W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron ('Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell')
    • StW 566 pp. 130-3

      Copy, headed On ye death of Sr. Thomas Leigh: W.S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
    • StW 113 p. 133

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sr Henry Lees three Children. W: S.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children ('Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee')
    • StW 966 pp. 133-4

      Copy, headed Of death W: S:.

      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.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
    • StW 194 pp. 134-5

      Copy, headed Justification W. S:.

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

      William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
    • StW 908 pp. 135-6

      Copy, headed Vpon Orpheus. W: S..

      First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

      William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
    • StW 609 p. 136

      Copy, headed On a Fountayne. W: S. and here beginning The Dolphines twisting each on others side.

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

      William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')
    • DaJ 161 p. 136

      Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As carefull mothers to theyr bedd doe laye.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • StW 159 pp. 137-8

      Copy, headed In ye commendation of Musick. W: S.

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

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • StW 985 pp. 138-9

      Copy, headed On ye Baths. W: S:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.

      William Strode, A song on the Baths ('What Angel stirrs this happy well?')
    • StW 1212 pp. 139-40

      Copy, headed A wassall. W: S.

      First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.

      William Strode, A wassal ('This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought')
    • RaW 224 p. 141

      Copy, headed Mans life.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • HoJ 116 p. 141

      Copy, headed On a fart in ye Parlianent.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • CoR 186 pp. 141-2

      Copy, headed On Doctor Donne an epitaph. R: C.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
    • CoR 560 pp. 142-3

      Copy, headed R: C. to his sonne Vincent.

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

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • DaJ 127 p. 143

      Copy, headed Vpon a bellow=maker and here beginning Heare lyes Sim Symcock a maker of bellowes.

      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.

      Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
    • CwT 642 pp. 144-50

      Copy, headed A louers rapture. T: C.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • PoW 1 pp. 150-1

      Copy, headed Vpon a gentlewoman wth. black hayre and eyes.

      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.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • CwT 1094 pp. 152-3

      Copy, headed To his Mistris in absence. T: C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CoR 652 pp. 154-6

      Copy, headed On Mistris Mallet: R: C..

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • KiH 34 pp. 159-60

      Copy, headed The reply.

      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).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • KiH 112 pp. 161-2

      Copy, headed A louer to one yt misiudged his Mistriss.

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

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • CwT 1246.2 p. 162

      Copy, headed A louers song.

      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.

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
    • StW 727 pp. 163-4

      Copy, headed Vpon a gentlewoman seene Out of a Casemen: W: S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

      William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
    • StW 748 p. 164

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman walking in ye Snow: W: S.

      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).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • StW 837 p. 165

      Copy, headed Vpon a gentlewoman too fayre W: S.

      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.

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • StW 707 pp. 165-7

      Copy, headed On a Sigh: W: S:.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

      William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
    • StW 411 pp. 167

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman inur'd by ye Poxe: W: S:.

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

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • StW 1290 pp. 167-8

      Copy, headed A louer to his Mistresse: W: S:.

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

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • CwT 260 p. 168

      Copy, headed An Elegy on a fly: T: C:.

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

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • DnJ 75 pp. 169-71

      Copy, headed In ye Commendation of Flavua:.

      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.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • RaW 320 p. 171

      Copy, headed W: R: To his Mistris, here beginning Passions are likened best to floods, and streames, and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (RaW 500).

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
    • RaW 500 pp. 171-2

      Copy, prefixed by Passions are likened best to floods, and streames (RaW 320).

      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).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • CwT 569 pp. 172-3

      Copy, headed On a Sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistling wind.

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

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • DnJ 3192 pp. 173-5

      Copy, headed I: D: to his wife going to bedd.

      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.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • JnB 12 p. 176

      Copy of lines 21-30, headed A song and here beginning Haue you seene ye white 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).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • MoG 55 pp. 181-2

      Copy, headed On ye Nightingale: G: M:.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • StW 875 p. 184

      Copy, headed A Sonnet: W: S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • DnJ 453 pp. 184-5

      Copy, headed A gentleman to his Mrs. beeing in bedd yt shee would not rise.

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 2952 pp. 185-6

      Copy of a two-stanza version, headed Another on the same and here beginning Sweet staye a while, why doe you rise.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
    • RaW 453 p. 186

      Copy, headed Two Louers dialogue.

      Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • CwT 383 pp. 186-7

      Copy, headed A louer to his Mistris yt cared not for him: T: C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • StW 1349 p. 187

      Copy, headed On a kisse., with W. S. added in a later hand.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

      William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse ('What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene')
    • B&F 112 pp. 187-8

      Copy of the Passionate Lord's song, headed Vpon Melancholy. W: S.

      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.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • StW 643 pp. 188-9

      Copy, headed An opposite to Melancholy: W: S:.

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

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
    • CwT 38 pp. 190-1

      Copy, headed A louer to his Mrs. beeing let blood.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • StW 905 pp. 192-4

      Copy, headed A Song. W. S.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

      William Strode, Song ('When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay')
    • StW 1208 pp 194-7

      Copy, ascrbed to W: S:.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 19-21.

      William Strode, Vpon Will: Bridle, who being zealous for his Sweethart never went without a blewe Eye, and one time founde noe other remedy then chalke to hide it ('That my pen may not be idle')
    • StW 270 pp. 197-8

      Copy, headed On a blisterd lipp. W: S:.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • StW 250 p. 198

      Copy, headed A Necklace: W: S., the second stanza headed Another.

      First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

      William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
    • StW 74 p. 198

      Copy of the fourth couplet, here beginning Here silken twine, the locks you see, followed by the second couplet, headed Another and here beginning When idle wordes are passing here.

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

      William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
    • StW 378 p. 199

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman yt sung, and playd on ye lute well: W: S.

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

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • StW 210 pp. 199-200

      Copy, headed A Letter imposd: W: S.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

      William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
    • StW 1038 p. 201

      Copy, headed A souldier to Penelope. W. S.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.

      William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope ('Penelope the faire and chast')
    • StW 36 pp. 201-3

      Copy, headed Vpon ye. commendation of graye Eyes: W: S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • StW 472 p. 203

      Copy, headed On a watch made by a black Smith: W: S., here beginning A Vulcan, and a Venus seldome part.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.

      William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith ('Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part')
    • StW 665 p. 203

      Copy of the third stanza, headed Vpon Bracelets: W: S, here beginning Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee.

      Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

      William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
    • StW 361 pp. 204-5

      Copy, headed On a crooked fayre Gentlewoman dissembling, and somewhat boasting. W: S:.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.

      William Strode, On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling ('Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay')
    • StW 433 pp. 205-6

      Copy, headed On a gentlewomans watch yt. wanted a key: W: S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key ('Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares')
    • StW 1246 pp. 206-7

      Copy, headed With penn, Inke, and paper these to a distred Louer. W: S.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

      William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. ('Here is paper, pen and Inke')
    • StW 1085 pp. 207-9

      Copy, headed To a gentlewoman for a Louer. W: S.

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

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • StW 124 pp. 209-10

      Copy, ascribed to W: S.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

      William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
    • DnJ 200 p. 214

      Copy, headed An apparition of a louer.

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

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

  • MS 185

    A theological miscellany, dated 19-20 July 1555.

    Compiled by Robert Parkyn (d.1569), curate of Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire.

    1555.

    This MS collated in Yale.

    • MrT 39 ff. 217r-20r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.

      Sir Thomas More, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body

  • MS 1047

    Copy, on 261 pages, in calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Acquired in 1934.

    • HbT 9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

      Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

  • MS 2538

    A MS travel journal.

    The Triennial Travels of James Fraser (1634-1709), minister of Wardlaw, near Inverness.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Probably owned (before 1905) by Miss H.M. Paterson, of Birkwood, Banchory, a descendant of Fraser.

    • FeO 71 Vol. III, ff. 106r-26r

      Copy, based on the edition of 1652 with additions, written as part of Fraser's description of Holland, where he travelled in 1659.

      This MS discussed in Van Strien.

      First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

      Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

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