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MS 422

• CwT 655.5 pp. 9-13

  Copy, headed A Lovers Rapture.

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

  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
• StW 977 p. 16

  Copy.

  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 1197 pp. 16-18

  Copy, headed A translation out of Strada by M^r Strode of y^e lutanist and y^e nightingale.

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

  William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
• CoR 454.5 pp. 21-2

  Copy, headed On Tom by of Chr: Chur:.

  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')
• KiH 460.5 p. 22

  Copy, headed A midnight meditation.

  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.

  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
• WoH 196.3 p. 22

  Copy, headed On a gentleman dyinge soone after his wife and here beginning She first deceased, he after lived and dyed.

  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.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
• CoR 369.5 pp. 24-6

  Copy, headed To the Marquesse of Buckingham on his returne from Spaine.

  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')
• StW 620 pp. 26-7

  Copy, headed On a fountaine.

  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r 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')
• PoW 97 pp. 27-8

  Copy.

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

  Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
• StW 1346 p. 28

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

  William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')
• EaJ 57.5 pp. 29-30

  Copy, headed Vppon the death of y^e Earle of Pembroke.

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

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
• CoR 78.5 p. 30

  Copy of the first six lines, headed An Elegie made by D^r Corbet on the late lord S^r William Howard baron of Effingham; imperfect, lacking the rest.

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

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')
• StW 735 pp. 32-3

  Copy, headed Vppon a Ladie as he sawe her out of a casement walkeing in y^e streete.

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

  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
• StW 354 pp. 33-4

  Copy.

  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')
• EaJ 33.5 pp. 34-7

  Copy, headed On the death of s^r John Burroughes slaine in the night at y^e Ile Rhees by a Musket bullet from y^e fort.

  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')
• StW 952 pp. 37-8

  Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Verses on the cap by M^r Stroude.

  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 1370 p. 42

  Copy, headed Of a ladies blush.

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

  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
• DnJ 3214.3 pp. 43-4

  Copy, headed To his mistres as shee was comming to bed.

  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')
• DnJ 323.5 pp. 44-5

  Copy, headed An inuitation to M^es to come and fish.

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

  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
• StW 174 p. 45

  Copy.

  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')
• CwT 592.8 p. 46

  Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning goe then gentle whispring winde.

  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')
• CwT 833.5 p. 47

  Copy, headed On his M^rs singing in a gallery at Yorke house.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
• StW 152 p. 47

  Copy, headed On a ladies girdle.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
• CoR 387.5 p. 50

  Copy of a two-line version, headed verses uerste on his M^rs lecke and beginning Pretty lute when I am gon tell thy M^rs there was one.

  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

  Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

  Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
• JnB 649.5 pp. 51-3

  Copy, headed The deuills inuitation by' cooke lawrell.

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

  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
• BrW 176.5 p. 53

  Copy, headed Of on drowned in a great snow.

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

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• KiH 368.5 p. 55

  Copy, headed A farewell to y^e world.

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

  Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
• BrW 95.5 p. 55

  Copy, headed Of an infant unborne, the mother therof dying in travell.

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

  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
• StW 1099 pp. 55-6

  Copy, headed to A gentlewoman.

  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')
• RaW 287.5 p. 56

  Copy of an eight-line version, headed Of 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')
• RaW 176.5 pp. 57-9

  Copy, headed S^r Water Raulies farewell to y^e wourld.

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
• StW 1100 pp. 64-5

  Copy, headed To a gentlewoman for his friend.

  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')
• HrJ 208.5 p. 65

  Copy, headed Vppon a puritane and here beginning A holie maide by one of her societie.

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

  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
• CwT 950.5 p. 66

  Copy, headed To his coy M^rs, here beginning I burne (o cruell) y^t in vaine.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

  Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
• StW 281 pp. 66-7

  Copy, headed On a lady hauing a sprouting lip.

  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')
• CoR 727.5 p. 67

  Copy, headed On a comet which appeared before I: fines death and the prince his goinge to Spaine.

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

  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
• StW 1228 p. 69

  Copy, headed On a watch.

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

  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
• DnJ 467.5 p. 69

  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman newly married.

  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?')
• RaW 122.8 p. 96

  Copy, headed A Louer to his M^rs.

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

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
• CmT 129.5 p. 100

  Copy of the first four lines only, headed A Old Man to his M^rs.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

  Thomas Campion, 'Though you are yoong and I am olde'
• HeR 411.5 pp. 103-4

  Copy, headed On a cherystone hauing the picture of death on one side and a gentlewoman on y^e other.

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

  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
• CoR 685.5 p. 106

  Copy of lines 1-10, untitled; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.

  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')