Belton House, Grantham

[Belton MS]

A folio volume of 73 poems by Edmund Waller, in an accomplished professional mixed hand, a few songs, with music, added at the end probably partly in another hand, x + 124 leaves, in calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. 48r) Robert Binnes and (on a rear flyleaf) John Brownlowe: i.e. very probably Sir John Brownlowe (1659-97), the builder of Belton House, the phrase ex dono deleted. The MS discovered by Dr Peter Hoare in the 1990s.

WaE 258.5 ff. 1r-4v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain') | Catalogue
WaE 198.2 f. 4v-5v

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

Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care') | Catalogue
WaE 611.2 ff. 5v-6v

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

Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings') | Catalogue
WaE 679.5 ff. 6v-8r

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

Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore') | Catalogue
WaE 247.5 f. 8r-9r

Copy, headed Of the taking of Sally.

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

Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old') | Catalogue
WaE 637.5 ff. 9r-10v

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

Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight') | Catalogue
WaE 413.5 ff. 10v-11r

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.

Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power') | Catalogue
WaE 13.5 ff. 11r-12r

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

Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair') | Catalogue
WaE 304.5 ff. 12r-13v

Copy, headed Of, and to the Queen.

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

Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build') | Catalogue
WaE 631.5 f. 14r-v

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

Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears') | Catalogue
WaE 46.5 ff. 14v-16v

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

Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear') | Catalogue
WaE 52.5 ff. 15v-16v

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

Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired') | Catalogue
WaE 172.5 ff. 16v-17r

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

Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive') | Catalogue
WaE 96.5 f. 17r-v

Copy of a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her.

First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare') | Catalogue
WaE 24.5 ff. 17v-18v

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

Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer') | Catalogue
WaE 18.2 ff. 18v-19v

Copy, here beginning Had Dorothea liu'd when Mortalls made.

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

Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made') | Catalogue
WaE 329.5 ff. 19v-20r

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

Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!') | Catalogue
WaE 267.5 f. 20r-v

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

Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies') | Catalogue
WaE 294.5 ff. 20v-1r

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night') | Catalogue
WaE 187.5 f. 21r-v

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

Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)') | Catalogue
WaE 577.5 f. 21v-2v

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

Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan') | Catalogue
WaE 512.5 ff. 22v-3r

Copy, headed To my Lady Lucy Sidney.

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

Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth') | Catalogue
WaE 645.5 ff. 23r-4r

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

Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear') | Catalogue
WaE 563.5 ff. 24r-5r

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

Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due') | Catalogue
WaE 557.5 f. 25r-6v

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

Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades') | Catalogue
WaE 524.5 ff. 26v-8r

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know') | Catalogue
WaE 518.5 f. 28r

No description or publication history available.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way') | Catalogue
WaE 351.5 ff. 28v-9r

Copy, headed Of the freindship betwixtSacharissa and Amoret.

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

Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!') | Catalogue
WaE 2.5 f. 29r-v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care') | Catalogue
WaE 569.5 f. 30r-v

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

Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes') | Catalogue
WaE 468.5 ff. 31r-2r

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

Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride') | Catalogue
WaE 597.5 f. 32r-v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay') | Catalogue
WaE 591.5 ff. 32v-3v

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

Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you') | Catalogue
WaE 651.5 ff. 33v-4v

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

Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves') | Catalogue
WaE 70.5 ff. 34v-5r

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First published in Poems (London, 1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53.

Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos') | Catalogue
WaE 458.5 f. 35r-v

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

Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train') | Catalogue
WaE 223.5 f. 35v

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

Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair') | Catalogue
WaE 338.5 f. 36r-v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine') | Catalogue
WaE 479.5 ff. 36v-7r

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

Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried') | Catalogue
WaE 312.5 f. 37v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine') | Catalogue
WaE 360.5 ff. 37v-8r

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength') | Catalogue
WaE 494.5 f. 38r-v

Copy, headed To a Lady in retirement.

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

Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes') | Catalogue
WaE 116.5 ff. 38v-9r

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace') | Catalogue
WaE 217.5 f. 39r-v

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

Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind') | Catalogue
WaE 418.5 f. 40r-v

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

Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less') | Catalogue
WaE 30.5 ff. 40v-6r

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight') | Catalogue
WaE 690.5 ff. 46r-8r

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

Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains') | Catalogue
WaE 205.5 ff. 48r-9r

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

Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows') | Catalogue
WaE 624.5 ff. 49r-50v

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

Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part') | Catalogue
WaE 126.5 f. 51r

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

Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known') | Catalogue
WaE 583.5 f. 51r

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

Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)') | Catalogue
WaE 77.5 f. 51r-v

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First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!') | Catalogue
WaE 235.5 ff. 51v-2r

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!') | Catalogue
WaE 72.5 f. 52r-v

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

Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way') | Catalogue
WaE 252.5 ff. 52v-3r

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 97.

Edmund Waller, Of Sylvia ('Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares') | Catalogue
WaE 39.5 f. 53r-v

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 98. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Edmund Waller, The Bud ('Lately on yonder swelling bush') | Catalogue
WaE 444.5 f. 54r-v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find') | Catalogue
WaE 35.5 ff. 54v-5r

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

Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!') | Catalogue
WaE 83.2 f. 55v-6r

Copy, headed A Song.

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

Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose' | Catalogue
WaE 439.5 f. 55v-r

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!') | Catalogue
WaE 734.5 f. 56r-v

Copy, headed Song.

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

Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice' | Catalogue
WaE 451.5 f. 56v

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.

Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay') | Catalogue
WaE 537.5 f. 57r

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage') | Catalogue
WaE 502.5 f. 57v

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First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel') | Catalogue
WaE 290.5 ff. 57v-8v

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First published, as On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive') | Catalogue
WaE 674.5 ff. 58v-9r

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First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.

Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson ('Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!') | Catalogue
WaE 544.5 f. 59r-v

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First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.

Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible ('How bold a work attempts that pen') | Catalogue
WaE 42.5 f. 60r-v

No description or publication history available.

First published, as On the approaching Spring, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.

Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas ('Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute') | Catalogue
WaE 667.5 f. 60v

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

Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay') | Catalogue
WaE 93.5 ff. 60v-2v

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses ('Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise') | Catalogue
WaE 475.5 ff. 62v-3r

Copy, headed To A. H. of the different succese of their Loues.

First published, as The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know') | Catalogue
WaE 8.5 ff. 63v-4r

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.

Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use') | Catalogue
WaE 658.5 ff. 64r-5r

Copy, headed Palamede to Zelinde.

First published, as The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6 in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.

Edmund Waller, To Zelinda ('Fairest piece of well-formed earth!') | Catalogue

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