Belton House, Grantham

[Belton MS]

• WaE 258.5 ff. 1r-4v

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  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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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!')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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)')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• WaE 518.5 f. 28r

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

  Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
• 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!')
• WaE 2.5 f. 29r-v

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

  Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
• 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')
• 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')
• WaE 597.5 f. 32r-v

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  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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• WaE 338.5 f. 36r-v

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  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')
• 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')
• WaE 312.5 f. 37v

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  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')
• WaE 360.5 ff. 37v-8r

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

  Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
• 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')
• WaE 116.5 ff. 38v-9r

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  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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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!)')
• 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!')
• WaE 235.5 ff. 51v-2r

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  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!')
• 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')
• WaE 252.5 ff. 52v-3r

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

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

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  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')
• WaE 444.5 f. 54r-v

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

  Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
• 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!')
• 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'
• WaE 439.5 f. 55v-r

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

  Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
• 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'
• WaE 451.5 f. 56v

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

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

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

  Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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!')
• 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')
• 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')
• 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')
• WaE 93.5 ff. 60v-2v

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  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')
• 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')
• WaE 8.5 ff. 63v-4r

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

  Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')
• 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!')