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  • Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 3/9

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a sheet of paper, with an endorsement by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, Latworthes satyre against (sic).

    c.1600.
    • RaW 147.5
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 30/72

    A quarto miscellany, 79 pages (including some blanks), compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families.

    c.1590s-1600s.

    Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 1 and 49, in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's God Knows What, EMS, 16 (2011), 70-81.

    • HoH 68 pp. 11-13

      Extracts by Stanford.

      An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
    • MrJ 9.5 pp. 49-51

      Extracts by Stanford.

      Facsimile of p. 49 in May, p. 78.

      First published in London, 1604.

      John Marston, The Malcontent
    • HkR 7.5 p. 78

      Extracts by Stanford.

      First portion published in Oxford, 1612. Additional portion first published in Keble (1836). Keble (1888), III, 597-642. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 309-61.

      Richard Hooker, A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride

  • Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 31/6.

    Copy, in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on one sheet of paper.

    Headed An Eglogue between a shepheard and a heardsman, endorsed A verse of Sr Philip Sidney.

    c.1600.

    May EV 4798.

    • GgA 19
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, An Ecloge betwen a Shephearde and a Heardsman ('Cumme gentle Heardman sitt with mee')

  • Gen. Misc. Papers 31R

    Copy, the first of five elegies on Nashe in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on f. 1r of a small folded leaf.

    c.1601.

    Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Katherine Duncan-Jones's TLS article; in her They say a made a good end Ben Jonson's Epitaph on Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson Journal, 3 (1996), 1-19; and in Robert C. Evans, Ambiguity and Balance in Jonson's New Poem on Nashe, Renaissance Papers (1998), 125-36.

    • JnB 0.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonson's epitaph on Nashe, TLS, 7 July 1995, pp. 4, 6.

      Ben Jonson, Ad. charissimam memoriam Th. Nashi amici dilectissimi Beniamin Jons. hoc elegidium consecrauit ('Mortals yt yet respire wth plenteous breathe')

  • Select Books 85

    A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

    c.1600.
    • CoH 83 p. 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 3. Grundy, p. 183.

      Henry Constable, To God the Father ('Greate God: within whose symple essence, wee')
    • CoH 87 p. 3

      Copy, here beginning Younge Prince of Heauen begotten of that Kinge.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, pp. 183-4.

      Henry Constable, To God the Sonne ('Greate Prynce of heaven begotten of that kyng')
    • CoH 85 p. 4

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, p. 184.

      Henry Constable, To God the Holy-ghost. ('Aeternall spryght: which art in heaven the Love')
    • CoH 140 p. 4

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 5. Grundy, pp. 184-5.

      Henry Constable, To the blessed Sacrament. ('When thee (O holy sacrificed Lambe)')
    • CoH 100 p. 5

      Copy, headed To our Ladye.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

      Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')
    • CoH 132 p. 5

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, p. 186.

      Henry Constable, To St Mychaell the Archangel. ('When as the prynce of Angells puft'd with pryde')
    • CoH 118 p. 6

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, pp. 186-7.

      Henry Constable, To St Iohn the Baptist. ('As Anne longe barren, Mother dyd become')
    • CoH 134 p. 6

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, p. 187.

      Henry Constable, To St Peter and St Paul ('He that for feare hys mayster dyd denye')
    • CoH 126 p. 7

      Copy, headed To St Mary Maudlyn.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, pp. 187-8.

      Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen ('For fewe nyghtes solace in delitious bedd')
    • CoH 120 p. 7

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, p. 188.

      Henry Constable, To St Kathayne. ('Because thow wast the daughter of a kyng')
    • CoH 122 p. 8

      Copy.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, pp. 188-9.

      Henry Constable, To St Margarett. ('Fayre Amazon of heaven: who took'st in hand')
    • CoH 117 p. 8

      Copy.

      Unpublished.

      Henry Constable, To St Collett on the day of her ffeaste and his natiuitye ('This day (oh blessed virgin) is the daye')
    • CoH 111 p. 9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 189.

      Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('Sovereigne of Queenes: If vayne Ambition move')
    • CoH 115 p. 9

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 190.

      Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady. ('Why should I any love O queene but thee?')
    • CoH 113 p. 10

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, pp. 190-1.

      Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady. ('Sweete Queene: although thy beuty rayse vpp mee')
    • CoH 124 p. 10

      Copy, headed To the Blessed sinner St Mary Mawdlyn.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, p. 191.

      Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen. ('Blessed Offendour: who thyselfe haist try'd')
    • CoH 128 p. 11

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 11. Grundy, pp. 191-2.

      Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen ('Such as retyr'd from sight of men, lyke thee')
    • CoH 130 p. 11

      Copy, untitled.

      This poem deliberately omitted from Heliconia because of its indecorous (i.e. erotic) elements. Grundy, p. 192.

      Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen ('Sweete Saynt: Thow better canst declare to me')
    • CoH 139 p. 12

      Copy.

      Unpublished.

      Henry Constable, To the Blessed Martir Marye Queene of Scotland ('I write of tears, and blud at on time shed')
    • CoH 19 p. 12

      Copy, untitled.

      Unpublished.

      Henry Constable, 'It is not pompe of solemne funerall'
    • CoH 18 p. 13

      Copy, untitled.

      Unpublished.

      Henry Constable, 'I doe the wronge (o Queene) in that I saye'

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