Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection

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MS Ashmole 36/37

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
- LoR 28 f. 3r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics (London, 1928), pp. 228-9, 483; recorded in C.H. Wilkinson, Richard Lovelace, TLS (14 August 1937), p. 592.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
  
  Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
- ClJ 15 ff. 21v-2r
  
  Copy, headed A Dyalogue of two zealotts and here beginning S^r Roger, from a peece of zealous freeze.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- MnJ 21 f. 22r
  
  Copy of an early version, headed Vpon a Clocke Case, or Dyall.
  
  This MS collated in Darbishire.
  
  First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 25-6. Darbishire, II, 131. Carey & Fowler, pp. 165-6.
  
  John Milton, On Time ('Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race')
- DaW 43 f. 22v
  
  Copy, subscribed in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92) Will: Davenant.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gibbs (bis).
  
  First published in A. M. Gibbs, A Davenant Imitation of Donne?, RES, NS 18 (1967), 45-8. Gibbs (1972), p. 272.
  
  Sir William Davenant, 'Search all the world about'
- B&F 113 f. 26r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled, in a column faced on the right by an answer poem beginning Come all my deare delights.
  
  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')
- ToA 26 ff. 27v-8r
  
  Copy, headed A Paradox.
  
  This MS text recorded in Brown.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
- CmT 161 f. 29r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.
  
  First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
- JnB 607 f. 29r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
  
  First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).
  
  Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song ('Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide')
- DnJ 201 ff. 29v-30r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  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')
- PoW 101 f. 30v
  
  Copy, headed To a lady richly adorned with jewels, being more beautiful, here beginning Fair lady cast those diamonds away.
  
  First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).
  
  Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses ('Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away')
- DeJ 27 f. 32r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on Judge Crooke.
  
  First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
  
  Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
- DeJ 61 f. 33v
  
  Copy, headed An Eligie on y^e Earle of Strafford.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
- RaW 225 f. 35r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  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')
- JnB 308 f. 48v
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, headed To the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty The humble Petcon of your Poet To your Maiestye dooth shew it, here beginning Whereas late your Royal father, and subscribed B. Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.
  
  Ben Jonson, The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles ('That whereas your royall Father')
- JnB 521 ff. 49r-50r
  
  Copy, headed Ode on the death of S^r: Henry Morison to the noble S^r: Lucius Cary.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison ('Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare')
- MrJ 18 f. 50v
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- SuJ 16 f. 51v-2r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
  
  John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
- CwT 820 f. 52v
  
  Copy, headed Upon Caelia's singing in y^e vault at Yorke howse.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- SuJ 216 f. 53v
  
  Copy, here beginning I tell thee [fellowe] foole who e're thou be.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
  
  John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
- CoR 190 f. 60r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Dunne Deane of Powles.
  
  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')
- DnJ 399 f. 61v
  
  Copy, headed The Chayne, subscribed J. Done.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- DaW 97 f. 69v
  
  Copy of the Witches' Second Song, untitled and here beginning Letts dance a dance upon the Heath.
  
  Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Macbeth, II, [v]. Song ('Let's have a dance upon the Heath')
- CoR 732 f. 70r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Like to the fiery touchstone of a Cabage.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, pp. 220-1; recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.
  
  First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
  
  Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
- DeJ 87 ff. 71r-2v
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hampdens Speech ag^st peace, on two folio leaves.
  
  First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.
  
  Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
- DeJ 42 ff. 88r-9r
  
  Copy on three pages of two folio leaves.
  
  First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
- DeJ 100 f. 97r
  
  Copy, headed The Humble Peticon of the Poets to the 5 Members, on one side of a single folio leaf.
  
  First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.
  
  Sir John Denham, To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Petition of the Poets ('After so many Concurring Petitions')
- DaW 71 f. 106r
  
  Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, chewed by rodents.
  
  This MS collated in Gibbs.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 61-2.
  
  Sir William Davenant, To the Queene, upon a New-yeares day ('You of the Guard make way! and you that keepe')
- StW 65 f. 114r-v
  
  Copy of an untitled version beginning A Ridle a Ridlea me neighbour John.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
  
  William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
- MaA 290 f. 117r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Clarendon House built by the Lord Chancell^r: Hyde a°. 1665. on the Hill ag^t. S^t. James's and here beginning Here lye the consecrated bones, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
- HrJ 28 f. 117v
  
  Copy, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- HoJ 275 f. 121r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph made vpon Egrimond Thyn by S^riant Hoskins and here beginning Hic iacet Egrimontanus, on one side of a half-folio leaf of verse.
  
  Clark, I, 424. Osborn, No. V (p. 169).
  
  John Hoskyns, 'Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus'
- PeW 70 f. 124r
  
  Copy, headed On ffreindship D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- HrJ 29 f. 126r
  
  Second copy.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- ShJ 65 f. 127r-v
  
  Copy of lines 1-30, 34-5, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Armstrong and in Howarth.
  
  First published in R.G. Howard, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.
  
  James Shirley, A Songe ('Coblers and Coopers and the rest')
- SuJ 146 f. 129r
  
  Copy, headed S^r John Sucklings letter to his friend on one side of a single folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
  
  John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
- SuJ 197 f. 130r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
  
  John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
- SuJ 217 f. 130v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
  
  John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
- HoJ 39 ff. 131r-2r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Downe came graue auncient Sargeant Croke, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
  
  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
- SuJ 1 ff. 134r, 135r
  
  Copy, untitled, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves, gnawed at the corner by rodents.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
  
  John Suckling, Against Absence ('My whining Lover, what needs all')
- SuJ 38 f. 135r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published, as Song, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 51-2.
  
  John Suckling, Loves Feast ('I pray thee spare me, gentle Boy')
- SiP 160 f. 143v
  
  Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed On a Mayden and here beginning A prettie seale of virgine wax, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
  
  Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 ('What toong can her perfections tell')
- CmT 121 f. 145r
  
  Copy, headed Old: Young, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
  
  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'
- GrF 35 f. 145r
  
  Copy of the couplet, headed Treason and here beginning Treason is like the Basiliscus eye, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
  
  Bullough, II, 118.
  
  Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
- HrJ 257 f. 145r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e same [i.e. Treason], in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
  
  First published in 1615; 1618, Book IV, No. 5; McClure No.l 259, p. 255.
  
  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?')
- HoJ 310 f. 145v
  
  Copy, in double columns, headed M^r Poldens delight of N: Coll: Oxf: and here beginning O loue whose force & might, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- HrJ 258 f. 159v
  
  Second copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason did neu psp; what's y^e Reason.
  
  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?')
- JnB 530 f. 159v
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnson on y^e Parliam^t:, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 159r-62v).
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the Parliament ('There's reason good, that you good lawes should make')
- JnB 361 f. 166r
  
  Copy of a version of lines 56-65 (here beginning Procures all Plenty & our Flocke encrease) incorporated as lines 14-23 in a copy of Nicholas Lanier's A Pastorall Song to the King on Newyeares day: Ano. Dni. 1663[/4?] (beginning Looke shephards looke, old Janus doth vnfold), on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 263-5.
  
  Ben Jonson, A New-yeares-Gift sung to King Charles. 1635 ('To day old Janus opens the new yeare')
- CaW 21 f. 171r-v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Vpon a Gentlewomans silke hood, on one of two conjugate folio leaves of verse.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.
  
  William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood ('Is there a Sanctity in Love begun')
- FeO 20 f. 172r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on y^e ho^ble. & Excellent M^ris M: Coventry. p[er] Owen ffeltham, on a folio leaf.
  
  Edited from this MS in Robertson and in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Jean Robertson, The Poems of Owen Felltham, MLN, 58 (1943), 388-90. Pebworth & Summers, pp. 77-8, among Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham.
  
  Owen Felltham, An Elegie on the honorable and Excellent Mistress M. Coventry ('I might persuade she were not dead and cry')
- CoR 597 f. 174r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett to y^e ladyes of y^e new dresse, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 14 f. 174r-v
  
  Copy, headed Their Answer, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- HeR 321 f. 176v
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, headed On the Lipps, with other verse on a single quarto leaf.
  
  This MS recorded in Cain.
  
  First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).
  
  Robert Herrick, Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs ('Why what are lips but earth burnt read')
- CwT 643 ff. 197r-8v
  
  Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- DoC 283 f. 199r
  
  Copy, untitled, with other verse in a different hand, on a single folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Phyllis ('Phyllis, though your powerful charms')
- ClJ 212 f. 199v
  
  Copy.
  
  Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.
  
  John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
- DaW 82 f. 200r
  
  Copy of Viola's song, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed with three staves of music.
  
  First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.
  
  Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song ('Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!')
- HoJ 91 f. 213r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hoskins his Dreame in the Tower, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- HoJ 231 f. 213r
  
  Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- DeJ 62 f. 214r
  
  Second copy, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves, endorsed Verses on the Earle of Strafford.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
- LoR 50 f. 217r
  
  Copy, headed An Epode and beginning with the second stanza (here beginning Before I doe begin to Love).
  
  Edited from this MS in Dosia Reichardt, Some Unnoticed Lovelace Manuscripts, N&Q, 247 (2002), 336-8.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 44-6. Wilkinson (1930), pp. 48-51.
  
  Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta. From Prison. An Epode ('Long in thy Shackels, liberty')
- KiH 328 ff. 253r-4r
  
  Copy, headed An Ellegye by D^r Harry Kinge on the death of his wife, on two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
  
  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
- CoR 733 f. 256r
  
  Copy, headed D^r: Corbets nonsence, on a single folio leaf.
  
  First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
  
  Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
- JnB 271 f. 257r
  
  Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. The text accompanied by the original Latin version by Girolamo Amaltei.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- CoR 22 f. 258r-v
  
  Copy, in double columns, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves of verse.
  
  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 433 ff. 260r, 261r, 260v
  
  Copy, headed To Yonge Tom, on two conjugate quarto leaves.
  
  Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149; printed in H.T. Ellacombe, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 2 (20 December 1862), 493-5.
  
  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')
- DrJ 152 f. 267r-v
  
  Copy, followed (ff. 267v-8r) by the Epilogue by the Doctor, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  This MS recorded in Kinsley.
  
  First published in The Rival Ladies (London, 1664). Kinsley, I, 34. California, VIII, 103. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 84-6.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue To the Rival-Ladies (''Tis much Desir'd you Judges of the Town')
- SuJ 17 f. 292r
  
  Second copy, untitled, in double columns on one side of a single folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
  
  John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
- HeR 304 f. 298r
  
  Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (erroneously cited as Ashmole MS. 38), in Martin and in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445-6. Martin, p. 413. Patrick, pp. 74-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Charroll presented to Dr. Williams Bp. of Lincolne as a Newyears guift ('Fly hence Pale Care, noe more remember')
- HrE 63 f. 305r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')
MS Ashmole 38

A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.
- WoH 219 p. 1a
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Donn's valadiction to the worlde.
  
  This MS recorded in Hannah.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- BcF 2 p. 2
  
  Copy headed On mans Mortalite by [Doctor Donn deleted] S^r Fran: Bacon.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- KiH 416 p. 3
  
  Copy, headed On hauing married an Ill fauored Woman his frind wrighte thus to hymm.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
  
  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
- StW 1306 p. 4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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 872 p. 4
  
  Copy, headed On his Soules Mistris I.M..
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- HeR 57 p. 4
  
  Copy, headed A forsaken Ladye that dyde for Loue.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- JnB 196 p. 5
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  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')
- JnB 153 pp. 5-6
  
  Copy, here ascribed to Geo: Ghapman.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  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')
- CwT 157 p. 7
  
  Copy, headed An Inuectiue Against his M^ris.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- StW 770 p. 9
  
  Copy, here beginning I saw fayre Celia walke alone.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 49.
  
  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')
- CwT 236 p. 9
  
  Copy, headed The Amourouse fly.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
  
  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')
- ChG 1 p. 10
  
  Copy, ascribed to Ge. Chapman.
  
  Edited from this MS in Shepherd and in Bartlett.
  
  First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 373-4.
  
  George Chapman, Epicures Frugallitie ('Frugallitie is no philosophie')
- RnT 503 p. 13
  
  Copy, ascribed to Th. Jay.
  
  Collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- DnJ 1578 p. 14
  
  Copy, headed To Christ, subscribed finis D Donn.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
- ChG 5 pp. 16-18
  
  Edited from this MS in Bartlett.
  
  First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 347-8.
  
  George Chapman, An Invective Wrighten by Mr. George Chapman against Mr. Ben: Johnson ('Greate-Learned wittie-Ben: be pleasd to light')
- MrJ 55 p. 19
  
  Copy, ascribed to John Marston.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
- FeO 44 p. 20
  
  Copy, headed On the Murder of the Ducke of Buck 1628.
  
  Edited from this MS in Poems and Songs relating to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; and his Assassination by John Felton, August 23, 1628, ed. Frederick W. Fairholt (Percy Society, London, 1850), pp. 54-5. The MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
  
  Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')
- RnT 337 pp. 21-2
  
  Copy, headed On A Gentlewoman that had A most Excellent sweet Voyce; but A most Ouglye deformed face.
  
  This MS collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
- MrJ 56 p. 25
  
  Copy, ascribed to John Marston.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
- CwT 673 p. 25
  
  Copy, headed A gentle man that had a M^ris, and after was constrayned to marry a nother, the first was a frayd that hee would reveale to his new wyfe thair secreet loues whereuppon hee wrights thus to hur and here beginning Thynke not dear Loue that Ile reueale.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 12.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- PoW 2 p. 30
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that thought hur selfe not fayre because hur hur [sic] heare and eyes weare blacke.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  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 96 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy, headed In praise of the excellent composure of his mistress.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- CwT 1283 p. 36
  
  Copy, headed On a Whore and here beginning Hayle shamles modell of a cursed whore.
  
  Lines 1-12 printed from this MS in Powell, p. 295; collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.
  
  Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett ('Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore')
- WiG 24 p. 38
  
  Copy of a verse appeal to Prince Charles, here ascribed to Wither and evidently written not long after his release from prison (after 15 March 1621/2 and before 17 February 1622/3).
  
  Edited from this MS in Pritchard.
  
  First published in Allan Pritchard, An Unpublished Poem by George Wither, MP, 61 (1963-4), 120-1.
  
  George Wither, M^r George Withers, to the king when hee was Prince of wales ('Thoughe to bee to Obsequious weare a Sinn')
- ShJ 28 p. 39
  
  Copy of a seven-stanza version headed Cardias Garden and beginning Faine would I haue A plott of Ground.
  
  This MS collated in Howarth and recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 16-17.
  
  James Shirley, The Garden ('This Garden does not take my eyes')
- DnJ 2848 pp. 40-3
  
  Copy, headed A Satire against the Court wrighten by Doctor Dunne. In Queene Elizabeths Raigne.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
  
  John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
- DnJ 846 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed A Comination wrigten by D. Donn.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
  
  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
- BrW 233.5 p. 49
  
  Copy, unascribed.
  
  Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres ('Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe')
- BrW 235 p. 50
  
  Copy, headed The answer [to He that would my mri^s know] by him that was suspected.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, 'Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know'
- KiH 778 p. 51
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
  
  Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
- CoH 1 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed A Calculation vppon the birth of the Ladye Riches Daughter borne Anno 1588, & on A friday.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3^r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.
  
  Henry Constable, A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. ('Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see')
- CoH 142 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed To the two sisters Margarett Countess of Cumberland And Anne Countess of Warwicke and numbered 3.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.
  
  Henry Constable, To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. ('Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine')
- CoH 13 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed To the Fairest that hath bene 1.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonetto primo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.
  
  Henry Constable, The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne')
- CoH 9 p. 52
  
  Copy, untitled, numbered 2.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto terzo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.
  
  Henry Constable, An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. ('Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high')
- CoH 29 p. 53
  
  Copy, headed 3.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto settimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.
  
  Henry Constable, Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. ('A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue')
- CoH 52 p. 53
  
  Copy, headed 2.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto decimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare')
- CoH 63 p. 53
  
  Copy, headed 5.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto sedeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 3. ('Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed')
- CoH 68 p. 53
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto vndeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 5. ('Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught')
- CoH 34 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed 7.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto nono, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.
  
  Henry Constable, Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. ('Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte')
- CoH 20 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed 8.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto quindeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.
  
  Henry Constable, The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move')
- CoH 56 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed 9.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue')
- CoH 157 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed 10.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.
  
  Henry Constable, To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote')
- CoH 73 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed 11.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published, as Sonnetto ottauo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 6. ('If true loue might true loues reward obtayne')
- CoH 66 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed 12.
  
  This MS collated in Grundy.
  
  First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.
  
  Henry Constable, Sonet 4. ('Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find')
- RnT 189 pp. 56-7
  
  Copy, headed M^r Thomas Randalls Expostulation w^th his Credditors.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
- ToA 80 p. 58
  
  Copy, headed To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady, ascribed to M^r. Souch Townlye.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady ('It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he')
- RnT 264 p. 58
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse ('Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been')
- RaW 438 p. 59
  
  Copy, headed Verses Made by S^r walter Raleigh the night before hee was beheaded.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.
  
  First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
  This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
- JnB 256 p. 62
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 294.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter ('Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short')
- DnJ 3193 p. 63
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  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')
- CoR 598 p. 65
  
  Copy, headed Docter Corbettes verses on the Ladies of the New dress.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 14.5 p. 65
  
  Copy, headed Their Answere.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- CoR 556 p. 65
  
  Copy, subscribed finis D D. Corbett.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
  
  First published in Gilchrist (1807), p. 234. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 91-2.
  
  Richard Corbett, Replye to the Answere ('Yff nought but love-charmes power have')
- RnT 76 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy, headed An Eglogue by M^r Tho: Randall.
  
  This MS collated (as Ash) in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination ('Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?')
- JnB 411 p. 67
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Right Honourable, and vertuous Lord Weston, L. high Treasurer of England, Vpon the Day, Hee was made Earle of Portland, To the Envious ('Looke up, thou seed of envie, and still bring')
- StW 1079 p. 68
  
  Copy, headed M^r Carew to his friend.
  
  Edited from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), II, 659, and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 164.
  
  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')
- CwT 627 pp. 68-71
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- FeO 1 p. 71
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.
  
  Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. ('Come leave this saucy way')
- JnB 525 p. 74
  
  Copy of lines 1-18.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie ('This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre')
- AlW 168 p. 74
  
  Copy of the English translation by Holland, headed In duos Reginaldas fratres inter de relligione certantes et in Contrarice, here beginning Betwixt two brothers..., subscribed per Gulielmus Alablaster.
  
  A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.
  
  William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
- BmF 56 pp. 76-7
  
  Copy, headed On his deseased M^risan Inuictiue Eligie.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
- DrM 50 pp. 77-78
  
  Edited from this MS in Elton and in Hebel.
  
  First published in Oliver Elton, Michael Drayton (London, 1905), p. 210. Hebel, I, 507.
  
  Michael Drayton, These verses weare made by Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Laureatt the night before hee dyed ('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I')
- JnB 368 pp. 80-1
  
  Printed from this MS in The New Inn, ed. G.B. Tennant (New York, 1908); collated in Herford & Simpson, and in Tom Davis, Ben Johnson's Ode to Himself: An Early Version, PQ, 51.i (1972), 410-21.
  
  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
- JnB 502 p. 82
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, To my Detractor ('My verses were commended, thou dar'st say')
- HrJ 290 p. 84
  
  Copy of a version beginning Wemen or noble vertuos excellent.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')
- JnB 36 p. 84
  
  Copy, headed On Begging A kiss of his M^ris.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe')
- HrJ 167 p. 85
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
- HeR 308 pp. 88-90
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt; edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman ('Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses')
- HeR 45 pp. 90-2
  
  Copy, headed In praise of the Country Life.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')
- HeR 200 pp. 93-4
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hericke his charge to his wife and here beginning Goe: and with....
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')
- HeR 357 pp. 94-6
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hericke his daughter's Dowrye.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.
  
  Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more')
- CwT 598 p. 98^a
  
  Edited from this MS in Fry and in Dunlap.
  
  First published in John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Dunlap. p. 135.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme the first ('Happie the man that dothe not walke')
- CwT 599 p. 98^a
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 ('Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell')
- CwT 601 p. 98^b
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 ('Good god vnlock thy Magazines')
- CwT 619 pp. 98^b-c
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 ('Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite')
- CwT 621 p. 98^c
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 ('When the seed of Jacob fledd')
- CwT 624 pp. 98^c-d
  
  Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 137 ('Sitting by the streames that Glide')
- CwT 603 pp. 98^d-e
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 ('Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell')
- CwT 609 pp. 98^e-f
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
- HeR 336 pp. 99-100
  
  Copy, headed King Oberons Apparell and here ascribed to S^r. Simon steward.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated in Farmer.
  
  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
  
  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
- HeR 177 pp. 100-1
  
  Copy, headed Kinge Obrons Feast and without the preliminary lines.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated in Martin.
  
  First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
- HeR 190 pp. 101-3, 105
  
  Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines 69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.
  
  Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70; collated in Martin.
  
  First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace ('Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red')
- JnB 471 p. 103
  
  Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published (?) in Herford & Simpson, VIII (1947), 382-3.
  
  Ben Jonson, A speach presented vnto king James at a tylting in the behalfe of the two noble Brothers s^r Robert & s^r Henrye Rich, now Earles of warwick and Hollande ('Two noble knightes, whom true desire and zeale')
- HeR 360 pp. 106-7
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie ('I have behelde two louers in a night')
- HeR 128.5 p. 114
  
  Copy of a version in which some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus a chorus, headed 11^th Song and beginning Come hether my Lads a while.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
  
  Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')
- StW 1262 p. 116
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
- JnB 257 p. 117
  
  Copy of a short version beginning Our Royall king & Queene, God Bless.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
- WoH 64 p. 118
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed the 13 songe.
  
  This MS recorded in Leishman.
  
  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
- CmT 28 p. 120
  
  Copy of the first strophe.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'
- ShJ 42 p. 120
  
  Copy, headed Songe the 19^th.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499. Armstrong, p. 34.
  
  James Shirley, The Kisse ('I could endure your Eie, although it shott')
- DnJ 3751 p. 121
  
  Copy of a version headed Song the 21 and beginning As dying saints who sweetly pass away, subscribed S Butterris.
  
  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')
- DrM 4 p. 121
  
  Copy, headed The 24^th and here beginning Dear frinds either for loue or hier.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- DrM 5 p. 122
  
  Second, copy, headed Songe the 27 and also beginning Dear frinds eyther for loue or hyer, deleted.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- BmF 150.91 p. 125
  
  Anonymous.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack ('Listen all I you pray')
- MiT 24 p. 127
  
  Copy of Latrocinio's song, headed Thee Highe Lawyers Song in the playe called the Widdowe.
  
  First published in London, 1652. Bullen, V, 117-235 (pp. 168-9). Edited by Robert T. Levine (Salzburg, 1975). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1078-1123 (pp. 1098-9).
  
  Thomas Middleton, The Widow, III, i, 22-37. Song ('I keep my horse, I keep my whore')
- CmT 77 p. 128
  
  Copy, here beginning Silly boy 'tis new moon yet.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely'
- WoH 49 p. 132
  
  Copy, headed A shorte Hymne by S Hen: Wotton In a nyght of his present sicknes.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')
- MrJ 19 pp. 133-5
  
  Copy, here ascribed to Mr [John] Heappe.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- CwT 722 p. 137
  
  Copy, headed On In prayse of his M^ris.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.
  
  First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
  For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
- KiH 510 p. 139
  
  Copy, deleted.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.
  
  Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne ('Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!')
- KiH 511 p. 141
  
  Second copy.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.
  
  Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne ('Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!')
- HeR 291 p. 141
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
- CaE 1 p. 142
  
  Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy (here with two extra lines) as separate but sequential poems.
  
  This MS recorded in Akkerman.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- CoR 648 p. 145
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')
- StW 1008 p. 149
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- PeW 211 p. 150
  
  Copy of a version headed A Mayds Denyall and beginning Nay pish, nay pue nay fayth, and will you fye.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- CwT 791 p. 151
  
  Copy, headed Songe.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris ('If when the Sun at noone displayes')
- RaW 454 p. 152
  
  Copy, subscribed finis D: Donn.
  
  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'
- JnB 582 p. 152
  
  Copy of Clerimont's song, headed On a spruce Ladye, subscribed finis Ben John.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- HeR 208 p. 152
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Flye to my M^ris yealowe footed bee
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee ('Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee')
- StW 1355 p. 153
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  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')
- CwT 44 p. 154
  
  Copy, headed On his M^ris Features and here beginning Fayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gould.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- RaW 226 p. 154
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  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')
- JnB 425 p. 155
  
  Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning Aske not to knowe this woman, she is worse.
  
  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson and in Beal.
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- CwT 1246 p. 155
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  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')
- CwT 951 p. 156
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 51.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
- DnJ 1896 p. 156
  
  Copy, headed Epigram on a whore m^r.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- RnT 271 pp. 157-9
  
  This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
- KiH 281 p. 167
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- WiG 15 p. 167
  
  This MS collated in Sidgwick.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 922-3. Sidgwick, II, 184.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph, on A Child, Sonne to Sir W.H. Knight ('Here lyes, within a Cabinet of stone')
- WiG 16 p. 167
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a Gentle woman that had far told the tyme of her death.
  
  This MS collated in Sidgwick.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 922. Sidgwick, II, 183.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Gentlewoman, who had fore-told the Time of her death ('Her, who beneath this stone, consuming lyes')
- JnB 122 p. 168
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a gentlewoman whose name was Elizabeth.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
- DaJ 163 p. 168
  
  Copy, headed on the vntymely death of a Child and here beginning As Carefull Nurses to their bedd do lay.
  
  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')
- CoR 534 p. 168
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
- BrW 181 p. 168
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- HoJ 1 p. 169
  
  Copy, headed Vppon A Smith.
  
  Whitlock, p. 108.
  
  John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
- HoJ 185 p. 170
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).
  
  John Hoskyns, Of One y^t kepte runinge Horses ('Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne')
- JnB 143 p. 171
  
  Copy, headed Vppon Sal: Pauye a boy of 13 years of age and on of the Companye of the Reuells to Queene Elizabeth.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel ('Weepe with me all you that read')
- HoJ 147 p. 172
  
  Copy, headed Vppon an old man noted for nothing butt his Age and here beginning Here lieth one was Borne and Cried.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).
  
  John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')
- DaJ 128 p. 172
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a bellows maker and here beginning Here lies Bounce 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')
- ShJ 118 p. 174
  
  Copy of lines 1-10, headed Verses wrighten vnder A windowe In the Abby Church of S^t Alban whearin the Execution of that protomartire was paynted; the Heads mans eyes falling out att the Martirdome, here beginning The Image of our frailtie, paynted glass, and ascribed to I.S..
  
  Printed from this MS in Howarth; collated in Armstrong.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a Doubtful Poem.
  
  James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban ('This image of our frailty, painted Glass')
- ShJ 39 p. 175^b
  
  Edited from this MS in Howarth and in Armstrong.
  
  First published in R. G. Howarth, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a Doubtful Poem.
  
  James Shirley, In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere S^ct Albions ('Stay thy foot that passeth by')
- HoJ 154 p. 176
  
  Copy, headed Vppon on Sands.
  
  John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes ('Who wo'ld live in other's breath')
- DaJ 222 p. 177
  
  Copy, headed vppon on that was balde and here beginning Here lies John Baker Inrolled In mould.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.
  
  Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons ('Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde')
- WiG 21 p. 179
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Ladie Scott.
  
  This MS collated in Sidgwick.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 914. Sidgwick, II, 177.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Right Vertuous Lady, the Lady Scott ('Let none suppose this Relique of the Iust')
- WiG 17 p. 179
  
  Copy, headed Vppon A mother and her Child buried In on graue.
  
  This MS collated in Sidgwick.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 915. Sidgwick, II, 177.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue ('Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye')
- WiG 20 p. 179
  
  Copy, headed On the porter of a prison.
  
  This MS collated in Sidgwick.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 919-20. Sidgwick, II, 181-2.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Porter of a Prison ('Here lye the bones of him, that was of late')
- HeR 58 p. 179
  
  Second copy, headed An Epitaphe made by A Gentelwoman att her Death, her louer prouing Inconstant.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- RaW 384 p. 181
  
  Copy, headed On S^r Robert Dudley Earle of warwicke and Leicester, and here beginning Here lies the souldier that neuer drewe his sword.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham.
  
  First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
- HoJ 251 p. 181
  
  Copy, headed Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth, subscribed Serg^t Hoskins.
  
  Edited from this MS in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).
  
  John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth ('Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!')
- RnT 202 p. 184
  
  Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 415. Thorn-Drury, pp. 147-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Mr parson(s) Organist of Westminster Abbye ('Death passing by, and hearing parsons play')
- RnT 490 p. 184
  
  Copy, ascribed to Tho: Randall.
  
  Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')
- MoG 1 p. 186
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph on king James and here beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- JnB 103 p. 187
  
  Copy, headed Vppon A Virgine w^ch liued and died att Courte.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
- ChG 2 p. 190
  
  Copy headed On Prince Henrye.
  
  This MS recorded in Bartlett, p. 477.
  
  First published on the folded engraving in An Epicede or Funerall Song: On the most disastrous Death, of the High-borne Prince of Men, Henry Prince of Wales (London, 1612). Bartlett, p. 268.
  
  George Chapman, Epitaph ('Whom all the vast frame of the fixed Earth')
- CoR 191 p. 194
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- RnT 113 p. 195
  
  Copy, headed In the wall of the Cloister of westminster Abbye this for w^m Lawrence.
  
  First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 197. Thorn-Drury, p. 147.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph ('With Diligence And Trvst Most Exemplary')
- CoA 82 p. 197
  
  Copy of stanzas 1 and 2, untitled.
  
  First published in Poetical Blossomes (London, 1633). Waller, II, 39.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Epitaph [to The Tragicall Histoire of Pyramus and Thisbe] ('Underneath this Marble Stone')
- RnT 498 p. 197
  
  Copy of a variant version.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Sir Hen: Leigh nere Salisburie and his Concubine pictured kneeling beside his tomb ('Here old Sir Henry Lee doth lie')
- DaJ 164 p. 198
  
  Copy, headed Another of the same [on a child] and here beginning As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe doe lay.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1596 p. 202
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaphe wrighten by Doctor Donne on the death of Marqesse Hambleton.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross and 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')
MS Ashmole 40

A 15th-century folio MS, on 97 vellum leaves, of Hoccleve's treatise dedicated to Henry V (as Prince) inscribed (f. 1r) Liber W: Browne, / 1612, with Browne's autograph notes and corrections, including.additional verses (ff. 7r, 40v, 80r) and the text of three missing leaves (ff. 65r-v, 70r-v, 74r-v) supplied in his hand, the MS evidently collated by him with another text.
c.1612.
Edwards, No. 8.
- *BrW 258
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Hoccleve, Thomas. Regement of Princes
MS Ashmole 45

A 16th-century quarto MS of the romance, inscribed (ff. 2r) W. Browne and (f. 3r) W Browne, bound with other MSS.
Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 9.
- BrW 268
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, The Story of the Erle of Tolous
MS Ashmole 46

A quarto 15th-century illuminated MS, on vellum, 163 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Browne, in old leather gilt.
Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 10.
- *BrW 263
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. Lives of SS Edmund & Fremund
MS Ashmole 47

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.
- CoR 290 ff. 8r-16v
  
  Copy, in two hands, headed Iter Boreale by D^r Corbet.
  
  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 637 ff. 17r-21r
  
  Copy, headed Dr Corbet on y^e guard dedicated to my L^d. Mordant.
  
  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')
- HrJ 56 f. 21r
  
  Copy, headed To y^e Prince, subscribed R: corbet.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
  
  Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading ('For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince')
- SuJ 5 ff. 21v-2r
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.
  
  John Suckling, Against Fruition I ('Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise')
- WoH 5 f. 29v
  
  Copy, headed True ffelicitye.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- HeR 322 f. 31r
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, headed on the lips and here beginning Why were your ffresh lip^s. but earth burn'd red.
  
  This MS recorded in Cain.
  
  First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).
  
  Robert Herrick, Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs ('Why what are lips but earth burnt read')
- KiH 154 ff. 31r-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
- RnT 101 f. 33v
  
  Copy, headed On S^r Rowland Cotton's death and ascribed to T: R:.
  
  First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. G4v-Hv. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 89-92.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie on the death of that Renowned and Noble Knight Sir Rowland Cotton of Bellaport in Shropshire ('Rich as was Cottons worth, I wish each line')
- CoR 564 ff. 33v-4r
  
  Copy, ascribed to R: C:.
  
  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')
- StW 1257 f. 34r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] ('To die is Natures debt. and when')
- PoW 3 ff. 35r-6r
  
  Copy, headed on y^e prayse of a black woman.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  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'
- StW 1373 f. 36r-v
  
  Copy, headed on his M^rs Blush and here beginning Stay hasty blood where canst thou seeke.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  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')
- CwT 570 f. 36v
  
  Copy, headed On a Sigh and here beginning Go soft thou gentle whispring 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')
- PoW 102 f. 37r
  
  Copy, headed To his mistress.
  
  First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).
  
  Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses ('Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away')
- CwT 262 f. 37r-v
  
  Copy, headed on a flye drownd in a gentlewoman's eye.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
  
  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')
- StW 1307 f. 37v
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs and here beginning Ile tell you whence y^e Rose grew redde.
  
  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')
- PeW 167 ff. 37v-8r
  
  Copy, headed on a gentlewoman vnmarriageable and here beginning White should thy passion lead thee blynd.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- CwT 1254 f. 38r
  
  Copy, headed By one thinking on his m^rs.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  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')
- KiH 429 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy, headed on man.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  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')
- ClJ 107 ff. 39r-40r
  
  Copy, headed A sonnet.
  
  This MS probably recorded in Morris & Withington (erroneously as MS Ashmole 38).
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.
  
  John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony ('When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper')
- StW 586 f. 41r
  
  Copy, headed vppon an old man.
  
  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')
- CwT 390 f. 41r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid ('Since I must needes into thy schoole returne')
- CwT 218 f. 41v
  
  Copy, here beginning You will aske phaps wherefore I stay.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- PeW 26 f. 42r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Losse of his m^rs. and regaining her.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 28, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain ('Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall')
- CwT 68 ff. 42v-3r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Perfection of his m^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- BrW 149 f. 43r-v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- StW 979 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy, here beginning Like to the rowling of an eye.
  
  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 206 f. 44r
  
  Copy, headed Justification m^r Stroad.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
  
  William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
- KiH 546 f. 44v
  
  Copy, headed on his discontented m^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- JnB 552 f. 44v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.
  
  Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke ('I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find')
- EaJ 1 ff. 44v-5r
  
  Copy, headed on y^e death of M^r. ffrancis Beaumont.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
- JnB 412 f. 45r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e vnion betwixt scotland and England.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- JnB 407 f. 45v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 30.
  
  Ben Jonson, On Some-Thing, That Walkes Some-Where ('At court I met it, in clothes braue enough')
- JnB 497 f. 45v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.
  
  Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne ('Donne, the delight of Phoebvs, and each Muse')
- JnB 390 f. 45v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xxxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 36.
  
  Ben Jonson, On Banck the Vsvrer ('Banck feeles no lamenesse of his knottie gout')
- JnB 404 ff. 45v-6r
  
  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xl) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 39.
  
  Ben Jonson, On Margaret Ratcliffe ('Marble, weepe, for thou dost couer')
- JnB 394 f. 46r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.
  
  Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione ('Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?')
- StW 44 ff. 46v-7r
  
  Copy, headed on y^e prayse of gray eyes.
  
  This MS collated in Forey. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).
  
  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')
- HrJ 30 f. 47r
  
  Copy, headed Of swearing.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- HrJ 273 f. 48r
  
  Copy, headed A refusall of a Learned wife.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- KiH 35 f. 48v
  
  Copy, headed The answer.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  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')
- CwT 132 ff. 50v-1r
  
  Copy, headed On a cruell M^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- StW 587 f. 51v
  
  Second copy of lines 1-6, headed on sorrow for y^e dead.
  
  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 422 f. 51v
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman y^t had y^e pox.
  
  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')
- RaW 227 ff. 51v-2r
  
  Copy of a version, headed On mans life.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  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')
- TiC 2 f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed The map of man.
  
  First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.
  
  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
- DaJ 165 f. 52v
  
  Copy, headed On an infant diseased and here beginning As carefull mothers in their beds doe lay.
  
  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 1308 f. 52v
  
  Second copy.
  
  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 740 f. 53r-v
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On the prayse of his M^rs.
  
  This MS recorded and the additional stanza printed in Dunlap, p. 264.
  
  First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
  For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
- HrJ 125 f. 53v
  
  Copy, headed On a Ladye.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- PeW 212 f. 54r-v
  
  Copy of a short version, headed A mayds denyall and here beginning nay pish nay phew....
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- RaW 455 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed A Gentlewoman to a gentleman.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham.
  
  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 1008 ff. 55r-6v
  
  Copy, headed An Admonition to coy acquaintance.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216, and in Hazlitt, p. 2.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- BcF 54.1 f. 59r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- RnT 106 ff. 59v-60r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegye on y^e Lady Verrona digbye and omitting the epitaph.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')
- RnT 95 ff. 67v-8v
  
  Copy, headed A true m^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie ('Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise')
- CoR 663 ff. 69v-70r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett to M^rs. Mallet.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2954 f. 73r-v
  
  Copy of a three-stanza version, headed A song D^r Corbet and here beginning Lye still my deare, incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day, and ascribed to D^r Corbet.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.
  
  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')
- FeO 16 ff. 73v-4v
  
  Copy, headed In memoriam Johus comit Oxoniæ.
  
  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.
  
  Owen Felltham, Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford ('When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then')
- FeO 21 f. 83v
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph on S^r John Done K^t. and subscribed ow: ffeltham.
  
  Edited from this MS in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Pebworth & Summers (1973), p. 76, among Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham.
  
  Owen Felltham, Epitaph on Sir John Done, Kt. ('Here (by the world's ill custom) lies asleep')
- CoR 351 ff. 83v-5v
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet to the marriage in 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')
- JnB 655 ff. 90r-1r
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson to King James and here beginning at the third line (ffrom y^e Goblin and y^e Spectar).
  
  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')
- CoR 399 f. 91r-v
  
  Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingam D^r. Corbet.
  
  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')
- RnT 503.5 f. 92r
  
  Copy, ascribed to T: R:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- StW 391 ff. 92v-3r
  
  Copy, headed B: John: On a ffayre gent: voyce.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- RnT 377 f. 93r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Randolph on y^e losse of his litle finger cutt off.
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- StW 1009 f. 97r
  
  Copy, headed A song.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- DnJ 1751 f. 97v
  
  Copy, headed On a cripple.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- RnT 537 f. 97v
  
  Copy.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Uppon a Cuckold ('God in Eden's garden's shade')
- EaJ 10 ff. 97v-100r
  
  Copy, headed on y^e deplored death of S^r John Burrows, whoe was slaine in y^e Ile of Ree in y^e night w^th a Bullet and ascribed in an endorsement to Joh: Earles Merton: coll: Ox.
  
  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')
- DnJ 313 ff. 100v-1r
  
  Copy, headed An invitation of his M^rs to come and fish, ascribed to John Earle.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  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')
- FeO 2 ff. 108v-10r
  
  Copy, headed An answer to Ben Johnsons ode in dislike of his new Inne.
  
  A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.
  
  Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. ('Come leave this saucy way')
- RnT 26 ff. 110r-11r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Randalls Answere in defence of defence of [sic] Ben Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
- CoR 599 f. 111v
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet on womens wearing of long white robes.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 15 ff. 111v-12r
  
  Copy, headed The answer by a gentlewoman.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- CoR 115 ff. 112a-b
  
  Copy, headed on y^e Death of S^r Thomas overburye poysen'd in y^e tower.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
- PoW 78 f. 112c
  
  Copy, headed On the death of King James.
  
  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 219 ff. 114v-15v
  
  Copy, headed To his letter.
  
  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')
- CwT 473 ff. 115v-16r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs desireing backe her letters.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CoR 137 f. 116r-v
  
  Copy, headed Do^r Corbett on the Lady Haddington who dyed on the Smalpox.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- B&F 15 f. 130v
  
  Copy of the Boy's song, untitled.
  
  Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
MS Ashmole 48

A small quarto miscellany of ballads, in several hands, 141 leaves.

Copy.
Mid-16th century.
Inscribed Gabriell Penn 1640.

This MS discussed in Andrew Taylor, The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth (York: York Medieval Press, 2012), 82-116.
- WyT 356 f. 1r-v
  
  Copy, with the second stanza placed first, headed Tempore quo fodiebat and beginning Amydes my myrth and pleasantnes.
  
  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
  
  First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.
  
  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To my myshap alas I fynd'
- GaG 1 ff. 139r-138v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning At beautyse bar where I dyd stand.
  
  This MS collated in Pigman, p. 627.
  
  First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 38-9. Prouty, pp. 144-5. Pigman, No. 50, pp. 264-6, as Gascoignes araignement.
  
  George Gascoigne, The arraignment of a Lover ('At Beautyes barre as I dyd stande')
MS Ashmole 51

A small quarto writing book of extracts and exercises, predominantly in a female roman hand, 20 leaves, bound with two other independent verse MSS (MSS Ashmole 49 and 50), in half-calf on marbled boards.
Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 18v rev.) Ann: Bowyr, evidently the principal compiler.
- RaW 149 f. 6r-v
  
  Copy of an adaptation of the poem.
  
  Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 340-1.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3752 f. 7r
  
  Copy, in two hands, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  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')
MS Ashmole 53

MS of a revised version of the continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale by John Lane (fl.1620).
1630.
- SpE 8.2 [unspecified pages]
  
  Quotations from Book IV, Canto II, stanzas 31-5.
  
  Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
MS Ashmole 59

A 15th-century collection of verse and prose, 134 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) Liber W: Browne and (f. 133v) W. Browne Inter. Templi 1614, bound with another tract by Lydgate (ff. 135-84).
1614.
Edwards, No. 11. Described in E.P. Hammond, Ashmole 59 and Other Shirley Manuscripts, Anglia, 30 (1907), 320-48.
- BrW 261
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John, and works by others
MS Ashmole 111

A folio composite volume of Ashmole's papers.
- CmW 19 ff. 85v-6v
  
  Notes, chiefly relating to the Order of the Garter, transcribed by Elias Ashmole (1617-92) from Camden's autograph MS in the custody of D^r: Hacket B^p: of Lichfield and Coventry 1668.
  
  First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.
  
  William Camden, Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus
MS Ashmole 176

A quarto composite volume of MSS, chiefly astrological papers, in various hands, ix + 273 leaves, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

Collected by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary, and partly derived from William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.
- SuH 20 f. 97r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, in an accomplished secretary hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Rollins, II, 313.
  
  First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?'
MS Ashmole 230

Sir Richard Napier's notebook recording his medical practice from 19 August 1618 to 17 May 1619.
1618-19.
- RaW 13 f. 343v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
  This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
MS Ashmole 313

A composite collection of quarto tracts published by William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.
- CoR 325 ff. 32v-3r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, in an interleaved printed exemplum of Lilly's Englands Propheticall Merline (1644). Mid-17th century.
  
  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')
MS Ashmole 420

A large folio notebook and miscellany, 376 pages, in contemporary calf with metal clasps.

Entitled A Volume of Figures Set by M^r Lilly from Aprill 1647 to Sept: 1648, comprising for the most part a formal collection of horoscopes.
Mid-17th century.
- ShJ 136 ff. 5r-7r
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1632. Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364.
  
  James Shirley, Changes, or Love in a Maze
- HyT 11.5 ff. 11v-12v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1637.
  
  Thomas Heywood, The Royall King and the Loyall Subject
MS Ashmole 749

A quarto composite volume of sixteen tracts and papers, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
- CtR 384 MS IV (ff. 2r-14r)
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 13 quarto leaves.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
MS Ashmole 767 (I)

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.
Early 17th century.
- EsR 51 f. 1r-2r
  
  Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed The buzzeinge Bees complaynt and here beginning There was a tyme when seylley bees could speake.
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- EsR 100 ff. 10r-43r
  
  Copy, in two secretary hands, with various deletions and alterations.
  
  First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
- EsR 98 ff. 64r-5v
  
  Copy, headed Essex laste Voyage to the hauen of Happiness.
  
  Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, p. 115.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Welcome sweet Death the kindest freind I have'
- EsR 254 ff. 66v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
MS Ashmole 767 (II)

An illustrated MS emblem book belonging to William Browne, 112 quarto leaves (ff. 1r-20v, 22r-3r, 113-17 blank), bound with other manuscripts in contemporary calf.

Produced in 1598 by Thomas Palmer and originally intended as a gift for Lord Burghley (who died in that year), the verses in a neat secretary script (with watercolours on ff. 21r, 24v-87v), bearing (f. 21r) Browne's inscription Liber: willi: Browne.
1598.
This and Bodleian, MS Ashmole 767 (III) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in A Manuscript of William Browne, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8. Also discussed in Percy Simpson in Two Emblem Books, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3, and, with facsimile examples, in Gillian Wright, The Growth of an Emblem: Some Contexts for Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 767, in Emblems and the Manuscript Tradition, ed. Laurence Grove (Glasgow, 1997), pp. 81-99.
- *BrW 257
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Emblem Books
MS Ashmole 767 (III)

The manuscript as a whole.

An illustrated MS emblem book, the main text all in Browne's semi-calligraphic hand (a different hand or variation in style in the addition on f. 14r), the watercolours also probably executed by him, the pictures and mottoes being largely copied from Palmer's MS (BrW 257), but the verses (on the first 14 leaves), beginning Euerie thing as 'tis taken, composed by Browne, with his inscription (f. 3r) Liber W: Browne, 103 quarto leaves, incomplete, bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.
Early 17th century.
This and Bodleian, MS Ashmole 767 (II) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in A Manuscript of William Browne, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8; also Percy Simpson in Two Emblem Books, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3.
- *BrW 257.4
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Emblem Books
MS Ashmole 767 (III)

Browne's emblem book.
- *BrW 15 f. 12v
  Autograph
  
  Autograph copy of an early version, headed Perijt memoria eius vna cum sonitu. Ps: 9. 6. and here beginning That man Whoe onlie liu'd to liue no more.
  
  Facsimile of this MS in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 42.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book II, Song 4, lines 705-28 ('A man that only liv'd to live no more')
MS Ashmole 768 (I)

A quarto MS of speeches in Parliament, 1640, 170 pages, bound with five other MSS of legal and political tracts, xxii + 612 pages in all (pp. 171-271 blank), in various professional hands, in contemporary calf.
c.1640s.
- RuB 140 pp. 25-37
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Riddyers speech in Parliament i Novemb: i640
  
  Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
MS Ashmole 770

A quarto copy of William Whitlock's Chronicon Lichefeldensis Ecclesie, in a professional secretary hand, 66 leaves, bound with two much earlier quarto and octavo MSS on vellum (ff. 67-8, 69-76), in contemporary calf.
2nd half 16th century.
- LeJ 7 f. 12v
  
  Copy of an epigram on Cambridge University, headed Jhoannes Lelandus antiquarius composuit sequens epigramma and beginning Olim granta fuit titulis vrba inclyta multis.
  
  Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.
  
  John Leland, Poemata
MS Ashmole 781

A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage.
c.1620s-37.
- DnJ 4000 pp. 1-19
  
  Copy in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Finis D^r Dun.
  
  This MS collated in Potter & Simpson and described, I, 45.
  
  First published in Sapientia Clamitans (London, 1638). XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.
  
  John Donne, A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, on Ecclesiastes 12.1
- LyJ 14 p. 76
  
  Copy.
  
  Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
  
  John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
- LyJ 37 p. 77
  
  Copy.
  
  Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
  
  John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
- EsR 1 p. 83
  
  Copy, headed Certaine verses made by him [i.e. Essex].
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.
  
  May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'
- RaW 830 pp. 92-101
  
  Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh (3), and Robert Carr.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- RaW 728.3 pp. 101-3
  
  Copy of Ralegh's arraignment 28 October 1618.
  
  Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
- HoJ 92 pp. 129-31
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hoskins Dreame.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- HoJ 93 p. 131
  
  Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins to his ma^tie for her husband and beginning The worst is told, the best is hid.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- EsR 52 pp. 132-4
  
  Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed Finis Essex:.
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- HrJ 72 p. 134
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning England men say of late is Banquerout growen, and subscribed finis S^r J Harrington.
  
  This MS recorded in McCLure, p. 425.
  
  Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
  
  Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
- DrW 177.1 p. 136
  
  Copy of the version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.
  
  First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
- RaW 106 p. 138
  
  Copy, subscribed Wa: Ralegh.
  
  This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H.E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 101.
  
  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')
- TiC 3 p. 138
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis Chidiock Tichborne.
  
  First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.
  
  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
- DyE 15 pp. 140-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Sargent.
  
  First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy ('Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid')
- ElQ 7 p. 142
  
  Edited from this MS in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols (London, 1823). Cited (as mostly illegible) in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.
  
  Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 ('I grieve and dare not show my discontent')
- RaW 501 p. 143
  
  Copy of stanzas 1-7, apparently subscribed Lo: Walden, but now in an illegible state.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
  
  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'
- BrW 182 p. 152
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph on the death of Marie Countesse of Pembrooke.
  
  This MS collated in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 2.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- BmF 87 pp. 153-4
  
  Copy, headed An Elegey on the death of Penelope late Ladie Clifton, subscribed Finis Fra: Beo.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.
  
  Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ('Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see')
- PeW 71 p. 162
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- RaW 497.5 p. 163
  
  Copy of a two-stanza version conflated to four extended lines, subscribed Sir Wa: Raleigh.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.
  
  A version first published as the first two stanzas in a twenty-line poem edited in Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the Time of James I, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Percty Society 15 (1845). The long version in Rudick, p. 187. The two-stanza version (conflated to four lines) in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Water thy plants with grace devine, and hope to live for aye'
- EsR 37 p. 164
  
  Copy, headed The answere to the lye.
  
  As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge'
- RaW 10.5 p. 164
  
  Copy, headed Erroris Responsio, subscribed S^r Wa: Ra:..
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.
  
  Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Erroris Responsio ('Courts Comender, states maintayner')
MS Ashmole 783

A miscellany.
- FuT 5.1 ff. 4r-16r, 155v-6v
  
  Extracts.
  
  Recorded in Bailey, p. 181.
  
  First published in Cambridge, 1639.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
MS Ashmole 787

Copy of the Preface only, in the accomplished predominantly secretary hand of a relatively young Elias Ashmole, transcribed from a printed source, on 51 duodecimo leaves, imperfect and lacking title, in quarter-calf over contemporary reversed calf, with remains of metal clasps.
Mid-17th century.
- RaW 678
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
MS Ashmole 788

A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves.

Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597).
c.1620s-50s.
- SuJ 68 f. 18r
  
  Copy, untitled and deleted.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.
  
  John Suckling, Sonnet I ('Do'st see how unregarded now')
- WoH 65 f. 21v
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version.
  
  This MS recorded in Leishman. The text followed on f. 22 by a parodied version, beginning Ladies that guild the glittering moone, on the fall of Charles I.
  
  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
- ClJ 163 f. 22r
  
  Copy, headed The Antiparade.
  
  First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, pp. 69-70.
  
  John Cleveland, The General Eclipse ('Ladies that guild the glittering Noon')
- CnC 148 f. 52v
  
  Copy of a letter by Cotton, to Philip Kynder, in Kynder's hand, [from Beresford], 10 July 1662.
  
  Edited in Turner, p. 78.
  
  Charles Cotton, Letter(s)
- CnC 149 f. 190r
  
  Copy of a letter by Cotton, to Philip Kynder, in Knyder's hand, [from Beresford], 8 November 1662.
  
  Edited in Turner, p. 79.
  
  Charles Cotton, Letter(s)
MS Ashmole 800

A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
- SiP 185 ff. 1r-4r
  
  Copy in a single secretary hand, headed S^r Phillip Sidney to hir Ma^tie, on seven closely-written folio pages, endorsed on f. 4v S^r Phillip Sidney to Quee Elizabeth Concning her Marriage w^th Mounser. End of 16th-early 17th century.
  
  This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 4.
  
  First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
  This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
- KiT 13 ff. 21r-7r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Edited from this MS in Lough and Crane.
  
  Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning Being thus far from London.... Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.
  
  Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
- CoR 767 ff. 74v-82v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Doctor Corbett the Byshop of Norwich his Speech to the Clergy of y^e Dyocesse for their benevolence towards Paules deliuered at a Synod in the Chathedrall of Norwich on the 29 of Aprill. 1634.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
  
  Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
  
  Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
- BcF 325 134v-44v
  
  Copy of a speech by Bacon.
  
  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
- ClE 71 ff. 210r-12r
  
  Copy.
  
  Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
MS Ashmole 810

A folio volume of extracts, compiled by John Stansby, 147 leaves, the majority blank.
Late 17th century.
- FuT 5.255 f. 26r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1662.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
MS Ashmole 816

A quarto volume of antiquarian and miscellaneous extracts, compiled by John Stansby, written from both ends, 34 leaves, in half-calf.
Late 17th century.
- CtR 523 f. 2r-v
  
  Notes out of Cottoni posthuma (octavo edition of 1672).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- RaW 1039 ff. 3r-4r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Extracts
- FuT 5.26 ff. 38r-42v, 44r, 56v-52v rev.
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1662.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
MS Ashmole 826

A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, iii + 250 leaves.

Collected and some items written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
Mid-17th century.
- SuJ 175.5 f. 101r
  
  A copy of a letter by Suckling, [to William Wallis], from Leiden, 18 November 1629.
  
  Edited in Clayton, pp. 112-14.
  
  John Suckling, Letter(s)
- SuJ 147 f. 103r-v
  
  Copy, in Ashmole's hand, subscribed J: S:, on a single folio leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
  
  John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
- BcF 697 ff. 177r-8v
  
  Copy.
  
  Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
- DnJ 4082 ff. 249r-51r
  
  Copy of nineteen Problems.
  
  This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 293-7. Problem Nos XI and XII edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 36-7 and pp. 39-40.
  
  Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.
  
  John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
MS Ashmole 830

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
- EsR 190 ff. 40r-8v
  
  Copy.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
- EsR 255 ff. 49r-50r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
- RaW 544 ff. 87r-103v
  
  Copy in three or four hands, headed S^r Walter Ralegh his Appologie.
  
  A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
- RaW 836 ff. 104r-8r, 113r
  
  Copies of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- RaW 701 ff. 109r-10v
  
  Copy.
  
  Orders, beginning First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God.... First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617
- RaW 742 ff. 114r-15v
  
  Copy in Ashmole's hand, headed S^r Walter Rawley his speech at his death....
  
  Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
- BcF 430 ff. 129r-32v
  
  Copy of two of Bacon's submissions.
  
  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
  
  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
- BcF 431 f. 133r-v
  
  Second copy of one of Bacon's submissions.
  
  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
  
  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
- RuB 203 f. 275r-v
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, headed 17: Febr: 1642 S^r Beniamin Rudyerd his Speech for a speedy Treaty of Peace w^th his Ma^tie.
  
  Speech beginning I do verily believe that the vote we have already passed for the disbanding the Army....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 17 February 1642/3
- BrW 270 f. 288r
  
  Probably a copy of a letter by W^m Browne, in a secretary hand, to Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, from Dorking, 29 November 1640.
  
  Edited in Goodwin, I, xxv).
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Letter(s)
MS Ashmole 837

A large folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 272 leaves.
- CdA 10 ff. 172v-3r
  
  Copy of The case of y^e Ladie Anne Clifford concernenge the hono^rs of Clifford, Westmerland, and Vescy. 1606.
  
  Lady Anne Clifford's evidences for her claim to the title and baronies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, 1606.
  
  Lady Anne Clifford, The title of the La: Anne Clifford...to the style and title of...three Baronies
- CmW 13.2 f. 212r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
  
  William Camden, Britannia
MS Ashmole 848

A large folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single italic hand, 115 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked), with remains of metal clasps.

Compiled by Robert Glover (1544-88), Somerset Herald.
Late 16th century.
- LeJ 23 ff. 1r-6r
  
  Extracts transcribed from one of John Stow's transcripts.
  
  John Leland, Collectanea [Stow transcript]
MS Ashmole 849

Copy of an English translation by Richard Knolles (1550?-1610), 579 folio leaves (plus a later index on ff. 580-602), in contemporary calf.

Entitled Britannia, or a Chorographicall Description of the most florishing Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Ilands adiacent; inscribed on the title-page in another hand This being m^r William Camdens manuscript found in his owne library lockt in a cupbord as a treasuer hee much estemed and since his death sufferd to se light; what appears to be the main scribe signing himself, however (f. 579v), P. Hanwood, with the number 58 [? 1658].
Early-mid-17th century.
Owned in 1657 by one Richard Champion.

The scribe identified in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), as John Crisp, amanuensis of Sir Peter Manwood, MP (d.1625).
- CmW 13
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
  
  William Camden, Britannia
MS Ashmole 855

A volume of antiquarian collections concerning Lichfield, 450 pages (pp. 250-450 chiefly blank), in contemporary mottled calf.

Compiled by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
Mid-late 17th century.
- LeJ 69 pp. 3-9
  
  Extracts.
  
  John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
MS Ashmole 856

A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts relating to the Earl Marshal and court of chivalry, in probably professional predominantly secretary hands, iv + 445 pages (plus fifteen blank pages), in contemporary calf.

Volume I of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
- DaJ 246 ff. 115r-25r
  
  Copy, inscribed in the margin Ex MS: in bibl Hatton: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton.
  
  Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats..., dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.
  
  Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England
- HoH 56 ff. 126v-45r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Northampton, inscribed in the margin Ex MS: in bibl Hatton: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. The text is followed (on ff. 146r-8r) by a copy of Sir Edward Coke's discourse on the subject allegedly written at Northampton's request.
  
  A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to my very good Lord, beginning Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter …, the tract beginning The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed …. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled
MS Ashmole 861

A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, x + 571 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, with metal clasps.

Volume VII of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
- LeJ 70 pp. 354-400
  
  Extracts from seven books, headed 8. Oct 1659 / Seuerall things excerpted out of John Lelands Itinerary; otherwise called his Collectanea, followed (pp. 402-7) by Ashmole's attempt to draw up John Leilands Journies through England, extracted out of his Itinerary.
  
  This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
  
  John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
MS Ashmole 1115

A volume of collections for Ashmole's History of the Order of the Garter. 274 leaves, on single sheets.

Chiefly in Ashmole's hand and constituting Volume XIV of such volumes.
Mid-late 17th century.
- LeJ 31 f. 94r-v
  
  Brief extracts in Ashmole's hand.
  
  John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
MS Ashmole 1137

A folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, 147 leaves of various sizes, chiefly quarto.

Compiled and chiefly written by Ashmole.
Late 17th century.
- MaA 39 f. 119r
  
  Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), headed Ingraved on a black marble placed vnder the Arch and agt the aforesd Monumt., the memorial dated 33 Aprilis An°: 1658.
  
  First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one Taffy Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium ('Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum')
MS Ashmole 1139

A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.
- FxJ 1.1 f. 106r-v
  
  Extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.
  
  First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
  
  John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- CmW 13.3 f. 108r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
  
  William Camden, Britannia
- DaS 39.3 f. 110r-v
  
  Notes and extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.
  
  First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.
  
  Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
MS Ashmole 1143

Copy in the hand of an accomplished amanuensis, with autograph corrections, deletions and insertions, comprising two large folio volumes bound together, xxii + 800 leaves, almost entirely on rectos only, in contemporary calf.

Headed The Life and Raigne of K. Henry the VIII^th. Together with which is brieflie represented a Generall Historie of the times, and with a dedication to Charles I.
c.1638.
This MS described in Rossi, III, 490.
- *HrE 122
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
MS Ashmole 1144

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, one predominating, 428 pages, in contemporary calf.

Among the collections of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
- *CtR 525 pp. 257-8
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft, listing historical cases and precedents up to Henry VII, beginning Odo Byshop of Bayeux and Erl of Kent, and citing sources, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
MS Ashmole 1149

A composite volume of tracts and papers.
- RaW 1127 Part III, p. 87 et seq.
  
  Copy, in Ashmole's hand, as by S^r: Walter Rawleigh knight.
  
  Edited from this MS in Works (1829).
  
  A tract beginning There are two kinds of souls, one void of reason, another endued with reason.... Works (1829), VIII, 571-9. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 57-8.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Treatise of the Soul
MS Ashmole 1153

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 140 leaves.
c.1617.
- CoR 765 ff. 64v-5v
  
  Copy of Corbett's Latin oration (beginning Quam sit semper vrbis facile, et pronum, justo servire...).
  
  Edited from this MS in Gilchrist.
  
  First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 249-59.
  
  Richard Corbett, Oratio Domini Doctoris Corbet, ex Aede Christi, In Funus Henrici Principis
- BaR 5 ff. 117r-19r, 122r-8r
  
  Phonetic transcript of the complete edition of 1605 made by Robert Robinson.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobson, pp. 29-46, with a facsimile of f. 117 as the frontispiece.
  
  First published in London, 1598. Grosart, pp. 129-53. Arber, pp. 81-93. Klawitter, pp. 149-60.
  
  Richard Barnfield, The Encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The Praise of Money ('I sing not of Angellica the faire')
- BaR 1 ff. 129r-31v
  
  Phonetic transcript of the complete edition of 1605 (in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia &c) made by Robert Robinson.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobson, pp. 47-52.
  
  First published in London, 1598. Grosart, pp. 175-85. Arber, pp. 107-14. Klawitter, pp. 171-7.
  
  Richard Barnfield, The Combat betweene Conscience and Couetousnesse, in the Mind of Man ('Now had the cole-blacke steedes, of pitchie Night')
- BaR 4 ff. 132r-7v
  
  Phonetic transcript of the edition of 1605 (in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia &c) made by Robert Robinson.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobson, pp. 53-64.
  
  First published in London, 1598. Grosart, pp. 154-74. Arber, pp. 95-105. Klawitter, pp. 161-70.
  
  Richard Barnfield, The Complaint of Poetrie for the Death of Liberalitie ('Weepe Heauens now, for you haue lost your light')
- BaR 2 f. 137v
  
  Phonetic transcript of the edition of 1605 (in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia &c) made by Robert Robinson.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobson, p. 64.
  
  First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 194. Arber, p. 124.
  
  Richard Barnfield, A Comparison of the Life of Man ('Man's life is well compared to a feast')
- BaR 7 f. 138r
  
  Phonetic transcript of the edition of 1605 (in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia &c) made by Robert Robinson.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobson, pp. 64-5.
  
  First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 190. Arber, pp. 119-20. Klawitter, p. 182.
  
  Richard Barnfield, A Remembrance of some English Poets ('Liue Spenser euer, in thy Fairy Queene')
MS Ashmole 1407 (II)

A compendium of medical, chemical and alchemical receipts and prescriptions By me Thomas Robson, 70 quarto leaves, bound with eight other alchemical tracts and papers, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.
Early 17th century.
- RaW 716 ff. 35v-6r
  
  Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed To make [symbol] into watter as S^r walter Rawlye did.
  
  This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
MS Ashmole 1424

A quarto volume of alchemical papers compiled by Thomas Robson, 204 leaves (including blanks).
1615.
- RaW 717 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.
  
  This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
- RaW 717.5 ff. 57v-8r
  
  Second copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.
  
  This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
MS Ashmole 1463

A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank).

Compiled by one John Stansby.
c.1669.
- HrJ 31 p. 2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- MaA 291 p. 2
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Clarendon house built by y^e Lord Chancellor in the yeare 1665 over ag^t St James otherwise Dunkirk house.
  
  First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
- RaW 14 p. 13
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleighs verses, found in his bible in the gate house at Westm^r.
  
  First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
  This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
- RaW 307 p. 13
  
  Copy, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 156-7.
  
  First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
MS Ashmole 1478

A folio composite volume of alchemical and other manuscripts.
- BaJ 26.5 IV, ff. 27v-8v
  
  Extracts, relating to Bale's The lyfe of Jhone Garland, a most excellent philosopher.
  
  First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).
  
  John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus
MS Ashmole 1486 (I)

Copy of an alchemical compendium of receipts and prescriptions apparently by Robert Garland, in at least three hands, 68 folio leaves, bound with five other achemical works, in contemporary calf.

The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner.
c.1596.
Inscribed (f. 1r) I am Robarte Garlands booke and (f. 27r) This is Robarte Garlandes booke, practizioner in the arte spagericke, anno Do. 1596.
- RaW 718 f. 24v
  
  Copy of Raleigh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed S^r. w Rawley.
  
  This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
MS Ashmole 1486 (II)

Copy of an alchemical tract by Simon Forman, predominantly in a single hand, 20 folio leaves, dated (f. 20v) 10 November 1598, bound with five other alchemical tracts, in contemporary calf.
November 1598.
The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner.
- MrC 10 f. 6v
  
  Copy of a four-stanza version, in an unidentified secretary hand, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Bowers; facsimile in Bakeless, II, facing p. 184.
  
  First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.
  
  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
- RaW 189 f. 6v
  
  Copy of lines 1-16, 21-4, in an unidentified secretary hand, headed The Aunswere and here beginning If that the Worlde and Loue were yong, imperfect, gnawed by rodents.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112; facsimile in John Bakeless, The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), II, facing p. 184.
  
  One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
MS Ashmole 1818

A composite volume of tracts.
- HbT 29 item 30
  
  Copy, incomplete, headed Of Heresy: written ('tis said) by Tho. Hobbes, on four pages of three folio leaves.
  
  A tract beginning The word Heresie is Greek, and signifies a taking of any thing.... First published in London, 1680. Molesworth, English, IV, 385-408.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, An Historical Narration concerning Heresy and the Punishment thereof
MS Ashmole 1819

A large folio composite volume of some 43 tracts and papers, mostly printed, in half-calf.

Formerly MS Wood 276c.
- WaE 138 After No. 22
  
  Copy of a 22-line version, headed (partly in Aubrey's hand) Of cutting Trees in Paper, by the Lady Isabella Thynn, daughter of y^e Earle of Holland, subscribed By M^r Edmund Waller and, also in Aubrey's hand, These Verses I had from my Lady Dorothy Long of Dracot-Cerne 1656. Her La^p. had severall other Copies of M^r Waller, w^ch he had not copies of, w^ch she lent to y^e Dutchesse of Beaufort at Badminton, which were never return'd, on a single quarto leaf, following item 22, a printed exemplum of Waller's To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (London, [1660]).
  
  This MS discussed in Kate Bennett, John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller's Of a Tree Cut in Paper, N&Q, 247 (September 2002), 344-5.
  
  First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection

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MS Ashmole 47

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MS Ashmole 59

MS Ashmole 111

MS Ashmole 176

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MS Ashmole 420

MS Ashmole 749

MS Ashmole 767 (I)

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MS Ashmole 767 (III)

MS Ashmole 767 (III)

MS Ashmole 768 (I)

MS Ashmole 770

MS Ashmole 781

MS Ashmole 783

MS Ashmole 787

MS Ashmole 788

MS Ashmole 800

MS Ashmole 810

MS Ashmole 816

MS Ashmole 826

MS Ashmole 830

MS Ashmole 837

MS Ashmole 848

MS Ashmole 849

MS Ashmole 855

MS Ashmole 856

MS Ashmole 861

MS Ashmole 1115

MS Ashmole 1137

MS Ashmole 1139

MS Ashmole 1143

MS Ashmole 1144

MS Ashmole 1149

MS Ashmole 1153

MS Ashmole 1407 (II)

MS Ashmole 1424

MS Ashmole 1463

MS Ashmole 1478

MS Ashmole 1486 (I)

MS Ashmole 1486 (II)

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