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Bodleian Library, Don. MSS

  • MS Don. b. 8

    A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

    Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

    c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].

    Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

    Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

    Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

    Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

    • ClE 96 pp. 156-68

      Copy.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667
    • BuS 19 pp. 194-7

      Copy, as supposed written by Sr Charles Sidley.

      Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

      Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
    • MaA 476 pp. 205-6

      Copy, headed A new advice to the Painter. 1670.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • MaA 84.2 p. 210

      Copy.

      Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty')
    • HoJ 161 p. 212

      Copy, headed Epitaph on Sr Walter Pye Atturney of ye Wards, who dyed on Christmas day.

      Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph On Sr Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')
    • MaA 199 pp. 217, 561

      Copy, headed The Prophecy of Nostre-Dame written in French, now done into English./ January 1671/2, the second part headed A Libell and written later separately.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
    • MaA 389 pp. 218-21

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 315 pp. 237-46

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • DrJ 154 p. 248

      Copy, headed Prologue to the first part of ye Conquest of Granada. Spoken by Mohun and here beginning Those who write ill & those….

      This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

      First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 133-4. California, XI, 103-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 240-2.

      John Dryden, Prologue To the Second Part of The Conquest of Granada ('They who write Ill, and they who ne'r durst write')
    • DrJ 32 p. 249

      Copy, headed Epilogue to the Second part of the seige of Granada. Spoken by Hart.

      This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

      First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 129-30. California, XI, 99-100. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 236-7.

      John Dryden, Epilogue to the First Part of The Conquest of Granada ('Success, which can no more than beauty last')
    • MaA 59 pp. 283-4

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Had I but world enough, & tyme.

      Edited from this MS in Hilton Kelliher, A New Text of Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, N&Q, 215 (July 1970), 254-6; and see also Thomas Clayton, Morning Glew and Other Sweat Leaves in the Folio Text of Andrew Marvell's Major Pre-Restoration Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 356-75 (p. 356). Facsimiles in Kelliher (1978), p. 53, and in Smith, pp. 79-80.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 27-8. Lord, pp. 23-5. Smith, pp. 81-4.

      Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress ('Had we but World enough, and Time')
    • DoC 264 pp. 284-5

      Copy, headed On Mr Edward Howards poeme, the Ld. Buckhurst ye supposed Authour.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • HoJ 162 p. 368

      Second copy, headed On Sr Walter Pye Atturney of ye Court of Wards, who died on Christmas day.

      Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph On Sr Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')
    • MaA 233 pp. 368-9

      Copy, headed Vpon Sr Robert Viners setting up ye Kings statue on Horsebacke, &c..

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
    • RoJ 260 p. 409

      Copy, headed Lampoone by ye Earl of Rochester.

      Edited from this MS by all editors.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • RoJ 47 pp. 409-11

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • MaA 163.3 p. 411

      Copy.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • ClE 127 pp. 457-63

      Copy.

      Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

      These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
    • DrJ 118 pp. 463-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Kinsley.

      First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 270-3.

      John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna ('As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands')
    • DrJ 17 p. 464

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Kinsley.

      First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 273-4.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] ('A Poet once the Spartans led to fight')
    • MaA 435 pp. 465-7

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • RoJ 123 p. 475

      Copy, following the Latin version and here beginning You Loraine stole; by fraud you got Burgundy.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
    • RoJ 359 pp. 477-8, 480-2

      Copy, headed To the Tune of Peggy's gone to Sea with a Souldier, together with (pp. 480-2) Additions to Seigneur Dildoe.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; recorded and the Additions printed in Walker, pp. 186-8.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

      The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')
    • RoJ 136 pp. 490-4

      Copy, with a sidenote This poeme is supposed, to bee made by ye Earle of Rochester, or Mr Wolseley [i.e. Robert....who wrote the Preface to Valentinian].

      Edited from this MS by all editors.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 287 pp. 495-8

      Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr, with a side-note This satyre is supposed to be a Translation of ye Earle of Rochesters out of Italian.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 512 p. 498

      Copy, headed Seneca's Troas Act 2. Chorus.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • MaA 508 pp. 499-501

      Copy, headed A pretended libellous speech prepared for his Maty in February 1674/5 to be spoken to both Houses at the meeting of the parliament on ye 13th of Aprill following.

      Edited from this MS in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 461-4.

      A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

      Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675
    • MaA 215 pp. 525-6

      Copy, headed Verses on ye Statue att Charing-Crosse of King Charles ye ffirst. 1675.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
    • MaA 63 pp. 526-7

      Copy, with The Answer (which is headed Supplement to the Chequer Inn), the poem here dated 1675.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • RoJ 104.3 pp. 527-9

      Copy.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • MaA 99 pp. 535-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • DrJ 34 pp. 558-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Kinsley, in California and in Dearing.

      First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, Sr Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.

      John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode ('Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown')
    • RoJ 4 p. 561

      Copy, headed Songe of ye Earle of Rochesters.

      Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, A New Song by Rochester, TLS (6 November 1953), p. 716 (and see also related correspondence on 19 and 26 February 1954, pp. 121, 137). Edited in part from this MS in Vieth (1968) and in Love. Collated in Walker.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rochesters.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Constancy ('Tell me no more of constancy')
    • RoJ 129.5 p. 568

      Copy of a version beginning Monmouth's Witty.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')
    • MaA 139.1 p. 569 et seq.

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Mengel.

      First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

      First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')
    • MaA 140 pp. 573-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • MaA 302 pp. 579-81

      Copy, headed The City Maggott.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')
    • RoJ 338 pp. 585-6

      Copy, headed A base copy.

      Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • SeC 100 p. 586

      Copy, untitled and here ascribed to Sr Charles Sidley.

      This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, I, xxvii, and Vieth, loc. cit.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')
    • DoC 37 pp. 598-600

      Copy, headed A Satyre.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • RoJ 606 pp. 602-3

      Copy, headed An Heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia by Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • MaA 164 pp. 617-20

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, II.

      First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem ('Of a tall Stature and of sable hue')
    • DrJ 43.71 p. 634 et seq.

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 337 pp. 640-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DoC 220 p. 645

      Copy, headed A short poeme upon ye Chitts.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • RoJ 565 pp. 654-5

      Copy, headed Rochesters Verses upon Nothing.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • MaA 210.2 p. 697

      Copy.

      Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, Oceana and Britannia ('Whither, O whither, wander I forlorn?')

  • MS Don. b. 9

    A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum.

    Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

    c.1640s.

    Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wyburd MS: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).

    • CwT 145 f. 2r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
    • CwT 366 f. 2v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • CwT 873 f. 2v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      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')
    • CwT 1133 f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed Of one like his Celia.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

      Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
    • CwT 1185 f. 3v

      Copy, headed A Ribban.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • CwT 11 f. 4r

      Copy, headed The Princess Song.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

      Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')
    • CwT 305 ff. 4r-6r

      Copy of the four songs.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 244. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

      Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
    • CwT 345 f. 6r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

      Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue ('Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de')
    • CwT 501 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N..

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

      Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse ('Stay coward blood, and doe not yield')
    • CwT 1071 f. 7r-v

      Copy, headed An other of the same [i.e. after Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N.].

      This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

      Thomas Carew, To Mris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
    • CwT 1282 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Againe an other of the same [i.e. on The Greene Sicknesse of Mris. K.N.]

      Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 149. Dunlap. p. 194.

      Thomas Carew, On the Green Sickness. Song ('Bright Albion, where the Queene of love')
    • CwT 600 f. 8r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 ('Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell')
    • CwT 602 ff. 8r-9r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 ('Good god vnlock thy Magazines')
    • CwT 604 f. 9r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      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 610 ff. 9v-10

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      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')
    • CwT 620 f. 11r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 ('Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite')
    • CwT 622 f. 11r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 ('When the seed of Jacob fledd')
    • CwT 623 ff. 11v-14v

      Copy of verses 1-64; imperfect, lacking the end.

      Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 186-91. Dunlap. pp. 144-9.

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 119 ('Blest is hee that Spottless stands')
    • CwT 989 f. 14r-v

      Copy of lines 41-84, here beginning That eye, which now is Cupids nest; imperfect, lacking lines 1-40.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • CwT 1112 ff. 14v-15v

      Copy, headed A winters entertainement att Saxham.

      This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34. Facsimile MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • CwT 1220 ff. 15v-16v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse ('Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay')
    • CwT 459 ff. 16v-17v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      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')
    • DrM 6 f. 18r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • HoJ 260 ff. 18v-19v

      Copy, imperfect, half of the second leaf torn away.

      Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

      John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
    • CwT 1084 f. 20r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 27. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 546 ff. 20v-1v

      Copy, imperfect at the end.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • CwT 541 f. 22r

      Copy, beginning at line 12 (here Those streaks of doubtfull light vsher not day); imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

      Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak')
    • CwT 963 f. 22v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind ('Wonder not though I am blind')
    • CwT 941 ff. 22v-3

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
    • CwT 923 f. 23r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
    • CwT 420 f. 23v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • CwT 1102 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking all the remainder.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
    • CwT 512 f. 24v

      Copy, headed On a Mistresses face in the water.

      This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • CwT 1024 f. 26r

      Copy of the last nine lines, here beginning From Conquerd Author, be as Trophies worne; imperfect, lacking the rest.

      This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 84. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

      Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
    • CwT 440 f. 26r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

      Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason ('Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames')
    • CwT 436 f. 26v

      Copy, headed The Amazons song.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

      Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse ('Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne')
    • CwT 15 f. 27r

      Copy, headed The Marygold.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

      Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
    • CwT 481 f. 27r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41, and in Dunlap, p. 227. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.

      Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda ('Those that can give, open their hands this day')
    • CwT 1083 ff. 27v

      Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 167. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Thomas May, The Heire (London, 1622). Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 92-3.

      Thomas Carew, To my Honoured friend, Master Thomas May, upon his Comedie, The Heire ('The Heire being borne, was in his tender age')
    • ToA 10 f. 28r

      Copy of lines 36-58, here beginning Till hands are found fitt for a Monarchy, imperfect, lacking the first 35 lines.

      This MS text collated in Brown.

      Brown, pp. 48-9.

      Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew ('I had and have a purpose to be kind')
    • CwT 350 ff. 28r-30r

      Copy, headed Thomas Carew his answere to Aurelian Townesend.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

      Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject ('Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian')
    • CwT 1182 f. 30r

      Copy, headed A mole betwixt Celias breasts.

      This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, pp. 113-14.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Mole in Celias bosome ('That lovely spot which thou dost see')
    • CwT 952 f. 30v

      Copy, headed To a gent. curious to know his Mris.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      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')
    • CwT 202 ff. 30v-1

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Psalter.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 241. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.

      Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. ('The harmony of colours, features, grace')
    • CwT 444 f. 31r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

      Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit ('And here the previous dust is layd')
    • CwT 594 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 143-4. Dunlap. p. 127.

      Thomas Carew, The prologue to a Play presented before the King and Queene, att an Entertanement of them by the Lord Chamberlaine in Whitehall hall ('Sir, Since you haue beene pleas'd this night to vnbend')
    • CwT 198 f. 32r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 144-5. Dunlap. pp. 127-8.

      Thomas Carew, The Epilogue to the same Play ('Hunger is sharp, the Sated Stomack dull')
    • CwT 920 ff. 32v-3

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband ('Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine')
    • CwT 527 f. 33r-v

      Copy, headed The Inscription on the Tombe of the Duke of Buckingham.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.

      Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham ('When in the brazen leaves of Fame')
    • CwT 1 f. 33v

      Copy of lines 1-2; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.

      Thomas Carew, An other ('Reader, when these dumbe stones have t')
    • DnJ 3860 f. 34r

      Copy of lines 53-82 (beginning Formlesse at first but growing on it fashions).

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

      Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

      John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')
    • BcF 721 ff. 37v-9v

      Spedding, VI, 600-4; discussed p. 594.

      Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death
    • DnJ 4083 ff. 50r-5v, 59r-61v

      Copy of 8 Paradoxes and 9 Problems, imperfect, beginning Laughing thou must knowe....

      This MS described by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 3 (1927), 129-45. Facsimile of f. 59 in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

      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
    • DnJ 3601 f. 56r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie to the Lady Bedford.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross. Facsimile in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

      John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')
    • BmF 1 ff. 56v-7v

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile of this MS in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

      First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
    • DnJ 3194 ff. 57v-8v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

      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')

  • MS Don. b. 33

    Annotated exemplum of Britannia, newly translated...by Edmund Gibson (London, 1695), viii + 529 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked).

    With annotations to the text, maps and plates by William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher.

    1694/5-c.1714.

    Originally owned in 1694 by one Elias Mason, and by Stukeley in 1714. Bookplate of Charles Eve, 1 September 1767. Christie's, 9 November 1983, lot 48.

    Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.

    • CmW 13.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • MS Don. c. 54

    A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace.

    c.1628.

    Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

    • RaW 16 f. 3v

      Copy.

      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 230 f. 3v

      Copy.

      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 309 f. 3v

      Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons peticion to ye ks: matie and here beginning Whereas yor late roial father.

      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 413 f. 3v

      Copy, here beginning Never was bargaine better driven by fate.

      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?')
    • OvT 13 ff. 4r-5r

      Copy, in double columns, ascribed to Sr Thomas Overbury Knight.

      First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind')
    • DaJ 82 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy of poems 1-6, in double columns, headed A libell upon Mr Edw: Cooke, then Atturney generall and sithence Cheefe Justice of the Comon pleas vpon some disagreemt betweene him & his wife being widow to Sr. Wm Hatton kt. and daughter to the now Earle of Exeter then Sr. Tho: Cecill.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 438.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')
    • DaJ 159 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Of the last Queene by the Earle of Clanricard.

      First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.

      Sir John Davies, On his Love ('My Love doth flye with winges of feare')
    • DnJ 3473 f. 8r-v

      Copy, untitled but headed By Mr. JOHN DVNNE.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 3506 ff. 8r-9ar

      Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Here's no more newes (DnJ 3473).

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 3329 f. 9ar

      Copy, untitled but headed By Mr. JOHN DVNNE once secretary to the Lorde Keeper Egerton, disgraced by him...since proceeded Doctor of Divinitie one of the kings Chaplens; and now this prte Moneth of April 1624 Deane of Powles.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 570 ff. 9av-9br

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • JnB 414 f. 11r

      Second copy, headed Vpon the Vnion by Ben: Johnson and also beginning Never was bargaine better driven by fate.

      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?')
    • RaW 17 f. 11r

      Second copy, with a sidenote: said to be done by Sr. W: Rawleighe.

      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 231 f. 11r

      Second copy, untitled.

      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')
    • HoJ 260.5 ff. 21r-2r

      Copy.

      Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

      John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
    • RaW 390 f. 22v

      Copy.

      Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • CoR 23 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, in double columns, headed Of the ks enterteynmt. at Cambridge.

      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')
    • DnJ 400 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, in double columns, headed A gent hauinge lost a bracellet of a gentlew: being enioyned by her to cause an other to be made of vi angells, writes as followeth.

      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')
    • DnJ 4086 f. 25v

      Copy of Paradox II, headed (That woemen ought to paint themselues).

      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
    • CoR 257 f. 29r

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbett: agt. one Price an idle writer as beneth, dated at the end 23 June 1628.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

  • MS Don. c. 55

    A folio verse miscellany, in a cursive hand, i + 37 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards (rebacked).

    c.1702-4.

    Once owned by the Harrington family. Inscribed Bought of Mr. King, Junr. Tavistock Street at the sale of Dr. Harrington's Library, 1806. Afterwards owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright; by Thomas Thorpe, in his sale catalogue of 1836, item 1308; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9105. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372, and 5 June 1899, lot 344. Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

    • DrJ 74 f. 18v

      Copy, headed A song by Mr Dryden May Day 1691.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 247-8.

      John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')

  • MS Don. c. 57

    A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

    c.1640s-60s.

    Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

    • RnT 477 ff. 6v-8r

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Hobson and Charon ('Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou')
    • HeR 49 f. 11r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).

      Edited from this MS in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1253-5; 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')
    • PeW 130 f. 14v

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Chloris sighd & sung & wept sighing sung, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')
    • B&F 158 f. 16r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song ('Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan')
    • HeR 369 f. 17v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      Edited from this MS in Martin.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

      Robert Herrick, A Song ('Loose no time nor youth but be')
    • PeW 168 f. 19r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      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')
    • B&F 176 f. 19v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

      Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 35 (collated pp. 140-2).

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
    • RaW 483 f. 20r

      Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

      Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 12.

      First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A songe made by Sir Water Rawley ('What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all')
    • CwT 874 f. 21r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 198); recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.

      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')
    • SuJ 81 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy of an untitled variant version in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

      John Suckling, Upon A.M. ('Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy')
    • CwT 982 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 104.

      Thomas Carew, The tinder ('Of what mould did nature frame me?')
    • ShJ 121 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199).

      First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
    • CwT 675 f. 26r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

      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')
    • HeR 212 f. 28v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200); collated in Martin.

      First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires ('Am I despis'd because you say')
    • DnJ 2956 f. 29v

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Lie still, my dear, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Doughtie pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner, p. 245.

      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')
    • WoH 56 f. 29v

      Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting.

      First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

      Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')
    • StW 1309 f. 30r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 182; collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200).

      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')
    • CmT 29 f. 31v

      Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

      This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

      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!'
    • FlJ 1 f. 32r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      First published (anonymously) in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Ascribed to J. Fletcher in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). English Madrigal Verse, ed. E.H. Fellowes, et al., 3rd edition (Oxford, 1967), p. 644.

      John Fletcher, 'Hither we come into this world of woe'
    • PeW 272 f. 33v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
    • CrR 227 f. 35v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Poèmes de Donne, Herbert et Crashaw mis en musique par leur contemporains, ed. André Souris (Paris, 1961), pp. 24-6; and in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1222-4; collated in Martin, p. xciv.

      First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.

      Richard Crashaw, A Song ('Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace')
    • RaW 478 f. 36v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

      Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 124.

      First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Shall I, like an hermit, dwell'
    • CwT 724 f. 36v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

      This MS collated (no variants) in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202), Recorded in Dunlap, p. 290. Edited in Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130 (p. 110).

      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')
    • RaW 232 f. 38v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202).

      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')
    • WoH 67 f. 39r

      Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202-3).

      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')
    • CoA 207 f. 40r

      Copy of Bellula's song, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 203).

      First published in London, 1638. Waller, II, 67-147 (p. 115).

      Musical setting of the song by William Webb published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).

      Abraham Cowley, Loves Riddle, IV, i, Song ('It is a punishment to love')
    • ShW 42 f. 40v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

      Printed from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke harke ye larke, PMLA, 60. i (1945), 95-101; also discussed in George A. Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941), 32-5, and printed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 6.

      William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II, iii, 19-27. Song ('Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings')
    • CmT 106 f. 40v

      Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
    • HeR 373 f. 41r

      Copy of an untitled three-stanza version, ascribed to Herrick, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

      Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, in Patrick and in Buchan, p. 102.

      First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

      Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me')
    • B&F 159 f. 42r

      Second copy, also untitled and in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

      Edited from this MS in English Songs (1625-1660), ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 17; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song ('Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan')
    • CwT 800 ff. 47v-8

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • JnB 322 f. 48v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204). Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
    • KiH 36 ff. 45v-6v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204); 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')
    • DrM 52 f. 49v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • WoH 6 f. 51v

      Copy of two stanzas, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).

      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 222 f. 52v

      Copy of an untitled eight-line version, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 206); collated in Martin.

      First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.

      Robert Herrick, To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel')
    • JnB 608 f. 53r

      Copy of the incipit, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in David Fuller, The Jonsonian Masque and its Music, M&L, 54 (1973), 440-52 (p. 451); edited in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 35. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.

      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')
    • HeR 364 ff. 53v-5

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay.

      Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, and in Patrick.

      First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 135. Martin, pp. 421-2. Patrick, p. 555.

      Robert Herrick, Orpheus and Pluto ('How! not you Ghosts and Furies while I sing')
    • WiG 40 f. 55r

      Copy, in a musical setting, anonymous.

      Ten quatrains, unpublished.

      George Wither, Withers song he made in prison ('I who ere whiles the worelds sweet aire did draw')
    • HeR 31 ff. 57v-8v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')
    • KiH 578 f. 59v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • HaW 26 f. 60r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated (no variants) in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207).

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 24.

      William Habington, To Cvpid, Vpon a dimple in Castara's cheeke ('Nimble boy in thy warme flight')
    • StW 771 f. 60v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Hilton.

      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')
    • KiH 611 ff. 61v-2r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
    • B&F 79 f. 63v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 161-2.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song ('Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie')
    • StW 897 f. 64v

      Copy of the first part, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson (1595-1674).

      This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres (London, 1659).

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

      William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')
    • B&F 40 f. 67v

      Copy of Vecchio's incantation, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

      Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 52-3 (collated pp. 149-50).

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 211-304 (pp. 296-8). Bullen, IV, 435-531, ed. E.K. Chambers (pp. 524-5). Bowers, IV, 550-629, ed. George Walton Williams (pp. 621-2).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Chances, V, iii, 92-119. Song ('Come away, thou lady gay!')
    • CwT 842 f. 68v

      Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.

      First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
    • GrJ 1 f. 69r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A Louer once I did espy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
    • CwT 843 f. 70r

      Copy of the second stanza, untitled and here beginning Young men fly when beautye's dart, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in Cutts, loc. cit., p. 208.

      First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
    • B&F 101 f. 71v

      Copy of a version, here beginning O divinest God of Love, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 73-4, 162-4.

      Dyce, VI, 194. Bullen, III, 198-9. Bowers, V, 79-80.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, i, 13-24. Song ('Oh, fair sweet goddess, queen of loves')
    • CwT 547 f. 72r

      Copy of a ten-line version in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 208); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

      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')
    • HeR 228 f. 72v

      Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • HeR 286 f. 72v

      Copy in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, The Willow Garland ('A Willow Garland thou did'st send')
    • CwT 953 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 208); recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.

      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')
    • ShW 99 f. 75r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

      This MS reproduced in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 147; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 132-3.

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')
    • B&F 2 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

      Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')
    • BrN 63 f. 77r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      This MS collated in Spink, p. 196.

      First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')
    • StW 1360 f. 80v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 303; also collated and the two additional stanzas printed in Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 209).

      First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('Sing aloud, harmonious sphears')
    • CwT 238 ff. 92v-3r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlop, p. 293.

      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')
    • CwT 358 f. 93v

      Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
    • HaW 10 f. 94r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210).

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 29.

      William Habington, To Castara, Looking backe at her departing ('Looke backe Castara. From thy eye')
    • HeR 250 ff. 94v-5r

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Amarillis by a spring's, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      Printed from this MS in Martin, p. 467.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 46. Patrick, p. 65.

      Robert Herrick, Upon Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis ('Sweet Amarillis, by a Spring's')
    • HeR 26 f. 95v

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 31. Patrick, p. 45. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, The Bag of the Bee ('About the sweet bag of a Bee')
    • MsP 22 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy of the Courtier's Song of the Citizen, untitled, in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS and discussed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 78-80, and in Edwards & Gibson, I, 97-103 (Appendix B); V, 107.

      Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be')
    • HeR 147 f. 97r

      Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')

  • MS Don. d. 55

    A quarto volume of 75 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, 76 leaves (ff. 43r-76v blank), in vellum gilt, with remains of ties.

    With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication To the Queene (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date 14 of Jvne 1665.

    c.1640s.

    Covers inscribed on the inside at various times Gentilles Colte her Book, Th Whitfield Septbr. 18: 1764 and b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.

    Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Colte MS: WaE Δ 1.

    • WaE 116 f. 2r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')
    • WaE 351 f. 2r-v

      Copy, headed On the Freindshipp betwixt Zacharissa and Amorett.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
    • WaE 360 ff. 2v-3r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 458 f. 3r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')
    • WaE 294 f. 3r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • WaE 524 ff. 3v-4v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 35 f. 4v

      Copy, headed Songe.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')
    • WaE 223 f. 4v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 479 f. 5r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')
    • WaE 312 f. 5v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
    • WaE 494 f. 5v

      Copy, headed To a Ladie in Retirement.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
    • WaE 444 f. 6r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
    • WaE 267 f. 6v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')
    • WaE 187 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 329 f. 7r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
    • WaE 651 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • WaE 96 f. 9r

      Copy of a four-stanza version, headed In Answer to &c..

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
    • WaE 557 ff. 9v-10r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
    • WaE 563 f. 10r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
    • WaE 512 ff. 10v-11r

      Copy, headed To my Younge Lady Lucie Sidney.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
    • WaE 577 f. 11r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
    • WaE 18 f. 11v

      Copy, here beginning Had Dorothea liv'd, when mortalls made.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
    • WaE 258 ff. 12r-14r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
    • WaE 198 f. 14r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
    • WaE 679 ff. 14v-15v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • WaE 637 f. 16r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
    • WaE 205 f. 17r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 624 ff. 17v-18v

      Copy, headed Vpon the Mutable ffaire.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')
    • WaE 734 f. 18v

      Copy, headed Songe.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • WaE 597 f. 19r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
    • WaE 537 f. 19r-v

      Copy, headed To Flavia.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
    • WaE 611 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 247 f. 20r-v

      Copy, headed Of the takinge of Salley.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
    • WaE 12 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy headed The Apologie of Somnus for not approaching the Ladie whoe can doe any thing but sleepe when she pleaseth.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
    • WaE 52 f. 21r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
    • WaE 81 f. 21v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 94.

      Edmund Waller, From a Child ('Madam, as in some climes the warmer sun')
    • WaE 45 f. 22r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
    • WaE 23 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
    • WaE 1 f. 23v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
    • WaE 77 f. 24r

      Copy of the 18-line version.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')
    • WaE 83 f. 24r-v

      Copy, headed Songe.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 338 f. 24v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 172 f. 25r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')
    • WaE 217 f. 25r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')
    • WaE 304 ff. 25v-6v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')
    • WaE 126 f. 26v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
    • WaE 583 f. 26v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
    • WaE 413 ff. 26v-7r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
    • WaE 735 f. 27r

      Second copy, headed Songe.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • WaE 451 f. 27v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
    • WaE 418 ff. 27v-8r

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')
    • WaE 468 f. 28r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
    • WaE 30 ff. 29r-32r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')
    • WaE 690 ff. 32-3v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')
    • WaE 631 f. 33v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
    • WaE 439 f. 34r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
    • WaE 645 f. 34r-v

      Copy, headed To Mrs: Braughton.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')
    • WaE 591 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
    • WaE 70 f. 35r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos')
    • WaE 518 f. 35v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 569 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
    • WaE 235 f. 36r-v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • WaE 72 f. 36v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')
    • WaE 39 f. 37r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, The Bud ('Lately on yonder swelling bush')
    • WaE 252 f. 37r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Sylvia ('Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares')
    • WaE 290 f. 37v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')
    • WaE 502 f. 37v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
    • WaE 674 f. 38r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson ('Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!')
    • WaE 544 f. 38v

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible ('How bold a work attempts that pen')
    • WaE 42 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas ('Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute')
    • WaE 667 f. 39r

      Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Helen was….

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
    • SuJ 6 ff. 39r-40r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Clayton. Facsimile in Edmund Waller, Poems 1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1971).

      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')
    • WaE 93 ff. 39r-40r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971). Collated in Clayton.

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

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses ('Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise')
    • WaE 475 f. 40v

      Copy, headed To A:H: of the different success of their Loves.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know')
    • WaE 8 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

      Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')
    • WaE 658 f. 41r-v

      Copy, headed Palamede to Zelinde Ariana: Lib: 6.

      Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

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

  • MS Don. d. 58

    A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

    1647.

    From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

    • KiH 329 ff. 1r-2v

      Copy.

      This MS collated 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 258 f. 4r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 138 ff. 5r-6v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 1255 f. 6v

      Copy, headed On his Mistresse that died a little before he shold haue maried her and here beginning Was she not wondrous faire? O but I see.

      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')
    • BcF 6 f. 8v

      Copy, headed Doctor Kinge before his death.

      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'
    • CwT 263 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy, headed On a floe.

      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 604 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. on one who dyed of a consumption].

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

      William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
    • JnB 583 f. 14r

      Copy of the second stanza, headed His choice and here beginning Giue mee a forme, giue me a face.

      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')
    • HoJ 155 f. 15r

      Copy, headed On one Sands.

      John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes ('Who wo'ld live in other's breath')
    • BrW 185 f. 15v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CoR 482 f. 18r

      Copy.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • DrW 177.2 f. 18r

      Copy of a 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')
    • CaE 2 f. 19r

      Copy of a version headed Upon the Duke of Buckingham and beginning Reader, beneath this ground interred I am.

      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')
    • WoH 68 f. 21r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode vpon the Quene of Bohemia.

      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')
    • PeW 169 f. 22r

      Copy, headed Cant 3. and here beginning Why shold passion quell my mind.

      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')
    • RaW 504 f. 22v

      Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed Cant 5.

      This MS recorded 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'
    • SoR 143 f. 23r

      Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 13-18, headed Cant 8 and here beginning With my loue my life was nestled.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • CwT 571 f. 23v

      Copy, headed Cant 10.

      Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, this MS recorded (as D2) in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.

      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')
    • JnB 13 f. 26v

      Copy of lines 21-30, headed Cant 17 and here beginning Haue you seene the white lillye grow, with two additional stanzas.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • DnJ 454 f. 27r

      Copy, headed Cant 19.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DrM 53 f. 28r

      Copy, headed Cant 22.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • DyE 73 f. 28r

      Copy, headed Cant 23 and here beginning The lowest shrubs haue topps, the ant her gall.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • JnB 694 f. 29r

      Copy, headed Cant 25.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • CwT 104 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy, headed Cant 27.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

      Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
    • CwT 741 f. 30v

      Copy of a four-stanza version, headed Cant 28.

      Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, edited from this MS (as D2) in Dunlap, pp. 263-4.

      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 187 f. 35r

      Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a maid gott wth child and here beginning A godlie maid wth one of her societie.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
    • CoR 377 f. 36r

      Copy, headed These written upon a lute the gentlewoman being absent who was the owner and here beginning I pray thee lute when I am gone.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • CmT 153 f. 36v

      Copy, headed On Corinna singing.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

      Thomas Campion, 'When to her lute Corrina sings'
    • CaE 3 f. 37r

      Copy of the six-line epitaph.

      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')
    • DnJ 1898 f. 37v

      Copy, headed In meretricem.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      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')
    • DnJ 1753 f. 37v

      Copy, headed In Claudipedem and here beginning I can neither go nor stand, the cripple cries.

      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')
    • CwT 69 f. 43r

      Copy, headed On his Mistresse.

      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')
    • StW 1310 f. 44av

      Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

      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')
    • StW 392 f. 44br

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman singing.

      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')
    • PeW 213 f. 44bv

      Copy of a version headed On a gentleman and a gentlewoman and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, in faith but will yow? fie.

      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 219 f. 45r

      Copy, headed An excuse of absence from his Mistresse.

      This MS collated (as Δ 2) 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')
    • MrC 9.4 ff. 45v-46ar

      Copy, headed Ouid Amor: Lib: 2 Eleg. 4 and here beginning I will not seek to excuse the faults of any.

      Bowers, II, 345-6. Tucker Brooke, pp. 585-6. Gill et al., I, 39-41.

      Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. II, iv ('I meane not to defend the scapes of any')
    • MrC 9.6 f. 46a r-v

      Copy, headed Ouid Amor: Lib: 3. Eleg: 13.

      Bowers, II, 390-2. Tucker Brooke, pp. 625-6. Gill et al., I, 82-3.

      Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. III, xiii ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')
    • MrC 6 f. 46br-v

      Copy, headed Corinne concubitus Aeleg 5. Lib: Amorum.

      Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published Middleburg [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).

      Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v ('In summers heate, and midtime of the day')
    • StW 1149 ff. 46bv-7r

      Copy, headed vpon a gent who had a bone taken out of his Thighe.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

      William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
    • DnJ 77 f. 48r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon an vnhansome woman.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • PeW 142 f. 48v

      Copy, headed Vpon younge maides.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')
    • CoR 214 ff. 49r-50r

      Copy, headed An ehortacon to mr John Hamond at Bewdley for the battring downe the Maypole.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

      An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • RnT 451 f. 54r

      Copy.

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

  • MS Don. d. 93

    Copy, headed Observations politicall & civil, subscribed T. B, v + 135 folio leaves, in calf.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas Bushell. Bookplate of [E. W. Harcourt]. Acquired from Blackwell's, 1949.

    • RaW 1043
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

      Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

  • MS Don. d. 197

    Autograph MS, with revisions in line 11, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

    c.1693-4.

    Once owned by James Baker. Sotheby's, 26 May 1855, lot 16, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Christie's, 29 June 1995, lot 327.

    Edited from this MS and discussed in McKenzie. Facsimile in his article Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410 (p. 402).

    • *CgW 3.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Four untitled quatrains. First published in D. F. McKenzie, A New Congreve Literary Autograph, Bodleian Library Record, 15/4 (April 1996), 292-9. McKenzie, Works, II, 466.

      William Congreve, 'Faded Delia moues Compassion'

  • MS Don. d. 205

    Autograph draft of a 16-line version, with revisions, on a single octavo leaf.

    Later owned by Roger W. Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, Rare Books Ltd, sale catalogue (1998), item 29, with facsimile.

    Edited from this MS in Hodges, Man, p. 88 (with a facsimile following). Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VII, and in DLB, vol. 84, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Second Series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider (Detroit, 1989), p. 77. Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in D.F. McKenzie, Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410.

    • *CgW 4
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A version of the first eight lines first published, as the last two stanzas of The Reconciliation, in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 141. Dobrée, p. 241. McKenzie, II, 322. The 16-line version first published in Hodges, Man (1941), p. 88 (with the suggested title A Complaint to Pious Selinda).

      William Congreve, 'False tho you've been to me & Love'

  • MS Don. d. 209

    An unbound file of MS and printed materials chiefly relating to Cowley.

    Assembled by John Sparrow (1906-92).

    • CoA 170 ff. 5r-10r

      Copy, headed The Puritan & ye Papist / A Satyre, in a MS pamphlet comprising four pairs of quarto conjugate leaves, dated on the first page May. 20th. 1643 / A.C.

      This MS briefly discussed by Sparrow in Anglia, 58 (p. 102).

      First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

      Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')

  • MS Don. e. 5

    MS of a dramatic adaptation of Congreve's novel by Alexander Dalrymple, partly in his hand.

    c.1795.
    • CgW 54.3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1692. McKenzie, III, 1-62.

      William Congreve, Incognita

  • MS Don. e. 6

    A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

    • RnT 190 ff. 4r-5v

      Copy, headed Randolphs paying his Creditors.

      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')
    • BrW 28 ff. 5v-6v

      Copy, headed Dr. Donnes Elegy on his Wives Death.

      First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
    • WoH 222 f. 7r-v

      Copy, headed Sr Kellam Digbyes farewell to the World.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. 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!')
    • ClJ 213 f. 15v

      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')
    • WoH 175 f. 16r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • HrG 53 f. 16v

      Extract.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • RaW 308 f. 16v

      Copy.

      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')
    • WoH 176 f. 17r

      Second copy, headed Altero p Hen: Wootton Kt.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • CaW 61 f. 17v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.

      William Cartwright, Women ('Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)')
    • JnB 733 f. 17v

      Copy of the couplet beginning He that will thrive in state, he must neglect (III, 736-7).

      First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

      Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
    • JnB 268 f. 18v

      Long extracts, subscribed Translat Ben: Johnson, following the Latin of Horace Arte Poeticâ (f. 18r).

      First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.

      Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry ('If to a Womans head a Painter would')
    • CaW 15 f. 21r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.

      William Cartwright, Horat. Carm. lib.4. Ode 13. Audivere Lyce ('My Prayers are heard, O Lyce, now')
    • JnB 395 f. 22r

      Copy.

      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?')
    • JnB 485 f. 22v

      Copy, headed Ben. Johnson on the fine Lady Would-bee.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.

      Ben Jonson, To Fine Lady Wovld-Bee ('Fine madame Wovld-Bee, wherefore should you feare')
    • JnB 473 f. 22v

      Copy, headed Ben Johnson to a frind.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 54.

      Ben Jonson, To a Friend ('To put out the word, whore, thou do'st me woo')
    • JnB 392 f. 23r

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.

      Ben Jonson, On English Mounsievr ('Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see')
    • RnT 499 f. 23r

      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')
    • JnB 500 f. 23v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Epigrammes (cv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67-8.

      Ben Jonson, To Mary Lady Wroth ('Madame, had all antiquitie beene lost')
    • JnB 123 f. 24r

      Copy, headed Epitaph.

      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')
    • SaG 36 ff. 25r-7r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1615.

      George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610
    • SiP 63 f. 28r

      Copy of lines 1-2, untitled and here beginning Her being was in he alone.

      First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph ('His being was in her alone')
    • ClJ 172 f. 29v

      Copy, headed Cleavelands Epitaph upon the death of ye Earle of Strafford.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • RnT 295 f. 36v

      Copy, headed Mr. Randolph in Comendation of Musick.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

      Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')
    • BuS 0.1 f. 37r

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
    • WoH 259.2 ff. 42r-40v rev.

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1624.

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
    • BrT 5.1 ff. 55v-48v, 45v-42v rev.

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

      Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
    • BcF 54.923 ff. 65v-63v rev.

      Extracts.

      First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

  • MS Don. e. 23

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, chiefly Advice to Painter poems, 82 leaves, in quarter-brown morocco.

    Late 17th century.

    Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, 1938.

    • MaA 324 ff. 9r-15v

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham and the poem dated 1667.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 366 ff. 15v-22r

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 395 ff. 22v-4v

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 425 ff. 24v-6v

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • MaA 130 ff. 27r-9r

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • MaA 283 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
    • MaA 292 f. 29r

      Copy.

      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')
    • RoJ 221 f. 29v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • WiG 31 ff. 30v-8r

      Copy, including the prefatory poem and the postscript (beginning If e'er you leave us in a lasting peace).

      First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.

      George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum ('Renowned patriots, open your eyes')

  • MS Don. e. 24

    A quarto verse miscellany, 50 pages, unbound.

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by one James Raine, of Durham. Sold by Blackwell's, 1938.

    • DrJ 202 pp. 22-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

  • MS Don. e. 176

    An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

    Late 17th century.

    Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

    • CoA 179 p. 17

      Copy, headed English'd at ye late Kings Comand at Oxford, by Mr Ab. Cowley; he not knowing it was ye Kings Sors Virginiana.

      Edited from this MS in Sparrow.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

      Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

      Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')
    • WaE 733 pp. 21-2

      Copy, headed On ye Ld Protectors dying in a storm by Ed. Waller; the text followed (pp. 22-5) by Godolphin's answer.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • CoA 169 pp. 27-39

      Copy, headed A Satyre. The Puritan Papist and here ascribed to Cowley.

      This MS collated in Sparrow.

      First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

      Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')
    • RoJ 599 pp. 41-3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • DrJ 63 pp. 45-52

      Copy, headed Heroick Stanzas consecrated To ye memory of Cromwell by J. Dryden.

      First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.

      John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
    • RoJ 268 p. 54

      Copy, headed Essay. Ld R.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • RoJ 165 pp. 87-97
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 330 pp. 98-107

      Copy, headed A Satyre. Ld Rot:.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 89 pp. 109-12

      Copy, headed My Ld R. to my Ld M; imperfect, lacking p. 113.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • EtG 38 p. 116

      Copy, headed Answer by G.E..

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')
    • RoJ 258 pp. 132-3

      Copy, here ascribed to Ld Dorsett.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • WoH 196 p. 135

      Copy, headed On a Lady yt dyd soon after her husband and here beginning He first deceased she liv'd, and try'd.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • StW 505 pp. 138-9

      Copy.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

      William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete ('Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare')

  • MS Don. e. 747

    Randolph's printed exemplum.

    Inscribed on the title-page, undoubtedly in the poet's hand, Thomas Randolph Trin: Coll: Cambridge and the same hand has also written the abbreviation T:R:T:C:C: on sig. Aiiijv. Probably three other early hands were responsible for assorted marginalia which appear elsewhere in this volume, one of them the gentleman who inscribed the last page (p. 336) JosePhiper liber 1618 [or 1628] Octr: 28.

    Early 17th century.

    Although offered in sale catalogue No. 56 (1912), item 305, by the Charing Cross Road bookseller Arthur Reader and sold at some time before then by Sotheby's, this volume seems to have escaped the attention of Randolph scholars until its acquisition by the Bodleian in 1968.

    It was first effectively recorded in Davis's unpublished thesis on Randolph (1970), pp. 167-8.

    • *RnT 594
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Randolph, New Testament in Latin, with commentary by Theodore Beza (London, 1581)

  • MS Don. f. 29

    A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

    Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

    c.1669-74.

    R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

    • RoJ 300 fols 23r, 24r

      Copy of lines 1-28, headed A satyr on man, deleted.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • SeC 50 fol. 24r

      Copy, headed A Copy of vrses to Mrs. M: K: from — and ascribed to Char: Sidley.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
    • RoJ 58 fols 24v, 23v rev.

      Copy, lacking the last three stanzas.

      This MS reproduced in facsimile, transcribed and discussed in Clive T. Probyn, A New Draft of Rochester's Disabled Debauchee, The Scriblerian, 8 (1975), 1-4, and see also David Vieth's corrections to Probyn's transcript in Errata, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 147-8; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 299 fols 61r, 62r, 63r, 64r, 65r, 66r

      Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 531 fols 69r, 70r, 71r, 72r, 73r, 74r, 75r

      Copy, headed Upon ye Wells by my Ld Rocheseter.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • DrJ 165 fols 80r, 81r

      Copy, headed A Prologue in ye vniversity. By the Kings house.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman ('What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew')
    • DrJ 160 fols 82r, 83r

      Copy, headed Prologue to ye vniversity. By ye Kings house.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 372-3. California, I, 151-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 289-91.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart ('Poets, your Subjects, have their Parts assign'd')
    • DrJ 26 fols 83r, 84r

      Copy, headed Epilogue at ye same time.

      First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 291-2.

      John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal ('Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat')
    • DoC 265 fols 104r, 105r

      Copy, headed A Prologue to Edward Howards Utopia, made by ye Lord Buckerst.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')

  • MS Don. f. 37

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

    c.1648-61.

    Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

    • CwT 114.5 fol. 12r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning We read of Gods & Kings, yt kindely tooke.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • SuJ 44.5 fol. 13r

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 25-6.

      John Suckling, Lutea Allison: Si sola es, nulla es ('Though you Diana-loke have liv'd still chast')
    • SuJ 86.8 fol. 13v

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 26-7.

      John Suckling, Upon Mrs. A. L. ('Thou think'st I flatter when thy praise I tell')
    • SuJ 136.5 fol. 14v

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

      John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')
    • SuJ 48.5 fol. 15v

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 54-5.

      John Suckling, Prefer'd Love rejected ('It is not four years ago')
    • SuJ 86.5 fol. 15v

      Copy, subscribed J.S.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 34-5.

      John Suckling, Upon L. M. weeping ('Whoever was the cause your tears were shed')
    • CwT 544.8 fol. 48v-r rev.

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • RaW 320.5 fols 53v-53r

      Copy, headed Sr w. R. to his Mrs, here beginning Passions are likned....

      First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

      For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
    • TiC 4 fols 54r-53v rev.

      Copy, headed Tichbourns Elegy in ye Tower before is Execution.

      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')
    • JnB 8.5 fol. 58v rev.

      Copy of lines 21-30, headed On a Mrs and here beginning Haue you seene ye Lilly grow, followed by the Answer (Have you seene a black-head maggott).

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • CoR 560.5 fol. 59r rev.

      Copy, headed Bishop Corbet to his young Sonne Vincent.

      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')
    • RaW 232.5 fol. 69r rev.

      Copy, headed On Mans life.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • HoJ 2 fol. 69v rev.

      Copy, headed On a Locke-smith.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
    • CwT 1185.5 fol. 82r rev.

      Copy, headed On a Ribban giuen by his Mistris.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')

  • Don. b. 24 (24)

    Proofsheet, of the outer forme of sheet G (G1r .2v .3r .4v), in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1639.

    1639.

    Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.

    Discussed in D. F. Foxon, The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.

    • CaW 85
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

  • Don. d. 27, 28

    A printed exemplum with (partly eroded) Milton's autograph inscription on the flyleaf, Jo[:] Milton pre:[12]s [6]d 1634, and numerous autograph annotations in the text among notes in other hands.

    c.1634.

    Including notes by Joshua Barnes, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and editor of Euripides in 1694). The initials D S inscribed twice on a flyleaf apparently by Daniel Skinner.

    The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 304-20. Discussed in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, Milton's Annotations of Euripides, JEGP, 60 (1961), 680-7. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 108-10 (Plate XV); in Friends of the Bodleian: Ninth Annual Report (Oxford, 1933-4), after p. 4 [two full pages]; and in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 2; in LR, I, 282; and in Boswell, No. 553.

    • *MnJ 121
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Euripides. Tragoediae quae extant, 2 vols (Geneva, 1602)

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