Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end

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MS Eng. poet. f. 9

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623.
1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.
- RaW 506 p. 6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116.
  
  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'
- DnJ 1558 pp. 6-7
  
  Copy, headed When he went w^th the Lo: Doncaster.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
- DrM 11 p. 8
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2040 pp. 9-10
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- WoH 168 pp. 10-11
  
  Copy, untitled and here ascribed to J[ohn] D[onne]:.
  
  This MS probably one of the two unspecified MSS known to Grierson.
  
  First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (''Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life')
- JnB 89 pp. 12-13
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  Lines 12-26 (beginning Little knowe they that professe Amitye) first published as lines 19-33 of An Epistle to a friend in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, Studies in Ben Jonson. IV, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend ('Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise')
- DnJ 1964 pp. 13-14
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
  
  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
- DnJ 1683 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
  
  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
- DnJ 861 p. 17
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
  
  John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
- HrJ 213 p. 18
  
  Copy, headed Nil refert loqui du vbi liceat and here ascribed to JD.
  
  Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English ('An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales')
- DnJ 2945 p. 19
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner.
  
  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')
- HoJ 312 p. 19
  
  Copy.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- ToA 49 p. 20
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Brown.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
- DnJ 3839 pp. 21-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
- DnJ 1258 pp. 22-4
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
  
  John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
- DnJ 2654 p. 26
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
- DnJ 1154 pp. 26-9
  
  Copy, headed Epithal: of y^e La: Eli:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
  
  John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
- DnJ 1358 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 1399 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
  
  John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
- DnJ 3902 pp. 31-3
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 182 pp. 33-4
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 745 p. 34
  
  Copy, headed To the wor: of al my lou my virtuous M^rs.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
  
  John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
- DnJ 3956 pp. 34-5
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
  
  John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
- DnJ 3319 pp. 35-6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 M^r T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
- DnJ 155 p. 36
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.
  
  John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
- DnJ 894 p. 36
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
- DnJ 1911 p. 36
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
  
  John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
- DnJ 3656 p. 37
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 258 pp. 38-9
  
  Copy, headed widow.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
  
  John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
- DnJ 3728 pp. 39-41
  
  Copy, headed An Elegye.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- DnJ 490 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy, headed Elegye.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- HoJ 21 p. 43
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
  
  John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
- DnJ 2915 pp. 44-5
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 3028 pp. 45-6
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 78.
  
  John Donne, Sonnet. The Token ('Send me some token, that my hope may live')
- DnJ 2449 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
- DnJ 1737 p. 47
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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')
- DnJ 2003 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy, headed Elegye.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
  
  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
- DnJ 1643 pp. 48-9
  
  Copy, headed Sonnet.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
  
  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
- DnJ 2289 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy, headed Sonnet.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DnJ 3460 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, headed ffrom Court.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
- DnJ 3489 pp. 51-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
- DnJ 690 pp. 54-6
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- DnJ 3593 pp. 58-60
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1100 pp. 60-2
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
  
  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
- DnJ 625 pp. 62-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- DnJ 1834 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
  
  John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
- DnJ 3172 pp. 64-6
  
  Copy, headed Sonnett.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- DnJ 929 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
- DnJ 3621 pp. 67-8
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
  
  John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
- DnJ 2107 pp. 68-9
  
  Copy, headed The springe.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
  
  John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
- DnJ 2634 pp. 69-70
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
  
  John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
- DnJ 3104 pp. 70-1
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
  
  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
- DnJ 1321 pp. 72-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
  
  John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
- DnJ 2999 pp. 73-4
  
  Copy, headed Sonet.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
- DnJ 2171 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
  
  John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
- DnJ 1225 pp. 75-7
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
  
  John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
- DnJ 1871 pp. 77-80
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 1531 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
  
  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
- HrE 79 pp. 81-2
  
  Copy, untitled and here ascribed to JD.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne ('Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till')
- DnJ 3288 pp. 82-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
  
  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
- DnJ 2555 pp. 83-6
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 587 pp. 87-9
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
  
  John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
- DnJ 2136 pp. 89-92
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- DnJ 299 p. 93
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DnJ 3809 pp. 93-6
  
  Copy, headed The Booke.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
- DnJ 3779 pp. 96-8
  
  Copy, headed Valediction on glasse.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
- DnJ 115 pp. 99-100
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
  
  John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
- DnJ 1450 p. 100
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 2084 pp. 101-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
  
  John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
- DnJ 664 pp. 102-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
  
  John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
- DnJ 1432 p. 103v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 1801 pp. 103-4
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
  
  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
- DnJ 18 pp. 104-5
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
  
  John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
- DnJ 3986 pp. 105-6
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
  
  John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
- DnJ 1197 p. 106
  
  Copy, headed Valedico.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
  
  John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
- DnJ 723 pp. 106-7
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.
  
  John Donne, The Computation ('For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday')
- DnJ 3699 pp. 107-8
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
  
  John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
- DnJ 3404 pp. 108-10
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
- DnJ 2238 pp. 110-11
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
  
  John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
- DnJ 2715 pp. 111-13
  
  Copy of lines 1-30, 55-64.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.
  
  John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
- DnJ 960 pp. 113-14
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
- DnJ 3382 pp. 114-16
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
  
  John Donne, To M^rs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
- DnJ 49 pp. 116-18
  
  Copy, headed In fflauiam.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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')
- DnJ 823 pp. 118-19
  
  Copy, headed Dirae.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
  
  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
- DnJ 1011 pp. 119-22
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
- DnJ 1067 pp. 124-6
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
- DnJ 2503 pp. 126-8
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- DnJ 1171 pp. 128-32
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
  
  John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
- DnJ 2336 pp. 132-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- PeW 30 p. 133
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- PeW 100 p. 134
  
  Copy.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- DnJ 139 pp. 134-6
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.
  
  John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
- BmF 118 pp. 136-7
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
  
  Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
- DnJ 1037 pp. 138-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
- BmF 29 pp. 139-43
  
  Copy, untitled and here ascribed to J[ohn]: D[onne]:.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
- DnJ 2767 pp. 143-7
  
  Copy, headed Law Satyre.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
  
  John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
- DnJ 4075 pp. 147-72
  
  Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 14 Problems.
  
  This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413-14.
  
  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 2737 pp. 172-6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
  
  John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
- DnJ 2799 pp. 177-81
  
  Copy, headed Satyre y^esecond.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
  
  John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
- DnJ 2862 pp. 181-4
  
  Copy, headed Satyre y^ethird.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
  
  John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
- DnJ 2829 pp. 184-93
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
  
  John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
- WoH 136 pp. 193-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
- DnJ 3572 pp. 194-9
  
  Copy, headed S^r wal: Ashton to y^e Countesse of Huntingtonne.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington ('That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime')
- BmF 57 pp. 199-202
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
- DnJ 1492 pp. 202-6
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
  
  John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night')
- BmF 145 pp. 206-7
  
  Copy, ascribed to ff B.
  
  First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.
  
  Francis Beaumont, 'Why should not pilgrims to thy body come'
- HrE 21 p. 207
  
  Copy, headed On Mrs. Bulstreed.
  
  This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. ('Methinks Death like one laughing lyes')
- DnJ 1132 p. 208
  
  Copy of the epitaph (Omnibus), headed Another on the same and beginning My Fortune and my choice this custome break.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
  
  John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford ('That I might make your Cabinet my tombe')
- DnJ 432 pp. 208-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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?')
- DnJ 373 pp. 44, 209-13
  
  Copy, headed The Chaine.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 3062 pp. 41, 213-15
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
  
  John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
- DnJ 548 pp. 215-18
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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')
- DnJ 2202 pp. 218-20
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- DnJ 788 pp. 220-2
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
  
  John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
- CwT 265 pp. 222-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
  
  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')
- SiP 228 pp. 224-31
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Roberts.
  
  First published in Josephine A. Roberts, The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 67-72).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Sr Philip Sidney to the Lady Penelope Rich ('If yet a choyce more worthy, cause more new')
- SiP 227 p. 234 et seq.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Roberts.
  
  First published in Josephine A. Roberts, The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 73-5).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady Penelope Rich to S^r. Phillipe Sidney ('Martyrd in thought but martyr'd more in soule')
- BrW 37 pp. 237-41
  
  Copy, lacking lines 1-52 and here beginning & though thy glasse a burning one become.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (London, 1912), I, 462-5.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 81-90.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Time hath a long course run since thou wert clay')
- BrW 187 p. 241
  
  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')
MS Eng. poet. f. 10

A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
- BcF 205.9 ff. 2v, 58v-66v
  
  Extracts.
  
  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
- RaW 677.3 fol. 70r
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
- BuR 1.8 ff. 74, 95v-6
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).
  
  Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- DyE 37 fol. 87r-v
  
  Copy, headed Sorte contentus ani.
  
  First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
- CwT 133 fol. 88r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- RnT 448 fol. 88v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parry (1917), pp. 231-2. Omitted in Thorn-Drury.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The City of London ('O fortunate Citie reioyce in thy Fate')
- StW 774 fol. 89r
  
  Copy, headed On m^rs Anion walkinge in a snow y^e morne.
  
  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')
- HrJ 129 fol. 89r
  
  Copy, headed S^r. John Keys to his Lady and here beginning A gallant lady sitting in a muse.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- StW 320 fol. 89r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- PoW 7 fol. 91r-v
  
  Copy, headed Bi. ox. Rich. Corbett. on M^rs Poole y^e L^d. of Shaunders Sister.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- PeW 171 fol. 91v
  
  Copy of a twelve-line version headed To a g^tman whose Loue pu'd vnconstant being not yet marriageable and here beginning Why should sad care possess y^r minde.
  
  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 235 fol. 92v
  
  Copy, headed On the same.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- TiC 6 fol. 93r
  
  Copy, headed The mapp of man.
  
  This MS recorded in Hirsch.
  
  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')
- StW 1265 fol. 95v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
- HoJ 214 fol. 96r
  
  Copy, untitled. here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e goute of go-out feeling.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
  
  John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
- HrJ 74 fol. 97r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Englande (men say) of late is bankerupte growne.
  
  Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
  
  Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
- ToA 90 fol. 98r
  
  Copy, headed A Songe, with a stave of music down the margin.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Bacchanall in a maske before their Majestys, 1636 ('Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our braines')
- BmF 150.92 fol. 99r
  
  Anonymous.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack ('Listen all I you pray')
- JnB 627 fols 100v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons diuells dish before y^e Kinge.
  
  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634-5.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- CwT 72 fol. 102r
  
  Copy, headed B: Diui Johannis.
  
  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 1011 fol. 103v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- BcF 54.3 fol. 116v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- BcF 8 fols 117r, 116v
  
  Copy.
  
  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 701 fol. 117v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- CwT 1234 fols 118v-19r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e. sicknes of my honored m^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
MS Eng. poet. f. 13

A miscellany of English and Latin verse and university orations, 196 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled by William Parry (1687-1756?), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
c.1724.
Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer, and given to the library in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
- AlW 181 fol. 46v
  
  Copy.
  
  A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.
  
  William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs')
- CgW 64 fols 74v-5r
  
  Copy of the ballad, the text accompanied by a Latin version by R.D..
  
  Summers, II, 141. Davis, pp. 274. McKenzie, I, 332-3.
  
  William Congreve, Love for Love, III, xv, lines 44-75. Ballad ('A Souldier, and a Sailor')
MS Eng. poet. f. 16

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi.
c.1623-32.
Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.
- PeW 132 fol. 2v
  
  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')
- PoW 8 fols 5v-6r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Donne on M^rs Poole the lord Sandys his Sister On whome nature studied to make blackenesse a beauty.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- KiH 39 fol. 8v
  
  Copy, headed Answeare to the same tune.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- JnB 656 fol. 9r-v
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons prayer for King James, a Caracter of his humours.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
  For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
MS Eng. poet. f. 24

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 91 leaves, in 19th-century dark red morocco (rebacked).
c.1660.
Bookplate of F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale, in lot 294. Bookplate of S.G. Hamilton. Bought in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
- SuJ 69 fol. 15r
  
  Copy, headed Loves Ne plus Ultra and here beginning To see how unregarded now.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.
  
  John Suckling, Sonnet I ('Do'st see how unregarded now')
- ClJ 130 fol. 31r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe ('Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good')
- ClJ 141 fol. 31r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising ('The sluggish morne, as yet undrest')
- ClJ 134 fol. 31r-v
  
  Copy, headed vpo a Hermaphrodite.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite ('Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether')
- ClJ 153 fol. 31v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.
  
  John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him ('Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit')
- ClJ 118 fol. 31v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.
  
  John Cleveland, To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb ('Stay, should I answer (Lady) then')
MS Eng. poet. f. 25

An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked).
c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Natley MS: CwT Δ 6.
- StW 775 fol. 10r
  
  Copy, headed Upon one M^rs Corbet walking in y^e snow.
  
  This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), pp. 169-70.
  
  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 114 fol. 10v
  
  Copy, headed A censure on one disproving his love.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
  
  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
- WoH 178 fol. 10v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of a new married couple, here beginning She first deceased, he for a little tried.
  
  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')
- DnJ 455 fol. 11r
  
  Copy, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (see DnJ 2957).
  
  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?')
- DnJ 2957 fol. 11r
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. See also DnJ 455.
  
  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')
- CwT 240 fol. 11r
  
  Copy, headed A fly Kill'd in his M^rs eye.
  
  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')
- DnJ 873 fol. 11v
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, 7-8.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
  
  John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
- PoW 9 fol. 12r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- CrR 153 fol. 13r
  
  Copy, headed Marriage.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On Marriage ('I would be married, but I'de have no Wife')
- CrR 197 fol. 13r
  
  Copy, headed Vivamus mea Lesbia.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 194.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Out of Catullus ('Come and let us live my Deare')
- CwT 333 fol. 13v
  
  Copy of an eight-line version, headed A perplexed lover and here beginning If she must needes deny, Weepe not but dye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
  
  Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
- CwT 968 fols 13v-14r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
- CwT 314 fol. 14r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
  
  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
- CwT 990 fols 14v-15r
  
  Copy, headed Counsell to his M^rs.
  
  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 394 fol. 15v
  
  Copy, headed A pleasing strife.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- HrJ 130 f. 15v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- CmT 8 fol. 15v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.
  
  Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
- StW 1312 fol. 15v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- CwT 502 fol. 16r
  
  Copy, headed The retired bloud exhorted to returne into y^e pale Sisters M^rs Kath & M^rs Mary Nevill.
  
  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 1072 fol. 16r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
  
  Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
- DnJ 3197 fol. 17r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- ClJ 40 fol. 18v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
  
  John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
- KiH 40 fol. 19r
  
  Copy, headed His Answere.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- StW 423 fol. 19r
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman y^t had y^e Small pockes.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- CwT 207 fol. 19v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- JnB 274 fol. 19v
  
  Copy, here beginning See this small dust here running in the glass.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- HeR 59 fol. 19v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a Maide y^t dyed in love.
  
  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')
- HaW 21 fol. 19v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 68.
  
  William Habington, To Castara, Vpon Beautie ('Castara, see that dust, the sportive wind')
- CwT 16 fol. 20r
  
  Copy, headed Counsell to a yong man.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
  
  Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
- HeR 6 fol. 20r
  
  Copy, headed A fancy.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- CwT 1039 fol. 21r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs in Absence.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
  
  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
- HeR 292 fol. 61r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
- CwT 725 fol. 63r
  
  Copy, headed Songes / To his M^rs.
  
  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')
- StW 23 fol. 63r-v
  
  Copy, headed The Contrary.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.
  
  William Strode, Answere or Mock-song ('Ile tell you true wheron doth light')
- PeW 143 f. 63v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- StW 718 fol. 63v-4r
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
  
  William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
- JnB 14 fol. 64v
  
  Copy of lines 21-30.
  
  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')
- StW 885 fol. 64v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- ClJ 108 fol. 65r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.
  
  John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony ('When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper')
MS Eng. poet. f. 27

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.
c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
- EaJ 44 pp. 9-11
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
- BcF 54.4 p. 12
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- CwT 241 p. 16
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on a flye.
  
  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')
- WoH 158 pp. 20-1
  
  Copy, headed At the tombe of S^r Albertus Morton The teares of a friende.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')
- BrW 188 p. 22
  
  Copy, headed An epitaph on the Countess of Pembrooke.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- HoJ 117 p. 23
  
  Copy, headed One a fart lett in a parliament.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- CoR 504 p. 24
  
  Copy, headed On the death of M^r Rice.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
- StW 576 pp. 25-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
- StW 304 p. 26
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- StW 876 p. 27
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- B&F 177 p. 27
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Come charming sleepe thou easer of all woes.
  
  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')
- CmT 98 p. 30
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'There is a Garden in her face'
- CmT 178 pp. 32-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'And would you see my Mistris face?'
- CwT 449 p. 34
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song ('Give me more love, or more disdaine')
- CwT 367 p. 35
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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,)')
- DrM 55 p. 36
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- CmT 245 pp. 36-7
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Whether men doe laugh or weepe'
- StW 379 p. 38
  
  Copy, headed On a gentle woman that sunge most exquisitely.
  
  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')
- CmT 45 pp. 39-40
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. iii. Davis, pp. 22-3.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'I care not for these Ladies'
- CmT 107 p. 40
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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'
- CmT 9 p. 42
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.
  
  Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
- CwT 1246.8 p. 47
  
  Copy, headed M^rs: Owen of Ori: Coll.
  
  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')
- HrJ 131 p. 50
  
  Copy, headed On a Lady which sate museing.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- CwT 991 pp. 51-3
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- StW 892 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
  
  William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')
- StW 751 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed On M^rs: Duppa walking in her garden when it snowed, by W.S..
  
  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')
- DrW 177.5 p. 57
  
  Copy, here beginning Immodest death....
  
  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')
- CwT 766 pp. 59-60
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning In your faire cheekes two pitts doe lie.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
- B&F 193 p. 60
  
  Copy of Lopez's song, untitled.
  
  First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 1-94 (p. 50). Bowers, V, 448-529, ed. Hans W. Gabler (p. 489).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song ('Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright')
- CmT 30 p. 62
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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!'
- KiH 41 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, headed The answer.
  
  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')
- JnB 275 p. 66
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- B&F 16 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy of the song, untitled.
  
  Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
- B&F 86 p. 67
  
  Copy of Stremon's song, untitled.
  
  Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
- DyE 5 p. 68
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'Amidst the fayrest mountayne topps'
- GrJ 46 pp. 69-70
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- CoR 734 pp. 70-1
  
  Copy, headed A mock song to, like to the Damaske Rose you see and here beginning Like to the melting tone....
  
  First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
  
  Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
- RnT 339 pp. 72-4
  
  Copy, headed On a deformed Gentlewoman that Sange well.
  
  This MS collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
- KiH 432 p. 75
  
  Copy, headed On Mans Life. D^r Kinge.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- CwT 395 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy, headed On Caelias Lippes and eyes.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- BcF 9 pp. 76-7
  
  Copy, headed On the world. S^r Francis Bacon.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- WoH 224 pp. 79-80
  
  Copy, headed D^r Dunne's farrewell to the world.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- RnT 544 pp. 80-2
  
  Copy.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- StW 838 p. 82
  
  Copy, headed On womans love. To his M^rs:.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- CoR 601 p. 85
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet on weareing longe white vailes.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 18 pp. 85-6
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- RaW 236 p. 91
  
  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')
- CoR 664 pp. 92-3
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet on M^rs Mallet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- JnB 696 pp. 96-7
  
  Copy, headed How to choose a M^rs.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
- CwT 25 pp. 104-5
  
  Copy, headed On a gentle-woman that was let bloud.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
  
  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
- StW 968 p. 105
  
  Copy, headed Death and Resurrection. M^r Stroud and here beginning Like to the rowling of an eye.
  
  First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
  MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.
  
  William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
- BrW 113 p. 109
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman dying younge.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
- DnJ 79 pp. 113-14
  
  Copy, with some interpolated alterations in a different hand, headed Vppon a deformed Gentlewoman.
  
  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')
- DaJ 169 pp. 114-15
  
  Copy, headed On the Death of an Infant.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- DnJ 3198 pp. 116-17
  
  Copy, headed D^r Dunne on his M^rs goeing to bed.
  
  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')
- CwT 97 pp. 120-3
  
  Copy, headed Pallenodia Loues song that it is a follye. Loves folly.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- DnJ 1755 p. 123
  
  Copy, headed On a criple and here beginning I cannot goe, nor stand the cripple cryes.
  
  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')
- PeW 172 pp. 128-9
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman vnmarriagble.
  
  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')
- RnT 379 p. 129
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- StW 86 p. 131
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a gentlewoman.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.
  
  William Strode, An Epitaph ('Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie')
- HrJ 276 p. 133
  
  Copy, headed A refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wish me to a wife that's faire & young.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- RnT 505 pp. 134-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- CoR 463 p. 135
  
  Copy, headed On M^r Henry Boling.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
- CwT 677 p. 137
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs. and here beginning Thinke not deare loue that I'le reveale
  
  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')
- CoR 437 pp. 144-6
  
  Copy, headed On young Tom of Christ Church by D^r Corbet.
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- DaJ 133 p. 146
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a bellowes maker and here beginning Here lies John Crucker a maker of bellows.
  
  A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
  
  Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
- PeW 216 pp. 149-50
  
  Copy of the short version, headed A discourse of a gentlewoman to a Gentleman courting her and here beginning Nay pish, nay fie, in faith but will you? 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')
- RaW 507 pp. 150-1
  
  Copy, headed The silent wooer.
  
  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'
- CoR 720 p. 154
  
  Copy, headed On Prince Charles.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- KiH 284 p. 155
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorset by D^r. Corbett.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- DkT 6 p. 156
  
  Copy, headed On Queene Elizabeth dying at Richmond and brought to Whitehall by water.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- MyJ 12 pp. 156-9
  
  Copy, headed Anne Kings table booke of Pictures, subscribed By M^r Jasper Maine of C.C.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- EaJ 13 pp. 160-5
  
  Copy, ascribed to M^r Earles.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
- KiH 193 pp. 165-6
  
  Copy, headed On S^r Walter Raleigh.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
- HrJ 189 p. 167
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a holy sister got with childe by a holy brother and here beginning A sister once by one of her society.
  
  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')
- CwT 801 pp. 167-8
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs singinge in a Gallery at Yorke house.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- DaJ 45 p. 171
  
  Copy, headed A country gentlemans manner of wooing.
  
  First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
- StW 1292 p. 176
  
  Copy, headed An answer to a gentlewoman who asked by the rose was redd and the lillie white and here beginning Ile tell you whence the rose did first grow redd.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- CwT 550 pp. 176-7
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Goe you gentle whistling wind.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- PoW 10 pp. 177-81
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a Ladye with black haire and eyes. Beata Poole.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- RnT 272 pp. 183-91
  
  Copy, headed The pastorall courtshipp or a louers inuitation.
  
  This MS recorded in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
- CwT 1040 pp. 191-2
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs. in absence.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
  
  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
- CwT 726 pp. 192-3
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- WoH 72 p. 198
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs.
  
  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')
- CwT 116 pp. 204-5
  
  Copy, headed Of a cruell M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- RaW 459 p. 213
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue between a man and woman.
  
  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
- StW 445 pp. 214-15
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- CoR 372.5 p. 217
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs Lute and here beginning Pretty 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')
- CwT 49 pp. 219-20
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs. T.C..
  
  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 1129 pp. 221-2
  
  Copy, headed To his sister who sent a piece of Gold inclosed in her letter. W. S.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.
  
  William Strode, To his Sister ('Lovinge Sister, every line')
- CoR 485 pp. 222-3
  
  Copy, headed On the death of John Dawson Butler of Christ Church, subscribed W. S.
  
  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')
- StW 993 p. 224
  
  Copy, headed On a kissing gentlewoman.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- DaJ 10 p. 224
  
  Copy, headed On Kate.
  
  Krueger, p. 132.
  
  Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde')
- KiH 115 pp. 225-6
  
  Copy, headed One that was suitour to a gentlewoman more vertuous then faire wrote these verses to a freind that dislikt his choice.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
  
  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
- JnB 628 pp. 229-32
  
  Copy, headed The devills feast, here beginning Cooke Lawrell needs would haue the deuill to his guest, and subscribed Ben: J.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- CwT 208 p. 232
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistris after hee had stayed long from her.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- DyE 74 p. 234
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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'
- StW 343 pp. 234-6
  
  Copy, here beginning Can any shew, where Plibies people dwell.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
  
  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
- KiH 331 pp. 284-9
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on his departed Mistris.
  
  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!')

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end

MS Eng. poet. f. 9

MS Eng. poet. f. 10

MS Eng. poet. f. 13

MS Eng. poet. f. 16

MS Eng. poet. f. 24

MS Eng. poet. f. 25

MS Eng. poet. f. 27

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