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MS Malone 2

A folio volume, 140 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
1645.
Containing (ff. 1v-13v, 138r-130v rev.) copies of letters and accounts, 1623-5, of Richard Newall, London merchant, trading with Newfoundland. A label on a rear endpaper inscribed ...brought by M^r Bob from Zelaste[?] near Flushing. Inscribed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector These M.S.S. were bought at the sale of the late Samuel Ireland [i.e. Samuel Ireland (fl.1758-1800), printmaker and writer] of Norfolk St.- London 13: May 1801.
- HrJ 12 ff. 14r-130r
  
  Extensive extracts, in a single small hand.
  
  First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.
  
  Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso ('Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight')
MS Malone 11

Copy in a single hand, entitled Triphon / A Trage-Comedy / Written by the right honourable / Roger Earle of Orrery, 138 quarto leaves (plus title-page and blanks).
c.1770-80.
This MS collated in Clark.
- OrR 37
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Tryphon
MS Malone 12

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, x + 102 pages. 7½ x 5½ inches.

Entitled A Tragi-Coomedie, called the Witch: long since acted by his Mat^ies Seruants at the Black-Friers. Written by Tho. Middleton.
c.1619-27.
Once owned by Benjamin Griffin (1680-1740), actor and playwright; by Lockyer Davis (1717-91), London bookseller; by Major Thomas Pearson; by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar (bought at the Pearson sale, 1787, lot 3872); and by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector (bought at the Steevens sale, 20 May 1800).

This MS discussed in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, IV, 903-5, and, with a facsimile of one page, in F.P. Wilson, Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215. Facsimiles of title-page, dedication, and pages 1 and 87 in Greg and Wilson. Facsimiles of the first page of text also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 213, and of the title-page in Oxford Companion, p. 63. See also Paul Mulholland, Notes on Several Derivatives of Crane's Manuscript of Middleton's The Witch, PBSA, 78 (1984), 75-81, which includes (p. 77) a facsimile of p. 24 of the transcript of this MS made by George Steevens (now Folger MS D.a.47) for the edition of 1778.
- MiT 28
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1778. Bullen, V, 351-453. Ed. W.W. Greg and F.P. Wilson, Malone Society, 1948 (Oxford, 1950). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1129-64.
  
  Thomas Middleton, The Witch
MS Malone 13

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank).

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.
c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
- WoH 7 p. 11
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed S^r H: Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- WaE 562 pp. 12-13
  
  Copy, subscribed Waller.
  
  This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
  
  First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.
  
  Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
- WaE 101 p. 16
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Waller.
  
  The text of this MS given in Deas, pp. 324-5.
  
  First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
- WaE 636 p. 20
  
  Copy, headed To the Queene Mother on her Landing and subscribed Waller.
  
  This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.
  
  Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
- WaE 203 pp. 28-9
  
  Copy, headed To the king after the Death of the D. of Buckingham and subscribed Waller.
  
  This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
- EaJ 38 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy of a mock epitaph, subscribed Earles.
  
  Printed from this MS in Weber and in Hayward.
  
  First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Epitaph on the Living S^r. Lorenza Carew ('Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother')
- SuJ 94 pp. 31-5
  
  Copy, headed The Witts.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.
  
  John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day')
- WaE 212 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed Waller.
  
  This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
- ToA 50 p. 51
  
  Copy, headed in another hand To the Countesse of Salisbury and subscribed in that same hand A: Tounshend.
  
  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')
- PeW 294 p. 52
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed P. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd ('Till now I never did believe')
- ToA 77 p. 53
  
  Copy, subscribed Au: Townsend.
  
  Edited from this MS in Brown.
  
  First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889). p. 126. Chambers, p. 17. Brown, p. 23.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, 'Your smiles are not as other womens bee'
- BmF 101 pp. 54-6
  
  Copy, headed To Ben: Johnson and subscribed ff: Beaumont.
  
  First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
  Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson ('The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring')
- GrJ 70 pp. 57-8
  
  Copy, untitled, with a deleted subscription Granger.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Since every man I come among'
- GrJ 44 p. 58
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed Granger.
  
  Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'I said the thing for which I woe'
- ToA 47 pp. 59-60
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed Au: Tounsend.
  
  Edited from this MS in Brown.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 18-20. Brown, pp. 24-5.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, 'Though Regions farr devided'
- WaE 574 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed Waller.
  
  This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.
  
  Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
- CwT 308 pp. 67-70
  
  Copy of the four songs.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.
  
  Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
- ToA 3 pp. 75-9
  
  Copy, subscribed Au: Tounsend.
  
  Edited from this MS in Brown.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 21-7. Brown, pp. 26-9.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, 'Come not to me for scarfs, nor plumes'
- BmF 84 pp. 97-8
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Stand styl my happyness and swell my harte, and subscribed T. Bea:.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 495-6.
  
  Francis Beaumont, The Examination of his Mistress's Perfections ('Stand still, my happiness. and swelling heart')
- SuJ 136 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed To y^e Lady Desmonde and subscribed P Apsley.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.
  
  John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')
- WaE 400 pp. 291-311
  
  Copy, untitled, the work subscribed S: Godolphin.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dighton.
  
  First published complete, by Humphrey Moseley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esq^rs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning All this her weeping sister does repeat which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning Aurora now, leaving her watry bed) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.
  
  Edmund Waller, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas ('Meanwhile the Queen fanning a secret fire')
MS Malone 14

A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1586-1667), poet and clergyman, in a single Roman hand, 47 pages, in later calf.

Entitled Perotti poemata varia, sed e multis pauca selectoria.
c.1637.
- BeJ 52 pp. 21-2
  
  Copy, headed To a yong lord at Court 1623.
  
  Edited from this MS in Sell.
  
  First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.
  
  Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham ('To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine')
MS Malone 16

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum.
c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.
- HeR 338 pp. 1-2
  
  Copy, headed The clothing of Oberon King of Fairies by S^r Simeon Steward.
  
  This MS collated in Farmer.
  
  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
  
  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
- HeR 179 pp. 3-4
  
  Copy, without the preliminary lines and subscribed Rich: Hiericke of Clare Hall.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
- CwT 475 p. 4
  
  Copy, headed His mistresse commanding him to returne her letters.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CwT 575 p. 11
  
  Copy, headed in another hand On A Sight [sic].
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 702 p. 12
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- KiH 433 p. 12
  
  Copy, headed A Midnights meditatioⁿ and subscribed ffinis JK.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- StW 46 p. 13
  
  Copy of the last eight lines, untitled and here beginning Corruption layes on blacke. Give me the eye.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
  
  William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
- JnB 717 p. 13
  
  Copy, headed Death & Loue Paraleld.
  
  First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
- CwT 106 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy, headed Vpon his M^res beautyes.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- CwT 267 p. 16
  
  Copy, headed An elegie of a fly.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- StW 779 p. 16
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- RaW 322 p. 17
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Passions are likened best to flouds & streames.
  
  This MS recorded in Gullans.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- FeO 24 p. 18
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am.
  
  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.
  
  Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')
- CwT 1258 p. 20
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- HoJ 95 p. 20
  
  Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed Verses presented to y^e King by M^rs. Horskins in the behalfe of her husband prisoner and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hidd.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hannah, p. 121. Recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- ToA 51 p. 28
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- CwT 169 p. 29
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed ffinis. C.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- DnJ 1505 pp. 30-3
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, untitled, here beginning Since thou must goe, & I must mourne, come night, and subscribed ffinis. M. & incerto authore.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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')
- CwT 1147 p. 34
  
  Copy, headed To one Like his M^res.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- FeO 56 p. 34
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1660), pp. 96-7. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 5.
  
  Owen Felltham, The Sun and Wind ('Why think'st thou (fool) thy Beauties rayes')
- FeO 14 p. 35
  
  Copy.
  
  Pebworth & Summers, p. 14.
  
  Owen Felltham, The Cause ('Think not, Clarissa, I love thee')
- SuJ 102 pp. 38-9
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed ffinis Tu.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
  Probably written by Walton Poole.
  
  John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant ('My first Love whom all beauty did adorn')
- StW 980 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy, headed On Death and Resurreccon and here beginning Like to the Rowlinge of an Eye.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hannah.
  
  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')
- SuJ 103 p. 56
  
  Copy of lines 1-19, untitled, written later.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
  Probably written by Walton Poole.
  
  John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant ('My first Love whom all beauty did adorn')
- ToA 27 pp. 73-4
  
  Copy, headed A Paradox.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
- HoJ 342.5 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy of the speech, headed Refused to answer at extempore being importuned by y^e prince and S^r Walter Rawlegh: Began.
  
  This MS collated in Osborn, pp. 258-9.
  
  Hoskyns's Fustian Speech, or Tuftaffeta Speech, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (London, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.
  
  John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech
- RnT 340 pp. 71-69 rev.
  
  Copy, headed On A Lady of incomparable Sweet voice But very deformed and here beginning Sweet Lesbias voice I chanc'd to hear.
  
  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')
MS Malone 19

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s.
The name George Brown inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone.
- DaJ 225 p. 20
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Heere lies old Dobson, yea cladd in molde.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.
  
  Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons ('Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde')
- CoR 352 pp. 27-30
  
  Copy, headed D^r. Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
- WoH 73 pp. 37-8
  
  Copy, headed To the Spanish Lady, By S^r H. Wotton added in a later hand.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.
  
  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
- GrF 39 p. 40
  
  Copy, headed On Treason & and here beginning Treason is like a Basiliscus eye.
  
  Bullough, II, 118.
  
  Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
- HrJ 260 p. 40
  
  Copy, untitled (but under the general heading On Treason &).
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
- RaW 323 p. 44
  
  Copy, headed Of Passions and here beginning Passyns are likened best to floudes & streames.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- RaW 415 p. 44
  
  Copy, headed A riddle vppon the Lady Bendbowe.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- JnB 585 p. 44
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- WiG 1.5 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy of a Latin version of the poem, headed Shall I wastinge in despaire, turn'd into Latin meet^r and beginning A: Cor quid te dolore teris.
  
  First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.
  For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.
  
  George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
- DyE 75 p. 50
  
  Copy, headed A louers conceipt.
  
  This MS text collated in Sargent.
  
  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'
- HrJ 33 p. 51
  
  Copy, headed The degrees of swearinge.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- RaW 341 p. 53
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning The word of denyall, the figure of fiftye, and in answer to the preceding verses (p. 52), Noel's The offence of the stomach, & the word of disgrace which is headed Rawly.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
  
  First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
- TiC 7 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed Tychbornes elegie in the tow^r before his excecution.
  
  This MS text collated 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')
- RaW 207 p. 55
  
  Copy, subscribed in another hand S^r Wal: R.
  
  Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 50B, pp. 123-4.
  
  First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
- HrJ 163 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed On a Curate & a Cobbl^r.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat ('A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed')
- DnJ 1376 p. 57-8
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a Flea and subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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')
- HoJ 96 pp. 71-3
  
  Copy, headed M^r. Hoskins his Dreame and subscribed J. Hoskins.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- HrJ 132 p. 75
  
  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')
- PeW 217 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy of the shorter version, untitled and here beginning Nay phew, nay pish, in faith, & will yow? fflye.
  
  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')
- EsR 2 p. 77
  
  Copy, untitled and subscribed J. Deane.
  
  This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
  
  May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'
- DnJ 1920 p. 79
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS 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 902 p. 79
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS 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 166 p. 79
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning If Hammon in his studdye hath such care.
  
  This MS 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 2662 p. 80
  
  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 2357 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a Woeman whom the author taught to loue & complement.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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'
- DnJ 2578 pp. 81-3
  
  Copy of lines 1-50, imperfect (the top of p. 83 excised), untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 3925 p. 83
  
  Copy of lines 1-18, 28-9, imperfect (lacking the top of the page), untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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')
- CoR 552 pp. 84-7
  
  Copy, headed The ffairies Farewell. or God haue merrye will.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.
  
  First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
  
  Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will ('Farewell, Rewards & Faeries')
- HoJ 179 p. 95
  
  Copy, headed Hoskins dreame of N. Coll.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. X (p. 171).
  
  John Hoskyns, M^r Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford ('Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake')
- DaJ 92 p. 95
  
  Copy of poem 2, beginning The Romane Tarquin in his folly blind.
  
  Edited from this MS in Tannenbaum.
  
  First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
- JnB 629 pp. 95-8
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson on the Peake and subscribed R. Corbet.
  
  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
  
  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')
- CoR 259 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed Ad Autorem de anniversarijs eiusdem In Henricum Principem.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- CoR 237 pp. 101-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
- HoJ 313 pp. 105-6
  
  Copy, headed M^r <deleted> delight of <deleted> in Oxford and here beginning O loue whose force & might / Noe power euer w^thstode.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- CoR 25 pp. 112-18
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
  Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- RnT 380 p. 121
  
  Copy, headed Randulph of Cambridge one his litle finger.
  
  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')
- RnT 192 pp. 121-4
  
  Copy, headed Ide To his creditors 1633.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
- StW 1012 p. 124
  
  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')
- HoJ 171 p. 137
  
  Copy, headed Cabalisticall verses, which by transposition of wordes, syllables, & letters make excellent sense, oth^rwise none in laudem Coriatti.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.
  
  John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins ('Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish')
- JnB 259 p. 138
  
  Copy of a version headed A Grace said before the King by a Jester and beginning The King, the Queene, the Prince god blesse.
  
  Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419 (n).
  
  First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
- RaW 316 p. 138
  
  Copy of lines 1-12 headed Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 140.
  
  First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne ('Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace')
- WoH 8 pp. 146-7
  
  Copy, headed S^r Hen. Wootton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- HoJ 287 p. 148
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower.
  
  Edited from this MS in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).
  
  John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower ('Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque')
- HoJ 181 p. 148
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hoskins one a dull Lawyer.
  
  Edited from this MS in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XL (p. 211).
  
  John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one a dull Lawyer ('As a louse as we cracke, hath a list one his backe')
- HoJ 182 p. 149
  
  Copy.
  
  Osborn, p. 211.
  
  John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one M^r Permenter at the Chancerye in London ('M^r Permentor stands at y^e Cent^er')
- HoJ 170 p. 149
  
  Copy, headed Hoskins reply.
  
  following verses As at a banaqett some meales haue sweet, some soure last.
  
  A single line in response to the verse As at a banaquett some meates haue sweet, some soure tast. Osborn, p. 211.
  
  John Hoskyns, Hoskins reply ('Euen so y^r dubelet is too short in the wast')
- HoJ 232 p. 149
  
  Copy, the two Latin verses first, headed M^r Hoskins to his Sonne.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- HoJ 191 p. 150
  
  Copy, headed On Gresham a Drunkard and here beginning Heere lyeth Gresham vnder ground.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).
  
  John Hoskyns, Of S^r Tho. Gressam ('Here lyes Gressam under the ground')
- DnJ 401 p. 150
  
  Copy of lines 27-8, headed One y^e ffrench Crownes and here beginning Although y^e King eclepd most Christian bee.
  
  This MS recorded in Shaawcross.
  
  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')
MS Malone 20

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with a title-page and Table of contents in different Roman script, ii + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
- NaR 1
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
  
  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
MS Malone 21

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.
c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.
- StW 497 ff. 1r-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
  
  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
- CoR 698 f. 2r-v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e same [i.e. Fairford Windows].
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
- KiH 434 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed Of mans misery and subscribed D^r John King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- CoR 649 f. 3r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e birth of Pr: Charles May 29, 1630 wn a star appeared next day at noone, w an Eclipse of y^e Sun the next day following.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')
- DaW 6 ff. 5r-6r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e L^d ffra: Manno^r Earle of Rutland and subscribed W. Davenant.
  
  This MS collated in Gibbs.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland ('Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!')
- RnT 363 f. 6r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture ('When age hath made me what I am not now')
- MyJ 1 f. 7r
  
  Copy, here ascribed to Henry King.
  
  Jasper Mayne, An Elegy upon the King of Sweden's Death ('Brave Prince! Although thy fate seem yet too strange')
- EaJ 14 ff. 9r-11r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegye upon y^e Death of S^r John Burrowes.
  
  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 177 f. 11r
  
  Copy, headed On Prince Henry's Death.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
- MyJ 5 ff. 13v-15r
  
  Copy, subscribed in another hand Jasper Mayne.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse')
- CoR 139 ff. 17v-19r
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- WaE 686 f. 20r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
- CoA 130 ff. 24r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 32-7. Sparrow, pp. 36-41.
  
  Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. William Hervey ('It was a dismal, and a fearful night')
- RnT 545 f. 28v
  
  Copy, ascribed to D^r. Zouch.
  
  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')
- CoA 140 f. 38r
  
  Copy, headed The poets peticon.
  
  First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
- CwT 978 f. 45r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
- CwT 134 f. 45v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- PoW 103 f. 46r
  
  Copy, headed To his mistress.
  
  First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).
  
  Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses ('Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away')
- KiH 547 f. 46r
  
  Copy, headed To his discontented m^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- StW 1374 f. 46v
  
  Copy, headed On a Blush.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
- CoR 602 ff. 46v-7r
  
  Copy, headed On o^r new-fashion'd Ladyes and subscribed D^r Corbett.
  
  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 19 f. 47r
  
  Copy, headed The Answer to these.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- CoR 665 ff. 48v-9r
  
  Copy, headed On M^rs Mallett and subscribed D^r Corbett.
  
  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')
- StW 463 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy, headed In praise of a handsome Leg & foot and subscribed W Strode.
  
  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')
- ShJ 107 ff. 50v-1v
  
  Copy, headed A song on Prince Charles his birth.
  
  This MS collated in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
  
  James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
- DaJ 46 f. 51v
  
  Copy, headed A Rustick Gallants wooing and here beginning Fair wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes.
  
  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')
- CaW 30 f. 52r-v
  
  Copy, headed On one weapeing.
  
  Edited from this MS in Goffin and in Evans.
  
  First published in The Life and Poems of William Cartwright, ed. R. Cullis Goffin (Cambridge, 1918), pp. 32-4. Evans, 466-7.
  
  William Cartwright, On one weepeing ('Sawest thou not that liquid ball')
- DeJ 29 ff. 53v-4r
  
  Copy, headed Reader no superscription here I writt / Because y^e verse it selfe entitles it.
  
  First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
  
  Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
- CaW 28 ff. 55r-6v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 209-12. Evans, pp. 462-5.
  
  William Cartwright, On Mr Stokes his Book on the Art of Vaulting ('Reader, here is such a booke')
- MrJ 22 ff. 56v-8r
  
  An anonymous copy, headed On y^e Duke of Buckingham returneing from the Isle of Ree.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- KiH 43 f. 63r
  
  Copy, headed The 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')
- RnT 341 ff. 64v-6r
  
  Copy, headed On a deformed Gentlewoman y^t sunge exquisitely and subscribed D^r Lewis [i.e. Dr William Lewis, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford].
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and 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')
- DrM 13 f. 66r
  
  Copy, headed The cryeres Song.
  
  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')
- MnJ 2 f. 69r
  
  Copy, headed On Hobson y^e Cambridge carrier who died 1630 in y^e vacancy of his carriage by reason of y^e sicknesse then hott at Cambridge and here beginning Here Hobson lies who did most truly prove.
  
  This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire; also in William R. Parker, Milton's Hobson Poems: Some Neglected Early Texts, MLR, 31 (1936), 395-402; recorded in John T. Shawcross, A Note on Milton's Hobson Poems, RES, NS 18 (1967), 433-7.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.
  
  John Milton, Another on the same [Hobson the University Carrier] ('Here lieth one who did most truly prove')
- CaW 32 ff. 71r-2r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e great frost and subscribed W. Cartwrite ex Ade christi.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.
  
  William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 ('Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be')
- PeW 218 f. 74r-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger. anon
  
  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')
- CaW 22 ff. 75r-6r
  
  Copy, headed On Gentlewomen's silkehoods, here beginning Is there a chastity in love begun, and subscribed M^r Cartwright.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.
  
  William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood ('Is there a Sanctity in Love begun')
- RnT 453 f. 76v
  
  Copy.
  
  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
- StW 1266 f. 78r
  
  Copy, in double columns, headed The Catholique.
  
  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')
- CaW 67 ff. 78r-9r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs Walking in y^e snow and subscribed Dr Strode.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 569-70.
  
  William Cartwright, To his M^rs Walking in y^e snow ('See faire Splendora what a lovely bed')
- StW 180 f. 79r
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r Strode.
  
  Edited from this MS in Forey.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- StW 919 f. 79v
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r Strode.
  
  First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
- B&F 118 f. 80r
  
  Copy, headed Song in y^e praise of Malancholye.
  
  This MS briefly discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, Song in Fletcher's Play of The Nice Valour…, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- StW 656 f. 80r-v
  
  Copy, headed Against Melancholly and subscribed D^r Strode.
  
  This MS discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, Song in Fletcher's Play of The Nice Valour…, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7. Collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
  
  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
- CoR 215 ff. 80v-2
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Hammond Parson of Beaudly for y^e beating downe of y^e May-pole and subscribed D^r Corb:.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
- BrW 30 ff. 83r-4v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e death of his M^rs.
  
  First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
- StW 376 f. 84v
  
  Copy, headed Song to his M^rs.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
  
  William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
- PeW 173 f. 86v
  
  Copy, headed On a young Gentlewoman unmarriageable and here beginning Why should thy passion quell thy mind.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- CwT 893 f. 86v
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- PeW 174 f. 86v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CoR 1.5 f. 94r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
MS Malone 22

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).
c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).
- ChM 2 f. 2v
  
  Copy, in an 18th-century hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Ezell, p. cviii.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, pp. 83-4.
  
  Mary, Lady Chudleigh, To the Ladies ('Wife and Servant are the same')
- KiH 793 ff. 4r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.
  
  Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
- KiH 311 ff. 6v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.
  
  Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
- KiH 708 ff. 8v-9v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
  
  Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
- KiH 411 f. 10r-v.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
  
  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
- KiH 106 f. 11r-v.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS 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?')
- KiH 665 ff. 11v-12
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
  
  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
- KiH 539 f. 12v.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- KiH 630 f. 12v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
- KiH 570 f. 13
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
- KiH 603 f. 13
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
- KiH 354 f. 13v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
  
  Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
- KiH 27 f. 14
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS 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')
- KiH 422 f. 14v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- KiH 516 f. 14v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
  
  Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
- KiH 587 f. 15
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
- KiH 170 ff. 15v-16
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
- KiH 187 f. 16r-v.
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  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')
- KiH 275 f. 17
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- KiH 321 ff. 17v-19v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum. Facsimile of f. 27v in Keynes, p. 93.
  
  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!')
- KiH 12 f. 20r-v.
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.
  
  Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
- KiH 466 f. 21
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.
  
  Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
- KiH 395 ff. 21v-2v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.
  
  Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')
- KiH 742 f. 23
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
  
  Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy ('If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find')
- KiH 747 f. 23
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
  
  Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife ('Madam, who understands you well, would sweare')
- KiH 757 f. 23
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
  
  Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')
- KiH 685 f. 23v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
  
  Henry King, To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir ('I know no fitter Subject for your view')
- KiH 695 f. 23v.
  
  Copy, headed To A.R. in eandem.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
  
  Henry King, To A.R. upon the same ('Not that I would instruct or tutor you')
- KiH 752 f. 23v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
  
  Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. ('In this small Character is sent')
- KiH 304 f. 24
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')
- KiH 735 f. 24
  
  Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.
  
  Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles ('So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes')
- KiH 700 f. 24v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.
  
  Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')
- KiH 97 ff. 25r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.
  
  Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
- KiH 785 f. 26v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.
  
  Henry King, The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')
- KiH 480 f. 27r-v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
  
  Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
- KiH 764 ff. 27v-8v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
  
  Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind D^r. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')
- KiH 225 ff. 28v-30v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
- KiH 258 f. 31r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hannah and chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense')
- KiH 263 f. 31r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?')
- KiH 269 f. 31r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd')
- KiH 247 f. 31v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas')
- KiH 253 f. 31v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')
- KiH 560 f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
- KiH 624 f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire')
- KiH 528 f. 32v.
  
  Copy, headed Sonnet.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
  
  Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
- KiH 658 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed To Patience.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')
- KiH 489 f. 33v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.
  
  Henry King, The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')
- KiH 689 f. 34r
  
  Copy of an early version, beginning Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.
  
  Henry King, To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed ('Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise')
- KiH 730 f. 34v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.
  
  Henry King, To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry ('Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost')
- KiH 644 f. 35r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
- KiH 498 f. 35v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
  
  Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
- KiH 403 f. 36r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.
  
  Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')
- KiH 371 f. 36v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.
  
  Henry King, The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')
- KiH 21 f. 37r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.
  
  Henry King, Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought ('Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!')
- KiH 137 ff. 37v-8v.
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.
  
  Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')
- KiH 5 f. 39r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.
  
  Henry King, An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')
- KiH 772 f. 40r-v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
  
  Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
- KiH 208 f. 41
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
- KiH 378 ff. 41v-2
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.
  
  Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')
- KiH 150 ff. 42v-4
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
- KiH 384 ff. 44v-5v.
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
  
  Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
MS Malone 23

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt.
c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iii^r) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of M^r. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone.
- DaJ 27 p. 1a
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Henry Howard Earle of Northampton. 1603.
  
  This MS collated in Krueger.
  
  First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.
  
  Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio')
- HoJ 41 pp. 1b-10
  
  Copy, headed The Censure of the Parliamentary Fart.
  
  Edited from this MS in Early Stuary Libels.
  
  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
  
  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
- DrM 14 p. 8
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- HoJ 215 p. 23
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the fall of S^r, Francis Bacon Lo. verulam & viscount S^t: Alban Lo: Chancellour.
  
  Edited from this MS in Early Stuart Libels.
  
  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')
- DrW 117.13 pp. 28-31
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
- MrJ 79 p. 105
  
  An anonymous copy.
  
  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
- MrJ 23 pp. 106-9
  
  An anonymous copy, headed In Ducem Reducem.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- CoR 2 pp. 116-17
  
  Copy, headed Verses supposed to be made by Doctor Corbett Bishop of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament. 1628.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.
  
  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
- HrJ 75 p. 121
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is bankerupt 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')
- FeO 45 pp. 132-3
  
  Copy, headed In Buckinghamiæ Ducem. vltimo Aug: 1628 and subscribed per Owen Feltham.
  
  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
  
  Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')
- CaE 6 pp. 134-5
  
  Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place.
  
  This MS recorded in Akkerman.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- CaE 7 p. 140
  
  Copy of the six-line epitaph.
  
  Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- ShJ 20 p. 195
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Armstrong. Edited in the online Earl Stuart Libels.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.
  
  James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham ('Here lies the best and worst of Fate')
- DnJ 402 p. 220
  
  Copy of lines 27-8, headed Of French Crownes and here beginning Although the French king most Christian bee.
  
  This MS 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')
MS Malone 24

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 26 octavo leaves (plus blanks).
c.1600.
- EsR 101
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
MS Malone 25

Copy of an abridged version, xii + 70 quarto leaves.

In the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with Middleton's autograph verse dedication To the worthily accomplished Master William Hammond (beginning This--which nor stage nor stationer's stall can show) subscribed T. M.
1624.
Once owned by one J. Pepys. Sold by C.J. Stewart, bookseller, c.1860-70.

This MS collated and two scenes printed in Bald. Edited from this MS in N.W. Bawcutt, editor, Ralph Crane's Transcript of A Game at Chess, Bodleian Manuscript Malone 25, Collections: Volume XV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1993), 1-109. Recorded in Harper.
Facsimile pages in Bald, facing p. 33; in F.P. Wilson, Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plate V); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XCIV(b); in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 220; and in Bawcutt. Facsimile of the verses to Hammond on p. vii in Oxford Middleton, p. 1896.
- *MiT 16
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An early form in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a later form on pp. 1830-85.
  
  Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess
Mal E 61-63

Exemplum of Edmond Malone's printed edition of The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden (3 vols, London, 1800, lacking Vol. I, part ii), copiously annotated by Malone in preparation for an intended second edition.
c.1800s.
- DrJ 341 Vol. I, Part i, [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Malone's copy of a letter by Dryden to Jacob Tonson, [December 1697].
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
- DrJ 350 Vo. I, Part i, [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Malone's copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, Candlemass-Day [2 February] 1698/9.
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
- DrJ 354 Vol. I, part i, [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Malone's copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, 23 February 1698/9.
  
  Ward, Letter 73. NB. Ward dates this letter 23 February [1699/1700], but see W.J. Cameron, John Dryden and Henry Heveningham, N&Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203 (p. 203).
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
Mal 3

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1662, with annotations (? by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar), including transcripts of notes made in their own exempla by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer, and by William Oldys (1696-1761), herald and antiquary.
Late 18th century.
See John Eglington Bailey, The Life of Thomas Fuller, D.D., with notices of his Books, his Kinsmen, and his Friends, (London, 1874), p. 742.
- FuT 5.264
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1662.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
Mal. 215 (1)

A proof-sheet for the 3rd edition (1637).

The outer forme of sheet G (sigs G1^r, 2^v, 3^r, 4^v), with MS proof corrections, in an exemplum of this quarto edition.
c.1637.
Discussed in Peter H. Davison, The Fair Maid of the Exchange, The Library, 5th Ser. 13 (1958), 119-20; and in James Hammersmith, Early Proofing: The Evidence of Extant Proof-Sheets, AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (pp. 200-1). Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 71.
- HyT 6.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1607. Edited by Peter Davison, Malone Society, 1962 (Oxford, 1963).
  
  Thomas Heywood, The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange
Mal. 225 (3)

The text of the missing first four leaves supplied in MS, as a neat facsimile, in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1600.
18th century.
- JnB 605.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1600. Herford & Simpson, III, 405-604.
  
  Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour
Mal. 225 (4)

The text of the missing title-page and last leaf supplied in MS in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1607, which also contains readers' annotations in one or more other hands.
Late 17th or 18th century.
This item recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 6, and collated.
- JnB 738
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.
  
  Ben Jonson, Volpone
Mal. 235

Dekker's autograph signature, apparently cut from his entry for 5 May 1602 in the Diary of Philip Henslowe, pasted in a printed volume of his plays.
1602.
- *DkT 56
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Document(s)
Mal. 238 (10)

Fair copy, complete with dedication and the anagram from Camden, written for presentation to Lady Penelope Rich; bound in a volume of Ford's printed plays.
[1606].
This MS discussed and unpublished stanzas printed in Bertram Lloyd, An Inedited MS. of Ford's Fames Memoriall, RES, 1 (1925), 93-5. Also discussed in G.D. Monsarrat, Printed Texts and Presentation Manuscripts: The Case of John Ford's Fame's Memorial and A Line of Life, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 80-5, and in Nondramatic Works (1991), esp. pp. 78-81, with a facsimile of ff. v^v-1^r on p. 84.
- FoJ 2
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1606. Dyce, III, 277-327. Nondramatic Works (1991), pp. 61-131.
  
  John Ford, Fame's Memorial ('Swift Time, the speedy pursuivant of heaven')
Mal. 240 (1)

A signature of Chapman on a slip cut from a page in the Diary of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier.

Extracted, probably by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, from the Diary now at Dulwich College, and now pasted in a printed exemplum of Chapman's The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (London, 1598).
c.1590s-1600s.
Facsimiles in W. W. Greg, Fragments from Henslowe's Diary, Collections: Volume IV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1956), pp. 27-32, and in Cummings, p. 191.
- *ChG 30
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Chapman, Document(s)
Mal. 253 (2)

Two sets of MS annotations, one in pencil, the other in ink, in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the Duke's Company.
c.1666-7.
Owned, and annotated, by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

This item briefly discussed in Bertram Joseph, Stage-Directions in a 17th Cent. Copy of Shirley, TN, 3 (1949), 66-7. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 261-94 (and discussed, pp. 42-4).
- ShJ 206
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362.
  
  James Shirley, The Witty Fair One
Mal. 253 (9)

MS annotations in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company.
c.1660s.
This item discussed in Dana G. McKinnen, A Description of a Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Ball, RECTR, 10 (May 1976), 25-48; and, with a facsimile example, in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 19-23.
- ShJ 134
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, as written by George Chapman and James Shirly, in London, 1639. Gifford & Dyce, III, 1-91. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1078.
  
  James Shirley, The Ball
Mal. 460

Walton's exemplum.
Late 17th century.
- *WtI 189
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Izaak Walton, Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, and Benjamin Ruddier. Poems [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660)
Mal. 469

An autograph signature by Drayton, on a slip probably cut from Henslowe's Diary, formerly pasted in a printed exemplum of Mortimeriados (London, 1596).
Late 16th-early 17th century.
Currently untraced.

Facsimile in Greg, Plate VIII(b.
- *DrM 78
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Michael Drayton, Document(s)
Mal. 792(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 215-16.
- *HvG 89
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Gascoigne, George. The Posies...Corrected, perfected, and augmented by the Authour (London, 1575)
Mal. 792(1)

Copy in the hand of Gabriel Harvey.

headed The offence to the stomach, in Harvey's annotated exemplum of George Gascoigne's Posies (London, 1575).
c.1576?.
- RaW 358.3
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas (London, 1576). Latham, p. 3. Rudick, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Walter Rawely of the middle Temple, in commendation of the Steele Glasse ('Swete were the sauce would please ech kind of tast')
Mal. 792(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.
- *HvG 90
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Gascoigne, George. The Steele Glas. A Satyr compiled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with the Complaint of Phylomene. An Elegie devised by the same Author (London, 1576)

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MS Malone 2

MS Malone 11

MS Malone 12

MS Malone 13

MS Malone 14

MS Malone 16

MS Malone 19

MS Malone 20

MS Malone 21

MS Malone 22

MS Malone 23

MS Malone 24

MS Malone 25

Mal E 61-63

Mal 3

Mal. 215 (1)

Mal. 225 (3)

Mal. 225 (4)

Mal. 235

Mal. 238 (10)

Mal. 240 (1)

Mal. 253 (2)

Mal. 253 (9)

Mal. 460

Mal. 469

Mal. 792(1)

Mal. 792(1)

Mal. 792(2)

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