Copy in a single hand, i + 47 large folio leaves.
Including names of actors in the Dramatis Personae.
c.1670.Inscribed names of Katherine Brudenell
and Josheph Allen 1706
.
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.
Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, headed The Tragædie of Mustapha
, iv + 108 large folio pages, in contemporary calf gilt.
Inscriptions inside the front and rear covers Cæcillya Huseys Book
, Cicillia Freke
, and W Shaw
.
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.
A folio volume comprising three poems, 107 leaves.
1692-3.Copy, apparently transcribed from a printed source.
First published in Poems (London, 1656). Grosart, II, 45-115. Waller, I, 239-401.
Copy, transcribed from an early edition.
This MS recorded in California.
First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.
A folio volume of poems and dramatic works by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish (chiefly the former), a formal anthology in the stylish italic hand of Sir William Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, viii + 168 pages (including some blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt, the initials W N
[i.e. William Newcastle] in gilt on each cover.
A list of contents on pp. iii-iv in the hand of Elizabeth Cavendish's husband John Egerton (1623-86), Viscount Brackley and second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, with (p. v) a formal title-page probably also in his hand, Poems Songs a Pastorall and a Play by the Rt Honble the Lady Iane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
, a list of contents on pp. 159-62 in another hand.
Facsimile of the title-page in Travitsky, Subordination, p. 55.
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Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, The King's Entertainment by the Duke of Newcastle, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
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Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, The King's Entertainment by the Duke of Newcastle, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
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Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, The King's Entertainment by the Duke of Newcastle, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
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Copy, subscribed Jane Cauendysshe
.
Copy, subscribed Elizabeth Brackley
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A series of antemasques, songs and speaches. Unpublished.
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Facsimile and transcription of p. 91 in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 430-1.
A five-act play, including songs. Unpublished.
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A folio composite volume of verse, 208 leaves.
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
Copy.
This MS collated in Mengel.
First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision
, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
Copy, headed Britannia and Rawleighs Ghost
in a quarto booklet of verse. Late 17th century.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed On ye Death of ye Duke of Cambridge
, the poem dated December 1677. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems, Fourth
edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 79.
Copy, headed To Madam Stewart upon hir Returning a lost Letter to E: W:
, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed To Mrs Stuart by Mr Waller
. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems, Third
edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
Copy of a Latin rendition by Francis Turner (dedicatee of Clievelandi Vindicæ, 1677), headed Carmina Dni Joannis Cleavland in obitum Dni Edwardi King (in mari Hiberniæ suffocati) Latine reddita
.
First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 65-6.
Copy, unascribed.
Attributed to Shadwell by W.J. Lawrence in Oxford Restoration Prologues, TLS (16 January 1930), p. 43, but though misreading a manuscript ascription to J. S.
as to T .S.
Published in Danchin, Prologues and Epilogues, II, 414-16. Not by Shadwell.
Copy, headed Prologue
, on a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.
Copy, headed Epilogue
, on a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 279-81.
MS of an adaptation of the play, in a single hand, with numerous deletions and revisions, untitled, possibly written for performances by the King's Company in 1662, vi + 47 folio leaves, in vellum boards.
Late 17th century.This MS discussed in Edwards & Gibson, II, 8-9; in W.J. Lawrence, The Renegado, TLS (24 October 1929), p. 846; in James G. McManaway, Philip Massinger and the Restoration Drama, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 3-30 (pp. 14-15); and in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, IV, 814.
First published in London, 1630. Edwards & Gibson, II, 11-96.
A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, 310 leaves, in contemporary brown leather stamped with the royal arms.
c.1635.Owned in 1732 by John, Earl of Leicester, Constable of the Tower. Bought by Rawlinson at an auction in St Paul's Churchyard 15 January 1742/3.
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This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
Copy, subscribed Henry Lawes
.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.
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This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (i.2) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 129-30.
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary and roman hand, iv + 227 folio pages. in formerly half-calf marbled boards (rebacked).
Entitled The Psalmes of Dauid translated into diuers & sundry kindes of verse, more rare, & excellent, for the method & varietie then euer yet hath bene don in English: begun by the noble & learned gent. Sr P: Sidney Kt., & finished by the R: honnorable the Countesse of Pembroke, his Sister, & by her dirrection & appointment
.
Inscribed on the title-page W. Barkwith
.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 548. Facsimile of the title-page in Rathmell, p. xxxiii.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
Copy of Psalms 1-87, 102-30, in the small hand of Dr Samuel Woodford, lacking a title, vi + 157 folio leaves (ff. 83r-99v and 132r-45v blank), incomplete, in vellum boards.
Inscribed on f. 82v, after Psalm 87, But here all the leaues are torn off, to the 23 verse of the CII. Psalms, to be supplyd if possible from some other Copy, of wch ther is a fayre one in Trinity Colledg library in Cambridg, & of wch many years since I had ye sight when I first began my Paraphrase Sam: Woodforde
and, on f. 131v, after Psalm 130, But from this place to the end, my Copy is defective the leaves being torn off Ita tester Sam: Woodforde who for Sr philip Sedneys sake, & to preserue such a remaine of him undertook this tiresome task of transcribing, 1694/5
.
Also inscribed by Woodford (f. iir) The Original Copy is by mee Given me by my brother Mr John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder as I remembr
. Inscribed (f. 146r) T. W
and Mary Woodforde
.
Psalms 1-43 edited from this MS in Ringler and described pp. 547-8. Psalm 85 edited from this MS and discussed in Noel Kinnamon, A Variant of the Countess of Pembroke Psalm 85, Sidney Newsletter, 2/2 (1981), 9-12.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...
, ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]
, ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge
; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669
, subscribed John Cooke
and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...
. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
Copy, untitled, subscribed John Cooke
.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
Copy of lines 9-12, headed De abortientibus
and here beginning Why are yow barren? ô yow liue at Court
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.
Copy of a version perhaps spoken at Lady Bedford's table, headed A forme of a Grace
and beginning The Kinge, ye Queene, the Prince god blesse
; dated in the margin 1618
.
First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
Copy, untitled, subscribed sr Henry Wootton <GREEK>.
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).
Second copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh's Epitaph on his owne death - Nouemb: 1618
, subscribed W.R.
.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Lady Bend-bow
.
This MS recorded in Latham.
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle
).
Copy, headed Hoskins (imprison'd) to his Sonne
.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
Copy, headed In Johannem Sartorem
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
Copy of a version beginning The Star that rose in virgo's train
.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
Copy, in double columns, headed Mr Lawson of St. John's Colledge his verses to his mistrisse
, followed by Her answere
(beginning Yor letters I receiv'd
).
Osborn, p. 301.
Copy, untitled.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
Copy, headed Vpon the Fart lett in the Parliament house
, subscribed Explicit Crepitus
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A Puritan, with one of her society
.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see
Copy, headed Upon the breach betweene ye King & ye Subiect, at ye dissolution of the Parliament. March. 1628
.
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.
Copy, headed Vpon the birth of ye yong Prince, eldest son to K. Charles. borne May 29. 1630
, subscribed Ben: Jhonson
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
Headed Vpon the birth of the Said Prince
. The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King
. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King
. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
Copy, headed Vpon Venetia Stanley her picture
, subscribed B. Jonson
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
Copy of Custance's letter (III, iv, 1074-1108, here beginning Sweete mistresse whereas I loue yow nothing at all
), headed Theis words make twoe contrary senses according as yow distinguishe them
, transcribed from the quotation in Thomas Wilson, Rule of Reason, 3rd edition (1553).
This MS not recorded in Greg.
First published [London, 1566?]; ed. W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1935).
Copy of a version beginning The star that rose in Virgo's train
.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
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
).
Copy.
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in a different hand presented (it seemes) a New-yeares Gift & Petition to the King
and, in yet another hand, These verses were made by Mr Hoskins Counsellor of Law, when he was a Prisoner
.
This MS cited in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
Copy, headed To my Ld. Chancellour Sr ffr: Bacon
.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
First published, from a small quarto volume of MS. Latin poetry
, in J. Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Hutchinson, p. 209. The authorship discussed in Fram Dinshaw, A Lost MS. of George Herbert's Occasional Verse and the Authorship of To the L. Chancellor, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 423-5.
Copy, subscribed G. Herbert
.
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.
Copy, untitled, later docketed Dr Henry Kinge...
.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
Copy, headed Upon the Rumor of the King of Swedens deathe reported in November and December 1632
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.
Copy, headed (in margin) To the Duke of Buckingham. Ld. George Villiers Rich: Corbet Christes-Church, this present New-yeares day 1621
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
Copy.
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
Third copy, headed His owne Epitaph
, subscribed W. Raleigh
.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
Copy, headed A Praier for the kinges five senses.1623
.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy, headed Upon Sr Robert Cecill, Earle of Salisbury, & Ld Treasurer
, here beginning Heere Hobbinall lyes, or Sheapheard while'e[re]
, and ascribed to Sr Walter Raleig[h]
, with a marginal note Lady Walsingham, his Concubine
.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
An anonymous copy.
An anonymous copy.
Copy of an unascribed version.
Copy, headed Herick's Welcome to Sack
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
Copy, headed An Elegie uppon ye Prince is death
.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.
Copy, headed Another Elegie of ye Prince is death
, subscribed in a different hand made by Mr Donne
, the poem deleted.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as Elegie on Prince Henry). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.
Copy, headed A Dialogue betweene 2 zelots concerning &c. in the new Oath
, subscribed D. Cleueland Coll: John: Cantabr:
.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
Copy of a 50-line version, in two hands, ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
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.
Copy, in double columns, headed These Verses will serue both for Protestant and Papist, as they may be diuersly read
.
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.
Copy, subscribed Donne
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
Copy, headed In obitum Thomae Wentworth Comitis de Strafford, D. Locum: Tenent: Hiberniae, &c. qui decollatus est apud Turrem Londinens: Maij 12°. 1641
.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Copy, headed in a different hand Vpon a Puritan-Preacher
.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner
. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland
. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Moore Smith.
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).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Moore Smith.
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). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear
) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy, headed The New-yeares-gift, or Prophesy, & Vote
.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
First published in R.G. Howard, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.
Copy, ascribed to Cl.
Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine
. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's
by Withington, pp. 321-2.
Copy, ascribed to Randall
.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 107.
Copy on two folio leaves, slightly imperfect; mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
Copy, headed An Epitaph vpon Dunkirck house
.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
Copy.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, f. 1r a tipped-in leaf in a different hand, vi + 54 folio leaves (plus eight blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.
With alterations in black ink on ff. 9v-10v and 48r, and most of four lines deleted in brown ink on f. 50r.
Inscribed initials (f. ir) D.R.
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.
Copy, including a Prologue and Epilogue, largely in a single professional hand, with autograph deletions and revisions throughout, including additional lengthy passages or whole-page inserts, a list of Dramatis Personae with names of actors in a third hand, and also occasional comments in black ink by Richard Rawlinson, iii + 74 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1660s.First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).
A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe
, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS
:
Copy.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
Copy of an untitled version beginning I: and my Love ffor kysses playd
.
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).
Copy, headed Sir John Harington to Quee: Elizabeth
and here beginning Dreade, Soveraigne, and ever loueinge Prince
.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
Copy, untitled.
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.
Copy of a ten-line version, headed The Godlye mayde
and here beginning A godlye Mayde wth one of her societye
.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
Copy, headed A Translation
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
Copy, untitled.
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).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Come: sweete (Celia) lett vs prove
.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinmore Briggs, Did Jonson Write a Third Ode to Himself?, The Athenaeum (13 June 1914), p. 828. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419-21.
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
Copy, headed Elegie
This MS collated in Grierson; 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).
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.
Copy, ascribed to Sr Edw. Herbert
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
Copy, headed Idea: Off Sr: Edw: Harbert
.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 2-5.
Copy.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 5.
Copy.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp 5-6.
Copy, here beginning Exalted minde, that guid'st thee beautious spheare
.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 6.
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, Studies in Ben Jonson. IV, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 247-8). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 422-3.
Copy, headed To the Countesse Off Rutland: An Elegie
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Discussed (in connection with a textual crux in line 99) in Anthony Miller, Ben Jonson's Epistle to Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland: A Recovered MS Reading and Its Critical Implications, PQ, 62 (1983), 525-30 (erroneously citing the MS as Rawlinson poetry 32
).
First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.
Copy, headed To L:C: off: B
and here beginning Beautye, more then Mortall
.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 364-5.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
Copy, headed Off an ould vitious man
and here beginning His hayres, and sinns, noe Man cann equall call
.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 22r in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 103.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
Copy, headed An: Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 22r in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 103.
First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Briggs (lines 1-11) and in Herford & Simpson.
Lines 12-26 (beginning Little knowe they that professe Amitye
) first published as lines 19-33 of An Epistle to a friend
in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, Studies in Ben Jonson. IV, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 289-91.
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R
. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as Verses on Reason and Love, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed R.
. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.
Copy, untitled and ascribed to Sir Edw: Harbert.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
Copy, headed Another Sir Edw: Harbert
.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
Copy.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Copy, headed Songe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
Copy.
This recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
Copy, headed Epigrame
.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
A folio verse miscellany, chiefly song lyrics, iv + 124 pages.
Late 17th century.Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
Copy, headed The Wedding
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
Copy, headed A panygrick to Oliver Cromwell
, subscribed Finis. Waller
.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Copy, in a stylish professional hand, headed Tryphon A trage=Comedie
, lacking a title-page, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt.
This MS collated in Clark.
