Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149

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MS Rawl. poet. 108

A quarto commonplace book of poems, songs, orations, etc., i + 89 leaves, in contemporary calf (with a flyleaf from a 14th-century missal).
c.1570.
Inscribed names Elinor Gunter, sister of Ed. Gunter, of Lincoln's Inn, and William Oldisworth (1680-1734), writer and translator.

Described by Philip Bliss in british Bibliography, 1817, II, 609.
- ElQ 14 f. 44v.
  
  Copy, headed Verses made by the Quenes M^atie.
  
  Edited from this MS in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.
  
  A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'
MS Rawl. poet. 112

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards.
c.1595-1600s.
- EsR 54 ff. 9r-10r
  
  Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses or English poemes written by the Lo: the E: of E: and here beginning There was a time....
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- CmT 209 ff. 10v-11r
  
  Copy of a three-strophe version, headed The fickle estate of our vncartayn lyfe to A pleasant new tune.
  
  This MS recorded in Greer, p. 305.
  
  Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
MS Rawl. poet. 115

A quarto volume of two poems (the second by J. Cumberlege), in two different hands, ii + 81 leaves, in vellum boards.
End of 17th century.
- DrJ 64 ff. 1r-51v
  
  Copy, including the preface To the Reader, apparently transcribed from the first edition.
  
  This MS collated in California.
  
  First published in London, 1687. Kinsley, II, 467-537. California, III, 118-200.
  
  John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther ('A milk white Hind, immortal and unchang'd')
MS Rawl. poet. 116

A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
- StW 1315 f. 38r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- WaE 430 f. 38v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
  
  Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
- WaE 507 f. 42r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
- StW 780 f. 42v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- CwT 476 ff. 45r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- KiH 47 f. 48r-v
  
  Copy, headed The Answeere.
  
  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')
- PeW 22 f. 49v
  
  Copy, headed When my Carliles Chamber was on fire, subscribed Pembrocke.
  
  This MS collated in Krueger.
  
  Krueger, p. 55, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Had she a glass and feared the fire'
- PeW 32 f. 50r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- PeW 102 f. 50r
  
  Copy, headed Pemb: answerd by S^r B: R.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- JnB 15 f. 50v
  
  Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning Haue you scene the white Lilly grow, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
- JnB 620 f. 50v
  
  Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('The faery beame vppon you')
- DnJ 2150 ff. 51r-2r
  
  Copy, headed Elegye.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- ToA 52 f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed To my Lady salisburie, subscribed By M^r Tounsall.
  
  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')
- DaJ 171 f. 52v
  
  Copy, headed one of twelue yeares old of him selfe and here beginning As carfull mothers that to sleeping lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- DnJ 3350 f. 52v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
  
  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
- DnJ 1857 f. 52v
  
  Copy of lines 9-24, here beginning I heard me say tell her anone.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
  
  John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
- BrW 115 f. 53r
  
  Copy, headed of a Gentlewoman y^t dyed being 7 yeares old.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
- HrJ 133 f. 53r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- HrJ 105 f. 53r
  
  Copy, headed To a proud Lady.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- PeW 1 f. 53v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded (erroneously as RP 160) in Krueger.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Disdain me still, that I may ever love'
- BmF 97 f. 53v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 492.
  
  Francis Beaumont, The Indifferent ('Never more will I protest')
- RaW 324 f. 53v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Passions are like to floods & streames, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  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')
- DaS 8 f. 53v
  
  Copy of lines 13-14, untitled and here beginning Ah had shee not bin faire, and soe vnkind, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  Grosart, I, 40-1. Sprague, p. 13.
  
  Samuel Daniel, Delia. Sonnet VI ('Faire is my Loue, and cruell as she's faire')
- CwT 269 f. 54r
  
  Copy, headed Of a flie.
  
  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')
- GrJ 47 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed Discription of a wisht mistris.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- KiH 116 f. 55r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed H: K:.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
  
  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
- SuJ 2 f. 55v
  
  Copy, headed Of Absence.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
  
  John Suckling, Against Absence ('My whining Lover, what needs all')
- JnB 105 f. 55v
  
  Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
- CwT 776 f. 56v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
- StW 322 f. 56v
  
  Copy, headed on a Buchers son, to a Tanners daughter, written lengthways along the inner margin.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- StW 1016 f. 57r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded (erroneously as MS Rawl. poet. 117) 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')
- CoR 723 f. 57r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- ClJ 1 f. 62r-v
  
  Copy, headed Against Platonick Loue -- or LDD Desire.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
  
  John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick ('For shame, thou everlasting Woer')
- ClJ 49 f. 63r-v
  
  Copy, headed Fuscara stunge or the Bee Errant, written lengthways along the outer margin, subscribed Cleveland.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.
  
  John Cleveland, Fuscara; or the Bee Errant ('Natures Confectioner, the Bee')
- WaE 141 f. 64r
  
  Copy, headed Waler to a Lady who sent him a Groue of Trees cut out in white Paper.
  
  First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')
- CwT 865 f. 66v rev.
  
  Copy, headed The qualitie of his loue.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
- RnT 2 f. 72v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Loues Prime and here beginning Deare doe not y^r faire beauty wrong.
  
  First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong')
- FrG 2 f. 90r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 283.
  
  George Farquhar, An Epigram, on the Riding-House in Dublin, made into a Chappel ('A Chappel of the Riding-House is made')
- SeC 6 f. 96v
  
  Copy, headed Constancy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy ('Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye')
- SeC 17 ff. 96v-7v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference ('Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn')
MS Rawl. poet. 117

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.
- HoJ 236 f. 16r
  
  Copy, headed Hoskins in the Tower to his little sonne Beniamen and here beginning My little Ben nowe thou art yonge.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- CoR 666 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon M^ris Mallet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- RaW 417 f. 17r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning There is a bowe wherin to shoote I sue.
  The text followed by a six-line Answer beginning You bended have the bowe wherin to shute you sue.
  
  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'
- CoR 140 ff. 18v-19r
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Corbet one my Lady Haddington who dyed of the small pox.
  
  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')
- HoJ 217 f. 22v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  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 117.15 ff. 23v-4v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3076 ff. 26r-7r
  
  Copy, headed Dunne his discription of a storme suffered in the Ilande voyage. 1597 And sent to M^r Xpo: Brooke.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
  
  John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
- DnJ 561 ff. 27r-8r
  
  Copy, headed A Caulme described.
  
  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
  
  John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
- WoH 169 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed Agaynst Solitarines.
  
  First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (''Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life')
- PeW 219 ff. 29v-30r
  
  Copy, headed M^r W^m Bakers paradox in prayse of a painted face.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  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')
- JnB 699 f. 32v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
- JnB 729 f. 149v rev.
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
  
  Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
- ClJ 18 ff. 155r-154v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Cleveland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- RaW 137 f. 161r rev.
  
  Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning Your face; your tongue; your witt.
  
  This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. E. H. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
  
  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
- ShW 107 f. 162r rev.
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
  
  William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
- StW 781 f. 163r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a Ladye walkinge in Grais Inn walkes when it snowed.
  
  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')
- DkT 38 f. 163r rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead ('The Queene's remou'de in solemne sort')
- DkT 7 f. 163r rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- CwT 135 f. 163v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning We read of gods….
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 894 f. 163v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- JnB 415 f. 164v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson vppon kinge James his vnion of England and Scotland and here beginning Never was marriage better driven by fate.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- DaW 13 f. 165 rev.
  
  Copy, headed Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife.
  
  This MS collated in Gibbs.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
  
  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
- StW 1271 f. 166r rev.
  
  Copy, in double columns, headed Verses presented to the kinge and here beginning We hold as faith.
  
  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')
- RaW 138 f. 168v rev.
  
  Second copy of a two-stanza version, untitled, also beginning Your face; your tongue; your witt.
  
  This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
  
  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
- CwT 136 f. 172r rev.
  
  Second copy, also untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 895 f. 172r rev.
  
  Second copy, also untitled, run on directly from CwT 136.
  
  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')
- BcF 10 ff. 173r-172v rev.
  
  Copy, headed The Bubble by RW.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- BrW 80 f. 174r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Corbett one a mother w^th hir Infant dying in travell.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
- PoW 11 f. 175v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a fayre Ladye whose hayre was cole black.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- KiH 417 f. 176v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Verses in Comendacions of an others wife.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
  
  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
- CoR 604 f. 177v rev.
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett to the Ladyes of the new dresse Night Rayles.
  
  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 20 f. 177v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- HoJ 253 f. 179r rev.
  
  Copy, under a general heading Epitaphes.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).
  
  John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth ('Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!')
- GrJ 48 f. 182r rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- RnT 546 f. 182v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- BmF 30 ff. 185v-184 rev.
  
  Copy, headed An Elegye one the death of the Lady Rutland, ascribed to M^r Donne.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
- CoR 735 f. 186r rev.
  
  Copy, here beginning Like to the silent tone....
  
  First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
  
  Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
- DnJ 1692 f. 186v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
  
  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
- HoJ 261 ff. 192r-191v rev.
  
  Copy, in double columns.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.
  
  John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
- BmF 58 f. 193v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed The Elegye.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
- HoJ 45 ff. 196r-194r rev.
  
  Copy, headed The Parliament fart.
  
  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')
- DaJ 172 f. 196v rev.
  
  Copy, ascribed to S^r Joh Davis.
  
  Edited from this MS in Krueger.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- PeW 103 f. 199v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- DnJ 2247 ff. 199r-198v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Sonnett.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
  
  John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
- PeW 33 f. 199v rev.
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue between S^r H Wootton and M^r Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- DnJ 1266 ff. 201r-200r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes extasye.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
  
  John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
- DnJ 635 f. 201v rev.
  
  Copy, headed M^r Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- DnJ 191 f. 202r rev.
  
  Copy, subscribed M Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 797 ff. 203r-202 rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunne of the Cross.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
  
  John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
- DnJ 597 f. 203v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes sonnett.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
  
  John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
- DnJ 306 f. 204r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes sonnet.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DnJ 2051 f. 204v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes diett for loue.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- DnJ 501 f. 205v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 703 f. 206v-r rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- DnJ 2347 ff. 207r-206v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes Elegie.
  
  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 835 f. 208r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes curse.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
  
  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
- DnJ 2215 ff. 209r-208v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Makinge of men.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- DnJ 2145 ff. 211r-209v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- DnJ 2565 ff. 212r-211v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Discovered by a perfume.
  
  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 2458 ff. 213r-212v rev.
  
  Copy, subscribed Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
- DnJ 3010 f. 213v rev.
  
  Copy of a version, headed Dunnes Sonnet and here beginning Sweet hart I goe not for weariness of the.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
- DnJ 3666 f. 214v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed In a garden at Twicknam.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 3914 ff. 215r-214v rev.
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Dunnes Legacye.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1179 ff. 216v-215r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Epithalamiu.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
  
  John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
- DnJ 2924 f. 217r rev.
  
  Copy, headed M^r Dunnes sonnett.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 2300 f. 217v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes sonnett. The Message.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DnJ 1367 ff. 218r-217v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1498 f. 218v-r rev.
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, headed His partinge w^th his M^ris.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2513 f. 219v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed To hir offeringe to goe w^th him as his page.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- DnJ 1541 ff. 219r-218v rev.
  
  Copy, immediately following on from On his Mistris (see DnJ 2513).
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
  
  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
- DnJ 2949 f. 220v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunne.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner. See also DnJ 440.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
- DnJ 440 f. 220v rev.
  
  Copy, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (see DnJ 2949).
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 268 f. 220v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed M^r Dunnes prayse of middle age.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
  
  John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
- DnJ 3182 ff. 222v-221r rev.
  
  Copy, under a general heading Dunnes sonnets.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- DnJ 3128 f. 223v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunnes tale of a citizen and his wife.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XVI, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 105-8 (as Elegie XIV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 101-3 (among her Dubia). Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 437-8, among Dubia. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife ('I sing no harme good sooth to any wight')
- DnJ 58 f. 224v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed The Anagram. Dunn the old womans prayse.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- DnJ 386 ff. 225v-4v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Dunne. To a gentelwoman whose bracelet having lost she demands a dozen angels to be turnde into an other, and here beginning Not for in cullor, it was like thy hayre.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- DnJ 636 f. 248r rev.
  
  Second copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- SaG 37 f. 260r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1615.
  
  George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610
- CoR 116 f. 261v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
- DnJ 2646.62 f. 267r-266r rev
  
  Copy, inscribed in another hand By D. Donne.
  
  This MS collated in Crowley.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.
  
  John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
- BrW 189 ff. 268v rev.
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph of the same [i.e. Countess of Pembroke].
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- JnB 125 f. 269r rev.
  
  Copy of lines 3-6, headed An Epitaph and beginning Vnderneath this stone doth lye.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
- PeW 72 f. 270r rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- RaW 239 f. 271r rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- RaW 343 f. 271r rev.
  
  Copy, run on directly from other verses, subscribed Noele.
  
  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'
- HrJ 8.8 f. 275r rev.
  
  A couplet quoted from Orlando Furioso.
  
  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')
- ShW 57 f. 276r rev.
  
  Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled.
  
  First published in London, 1598.
  
  William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
- JnB 150 f. 276v rev.
  
  Copy of the final couplet, untitled and here beginning And to yo^r sence obiect this sentence euer.
  
  First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epode ('Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state')
MS Rawl. poet. 120

A quarto composite volume of four verse MSS, in different hands, ii + 152 leaves.
- DaJ 39 f. 23r
  
  Copy of a 28-line version, headed A proper old and new Ballad.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors ('A Lady faire two suiters had')
- BmF 133 ff. 92r-122r
  
  Copy, complete with the prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope (It is a statute in deep wisdom's lore) and The Author to the Reader (I sing the fortune of a luckless pair), the last leaf in another hand (possibly replacing a lost original leaf) and subscribed Finis/ Francis Beaumont/ 1634.
  
  This MS recorded in Sell.
  
  First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus ('My wanton lines do treat of amorous love')
MS Rawl. poet. 122

MS of an adaptation of Ford's play, in several hands, probably prepared for a performance at Goodman's Fields Theatre on 19 December 1745.
1745.
Discussed in Donald K. Anderson, Jr, The Date and Handwriting of a Manuscript Copy of Ford's Perkin Warbeck, N&Q, 208 (September 1963), 340-1, and in Margaret Crum, A Manuscript of Ford's Perkin Warbeck: An additional Note, N&Q, 210 (March 1965), 104-5.
- FoJ 15
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1634.
  
  John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
MS Rawl. poet. 123

A quarto volume of poems and letters in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), vi + 310 pages.
c.1675-82.
- MaA 370 p. 105
  
  Copy of lines 395-456 on a single quarto leaf; imperfect, lacking the leaf or leaves containing the first 394 lines.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
- RoJ 304 pp. 110-15
  
  Copy of lines 1-165 in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), headed Satyr upon Man.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
- RoJ 152 pp. 116-23, 108-9
  
  Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), misbound out of sequence.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
- DrJ 87 pp. 232-5, 214
  
  Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham, the poem dated 1678; imperfect, lacking two leaves containing lines 49-150. [1678-83].
  
  This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth; recorded in Kinsley. The volume briefly described in Harold F. Brooks, A Bibliography of John Oldham the Restoration Satirist, Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 5 (1936-9), 1-38 (p. 10).
  
  First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
  The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
  
  John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
MS Rawl. poet. 125

Fair copy of Books I-XXIV, partly in Harington's hand, largely in the hand of his servant Thomas Combe, vi + 512 folio pages, in brown leather gilt.

The first stanza, italic headings and sidenotes, and some corrections and additions in Harington's hand; prepared as a trial lay-out of the text before the full printing; with inserted engravings, some coloured, from both Italian and English printed editions.
c.1590.
This MS collated in McNulty; discussed, with facsimile examples, in Kathleen M. Lea, Harington's Folly, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), 42-58, and in Philip Gaskell, From Writer to Reader (Oxford, 1978), p. 11 seq. NB. this MS is not entirely autograph.
- *HrJ 7
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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 Rawl. poet 136, pp. 34-79

A printed exemplum of the edition of 1726, marked up as a prompt-book in two hands, including additional dialogue, partly by the prompter John Stede, for the Lincoln's Inn Fields production 19 February 1726, in a composite volume of three promptbooks.
1726.
Facsimile of f. 72r in Jordan & Love, I, [356]. Annotations edited in Edward Langhans, Three Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Promptbooks, Modern Philology, 65 (1967), 114-29.
- SuT 2
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1726. Jordan & Love, II, 355-421.
  
  Thomas Southerne, Money the Mistress
MS Rawl. poet. 142

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.
c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.
- ClJ 146 f. 12r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of M^r King drownd in y^e Irish Seas.
  
  First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas ('I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise')
- RnT 458 f. 14v
  
  Copy, ascribed to Thomas Randolph.
  
  (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')
- ClJ 263 f. 15v
  
  Copy, headed Cleueland to y^e Chauncelour.
  
  Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.
  
  John Cleveland, To the Earl of Holland
- StW 1103 f. 15v
  
  Copy of lines 15-20, untitled.
  
  Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
  
  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
- RnT 176 f. 15v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia ('Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud')
- CwT 777 f. 15v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
- HaW 19 f. 16r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.
  
  William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure ('Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows')
- RnT 313 f. 16r
  
  Copy, headed To His Bombasted Frind.
  
  First published in James Shirley, The Gratefull Servant (London, 1630). Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 143.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Mr. J. S. on his Gratefull Servant ('I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words')
- CwT 74 f. 16r
  
  Copy, headed A Comparison.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- HaW 41 f. 16r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Allott, p. 171.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 24-5.
  
  William Habington, Vpon Cupid's death and buriall in Castara's cheeke ('Cupids dead. Who would not dye')
- DnJ 1566 f. 16v
  
  Copy of lines 1-5, 21-30, headed A Hyme in sickness.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.
  
  John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse ('Since I am comming to that Holy roome')
- JnB 158 f. 16v
  
  Copy of lines 13-28, headed On M^rs Venetia Stanlye to ye paynter and here beginning Draw first a cloud all saue her neck.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- RnT 267.5 f. 16v
  
  Extracts from Randolph's poem, line 17 et seq., adapted into a 34-line poem headed Louers and beginning Ith Bosome of this groue lets lye
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
- ClJ 135 f. 17v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite ('Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether')
- ClJ 11 f. 18r
  
  Copy, headed Hermaphrodite vindicated by Cleaueland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.
  
  John Cleveland, The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems ('Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee')
- DnJ 3754 f. 18v
  
  Copy of the first stanza.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- DnJ 712 f. 18v
  
  Copy of lines 1-22, 33-4, 53-4, headed A sweet Compariso.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- RnT 342 f. 19r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a deformed Gentlewoma with a sweet Voyce, subscribed TR.
  
  This MS recorded 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')
- JnB 737 f. 19v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.
  
  Ben Jonson, Volpone
- DrM 2 f. 19v
  
  Copy, headed Ankor.
  
  This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 16.
  
  First published as Amour 13 in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). Hebel, I, 104. II, 337 (sonnet 53 of Idea).
  
  Michael Drayton, 'Cleere Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore'
- ClJ 95 f. 20r
  
  Copy, subscribed J:C.
  
  Smectymnuus
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
- BcF 11 f. 20v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Bac: Vtrulamius.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- PoW 81 f. 21r
  
  Copy, headed On the death of King James, ascribed to Poole.
  
  First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
  
  Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
- DnJ 1185 f. 23r-v
  
  Copy, headed Fredirick Elizabeth on Valent: day.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
  
  John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
- HaW 29 f. 23v
  
  Copy, headed Rose in Hur bosome.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 12.
  
  William Habington, To Roses in the bosome of Castara ('Yee blushing Virgins happie are')
- SiP 113 f. 26v
  
  Copy, headed Mopsa, transcribed from a printed source.
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 424.
  
  Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 ('What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show')
- ClJ 150 f. 27r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland ('Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence')
- PoW 12 f. 27r
  
  Copy, headed Black eyd M^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- CwT 107 f. 28r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- CrR 328 f. 29r-v
  
  Copy of stanzas 10-16, 18-19, 21-3, here beginning Not in y^e evenings eyes, imperfect.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Weeper ('Haile Sister Springs')
- CrR 238 f. 30r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Teare ('What bright soft thing is this?')
- EaJ 45 f. 35r
  
  Copy of part of the poem, untitled, here beginning Come, Pembroke liues, ôh! doe not fright our ears, subscribed M^r Earles, Merton.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
- CoR 730 f. 39r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 96-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, A Non Sequitir ('Marke how the Lanterns clowd mine eyes!')
- HoJ 315 f. 39v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- HrJ 134 f. 40r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- StW 67 f. 40v
  
  Copy of a version headed The Devonshire Travailer and beginning Riddle riddle, neighbar Tom.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell, pp. 117-18; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
  
  William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
- CoR 216 f. 42r
  
  Copy of an abridged 38-line version, headed To M^r Hamon of Beaudly. D^r Corbet and beginning at line 5 (here My verse is gone, I haue all rimes defied).
  
  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')
- StW 658 f. 42v
  
  Copy, headed Melancholly opposd by M^r Stroud.
  
  This MS 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')
- StW 1064 f. 43r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Strouds thanks for a wellcome.
  
  Printed from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.
  
  William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
- CwT 488 f. 43r
  
  Copy, headed Th. Carew on Carlisles daughter.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay ('I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke')
- EaJ 15 f. 43r
  
  Copy of part of the poem, headed J. Earles on S^r John Burroughs killd by a bullet at Reez and beginning Why did wee thus expose the; whats now all.
  
  Edited from this MS in Bliss.
  
  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')
- JnB 343 f. 43v
  
  Copy of lines 1-15, headed B. Johnson, to Burlace the Painter and here beginning What though I be of a prodigious wast.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
- CwT 1124 f. 44r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Entetainm^t at Saxham in Kent.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
- StW 522 f. 44r-v
  
  Copy of the first and third poems (lines 1-44, 85-106).
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- HeR 266 f. 44v
  
  Copy of an abridged version, headed Herricks Sack and here beginning Springs meet with Smiles
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
- HeR 339 f. 45r
  
  Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here In a Cobweb shirt most thin), garbled with HeR 180 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet & apparrell.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded 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 180 f. 45r-v
  
  Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here Now you must imagine first), garbled with HeR 339 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet, & apparrell.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.
  
  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')
- JnB 568 f. 45v
  
  Extracts, including Amorphus's song beginning Thou more then most sweet gloue (IV, iii, 305-16).
  
  First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.
  
  Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- WoH 74 f. 46r
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
  
  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')
- HaW 46 f. 46r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.
  
  William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act ('Fine, young folly, though you were')
- JnB 763 f. 48r
  
  Copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666).
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke in St. Margaret's, Lothbury, 1623
- CwT 22 f. 49v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
  
  Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
MS Rawl. poet. 147

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.
c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
- HeR 214 p. 14
  
  Copy, headed An old man to his younge M^rs, subscribed Herricke.
  
  This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.
  
  First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires ('Am I despis'd because you say')
- CrR 447 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy, headed On a gnatt w^ch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkshorne, here beginning Silly Buzzing wanton Elfe and ascribed to Tho: Vincent Coll. Trin..
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.
  Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ('Little = buzzing = wanton elfe')
- CrR 278 p. 37
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Grosart, I (1872), 292-3. Martin, p. 393.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Upon the death of a freind ('Hee's dead: Oh what harsh musicks there')
- CrR 36 p. 38
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), p. 405.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph ('Heere in deaths closett, Reader, know')
- CrR 25 pp. 38-40
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Grosart, I (1872), 293-4. Martin, pp. 395-6.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Elegie on the death of D^r Porter ('Stay, silver-footed Came, striue not to wed')
- CrR 27 pp. 40-2
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on y^e death of the Lady Parker.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 403-4.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Elegie on the death of the Lady Porter ('Can such perfection fade? can Vertue die')
- BcF 54.5 p. 42
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- CrR 33 pp. 42-4
  
  Copy, subscribed Cornwallis.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 402-3.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Elegy vpon the death of M^r W^m Carre, student in Eman: Colledge ('Death hath drawne our golden Carre')
- WoH 59 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy, headed On the Spring, subscribed S^r H. Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring ('And now all nature seemed in love')
- ClJ 56 p. 48-50
  
  Copy, headed On y^e New Comencem^t and here beginning No Coranto newes I undertake.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
  
  John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new ('It is no Curranto-news I undertake')
- CrR 172 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, subscribed Cornwallis.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 401-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the death of W^m Henshaw, student in Eman. Coll. ('See a sweet streame of Helicon')
- HoJ 316 p. 63
  
  Copy, headed A songe and here beginning O Loue whose force & might.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- CrR 31 pp. 69-71
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Grosart, I (1872), 290-2. Martin pp. 394-5.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Elegy upon the death of Mr. Stanninow fellow of Queenes Colledge ('Hath aged winter, fledg'd with feathered raine')
- WoH 138 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy, subscribed H. Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
- HrE 64 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy, headed To Lady Diana Cecill.
  
  This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')
- DeJ 66 pp. 76-7
  
  Copy, headed On Strafford, subscribed J. Denham.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
- WaE 575 pp. 77-8
  
  Copy, subscribed M^r Waller.
  
  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')
- HrG 291 pp. 78-80
  
  Copy, subscribed G. Herbert.
  
  Edited from this MS in Pickering. Collated in Hutchinson.
  
  First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.
  
  George Herbert, A Paradox. That the Sicke are in better State then the Whole ('You whoe admire yourselues because')
- StW 181 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy, headed In the prayse of Musicke, subscribed W. Strode.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
  
  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')
- PeW 104 p. 81
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- PeW 34 pp. 81-2
  
  Copy, headed Songe. Eccho, subscribed S^r H W.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- BrW 236 pp. 83-4
  
  Copy, headed An Answere to D^r Donnes curse.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, 'Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know'
- CoR 568 p. 84
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett to his sonne Vincent on his birth-day, Nouemb. 10. 1630.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
  
  Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
- StW 1391 pp. 84-5
  
  Copy, headed The same translated by M^r Strode.
  
  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).
  
  William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10^ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3^to. 1630 ('Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam')
- ClJ 2 pp. 94-6
  
  Copy, headed The Platonique Louer, subscribed Cleveland.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
  
  John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick ('For shame, thou everlasting Woer')
- WoH 57 pp. 96-7
  
  Copy, headed An Ode Vpon Kg Charles's returne to y^e Queene from his Coronacon in Scotland, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')
- WoH 199 pp. 97-8
  
  Copy, originally headed S^r H.W. (on y^e Duke of Somer.) and headed in another hand On the suddaine restraint of a Favorite. Impressa, subscribed S^r H: W.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
- WoH 50 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed A Meditation, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')
- WoH 167 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed On the Duke of Buckingham sicke of a feaver, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519. Hannah (1845), pp. 16-17.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, To a Noble Friend in his Sickness ('Untimely fever, rude insulting guest')
- HeR 340 pp. 102-3
  
  Copy, headed The Faerey King, subscribed Sir 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')
- ToA 81 p. 104
  
  Copy, headed To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady, ascribed to Townly.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady ('It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he')
- WoH 159 p. 107
  
  Copy, headed On the Death of S^r Albertus Morton, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.
  
  This MS collated in Hannah.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')
- LoR 13 p. 135
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed Rich. Louelace.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song ('Why should you sweare I am forsworn')
- ClJ 170 pp. 135-6
  
  Copy, headed The same done into Latine [i.e. LoR 13], subscribed J Cleveland.
  
  Morris & Withington, p. 71.
  
  John Cleveland, A Translation of Lovelace's Song ('Perjurum caput me appellas')
- EaJ 46 pp. 151-2
  
  Copy, here ascribed to Cl[ement] P[aman].
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
- SuJ 124 p. 158
  
  Copy, headed Capt. Tyrell. Of M^rs Winchcombe. The text followed (p. 158) by an answer by M^r Womack.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 88.
  
  John Suckling, Love turn'd to Hatred ('I will not love one minute more I swear')
- WaE 149 pp. 170-2
  
  Copy, headed Of o^r p^rsent warr w^th Spain, & first victory at Sea., subscribed Edmund Waller.
  
  First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
- CoA 124.5 pp. 178-80
  
  Copy, headed Ode Vpon Orindas Poems, subscribed Abraham Cowley.
  
  First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.
  
  Abraham Cowley, On Orinda's Poems. Ode ('We allow'd You Beauty, and we did submit')
- DeJ 42.5 pp. 183-5
  
  Copy, ascribed by S^r. J Denham.
  
  First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
- CaW 18 pp. 186-8
  
  Copy, headed On November.
  
  First published as a broadside, undated. Reprinted in London, 1671. Evand, pp. 560-3.
  
  William Cartwright, November or, Signal Dayes Observ'd in that Month in relation to the Crown and Royal Family ('Thou Sun that shed'st the Dayes, looke downe and see')
- MaA 400 pp. 190-3
  
  Copy, headed New Instructions to the Painter, subscribed Incerti Autoris.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
- JnB 63 p. 232-231 rev.
  
  Copy, headed An Epigr. on y^e Princes birth. may. 29. 1630, subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  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.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
- ClJ 110 pp. 251-250 rev.
  
  Copy, headed Song, subscribed S. Briggs.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.
  
  John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony ('When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper')
MS Rawl. poet. 148

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]).

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).
c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
- RaW 344 f. 1r
  
  Copy, headed The answer, subscribed id. est. Nowell, following Th'offence of the stomacke, with the woord of disgrace, which is headed A Ridle and subscribed id est. Rawly.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19A, p. 28.
  
  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'
- ElQ 35 f. 3v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Collected Works.
  
  First published in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), p. 227. Bradner, p. 7, one line as A Latin Hexameter, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 13, pp. 409-10. Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip of Spain, circa Spring 1588 ('When Greeks do measure months by the moon')
- DaJ 16 f. 3v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.
  
  Krueger, pp. 134-5.
  
  Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 14. In Leucam ('Leuca in presence once a fart did let')
- DaJ 18 f. 3v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.
  
  Krueger, p. 141.
  
  Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 29 ('Haywood which did in Epigrams excell')
- DaJ 124 f. 4r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Krueger.
  
  First published in Krueger (1975), p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, Davis beinge committed to prison for a quarrell betweene him and Martin, wrote as ensueth ('Now Davis for a birde is in')
- RaW 418 f. 4r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning The bow is not yet bent, wherin to shoot I sue.
  The text followed by a six-line Answer, beginning The man that sued to shoote, in this well bended Bow.
  
  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'
- DaJ 126 f. 4v
  
  Copy, ascribed to I: D.
  
  Edited from this MS in Krueger.
  
  A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
  
  Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
- DaJ 226 f. 4v
  
  Copy, ascribed to D[avies].
  
  Edited from this MS in Krueger.
  
  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')
- SiP 165 f. 5v
  
  Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 466.
  
  Ringler, p. 108. Robertson, p. 265.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book IV, No. 68 ('Who hath his hire, hath well his labour plast')
- WiT 0.5 f. 5v
  
  Copy.
  
  A mnemonic couplet, first published in Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorique ([London], 1553).
  
  Thomas Wilson, 'Who, what, and Wher; by what helpe and by whose'
- EsR 55 ff. 34r-5r
  
  Copy, imperfect, lacking the first four stanzas, here beginning But from those leaues no dram of sweet I drayne, subscribed quod Mr Iohn Lilly.
  
  Printed from this in Doughtie, No. [103], pp. 96-8; discussed pp. 178-80. Recorded in May, p. 111.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- DyE 6 ff. 65r-6r
  
  Copy, subscribed qd M^r Dier.
  
  Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
  
  First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'Amidst the fayrest mountayne topps'
- EsR 23 ff. 67r-7v
  
  Copy, with (f. 113r) a musical setting.
  
  First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England ('Change thy minde since she doth change')
- PlG 14 f. 75v
  
  Copy of the last stanza (beginning And when he saddest sits in homely Cell) written as the last stanza of a poem headed In yeeldinge up his Tilt staff: hee sayd, beginning Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease, and subscribed q^d S^r Henry Leigh.
  
  This MS recorded in Horne, p. 170.
  
  First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
  
  George Peele, A Sonet ('His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd')
- SiP 35 f. 86r
  
  Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 424, 558.
  
  Ringler, p. 144.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 15 ('Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie')
- EsR 56 ff. 87r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- MrC 11 f. 96v
  
  Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 45A, p. 116. Collated in Bowers.
  
  First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.
  
  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
- RaW 190 ff. 96v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Her answer.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 45A, p. 117. Recorded in Latham, p. 112.
  
  One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
- SiP 132 ff. 99v-100r
  
  Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 440.
  
  Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 ('Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes')
- DyE 76 f. 103r
  
  Copy, subscribed Incerto. Sir Edward DIER.
  
  Edited from this MS 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'
- CmT 210 f. 109v
  
  Copy of a two-strophe version.
  
  Edited from this MS in Greer, p. 305.
  
  Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
- DyE 7 f. 112v
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, with music.
  
  First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'Amidst the fayrest mountayne topps'

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149

MS Rawl. poet. 108

MS Rawl. poet. 112

MS Rawl. poet. 115

MS Rawl. poet. 116

MS Rawl. poet. 117

MS Rawl. poet. 120

MS Rawl. poet. 122

MS Rawl. poet. 123

MS Rawl. poet. 125

MS Rawl. poet 136, pp. 34-79

MS Rawl. poet. 142

MS Rawl. poet. 147

MS Rawl. poet. 148

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