Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199

MS Rawl. poet. 152

• WaE 283 f. 2r

  Copy, untitled, on a single small leaf; end of 17th century.

  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

  Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')
• MiT 3 f. 3r

  Copy, headed The petition of poet Midleton Autho^r of y^e Game at Chess, to King Iames.

  Edited from this MS in Wagner, PQ, 14 (1935), 288. Facsimile in Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

  First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

  Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James ('A harmless game raised merely for delight')
• CoR 401 ff. 17v-18

  Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

  Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
• MsP 23 f. 19r

  Copy.

  Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

  Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be')
• ShW 29 f. 34r

  Copy, in a non-professional hand, among other verses on both sides of a leaf, untitled and here beginning how oft when thow, deere deerist musick plaiest.

  This MS edited and discussed in R.H.A. Robbins, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Shakespeare's Sonnet 128, N&Q, 212 (April 1967), 137-8. Facsimile in Bruce R. Smith, Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History, in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, 2003), pp. 4-26 (p. 8).

  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 128 ('How oft when thou, my music, music play'st')
• RoJ 153 ff. 50r-7r

  Copy on eight quarto leaves.

  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')
• DoC 314 f. 89v

  Copy, headed The Debauch.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411; collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')
• DrJ 177 ff. 91-103v

  Copy of the Sixth Satyr [of Juvenal], beginning In Saturn's Reign, at Nature's Early Birth; end of 17th century-early 18th century.

  First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

  John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis ('Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score')
• CgW 2 ff. 10r-15r

  Copy.

  First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

  William Congreve, The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal ('If Noble Atticus makes plenteous Feasts')
• BrW 12.5 f. 34v

  Copy of Book I, song 3, knot poem at the end (beginning This is love and worth commending).

  Goodwin, I, 103.

  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
• RoJ 222 f. 115v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
• CgW 46 f. 116r-v

  Copy.

  First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

  William Congreve, To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius ('As when of Old Heroique Story tells')
• DrJ 46 ff. 116v-19r

  Copy.

  First published in The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Kinsley, II, 765-71. California, IV, 311-21. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 172-8.

  John Dryden, The Fourth Satyr of Aulus when Flaccus ('Who-e're thou art, whose forward years are bent')
• SeC 79 f. 134r

  Copy, headed To Mary Snow, on a quarto leaf.

  First published in The Gentleman's Journal (September 1693), p. 297. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 51.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Maximina ('Ovid, who bid the Ladies laugh')
• CoR 28 ff. 200r-1v

  Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves; imperfect, lacking the ending.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

  Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
• DeJ 52 f. 202r

  Copy, headed Vpon the Three Praises of Gondibert not then Published, on a single quarto leaf.

  First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

  Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface ('Room Room for the best of Poets heroick')
• DeJ 2 ff. 203r-4r

  Copy on two quarto leaves.

  First published, as To Sir W. Davenant, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

  Sir John Denham, 'After so many sad mishaps'
• RnT 96 f. 210r-v

  Copy, headed A true M^ris on a single quarto leaf.

  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie ('Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise')

MS Rawl. poet. 153

• SaG 24 ff. 1r-7v

  Copy, heavily dust-stained.

  This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

  First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

  George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon ('Join thy life-breathing lips to mine')
• StW 782 f. 8v

  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walkinge in the snow.

  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 8 f. 8v

  Copy, headed On the Transportation of Q. Elizabeths dead body from Richmond to Whitehall Camd: Rem:

  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')
• BrW 190 f. 9r

  Copy.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
• StW 1316 f. 9r

  Copy, headed A fancy on his beutifull M^rs:.

  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')
• CaE 9 ff. 9v-10r

  Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.

  This MS recorded in Akkerman.

  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
• B&F 123 f. 13r

  Copy, headed Melancholy.

  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
• CwT 413 ff. 14v-15r

  Copy, headed Vpon Cælias face.

  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
• CwT 1260 f. 15r

  Copy, headed On his M^rs:.

  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
• WoH 226 f. 16r

  Copy, headed A Poeme made by D^r: Donne a little befor his death.

  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
• LoR 31 f. 17v

  Copy, headed A Songe.

  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

  Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
• LoR 13.5 f. 18r

  Copy, headed Another and here beginning Why didst thou say, I am forsworne.

  This MS recorded in Dosia Reichardt, Some Unnoticed Lovelace Manuscripts, N&Q, 247 (2002), 336-8.

  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')
• StW 855 f. 19v

  Copy, headed A Denyed Louer to his Loue.

  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
• RaW 110 f. 20r

  Copy, headed A ffancy.

  This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.

  First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
• JnB 126 f. 20r

  Copy of lines 3-6, headed An Epitaph and beginning Here vnderneath this stone doth ly.

  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')
• FoJ 8 f. 21v

  Copy of Cuculus's song, headed On dispraise of Tabacco and here beginning He that will learn to drink a health in hell.

  First published London, 1629; Dyce, I, 1-106p. (p. 66); Bang, pp. 1-86 (p. 67, lines 1629-33).

  Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

  John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song ('They that will learn to drink a health in hell')
• CmT 108 f. 24r

  Copy of the first strophe, untitled.

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

  Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
• BrW 154 f. 24v

  Copy.

  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• BrW 81 ff. 24v-5r

  Copy, headed On a woman dyinge in Travell the child vnborne.

  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')
• CaW 53 ff. 25v-6r

  Copy.

  First published in Works (1651), pp. 195-6. Evans, pp. 459-60.

  William Cartwright, To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet ('Could wee iudge here Most vertuous Madam then')
• CaW 56 f. 26r

  Copy.

  First published in Works (1651), p. 219. Evans, p. 472.

  William Cartwright, To Venus ('Venus Redress a wrong that's done')
• CaW 50 f. 26r

  Copy.

  First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-19. Evans, pp. 471-2.

  William Cartwright, To Cupid ('Thou, who didst never see the Light')
• WaE 589 f. 27r

  Copy, headed One Marryed to a Old man.

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

  Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
• DaJ 121 f. 28r

  Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10, headed A new married Bride.

  This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

  First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

  Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')
• HoJ 118 f. 28r

  Copy, headed M^r F^s Epitaph and here beginning Reader it was borne and cryd.

  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
• StW 1272 f. 28v

  Copy, in two columns, headed The Church Papist, slightly imperfect.

  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')
• WoH 226.5 ff. 45v-6r

  Copy.

  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')

MS Rawl. poet. 154

• HlJ 7 f. 12r

  Copy of Hall's commendatory verses, headed Ad Autorem, prefixed to a copy of William Bedell's poem A Protestant Memorial (here The Shepheards Tale of the Powderplot, ff. 11r-25r) and subscribed Joseph Hall. c.1620s-30s.

  This MS recorded in Wynter, IX, 707.

  First published in William Bedell, A Protestant Memorial: or, The Shepherd's Tale of the Pouder-Plott (London, 1713). Davenport, p. 123.

  Joseph Hall, To William Bedell ('Willy, thy Rhythms so sweetly run and rise')
• *AsM 18 f. 51r-v

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Mary Astell, Dedicatory epistle to Sancroft
• *AsM 11 f. 52r-v

  Autograph

  Autograph, the poem made June 28 1683.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, The Invitation ('Come Muse, and leave those wings that soar')
• *AsM 10 ff. 52v-3r

  Autograph

  Autograph, the poem dated 7 January 1687/8.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, In emulation of Mr Cowley's Poem called the Motto page 1 ('What shall i do? not to be Rich or great')
• AsM 6 ff. 53v-4r

  Autograph, the poem dated 18 March 1683.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Enemies ('I love you whom the World calls Enemies')
• *AsM 2 ff. 54v-5r

  Autograph

  Autograph, the poem dated 30 March 1684.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Ambition ('What's that with such vigour fills my breast?')
• *AsM 14 ff. 55v-6r

  Autograph

  Autograph, the poem dated 8 April 1684.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Solitude ('Now I with generous Cowley see')
• *AsM 5 ff. 56v-61r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Death ('It was a glorious and a cheerful day')
• *AsM 12 ff. 61v-74v

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Judgement ('Tis said: the sacred word is past')
• *AsM 7 ff. 75r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Heaven ('In a poor simple Girl 'tis a bold flight')
• *AsM 9 ff. 80r-4v

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Hell ('With a short line, and scanty wit')
• *AsM 16 ff. 84v-6r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Virtue ('Go despicable Virtue go')
• *AsM 4 ff. 86r-7r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, The Complaint ('What dost thou mean my God (said I')
• *AsM 1 ff. 87v-90r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Affliction ('I know not what Affliction means')
• *AsM 15 ff. 90v-1r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, The Thanksgiving ('Hence you complaining thoughts away')
• *AsM 3 ff. 91r-3r

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, 'Awake my lute, daughters of Musick come'
• *AsM 13 f. 95r-v

  Autograph

  Autograph.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, 'Since Praise is nauteous to a modest ear'
• *AsM 8 ff. 96r-7r

  Autograph

  Autograph of a shorter version of the poem.

  Unpublished.

  Mary Astell, Heaven ('In a poor simple Girl 'tis a bold flight')

MS Rawl. poet. 155

• DoC 213 f. 121r

  Copy, headed The Second Saul and here beginning When Israel disobey'd their sovereign Lord.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden ('When Israel first provoked the living Lord')

MS Rawl. poet. 159

• DoC 311 ff. 57^c-59r

  Copy, in a professional hand, on three quarto leaves, endorsed Conditional Recantation. 1689/90.

  This MS recorded in Harris.

  Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication ('If both the Indies were my own')
• MaA 109 ff. 102r-5r

  Copy, ascribed to Marvel and the poem dated 1676, on four quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

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

  Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
• MaA 221 ff. 118r-19v

  Copy, in a professional hand, on two quarto leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 120v) On the Statue at Charing Cross 1676.

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

  Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
• WoH 75 f. 142r

  Copy, in a professional hand, headed S^r. Hen: Wooton on his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia and here beginning You meanest Beautyes of the Night, on one side of a quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

  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')
• DoC 329 f. 161v

  Copy, in a professional hand, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 156-69). Late 17th century.

  First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')
• WhA 59 f. 192v

  Copy, dated 1685.

  Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

  First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

  Anne Wharton, To Mr. Wolesly ('To you, this Generous Task belongs alone')
• MaA 163.4 f. 204v

  Copy, ascribed to Marvell.

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

  Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')

MS Rawl. poet. 160

• JnB 64 f. 12v

  Copy.

  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')
• DrW 117.16 f. 14v

  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')
• CoR 536 f. 15v

  Copy.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

  Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
• BmF 31 ff. 20v-1v

  Copy, subscribed Fran: Beamaunt.

  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')
• EaJ 16 ff. 22r-3r

  Copy.

  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 106 f. 25v

  Copy, headed On the death of Mistris Boulstead.

  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')
• JnB 127 f. 25v

  Copy, headed An other [i.e. epitaph on Mrs Bulstrode] and here beginning Wilt thou heare w^t. man can saye.

  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')
• BrW 191 f. 27r

  Copy, each stanza separately headed Aliud [i.e. epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke] and the whole subscribed Browne.

  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

  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')
• BmF 59 ff. 27v-8r

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
• HeR 406 f. 28r-v

  Copy.

  Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
• DnJ 1186 ff. 29v-30v

  Copy, headed An Epithalamie Or Nuptiall Hymne vpon the Marriage of the Paltsgraue & the Ladye, Elizabeth.

  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')
• HoJ 297 f. 30v

  Copy of a Latin and an English version, the former headed 30^o: May 1630, here beginning (correctly) Dum Rex Paulinas accessit Gratus ad Aras, subscribed Ser: Hoskins; Med: Temp; the latter headed In English thus, and here beginning Where as o^r gratefull king went to Paules shrine.

  This MS cited in Osborn.

  The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

  John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')
• RnT 84 ff. 31r-3r

  Copy, headed An Eclogue To his worthy father Mr. Benjamin Johnson.

  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

  Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson ('Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad')
• BcF 12 f. 33r-v

  Copy, headed The Lo Keepers verses on the life of man.

  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'
• JnB 416 f. 34v

  Copy, here beginning Was ever contract driven by better 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?')
• BrW 155 f. 37v

  Copy, headed In Nive Tumulatu Tumul:.

  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• KiH 233 ff. 39v-41r

  Copy, headed Elegie vpon the Victorious King of Sweden.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
• KiH 334 ff. 41v-2v

  Copy, headed D^r: Kinge On his deceased Wife.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
• FlJ 10 ff. 45r-6r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

  John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars')
• HeR 361 ff. 46v-7v

  Copy, here beginning Euen as yow see two lovers in a night.

  This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

  Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie ('I have behelde two louers in a night')
• HeR 201 ff. 47v-8v

  Copy, headed R: Herrick: his charge vnto his wife and here beginning Go & with....

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

  Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')
• SuJ 7 ff. 48v-9r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Clayton.

  First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.

  John Suckling, Against Fruition I ('Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise')
• WaE 95 ff. 48v-9r

  Copy of lines 1-39, headed Against & For Fruition.

  This MS collated in Clayton.

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

  Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses ('Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise')
• DnJ 1562 f. 51r

  Copy, subscribed J. D.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

  John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
• StW 1200 ff. 51v-2v

  Copy, headed The Nightingale.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

  William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
• BrW 82 f. 52v

  Copy, headed Vpon An infant & y^e mother dying in travaile.

  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')
• CwT 188 ff. 54r-5r

  Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

  This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

  Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
• CwT 1221 f. 55r-v

  Copy, headed Vpon The Kings sicknes 1633.

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

  Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse ('Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay')
• RaW 440 f. 57r-v

  Copy, headed Sir Walter Raleighs Pilgrimage.

  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54B, pp. 128-30. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

  First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

  This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
• CwT 606 f. 77r

  Copy, untitled, subscribed Tho: Carewe.

  First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.

  Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 ('Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell')
• CwT 612 ff. 77v-8r

  Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

  Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
• HrG 296 f. 84r-v

  Copy, complete with L'Envoy, which is subscribed G: H:.

  This MS collated in Pebworth.

  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.

  George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia ('Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne')
• WoH 162 f. 85r

  Copy, headed A Hyme By S^r Henry Wotton In tyme of his Sicknes.

  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
• PeW 155 ff. 85v-6r

  Copy, headed Doctor Brookes of Teares.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Benj. Rudier of Tears ('Who would have thought there could have been')
• BrW 12.8 f. 102v

  Copy of Book I, song 3, knot poem at the end (beginning This is love and worth commending).

  Goodwin, I, 103.

  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
• PeW 2 f. 103v

  Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed J D:.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Disdain me still, that I may ever love'
• DnJ 281 ff. 103v-4r

  Copy, headed An Other [i.e. sonnet].

  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 80 f. 104r-v

  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D:.

  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')
• HeR 309 ff. 105r-6r

  Copy.

  Edited from this MS in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

  Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman ('Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses')
• CwT 177 f. 106r

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

  Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
• CwT 844 f. 106r-v

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
• CwT 1041 f. 106v

  Copy, headed In Absence.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
• CwT 209 f. 106v

  Copy, headed Another.

  This MS recorded in Powell, p. 289.

  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
• WoH 76 f. 109r-v

  Copy, headed On my Princesse and M^rs. the Lady Elisabeth elected Queene of Bohemia and here beginning Yow violets y^t doe first appeare, subscribed S^r: Hen: Wotton.

  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
• CwT 1186 f. 110v

  Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed T. Carew.

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

  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
• JnB 159 ff. 110v-11r

  Copy, headed Ben Ionson To the Painter.

  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')
• JnB 198 ff. 111r-12r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
• DnJ 1548 f. 113r

  Copy, headed To His M^rs:, subscribed J: D.

  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')
• StW 783 f. 113r

  Copy, headed On Do^r: Corbets wife walking in y^e Snowe.

  This MS recorded in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.

  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• CwT 836 f. 113v

  Copy, headed A Sonnet On his M^rs singinge.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
• CwT 50 f. 115r

  Copy, headed To his M^rs.

  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')
• RaW 325 f. 117r

  Copy, headed Sir Walter Ralegh to Queene Elizabeth and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 508).

  Edited from this MS in Gullans, p. 325; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
• RaW 508 f. 117r

  Copy, prefixed by Our passions are most like to floods & streams (see RaW 325).

  Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 284-5; collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

  This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
• CoR 217 ff. 155r-6r

  Copy.

  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')
• CoR 736 f. 156r

  Copy, headed Sence and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

  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')
• HoJ 46 ff. 157v-8v

  Copy, headed The Fart Sensured in the Lower howse of Parliament and here beginning Puffing downe comes graue auncient S^r. John Crooke.

  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')
• HoJ 119 f. 158v

  Copy, headed The farts Epitaph in the Parliament howse.

  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
• RaW 394 f. 162v

  Copy, headed On the Earle of Somsett.

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

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
• DnJ 903 f. 163v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Shaawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

  John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
• HeR 118 f. 165r-v

  Copy, headed M^r: Herick his farewell to Sacke.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

  Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
• HeR 267 ff. 165v-6v

  Copy, headed The Time expired, he welcomes his M^rs. Sacke as followeth.

  This MS collated 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 192 ff. 167r-8v

  Copy, headed King Oberons Pallace and without the preliminary lines, subscribed R: Herick.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

  Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace ('Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red')
• HeR 341 ff. 168v-9v

  Copy, headed King Oberons Apparel, subscribed S^r Simon Stewards.

  This MS collated in Farmer.

  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
• HeR 181 ff. 169v-70r

  Copy, headed King Oberons Feast and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

  Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
• DnJ 3199 f. 171r-v

  Copy, headed An Eligie, subscribed J: D.

  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 403 ff. 171v-2v

  Copy headed Vpon A gold cheyne lent and loste, subscribed J: Done.

  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')
• JnB 565 ff. 173r-4r

  Copy, headed Ben Iohnsons Maske before the Kinge &c;.

  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

  Ben Jonson, Christmas his Masque, lines 71-8, 93-101, 172-9, 182-245. Song ('Now God preserve, as you well doe deserve')
• JnB 631 f. 175r-v

  Copy, headed A Song.

  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
• JnB 261 f. 175v

  Copy of a version headed Ben Jonsons grace and beginning God blesse y^e king, y^e queene, god blesse.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

  Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
• MrJ 25 f. 198r

  Copy of the first six lines.

  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
• MrJ 58 f. 198r

  Copy.

  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')

MS Rawl. poet. 166

• WoH 200 p. 83

  Copy, headed By y^e moste Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham &c. and here beginning Dazeled w^th y^e height of place.

  Printed from this MS in Pebworth, pp. 154-5. On p. 82 of the MS are three Latin versions added later by one James Harvey.

  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')
• JnB 372 pp. 83-5

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Davis.

  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
• JnB 160 pp. 85-6

  Copy, headed The same Ben: Jhonsons description of m^rs Venetia Stanly, since wife of S^r. kel: Digby.

  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')
• JnB 199 pp. 86-9

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')

MS Rawl. poet. 170

• RnT 181 ff. 75r-7r

  Copy of precepts 1-36, untitled, on three folio leaves, endorsed (f. 77v) Instruccions.

  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

  Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations ('First worship God, he that forgets to pray')
• HuF 4 ff. 79r-80v

  Fragment of a copy, stanzas 129-44 only, here beginning My Sonne (quoth hee) for in that name of zeale, in an italic hand, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

  This MS collated in Mellor.

  First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

  Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

  Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')

MS Rawl. poet. 171

• MaA 90 f. 10v

  Copy, headed In Bludius, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves of Latin verse on writing and printing.

  First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

  Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
• MaA 261 f. 10v

  Copy, headed Englisht, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves.

  First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

  This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

  Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
• CoA 121.2 f. 26r

  Copy.

  First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 411-13.

  Musical setting by Pelham Humfrey published in Choice Songs and Ayres for One Voyce (London, 1673).

  Abraham Cowley, Ode. Sitting and Drinking in the Chair, made out of the Reliques of Sir Francis Drake's Ship ('Chear up my Mates, the wind does fairly blow')

MS Rawl. poet. 172

• JnB 444 f. 2r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.

  First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

  Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
• HrJ 135 f. 2r

  Copy, headed A Ladies Answere to... and here beginning A beutuouse ladie sittinge in a muse.

  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
• CmT 184 f. 2r

  Copy, untitled, imperfect.

  First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

  Thomas Campion, 'As on a day Sabina fell asleepe'
• PlG 5 f. 2v

  Copy of an 11-line version, headed A Discription of loue and here beginning What thinge is loue for sure loue is a thinge.

  This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 546-7.

  Prouty, lines 12-20, 25-6. This song published separately, in an eight-line version, in The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (London, 1600), and in John Bartlet, A Book of Ayres (London 1606).

  George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song: ('What thing is love for (wel I wot) love is a thing')
• GaG 3.5 f. 3v

  This MS collated in Pigman, p. 624.

  First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 340. Prouty. p. 139. Pigman, No. 43, pp. 257-8.

  George Gascoigne, A Ryddle ('A lady once did aske of me')
• WyT 4 f. 3v

  Copy, headed A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie.

  This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.

  First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 238-9.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'A Ladye gave me a gyfte she had not'
• HoJ 317 f. 4v

  Copy, headed Carelesse Affection and here beginning O loue whose force and might.

  This MS cited in Osborn.

  Osborn, p. 301.

  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
• SiP 124 f. 6r

  Copy, headed Ould age.

  This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 558-9, and in Robertson, p. 437.

  Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 15 ('Let not old age disgrace my high desire')
• GaG 1.5 f. 6r

  Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14, headed To a frend & lover.

  This MS collated in Pigman, pp. 615-16.

  First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 92. Prouty, p. 74. Pigman, No. 32, p. 245.

  George Gascoigne, The constancie of a lover hath thus sometymes ben briefly declared ('That selfe same tonge which first did thee entreat')
• OxE 36 f. 6v

  Copy, headed The follie of men.

  This MS collated in May.

  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

  Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde'
• TiC 8 f. 7r

  Copy, headed Tichbourne and here beginning My prime of youth is but a fast of cares.

  This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

  First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
• RaW 240 f. 8r

  Copy, headed Mans life compared to a stageplay.

  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')
• HoJ 47 ff. 8r-9v

  Copy, headed The Parliament fart and here beginning Downe came graue auncient Sergeant Crooke.

  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 110 f. 9v

  Copy, headed A Riddle.

  This MS collated in Krueger.

  First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.

  Sir John Davies, Upon a Coffin by S.I.D. ('There was a man bespake a thing')
• HrJ 291 f. 9v

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

  Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')
• HrJ 192 f. 12r

  Copy of a variant 16-line version, headed A saintlike sister and here beginning A saintlike sister late turnd votarie.

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

  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
• HrJ 170 f. 12r

  Copy, headed A precise Taylor and here beginning A Taylor tane to be of vpright dealinge.

  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
• RaW 153 f. 12v

  Copy, with two additional stanzas, headed D^r Latworthe lye to all estates.

  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5 and in Höltgen, p. 435

  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

  This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
• EsR 43 f. 13r

  Copy, in double columns, untitled.

  This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

  May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest'
• EsR 38 f. 13r

  Copy, headed An other aunswere by S^r Wal R.

  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 22, p. 45. Collated in May, p. 127.

  As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge'
• EsR 57 ff. 13v-14r

  Copy, headed My Lord of Essex his Bee.

  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')
• SiP 6 f. 15v

  Copy of lines 5-9, 12-14, headed Laydie Rich: and here beginning Towardes Auroras courte a Nymph did dwell.

  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 473.

  Ringler, p. 183.

  Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 37 ('My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell')
• HoJ 254 f. 15v

  Copy, untitled and here beginning Heare lyeth Lord haue mercie vppon her!

  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!')
• DaJ 135 f. 15v

  Copy, untitled and here beginning Heare lieth old Croker the mender of bellowes.

  This MS recorded in Osborn.

  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')
• HoJ 193.5 f. 15v

  Copy, headed Vppon D^r Fletcher B[...].

  This MS recorded in Osborn.

  Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

  John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London ('I was the first that made Christendom see')
• CoA 163 ff. 19r-20v

  Copy, headed The puritan Papist or y^e popish puritan alias y^e Papist & y^e Puritans satyre, on two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, imperfect, lacking the last 54 lines.

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

  Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')
• StW 1183 f. 21r-v

  Copy, headed Y^e Lecturer o^r New preacher, with other poems on a folio leaf.

  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

  William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')
• CaW 33 f. 22r-v

  Copy, headed On y^e last great frost.

  First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.

  William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 ('Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be')
• CaW 110 f. 25r

  Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e K. & Q. and here beginning The solemn triumphs..., in a cursive hand, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

  Evans, p. 251.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the King & Qveene ('Those glorious Triumphs of the Persian Court')
• CaW 118 f. 25v

  Copy, headed Y^e Eplogue to y^e K. & Q., in a cursive hand, on the second page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

  Evans, p. 195.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologve to The King and Qveene ('From my Devotions yonder am I come')
• CaW 113 f. 26r

  Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e Vty, in a cursive hand, on the third page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

  Evans, p. 252.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the Vniversity ('Thus cited to a second night, wee've here')
• CaW 123 f. 28r

  Copy, headed To the Kinge and Queene at Hampton-Court, on a folio leaf.

  Evans, p. 198.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court ('The rites and Worship are both old, but you')
• CaW 116 f. 28r-v

  Copy, headed The Epilogue and here beginning The absent Author..., on a folio leaf.

  Evans, p. 253.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court ('The unfil'd Author, though he be assur'd')
• CaW 96 f. 30r

  Copy, headed In M^r Cartwrights Comedie The Preists Songe when y^e slaue was invested on the Royall Robes, on a folio leaf.

  Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
• StW 1482 f. 30r

  Copy of the Attendant's song, headed In M^r Strowdes: The Passions mett at Desparato's Banquett, this songe, on one side of a folio leaf.

  Dobell, pp. 228-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

  William Strode, The Floating Island, Act V, scene vii. Song ('Come heavy souls oppressed with the weight')
• StW 503 f. 31r

  Copy on a folio leaf.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

  William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete ('Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare')
• DnJ 1377 f. 74v

  Copy, headed verses made by D: D: made vppon a fflea.

  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')
• JnB 277 f. 74v

  Copy, headed Of the Ashes of a dead Lover put in an hower glasse.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
• JnB 614 f. 78r-v

  Copy of the Lord Keeper's, the Lord Steward's, the Lord Treasurer's and the Lord Chamberlain's fortunes, on a folio leaf.

  Herford & Simpson, lines 565-84, 631-43, 588-97, 681-97; Greg, Windsor version, lines 392-411, 455-67, 414-23, 373-89. This MS collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 551.

  First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).

  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed
• JnB 632 f. 78v

  Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled, imperfect, lacking the rest.

  This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
• KiH 672 f. 83r

  Copy, headed On two Lou^res y^t must forsake each oth^r, with other poems on a folio leaf.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
• CwT 108 f. 83r

  Copy, headed On his M^ris, with other poems, on a folio leaf.

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

  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
• DoC 2 f. 103r

  Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, subscribed L^d Buckhurst. Late 17th century.

  This MS collated in Harris.

  First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice ('Phyllis, for shame let us improve')
• WoH 227 f. 106r

  Copy, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
• FrG 4 ff. 131r-2r

  Copy, under a general heading Poems By M^r Farquhar.

  First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 279-82.

  George Farquhar, On the Death of General Schomberg kill'd at the Boyn. A Pinadrick ('What dismal Damp has overspread the War?')
• FrG 6 f. 132r

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282.

  George Farquhar, Written on Orinda's Poem's, lent to a Lady, in imitation of Ovid ('Me Damon sends his amorous Cause to plead')
• FrG 5 f. 132v

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282-3.

  George Farquhar, To the Ingenious Lady, Author of the Fatal Friendship, design'd for a Recommendatory Copy to her Play ('Let others call the sacred Nine to Aid')
• FrG 3 f. 132v

  No description or publication history available.

  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')
• CoR 292 ff. 143r-58r

  Copy, in a professional hand, docketed D^r Corbett Iter Boreale, on sixteen quarto leaves.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
• MaA 371 ff. 175r-6v

  Copy, headed Second Part by S^r John Denham, on two conjugate quarto leaves.

  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')

MS Rawl. poet. 173

• DrJ 44 ff. 8r-10v

  Copy of lines 7-192, headed The Creation. Out of the first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Together with his Four Ages of the World. Translated by M^r. Dryden and here beginning Before the Seas, and this Terrestrial Ball.

  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 799-828. California, IV, 362-431. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 230-84.

  John Dryden, The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ('Of Bodies chang'd to various Forms I sing')
• DrJ 85 f. 11r-v

  Copy, headed The Beginning of the Second Book…Nature and Right Reason, Life's best Guide.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 403-4. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 312-15.

  John Dryden, Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book (''Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore')
• DrJ 222 ff. 11v-15v

  Copy, headed Out of the later part of the third Book. The Epicurean Arguments against the Fear of Death.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 405-13. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 317-31.

  John Dryden, Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius Against the Fear of Death ('What has this Bugbear death to frighten Man')
• DrJ 86 ff. 15v-19v

  Copy, headed From his 4th Book…Of the Nature and Effects of Love, with Instructions and Remarks thereupon, illustrated with Examples, &c..

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 413-21. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 332-44.

  John Dryden, Lucretius The Fourth Book Concerning the Nature of Love ('Thus therefore, he who feels the Fiery dart')
• DrJ 48 ff. 19v-20r

  Copy, headed From his 5th. Book…Nature more, indulgent to Brutes, than Man-Kind.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 421. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 345-6.

  John Dryden, From Lucretius Book the Fifth ('Thus like a Sayler by the Tempest hurl'd')
• DrJ 72 ff. 20r-1v

  Copy.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 424-7. California, III, 69-72. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 352-5.

  John Dryden, Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover ('With inauspicious love, a wretched Swain')
• DrJ 11 ff. 21v-3r

  Copy, headed Idyll: 27. Daphins & Chloris. an amorous Dialogue.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 427-31. California, III (1969), 73-7. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 356-61.

  John Dryden, Daphnis from Theocritus Idyll. 27 ('The Shepheard Paris bore the Spartan Bride')
• DrJ 66 ff. 27v-8r

  Copy, headed The 9^th. Ode of the first Book. by M^r. Dryden The Epicurean's Improvement of Time.

  First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 432-4. California, III, 79-80. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 366-8.

  John Dryden, Horace Lib. I. Ode 9 ('Behold yon' Mountains hoary height')
• CgW 7 f. 30r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

  William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve ('Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis')
• OtT 3 ff. 31v-2v

  Copy, headed Book 2^d. Ode. 16…by M^r. Otway. Tranquility of mind, so much desir'd by all, is attainable only by Bridling the appetite.

  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Ghosh, II, 447-8.

  Thomas Otway, The sixteenth Ode Of the second Book of Horace ('In Storms when Clouds the Moon do hide')
• RoJ 484 ff. 48v-9r

  Copy, headed Lib: 2. Eleg: 9^th. To Love. By L^d. Rochester.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
• SeC 27 f. 50r-v

  Copy, headed Lib: 3. Eleg: 4. To a man that lockt up his Wife. By S^r: Ch: Sedley.

  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 97-8.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book III, Elegy the Fourth. To A Man that lockt up his Wife ('Vex not thy self and her, vain Man, since all')
• CoA 44.4 f. 55v

  Copy.

  Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

  Abraham Cowley, The Civil War ('What rage does England from it selfe divide')
• CoA 264 ff. 26r-7v, 32v-3r, 35r-40r, 53v-6r 58v-9r, 79r-81v, 96v-7r, 98r-v, 140v-1r 159r-60v, 168v, 169v-70v

  Copies of, or extracts from, 27 poems by Cowley.

  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
• DoC 115 ff. 61v-2r

  Copy, headed A Catch on the French King, out of French. by M^r. Dryden.

  This MS collated in Harris.

  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')
• EtG 95 f. 62r

  Copy, headed Voitures Urania. Love more prevalent than Reason.

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

  Sir George Etherege, Voiture's Urania ('Hopeless I languish out my days')
• PsK 546 ff. 63v-4r

  Copy, headed The Pleasing Virgin. by M^rs. Phillips

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

  Katherine Philips, The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')
• WaE 671 f. 64v

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

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

  Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
• WaE 122 f. 64r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

  Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark ('Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms')
• WaE 240 ff. 64v-5r

  Copy, headed On his Isabella playing on a Lute.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
• WaE 498 f. 65r

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
• RoJ 138 ff. 65v-6v, 132r-v

  Copy of lines 177-255, headed The Cheating Whore. or, a Caveat to young Fops. Out of L^d Roch:'s Poems and here beginning This in my time was an observed Rule, and lines 147-68, headed On a Witty Whore and here beginning I took this time to think, what nature meant.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  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')
• EtG 2 ff. 66v-7v

  Copy, headed Epelia (a Deserted Lover) to Bajaset, which may serve as a Caveat to Women. By L^d R[ochester].

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

  Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
• RoJ 608 ff. 67v-8r

  Copy, headed His answer.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
• DoC 164 ff. 69v.-70r

  Copy, headed Upon an affected Court Lady. By M^r. Fleetwood shepherd.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

  First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')
• RoJ 370 f. 71r

  Copy, headed The Yielding Nymph.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('As Chloris full of harmless thought')
• RoJ 439 f. 71v

  Copy, headed Woman's Frailty. A Song. by L^d. Ro:.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
• DoC 9 ff. 71v-2r

  Copy, headed Advise to Lovers. or, Faint Heart ne're won fair Lady. by S^r. Ch: Sedley.

  This MS collated in Harris.

  First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')
• DoC 247 f. 72r

  Copy, headed Catch by L^d. Dorset.

  This MS collated in in Harris.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song ('Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes')
• SeC 91 f. 72r

  Copy, headed The perplexed Lover to his Cruel mistress. S^r. Ch: Sedley.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by His Grace, George, Late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 149-50.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Against his Mistress's Cruelty ('Love, How unequal are thy Laws')
• SeC 48 f. 74r

  Copy, headed To Celia. Fair, but not Favourable. by S^r. Ch: Sedley.

  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
• EtG 85 f. 74r-v

  Copy of stanzas 1 and 3, here ascribed to Etherege.

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667). Thorpe, p. 2.

  Sir George Etherege, To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her ('Cloris, it is not in our power')
• SeC 5 ff. 74v-5r

  Copy, headed Lasting Love. By S^r. Ch: Sedley.

  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')
• EtG 70 f. 75r

  Copy, headed A Song by S^r. Geo: Etherege. Love's last Tryall.

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

  Sir George Etherege, Song ('Tell me no more you love. in vain')
• SeC 4 f. 75r-v

  Copy, headed A Song by S^r. Ch: Sedley, a Given Heart hardly regain'd.

  First published, in a 28-line version beginning When Aurelia first became, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 10-11.

  Sir Charles Sedley, The Complaint ('When fair Aurelia first became')
• SeC 70 ff. 75v-6

  Copy, headed To Chloris. by S^r. Ch: Sedley. The Entire Lover.

  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris ('Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes')
• SeC 12 f. 76r-v

  Copy, headed Amyntas Courting Caelia for her last Favour. S^r Ch: Sed:.

  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 17-19.

  Sir Charles Sedley, A Dialogue between Amintas and Celia ('Amintas, I am come alone')
• ClJ 3 f. 82r

  Copy.

  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')
• DoC 197 f. 8r

  Copy, headed On the Countess of - Mistress to K. J. 2. 1680. by E. of Dorset.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

  First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
• WaE 588 f. 86r

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
• WaE 76 ff. 95v-6r

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')
• WaE 192 f. 96r

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
• EtG 18 f. 97r-v

  Copy, ascribed to Etherege.

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

  Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('After a pretty amorous discourse')
• WaE 357 f. 100r-v

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
• PsK 3 f. 100v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

  Katherine Philips, Against Love ('Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies')
• SeC 1 f. 101r

  Copy.

  First published in The Gentleman's Journal (August 1693), p. 258. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 35-6.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Advice to the Old Beaux ('Scrape no more your harmless Chins')
• PsK 103 ff. 101v-2v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

  Katherine Philips, Friendship ('Let the dull brutish world that know not love')
• PsK 95 ff. 102v-3v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

  Katherine Philips, A Friend ('Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule')
• ClJ 215 f. 107r

  Copy, ascribed to M^r Cleveland.

  Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

  John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
• WaE 703 f. 107r-v

  Copy, the text followed (ff. 107v-8v) by Godolphin's answer.

  First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
• WaE 621 ff. 108v-10

  Copy.

  First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

  Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return ('The rising sun complies with our weak sight')
• WaE 617 f. 110r-v

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
• WaE 374 f. 110v

  Copy.

  First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 75.

  Edmund Waller, On the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross ('That the First Charles does here in triumph ride')
• RoJ 104.4 ff. 111r-13r

  Copy.

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
• RoJ 339 ff. 113v-14r

  Copy, headed L^d. Roch:'s Lampoon on K. Ch: for which he was banishd the Court, and turn'd Mountebank.

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
• RoJ 11.4 f. 117r et seq.

  Copy.

  First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
• DoC 365 ff. 117v-18v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Harris.

  First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Vision in King James's Reign ('Twas at an hour when busy nature lay')
• RoJ 217 ff. 123v-4r

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
• DoC 312 ff. 125v-6v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Harris.

  Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication ('If both the Indies were my own')
• RoJ 76 f. 132r

  Copy of (i) lines 30-43, headed A Fragment out of L^d Rochester, which may serve as an apology for the whole collection and here beginning Perhaps Ill verses ought to be confin'd, and (ii) lines 89-98, headed Upon Fame — by the same and here beginning There's not a thing on Earth that I can name.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
• DoC 148 ff. 136v-7

  Copy, headed A Satyr on M^r Edward Howard. by the E of Dorset.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
• EtG 115 ff. 139v-40r

  Copy, ascribed to S^r. Geo: Etherege.

  This MS collated in Thorpe.

  First published in Examen Miscellaneum (London, 1702). Thorpe, pp. 59-60.

  Sir George Etherege, Song ('Since Death on all lays his impartial hand')
• PsK 13 f. 140r-v

  Copy, headed Against Pleasure. By M^rs. Phillips.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

  Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')
• RoJ 547 f. 141r-v

  Copy, headed Upon drinking in a Bowl.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')
• RoJ 567 ff. 151v-2r

  Copy.

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

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
• PsK 54 ff. 152v-3r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

  Katherine Philips, Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')
• WaE 61 ff. 154v-5r

  Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sr. Geo: Speak, the good son and good mother exemplyfy'd.

  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.

  Edmund Waller, Epitaph on Sir George Speke ('Under this stone lies vertue, youth')
• WaE 280 f. 155r-v

  Copy, headed The Advantages of approaching Death to a good old man.

  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

  Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')
• PsK 402 ff. 155v-6r

  Copy, headed To M^rs. Wogan on the Death of her Husband. a Good man. By M^rs. Phillips.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

  Katherine Philips, To M^rs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband ('Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you')
• SeC 77 f. 157v

  Copy, headed To Liber. The Voluptuous Epicure. By S^r. Ch: Sedley.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 40-1.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Liber ('Liber, thou Joy of all thy Friends')
• SeC 13 ff. 157v-8r

  Copy.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 45-6.

  Sir Charles Sedley, The Doctor and his Patients ('There was a prudent grave Physician')
• SeC 83 f. 158r

  Copy, headed To Quintus. An Atheisticall Libertine. by S^r. Ch: Sedly.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 59-60.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Quintus ('Thou art an Atheist, Quintus, and a Wit')
• SeC 86 f. 158r

  Copy, headed To Stertorius, a Greedy Buyer. By S^r. Ch. Sedley.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 54.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Sertorius ('If thou do'st want a Horse, thou buy'st a Score')
• SeC 67 f. 158r-v

  Copy, headed To Classicus. a Covetous Smell-Toast. by S^r. Ch: Sed:.

  First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 52-3.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Classicus ('When thou art ask'd to Sup abroad')
• RoJ 271.5 f. 159v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Love.

  First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8, in his Appendix Roffensis.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Plain Dealings Downfall ('Long time plain dealing in the Hauty Town')
• PsK 569 ff. 160v-2r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

  Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
• BcF 13.5 f. 162r

  Copy.

  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
• DoC 361.3 f. 163v et seq.

  Copy.

  This MS collated in POAS.

  First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')
• CoA 54.2 f. 169v et seq.

  Copy.

  First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

  Abraham Cowley, The Country Life. Lib. 4. Plantarum ('Blest be the man (and blest he is) whome're')
• PsK 127 ff. 174v-5v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Dunton.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

  Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
• PsK 341 pp. 184v-5v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

  Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
• WaE 426 ff. 185v-6v

  Copy.

  First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 137-9.

  Edmund Waller, Some reflections of his upon the several Petitions in the same Prayer ('His sacred name with reverence profound')
• PsK 230 ff. 187v-8v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

  Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion ('Religion, which true policy befriends')

MS Rawl. poet. 174

• WaE 612 pp. 1-2

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
• WaE 680 pp. 2-5

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
• WaE 305 pp. 5-8

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')
• WaE 632 pp. 8-9

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
• WaE 638 pp. 9-12

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
• WaE 259 pp. 12-19

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
• WaE 199 pp. 19-21

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
• WaE 248 pp. 21-2

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
• WaE 13 pp. 23-4

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
• WaE 268 p. 25

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')
• WaE 46 pp. 26-8

  Copy, here beginning When from the blacke no part of skie is cleere.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
• WaE 53 pp. 28-9

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
• WaE 173 pp. 29-30

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')
• WaE 24 pp. 30-2

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
• WaE 19 pp. 32-3

  Copy, headed Another of the same and here beginning Had Dorothea liu'd when Mortalls made, subscribed with a note in a late 17th-century hand In the printed copy follow these lines… and the text of four lines (lines 17-20) copied and marked for insertion after line 16.

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

  Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
• WaE 330 p. 34

  Copy, with a note in a late 17th-century hand inserting four lines (3-6) after line 2.

  Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

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

  Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
• WaE 578 pp. 34-6

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
• WaE 513 pp. 36-7

  Copy, headed To my young Ladie Lucie Sidney.

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

  Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
• WaE 646 pp. 37-9

  Copy, headed To M^rs Broughton.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')
• WaE 564 pp. 39-41

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
• WaE 558 pp. 41-3

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
• WaE 352 pp. 43-5

  Copy, headed Of a freindship betweene Sachariza & Amorett.

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

  Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
• WaE 2 pp. 45-6

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
• WaE 570 pp. 46-8

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
• WaE 469 pp. 48-50

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
• WaE 598 pp. 50-1

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
• WaE 592 pp. 51-2

  Copy, headed Another to the same.

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

  Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
• WaE 652 pp. 52-4

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
• WaE 459 p. 55

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')
• WaE 224 p. 56

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
• WaE 339 pp. 56-7

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
• WaE 480 pp. 58-9

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')
• WaE 313 p. 59

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
• WaE 117 pp. 59-60

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')
• WaE 419 pp. 60-1

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')
• WaE 495 pp. 61-2

  Copy, headed To a Ladie in Retirement.

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

  Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
• WaE 691 pp. 62-6

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')
• WaE 218 pp. 66-7

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')
• WaE 206 pp. 67-9

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
• WaE 625 pp. 69-72

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')
• WaE 127 p. 72

  Copy, here beginning Whilst she pretends to make the graces known.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
• WaE 584 p. 73

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
• WaE 445 pp. 73-4

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
• WaE 36 p. 75

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')
• WaE 84 p. 76

  Copy, headed Song.

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

  Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
• WaE 440 p. 77

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
• WaE 736 pp. 77-8

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
• WaE 538 pp. 78-9

  Copy, headed Song.

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

  Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
• WaE 236 pp. 79-80

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
• WaE 73 pp. 80-1

  Copy.

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

  Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')

MS Rawl. poet. 180

• OrR 13

  No description or publication history available.

  First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

  Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

MS Rawl. poet. 181

• MaA 239 ff. 26r-7r

  Copy, headed Vpon S^r Roberts setting up y^e statue, on the rectos of two quarto leaves.

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

  Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
• DrJ 225 f. 28r

  Copy, at the foot of a quarto leaf.

  This MS collated in California.

  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

  John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')

MS Rawl. poet. 185

• DlT 1 f. 22v

  Copy.

  First published in The Garland of Good Will (London, 1596?. The earliest known extant edition [exemplum at Yale] is London, 1628). Mann, pp. 328-30.

  Thomas Deloney, A song in praise of a single life ('Some do write of bloudy warres')

MS Rawl. poet. 194

• EaJ 63 ff. 161r-3r

  Copy, on three quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

  First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Hortus Mertonensis ('Hortus delitiae domus politae')

MS Rawl. poet. 195

• BeA 24 ff. 1r-34v

  Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Younger Brother or the Amorous Jilt a Comedy acted at the Theatre royal By his Majestys Servants Written by the late Ingenious M^rs. Behn and with (ff. 2r-3r) [Charles Gildon's]. An account of the Life of the Incomparable M^rs. Behn, on 34 folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1700.

  First published (in an edited version, and with a biographical preface, by Charles Gildon) London, 1696. Summers, IV, 311-99. Todd, VII, 359-417.

  Aphra Behn, The Young Brother. or, The Amorous Jilt

MS Rawl. poet. 196

• FoJ 4.5 f. 1v

  Copy of the song.

  Collated in Thomas.

  First published in London, 1639. Dyce, III, 1-99 (pp. 40-1). De Vocht, pp. 329-408 (p. 363, lines 1011-26).

  John Ford, The Lady's Trial, II, iv. Song ('Pleasures, beauty, youth attend ye')
• DrJ 286 f. 2v

  Copy of the song.

  First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 420-1.

  John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: or, The Double Discovery, Act V, scene i, lines 64-87. Song ('Farewell ungratefull Traytor')
• OtT 7 f. 5v

  Copy of the song.

  Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.

  A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).

  Thomas Otway, 'Would you know how we meet'
• MaA 57 f. 13v

  Copy, headed Songs.

  First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 58. Lord, p. 51. Smith, p. 191, as The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes.

  Andrew Marvell, Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2 ('Climb at Court for me that will')
• ShJ 144 f. 14v

  Copy of the dirge, headed Songs.

  Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

  James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
• HeR 65 f. 15r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
• LeN 17 f. 15v

  Copy.

  Published separately, as Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

  Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] ('Hail to the Mirtle Shade')
• LeN 19 f. 16r

  Copy of the song, headed A ballitt Song's.

  Published separately, as The True Lovers' Tragedy, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).

  Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, V, i, 31-57. Song after the Fourth Act ('Ah Cruel bloody Fate')
• PsK 578.8 ff. 18v-19r

  Copy of the song, with corrections in another hand.

  This MS collated in Thomas.

  A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

  Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')
• DrJ 193 f. 20v

  Copy of the first stanza, subscribed M[ary] N.

  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 201-2.

  John Dryden, The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song ('On a bank, beside a Willow')
• DkT 43.5 f. 21v

  Copy.

  First published in London, 1634. Bowers, IV, 242.

  Thomas Dekker, The Noble Soldier, I, ii, 1-17. Song ('Oh sorrow, sorrow, say where dost thou dwell?')
• DoC 104 f. 28v

  Copy, headed Songs.

  This MS collated in Harris.

  First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Fire of Love ('The fire of love in youthful blood')
• DoC 105 f. 28v

  Second copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Harris.

  First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Fire of Love ('The fire of love in youthful blood')
• SdT 32 f. 31

  Copy of the song.

  First published in London, 1688. Summers, IV, 191-283 (p. 224).

  Thomas Shadwell, The Squire of Alsatia, II, i. Song: The Expostulation ('Still wilt thou sigh, and still in vain')
• DrJ 247 f. 35v

  Copy of the song.

  First published in London, 1690. California, XV (1976), 221-318 (p. 283). Kinsley, II, 560-1. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 238.

  John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act III, scene i, lines 583-600. Song ('CeIia, that I once was blest')
• DrJ 273 f. 36v

  Copy of Venus's song.

  California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 266-7.

  John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act V, scene ii, lines 150-65. Song ('Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling')
• CoA 29.5 f. 37r

  Copy.

  First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 53. Sparrow, pp. 52-3.

  Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. V. Age ('Oft am I by the Women told')
• CgW 10 ff. 44v-5v

  Copy.

  First published in John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 34. Dobrée, pp. 375-6. McKenzie, II, 462. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus, Book II (London, 1694).

  William Congreve, 'How Happy's the Husband, whose Wife has been try'd'
• CgW 43 f. 46v

  Copy.

  First published, as A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

  William Congreve, Song from The Maid's Last Prayer. Set by Mr. Purcell, and Sung by Mrs. Ayliff ('Tell me no more I am deceiv'd')

MS Rawl. poet. 198

• HyT 2

  No description or publication history available.

  First published, anonymously, as Loues Schoole [?1600]. Edited from an early printed text (British Library, C.39.a.37) by M.L. Stapleton, as Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Am atoria (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000).

  Thomas Heywood, Ovid's De Arte Amandi or, The Art of Love ('If there be any in this multitude')

MS Rawl. poet. 199