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Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end

  • MS Rawl. poet. 200

    An octavo miscellany of religious poems, hymns and some prose, in English, French and Latin, ii + 129 leaves, in contemporary half-calf.

    Early 18th century.
    • WoH 257.5 f. 126r

      Copy, headed Sursum Corda.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 537, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton.

      Sir Henry Wotton, 'Rise oh my soul wth: thy desires to heauen'

  • MS Rawl. poet. 206

    A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

    Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

    c.1630s.

    Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

    • CoR 293 pp. 1-16

      Copy, headed A iourney into the North by Ri. Corbet.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 44.

      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')
    • BrW 84 p. 21

      Copy.

      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')
    • StW 359 pp. 23-4

      Copy, here beginning Can any shewe where Plinnies people dwell, subscribed Will: Strode Cts Church.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

      William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
    • RnT 446 p. 42

      Copy, ascribed to T. R..

      Unpublished?

      Thomas Randolph, Against Drunkards ('What prodigy of nature, or what evil')
    • StW 1150 pp. 47-8

      Copy, headed On Mr Rives and Mr Griffiths recovery both Fellowes of New Coll., subscribed J[ohn]: South. N[ew] Coll[ege].

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

      William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
    • CoR 570 p. 52

      Copy, headed To my sonn Vincent on his birth-day, being now 3 yeer olde, subscribed by Richard Corbet Ld B of Oxford.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • StW 1392 pp. 52-3

      Copy, headed Idem, subscribed W Strode his Chaplaine.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

      William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3to. 1630 ('Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam')
    • JnB 65 p. 57

      Copy, subscribed Ben Johnson.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
    • HrG 310.5 p. 58

      Copy, possibly transcribed from a printed source.

      First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.

      George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, Sti Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam ('Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat')
    • HrJ 90.5 p. 61

      Copy, untitled, here beginning It is vncertaine when a Certaine Preacher, followed (pp. 61-2) by The Womans answer (beginning That in the Scripture non could ever finde)

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • KiH 49 p. 64

      Copy, headed His Answer, subscribed Dr Henry Kinge.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • BrW 117 p. 65

      Copy, headed On the Death of a Gentlewoman.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • DaJ 173 p. 65

      Copy, headed On an Infant and here beginning As Carefull Mothers to their Bedds do laye.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • HeR 407 pp. 66-7

      Copy, headed On a Cherrie-stone having a Deaths-head on ye one side and a Gentlewomans on the other.

      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')
    • StW 564 pp. 67-8

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.

      William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux ('Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young')
    • EaJ 18 pp. 68-71

      Copy, headed On the death of Sr John Burghus.

      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')
    • StW 1317 pp. 71-2

      Copy.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • PeW 175 p. 73

      Copy, headed A Ditty and here beginning Why should my passion lead mee blind.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
    • CwT 384 pp. 73-4

      Copy, headed One to his Mrs that card not for him.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • StW 523 pp. 74-5

      Copy of the first poem (lines 1-44), headed On the Death of Mrs Mary Priduax.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

      William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
    • CoR 605 pp. 75-6

      Copy, headed Upon the Ladyes of Honour, subscribed By my L. of Norwidge.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 21 p. 76

      Copy, headed The Ladyes Answer.

      An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
    • DyE 77 p. 77

      Copy of the first stanza, headed On the same [i.e. love] and here beginning The lowest shrubs have tops, the Ant her gall.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • PeW 160 p. 77

      Copy, headed A Dreame.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 113-14, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Dream ('When as the cheerful Light was over-spread')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 208

    A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    compiled by one John Hooper of Devon.

    c.1665.

    The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.

    • WoH 13 f. 1r

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • TiC 9 f. 2r

      Copy, headed Verses of the little Estate of man.

      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 24 f. 3r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • MS Rawl. poet. 209

    An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt.

    Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.

    c.1630s[-75].

    Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674 and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves and Railphe Hogwood and, inside the back cover, James Portington, William Steadman 1675, Thomas Meeres, William Diton and Ramond Swift.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Peverell MS: CwT Δ 9.

    • CwT 1113 f. 1r

      Copy of the last twelve lines, here beginning There'es none observes much lesse repines; imperfect, lacking the rest.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • CwT 460 ff. 1r-2r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs Commaunding him to returne her letters.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

      Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
    • CwT 189 ff. 2v-3v

      Copy, subscribed T: C:.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

      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 484 ff. 3v-4v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T: C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

      Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay ('I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke')
    • CwT 210 f. 4v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • CwT 389 f. 4v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid ('Since I must needes into thy schoole returne')
    • CwT 242 f. 5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • CwT 551 f. 5r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • CwT 315 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • CwT 1187 f. 6r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • RnT 381 f. 8r

      Copy, headed Randol vpon ye Losse of his finger.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
    • CoR 260 f. 8r-v

      Copy, headed On Dr P: Price his 3 Anniversary vpon ye death of prince Henry.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • KiH 178 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy, headed On Prince Henries death.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
    • KiH 285 f. 9r

      Copy, headed An Elegie on his most honour'd freind Richard Earle of Dorset.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • KiH 195 f. 9v

      Copy, headed on Sr Walter Rawleigh.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • EaJ 48 ff. 10r-11r

      Copy, headed Vpon ye death of ye Earle of Pembrocke.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
    • JnB 373 ff. 11r-12r

      Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons Ode to his selfe.

      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')
    • CwT 1025 ff. 12r-13r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

      Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
    • HoJ 262 ff. 13r-15r

      Copy, as autore doctore Rodolpho Colfabio Æneonasensi.

      Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

      John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
    • CoR 30 ff. 16r-18v

      Copy, heaed A Certaine graue poeme....

      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')
    • ToA 11 ff. 18v-19v

      Copy, headed Aurelian Townesends elegie on ye death of ye King of Sweden sent to T: Carewe, subscribed A: T:.

      Edited from this MS text in Brown.

      Brown, pp. 48-9.

      Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew ('I had and have a purpose to be kind')
    • CwT 351 ff. 19v-20v

      Copy, headed His Answer, subscribed Thomas Carewe.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

      Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject ('Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian')
    • RnT 207 f. 21r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon ye Bathing of six virgins sean by a yong gentleman.

      This MS collated in Davis.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.

      Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River ('When bashfull day-light now was gone')
    • RnT 474 f. 21v

      Copy.

      Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, II, 655. Parry, p. 219. Rejected from the canon in Thorn-Drury, p. xxii.

      Thomas Randolph, Epigram ('Heavens decreed, before the world begun')
    • RnT 415 f. 22r-v

      Copy, headed Carmina p BenJohnsonem anglice expressa p Thomam Randolphu Latina exclusa.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated ('Eho jam satis & super Theatro')
    • BcF 13 f. 23r

      Copy, untitled.

      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'
    • RnT 246 ff. 23v-5r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch')
    • RnT 219 f. 26r-v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
    • JnB 435 f. 34r

      Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

      First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

      Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes ('Follow a shaddow, it still flies you')
    • CwT 1085 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 1042 f. 45r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 210

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (foliated 44r-68v), bound with a MS by W. C. (ff. 1r-43v) dated 1653, i + 68 leaves in all, in 18th-century half-calf.

    c.1630s.

    Possibly connected with the Darell family, some of the poems relating to Sir Samuel Darell and the death of Elizabeth Darell.

    • CrR 448 f. 57r

      Copy, headed On a gnatt wch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkehorne, here beginning Silly, buzzing, wanton elfe, subscribed Thomas Vincent.

      First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.

      Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.

      Richard Crashaw, Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ('Little = buzzing = wanton elfe')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 212

    A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Compiled by an Oxford University man.

    Early 17th century.
    • DaJ 5 ff. 66v-57r rev.

      Copy of 46 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6-7, 10-11, 13, 15-19, 21-3, 25-7, 29-43, 49-59), headed English Epigrammes much like Buckminsters Almanacke, servinge for all England, but especially for ye Meridian of ye honorable cittye of London calculated by John Davis of Grayes Inne gentleman An o 1594 in November.

      Epigrammes 50-2, 54-9 first pub. (from this MS) in Percy Simpson, Unprinted Epigrams of Sir John Davies, RES, NS 3 (1952); 49-50; Epigrammes 49 and 53 first pub. (from this MS) in R.F. Kennedy, Unprinted Epigrams by Davies, TLS (7 August 1959), p. 459. This MS collated and Epigrammes 49-50 printed from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 337, 443, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 118.

      58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes
    • HrJ 76 f. 87v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is bankroute growne.

      Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

      Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
    • HrJ 304 f. 87v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of death by Judgment foreappointed.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • RaW 154 ff. 88r-90r

      Copy, headed W R farewell made by D: Lat:.

      This text accompanied by Latewar's answer. Edited from this MS in Höltgen, pp. 435-8; in Rudick, No. 20B, pp. 34-41; and in online Early Stuart Libels. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129-30.

      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 44 ff. 90r-1r

      Copy, headed Another answere made by an vnknowne author.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, pp. 38-40, and in online Early Stuart Libels.

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

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest'
    • EsR 39 f. 91r-v

      Copy, headed Another answeare thought to be made by R Essex.

      Edited fom this MS in Rudick, p. 41, and in online Early Stuart Libels. Collated in May, Poems, 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'
    • DaJ 94 ff. 100v-1r

      Copy of poems 4 and 5, headed In Episcopum London.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 443.

      First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • HrJ 171 f. 101r-v

      Copy, headed Of A Puritane taylour made by Sr JH: and here beginning A Taylor held a man 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')
    • CoR 60 f. 149v-r rev.

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')
    • WoH 14 f. 150r rev.

      Copy, untitled.

      Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 459-60; recorded in Main.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • DnJ 404 f. 152v-151v rev.

      Copy, headed Ad amica de perditione armillae suis.

      This MS collated in Grierson; 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')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 213

    An octavo miscellany of principally religious and moralistic verse, in a minute hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf.

    Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years.

    c.1670-85.

    Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

    • CoA 113.5 f. 2r

      Copy.

      First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Grosart, I, 31.

      Abraham Cowley, Ode VI. Vpon the shortness of Man's Life ('Marke that swift Arrow how it cuts the ayre')
    • CoA 100.2 f. 49v rev.

      Extract.

      First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).

      Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame ('Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!')
    • HrG 141 f. 57v rev.

      Copy, headed Home, out of Herbert.

      This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.

      George Herbert, Home ('Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick')
    • HrG 29 f. 57v rev.

      Copy, headed Bitter-sweet, out of Herbert.

      This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 171.

      George Herbert, Bitter-sweet ('Ah my deare angrie Lord')
    • DrW 20 f. 58r rev.

      Copy, headed Another Poem in praise of Solitude or Retirement, by S. Will. Drumond of Hauthornden; a little altered.

      This MS not recorded in Kastner.

      First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 30.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Praise of a Solitarie Life ('Thrice happie hee, who by some shadie Groue')
    • CoA 113 f. 64v-r

      Copy, a heading deleted.

      First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Waller, II, 60-1.

      Abraham Cowley, Ode II, That a pleasant Poverty is to be preferred before discontented Riches ('Why ö doth gaudy Tagus ravish thee')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 214

    An octavo miscellany of drama and amatory songs, in at least three hands, written from both ends, in contemporary panelled calf (rebacked).

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • FlP 19 ff. 1r-65r

      Copy, in a small secretary hand.

      This MS discussed in Boas, I, xvi-xix, and collated I, 288-309.

      Performed at King's College, Cambridge, 13 March 1614/15. First published in London, 1631. Boas I, 187-264.

      Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides, A Piscatory
    • CoA 31 f. 66r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Tho Head.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 56. Sparrow, p. 56.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1692). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 100-3.

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. IX. Another ('Underneath this Myrtle shade')
    • DnJ 2959 f. 81v rev.

      Copy of a 13-line version, subscribed Verses I had of Mrs. S. H [or S. L] here beginning Ly still my deare; why shouldst thou rise, and incorporating lines 1-5 of Breake of day.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

      First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
    • DaW 104.5 f. 83r rev.

      Copy, headed A song, subscribed Mr S. H. [or S. L.].

      Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

      Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song ('My lodging it is on the Cold ground')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 216

    An oblong octavo volume of amatory poems, in at least three hands, 119 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, traces of clasps).

    Early 17th century.

    Inscribed names: Matt Postlethwayt His Book August ye 1st 1697, Henerie Price, and Eyaly Johnes.

    • HyT 3 ff. 2r-91r

      Copy, largely in a neat secretary hand, with corrections; imperfect, lacking the first 56 lines and here beginning More eares of ripe corne growes not in the feildes.

      This MS discussed in S. Musgrove, Some Manuscripts of Heywood's Art of Love, The Library, 5th Ser. 1 (1946-7), 106-12.

      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')
    • NaT 2 ff. 96r-106v, 94r

      Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed Nash his Dildo, with the dedicatory sonnet (Pardon sweet flower of Matchless poesye) and The Epilogue (Thus hath my pen presum'd to please my frind).

      This MS collated in Farmer and in McKerrow.

      Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

      Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 219

    A quarto miscellany, comprising four items of religious verse, compiled possibly by one D. C:, iv + 45 leaves.

    Early 17th century.
    • SoR 267.1 ff. 1r-14r

      Copy, entitled on a detached slip of paper A poeme of the contempte of the world and an exhortacion to prepare to dye made by Phillipe earle of Arundell after his attaynder.

      First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 222

    A folio verse miscellany, 38 leaves.

    Compiled by a Cambridge University man, much of the contents transcribed from a book of poems that mr. Head lent me.

    c.1730.
    • OtT 1 f. 4r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems, ed. Aphra Behn (London, 1685). Ghosh, II, 470-1.

      Thomas Otway, The Complaint. A Song To a new Scotch Tune of Mr. Farmers, By Mr. T.O. ('I love, I dote, I rave with pain')
    • SeC 108 f. 28r

      Copy, headed The Exravagant and marked From Sr Charles Sedley's Poem's.

      First published in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 150-1. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 7-8, as The Extravagant. Sola Pinto, II, 145-6.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song The Prodigal's Resolution ('I am a lusty lively Lad')
    • SeC 109 f. 28r

      Copy.

      First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 19. Sola Pinto, II, 194-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Clarissa Upon dirtying her Lodgings ('Dust from my earthy Surface fell')
    • SeC 110 f. 28v

      Copy.

      First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 16-17. Sola Pinto, II, 193.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Phillis: Who Slighted him ('Since you no longer will be kind')
    • SeC 94 f. 29v

      Copy, here ascribed to Sr. Charles Sedley.

      First published, as By Sir Charles Sidley, in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 15-16. Sola Pinto, II, 192.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Fall ('As Chloe o'er the Meadow past')
    • SeC 111 f. 30r-v

      Copy, apparently transcribed from a book of poems that Mr Head lent me (see f. 1).

      First published, as By Sir C. S., in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 122-5. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 2-4.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Upon a Gentlewomans Refusal of a Letter from One She was Ingaged to ('Not hear my Message, but the Bearer shun!')
    • SeC 94.2 f. 33r

      Copy.

      First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 1-2.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Lover's Will ('Let me not sigh my last, ere I bequeath')
    • SeC 94.5 f. 37r

      Copy, as By R. D. of Cambridge.

      First published, as An Ode By Mr. R. D of Cambridge, in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 137-8. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 4-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, An Ode ('Oh Ye blest Pow'rs, propitious be')
    • SeC 107 f. 38r

      Copy, headed The Resolve and including The Reply.

      First published in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 151-2. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 8, as The Resolve. Sola Pinto, II, 146.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song The Doubtfull Lover Resolv'd ('Fain wou'd I love, but that I fear')

  • MS Rawl. poet. 246

    An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

    Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton.

    c.1648-60.

    Inscribed names: Hennericus Some, Johannes Chase, Jacobus Chase.

    • RnT 531 f. 13v

      Copy, ascribed to T R..

      Unpublished?

      Thomas Randolph, A Paralell twixt Tobacco pipes and weomen ('Tobacco-pipes and maids are brittle ware')
    • StW 957 f. 14r

      Copy, headed Of Capps.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
    • HlJ 5 f. 16r

      Copy, here beginning On ye Altar Royall, Melvjn frowns to find, subscribed Bp Hall, following a Latin Responsio (Hic liber Angloru Regalj clausis on'arâ) subscribed Epus Hall.

      Edited from this MS in Dinshaw.

      First published in Fram Dinshaw, Two New Epigrams by Joseph Hall, N&Q, 227 (October 1982), 422-3.

      Joseph Hall, 'On the Altar Royall Melvin frownes to fynde'
    • HrG 302 f. 46r

      Copy, headed Ad Eundem.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.

      George Herbert, Ad Autorem Instaurationis Magnae ('Per strages licet autorum veterúmque ruinam')
    • HrG 311 f. 46r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.

      George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, Sti Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam ('Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat')
    • HrG 305 f. 46v

      Copy, headed Comparatio Cancellariatus et libri.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.

      George Herbert, Comparatio inter Munus Summi Cancellariatus et Librum ('Mvnere dum nobis prodes, Libróque futuris')
    • HrG 300 f. 46v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published, from a small quarto volume of MS. Latin poetry, in J. Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Hutchinson, p. 209. The authorship discussed in Fram Dinshaw, A Lost MS. of George Herbert's Occasional Verse and the Authorship of To the L. Chancellor, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 423-5.

      George Herbert, To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor (Bacon) ('My Lord. A diamond to mee you sent')
    • HrG 303 ff. 46v-7r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.

      George Herbert, Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum ('Qvid mihi si facies nigra est? hoc, Ceste, colore')

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