Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999

MS Add. 5355

A collection of prayers, in black and red ink, on interleaves inserted throughout an exemplum of the Psalter from the Book of Common Prayer (1633), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

Apparently compiled by Anthony Sparrow (c.1611-85), Bishop of Exeter and Norwich.
Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 132v) Thomas Priest His Book, 1709 and, on a flyleaf, W. D. T. Overbery To the Rev. le Brydges. Ex libris Guy Fielden, 10/10/06. Bookplate of Canon George Becker Blomfield, of Hollington Hall, Chester. Acquired from G. David, 1913.
- TaJ 125 passim
  
  Copies of, and extracts from, various prayers by Jeremy Taylor.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
MS Add. 5778

A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1620-33.
The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).
Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand [Thes?] for [M^r Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.

Cited in IELM as Cambridge Balam MS: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.
- DnJ 1659 ff. 5r-12r
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.
  
  John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
- DnJ 759 ff. 12r-13r
  
  Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
  
  John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
- DnJ 212 f. 13v
  
  Copy, under a general heading Sonnets Holy and numbered 1.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'As due by many titles I resigne'
- DnJ 2474 f. 13v
  
  Copy, numbered 2.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. II, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. IV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned'
- DnJ 3132 f. 13v
  
  Copy, numbered 3.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint'
- DnJ 1613 f. 14r
  
  Copy, numbered 5.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. IX). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree'
- DnJ 227 f. 14r
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow'
- DnJ 877 f. 14r
  
  Copy, numbered 6.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. X). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
- DnJ 3037 f. 14v
  
  Copy, numbered 7.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.
  
  John Donne, 'Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side'
- DnJ 3875 f. 14v
  
  Copy, numbered 8.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.
  
  John Donne, 'Why are wee by all creatures waited on?'
- DnJ 3864 f. 14v
  
  Copy, numbered 9.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. IX, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.
  
  John Donne, 'What if this present were the worlds last night?'
- DnJ 326 f. 15r
  
  Copy, numbered 10.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. X, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.
  
  John Donne, 'Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you'
- DnJ 3933 f. 15r
  
  Copy, numbered 11.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. XI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.
  
  John Donne, 'Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest'
- DnJ 1290 f. 15r
  
  Copy, numbered 12.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Holy Sonnets. XII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XVI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, 'Father, part of his double interest'
- DnJ 2726 ff. 15v-16v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
  
  John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
- DnJ 2755 ff. 16v-18r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
  
  John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
- DnJ 2788 ff. 18r-19r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
  
  John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
- DnJ 2817 ff. 19r-22r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
  
  John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
- DnJ 2851 ff. 22r-3v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
  
  John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
- DnJ 359 ff. 23v-5r
  
  Copy, headed Elegie. 1^st.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gardner. Collated in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- DnJ 3157 f. 25r-v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie. 2^d.
  
  Edited from this MS 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 1670 ff. 25v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Elegie. 3^d.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
  
  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
- DnJ 33 ff. 26r-7r
  
  Copy, headed Elegye 4^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- DnJ 609 f. 27r-v
  
  Copy, headed Elegye 5^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- DnJ 2539 ff. 27v-8v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie 6^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 1519 ff. 28v-9r
  
  Copy, headed Elegye 7^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
  
  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
- DnJ 1030 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed Elegye 8^th.
  
  This MS collated Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
- DnJ 2433 ff. 29r-30r
  
  Copy, headed Elegye 9^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
- DnJ 2186 f. 30r-v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie 10^th.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- DnJ 2490 ff. 30v-1v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie 11^th.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- DnJ 2324 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie. 12^th.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- DnJ 2125 ff. 32r-3r
  
  Copy, headed Elegie 13^th.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- DnJ 3049 ff. 33r-4r
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
  
  John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
- DnJ 536 ff. 34r-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
  
  John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
- DnJ 3476 ff. 35r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
- DnJ 777 ff. 36r-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
  
  John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
- DnJ 1053 ff. 37r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
- DnJ 997 ff. 38r-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
- DnJ 3424 f. 39r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
- DnJ 3273 ff. 39v-40r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
  
  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
- DnJ 3444 f. 40r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
- DnJ 3518 ff. 40v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
- DnJ 3546 ff. 41r-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things')
- DnJ 3392 f. 42r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
- DnJ 129 ff. 42v-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.
  
  John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
- DnJ 1410 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
  
  John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
- DnJ 1861 ff. 44r-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 3577 ff. 45r-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 ('Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see')
- DnJ 1923 ff. 46r-9v
  
  Copy, headed The Letanye with To S^r: Tho: Roe added in a different ink.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
  
  John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
- DnJ 2276 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy, headed Songe.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DnJ 288 f. 50r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DnJ 170 f. 50v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 475 ff. 50v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Songe.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 1787 f. 51r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
  
  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
- DnJ 3713 ff. 51v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- DnJ 1435 f. 52r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 2900 ff. 52v-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 3972 f. 53r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
  
  John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
- DnJ 946 f. 53r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
- DnJ 3090 ff. 53v-4r
  
  Copy, headed To the Sunne.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
  
  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
- DnJ 1631 f. 54r
  
  Copy, headed Songe.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
  
  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
- DnJ 2162 f. 54r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
  
  John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
- DnJ 575 ff. 54v-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
  
  John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
- DnJ 3606 f. 55r-v
  
  Copy, headed Song.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
  
  John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
- DnJ 2230 ff. 55v-6r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
  
  John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
- DnJ 2987 f. 56r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
- DnJ 1819 ff. 56v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Song.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
  
  John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
- DnJ 1308 f. 57r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
  
  John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
- DnJ 6 f. 57v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
  
  John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
- DnJ 417 ff. 57v-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 103 f. 58r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
  
  John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
- DnJ 3767 ff. 58v-9v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
- DnJ 243 ff. 59v-60v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated 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 3642 f. 60v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 3798 f. 61r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
- DnJ 648 ff. 61v-2r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
  
  John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
- DnJ 2095 f. 62r-v
  
  Copy, headed Springe.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
  
  John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
- DnJ 2073 ff. 62v-3r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
  
  John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
- DnJ 733 f. 63r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
  
  John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
- DnJ 916 ff. 63v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
- DnJ 3826 f. 64r-v
  
  Copy, headed Valediction.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
- DnJ 1950 ff. 64v-5r
  
  Copy, headed Mummie.
  
  This MS collated Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
  
  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
- DnJ 1343 f. 65r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 809 f. 65r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
  
  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
- DnJ 1246 ff. 65v-7
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
  
  John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
- DnJ 3688 f. 67r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
  
  John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
- DnJ 1988 f. 67v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
  
  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
- DnJ 2026 ff. 67v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- DnJ 3888 ff. 68v-9r
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 1385 f. 69r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
  
  John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
- DnJ 337 ff. 69v-70r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
  
  John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
- DnJ 2603 f. 70r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
  
  John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
- DnJ 2680 ff. 70v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
  
  John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
- DnJ 849 f. 71r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
  
  John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
- DnJ 1162 ff. 71v-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
  
  John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
- DnJ 975 ff. 73r-7r
  
  Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
  
  John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
- DnJ 2410 ff. 77r-80v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
  
  John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
- BcF 22 f. 81r
  
  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'
- CwT 416 f. 81v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1564 f. 81v
  
  Copy of lines 1-14, headed Doctor Dunn's going into Bohemia Hymne to Christ, among poems appended to Cambridge Balam MS.
  
  This MS collated 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')
- PeW 76 f. 82r
  
  Copy, headed Of Frendshippe.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- BmF 39 ff. 82r-3v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on the death of the Countesse of Rutland.
  
  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')
- BmF 69 ff. 83v-4v
  
  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')
- WoH 145 f. 85r
  
  Copy, headed On his loues Inconstancy.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
- DnJ 518 f. 85v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 2316 f. 87r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
MS Add. 5872

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 182 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

Collected by the pamphleteer John Nalson (1638?-86).
1634-41.
Inscribed inside the front cover in pencil D W^ms Papers w^ch we brought from Barrow.
- WoH 277 ff. 157r-9v
  
  Copy, in a mixed hand, imperfect, consisting of only one quarto leaf and fragments of two excised others. c. 1620s-30s.
  
  First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
MS Add. 5962

A small quarto verse miscellany, 50 leaves.

Probably compiled by a University of Cambridge man.
c.1697.
Inscribed inside the front cover B Bradley / Bradley ejus liber / 1697 and B. Halliday 11 April 1916.
- DrJ 230 f. 13r
  
  Copy, headed Thus Englished By M^r Dryden, the text following a Latin version.
  
  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 Add. 6010

Copy, in a professional hand, on 122 octavo leaves.
Late 17th century.
Once owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 9 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 2440. Sold by William, Ross & Co., 30 January 1918.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.
- HaG 9
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
MS Add. 6160

An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.
c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.
- DrM 45.8 f. 6v
  
  Extracts, headed Drayton. S^r Walter Astons Coment, dated 1648.
  
  First published in London, 1612. 1622. Hebel, IV.
  
  Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- MrT 45.5 f. 13r
  
  Extract(s).
  
  The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.
  
  Sir Thomas More, Utopia
- EaJ 75 ff. 16v-17v
  
  Extracts from about 27 characters, headed Earle his Caracters 1645.
  
  First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography
- BcF 685 ff. 27v-30r, 36r-40r, 50r-v, 63v, 74v-6v
  
  Extracts from various works by Bacon, the first headed M^r Bacons historicall discourse of y^e gouernment of England, another headed ffrancis Bacons Nat. hist. 1649.
  
  Francis Bacon, Extracts
- DaS 41.5 ff. 44r-9v
  
  Extracts, headed Daniel his Chronicle to Ed 3^d.
  Extracts from John Trussell's continuation (published 1636), headed Trussell to Hen. 7^th. from Ed. 3^d, are on ff. 117r-v, 120r-v.
  
  First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.
  
  Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
- FxJ 1.9 f. 50r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
  
  John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- HrE 125.93 ff. 51r-2r
  
  Extracts, headed L. Cherbury's Hen, 8^t.
  
  First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
- HlJ 71 ff. 58v, 67v-8r, 113r-v
  
  Extracts from works by Hall, including Quo Vadis, the Epistles, and Characters of Virtues and Vices, dated 1649.
  
  Joseph Hall, Extracts
- FuT 4.3 f. 64r
  
  Extrtacts, headed ffullers Andonic, dated 1645.
  
  First published in London, 1646.
  
  Thomas Fuller, Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician
- FuT 5.231 ff. 64v-5v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in Cambridge, 1639.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
- FuT 5.232 f. 66r-v
  
  Extracts, headed ffullers holy War. 1647.
  
  First published in Cambridge, 1639.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
- FuT 6.2 ff. 66v-7r
  
  Extracts, headed His holy state. 1648.
  
  First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
  
  Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
- BrT 5.6 ff. 69r-74r
  
  Extracts, headed D^r Brownes Errors, dated 1650.
  
  First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).
  
  Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
- BcF 54.929 ff. 74v-6v
  
  Extracts, headed S^r ffrancis Bacon his advancement of learning.
  
  First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
- CmW 207 ff. 83v-6r
  
  Extracts, headed Cambdens Remaines 1649.
  
  William Camden, Extracts
- FeO 104 f. 93r-v
  
  Extracts, headed ffeltham's Resolues.
  
  Owen Felltham, Resolves
- CaW 127 ff. 132r-130r rev.
  
  Extracts, headed Cartwrights poems.
  
  William Cartwright, Extracts
- ClJ 89 ff. 133r-132v rev.
  
  Extracts, beginning at line 13 (here But y^t there is charm in verse).
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
  
  John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')
- ClJ 46 f. 133v rev.
  
  Extracts of the poem.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
  
  John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
- ClJ 104 f. 133v rev.
  
  Extracts from the poem.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
- SiP 117.5 ff. 144r-6v
  
  Extracts, headed S^r Philip Sidney and dated 1646.
  
  Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 40.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 4 ('Come shepheard's weedes, become your master's minde')
- SiP 176.5 f. 146v
  
  Extracts, headed In y^e Defence of Poetry.
  
  First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry
- SiP 220 ff. 147r-8r
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady of May
- SuJ 192 ff. 148r-9r
  
  Prose extracts, headed S^r John Suckling.
  
  John Suckling, Extracts
MS Add. 6339

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.
c.1678-80s.
Inscribed M^rs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.
- DrJ 89 ff. 1r-3v
  
  Copy of lines 47-217, here beginning Ecchos from pissing Alley Shadwell calls; imperfect, lacking the beginning.
  
  This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth.
  
  First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
  The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
  
  John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
- RoJ 158 ff. 4r-7v
  
  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')
- WaE 389 ff. 8r-10v
  
  Copy, headed A Panegyrick to Oliver Cromwell, subscribed By M^r Ed: Waller: A:D: 1654.
  
  First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
  
  Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
- RoJ 584 ff. 12r-13r
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and 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')
- RoJ 30 ff. 13r-15r
  
  Copy, headed The Session of Poets by L^d Rochester.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
- RoJ 313 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy of lines 121-73, untitled and here beginning Though one's a Statesman, t'other but a Hound.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
- RoJ 494 f. 20r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Translation of the 9^th Elegye of Ovids 2^d Book of Amorum…by L^d Rochester.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  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')
- DrJ 43.79 ff. 39v-42v
  
  Copy.
  
  A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
  First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
  The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.
  
  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
MS Add. 6455

A quarto verse miscellany, in four hands, written from both ends, 52 leaves, modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled at least in part by Thomas Barker, of Jesus College, Cambridge (inscription f. 1r).
c.1728-33.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-9), book collector; by J.W. Jarvis (pencil inscription inside front cover); and by Francis Jenkinson, librarian, in 1923.
- VaJ 525 ff. 52v-49r rev.
  
  Extracts from plays by Vanbrugh, including The Relapse, The Provoked Wife, Esop, The Confederacy, and The False Friend, headed The Cream of Poetry / Vanbrugh's Plays.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Extracts

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999

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