Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Chetham's Library, Manchester

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 26

    Copies of poems chiefly by Sir William Alexander (1577-1640), first Earl of Stirling, poet and politician, in three Scottish italic hands, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • DrW 31 p. 4

      Copy, headed To Sir William Alexander, subscribed William Drumond.

      First published in A Cypresse Grove ([Edinburgh?], 1612). Kastner, II, 106.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, To S.W.A. ('Though I haue twice beene at the Doores of Death')

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 1311

    Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed Sr Water Raulighs meditation, on the first page of a single octavo leaf of verse probably extracted from a miscellany.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • RaW 48.8
      No description or publication history available.

      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'

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 1373

    Extracts.

    The first extract headed in the margin the first booke of the fareie Queene Containing ye legend of ye knight of ye red Crossse or of holinesse, comprising the Preface to Book I (here beginning Lo I the man, whose muse whilom did mask) and Canto I, stanzas 1-5 (here beginning A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine), in an italic hand, followed (on pp. 3-4) by Canto IV, stanzas 46-51 (here beginning With gentlye words he gan her fairly greet) and Canto V, stanzas 1-32 (here beginning The noble heart yt harbors vertuous thought), in double columns, in another predominantly italic hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    Mid-17th century.

    William Pickering, Catalogue of biblical...manuscripts and...curious books (1834), item 37. Rodd sale catalogue, 4 February 1850, lot 731, to James Orchard Halliwell [-Phillipps].

    • SpE 8
      No description or publication history available.

      Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

      Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216

    Copy, headed On his Mistris Looking in a glasse. Mr Tho: Cary, on both sides of a single octavo leaf.

    This leaf is folio 8 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

    c.1630s.

    This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 22.

    • CwT 500
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

      Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217

    Copy, headed A Dialogue in song betweene A Nimph & a Shephard, on both sides of a single trimmed and ruled octavo leaf.

    c.1630s.

    This leaf is folio 54 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

    This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

    • JnB 331
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2220

    Copy, in an italic hand, on both sides of a single quarto leaf probably extracted from a miscellany.

    Late 17th-early 18th century.
    • MaA 17
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')

  • Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757

    A single ruled and trimmed octavo leaf of verse, the second (properly first) page containing a copy of William Basse's poem On Mr William Shakespeare.

    This leaf is folio 7 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

    c.1630s.
    • BcF 23 p. 1

      Copy of the last couplet (beginning What then remaines but that wee still should try), subscribed Lo: verulam, deleted.

      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'
    • KiH 445 p. 1

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Doctor King, and deleted.

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

  • Mun. A.3.47

    A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester.

    c.1630.

    Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.

    • DrW 117.26 ff. 1r-2r

      Copy, headed Vpon his five senses.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • DnJ 4087 ff. 25v-6r

      Copy of Paradox VI (here That it is possible to finde some vertue in some Women).

      Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

      John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
    • RaW 259 f. 30v

      Copy, headed ffunerall Verses.

      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')
    • HeR 275 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')

  • Mun. A.3.48

    A quarto volume of Latin poems, 9 leaves, ff. 2r-9r in a single largely secretary hand, with additions in a largely roman hand on f. 9v, in modern brown calf (rebacked).

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector.

    • HrG 321 ff. 2r-3r

      Copy of a version headed Inuenta Bellica and beginning O mortis longæua fames, venterque perennis.

      Edited from this MS in G.M. Story, George Herbert's Inventa Bellica: A New Manuscript, MP, 59 (1962), 270-2.

      First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

      George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis ('O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!')
    • AlW 134 ff. 5r-9r

      Copy of Book I, lines 1-263, with dedicatory epistle (subscribed Gulielmus Alabaster) and dedicatory verses, the sidenotes in a separate column.

      This MS collated in O'Donnell.

      Of Alabaster's unfinished epic Apotheosis poetica, written probably in 1588-91 and celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth, only Book I survives. The text is preceded by a dedicatory prose epistle to the Queen and by eight lines of dedicatory verse to her beginning Qua sinuat tellus viridans immania terga. First published, with an English prose translation, as The Elisæis of William Alabaster, ed. and trans. Michael O'Connell, Studies in Philology, 76, No. 5 (Early Winter 1979), 77 pp.

      William Alabaster, Elisæis ('Virgineum mundi decus, augustamque Britannae')

  • Mun. A.4.14

    A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr., in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

    Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

    c.1690.

    Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.

    • RoJ 350 f. 13r-v

      Copy, headed In CR.

      This MS recorded in Vieth.

      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')
    • MaA 153 ff. 24r-6v

      Copy, headed A Dialoge Betwene ye Horse att Charing cross & the Horse att Woolchurch alias Stocks market. London.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • RoJ 505 f. 29r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue wth a Post by ye Ld Rotchester.

      This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.

      First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')
    • DoC 45 ff. 29v-32r

      Copy, headed A Satyr, deleted in pencil.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 350.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • DrJ 16 f. 45v

      Copy, headed The Epilogue Spoken to ye king & Parlimt att Oxford att ye setting There March ye 21 1681.

      First published (as a single half sheet) [in Oxford], 1681. Kinsley, I, 210-11. California, II, 180-1. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 426-7.

      John Dryden, The Epilogue Spoken to the King at the opening the Play-House at Oxford on Saturday last. Being March the Nineteenth 1681 ('As from a darkn'd Roome some Optick glass')
    • MaA 167 ff. 51v-4v

      Copy, subscribed Au: incognito.

      First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem ('Of a tall Stature and of sable hue')
    • DrJ 24 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy, headed Prologue to ye King opon his return from Newmarkett in ye year 1681: …spoken by one of his Servants att his one Theatre & composd by Mr Dryden.

      First published (with the Prologue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 213-14. California, II, 186-7. Danchin, III, 325-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 440-3.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to Mithridates] ('Pox on this Play-House, 'tis an old tir'd Jade')
    • DrJ 112 ff. 59r-60r

      Copy, headed Epilogue, subscribed Dryden.

      First published (with the Epilogue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 212-13. California, II, 185-6. Danchin, III, 323-5. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 437-40.

      John Dryden, A Prologue spoken at Mithridates King of Pontus, the First Play Acted at the Theatre Royal this Year, 1681 ('After a four Months Fast we hope at length')
    • RoJ 133 f. 64v

      Copy of a version headed opon ye K—g. D: of Y—k. &c:, beginning Lauderdale the witty, and subscribed Ld Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')
    • DoC 331 f. 64v

      Copy, headed On the Dutches of Portsmouths Leaving England, subscribed Mr Shepperd.

      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')
    • DoC 129 f. 68v

      Copy, headed (at a later date) BucKinghams Thoughts, subscribed Buckingham.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
    • StW 1281 f. 71v

      Copy, in double columns, headed A two Fac't Creed.

      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')

  • Mun. A.4.15

    A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

    Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

    c.1600-1620s.

    Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

    The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

    • BcF 607 f. 32r-v (pp. 51-2)

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to Lord Henry Howard.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • RaW 912 f. 34r-6r (pp. 54-8)

      Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Ralegh's wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • BcF 471 ff. 37r-40r (pp. 59-65)

      Copy of Bacon's submissions, untitled.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • RaW 913 ff. 41r-2r (pp. 66-8)

      Copies of letters by Ralegh, to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • DaJ 25 ff. 47v-50r (pp. 69-74)

      Copy of a sequence of nine sonnets, with a dedicatory sonnet To his good freinde Sr Anth: Cooke (Here my camelian Muse her selfe doth chaunge) which is subscribed J D, the series of Gullinge Sonnets subscribed Mr. Dauyes.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger. Facsimile of p. 69 in DLB, vol. 172, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Fourth Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 54.

      First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 76-81. Krueger, pp. 161-7.

      Sir John Davies, Gullinge Sonnets ('The Lover under burthen of his Mistress love')
    • HrJ 111 f. 50v (p. 75)

      Copy, headed Of a Painted Lady.

      Printed from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 82.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
    • HrJ 60 f. 50v (p. 75)

      Copy, headed Sr John Harrington to Quee. Eliza. and here beginning Dread Soueraigne & ever Loving Prince.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

      Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading ('For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince')
    • HoJ 201 f. 51r (p. 76)

      Copy, as Per J: Hoskins.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. IX (p. 170).

      John Hoskyns, Of ye losse of time ('If life be time that here is spent')
    • DaJ 77 f. 51r (p. 76)

      Copy, headed Of one yt had stolne much out of Seneca, subscribed J: H.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 84, and in Osborn, pp. 299-300. Collated in Krueger.

      First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or springes for woodcocks (London, 1613), No. 163. Krueger, p. 181.

      Sir John Davies, On Ben Jonson ('Put off thy Buskins, Sophocles the great')
    • HoJ 209 f. 51v (p. 77)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: H.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

      John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('You nimble dreames wth cob webb winges')
    • HoJ 175 f. 52r-v (pp. 78-9)

      Copy, headed His melancholy, subscribed Mr Hoskins.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).

      John Hoskyns, 'Loue is a foolish melancholie'
    • CmT 95 f. 52v (p. 79)

      Copy, headed Who liues well.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).

      Thomas Campion, 'The man of life upright'
    • DyE 84 ff. 53r-4r (pp. 80-2)

      Copy, headed in the margin The effects of Loue.

      Grosart, I, 89. This MS collated (from Grosart's edition) in Sargent.

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

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • OxE 14 f. 55r (p. 84)

      Copy, as By ye Earle of Oxforde.

      The Grosart text collated in May.

      First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content'
    • EsR 16 f. 56r (p. 86)

      Copy, headed Per eundem.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart, I, 97, and in May.

      May, No. 9, p. 47.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Ingenium, studium, nummos, spem, tempus, amicos'
    • RaW 306 f. 55v (p. 85)

      Copy of the first stanza, heavily deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Hannah and in Rudick, No. 12B, p. 16. Recorded in Latham, p. 96.

      First published in Hannah (1870), p. 57. Rudick, Nos 12A (eighteen-line version) and 12B (six-line version), pp. 15-16.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket by Sir W. Rawleigh ('Lady farwell whom I in Sylence serve')
    • EsR 10.5 f. 56r (p. 86)

      Copy.

      Grosart, I, 97. Collated in May, pp. 124-5.

      May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'
    • RuB 2 ff. 58r-61r (pp. 89-94)

      Copy of epigrams 1-5, 7-10, 14-18, and 29.

      Grosart, I, 100-5. Collated in Sanderson.

      A series of 31 epigrams, possibly by Rudyerd, attributed to him in James L. Sanderson, Epigrames p[er] B[enjamin] R[udyerd] and Some More Stolen Feathers of Henry Parrot, RES, NS 17 (1966), 241-55. Three of the epigrams first published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi, or Springes to Catch Woodcocks (London, 1613). Sixteen of the epigrams published in The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873). These and the rest published in Sanderson.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Epigrames p[er] B. R.
    • DnJ 85 ff. 61r-2r (pp. 95-7)

      Copy, untitled.

      Grosart, I, 106-8. Recorded 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 3330 ff. 62v-3r (pp. 98-9)

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 3758 f. 64r-v (pp. 101-2)

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded 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')
    • JnB 591 f. 64v (p. 102)

      Copy, headed To a curious Lady.

      First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

      Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
    • RaW 162 ff. 65r-6v (pp. 103-6)

      Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, subscribed Wa: Raleigh.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 114-17, with a facsimile of the last page. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134.

      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 45 ff. 67r-8r (pp. 107-9)

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS text 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'
    • DaJ 23 f. 86r (p. 138)

      Copy, subscribed Mr Dauies.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 157. Krueger, p. 299.

      Sir John Davies, Epitaph on his Son ('Qui iacet hic fuit ille aliquid, fuit et nihil ille')
    • FrA 1 ff. 86v-7r (pp. 139-40)

      Copy, subscribed Abrah: Frances, following an unascribed six-line poem in Latin In obitu Henrici Sydney militis (beginning Regia Sydney facies dulceque lepores).

      Six lines in Latin. Unpublished.

      Abraham Fraunce, Correctio: Vixisti: Viuis: viues ('Vixisti viuis, viues fine fine beatus')
    • BrN 9 ff. 89r-94r (pp. 143-53)

      Copy, headed An Epitaph composed by Sr Edward Dyer of Sr Phillipp Sidney.

      This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 65-71, 89. Recorded in Grosart (1879).

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 1>. Breton's authorship acknowledged in his Pilgrimage to Paradise (London, 1592).

      Nicholas Breton, Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney ('Emonge the woes of those vnhappie wightes')
    • HoJ 168 f. 96v (p. 157)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: Hoskynes.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. VIII (p. 170).

      John Hoskyns, 'Here the bodie of that man lyes'
    • DaJ 145 f. 96v (p. 157)

      Copy, headed An Epitaphe on a Bellowesmaker, here beginning Here lyes John Goddard,maker of bellowes, and subscribed Mr Hoskynes.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), II, 182. 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 167 f. 96v (p. 157)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed per eundem.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. III (p. 169).

      John Hoskyns, 'Here lyeth the bodie of Hugh Poache'
    • HoJ 200 f. 96v (p. 157)

      Copy, subscribed per eundem.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

      John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London ('I was the first that made Christendom see')
    • HoJ 160 f. 96v (p. 157)

      Copy, subscribed Mr Hoskynes: medij Templi.

      Grosart, II, 181.

      John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes ('Who wo'ld live in other's breath')
    • HoJ 184 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy, subscribed per eundem.

      Grosart, II, 185.

      John Hoskyns, Of a Cosener ('And was not death a lusty struggler')
    • HoJ 192 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy, subscribed per Eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, Of Sr Tho. Gressam ('Here lyes Gressam under the ground')
    • HoJ 188 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy, subscribed per eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).

      John Hoskyns, Of One yt kepte runinge Horses ('Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne')
    • HoJ 193 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy, subscribed per eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XI (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, Of Swifte ('Here lyes Swifte that swiftlie fledd')
    • HoJ 153 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy, subscribed per Eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')
    • HoJ 166 f. 97r (p. 158)

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. IV (p. 169).

      John Hoskyns, 'Here lyes the man wthoute repentaunce'
    • HoJ 180 f. 97v (p. 159)

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. X (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford ('Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake')
    • DaS 15 f. 98r (p. 161)

      Copy, headed An other vpon the same subiect by Mr Daniell. The text following a poem headed In memory of the thrice noble and renowned Robert Earle of Salisburye, by the Earle of Penbrok composed (beginning You that reade passing by).

      Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.

      First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.

      Samuel Daniel, 'If greatnes, wisedome pollicie of state'
    • PeW 15 f. 98v (p. 161)

      Copy, headed In memory of the thrice noble and renowned Robert Earle of Salisburye, by the Earle of Penbrok composed, here beginning You that reade passing by.

      Krueger, p. 57, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury ('You that read in passing by')
    • JnB 112 f. 99r (p. 162)

      Copy, headed Epitaph, subscribed B. J.

      Edited from this MS in Harper (1863). 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')
    • RaW 49 f. 99r (p. 162)

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • MoG 21 f. 100v (p. 165)

      Copy.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')

  • Mun. A.4.16

    A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1620s.

    Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.

    • CwT 80 p. 4

      Copy, untitled and subscribed Rob. [?]Gar.

      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 405 p. 37

      Copy.

      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'
    • RaW 213 p. 40

      Copy, headed A Prophesy giuen to the king 1618.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

      First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
    • CoR 41 pp. 47-51

      Copy, headed A Libill made by Oxford Men upon Cambridge mens enterteyning the king.

      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')

  • Mun. A.4.36

    Copy, in a single mixed hand, 183 folio pages, in modern cloth.

    Mid-17th century.
    • ClE 35
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

  • Mun. A.6.17

    A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, in a single professional mixed hand, 218 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1640s.
    • RuB 161 pp. 27-32

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiards speech the 7 November 1640 in the house of Comons.

      Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
    • RuB 190 pp. 152-4

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiards second speech January 21 vppon the giueinge the 300 thousand pounds.

      Speech beginning It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-18 [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1
    • RuB 180 p. 203

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiards speech touchinge the grantinge of Subsidies.

      Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

  • Mun. A.6.33

    A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth.

    Mid-17th century.

    A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one Raworth.

    • HlJ 73 passim

      Numerous extracts from various of Hall's works, including entries on pp. 7, 12, 15bis, 29, 34, 59, 69, 69bis, 77, 79bis, 84, 85, 102, 106, 132, 146, 168, 180, 185, 198, 207-9, 212, 224, 226, 228, 232, 272, 281, 290, 310, 382, 393, 395, 397, 404, 426, 449-50, 514-15, 560, 563, 577-8, 595, 618, and 634.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts
    • RaW 678.3 passim

      Numerous extracts, including entries on pp. 15, 15a, 27, 34, 60, 63, 65, 79, 96, 106, 119-21, 138, 153, 162, 201, 206-7, 226, 236, 238, 264, 266, 282, 288, 308, 321-3, 329, 332, 337-8, 362, 386, 420, 430, 442, 449, 453-4, 467, 470, 473, 492-4, 525-6, 591, 596-600, 605, 607, 613, 619-22, 624, 626, 633-4, 637, and 648 (rev.).

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
    • TaJ 126 passim

      Extracts, including entries on pp. 19-20, 323-4, 469, and 493.

      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
    • DaS 39.6 passim

      Extracts, including entries on pp. 27, 340a, 355, and 540.

      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
    • HrE 125.5 passim

      Extracts, including entries on pp. 52, 79, 185, 188, 201, 258, 308, 310, 488, 519, 618, and 623.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
    • AndL 42.5 passim

      Extracts from Andrewes's works, most notably from A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, including entries on pp. 71, 86, 202, 288, 386, 445, 449, 451bis, 452, 569, 593, and 646 (rev.).

      First published in London, 1630. A version published as The Moral Law expounded (London, 1642). Another version printed, from the Author's own copy, London, 1650. LACT (1841).

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine
    • HkR 70 passim

      Extracts, including entries on pp. 75, 86, 136, 154, 224, 258, 352, 355, 442, 455, and 607.

      Richard Hooker, Extracts
    • BcF 686 passim

      Extracts from works by Bacon including The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and his 1621 Humble Submission, including entries on pp. 327, 449abis, and 519.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts

  • Mun. A.6.34

    A commonplace book, in English and Latin, arranged under headings, compiled over a period.

    Late 17th-early 18th century.
    • HkR 71 pp. 62, 65, 220
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Extracts

  • Mun. A.7.64

    Copy.

    Among MSS of John Byrom (1792-1763), poet and shorthand system inventor.

    • BtA 3
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      Ann Bathurst, Rhapsodical Meditations and Visions [Volume I]

  • 2.I.7.12

    Copy of both Ausonius's epigram and Ralegh's translation, in a predominantly italic hand.

    On the final blank page in a printed exemplum of Symbolarum libri XVII quibus P Virgilii...per Jacobum Pontanum de Societate Jesu (Lyons, 1604).

    c.1620.
    • RaW 145.5
      No description or publication history available.

      A translation of Ausonius's Epigram 117 (Ille ego sum Dido vultu quam conspicis hospes), first published in The History of the World (London, 1614). Rudick 36.61 (pp. 99-100).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I am that Dido which thou here do'st see'

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