Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

  • Δ 10.2

    Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli. 1540 and annotations, bound with three other folio works.

    1540.

    Other inscriptions of Thomas Lyfing and Petri frij, and by Fellows of Corpus Christi: Thomas Cole (1568); Charles Turnbull (1573); William Waterer (1576); in 1577 Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629), politician and colonial entrepreneur; John Seller (1568-81, or else his son, 1608); Edward Taylor; John Caius; and John Goldesbery.

    Juhász-Ormsby, No. 10.

    • *UdN 10
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Nicholas Udall, d'Ailly, Pierre. Uberrimun Sphere mundi commentum intersertis etiam questionibus domini petri de aliaco Nuper magan cum diligentia castigatum (Paris, 1508)

  • MS 37

    Copy, with alterations and additions in a second hand, and marginal annotations in later hands (possibly including that of the editor William Rastell), on 207 folio leaves.

    c.1540-50.

    Probably once owned by Sir Geoffrey Pole (d.1558). Inscribed ex dono Edmundi Orson.

    Edited from this MS, with several facsimile examples, in Yale, Vol. 12. Facsimile example also in J.B. Trapp and Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, The King's Good Servant: Sir Thomas More 1477/8-1535 (National Portrait Gallery, (London, 1977), p. 115.

    • MrT 29
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.

      Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort

  • MS 176

    A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

    Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

    c.1640s.

    Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

    • CoR 357 f. 2r

      Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
    • StW 941 f. 2v

      Copy, subscribed William Stroud.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

      William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
    • EaJ 50.5 f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed On ye Death of ye Earle of Pembroke, subscribed Jasper Maine X' Ch: Oxon.

      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')
    • HoJ 9 f. 7r

      Copy, headed On a locksmith.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
    • RaW 228 f. 7v

      Copy, headed On ye brittlety of man's life.

      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 85 f. 8r

      Copy, headed An pjurum Amatorem.

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

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • JnB 272 f. 8r

      Copy, headed One yt sent an hour glasse to his Mrs.

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

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • GrF 36 f. 8v

      Copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason is like ye Basiliscus eye.

      Bullough, II, 118.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
    • HrJ 266.5 f. 8v

      Copy, untitled and running directly on from Greville's epigram on the subject (GrF 36).

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • DeJ 60 f. 9r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 107-10.

      Sir John Denham, On My Lord Croft's and My Journey into Poland ('Tole, tole Gentle Bell, for the Soul')
    • CwT 749 f. 10v

      Copy, headed Aske mee no more.

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • CoR 445 ff. 14v-15v

      Copy, headed On Young Tom of Ch: Ch:, inscribed in the margin by Fulman Corb.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80 et seq.

      First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • StW 803 f. 15v

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett on his mistresse, inscribed by Fulman in the margin Str.

      This MS recorded (as B 1) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • JnB 154 f. 17r

      Copy, headed A Gentlewoman sitting in a chaire to have her picture drawne.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • CwT 576 f. 18r

      Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistling wind.

      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')
    • CoR 744 f. 21r

      Copy, in double columns, headed Eloquent Nonesence, nonesuch and here beginning Like to a silent Tone of vnspoke speeches.

      First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
    • RaW 203 f. 21v

      Copy, headed Sr Water Rawleighs Prophecy on cards & dice.

      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')
    • KiH 447 f. 24v

      Copy, headed A Midnight Meditation by Dr Jo: king.

      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')
    • PeW 182 f. 27v

      Copy, headed A Gentleman on his too young mrs and here beginning O why should passion quell my mind.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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 1265 f. 27v

      Copy, headed On a young man thinking of his love.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
    • StW 426 f. 28r

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman yt had ye small pox.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • StW 1323 f. 28r
      No description or publication history available.

      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')
    • StW 1107 f. 28r

      Copy, headed On Blacke Eyes.

      Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • StW 860 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs not to torture him.

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

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • BrW 150 f. 29r

      Copy, headed On One drowned in snow.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
    • StW 50 f. 29r-v

      Copy, headed On gray Eyes.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • HrJ 102 f. 29v

      Copy, headed To his Mrs.

      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')
    • CoR 617 f. 29v

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett to ye Ldies of ye new dresse.

      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 32 f. 29v

      Copy, headed Their Answere.

      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'
    • StW 185 f. 30r

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • WoH 220 f. 30r

      Copy, headed A Hermitts meditation in the Grote.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • KiH 65 f. 30v

      Copy, headed Answeare.

      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')
    • CwT 829 f. 31r

      Copy, headed On His Mrs singing in Yorkehouse Gallery.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • DkT 4 p. 32r

      Copy, headed On Qu: Elizabeth carried to her buriall.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • RaW 456 f. 32v

      Copy, headed A Gentlewoman to A Gentleman.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • StW 1027 f. 32v

      Copy, headed Two Lovers playing for kisses.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • StW 436 f. 33r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key ('Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares')
    • KiH 619 f. 45v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')

  • MS 196

    A folio volume of papers, relating to proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber, collected by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 204 leaves.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • BcF 363 pp. 284-8

      Copy of a speech by Bacon in 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS 200

    A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional hand, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • RaW 385.8 f. 64v

      Copy, in a copy (on ff. 30r-79r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the Great Troubles...1592.

      First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
    • BcF 136 ff. 80r-118v

      Copy.

      A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

      A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

  • MS 215B

    Hooker's extensive autograph annotations towards a self-vindication, in his interleaved exemplum of Cartwright's printed pamphlet.

    This MS collated in Heber (see I, xviii-xxv). Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume IV, pp. 1-79, with facsimile examples on pp. 2, 12, 20, 50, 54, 56, 62, 66, and 74.

    c.1599.

    Independent early 17th-century transcripts of Hooker's annotations are to be found in two other interleaved exempla of this pamphlet: (i) Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 215A (Thomas Norgrove's transcript); (ii) Trinity College, Dublin, MS 119, ff. 20-70v (anonymous). All three texts collated in Keble (see I, xviii-xxv), and the annotations cited in footnotes, with facsimile examples of Hooker's autograph notes on pp. 20, 22, 24 of the pamphlet in I, after p. cxxii. The annotations discussed in Vincent Mahon, The Christian Letter: Some Puritan Objections to Hooker's Work; and Hooker's Undressed Comments, RES, NS 25 (1974), 305-12.

    Facsimile example in DLB, 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 198.

    • *HkR 53
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Thomas Cartwright, A Christian Letter of certaine English Protestants [Middelburg, 1599]

  • MS 216A

    A transcript of Hooker's annotations in HkR 53., made by Thomas Norgrove.

    Early 17th century.

    This MS collated in Heber (see I, xviii-xxv).

    • HkR 54
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Thomas Cartwright, A Christian Letter of certaine English Protestants [Middelburg, 1599]

  • MS 258

    A quarto commonplace book of verse and miscellaneous material, compiled by Robert Talbot (1505/6-58), antiquary, 204 leaves.

    Mid-16th century.
    • MrT 12.6 f. 31v

      Copy, in a copy of Talbot's treatise Aurem ex stercore.

      More's verses punning on his own name. First published in Doctissima D. Thomæ Mori...Epistola (Louvain, 1568). Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 302-3, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 278. Tetrastichon ab ipso conscriptum triennio antequam mortem oppeteret ('Moraris, si sit spes hic tibi longa morandi')

  • MS 263

    An octavo volume of miscellaneous entries, 266 pages.

    Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644).

    Early 17th century.
    • SiP 177 ff. 114v-20r

      Extracts.

      Facsimile of f. 116v in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 182).

      First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry
    • SiP 4 f. 120r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
    • SiP 218 f. 120r

      Extracts from one of Rhombus's speeches.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

      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

  • MS 288

    A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical and state tracts, in various hands, v + 397 leaves, in half-vellum boards.

    Owned, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    • *HkR 23 ff. 54r-62v
      Autograph

      Copy, made by two or possibly three amanuenses, with Hooker's autograph corrections and additions to the portion copied by the first amanuensis, headed Whether the prophet Abacuk by admitting this cogitation into his mind, the law doth fail did therebie shew him selfe an vnbeliever.

      Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with facsimiles of f. 59v as frontispiece and f. 55v on p. 62.

      First published [in Oxford], 1612. Keble, III, 469-81. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 69-82.

      Richard Hooker, A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect
    • CtR 411 ff. 207r-17r

      Copy of a Latin version of the tract, headed Contractior Speculatio Diuturni Imprij Henrici Tertij, in a probably professional hand, the title-page in another hand, with a note in the hand of William Fulman This is printed in English, Lond. 1651. in 8vo. under the name of Sir Robert Cotton. The Latine seems to be a Translation.

      Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
    • HkR 25 ff. 223v-8r

      Copy, in a roman hand, with a few corrections in another hand, headed Ric. Hooker Math. 7. 7, and docketed by Izaak Walton (f. 223r) Sermon mr Hooker.

      This MS presumably Walton's copy-text in 1678. Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 223r on p. 382.

      First published in Izaac Walton, Life of Dr. Sanderson (London, 1678). Keble, III, 700-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 385-94.

      Richard Hooker, A Sermon (on Matthew vii. 7, 8) found among the papers of Bishop Andrews
    • LeJ 34 ff. 290r-2r

      Extracts, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Leland. Collect. Vol. 1. p. 839 and, on f. 291r, Ex Nennio MS. in Bibl. Bodl. fol. 241. Mid-late 17th century.

      John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
    • LeJ 71 ff. 293r-351r

      Copy of part of the fourth volume of Leland's autograph MS, in one or more secretary hands.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • MS 295

    Notes made by George Cranmer and [Sir] Edwin Sandys on the original version of Book VI, 18 folio leaves.

    A MS sent to Hooker; inscribed Mr. S. and Mr. Cr. Notes upon the 6 and 7 bookes and by William Fulman (1632-88) Written with their own hands and given me by my friend M. Isaac Walton 1673. W.F.

    c.1594-6.

    Edited from this MS in Keble, with facsimile examples in I, after p. cxxii. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 107-30 (Cranmer) and 130-40 (Sandys), with facsimiles of ff. 3r and 15r on pp. 109 and 131.

    • HkR 11
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (with Book VIII) in London, 1648. Keble, III, 1-107. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 1-103.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VI

  • MS 297

    A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

    Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • ElQ 150 f. 19r

      Copy, headed Elizabethæ Reginæ Oratio Cantabrigiæ publice habitæ coram vniverso Academiæ cætu anno 1564.

      Beginning Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech..., in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564
    • EsR 293 f. 25r-v

      Copy, headed The Execution of the Earle of Essex.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • RaW 743 ff. 166v-7v

      Copy, in the hand of William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 743.5 ff. 168v-9v

      Copy, in an unidentified hand.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 744 ff. 170r-2r

      Copy in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, headed Sr W. R. confession at his death. 1618.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 15 f. 172v

      Copy, in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, 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 298

    A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

    Compiled, and written, mostly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    • CtR 179 ff. 13r-16r

      Copy, in an unaccomplished predominantly secretary hand, the tract dated 1628.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • RuB 162 ff. 32r-3v

      Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed Sr Beniamin Rudieards speech in parliament 1640 Nov: 7.

      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
    • ClE 66 f. 79r-80v

      Copy.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663
    • ElQ 155 f. 155r-v

      Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. II. Ad Oxonienses, Sept. v. M DL XVI.

      Beginning Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning Those who do bad things hate the light..., in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Oxford University, September 5, 1566
    • ElQ 235 ff. 155v-7v

      Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. III. Ad Oxonienses M D XCVII.

      Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592
    • ElQ 250.5 ff. 157v-8r

      Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. IV. Ad Orationem Pauli Dzialina Sigismundi Polonae Regis Legati Responsio Grenovici, Jul. XXV. M DXC VII.

      Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

  • MS 301

    A quarto volume of collections concerning Oxford, chiefly verse, 240 leaves.

    Compiled, and largely written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • StW 1469 ff. 129r-30v

      Copy of Strode's Latin oration in the hand of William Fulman, headed Coram Rege Carolo Acad. Oxon. Oratoris Publici Oratio 1638 and beginning Augustissime, et Christo proxime Homo-Deus, Quales pro Te ad Aras sanctissimas, tales accedimus ad Te….

      Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro ….

      William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

  • MS 303

    A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers, collected by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 245 leaves.

    • HkR 57 f. 208r

      Copy of an undated letter by Hooker to John Rainolds, 5 September [c.1590], made by William Fulman.

      Edited in Keble, in I, 112-14.

      Richard Hooker, Letter(s)
    • HkR 58 f. 210r

      Copy of an undated letter by Hooker to Richard Rainolds, made by William Fulman.

      Edited in Keble, in I, 109-14.

      Richard Hooker, Letter(s)

  • MS 306

    A quarto volume of collections in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 127 leaves.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • HlJ 133 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy in Fulman's hand of a letter by Hall, in Latin, to Dr Henry Hammond, from Higham, 1 July 1651.

      Wynter, X, 525-7.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)
    • *WtI 11 f. 78r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Richard Marriot, concerning Walton's proposed Life of John Hales, 24 August 1673.

      Edited in Waltoniana (1878); in Keynes (1929), pp. 592-3; and in John Butt, Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73 (pp. 267-8).

      Izaak Walton, Letter(s)
    • *WtI 7 misbound between ff. 88 and 89
      Autograph

      Autograph draft memoranda about John Hales (a continuation of WtI 11), written for William Fulman for his projected biography of Hales, on both sides of a folio leaf, 20 October 1673.

      Edited and discussed in John Butt, Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73. Facsimile page in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXI, after p. xxi.

      Unfinished and unpublished.

      Izaak Walton, Life of John Hales

  • MS 309

    A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 129 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

    Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Mid-17th century.
    • AlW 139 f. 8r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Sutton.

      Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. VII), with translation.

      William Alabaster, 'Seu Stillam, seu te Stellam appellare placebit'
    • AlW 140 f. 8r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Sutton.

      Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. VIII), with translation.

      William Alabaster, 'Quæ vivens omni fuerat dignissima laude'
    • AlW 141 f. 8r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Sutton.

      Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. IX), with translation.

      William Alabaster, 'Relligio, sincera fides, immobilis ardor'
    • AlW 142 f. 8v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Sutton.

      Sutton, pp. 8-9 (No. X), with translation.

      William Alabaster, 'Cælum inter terramque gravis contentio cæpit'
    • AlW 127 f. 9r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

      Sonnets, p. 41 (No. 74).

      William Alabaster, 'Jesus is born. Peace, such high words forbear'
    • AlW 130 f. 9v

      Copy, subscribed William Alabaster.

      Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

      First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 41 (No. 75).

      William Alabaster, A New Year's Gift to my Saviour ('Ho, God be here, is Christ, my lord, at leisure?')
    • AlW 156 f. 10v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Sutton.

      First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • AlW 175 f. 10v

      Copy of Hugh Holland's translation, headed Anglicè.

      A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
    • MnJ 3 f. 48r-v

      Copy, headed Hobson the Carrier and here beginning Here Hobson lyes, who did most truely prove.

      This MS discussed in Shawcross, RES, 18 (1967).

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.

      John Milton, Another on the same [Hobson the University Carrier] ('Here lieth one who did most truly prove')
    • DeJ 54 f. 50r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

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

      Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface ('Room Room for the best of Poets heroick')
    • DeJ 111 f. 50r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published in Certain Verses (1653), p. 4. Banks, p. 320.

      Sir John Denham, Upon the Preface of Gondibert. Mars. Epig. Lasciva est nobis pagina vita proba est ('As Martials Life was grave and sad')
    • DeJ 4 ff. 50v-1v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

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

      Sir John Denham, 'After so many sad mishaps'
    • DeJ 84 f. 52r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, headed To Sir W. Davenant, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published, as The Author upon himself, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 9. Banks, p. 319.

      Sir John Denham, Song ('I am old Davenant')
    • DeJ 96 f. 52r-v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published, as A Letter sent to the good Knight, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 10. Banks, pp. 318-19.

      Sir John Denham, 'Thou hadst not been so long neglected'
    • DeJ 38 f. 53v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published, as Vpon the Author, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 14. Banks, p. 321.

      Sir John Denham, Lord Crofts ('Denham come helpe to laugh')
    • DeJ 79 ff. 53v-4v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Canto 2, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 15-19. Banks, pp. 316-18.

      Sir John Denham, 'Raised by a Prince of Lambard blood'
    • DeJ 109 f. 56r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Canto 1, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

      First published, as An Essay in Explanation of Mr. Hobbs…, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 21-2. Banks, p. 320.

      Sir John Denham, To the Tune of Fortunes might ('Of all ill Poets by their Lumber known')
    • DeJ 47 f. 57v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Chesse.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 113-14.

      Sir John Denham, An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess ('A Tablet stood of that abstersive Tree')
    • MyJ 20 ff. 60r-1r

      Copy, in Fulman's hand, headed On Mris Anne Kings Table book of Pictures.

      Unpublished?

      Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
    • ToA 82 f. 68v

      Copy, headed To Mr. Ben Jonson against Mr. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

      Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady ('It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he')
    • AlW 255 ff. 136r-9v

      Copy.

      Unpublished Four Demands by Alabaster and Answer by William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.

      William Alabaster, (1) Alabaster's Four Demands and Bishop Bedell's Answer to them
    • AlW 258 f. 140r et seq.

      Copy.

      A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.

      William Alabaster, (3) A Defence of the Answers to Mr: Alablaster's Four Demands against a Treatise Intituled The Catholic's Reply upon Bedal's Answer to Mr: Alablaster's four Demands

  • MS 313

    A quarto volume of miscellaneous collections, 211 leaves.

    Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    • HbT 32.8 f. 181r -4r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1651. Molesworth, English, III. Edited by Karl Schuhmann and G.A.J. Rogers, 2 vols (Bristol, 2003-5) [and see Noel Malcolm's review in TLS, 3 December 2004, pp. 3-4].

      Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • MS 314

    A quarto composite volume of papers, in various hands, predominantly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, iii + 240 leaves, in half-vellum boards.

    • ClJ 237 f. 173r-v

      Copy, in Fulman's hand, subscribed Dixi J. C.

      Oration, beginning Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.

      John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642

  • MS 315b

    The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether.

    Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • CoR 511 f. 349r-v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 512.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 154.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of Prince Charles ('What joy that Shunamite did once inherit')
    • CoR 758 f. 350r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, headed On the same. For Dr Leonard Hutton (being blind), transcribed from CoR 759.

      First published, as possibly written by Corbett, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.

      Richard Corbett, On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] ('Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne')
    • CoR 57 f. 351v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 58.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

      First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.

      Richard Corbett, Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 ('Here, or not many feet from hence')
    • CoR 225 f. 352r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 226.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 161.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.

      Richard Corbett, For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne ('Blessed forever may he bee')

  • MS 316

    A quarto volume of miscellaneous notes and letters, chiefly in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 120 leaves.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • CoA 190 f. 99r

      Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed A terse poem on lord Strafford.

      First published in The Foure Ages of England ([London], 1648).

      Abraham Cowley, To my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ('How much you may oblige, how much delight')

  • MS 317

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 314 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf.

    Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    • CtR 180 ff. 146r-8r

      Copy, in a closely written secretary hand, the tract ascribed to Cotton and dated 1627, on three folio leaves, docketed by Fulman.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • MrJ 39 f. 163r

      Copy, in double columns, on one side of a folio leaf, slightly imperfect.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • RuB 163 ff. 265r-6r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Beniamin Ruddiards speech in Parlament, on three pages of two folio leaves.

      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

  • MS 318

    A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf.

    Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

    Owned by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    • BcF 4 f. 40v

      Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed F. B., followed (f. 41r) by an untitled Latin version (beginning Mundus bulla levis, nec vita humana peræquat), subscribed G.S. Equit et Baronetti f. A. M., and (f. 42r) by an untitled adaptation beginning The Worlds a Globe of State, all in Fulman's hand.

      This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

      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'
    • WoH 135 f. 43r

      Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed H. W.

      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')
    • MrT 99 ff. 119r-28r

      Copy, closely written in a mixed hand, headed The life and death of Sr Tho: More Kt. Lo: Chancellor of England written by Willm Roper his sonne in lawe Anno Dni 1535.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
    • HbT 56 f. 218r

      Copy.

      Various sayings by Hobbes chiefly taken from Leviathan. First published, as a broadside, in London, 1680.

      Thomas Hobbes, The Last Sayings, or Dying Legacy of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmesbury, who departed this life on Thursday, Decemb. 4. 1679

  • MS 319

    A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various chiefly professional hands, ii + 235 leaves, in reversed calf.

    Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-8), Oxford antiquary.

    Third volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

    • CoR 771 ff. 50r-1r

      Copy, untitled, but subscribed diured at Norwich to ye cleagye att a Synode, Aprill ye 29 1634 and endorsed Bpp Corbetts speech to the cleargy about St Pauls, on two folio leaves.

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

      Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

      Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
    • CoR 41.5 ff. 58r-9v

      Copy, in a possibly professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      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')

  • MS 325

    A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

    A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

    c.1620s-43.

    Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

    • *StW 1452 f. 1r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, In Patroni reditum ('Io iam reditum tuum Patrone')
    • *StW 1458 f. 1r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, Itidem ('Patronum Incolumem fenestra redde')
    • *StW 1445 f. 1v
      Autograph

      Autograph, the date 1621 entered in the margin by William Fulman.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Obitum M[agist]ri Carew de Anthony ('Clauditur hac vrna Romanus, Graecus, Hebraeus')
    • *StW 1448 f. 2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with William Fulman's marginal note Richardus Rice Superior Bedellus Juris, ob. Febr. 1622.3.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Obitum Obsonatoris et Lictoris D[omi]ni Rice ('Quadragesima quod fit hic et ingens')
    • *StW 1447 ff. 2v-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Obitum Nobilissimi Sackvilli Comitis Dorcet ('Quodcunq[ue] surdis ingerit rogis laudum')
    • *StW 1436 f. 3r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Eundem, Quod eodem quo natus est, eoq[ue] Resurrectionis die Interijt ('Signatus vigili nota Kalendas')
    • *StW 1438 f. 4r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, In M[agist]rum Somester Aulae Lateport: Praesulem ('Rumpere qui nouit prensantis vincula fati')
    • *StW 1453 f. 4v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, In Patroni reditum ('Justitio sterili maestae siluere Cathedrae')
    • *StW 1425 ff. 4v-5v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated in William Fulman's hand Jun. 24.1620.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Admissione[m] Decani Corbett Oratio ('Helicona Totum prodigus vatum furor')
    • *StW 1420 f. 5v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Faemina nulla bona est ('Solo si meruit Calisto crimine coelum')
    • *StW 1422 f. 5v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, 'Fertur Amor pennis, addit Timor improb[e]s Alas'
    • *StW 1421 f. 6r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris ('Opticus vt forma maiori corpora fingit')
    • *StW 1441 f. 6v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, In Obitum Baronis ('Honore nondum te salutatum novo')
    • *StW 1395 ff. 6v-7
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions and deletions.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Ad mores natura recurrit Damnatos ('Fortius in iuvenes fraenum est constrata voluntas')
    • *StW 1465 f. 7r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Redeat faelix fortuna licet tamen afflictos gaudere piget ('Non fiunt tanti fortunae dona profusae')
    • *StW 1464 f. 7v
      Autograph

      Autograph, the reference 1 ad Cor. 13 added to the title after Epist: in William Fulman's hand.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Pauli Epist: [1 ad Cor. 13.] Translat. ('Si fulminati lingua Rhetorice calens')
    • *StW 1442 f. 8r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman Jun. 11. 1620.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In Obitum D[octo]ris Goodwin, Aedis Ch[ris]ti Decani ('Mutilata nunquam tecta iacuerunt prius')
    • *StW 1434 f. 8v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] ('Septuaginta annos tua nondum impleuerat aetas')
    • *StW 1433 ff. 8v-9
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] ('Primum Campanae tonitru laethale sonantis')
    • *StW 1435 f. 9r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.

      William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] ('__________________________')
    • *StW 1437 f. 9r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.

      William Strode, In fontem hortulanu[m] ('_____________________')
    • *StW 1424 ff. 9v-10r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Imberbis iuuenis tandem Custode remoto Gaudet Equis ('Non vos Pierides, Te solum Pegase clamo')
    • *StW 1429 f. 10v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman 1620.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, IN D[octo]ris Kilbeij obitum ('Dum Kilbeie iaces mediae sub tempore brumae')
    • *StW 1450 f. 10v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman 1621-2.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Obitum Sauillij Mathematici, qui Astronomiam et Geometria[m] publicis Lectionibus ditauit ('Qui caelo Astronomum dedit sagacem')
    • *StW 1415 f. 11r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Carmen Dormitorium ('Verna dies aliquid nocturnis detrahit horis')
    • *StW 1443 f. 11r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, In Obitum Doctoris Rawley, Medici Peritissimi ('Qui plena Stygij vela tardauit Senis')
    • *StW 1440 ff. 11v-12r
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman circ. 1625.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Nobilissimum Baronem Chichester de Belfast ('Si miles acie cinctus hostili cadat')
    • *StW 1449 ff. 12v-13r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published, without title, in Ultima linea Savilii (Oxford, 1622), sig. D2v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, In obitum Sauilij Mathematici ('Artem superbam vidit vt mundi pater')
    • *StW 1417 ff. 13r-14r
      Autograph

      Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

      First published, without title, in Camdeni Insignia (Oxford, 1624), sigs. D3v-4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, Ejusdem in Camd. 1624. ('Ut ominosa fronte livorem gerans')
    • *StW 1454 ff. 15r-16r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published, without title, in Carolus redux (Oxford, 1623), sig. E3v-4v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, In Reditum Charoli Principis ex Hispania ('Noctu quantum oculi vident patentes')
    • *StW 1466 f. 18r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, with William Fulman's note on f. 17v Lincolne College Chapell built by D. John Williams Bishop of Lincolne, 1631.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, 'Surge Domus nuptura Deo, te tolle sacratis'
    • *StW 1386 ff. 18v-19v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published, headed Ad Joannem Cirenbergium, Proconsulem Gedonensem: doctum Antiquarium, in Ad magnificum…Dominum Iohannem Cirenbergium…carmen honorarium (Oxford, 1631), pp. 1-3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, Ad Clarissimus Dominum Ioannem Cirenbergium, Sacrae Antiquitatis Assertorem celeberrimum ('Praeteritum Cirenbergi qui retrahis aevum')
    • *StW 1416 ff. 21r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      First published, without title, in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sigs. B1-B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, Caroli et Mariæ Epithalamium ('Jacobi Exequiae valete longum')
    • *StW 1467 f. 22v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sig. B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, 'Tergemino Sponsus muniuit Sceptra Leone'
    • *StW 1446 f. 23r
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman 1624.5 Mar.2..

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Obitum Nobilissimi Marchionis Hamiltonis ('Quae bella, quaeve pestis, aut squallor famis')
    • CoR 512 f. 23v

      Copy in the hand of Corbet's chaplain William Strode, headed (erroneously) On the birth of Prince Henry.

      Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of Prince Charles ('What joy that Shunamite did once inherit')
    • *StW 1460 ff. 24r, 25r
      Autograph

      Autograph, subscribed Latin'd by WS.

      First published, without title and ascribed to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Oxford, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4r-v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem by Corbett, see CoR 511-12.

      William Strode, Natalitium Caroli ('Quod Sunamitae redditus Puer Matri')
    • CoR 759 f. 24v

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode, headed On the same and subscribed For Dr Leonard Hutton.

      Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

      First published, as possibly written by Corbett, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.

      Richard Corbett, On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] ('Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne')
    • *StW 1459 f. 25r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published, in a version beginning Magne Puer, proprium qui jam circumspicis Orbem and ascribed to Leonard Hutton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem probably by Richard Corbett, see CoR 758-9.

      William Strode, 'Magne Puer, qui monstratum circumspicis Orbem'
    • CoR 577 f. 25v

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

      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 1387 f. 26r
      Autograph

      Autograph, subscribed Latind by WS..

      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')
    • CoR 58 f. 26v

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

      First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.

      Richard Corbett, Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 ('Here, or not many feet from hence')
    • *StW 1439 f. 27r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, In Memoriam Venerabilis Matronae Dominae Benedictae Corbet, quae Spe Resurrectionis obdormivit. Oct: 2, 1634 ('Herberti Cinis invidere noli')
    • *StW 1461 f. 28v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published, ascribed to Valentine Sotherton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. I4v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

      William Strode, Natalitium principis Caroli ('Num Patrem an Patriam deceant plus gaudia? Tellus')
    • *StW 1428 f. 28r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, In Coronationem Regis Jacobi ('Vicini impatiens cum stringeret Anglia ferrum')
    • *StW 1457 f. 29r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, 'In surreptu[m] Pontificis tumulu[m] ut Pons fieret'
    • *StW 1444 ff. 32r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman Apr. 10. 1630. and with a lengthy biographical note by him about Pembroke on f. 31v.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, In Obitum Guilielmi Comitis Pembrokiae, Cancellarij Academiae Oxon. ('Truncum vt Cadauer quaerit auulsum Caput')
    • *StW 1396 f. 34v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, Alias ('Altum marmoreo quiesce lecto')
    • *StW 1397 f. 34v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, Alias ('Horruit Aliciae Mens pura & nescia labis')
    • *StW 1430 f. 34v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

      William Strode, In Dominam Aliciam Corbet Epitaphia. Nolo scribere, Pictor est Poeta ('Formam Animi scribit cognata in Corpore forma')
    • *StW 1431 f. 35r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman 1630.

      This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. xxxi.

      Unpublished (but see StW 1432). Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, In Electionem Guilielmi Episcopi Londinensis in Cancellariatum Academiae Oxon. ('Isis quod Thamisi vehit Tributum')
    • *StW 1427 f. 36r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, In Caecum eundem ('Qui sacrum assidua manu volumen')
    • *StW 1455 f. 36r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a lengthy biographical note by William Fulman about Hutton on f. 35v.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, In Sepultura[m] domini Doctoris Hutton Praebendarij ex Aede Christi ('Quà Moderatricis Cathedrae pia fraena tenentem')
    • *StW 1426 f. 36v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed In Memoriam Rowlandi Cottoni. De Amore Ipsius Erga Literatos omnes praesertim theologos & Probos.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In Amorem Ipsius erga Literatos omnes praesertim Theologos, &c Probos. ('Ridet Stultus Ineptias Inepti')
    • *StW 1456 f. 36v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed In Studium Eiusdem cum Literaturae humanae tum Divinae.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In Studia ab Eo junctim posita in Literis cum Humanis tum Divinis ('Cottonus Christum quaerens Hominemq[ue] Deumq[ue]')
    • *StW 1451 f. 37r
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed In Eiusdem omnigena Linguaru peritiam.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v-4r. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

      William Strode, In omnigenam qua claruit Linguarum Peritiam, praecipuè Orientalium ('Iterrumne quisquam lampade accendet diem')
    • *StW 1418 f. 37v
      Autograph

      Autograph, dated by William Fulman 1634 and with his copy of a Latin epitaph on Swayne on f. 38.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, Epitaphium In Memoriam Ricardi Swayne ('Annos quod meritis praeoccupasti')
    • *StW 122 ff. 39r-40r
      Autograph

      Copy of a series of three epitaphs, the second On his Ladie Marie (Marie Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin), the third On his Lady Denys (Denys hath merited no slender praise), following the Latin text of an epitaph, all in the hand of William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 120-1. Forey, p. 186.

      William Strode, Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Stone ('Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone')
    • StW 192 f. 41r

      Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 187.

      William Strode, An Inscription on the Monument of Mistress Ursula Sadleir ('Behold a Virgin free from any spot')
    • *StW 103 f. 42r
      Autograph

      Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 187-8.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Dayrell Reader of Grayes Inne, and sometime Recorder of Abindon ('Though Camden honoured Lillingston conferrd')
    • *StW 1401 f. 43v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Gratia sufficiens ad salutem concedatur omnibus. Neg ('Gratia natura est nullo discrimine totum')
    • *StW 1402 f. 43v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, An Omnis Gratia sit resistibilis. Neg ('Condenti Adamum potuitne obsistere Limus?')
    • *StW 1403 f. 43v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Panis et Vinum in Eucharistia transubstantientur? Neg. ('Gens o Sancta nimis, cui tot nascuntur in hortis')
    • *StW 1407 ff. 43v-4
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Soli fideles Eucharistiam participent? Aff. ('Vmbrae Christicolum Christi vescuntur et Vmbra')
    • *StW 1400 f. 44r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Eucharistia sub vtraq[ue] specie sit communicanda. Aff. ('De Pane haud solo viues, satiabere Verbo')
    • *StW 1404 f. 44r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, an Scriptura contineat omnia ad Salutem necessaria. Aff. ('Ne mirere libro tantam Latitare salutem')
    • *StW 1406 f. 44r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Sola Scriptura sit norma fidei? Aff. ('Iudaei malè constantes, incredula turba')
    • *StW 1399 f. 44v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, Aliter ('Est Lumen Christus, vult omnibus ille videri')
    • *StW 1405 f. 44v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

      William Strode, An Scriptura vulganda sit eo sermone quem populus intelligit. Aff. ('Roma, sacrum populo calicem cur nemo ministrat?')
    • StW 608 f. 45r

      Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

      William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')
    • CoR 226 f. 49v

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

      Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.

      Richard Corbett, For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne ('Blessed forever may he bee')
    • CoR 197 f. 50r

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

      Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
    • CoR 558 f. 50v

      Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 90, 158.

      First published (from MSS (not in a public library)) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], Bishop Corbet's Poems, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.

      Richard Corbett, A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden ('What now! already are those wagers layd')
    • *StW 267 f. 51r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 98-9. Forey, p. 134.

      William Strode, A New yeares gift ('Wee are prevented. you whose Presence is')
    • *StW 607 f. 51v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 133-4.

      William Strode, On the Star which appeard at Prince Charles his Birth ('Now Charles his Offspring bought with frequent Prayrs')
    • *StW 1206 ff. 52r-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished: Forey, pp. 55-71.

      William Strode, Ulysses his speech translated out of the 13th book of Ovids Metamorph: ('Ajax had made an Ende, and all the Rout')
    • *StW 483 ff. 58v-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

      William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
    • *StW 632 ff. 59v-60r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 183 (pp. 216-17).

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

      William Strode, On Westwell Downes ('When Westwell Downes I gan to treade')
    • *StW 1234 ff. 60v-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph of lines 1-84, with corrections, originally headed On a greate hollow Tree, later headed by William Fulman Westwell Elme; imperfect, the last twelve lines (85-96) excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.

      Text of lines 1-84 from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

      William Strode, Westwell Elme ('Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree')
    • *StW 1139 f. 62r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph of lines 13-66, here beginning A Bone soe lockd & huggd in as a Barne; imperfect, lacking lines 1-12.

      Text of lines 13-66 from this MS 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!')
    • *StW 874 f. 63r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • *StW 1245 f. 63r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

      William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. ('Here is paper, pen and Inke')
    • *StW 726 ff. 63v-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

      William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
    • *StW 747 f. 64r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 91 (p. 99).

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • *StW 868 f. 64v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 130 (pp. 139-40).

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

      William Strode, Song ('O sing a new song to the Lord')
    • *StW 965 ff. 64v-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

      MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
    • *StW 193 f. 65r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

      William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
    • *StW 723 ff. 65v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with corrections.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.

      William Strode, Song ('As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping')
    • *StW 28 ff. 66v-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

      William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes ('With a new beard but lately trimd')
    • *StW 904 ff. 67r-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with corrections.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

      William Strode, Song ('When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay')
    • *StW 741 ff. 68r-9r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with one revision.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.

      William Strode, Song ('Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys')
    • *StW 907 f. 69v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 92 (pp. 99-100).

      First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

      William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
    • *StW 835 f. 70r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 93 (p. 100).

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

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • *StW 924 f. 70v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

      William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
    • *StW 300 f. 71r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
    • *StW 442 f. 71r
      Autograph

      Autograph, partly written sideways down the margin of the page.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

      William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
    • *StW 1084 ff. 71v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with twelve lines (originally lines 39-50) heavily deleted, headed To a Gentlewoman [with Black Eyes added in the hand of William Fulman] for a Frinde.

      Text from this MS in Forey; cited in Dobell.

      Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • *StW 1207 ff. 72r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 19-21.

      William Strode, Vpon Will: Bridle, who being zealous for his Sweethart never went without a blewe Eye, and one time founde noe other remedy then chalke to hide it ('That my pen may not be idle')
    • *StW 123 ff. 73v-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

      William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
    • *StW 226 f. 74r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

      William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')
    • *StW 1189 ff. 74v-5v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Text from this MS in Forey; collated in part in Dobell.

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

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • *StW 1065 f. 75a
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

      William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
    • *StW 17 ff. 75a-77r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.

      William Strode, An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors ('If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath')
    • *StW 268 f. 77r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • *StW 340 ff. 77v-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with one revision.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      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')
    • *StW 537 f. 78r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

      William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
    • *StW 2 f. 79r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

      William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
    • *StW 691 f. 79r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

      William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
    • *StW 664 f. 79r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph of a sequence of four stanzas.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

      William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
    • *StW 73 f. 79v
      Autograph

      Autograph of a sequence of four couplets.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

      William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
    • *StW 249 f. 79v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

      William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
    • *StW 1169 f. 80r
      Autograph

      Autograph of lines 21-36; imperfect, the rest of the poem excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.

      Text mainly from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.

      William Strode, To the Lady Knighton ('Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast')
    • *StW 555 f. 80r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      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')
    • *StW 597 ff. 80v-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with one revision.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

      William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
    • *StW 573 ff. 81v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
    • *StW 623 f. 82r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, the original heading On the death of a Twin altered to On Twins divided by death.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

      William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
    • *StW 592 ff. 82v-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

      William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar ('Though death to good men be the greatest boone')
    • *StW 565 ff. 83v-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
    • *StW 1053 ff. 84v-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

      William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
    • *StW 1042 f. 85r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token ('Whatever in Philoclea the Faire')
    • *StW 549 ff. 85v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.

      William Strode, On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg ('When men for injuries unsatisfied')
    • *StW 944 ff. 86v-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      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')
    • *StW 410 f. 88r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with alterations, originally headed On a Gentlewoman iniurd by the Pox.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • *StW 528 f. 88r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

      William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
    • *StW 209 ff. 88v-9r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

      William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
    • *StW 89 f. 89v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 131 (p. 140).

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 249. Forey, p. 123.

      William Strode, An Epitaph ('Keep well this sacred Pawne, thou bed of stone')
    • *StW 943 ff. 89v-90r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 96-7.

      William Strode, A song at the Musicke Lecture in the Act ('In Heavn when bright Apollo tund the spheres')
    • *StW 96 f. 90r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman ('One Pitt containes him now, who could not die')
    • *StW 1037 f. 90r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.

      William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope ('Penelope the faire and chast')
    • *StW 984 ff. 90v-1r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.

      William Strode, A song on the Baths ('What Angel stirrs this happy well?')
    • *StW 60 f. 91r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

      William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
    • *StW 104 ff. 92r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with corrections.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor ('What are thy games, o death, if one man ly')
    • *StW 437 f. 93r-v.
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.

      William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking ('How can the Embleme of Mortality')
    • *StW 641 f. 94r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions and with an additional opening couplet beginning For Business don, for strife well ended.

      Edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42, and in DLB, 126, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 253.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
    • *StW 35 ff. 94v-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • *StW 471 f. 95r
      Autograph

      Autograph, the first line originally reading A Vulcane and a Venus seldome part before emendations added in the hand of William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.

      William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith ('Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part')
    • *StW 85 f. 95v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.

      William Strode, An Epitaph ('Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie')
    • *StW 240 f. 95v
      Autograph

      Autograph, originally headed The diuines Commendation of a good voyce and the title later emended by William Fulman.

      Edited from this MS in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35 (pp. 334-5). Text from this in Forey. Facsimile in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 252.

      First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

      William Strode, A Musical Contemplation ('O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth')
    • *StW 26 f. 96r
      Autograph

      Autograph, originally headed A reply to a frinde.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey p. 43.

      William Strode, An Answere to a frinde ('Have I a Corner in your memory')
    • *StW 58 f. 96r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 75-6.

      William Strode, The Description of Ætna out of Claudian ('The peake of Ætna any eie may know')
    • *StW 108 f. 96v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham ('As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it')
    • *StW 91 ff. 96v-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.

      William Strode, An Epitaph ('Man newly borne is at full age to die')
    • *StW 1419 f. 97r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, 'Exiguo contracta iacent tot iugera busto'
    • *StW 432 ff. 97v-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Text from this MS in Forey; recorded in Dobell.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key ('Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares')
    • *StW 112 f. 98r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children ('Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee')
    • *StW 115 ff. 98r-9r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron ('Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell')
    • *StW 1210 f. 99r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.

      William Strode, A wassal ('This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought')
    • *StW 95 f. 99v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 173.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Blacknoll, and his Wife ('Behold the Grave turnd Wedding bed! a payre')
    • *StW 238 f. 100r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 156-7.

      William Strode, A Moderating Answere to Both ('Ile tell you of another Sun')
    • CwT 750 f. 100v

      Copy in the hand of William Strode, with a note by William Fulman (1632-88) But in Strodes other Copie ascr. to Shakespeare.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200 (pp. 184, 194-5).

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • *StW 21 f. 101r
      Autograph

      Autograph with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.

      William Strode, Answere or Mock-song ('Ile tell you true wheron doth light')
    • *StW 360 ff. 101v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.

      William Strode, On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling ('Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay')
    • *StW 1423 f. 107v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a correction in William Fulman's hand.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, 'Hic iaceo errorum post longa pericula, fessum'
    • *StW 1462 f. 107v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with an emendation in William Fulman's hand.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, 'Natiua docuit sacra Sandaeus Pater'
    • *StW 1463 f. 107v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, 'O Sophiae Antistes, Cerebri quo magna supellex!'
    • *StW 527 ff. 108r, 109r
      Autograph

      Autograph of a sequence of four poems.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 174-5.

      William Strode, On Sir Edwin Sandys ('O Learnings Head, where is thy braynes rich might?')
    • *StW 1398 f. 108v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, Aliter ('Dudum sydera Sandys antecepit')
    • *StW 1408 f. 108v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

      William Strode, 'Arripuit dudum Edwinus sibi praeuius Astra'
    • *StW 70 ff. 109v-10v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.

      William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott ('Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You')
    • *StW 32 ff. 111r-12v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey pp. 163-6.

      William Strode, An answer to the song against the New-Inglanders, made at the request of a well-wisher to that side. but in a Sense Ambiguous ('Let such as to new Ingland goe')
    • *StW 34 ff. 113r-14r
      Autograph

      Autograph

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 170-2.

      William Strode, An Anthymne of the Prodigall ('To raggs my Silks are turnd, to dreggs my Wine')
    • *StW 1178 ff. 114r-15r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

      William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')
    • *StW 157 ff. 115v-16v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 147-9.

      William Strode, An humble Thanksgiving for a Deliverance on New yeares Eeve, under a Rock whereon these afterward were presented ('True Votive Thankes upon this Rock weele pay')
    • *StW 554 f. 117r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 176-7.

      William Strode, On the death of Mr. Robert Horne who died of the small Poxe ('Sweete Brother — so Ile call thee constantly')
    • *StW 506 f. 118r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Text from this in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 178.

      William Strode, On Mr. Ingram, a Preist that built a house for his Rectory and kept it well ('Ingram hath left a Monument. but where?')
    • *StW 706 ff. 118r-19r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 139-41.

      William Strode, Shiptons Distraction ('Farewell the Seate where Hospitality')
    • *StW 1138 ff. 119v-20r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 141-3.

      William Strode, To Mr. Butler on his Booke of Musick ('Sweete singing Prophet, Heire of Davids parts')
    • *StW 141 ff. 120v-1r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 143-5.

      William Strode, For Mr. Fei: and to his Freind ('Unreasonable Sute, yet Freindly too!')
    • *StW 502 ff. 121v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Text from this in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

      William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete ('Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare')
    • *StW 676 ff. 122v-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled.

      Text from this MS (with title supplied) in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 157-8.

      William Strode, Prothalamium ('No sullen Clowde with frowning seeke')
    • *StW 606 ff. 123v-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635). Dobell, pp. 75-6. Forey, pp. 180-1.

      William Strode, On the renowned Knight Sir Rowland Cotton, concerning his Agility of mind and Body. Elegy ('Renowned Champion full of Wrestling Art')
    • *StW 1 f. 124r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with one revision.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E3v. Dobell, p. 76. Forey, p. 182.

      William Strode, Againe on the Death of Sir Rowland seconding that of Sir Robert Cotton ('More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate')
    • *StW 605 f. 124r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Anthony Wood, The History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. John Gutch, 2 vols (Oxford, 1792-6), II, 348. Forey, p. 180.

      William Strode, On the Old man that died by chang of Ayre ('Here lies the Man so long forgot by Death')
    • *StW 339 f. 124v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 183.

      William Strode, On a Child dying at 2 yeares of Age ('A Span in Age, and growth of 2 yeares might')
    • *StW 526 f. 124v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 182.

      William Strode, On Mistress Withypoll, an Epitaph ('Alass our Loss and Greife, that wee should say')
    • *StW 675 ff. 125r-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with corrections.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 136-9.

      William Strode, A Prologe crownd with Flowres. On the Florists Feast at Norwich ('If any think this dayes Solemnity')
    • *StW 510 f. 126r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 149.

      William Strode, On Mistress Jane Hele borne on the 24 of Aprill betwixt St. George's Day and St. Markes. 1637. A Calculation ('Betwixt St. Georg and Mark the Gospeller')
    • *StW 102 f. 126v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 79.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Chitwood ('Whatere hath Chitwoods powrs opprest')
    • KiH 66 ff. 127v-8r

      Copy, with corrections, in the hand of William Strode, untitled.

      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')
    • *StW 142 ff. 129r, 130r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft verse fragments of seventeen lines, three headed On Ursula Chichester and beginning Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better, four lines beginning Her Breath is Incense, sigh'd out when, and ten lines beginning Swell siluer Tame, a lusty source downe beare.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 184.

      William Strode, Fragmentary Poems
    • *StW 364 f. 129v
      Autograph

      Autograph of lines 9-24, the last two lines repeated among jottings; imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

      William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
    • *StW 469 f. 129r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, subscribed P[ro] P[eter]: Apsley.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 97-9.

      William Strode, On a Locke burnt by the owner ('When this Locke grew it was a Favourite')

  • MS 327

    An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1630.

    Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

    • DnJ 2563 ff. 2r-3r

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 2213 f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 1231 ff. 3v-4v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • DnJ 937 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy of lines 1-11.

      This MS recorded 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 384 f. 5r

      Copy of lines 111-14, headed A Creditor and here beginning Thee I forgiue repent thou honest man.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 3913 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Loves Legacye.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 796 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded 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 3991 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded 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')
    • RaW 502 ff. 10v-11r

      Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed To his Mrs and here beginning Wronge not deare Mrs of my harte.

      This MS recorded in Gullans.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • FuT 5.271 f. 11r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1662.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
    • B&F 28 f. 11v

      Copy, headed Love.

      This MS collated in Beaurline.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 217-328 (pp. 258-9). Bowers, I, 550-650, ed. L.A. Beaurline (pp. 583-4). A version of this song appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, III, 29-42 (London, 1613).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, II, ii, 160-80. Song ('Tell me dearest what is Love?')
    • PeW 235 ff. 15v-16v

      Copy, headed A Paradoxe of a Painted face, ascribed to James Shirley.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • DnJ 1206 f. 17r

      Copy, headed Valedictio Amoris, subscribed D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • CoR 381 f. 21r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning I prithee lute when I am gone; mid-late 17th century.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

      Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • DnJ 1366 f. 21v

      Copy, headed The Flea, subscribed D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 2642 f. 23r

      Copy of lines 11-24, untitled and beginning Not that I shall be mine owne officer.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • JnB 693 f. 23r

      Copy.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • HoJ 106 f. 23v

      Copy of the six-line version, headed Mrs Hoskins to his Mty for her Husband.

      Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

      A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • HoJ 241 f. 23v

      Copy, headed Johnson to his sonne Benn and here beginning Sweet Beniamin while thou art younge.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • HrJ 73 f. 24r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is banquerout 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')
    • LyJ 28 ff. 24r-5v

      Copy.

      Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

      John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • LyJ 50 ff. 24r-5v

      Copy.

      Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

      John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • RaW 413 ff. 27v

      Copy, headed Rawly to ye Lady Bendbow.

      First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
    • DnJ 701 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy of lines 1-32, headed Elegie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 2050 f. 29r

      Copy of lines 23-30 (beginning Convey'd by this, Ah, what doth it availe).

      This MS recorded 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')
    • DaJ 87 f. 29r-v

      Copy of the series of five poems (here written as a single continuous poem).

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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')
    • DnJ 2116 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy, headed Springe.

      This MS recorded 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')
    • JnB 483 f. 32v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Epigrammes (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.

      Ben Jonson, To Doctor Empirick ('When men a dangerous disease did scape')

  • MS 328

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

    Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

    c.late 1630s.

    Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

    • StW 1222 f. 4v

      Copy of the second couplet, headed On A watch.string, here beginning My strings can do what no man could.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • StW 310 f. 4v

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
    • RnT 512 f. 5r

      Copy, ascribed to B. Jonson.

      First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

      The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
    • PoW 88 f. 6r

      Copy, headed On the death of King James, ascribed to Poole.

      First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

      Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
    • MoG 22 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Vppon ye same [i.e. the death of James I] and here beginning All yt haue eyes awake & weepe.

      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')
    • RnT 558 f. 8v

      Copy.

      Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
    • RnT 240 ff. 9r-11r

      Copy.

      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')
    • KiH 292 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy, headed On ye Ea: of dorsets death.

      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')
    • CoR 672 f. 12r-v

      Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • CoR 704 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, headed On faireford Windowes, subscribed D. Corbet.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
    • CwT 765 f. 13r

      Copy, headed To his mrs and here beginning In your cheekes two pits do ly.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • MoG 93 f. 13v

      Copy, headed On a croune of a hat drunken in.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • BrW 109 f. 13v

      Copy, headed On ye death of a young gentle woman, in a verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, and later used by William Fulman.

      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')
    • HoJ 10 f. 14r

      Copy.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
    • StW 1296 f. 14r

      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')
    • StW 382 f. 14r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • StW 580 f. 14r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
    • StW 107 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor ('What are thy games, o death, if one man ly')
    • KiH 67 f. 16r

      Copy, headed Her answer.

      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')
    • StW 758 f. 16r

      Copy, headed On his Mrs walking in ye snow.

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • RnT 269 ff. 16v-18v

      Copy, headed A pastoral.

      This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
    • RaW 229 f. 19r

      Copy, headed Of mans Life.

      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')
    • CwT 967 f. 19v

      Copy, here beginning Now is the winter gone….

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • CwT 545 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Go you gentle whistling wind.

      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')
    • WoH 219.8 f. 20r

      Copy.

      Possibly the MS cited in Grierson, p. 465, as C.C.C. Oxon. MS. 324.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • StW 1366 f. 20r

      Copy, headed A Blush.

      This MS recorded in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
    • WoH 221 f. 20r-v

      Copy, headed Dr Donnes farewell to ye world.

      This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 324) collated in Grierson.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • CwT 114.7 f. 21r

      Copy of lines 5-18, headed To his cruell Mrs and here beginning A slaughter'd bull appeaseth angry Ioue.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • KiH 121 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, headed A true louers amie.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • CwT 46 f. 22r

      Second copy, headed Beaumont to his Mrs and here beginning Fairest thy tresses are not threads of gold.

      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')
    • CwT 854 f. 22v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • HoJ 242 f. 23v

      Copy.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • RnT 41 ff. 23v-5r

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

      Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine')
    • PeW 183 f. 25r

      Copy, headed On a mayd unmarriageable.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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')
    • CoR 745 f. 25r-v

      Copy, here beginning Like to ye silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

      First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
    • KiH 448 f. 26r

      Copy, headed On the life of man and here beginning All bruised man….

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      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')
    • DnJ 1752 f. 26v

      Copy, headed On a Cripple and here beginning I cannot go, sit, stand ye cripple cries.

      Printed from this MS in Shawcross, p. 460; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • CaW 64 f. 28r

      Copy.

      First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 570-1.

      William Cartwright, On the Prince Charles death. W.C. ('Tis vayne to weepe; or in a riming spite')
    • StW 383 f. 28r

      Second copy.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • StW 557 f. 28v-9r

      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')
    • BrW 151 f. 29r

      Copy.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
    • HeR 16 f. 29r

      Copy, here beginning Seest thou those rubies which she weares

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
    • BrW 78 f. 29v

      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 594 f. 30r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

      William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar ('Though death to good men be the greatest boone')
    • CoR 488 ff. 30v-1r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • StW 349 f. 31r-v

      Copy, here beginning Can any shew….

      This MS collated in Forey.

      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')
    • StW 166 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • StW 649 f. 32r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
    • PeW 236 ff. 32r-3r

      Copy, headed In ye praise of a painted face.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • PeW 237 f. 32r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • CoR 446 f. 35v

      Copy.

      First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • RnT 188 ff. 36r-7r

      Copy, headed Randolph to his Creditors.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury, pp. 185-6.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

      Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
    • StW 63 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy of a version beginning Riddle, riddle, neighbour Jan.

      This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

      William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
    • PeW 286 f. 41r-v

      Copy, headed A Song.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 72-3, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Sonnet ('Fye that men should so complain')
    • StW 949 ff. 41v-2r

      Copy.

      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')
    • HrJ 126 f. 44r

      Copy, headed A Lady musinge, with two additional lines.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • MoG 85 f. 44v

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Morley of Christ Church.

      George Morley, To his Mrs ('Read fayre Mayd, & know ye heate')
    • RnT 215 f. 45r-v

      Copy.

      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 369 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 411.

      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')
    • SoR 228 f. 46r

      Copy of lines 1-4, headed Upon Christ.

      This MS not recorded in Brown.

      Brown, pp. 6-7.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ, vi. The Nativitie of Christ ('Beholde the father, is his daughters sonne')
    • CwT 237 f. 46v

      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 511 f. 47r

      Copy, headed on his Mris Bathinge.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • DnJ 1897 f. 47v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • DnJ 2599 f. 47v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
    • DnJ 2955 f. 47v

      Copy of a three-stanza version, here beginning Lie still my dear why dost yu rise and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.

      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')
    • HrJ 274 f. 47v

      Copy, headed A learned wife.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

      Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
    • RnT 22 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

      Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
    • StW 532 f. 49r

      Copy.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

      William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
    • DkT 5 f. 49v

      Copy, headed On Queene Elizabeths death.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • DaJ 166 f. 49v

      Copy, headed Another and here beginning As carefull mothers to their beds doe lay.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • FeO 47 f. 51v

      Copy.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

      Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')
    • EaJ 51 f. 52r-v

      Copy, here ascribed to G. Maine.

      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')
    • StW 100 f. 52v

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.

      William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman ('One Pitt containes him now, who could not die')
    • CoR 149 ff. 53r-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • StW 600 f. 54v-5r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

      William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
    • StW 569 f. 55r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
    • StW 517 ff. 56-7v

      Copy of the sequence.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.

      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')
    • BrW 184 f. 57v

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on ye Countesse of Pembrooke and here beginning Vnder here this marble hearse.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • KiH 201 f. 63r-v

      Copy.

      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 26 ff. 65v-6v

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
    • EaJ 4 ff. 66v-7v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1r-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
    • CwT 628 ff. 72v-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • PeW 145 f. 74r-v

      Copy, headed Apollo's oath A Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')
    • DnJ 2310 f. 74v

      Copy, headed To a dissembling Lady.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • RaW 136 f. 74v

      Copy of the first stanza, headed To his Mris.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
    • TiC 27 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy, headed ye map 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')
    • CwT 45 f. 75r

      Copy, headed To his Mris on her prfection.

      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')
    • KiH 449 f. 75v

      Second copy, headed On mans misery.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      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')
    • RnT 372 f. 75v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      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')
    • DrM 51 f. 76r

      Copy, headed A Sonnet.

      Edited from this MS in Hebel, II, 372

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • RnT 124 f. 76r-v

      Copy, headed Tho: Randolph to Ben: Johnson his adopted father.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

      Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
    • CwT 835 ff. 76v-7r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
    • RnT 331 f. 77r-v

      Copy, headed On a deformed gentlewoman yt had a sweet voyce.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
    • KiH 122 f. 78r

      Second copy, headed To one yt misiudged his Mris.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • RaW 503 f. 78r-v

      Copy, headed A paradox yt silence is ye best suiter.

      This MS collated in Gullans.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • StW 1092 ff. 78v-9r

      Copy, headed On Blacke eyes.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • StW 40 f. 79r-v

      Copy, heaed On gray eyes.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • WoH 66 f. 79v

      Copy of a six-stanza version, headed To ye Lady Elizabeth.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • RnT 488 f. 80v

      Copy.

      First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).

      Thomas Randolph, On Feild and Day standing for the Procteourshippe ('Fortune contended whether she should yeeld')
    • CwT 723 ff. 80v-1r

      Copy, headed A Song in Comen: of his Mris.

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • StW 1000 f. 81r-v

      Copy, headed on his Mris.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • CwT 988 ff. 81v-2r

      Copy, headed To a disdainefull Mris.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • StW 415 f. 82r

      Copy, headed On a gentlwomans beauty iniurd by ye pox.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • StW 1073 f. 82v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

      William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
    • CwT 205 f. 83r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • MyJ 21 ff. 83r-4r

      Copy, headed On mrs Anne Kinges table booke of pictures.

      Mine eyes...

      Unpublished?

      Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
    • StW 214 f. 84r

      Copy, headed A letter.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

      William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
    • StW 451 f. 84r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

      William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
    • CwT 799 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman yt sunge well.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • StW 1118 f. 85r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

      William Strode, To a Valentine ('Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand')
    • SiP 155 ff. 85r-6v

      Copy, headed In comendation of a beautifull lady.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 559, and in Robertson, p. 459.

      Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 ('What toong can her perfections tell')
    • RnT 484 f. 86v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).

      Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), p. 251.

      Thomas Randolph, On a Racket Court ('Take up thy gown (poor Tom) and hie thee hence')
    • PeW 238 f. 87r

      Copy.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • PoW 33 f. 87v

      Copy, headed In defence of black hayre.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • CwT 674 f. 89v

      Copy, here beginning Think not…

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • StW 541 f. 91r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

      William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
    • HoJ 327 f. 91v

      Copy, headed A gearinge fellow to his scornefull loue and here beginning O loue whose force & might.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • StW 973 f. 92r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

      MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
    • CaW 37 f. 92r

      Copy.

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

      William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 ('Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be')
    • KiH 339 ff. 93r-4r

      Copy, headed Dr Kinge on his wife's death.

      This MS collated in Crum.

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

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • CoR 198 f. 94r-v

      Copy.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

      Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
    • HoJ 70 ff. 94v-5r

      Copy, headed The Parlament farte, subscribed Hoskins.

      Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • HoJ 131 f. 94v

      Copy, headed On a Fart in the Parl. House, written lengthways down the margin by Fulman.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • ShJ 112 ff. 96r-7r

      Copy, headed On ye princes birth.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

      James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
    • CaE 22 f. 97r

      Copy of a six-line version of the epitaph beginning Lo, in this marble I entombed am.

      This MS recorded in Akkerman.

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

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

      Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
    • DrW 177.92 f. 97r

      Copy of a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

      First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')

  • MS 333

    A quarto volume of chiefly religious tracts, 216 leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • CoA 279 ff. 106r, 118r-24r

      Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • BrT 5.8 ff. 123r-4v

      Extracts.

      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

  • MS 368

    A quarto volume comprising two principal works (the second Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido), 32 leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • DeJ 124 ff. 7r-33v

      Transcript of the edition of 1642.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • DeJ 99 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed To ye Author of this Translation and transcribed from the 1660 edition of Fanshawe's Pastor Fido.

      First published in Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido (London, 1648). Banks, pp. 143-4.

      Sir John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw Upon His Translation of Pastor Fido ('Such is our Pride, our Folly, or our Fate')

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