Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Derby Central Library

  • 275

    Signed by Cotton on the title-page and inscribed by him on a flyleaf Ex dono honorabilissimi Philippi Comitis de Chesterfeild.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 32.

    • *CnC 197
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius. Le vite dei dieci imperatori [trans. by Mambrino Roseo] (Venice, 1544)

  • 278

    A printed exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page and with an Ex Dono Authoris inscription.

    Recorded in Chapple, p. 230; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 15.

    • *CnC 177
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Degge, Sir Simon. The Parson's Counsellor (London, 1676)

  • 283

    An exemplum signed on the last page by Cotton and on the title-page by Catherine Cotton.

    Late 17th century.

    Later owned by the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar. Sotheby's, 24 April 1860, lot 1366.

    Recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq., and in Parks, pp. 15, 32.

    • *CnC 181
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Flecknoe, Richard. Aenigmatical Characters (London, 1665)

  • 550

    A printed exemplum of 1678, inscribed by Cotton For my deare friend Mr. [William] Whyte from His very humble Servant, Charles Cotton.

    Later owned by William Pickering (1996-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 7 August 1854, lot 1030, to Cotton.

    c.1678.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 16.

    • *CnC 159
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. Scarronides

  • 611

    Copy, on 23 octavo pages, bound with an exemplum of Cotton's Scarronides (London, 1700).

    Early 18th century.
    • CnC 143
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 168-98. Beresford, pp. 293-309.

      Charles Cotton, A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque ('The Lives of frail men are compar'd by the Sages')

  • 830

    An exemplum inscribed by Cotton to Captain Colles

    c.1670.

    Recorded in Dust, p. 21, and in Parks, p. 15.

    • *CnC 156
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

  • 6221

    An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page.

    Late 17th century.

    Burbury (John) [translator], The History of the Sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra, Queen of Swedland (London, 1658), signed by Cotton on the title-page (Derby Central Library, 6221).

    Recorded in Chapple, p. 230, and in Dust, p. 21.

    • *CnC 169
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Burbury, John [translator]. The History of the Sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra, Queen of Swedland (London, 1658)

  • fmss 3514

    Copy, in a professional hand, on 273 folio pages.

    c.1640s.

    Later owned by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Sotheby's, 6 April 1807 (Sebright sale), lot 1154, to [Richard] Heber. Sotheby's, 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, part XI), lot 839, to Thomas Thorpe. Bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 27 April to 2 May 1903 (Phillipps sale), 3rd day, lot 595, to Rylett.

    • HbT 27
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

      Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

  • fmss 8470

    A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages.

    Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

    The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

    c.1651-66 [with later additions].

    Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may ye 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March ye: 3d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and Mr. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

    The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

    The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

    • *CnC 108 p. 4
      Autograph

      Autograph copy of a version headed | Otiantis Opera | Scribere jussit Amor | Ad amicum scriptorem and here beginning Ut tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis.

      Edited from this MS in Nicolas (1836), I, cxcvi. Reprinted thence in Beresford, p. 413. Facsimile in Parks, p. 24 (and identified as autograph, pp. 22-3).

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 338. Beresford, p. 285.

      Charles Cotton, Scribere jussit Amor. Ad Candidum Scriptorem ('Ut tibi versiculos recito, tu, Candide, scribis')
    • CnC 11 pp. 5-6

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 339-40. Beresford, pp. 160-1.

      Charles Cotton, Day-Break ('Stay, Phoebus, stay, and cool thy flaming Head')
    • CnC 119 pp. 6-7

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 341. Beresford, pp. 126-7.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('Why, Dearest, should'st thou weep, when I relate')
    • CnC 101 pp. 7-8

      Copy, headed The Picture: set by Mr Laws.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 143-4.

      First published (in two versions, the second Set by Mr. Laws) in Poems (1689), pp. 9-10, 344-5. Beresford, pp. 122-3.

      Charles Cotton, The Picture Set by Mr. Laws ('How, Chloris, can I e'er believe')
    • CnC 94 p. 9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 345-6. Beresford, p. 287. Buxton, p. 229.

      Charles Cotton, On One, who said, He drank to clear his Eyes ('As Phoebus, drawing to his Western seat')
    • CnC 109 pp. 10-11

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 156-7.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 346-7. Beresford, pp. 147-8.

      Charles Cotton, The Separation ('I ghess'd none wretched in his love')
    • CnC 3 pp. 11-12

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 157-8.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 348-9. Beresford, pp. 148-9.

      Charles Cotton, Another of the same ('At what a wild malicious rate')
    • CnC 95 pp. 12-15

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 349-52. Beresford, pp. 325-7.

      Charles Cotton, On the great Eater of Grays-Inn ('Oh! for a lasting wind! that I may rail')
    • CnC 48 p. 15

      Copy, headed Martial: Epigr: transl: Ep 20 Lib 1.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 542.

      Charles Cotton, Martial, Epig. Lib. 1. Ep. XX ('As I remember, Aelia cought full sore')
    • CnC 26 pp. 16-17

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 134.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 352-3. Beresford, pp. 278-9.

      Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on my Dear Aunt, Mrs. Ann Stanhope ('Forbear, bold Passenger, forbear')
    • CnC 118 pp. 17-18

      Copy, headed Sonnet: set by Mr Coleman.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 353-4. Beresford, p. 128.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('See, how like Twilight Slumber falls')
    • CnC 20 p. 19

      Copy.

      Unpublished.

      Charles Cotton, Epigram ('What signe is that, the reeling Drunkard cries')
    • CnC 23 pp. 19-21

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 354-6. Beresford, p. 283.

      Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on M.H. ('In this cold Monument lies one')
    • CnC 105 pp. 21-2

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 158-9

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 356-7. Beresford, p. 163.

      Charles Cotton, The Retreat ('I am return'd, my Fair, but see')
    • CnC 110 pp. 23-4

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 357-9. Beresford, pp. 327-8.

      Charles Cotton, The Sleeper ('What a strange lump of Laziness here lies')
    • CnC 139 pp. 24-6

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 159-60.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 359-60. Beresford, pp. 163-4.

      Charles Cotton, The Token ('Well, cruel Mistress, though you'r too unkind')
    • CnC 113 pp. 26-7

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 360-1. Beresford, pp. 164-5.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Montross ('Ask not, why sorrow shades my brow')
    • CnC 112 pp. 27-8

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 193.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 361-2. Beresford, pp. 165-6.

      Charles Cotton, Song ('Pre'thee, why so angry, Sweet?')
    • CnC 41 pp. 29-31

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS by Llewelynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and in Buxton, pp. 95-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 363-5. Beresford, pp. 270-2.

      Charles Cotton, A Journey into the Peak. To Sir Aston Cockain ('Sir, Coming home into this Frozen Clime')
    • CnC 80 pp. 32-4

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 229-30.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 365-7. Beresford, pp. 328-9.

      Charles Cotton, New Prison ('You Squires o'th' shade, that love to tread')
    • CnC 32 pp. 34-7

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 194-5.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 367-9. Beresford, pp. 166-7.

      Charles Cotton, Her name ('To write your Name upon the Glass')
    • CnC 24 p. 37

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 370. Beresford, p. 282.

      Charles Cotton, Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port ('Here lies he, whom the Tyrants rage')
    • CnC 114 pp. 37-9

      Copy, headed Song: set by Mr Coleman.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 145.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('Bring back my Comfort, and return')
    • CnC 43 pp. 39-41

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 195-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 380-1. Beresford, pp. 167-8.

      Charles Cotton, Les Amours ('She, that I pursue, still flies me')
    • CnC 136 pp. 41-3

      Copy, headed To Sr William Davenant. [In answer to the Seventh Canto of the third book of his Gondibert directed to my ffather added in a different ink].

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 110-12.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 374-6. Beresford, pp. 273-4.

      Charles Cotton, To Sir William Davenant ('Oh happy fire! whose heat can thus controul')
    • CnC 133 pp. 44-9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 45-8.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 376-80. Beresford, pp. 110-13.

      Charles Cotton, To my Friend Mr. John Anderson. From the Countrey ('You that the City Life embrace')
    • CnC 120 pp. 49-51

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 542-4.

      Charles Cotton, Stances de Monsieur Theophile ('When thy nak'd Arm thou see'st me kiss')
    • CnC 123 pp. 52-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 180-2.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 392-5. Beresford, pp. 169-71.

      Charles Cotton, The Surprize ('On a clear River's flow'ry side')
    • CnC 29 pp. 55-7

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 211-12.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 342-3. Beresford, pp. 161-3.

      Charles Cotton, Forbidden Fruit ('Pish! 'tis an idle fond excuse')
    • CnC 142 pp. 58-61

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 182-4.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 395-7. Beresford, pp. 171-2.

      Charles Cotton, The Visit ('Dark was the silent shade, that hid')
    • CnC 31 p. 62

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 545-6.

      Charles Cotton, Her Heart and Mine. Out of Astrea. Madrigall ('Well may I say that our two Hearts')
    • CnC 12 p. 63

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 398. Beresford, pp. 284-5.

      Charles Cotton, De Lupo. Epigram ('When Lupus has wrought hard all day')
    • CnC 128 p. 64

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 546.

      Charles Cotton, To Charinus, an ugly Womans Husband. Epig. out of Johannes Secundus ('Charinus, 'twas my hap of late')
    • CnC 99 p. 65

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 398-9. Beresford, p. 286.

      Charles Cotton, On Upstart ('Upstart last Term went up to Town')
    • CnC 46 pp. 66, 73-4

      Copy, headed Loves World. Transl: out of Astrea. To my Fair Cosen Mris Anne Stanhope.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 549-52.

      Charles Cotton, Love's World. Translated out of Astrea ('That Artist Love another World has made')
    • CnC 84 pp. 71-2

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 547-8.

      Charles Cotton, An Ode of Johannes Secundus Translated. To my dear Tutor Mr. Ralph Rawson ('The World shall want Phoebean light')
    • CnC 16 pp. 72, 69, 70, 67, 68, 65

      Copy, headed [Made of ye Lady MC: by ye Author of this booke added in a different hand] An Elegie [uppon the Lad[ ] by Charles Cotton Esqr added in a different ink and deleted], with lines 6-7 also inserted in a different ink.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 168-70.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 382-5. Beresford, pp. 238-9.

      Charles Cotton, Elegy ('How was I blest when I was free')
    • CnC 25 p. 75

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 399-400. Beresford, p. 282.

      Charles Cotton, Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper ('Reader, if thou cast thine Eye')
    • CnC 21 p. 76

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 548.

      Charles Cotton, Epig. Translated out of Hieron. Amaltheus ('Acon his right, Leonilla her left Eye')
    • CnC 30 pp. 76-81

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 176-80.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 385-90. Beresford, pp. 230-3.

      Charles Cotton, O _____ _____ Her Hair. Ode ('Welcome, blest Symptom of Consent')
    • CnC 89 pp. 81-4

      Copy, headed An old mans gvift to a young Lady.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 451-4. Beresford, pp. 330-2.

      Charles Cotton, An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady ('Pox o' your doting Coxcomb! was there ever')
    • CnC 111 p. 85

      Copy, headed Son[g deleted]net.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 391-2. Beresford, pp. 168-9.

      Charles Cotton, Song ('Join once again, my Celia, join')
    • CnC 34 pp. 86-9

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 536-9.

      Charles Cotton, Horace his second Epod Translated ('Happy's that Man that is from City-Care')
    • CnC 74 p. 90

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial], Ep. 84. Lib. 10 ('Do'st muse to sleep, why Afer does not go?')
    • CnC 37 pp. 91-2

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 540-1.

      Charles Cotton, Horat. Ode IX. Lib. III. Ad Lydiam ('Whilst I was acceptable unto thee')
    • CnC 75 p. 93

      Copy, headed Martial: ep: 93. lib. 11.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11 ('Who says, thou'rt Vitious, Zoilus, lies')
    • CnC 6 pp. 93-5

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 400-2. Beresford, pp. 173-4.

      Charles Cotton, Caelia's Fall ('Caelia, my fairest Caelia, fell')
    • CnC 15 pp. 96-9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 38-40.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 403-4. Beresford, pp. 96-8.

      Charles Cotton, Eclogue. Damon. C.C. Thyrsis. R.R. ('Thyrsis, whil'st our Flocks did bite')
    • CnC 33 pp. 100-1

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 196-7.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 407-8. Beresford, pp. 174-5.

      Charles Cotton, Her Sigh ('She sighs, and has blown over now')
    • CnC 106 pp. 102-3

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 428-30. Beresford, pp. 329-30.

      Charles Cotton, A Rogue ('Reader, read this Man, than whom')
    • CnC 50 p. 103

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 58 Lib. 1. Ad Flaccum ('Flaccus, thou ask't, what kind of Girl I prize?')
    • CnC 47 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 555.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 3. Ad Velocem ('My Epigrams are long thou dost report')
    • CnC 49 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 554.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 48 Lib. 1. De Diaulo Medico Paraph. ('Diaulus, Sextan from Physitian is')
    • CnC 51 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 554.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 65. Ad Fabullam ambitiosam ('Thou'rt fair, we know't, a Maid, 'tis true')
    • CnC 52 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 555.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 2. Ep. 88. In Mamercum ('Thou nought repeat'st, yet Poet wouldst be thought')
    • CnC 76 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11 ('Who says, thou'rt Vitious, Zoilus, lies')
    • CnC 53 p. 105

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 556.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 9. In Cinnam ('Cinna writes Verses against me, 'tis said')
    • CnC 54 p. 105

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 557.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep: 26. In Candidum ('Thou, Candidus, alone enjoy'st th'estate')
    • CnC 55 p. 105

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 556.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 28. In Nestorem ('Thou wondrest, Marius has a stinking Ear')
    • CnC 57 p. 105

      Copy, here beginning Chloe, thy face I well could misse.

      Edited from this MS in Wallis.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 558. The Valiant Knight: or, The Legend of Sr. Peregrine, [ed. Alfred Wallis] (privately printed, 1888), p. 15.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 52. Ad Chloen ('Chloe, thy Face I do not prize')
    • CnC 56 p. 106

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 557.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 32. In Matriniam ('Thou say'st, I cannot fit an Old Wife's Bed')
    • CnC 58 p. 106

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 558-9.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 78. In Varum ('Varus of late to Supper did me call')
    • CnC 59 p. 106

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 559.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 86. In Ponticum ('We drink in Glass, thou Myrrh, Ponticus. why?')
    • CnC 60 pp. 106-7

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 560.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 44. De Thiade, & Lecania ('Thais her Teeth are black, as jet, or Crow')
    • CnC 61 p. 107

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 559.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 46. In Bassam ('Bassa, thou say'st, thou'rt fair, and a Maid too')
    • CnC 62 p. 107

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 560.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 32. In Cinnam ('Since thy dagg'd Gown's so dirty, when thy Shoe')
    • CnC 73 pp. 107-8

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 561.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 10. Ep. 47. Ad Seipsum ('These, pleasant Martial, are the things')
    • CnC 64 pp. 108-10

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 562-3.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 3. Ad Musam ('It was enough five, six, seven Books to fill')
    • CnC 65 p. 110

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 563.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 19. De Cinna ('Cinna would fain be thought to need')
    • CnC 67 p. 110

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 564.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 23. Ad Rusticum ('To thee I gluttonous and cruel seem')
    • CnC 70 p. 110

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 564.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 47. In variè se tondentem ('Part of thy Beard is clipt, part shav'd, another place')
    • CnC 66 p. 111

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 565.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 21. Ad Luciferum ('Phospher, appear. why dost our joys delay')
    • CnC 68 p. 112

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 566.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 35. In pessimos Conjuges ('Since y'are a-like in Manners, and in Life')
    • CnC 71 p. 112

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 566.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 53. In Catullam ('The Fair'st of Women, that have been, or are')
    • CnC 72 p. 112

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 567.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 59. In Vacerram ('But Antick Poets thou admirest none')
    • CnC 63 p. 113

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 567.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 100. De Vetula ('Thou'rt soft to touch. charming to hear. unseen')
    • CnC 69 p. 113

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 568.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 41. Ad Faustinum ('Sad Athenagoras nought presents me now')
    • CnC 77 p. 113

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 568-9.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 11. Ep. 103. In Lydiam ('He did not lye, that said, thy Skin was fair')
    • CnC 78 p. 114

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 569.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 7. De Ligia ('If by her Hairs Ligia's Age be told')
    • CnC 79 p. 114

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 569.

      Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 20. Ad Fabullam ('That Themison has no Wife, how't comes to pass')
    • CnC 35 pp. 114-15

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 570.

      Charles Cotton, Horat. Lib 1. Carmin. Ode 8. Ad Lydia ('Tell me, for God's sake, Lydia, why')
    • CnC 36 p. 115-16

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 572-3.

      Charles Cotton, [Horace] Id. Lib. [1] Ep. 15. In Neaeram (''Twas Night, and Phoebe in a Heaven bright')
    • CnC 96 pp. 117-19

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 135-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 409-10. Beresford, pp. 279-80.

      Charles Cotton, On the Lamented Death of my Dear Uncle, Mr. Radcliff Stanhope ('Such is th'unsteddy state of humane things')
    • CnC 97 pp. 119-22

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 129-31.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 411-13. Beresford, pp. 241-3.

      Charles Cotton, On the Lord Derby ('To what a formidable greatness grown')
    • CnC 93 pp. 122-6

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 414-17. Beresford, pp. 323-5.

      Charles Cotton, On Marriot. Tempus edax rerum ('Thanks for this rescue Time. for thou hast won')
    • CnC 127 pp. 127-9

      Copy, the heading in another hand.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 198-9.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 418-20. Beresford, pp. 175-7.

      Charles Cotton, To Caelia's Ague. Ode ('Hence, fond Disease, I say forbear')
    • CnC 140 pp. 130-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 200-2.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 420-4. Beresford, pp. 177-80.

      Charles Cotton, A Valediction ('I go, I go, Perfidious Maid')
    • CnC 45 pp. 135-8

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 184-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 425-8. Beresford, pp. 194-6.

      Charles Cotton, Love's Triumph ('God Cupid's Power was ne'er so shown')
    • CnC 10 pp. 138-40

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 203.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 430-1. Beresford, pp. 180-1.

      Charles Cotton, The Contest ('Come, my Corinna, let us try')
    • CnC 107 pp. 140-1

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 428-30. Beresford, pp. 329-30.

      Charles Cotton, A Rogue ('Reader, read this Man, than whom')
    • CnC 28 pp. 141-2

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 204-5.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 432-4. Beresford, pp. 181-2.

      Charles Cotton, The False One ('Behold, False Maid, yon horned Light')
    • CnC 87 pp. 142-3

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 149-50.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 434-6. Beresford, pp. 183-4.

      Charles Cotton, Ode Valedictory ('I go: but never to return')
    • CnC 134 pp. 143-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 109-12.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 436-8. Beresford, pp. 275-6.

      Charles Cotton, To my friend Mr. Lely, on his Picture of the Excellently Virtuous Lady, the Lady Isabella Thynn ('Nature, and Art are here at strife')
    • CnC 129 pp. 145-6

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 148-9.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 439-40. Beresford, pp. 184-5.

      Charles Cotton, To Chloris. Ode ('Farewel, My Sweet, until I come')
    • CnC 124 pp. 146-7

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 147-8.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 440-2. Beresford, pp. 133-4.

      Charles Cotton, Taking Leave of Chloris ('She sighs. as if she would restore')
    • CnC 81 pp. 147-9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 220-2.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 443-5. Beresford, pp. 358-9.

      Charles Cotton, Ode ('Come, let us drink away the time')
    • CnC 83 pp. 149-50

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 223-4.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 446-8. Beresford, pp. 360-1.

      Charles Cotton, Ode ('The Day is sett did Earth adorn')
    • CnC 82 p. 151

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 146-7.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 449-50. Beresford, pp. 185-6.

      Charles Cotton, Ode ('Fair Isabel, if ought but thee')
    • CnC 90 pp. 152-3

      Copy, headed An ould mans Guift to a ffayre Lady.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 451-4. Beresford, pp. 330-2.

      Charles Cotton, An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady ('Pox o' your doting Coxcomb! was there ever')
    • CnC 38 p. 153

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 454. Beresford, p. 285.

      Charles Cotton, In Amorem Medicum. Epig. ('For cares whilst Love prepares the Remedies')
    • CnC 42 pp. 154-5

      Copy, by Amanuensis B, the last stanza by Amanuensis C (i.e. William Fitzherbert).

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 454-6. Beresford, pp. 332-4.

      Charles Cotton, The Legend of the Famous, Furious, Expert, and Valiant Gittar-Masters, Caveliero Comer, and Don Hill. Ballad ('You, that love to read the Tracts')
    • CnC 91 p. 156

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 457-8. Beresford, p. 288.

      Charles Cotton, On Annel-seed Robin, the Hermophrodite. Epitaph ('Here, Reader, lies bereft of life')
    • CnC 85 p. 157

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 205-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 458-60. Beresford, pp. 186-7.

      Charles Cotton, Ode. To Chloe ('False one, farewell, thou hast releast')
    • CnC 86 pp. 158-9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 154-6.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 460-3. Beresford, pp. 197-9.

      Charles Cotton, Ode. To Chloris from France ('Pitty me, Chloris, and the flame')
    • CnC 40 pp. 160-2

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 41-3.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 463-7. Beresford, pp. 98-101.

      Charles Cotton, An Invitation to Phillis ('Come live with me, and be my love')
    • CnC 19 pp. 162-4

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 43-5.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 467-70. Beresford, pp. 101-3.

      Charles Cotton, The Entertainment to Phillis ('Now Phaebus is gone down to sleep')
    • CnC 126 pp. 164-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 192.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 471-2. Beresford, pp. 132-3.

      Charles Cotton, To Caelia. Ode ('When Caelia must my old Days set')
    • CnC 130 pp. 165-6

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 187-8.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 472-4. Beresford, pp. 149-50.

      Charles Cotton, To Cupid. Ode ('Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow')
    • CnC 125 p. 167

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 474-6. Beresford, pp. 68-9.

      Charles Cotton, The Tempest ('Standing upon the Margent of the main')
    • CnC 44 pp. 168-70

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 224-7.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 476-80. Beresford, pp. 334-6.

      Charles Cotton, The Litany ('From a Ruler that's a curse')
    • CnC 137 p. 170

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 480. Beresford, p. 286.

      Charles Cotton, To some Great Ones. Epigram ('Poets are great Mens Trumpets, Poets fein')
    • CnC 138 pp. 171-2

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 112-13.

      First published in Elegies Sacred to the Memory of the Author appended to Richard Lovelace, Lucasta, Posthume Poems (London, 1660). Poems (1689), pp. 481-3. Beresford, pp. 240-1.

      Charles Cotton, To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace ('To pay my Love to thee, and pay it so')
    • CnC 135 pp. 172-3

      Copy, headed To Poet E:W:.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 113-14.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 483-5. Beresford, pp. 276-7.

      Charles Cotton, To Poet E[dmund]. W[aller]. Occasion'd for his Writing a Panegyric on Oliver Cromwell ('From whence, vile Poet, did'st thou glean the Wit')
    • CnC 100 p. 173

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 591-2. Beresford, p. 196.

      Charles Cotton, A Paraphrase ('The Beauty that must me delight')
    • CnC 27 p. 174

      Copy, headed Jan: 59 An Epitaph on my uncle Port.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 136.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 492-3. Beresford, p. 281.

      Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on Robert Port, Esq., designed for a Monument ('Virtue in these good times that bred good men')
    • CnC 92 pp. 175-7

      Copy, headed [C - An Anthem for Xmas day. 59 smudged over in ink] On Christmas day 1658.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 25-7.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 219-24. Beresford, pp. 103-6.

      Charles Cotton, On Christmas-day. Hymn ('Rise, happy Mortals, from your sleep')
    • CnC 1 p. 179

      Copy, headed Transl: ex Catallu.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 608-9.

      Charles Cotton, Ad Furium, Ep.23. Ex Catullo ('Though Furious Servant have, nor Chest')
    • CnC 4 pp. 183-216

      Copy, preceded by a title-page (p. 181) and by a commendatory poem by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 182-3), dated at the end (deleted) 29 May 1660 Actum est in Anglia Gloria Deo and some scribbling Carolus sine sans W.F. James sine sans cc.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 657-729.

      Charles Cotton, The battail of Yvry ('High are his thoughts, whose Buskin'd Mistress sings')
    • CnC 39 p. 217

      Copy of the first two lines, headed Epigram In Mendacem and here beginning Menda - th'art such a liar growne, deleted.

      First published in Poems (1689), p. 338.

      Charles Cotton, In Mendacem. Epig. ('Mendax, 'tis said th'art such a Lyar grown')
    • CnC 141 pp. 217-23

      Copy, headed Sr Peregrines Travells or ye legend of Sr Peregrine.

      Edited from this MS in Wallis.

      First published London, 1663. The Valiant Knight: or, The Legend of Sr. Peregrine…Now first printed from an original manuscript in the autograph of Charles Cotton, [ed. Alfred Wallis] (privately printed, 1888), pp. 5-13.

      Charles Cotton, The Valiant Knight: or, the Legend of Sr Peregrine ('Listen yong lordlings with attention')
    • CnC 14 pp. 224-7

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 485-91. Beresford, pp. 336-40.

      Charles Cotton, Dialogue. Geron and Amarillis ('Stay, stay, fair Nymph! oh! whither Flies')
    • CnC 7 pp. 228-36

      Copy, headed Ex Catullo Transl: The first Elegy of Cornelius Gallus or rather of Maximanus.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 594-608.

      Charles Cotton, Cn. Cornelii Galli. vel potius Maximiani Elegia 1. Trans. ('Why, envious Age, dost thou my End delay?')
    • CnC 132 pp. 237-8

      Copy, headed Ad Sodales Epode.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 278-9.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 511-14. Beresford, pp. 361-3. Buxton, pp. 227-9.

      Charles Cotton, To Mr. Alexander Brome. Epode ('Now let us drink, and with our nimble Feet')
    • CnC 13 p. 239

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 613-14. Beresford, p. 95.

      Charles Cotton, De Vita beata. Paraphras'd from the Latin ('Come y'are deceiv'd, and what you do')
    • CnC 103 p. 239

      Copy.

      First published (two texts) in Poems (1689), pp. 296, 614-15.

      Charles Cotton, Q. Cicero de Mulierum levitate. Translat. ('Commit a Ship unto the Wind')
    • WaE 492 p. 240

      Copy, in the hand of William Fitzherbert, headed Mr Wallr. To a lady upon ye recovery of lost Coppy of verses.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes')
    • CnC 144 pp. 241-4

      Copy, headed Winter. Quatraines, subscribed Finis Vivat Poeta. Jan. 14 1666.

      Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 13-23.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 640-56. Beresford, pp. 59-68.

      Charles Cotton, Winter ('Hark, hark, I hear the North Wind road')
    • CnC 121 p. 245

      Copy of stanzas 1-3, headed Summer Quatraines, followed by the number 4 (as if to begin the fourth stanza) and then a blank.

      Edited from this MS in Wallis and in Buxton, p. 24.

      Unpublished (complete). Stanzas 1 and 31 published in John Sleigh, Charles Cotton, the Angler-Poet, N&Q, 4th Ser. 6 (10 September 1870), 208. Stanzas 1-3 published in The Valiant Knight: or, The Legend of Sr. Peregrine, [ed. Alfred Wallis] (privately printed, 1888), p. 16.

      Charles Cotton, Summer ('Looke out! look out! I heare noe noise')
    • DoC 177 p. 248

      Copy, untitled but subscribed verces by the Earle of D-s vpon the Countess of D-, signed and probably in the hand of C Port [i.e. probably the daughter of John Port of Ilam, Staffordshire].

      Edited from this MS and discussed in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; collated in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • CgW 8 pp. 250-2

      Copy.

      This MS discussed and partly collated in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (March 1964), 97-100.

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

      William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve ('Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis')

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