Edinburgh University Library

  • C. 175. dd. 14

    A corrected proofsheet (sigs 5A3v-4r: pp. 398-9) in an exemplum of The History of the World (London, 1617 [i.e. 1621]).

    c.1621.

    Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69.

    • RaW 678.6
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
  • JA 297

    Exemplum of the quarto edition of 1612 with numerous minor MS annotations consisting of alterations of directions, punctuation or spelling, the deletion or insertion of single words, underlinings, and the insertion of act or scene numbers, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

    17th century.

    Later in the library of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, in Penzance, Cornwall.

    • WeJ 14
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

      John Webster, The White Devil
  • JY 438

    Pages 85-100 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Hatton Garden Nursery, London.

    c.1672.

    Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

    • ShW 40.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
  • JY 439

    Pages 145-62 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up with cuts for use by the Hatton Garden Nursery, London.

    c.1672.

    Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

    • ShW 66.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • JY 441

    Pages 145-62 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663) marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

    c.1670s.

    Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VII (Charlottesville, VA, 1989).

    • ShW 66.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • JY 442

    Pages 729-60 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).

    • ShW 59.5 p. 729

      The last page of a promptbook of Macbeth, marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the promptbook is ShW 59.2.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

    • ShW 44.1 pp. 730-60

      The text of Hamlet marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

      Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. IV (Charlottesville, VA, 1966).

      First published in London, 1603.

  • JY 1069

    Annotations by William Drummond.

    Discussed in Alastair Fowler and Michael Leslie, Drummond's Copy of The Faerie Queene, TLS (17 July 1981), 821-2.

  • MS Borl. 205

    A folio volume of lecture notes on logic written in Louvain in 1477 by Magnus Makculloch, clerk to Archbishop William Schevez (d.1497), iii + 202 leaves, imperfect at the end, in modern brown calf gilt.

    Chiefly in one professional secretary hand, with some engrossed lettering, in double columns, another hand, one Johannes, possibly John Purde, on pages including ff. iiv-iiir, 86r-7r, 181v, 183v, and 200r-2r.

    Owned by David Laing in 1854.

    • HnR 12 ff. iiv-iiir

      Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the fly-leaves of the volume. Late 15th-early 16th century.

      Edited from this MS in Stevenson. Collated in Wood.

      Fox, pp. 3-9. Stevenson, pp. 3-8.

      Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian. The Prolog and The Taill of the Cok, and the Jasp
    • HnR 18 f. 87r

      Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

      Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 15-16. Collated in Wood.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

      Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige ('Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere')
    • HnR 24 f. 181v

      Copy, untitled. 15th-early 16th century.

      Edited from this MS in Stevenson. Collated in Wood and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris')
    • DuW 151 f. 183v

      Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

      Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 24-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 230.

      Mackenzie, No. 87, pp. 175-7. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 271-2.

      William Dunbar, Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady ('Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginale')
    • SkJ 42 f. 201

      Edited from this MS in Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS, ed. George Stevenson, STS 65 (Edinburgh & London, 1918), pp. 35-6).

      Canon, L117, p. 32. A lost piece; doubtfully identified by Dyce (I, 144-6; II, 199) with verses beginning Now synge we, as we were wont, first printed in Christmas Carolles [c.1550] and in MS versions including: British Library (Add. MS 37049, f. 67v; Arundel MS 285, ff. 164v-8, edited in Carlton Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford, 1939), pp. 151-6); and Edinburgh University Library (MS Borl. 205, f. 201, edited in Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS, ed. George Stevenson, STS 65 (Edinburgh & London, 1918), pp. 35-6).

      John Skelton, Vexilla regis
  • MS Dc. 1. 3/1

    A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

    A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

    c.1680s-1700s.

    Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

    • DrJ 43.8 pp. 1-3

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • RoJ 568 p. 11

      Copy, headed On Nothing.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • RoJ 243 p. 13

      Copy, headed Answer to the Defence of Satyr, subscribed Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 106 p. 16

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')
    • RoJ 513 p. 17

      Copy, headed Post nihil Mortem &c.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • RoJ 290 p. 19

      Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-221), headed Apologie and here beginning All this with Indignation have I hurld

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • EtG 5 pp. 22-3

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 609 p. 23

      Copy, headed The answer by Sr. Charles Scroope.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • RoJ 209 p. 24

      Copy, headed On S.C.S. For Answering Ephelia To Bajazett.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
    • RoJ 193 p. 24

      Copy, headed Ansuerd againe by Sr. CR: Scroope on ye. 1d. Alpride.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
    • DoC 332 p. 25 bis

      Copy, headed On Portsmouths Departure.

      First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')
    • RoJ 289 pp. 25bis-27

      Copy, headed A Satyr against Mankind, the epilogue separately headed The Apology.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • DoC 274 pp. 25-6

      Copy of the last 16 lines incorporated in a poem headed A Satyr beginning Among ye care of Englands modern peers and subscribed By the Ld. Dorsett.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • DoC 149 p. 26

      Copy, headed On Mr. Edward Howard.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • MaA 180 p. 39

      Copy, headed Royall Resolutions.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • MaA 72 pp. 40-1

      Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inn. or a pleasant new Ballad to the tune of I tell the Dick.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • LeN 18 p. 44

      Copy.

      Published separately, as Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

      Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] ('Hail to the Mirtle Shade')
    • RoJ 170 p. 52

      Copy, headed Song.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • DoC 46 pp. 53-4

      Copy, headed Colon A Satyr.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • BuS 25 pp. 54-6

      Copy.

      Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

      Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
    • RoJ 474 pp. 56-7

      Copy, headed A Satyre.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • DrJ 90 pp. 57-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California and in Vieth.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • RoJ 139 pp. 60-3

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 526 pp. 66-7

      Copy, headed Observations on Tunbridge Wells.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 6 p. 67

      Copy, here beginning Out of stark Love & Arrant devotione.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage ('Out of mere love and arrant devotion')
    • RoJ 414 p. 67

      Copy, headed Song By the L: Rochester.

      Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 340 pp. 71-2

      Copy, headed L. Rochester on the King and here beginning There is A monarch in an Isle say some.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • DoC 76 p. 72

      Copy, headed The Duell of the Crablice.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
    • DoC 110 pp. 72-3

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege ('Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley')
    • EtG 34 p. 73

      Copy, headed The Answer by Sr. Geo: Etheridge.

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 113).

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')
    • DoC 18 pp. 73-4

      Copy, headed Second Letter from the Lord Dorsett.

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 113-14. Collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me')
    • EtG 39 p. 74

      Copy, headed Answer to ye 2d. letter by Sr Geo: Etheridge, lacking the end.

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 114).

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('So soft and amorously you write')
    • RoJ 261 p. 77

      Copy, headed Clanbrazill & Fox.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • DoC 326.7 p. [75]

      Copy.

      Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')
    • RoJ 49 pp. 77-8

      Copy, headed Thee Disabled Debauch.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • DoC 130 p. 78

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
    • MaA 155 pp. 84-6

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • MaA 455 p. 87

      Copy, headed Advice to A Painter.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • RoJ 276 pp. 90-2

      Copy, headed L. Rochester on St James's Park.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
    • DoC 315 p. 95

      Copy, headed Regine d. vive.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411. Collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')
    • RoJ 262 p. 98

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • MaA 224 p. 98

      Copy, headed On the Statue at Charing Cross.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
    • MaA 116 pp. 99-100

      Copy, headed Britannia & Rawleighs Ghost.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • DoC 346 pp. 102-3

      Copy, headed Lord Rochesters Farrewell.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DrJ 253 p. 108

      Copy of the song.

      This MS collated in part in California.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')
    • DrJ 281 p. 108

      Copy, headed The Lovers Frame.

      This MS collated in part in California.

      California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 251-3.

      John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song ('Whil'st Alexis lay prest')
    • RoJ 431 p. 110

      Copy, headed Song by ye Dts. of Cleavland & Mrs Knight.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight')
    • LeN 0.5 p. 110

      Copy, headed Song by Mr Lee.

      A song of two ten-line strophes, which might conceivably be one of Lee's incidental compositions, or perhaps a song introduced in a production of one of his plays. Unpublished.

      Nathaniel Lee, Song ('You told me you lou'd me')
  • MS Dc. 1. 43

    Copy of Gavin Douglas's Aeneid, ii + 301 folio leaves, in red calf gilt (rebacked).

    Mid-late 16th century.

    Inscribed (f. 301v) Partenet Wilhelmo Dno de Ruthven: i.e. owned by William Ruthven (1543?-84), fourth Baron Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie, magnate and politician, executed for treason. Also inscribed David Schaw and Patrik Drumond. Acquired by Edinburgh College in 1643.

    • DoG 5 ff. 2r-300v

      Copy of the complete translation, in a single professional secretary hand (but for subsequent unrelated additions on ff. 1r-v and 301v), untitled but with introductory rubric beginning Here begynnys the buke of Virgile contenand in ye self xiii bukis translatat out of latyne in Inglis be ane reuerend fader in god galvane douglas bishop...of dunkeld, and subscribed Q Galvine douglas.

      This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 98.

      First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

      Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid ('Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte')
    • HnR 31 f. 301v

      Copy of the first three stanzas, in a non-professional secretary hand.

      This MS recorded in Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, ed. David F. C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS (Edinburgh & London, 1951-6), I, 98.

      Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.

      Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid ('Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairfull dyte')
  • MS Dc. 1. 69

    A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards.

    Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

    Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

    • ShJ 34 pp. 32-4

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, subscribed John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181).

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

      James Shirley, Good Morrow ('Good morrow unto her, who in the night')
    • B&F 49 pp. 42-3

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181); recorded in Hoy, p. 584.

      Bowers, III, 505-6.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, I, ii, 29-42. Song ('Sing his praises that doth keepe')
    • B&F 197 pp. 44-5

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 173-4.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 1-94 (p. 50). Bowers, V, 448-529, ed. Hans W. Gabler (p. 489).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song ('Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright')
    • B&F 156 p. 71

      Copy of a version, here beginning Downe downe be still yow seas, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 174-6.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VIII, 1-99 (p. 57). Bowers, VI, 121-205, ed. Cyrus Hoy (p. 166).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Pilgrim, III, vii, 107-18. Song ('Down, ye angry waters all!')
    • CmT 87 p. 75

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xv. Davis, p. 105.

      Thomas Campion, 'So many loves have I neglected'
    • B&F 172 p. 76

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 34 (collated pp. 139-40).

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 207-316 (p. 243). Bullen, IV, 207-321, ed. R.G. Martin (pp. 247-8). Bowers, IV, 276-380, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 307-8). The musical setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 4-23. Song ('Now the lustry spring is seen')
    • B&F 67 pp. 78-9

      Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 188-9, and in Williams, p. 108.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away')
    • StW 1028 p. 81

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 184).

      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')
    • LoR 38 p. 85

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 184).

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • B&F 78 p. 86

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 77 (collated pp. 166-7).

      Dyce, VI, 68-9. Bullen, III, 304. Bowers, V, 217. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject, III, v, 24-33. Song ('Will ye buy any honesty? come away')
    • HeR 238 p. 89

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • B&F 37 p. 91

      Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson)

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 29 (collated pp. 137-8). Collated in Beaurline.

      Bowers, I, 624-5.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, IV, iv, 85-104. Song ('Come hither you that love, and heare me sing')
    • B&F 11 pp. 92-3

      Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 95 (collated p. 181). Collated in Bowers, p. 352.

      Bowers, III, 277.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, III, i, 4-15. Song ('Have ye any worke for the Sow-gelder, hoa')
    • CwT 752 pp. 98-9

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 185).

      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')
    • CmT 134 p. 103

      Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

      First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though your strangenesse frets my hart'
    • LoR 9 p. 108

      Copy of the first two stanzas, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS discussed (no variants) in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 186).

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 21-2. (1930), pp. 23-4.

      Richard Lovelace, Ode. To Lucasta. The Rose ('Sweet serene skye-like Flower')
    • BrN 71 p. 112

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Spink, p. 196.

      First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')
    • FoJ 14 p. 128

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      Dyce, I, 95. Bang, p. 77 (lines 2437-46).

      John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, V, i. Song ('Fly hence, shadows, that do keep')
    • FeO 58 pp. 130-1

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1660), pp. 96-7. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 5.

      Owen Felltham, The Sun and Wind ('Why think'st thou (fool) thy Beauties rayes')
    • B&F 190 p. 148

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 39 (collated pp. 142-3).

      Dyce, V, 313. Bullen, IV, 318. Bowers, IV, 376.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, viii, 37-46. Song ('God Lyaeus, ever young')
    • StW 900 p. 150

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 188).

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

      William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')
    • B&F 6 p. 155

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

      Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')
    • B&F 53 p. 155

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, Musica Disciplina, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 189), and in Hoy, p. 584.

      Bowers, III, 545. This setting first published in John Wilson, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, III, i, 429-36. Song ('Do not feare to put thy feete')
    • DaW 45 pp. 158-9

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning The Larke forsakes her wat'ry nest.

      First published (with the refrain) in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). published (without the refrain) in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 173.

      Sir William Davenant, Song ('The Lark now leaves his watry Nest')
    • FeO 11 pp. 160-1

      Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

      Owen Felltham, The Appeal ('Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale')
    • StW 1361 p. 167

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 189-90).

      First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('Sing aloud, harmonious sphears')
    • DrM 22 pp. 186-9

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, untitled.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

      Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
    • ShJ 196 p. 5 rev.

      Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for two voices and incomplete, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

      First published, usually appended to Poems, in London, 1646. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 315-41 (p. 329). The song alone also in Armstrong, pp. 51-2.

      James Shirley, The Triumph of Beauty. Song ('Cease warring thoughts, and let his brain')
    • ShJ 196.5 pp. 6-7 rev.

      Copy of the complete song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for three voices, untitled.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

      First published, usually appended to Poems, in London, 1646. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 315-41 (p. 329). The song alone also in Armstrong, pp. 51-2.

      James Shirley, The Triumph of Beauty. Song ('Cease warring thoughts, and let his brain')
    • ShJ 201 p. 12 rev.

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 193); in Walls, loc. cit.; and in Lefkowitz, pp. 105-6. Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 281-2. Leech, p. 302, lines 719-30. Lefkowitz, p. 83. Armstrong, p. 47.

      James Shirley, The Triumph of Peace, Song 7 ('Why do you dwell so long in clouds')
    • DnJ 206 pp. 13-14 rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Shawcross, p. 84. Recorded in Gardner, pp. 243-4.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
    • ShJ 35 p. 15 rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

      James Shirley, Good Morrow ('Good morrow unto her, who in the night')
    • B&F 50 pp. 16-17 rev.

      Copy of a version, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled and here beginning Sing That doth Keep our flocks from harm.

      This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 13 (1959), 181, and in Hoy, p. 584.

      Bowers, III, 505-6.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, I, ii, 29-42. Song ('Sing his praises that doth keepe')
    • DaW 115 pp. 20-1 rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 415. Collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 194).

      Dramatic Works, I, 338. Lefkowitz, pp. 134-5. Gibbs, p. 221.

      Sir William Davenant, The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song ('Behold, how this conjunction thrives!')
  • MS Dc. 3. 76

    A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

    Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

    c.1703-9.

    Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

    Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

    • CgW 50 ff. 3r-4v

      Copy, headed On Mrs Arabella Hunt singing by Mr Congreve.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

      William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')
    • SeC 7 f. 8r

      Copy, as by Sr. Charles Sedley.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy ('Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye')
    • WaE 547 f. 9r

      Copy, headed To Mr: G. Granville on his Verses to ye King by Mr. Edmund Waller.

      First published, as To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King, in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), p. 159. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729), p. 321. Thorn-Drury, II, 111.

      Edmund Waller, To Mr. Granville (Now Lord Lansdowne), on his Verses to King James II ('An early plant! which such a blossom bears')
    • WaE 748 f. 18v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 92.

      Edmund Waller, Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombre ('The cards you tear in value rise')
    • WaE 131 f. 18v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
    • WaE 608 f. 18v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 72.

      Edmund Waller, To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of the Court at Dover ('That sun of beauty did among us rise')
    • LeN 3 ff. 37r-8v

      Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the prince & princess of Orange upon their Marriage by Mr: Nat Lee and beginning Hail, happy Warriour! hail! Those Arms have won.

      First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

      Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage ('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')
    • EtG 89 f. 52v

      Copy, as by Sr: Geo: Etherege.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

      Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady ('Sweetest bud of beauty, may')
    • CgW 9 ff. 53r-4r

      Copy, headed An Imitation of Horace by Mr: Congreve.

      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')
    • WhA 43 f. 54v

      Copy, as By Mrs Wharton.

      First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 238-9. Greer & Hastings, p. 127.

      Anne Wharton, A Song ('How hardly I conceal'd my Tears?')
    • CoA 53.5 f. 54v

      Copy, headed On his Mistriss not Loving him by [Dryden deleted] Cowley.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 119-20. Sparrow, pp. 118-19. Collected Works, II, No. 52, pp. 83-4.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 124-7.

      Abraham Cowley, The Concealment ('No. to what purpose should I speak?')
    • WaE 65 f. 57v

      Copy, as by Mr Edmond Waller.

      First published in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 63.

      Edmund Waller, Epitaph to be written under the Latin Inscription upon the Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover (''Tis fit the English reader should be told.')
    • WaE 912 ff. 57v-60v
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Extracts
    • WaE 644 f. 58r-v

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Poems (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 45-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, upon Her Majesty's Birthday, after her happy recovery from a dangerous sickness ('Farewell the year! which threatened so')
    • WaE 320 f. 58v

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

      Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')
    • WaE 229 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 241 f. 59r

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • WaE 672 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Hellen was & who can blame ye. Boy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published, in a six-line version headed To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture and beginning at line 3 (Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

      Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
    • WaE 334 f. 59v

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

      Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
    • WaE 370 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.

      Edmund Waller, On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead ('As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new')
    • WaE 257 f. 60r

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 94.

      Edmund Waller, Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty ('Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays')
    • WaE 317 f. 60r

      Copy, as by ye. same hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

      Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
    • WaE 659 f. 60v

      Copy, as by ye. same Hand [i.e. Waller].

      First published, as The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6 in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.

      Edmund Waller, To Zelinda ('Fairest piece of well-formed earth!')
    • LeN 21 ff. 60v-1v, 70v

      Extracts from works by Lee, chiefly The Rival Queens.

      Nathaniel Lee, Extracts
    • DrJ 389 ff. 61r-v, 63r-76r passim

      Extracts from works by Dryden, including extracts from Absalom and Achitophel and Dryden's Juvenal and Persius.

      Recorded in California, II, 413; IV, 781.

      John Dryden, Extracts
    • OtT 27 ff. 62r, 63r, 74r
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Otway, Extracts
    • SeC 146 ff. 62v, 67r

      Extracts, the first of four lines headed Advice.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts
    • WaE 913 ff. 62v, 64r, 71v, 76r

      Extracts from poems by Waller, headed Innocence.

      Edmund Waller, Extracts
    • RoJ 3.5 f. 64r-v

      Extracts, the first twelve lines headed Brook.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Advice ('All things submit themselves to your command')
    • BuS 0.8 ff. 64r, 66v, 67v-8r, 72r, 75r

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
    • BeA 7.5 f. 67r

      A four-line extract allegedly from Mrs Behn.

      Edited from this MS in Todd.

      First published in Todd, I (1992), No. 94, p. 358.

      Aphra Behn, Doubt ('Doubt, ye worst Tyrant of a gen'rous Mind')
    • SuJ 61 f. 72r

      Copy, headed Protestations of Love.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

      John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
    • DoC 367 f. 73r

      Copy of lines 1-5, subscribed Dors[et].

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Vision in King James's Reign ('Twas at an hour when busy nature lay')
    • WaE 656 f. 73v

      Copy, headed Painter, subscribed (Wall).

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • MaA 501.8 f. 73v

      Copy of lines 21-6.

      First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

      Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State')
    • CgW 147 ff. 74v, 76r

      Some twelve lines of extracts from Congreve on the subjects of Pleasure and Youth.

      William Congreve, Extracts
    • RoJ 254 ff. 78v-9r

      Copy, headed On a poet who writt in ye praise of Satyr by ye. Earl of Rochester and here beginning To vex & Torture thy unmeaning Brain.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 38 f. 79v

      Copy, headed The Earl of Rochester's answer to a paper of verses sent him by L B Felton taken out of ye translation of Ovid's Epistles 1680.

      First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 149. Walker, pp. 123-4. Love, p. 43.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Answer to a Paper of Verses Sent Him by Lady Betty Felton and Taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680 ('What strange surprise to meet such words as these')
    • EtG 96 ff. 79v-80r

      Copy, as by Sr. George Etheridge.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

      Sir George Etherege, Voiture's Urania ('Hopeless I languish out my days')
    • EtG 87 f. 80r-v

      Copy, as by Sr. George Etherege.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 5.

      Sir George Etherege, To a Lady Who Fled the Sight of Him ('If I my Celia could persuade')
    • CgW 14 f. 90v

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • CoA 280 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • DrJ 2.7 passim

      Extracts.

      Recorded in California, II, 413; IV, 781.

      First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

      John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')
    • MnJ 137 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts
  • MS Dc. 7. 94

    A small duodecimo pocket-book volume (c.12 x 7cm) of poems by Ben Jonson, in a single small secretary hand, written from both ends, 28 leaves, in old brown calf.

    Transcribed principally by one S. H. (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand.

    c.1680.
    • JnB 240 ff. 2r-5r

      Copy.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • JnB 527 f. 5r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.

      Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie ('This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre')
    • JnB 366 ff. 5v-6v

      Copy, headed To the Queen on her Birth-day.

      First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 239-40.

      Ben Jonson, An Ode, or Song, by all the Muses. In celebration of her Majesties birth-day ('Up publike joy, remember')
    • JnB 80 f. 6v

      Copy.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in ('Haile Mary, full of grace, it once was said')
    • JnB 71 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy.

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

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
    • JnB 56 ff. 7v-9v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.

      Ben Jonson, An Elegie On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion: of Winton ('what gentle Ghost, besprent with April deaw')
    • JnB 522 ff. 9v-11v

      Copy, headed Ode Pindarick to ye Noble Sir Lucius Cary.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

      Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison ('Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare')
    • JnB 531 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250-1.

      Ben Jonson, To the Right honble Hierome, L. Weston. An Ode gratulatorie, For his Returne from his Embassie ('Such pleasure as the teeming Earth')
    • JnB 534 f. 12r-13r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

      Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state')
    • JnB 503 f. 13r

      Copy.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.

      Ben Jonson, To my Detractor ('My verses were commended, thou dar'st say')
    • JnB 86 f. 13r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle ('When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse')
    • JnB 84 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 232-3.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle ('They talke of Fencing. and the use of Armes')
    • JnB 75 f. 14r-v

      Copy, headed To Sir Kenelme Digby an Epigram.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby ('Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well')
    • JnB 171 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy, headed His Mistresse drawne.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      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')
    • JnB 210 ff. 15r-16r

      Copy, headed Her Mind.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • JnB 348 ff. 16v-17r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

      Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
    • JnB 355 f. 17r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

      Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind')
    • JnB 288 f. 17v

      Copy, headed On a Gentle-Woman working by an Houre-glasse.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

      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')
    • JnB 609 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy, headed To ye Ladies of ye Court. An Ode.

      First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).

      Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song ('Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide')
    • JnB 375 ff. 18r-19r

      Copy.

      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')
    • JnB 720 f. 19r

      Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed Thus far Ben: Jonsons Works. 1680. FINIS.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • HrE 60 f. 19v

      Copy.

      First published in Ben Jonson, Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 19-20.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To his Friend Ben. Johnson, of his Horace made English (''Twas not enough, Ben Johnson, to be thought')
  • De. 3. 69

    Copy, chiefly in the secretary hands of two amanuenses, the list of Speakers (f. 1v) in another cursive hand, with Daniel's signed autograph presentation inscription (f. 2r), songs (ff. 9r-v, 24r), and possibly corrections, 35 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.

    Presented to Jean (or Jane) Drummond on the occasion of her marriage to Robert Ker (1570?-1650), later first Earl of Roxburgh, in February 1613/14.

    Later given to William Drummond of Hawthornden, who presented it to Edinburgh College (his booklabel and inscription, f. 1r).

    This MS recorded in Grosart, IV, lv-lvii; described and the additions printed in W.W. Greg, Hymen's Triumph and the Drummond MS, MLQ, 6 (1903), 59-64.

    Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXI(d); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 5; in Joan Rees, Samuel Daniel (Liverpool, 1964), facing pp. 158 and 159; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 21.

    • *DaS 49
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1615. Grosart, III, 325-98.

      Samuel Daniel, Hymens Triumph
  • MS De. 3. 70

    Copy.

    17th century.
    • MeE 1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Edinburgh, 1603.

      Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame ('Upon ane day as I did mourne full soir')
  • De. 4. 15

    Copious autograph annotations by Drummond throughout, the quarto volume now in modern speckled calf gilt.

    c.1607.

    MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 1037 (and a facsimile example on p. 133).

    • *DrW 349
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Estienne, Robert. Les mots francois selon lordre des lettres (Paris, 1544)
  • MS De. 5. 96

    Copy of sonnets 1-66, 87-108, and songs i, ix-xi, in one or possibly two professional secretary hands, untitled, imperfect, 53 oblong quarto leaves (plus some blanks), in 19th-century brown calf gilt.

    Made by or for Sir Edward Dymoke (c.1559-1624), of Scrivelsby and Kyme, Lincolnshire (inscribed Ed Dymoke on f. 3r).

    c.late 1580s-early 1590s.

    Later owned by William Drummond of Hawthornden, with his title-page (Astrophil and Stella Written by Sr Philip Sidney Knight, repeated on ff. 3v and blank 60r) and his record of presentation to Edinburgh College.

    This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 539-40. Facsimile of f. 10v (Sonnet 13) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VIII facing p. 273.

    • SiP 2
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
  • MS Dk. 2. 19

    Copy of Waller's will dated 12 September 1681, with its codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2] (i.e. of WaE 858), made in 1871 when it was in the custody of Coverdale, Lee, Collyer-Bristow, Withers and Russell, of 4 Bedford Row, London, and now among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.

    1871.
    • WaE 860
      No description or publication history available.
  • MS Dk .5

    Part books of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St. Andrews.

    1562-c.1592.
    • CmT 53.5 pp. 14-15

      (ii) Treble or Cantus and (iv) Bass.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxl. Vivian, pp. 185-6. Davis, p. 189.

      Thomas Campion, 'If any hath the heart to kill'
  • MS Dk. 7. 49

    A folio composite volume of Scottish verse, chiefly in three secretary hands, with rubrication, written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-367; Part II: ff. 1-146, a title-page dated 1566), in contemporary calf on wooden boards gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) W. hay. 1527; (f. 1r) This buik partinis to david andersone burger of abirdene, be gift of Mr Wm hay person of turrest. 1563.; and (f. 2r) a record of the gift of the MS to Edinburgh College by John Aikman, son of William Aikman.

    • DoG 4 Part I, ff. 2r-367v

      Copy of the complete translation, in the secretary hand of John Elphynstoun (subscribed in red ink f. 367v M Joannes Elphynstoun), untitled but beginning The proloug of ye first buik of eneados.

      This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 97-8.

      First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

      Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid ('Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte')
    • LiD 5 Part II, ff. 1r-99r

      Copy, complete with the Epistle to the Reader and Prologue, in the cursive secretary hands of William Hay and David Anderson of Aberdeen, probably transcribed, from a printed edition.

      This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

      First published [in St Andrews or Edinburgh, c.1554]. Hamer, I, 197-386.

      Sir David Lindsay, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour of the Miserabyll Estait of the Warls (The Monarche) ('Into that Park I sawe appeir')
    • LiD 7 Part II, ff. 99v-118r

      Copy, complete with the Epistle and Prologue, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen.

      This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

      First published [in Edinburgh, 1528-30?]. Hamer, I, 3-38.

      Sir David Lindsay, The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay ('Me thocht ane lady, of portratour perfyte')
    • LiD 1 Part II, ff. 118r-24r

      Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen.

      This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

      First published [in Edinburgh, 1529-30?]. Hamer, I, 39-53.

      Sir David Lindsay, The Complaynt of Schir Dauid Lindesay ('Schir, I beseik thyne Excellence')
    • LiD 2 Part II, ff. 125r-7v

      Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen.

      This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

      First published [Edinburgh, 1537]. Hamer, I, 105-12.

      Sir David Lindsay, The Deploratioun of the Deith of Quene Magdalene ('O Cruell Deith, to greit is thy puissance')
    • LiD 9 Part II, ff. 128r-44v

      Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen, subscribed (f. 144v) with his signature and (f. 145v) his inscription Dauid andersone burges of Aberdene 1563, before verses on f. 146r-v in other hands.

      This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

      First published [in Edinburgh, 1530]. Hamer, I, 55-90.

      Sir David Lindsay, The Testament and Complaynt of the Papyngo ('Suppose I had Ingyne Angelicall')
  • MS H.-P. Coll. 401

    A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham.

    c.1628-30s.

    Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

    A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

    • PoW 34 f. 9v

      Copy, headed (slightly cropped) Vpon a virtuous ...ous gentlewoman in the Defence of her blacke haire & eyes.

      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'
    • RaW 465 f. 12r

      Copy, headed in the margin Dialogue.

      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'
    • HeR 121 ff. 12v-13v

      Copy, subscribed R J.

      First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
    • HeR 276 ff. 13v-15r

      Copy, subscribed R. J.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

      Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
    • BrW 10 f. 31v

      Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed A Nosegay of Poses, wth a Nettle in it and here beginning Such is the poesye loue composes.

      Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
    • JnB 573 f. 36r

      Copy.

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels: The Epilogue ('Gentles be't knowne to you, since I went in')
    • HoJ 223 f. 43rbis

      Copy, headed Vpon Carr. l. of Somerset & Sr francis Bacon then l. keepr lord Verulam, here beginning Great Verulame is very lame the gout of toe not feeling.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
    • RaW 406 f. 43r*bis

      Copy.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • DrW 117.3 f. 51r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon the kings five Sences.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • WiG 39 f. 56r

      Copy, docketed Withers verses.

      Eight lines, unpublished.

      George Wither, 'my mind's my Kdome & I will pmitt'
    • StW 804 f. 56r

      Copy, headed vpo a faire gentlewoman walking in the fields to meete her louer the heauens sowing vpo her. his verses to her therevpo.

      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')
    • HoJ 173 f. 56v

      Copy, headed in the margin Nosense and here beginning Even as the Waues of breaneles batterd fish.

      Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.

      John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins ('Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish')
    • WiG 41 f. 61r

      Copy.

      Ten quatrains, unpublished.

      George Wither, Withers song he made in prison ('I who ere whiles the worelds sweet aire did draw')
    • RnT 7 f. 62r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Deere doe not yr faire beuty wrong.

      First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong')
    • BcF 25 f. 62r

      Copy, headed in the margin Sr fr. Baco, with a heading at the top of the page Sr fr. Bacons verses vpo mans brittle & fickle estate.

      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'
    • RaW 347 f. 62v

      Copy of the two verses, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs ieste vpo Noell & Noell vpo his name.

      First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
    • PeW 278 f. 64v

      Copy, untitled.

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
    • DnJ 1088 f. 70v

      Copy of lines 41-4, 17-20, 53-62, headedin the margin Epitaphe and here beginning Of what small spots pure white coplaines alas.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DaJ 192 f. 72v

      Copy, headed in infantem.

      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')
    • JnB 447 f. 73r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
    • JnB 438 f. 73r

      Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes ('Follow a shaddow, it still flies you')
    • JnB 546 f. 73r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.

      Ben Jonson, To the Same ('Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer')
    • JnB 1 f. 73v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Diuerse Poetical Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (x) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 107-8.

      Ben Jonson, 'And must I sing? what subiect shall I chuse?'
    • JnB 458 f. 73v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • BaJ 1.8 ff. 75r-8v

      Extracts, headed collections out of the Acts of John Bale English votarie.

      First published in Wesel [i.e. London], 1546.

      John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaryes
    • CmT 188 f. 84v

      Copy, headed The song of Dido sung to k. James whe he was at Broome castle in Westmrland.

      First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

      Thomas Campion, A Ballad ('Dido was the Carthage Queene')
    • HrJ 92 f. 100v

      Copy, headed in the margin vpo a certaine man.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • RaW 182 f. 102r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rayleyes last Eligie, here beginning Like Hermite poore in pensiue place obscure.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 57B, p. 136. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
    • CwT 577 f. 102v

      Copy, headed A lovers verses vpon a sigh wch he sent by the winde vnto his mris.

      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')
    • EaJ 77 ff. 103r-4v

      Extracts from 29 characters, headed Blounts characters.

      First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

    • CoR 746 f. 104v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Like to the 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')
    • CoH 78 f. 105v

      Copy, headed H. Constables verses of his mris vpo occasion of her walking in a garden.

      First published, as Sonnetto decisette, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 130.

      Henry Constable, The thyrd 7 of seuerall occasions and accidents happening in the life tyme of his loue Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of her walking in a garden. Sonet 1. ('My Ladies presence makes the roses red')
    • CoH 89 f. 105v

      Copy, headed Vpon ocasion of his mris gloue wch in her absence he kissed, here beginning Sweetest hand....

      First published, as Sonnetto vinti, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 131.

      Henry Constable, To his Ladies hand vpon occasion of her gloue which in her absence he kissed. Sonet 2. ('Sweet hand the sweet (yet cruell) bowe thow art')
    • CwT 280 f. 106r

      Copy, headed Vpon a flye an epitaphe writt by T.C..

      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')
    • StW 805 f. 110r

      Copy, headed Vpon his mris walking in the 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')
    • CwT 281 f. 110r

      Copy, headed Vpon a flye kild in a gentlewomans eye.

      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 578 f. 110r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Goe you gentle whisling 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')
    • CwT 82 f. 110v

      Copy, headed The K. charles verses vpon the Queene his consort.

      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')
    • RnT 424 f. 111r

      Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed Randolph's Aristippus.

      First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

      Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher