Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection

  • MS La. II. 69

    An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.

    • TiC 30 f. 24r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed finis qd Chidiok Ticburne, on the recto side of a single folio leaf.

      Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

      First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
    • TiC 1 f. 24r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed Chidiock Ticburne, on the recto side of a single folio leaf.

      Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

      Hirsch, p. 308.

      Chidiock Tichborne, The Housedove ('A silly housedove happed to fall')
    • TiC 47 f. 24v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed Chidiok Tichburne, on the verso side of a single folio leaf.

      Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

      Hirsch, p. 307.

      Chidiock Tichborne, To his Friend ('Good sorrow cease, false hope be gone, misfortune once farewell')
    • DrW 16 ff. 43r, 44r, 45r, 46r

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

      This MS not recorded in Kastner.

      First published [in Edinburgh?, 1645?]. Kastner, II, 321-6, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 120.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam ('Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea')

  • MS La. II. 89

    An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.

    Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.

    • RoJ 433 f. 229r-v

      Copy, untitled, among other verse on the second leaf of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      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')
    • RoJ 227 f. 248r

      Copy, headed Verses made by the Earle of Rotchester against the Popish Indulgences, subscribed For My Lord ffountan hall These, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso inscribed in another hand with a message to My Lord signed Ja. Nicolson and dated from Edinburgh 28 April 1694.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

  • MS La. II. 320

    Autograph, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

    • *DrW 95
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Dum tua melliflui specto pigmenta Libelli'

  • MS La. II. 333/2

    Copy of Sonnettes &c., in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves.

    Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed Jo. Hiltoun (fl. c.1627-30) which in 1800 was in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian].

    26 February 1800.
    • CmT 185.5 f. 4r

      Copy, transcribed from fol. 20 of the original songbook.

      First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

      Thomas Campion, 'As on a day Sabina fell asleepe'
    • CmT 189 f. [4bisr]

      Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 22 of the original songbook.

      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')
    • CmT 51 f. 5r

      Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 19 of the original songbook.

      First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

      Thomas Campion, 'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love'
    • CmT 240 f. 7r

      Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 6 of the original songbook.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

      Thomas Campion, 'What is a day, what is a yeere'

  • MS La. II. 358

    Unbound folder of MS verse.

    Collected by David Laing (1793-1878), Scottish antiquary, collector and librarian.

    • SpE 66 f. 6r

      MS of a fourteen-line commendatory poem on The Faerie Queene, headed Will: Justice:, beginning I thought no lesse but that some power divine, and subscribed Upon the Author At his bookes of the ffayery Queenes first comeinge to the presse, written by a prissoner.

      Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Joseph Black, Pan is Hee: Commending The Faerie Queene, Spenser Studies, 15 (2001), 121-34, where it is suggested that the author might be the poet Thomas Watson (1555/6-92). This attribution is supported in D. Allen Carroll, Thomas Watson and the 1588 MS Commendation of The Faerie Queene: Reading the Rebuses, Spenser Studies, 16 (2002), 104-24, with another facsimile on p. 118.

      Edmund Spenser, Commendatory verses on Spenser

  • MS La. II. 411

    Copy, in a single hand, transcribed from a printed source, eleven quarto leaves (plus five blanks), disbound.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS recorded in Brown, I, 398; also in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 149, and in Brown, HLQ (1974), p. 334.

    • HaG 2
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, anonymously, [in London, 1688]. Foxcroft, II, 425-6. Brown, I, 265-90.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Anatomy of an Equivalent

  • MS La. II. 655

    Fragment of a copy, in a formal secretary hand, with rubrication, comprising three unbound quarto leaves containing Book I, Chapter II, lines 13-68 (here beginning With cesptoure in hand...); Chapter III, lines 1-19, 76-100; Chapter IV, lines 1-35; and Chapter VIII, lines 7-70.

    c.1530.

    This MS recorded in Coldwell, I, 100-1.

    • DoG 8
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • MS La. III. 75

    Autograph calligraphic MS, 35 quarto leaves (180 x 142 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound).

    A presentation New Year's Gift to Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), poet and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince Henry, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in italic and Roman scripts, without decoration.

    1 January 1608.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) Mr Robt Wonram his book.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 34 (p. 63).

    • *InE 57
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      An English translation of Yves Rouspeau, Traitté de la préparation à la saincte Cène de Nostre seul Sauveur et Rédempteur Jésus Christ.

      Esther Inglis, A Treatise of preparation to the Holy Supper of our only Saviour and redeemer Jes' Christ...Translated out of French in Inglishe...By Bartholomew Kello...[1608]

  • MS La. III. 249

    Autograph calligraphic MS, in a principally italic script, the title-page with colour decoration, with Hume's Dedication to King James VI and Prince Henry, 38 quarto leaves (200 x 160 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

    12 October [i.e. 20 September] 1605.

    Owned in 1867 by David Laing.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 20 (pp. 49-50).

    • *InE 59
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The second (unpublished) part of a treatise by the Latin poet and historian David Hume (1560?-1630?), the first part of which was published in 1605.

      Esther Inglis, Vincula Unionis sive scita Britannicae id est De Unione insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus. Per Davidem Humium Theagrium. [1605]

  • MS La. III. 256

    A quarto composite volume of tracts and papers on state and ecclesiastical matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, unpaginated, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

    Owned in September 1836 by David Laing.

    • MnJ 51 item 13

      Copy, in a single mixed hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1641, on eleven quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 405.

      First published in London, 1641. Columbia, III, Part 1, 81-104. Yale, I, 618-52.

      John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy

  • MS La. III. 347

    A quarto composite volume, comprising eleven autograph letters signed by Elizabeth Melville, in her small italic hand, on pages of various size, with address panels and traces of red wax seals, iii + 19 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

    Written to the Presbyterian minister John Livingstone (8), to her son James (2) and to the Countess of Wigton (1).

    c.1625-31.

    Inscribed (f. [iv]) Chas: Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with a title-page by him (f. [iir]) dated 1826, and inscribed by Laing (f. [iv]) David Laing Novr 1851 / This Volume presented to me by Mrs Bedford, Sister to the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Esqr.

    • *MeE 4
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Elizabeth Melville, Letter(s)

  • MS La. III. 348

    A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BcF 368 pp. 1-31

      Copy of Bacon's speech, 7 May 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 369 pp. 33-73

      Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of the Earl of Somerset.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 161 pp. 77-99

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

      Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
    • BcF 610 pp. 101-72, 192-220

      Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Robert Cecil, Ellesmere, James I, Essex, Davies, Northumberland, Edward Coke, Toby Mathew, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 185 pp. 173-92

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • BcF 473 pp. 221-9

      Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

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

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • MS La. III. 365

    A folio volume of transcripts made by William Drummond of letters from Queen Elizabeth to James VI of Scotland, 23 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • *DrW 74 f. [22v]
      Autograph

      Autograph poetical jottings, beginning aboue the circuit/circle of our thoughts.

      Hitherto unpublished, but see DrW 000.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Circuit aboue the circle of our thoughts'

  • MS La. III. 398

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 70 tall folio pages, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1620s.
    • DaJ 271
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS La. III. 432

    A sextodecimo pocket notebook, for the most part in a single small mixed hand, largely written across the page with the spine to the top, including 31 poems by George Herbert transcribed from the sixth edition of The Temple (Cambridge, 1641), 103 leaves, in 19th-century diced brown calf.

    Compiled by Andrew Symson (1639-1712), usher of the Grammar School of Stirling, afterwards parson of Kerkinner in Wigton. Including (ff. 21r-53v) 31 poems transcribed by him in 1671 from the sixth edition of George Herbert's The Temple (Cambridge, 1641).

    c.1664-91.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) William Stirling. Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet, and (f. 102v) his signature. Inscribed (f. [iv]) as bought at Pinkerton's sale in 1812 (Sotheby's, April 1812). Bookplate of George Chalmers, FRSSA (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer. Inscribed by Laing Bought at the Sale of Mr Chalmers's Library Novr 1842. No. 1643.

    • JnB 592 f. 18v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
    • HrG 55.2 f. 21r

      Copy of the first two stanzas, a false start, incomplete.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 55.5 ff. 22r-31v

      Copy of the complete poem, subscribed Transcripsi April. 4. 1671. Die Martis. A.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 210.5 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy, inscribed Herberts. Temple pag. 43.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

      George Herbert, Prayer (I) ('Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age')
    • HrG 134.8 f. 32r-v

      Copy, inscribed Herb: Templ. pag. 50.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

      George Herbert, The H. Scriptures ('Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart')
    • HrG 136.5 f. 32v

      Copy, headed 2.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

      George Herbert, The H. Scriptures. II. ('Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine')
    • HrG 69.5 f. 33r-v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 60.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

      George Herbert, Content ('Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep')
    • HrG 145.8 ff. 33v-4v

      Copy, inscribed Herb: Temp. p. 61.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

      George Herbert, Humilitie ('I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand')
    • HrG 66.5 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, inscribed Herb: temp. p. 63.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.

      George Herbert, Constancie ('Who is the honest man?')
    • HrG 253.8 ff. 35v-6v

      Copy, inscribed Herb: Temp: page. 66.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.

      George Herbert, Sunday ('O day most calm, most bright')
    • HrG 24.5 f. 37r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 69.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

      George Herbert, Avarice ('Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo')
    • HrG 14.7 f. 37r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 69.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

      George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram ('How well her name an Army doth present')
    • HrG 265.5 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, inscribed H. T. p. 69.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.

      George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints ('Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands')
    • HrG 100.8 f. 38r

      Extract, beginning at line 21 (Oh that I were an Orenge-tree), subscribed Transc: Kr. April. 18. 1671.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.

      George Herbert, Employment (II) ('He that is weary, let him sit')
    • HrG 61.8 f. 38v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Templ. p. 77.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

      George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God ('My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion')
    • HrG 212.8 f. 38v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 95.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

      George Herbert, Prayer (II) ('Of what an easie quick accesse')
    • HrG 64.8 f. 39r-v

      Copy, inscribed Templ. p. 98.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.

      George Herbert, Conscience ('Peace pratler, do not lowre')
    • HrG 30.8 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Tem. p. 102, subscribed Tranc: Kr. Apr. 18. 1671.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.

      George Herbert, The British Church ('I joy, deare Mother, when I view')
    • HrG 216.5 ff. 40v-3v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 109.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

      George Herbert, Providence ('O sacred Providence, who from end to end')
    • HrG 116.8 f. 44r-v

      Copy, inscribed Herb: Temp. p. 119.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.

      George Herbert, Giddinesse ('Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power')
    • HrG 181.5 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 126.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 133-4.

      George Herbert, The Method ('Poore heart, lament')
    • HrG 105.5 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 128.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

      George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c ('And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove')
    • HrG 244.8 f. 46v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. pag. 131.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.

      George Herbert, The Size ('Content thee, greedie heart')
    • HrG 159.8 ff. 46v-7r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 135.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.

      George Herbert, Justice (II) ('O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour')
    • HrG 214.5 ff. 47r-8r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. pag. 154.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.

      George Herbert, The Priesthood ('Blest Order, which in power dost so excell')
    • HrG 124.8 f. 48r-v

      Copy, inscribed Ex Herb. Temp. p. 158.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.

      George Herbert, Grief ('O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs')
    • HrG 89.8 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. pag. 161.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.

      George Herbert, Dotage ('False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse')
    • HrG 273.5 f. 49r-v

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p. 167.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 172-3.

      George Herbert, The 23d Psalme ('The God of love my shepherd is')
    • HrG 191.5 ff. 49v-50r

      Copy, inscribed Ex Herb. Temp. p. 169.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.

      George Herbert, The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 ('How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!')
    • HrG 146.2 ff. 50r-1r

      Copy, inscribed Herb. Temp. p 174.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.

      George Herbert, The Invitation ('Come ye hither All, whose taste')
    • HrG 27.8 ff. 51r-2r

      Copy, inscribed Herb: Temp: pag. 175.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.

      George Herbert, The Banquet ('Welcome sweet and sacred cheer')
    • HrG 76.8 f. 52r-v

      Copy, inscribed Ex Herb: Temp. pag. 180.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.

      George Herbert, Death ('Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing')
    • HrG 83.8 f. 53r-v

      Copy, inscribed H. Temp. p. 164, subscribed Kr: Maij. 12o. 1671. transc. 6. fol. postere A. S.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

      George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme ('Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?')

  • MS La. III. 436

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf.

    c.1630s-40s.

    Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

    • CwT 141 pp. 5-6

      Copy, headed Sonnet. 2, here beginning We read of Godes, and kinges that kyndlie tooke.

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

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • DnJ 993 p. 6

      Copy of poem ix of the Epithalamion, headed Bryds goeing to bed and here beginning What meanest thow bryde this companie to keepe.

      This MS recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

      John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
    • JnB 593 p. 7

      Copy, headed in the margin Sonnet 4.

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

      Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
    • JnB 172 pp. 8-9

      Copy, headed The Bodie.

      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 211 pp. 9-11

      Copy, headed The Minde, subscribed Ben: Joh:.

      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')
    • CwT 782 p. 15

      Copy, headed A graue, to bury those killed by the eye and here beginning In your fair cheeckes two pitts there bee.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • CwT 83 p. 18

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      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')
    • SuJ 82 p. 20

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

      John Suckling, Upon A.M. ('Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy')
    • RaW 523 pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed Songe.

      This MS collated in Gullans.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • WoH 94 pp. 24-5

      Copy of a version headed in another hand Alterations of Sir Henry Wotton's Verses,Bal. 2. 312, here beginning Yow minor beautyes of the night.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • MoG 23 pp. 25-6

      Copy, headed On the lait king James of blissed memorie.

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

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

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • HrJ 144 p. 58

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • LoT 4 pp. 72-3

      Copy, here beginning Now I see thy Loue is fained.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained')
    • CmT 190 pp. 75-6

      Copy, headed Dido, here beginning Dido was a Carthage queene.

      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')
    • CmT 52 pp. 76-7

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

      Thomas Campion, 'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love'
    • FeO 30 p. 78

      Copy, headed Vpon Absence.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

      Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')
    • HeR 86 p. 79

      Copy, headed A Curse, here beginning O periured man, and if ye ere returne

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

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • CwT 356 pp. 79-80

      Copy, headed A worlds Wonder.

      First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

      Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris ('You, that will a wonder know')
    • DaW 20 pp. 82-3

      Copy, headed A New years Gift.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

      Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
    • CwT 282 pp. 83-4

      Copy, headed Vpon a fflie.

      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')
    • RaW 386 p. 99

      Copy of an eight-line version, headed Epitaph E. Lester and here beginning Heir Lyes ane waliant Wariour | Who never drew his sworde.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
    • StW 806 p. 100

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • CmT 223 pp. 103-4

      Copy, untitled.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • WiG 3 pp. 111-13

      Copy, headed in a later hand The Shepherd's Resolution. Bal. 111. 190, here beginning Shall I wrastle in despair.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
    • RaW 183 pp. 114-15

      Copy, headed in a later hand The despairing Lover, here beginning Lyke hermit pure in pensiue place obscure.

      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')
    • WoH 238 pp. 115-16

      Copy, headed D: Dun's fairrweell.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • CmT 155 p. 117-18

      Copy, untitled, here beginning When to her lute my Mistres singes.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

      Thomas Campion, 'When to her lute Corrina sings'
    • CmT 180 p. 118

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.

      Thomas Campion, 'And would you see my Mistris face?'
    • DrM 49 p. 119

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      First published as Amour 12 in a version beginning Some Atheist or vile Infidel in love in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). A version beginning Some misbeleeving, and prophane in Love first published, as sonnet 35 of Idea, in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, I, 103. II, 328 (sonnet 35).

      Michael Drayton, 'Some misbeleeving, and prophane in Love'
    • CwT 525 pp. 119-20

      Copy, headed Pastoral Song.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • KiH 68 p. 121-2

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • DrM 43 p. 126

      Copy, headed Sonnet No and I.

      First published, as sonnet 8, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313 (sonnet 5).

      Michael Drayton, 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'

  • MS La. III. 439

    Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 52 leaves (96 x 128 mm.).

    A presentation MS to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, but without a Dedication, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures, very imperfect.

    1607.

    Owned in 1865 by David Laing.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 30 (pp. 59-60).

    • *InE 42
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

      Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac dediez a tresillustre et tresnoble Seigneur, monseigneur le Conte de Salisberrie, pour ses estrennes, de l'an 1607 Escrit et illuminé par moi Esther Inglis

  • MS La. III. 440

    Autograph calligraphic MS, ii + 84 leaves (90 x 130 mm.), in contemporary vellum gilt.

    In various styles of script.

    1592.

    Bought from a Leipzig bookdealer by David Laing in 1865.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 4 (pp. 30-1), with facsimiles of ff. 78r and 83r as Plates 3 and 4 (between pp. 42 and 43).

    • *InE 13
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A French treatise by Pierre du Val (d.1564), Bishop of Sées, first published in 1555, with Latin verses by Nicholas Langlois.

      Esther Inglis, Livret traittant de la Grandeur de Dieu, et de la Cognoissance qu'on peut avoir de luy par ses oevres. Escrit par Esther Langlois, fille Françoise, de Dieppe. M.D.XCII.

  • MS La. III. 444

    A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf.

    Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r.

    c.1625-30.
    • DaJ 102 ff. 1r-25v, 29r-30v

      Copy of Davies's translation of Psalms 1-50, in a neat cursive secretary hand, headed The Psalmes translated into verse Ano. 1624, and of Psalms 67, 91, 95, 100, 103 and 150 in another cursive secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in yet another hand.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 245-96.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 363-443. Krueger, pp. 245-96.

      Sir John Davies, The Psalmes
    • DaJ 75 f. 27r

      Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 447. Krueger, p. 238.

      Sir John Davies, Of Faith the First Theologicall Vertue ('Faith is a sunbeame of th' Aeternall light')
    • DaJ 103 f. 27r-v

      Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 448-9. Krueger, pp. 239-40.

      Sir John Davies, A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids Concerninge that which Addeth Most Perfection to that Sexe ('Our fairest Garland, made of beautyes flowers')
    • DaJ 63 f. 31r

      Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 449-50. Krueger, p. 240.

      Sir John Davies, A Maids Hymne in Praise of Virginity ('Sacred virginity, unconquered Queene')
    • DaJ 101 f. 31v

      Copy, in a rounded secretary hand, incomplete.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 451-2. Krueger, pp. 241-2.

      Sir John Davies, Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage ('When the first man from Paradice was driven')
    • DaJ 107 ff. 33v-4r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To the Q:.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 457-9. Krueger, pp. 242-3.

      Sir John Davies, To the Queen ('What Musicke shall we make to you')
    • DaJ 108 f. 34r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 459. Krueger, p. 233.

      Sir John Davies, To the Ladyes of Founthill ('Ladyes of Founthill, I am come to seeke')
    • DaJ 112 f. 34r-v

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460. Krueger, pp. 233-4.

      Sir John Davies, Upon a Paire of Garters ('Go loveinge woode-bynd, clip with lowly grace')
    • DaJ 104 f. 34v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460-1. Krueger, p. 234.

      Sir John Davies, A Sonnet sent with a Booke ('In this sweete booke, the treasury of witt')
    • DaJ 20 f. 34v

      Copy of lines 1-12, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      Krueger, pp. 144-5.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 36. Of Tobacco ('Homer of Moly, and Nepenthe sings')
    • DaJ 2 ff. 35r, 32r-3v

      Copy of four elegies in an irregular sequence, in two hands, incomplete.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 462-3, 453-7. Krueger, pp. 192-7.

      Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love ('Like as the divers fretchled Butter flye')
    • DaJ 36 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy of an early, 60-line version, headed To the kinge. Vpon his Maties first coming into England.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I, (1869), 463-6. Krueger, pp. 228-30.

      Sir John Davies, The Kinges Welcome ('O nowe or never gentle muse, be gaye')
    • DaJ 109 f. 40r-v

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 466-7. Krueger, p. 231.

      Sir John Davies, To the Queene at the Same Time ('If wee in peace had not received the Kings')
    • DaJ 1 f. 40v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, pp. 231-2.

      Sir John Davies, Charles his Waine ('Brittaine doth under those bright starres remaine')
    • DaJ 64 f. 40v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, p. 231.

      Sir John Davies, Mira Loquor Sol Occubuit Nox Nulla Secuta Est ('By that Eclipse which darned our Apollo')
    • DaJ 76 f. 40v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 232.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468. Krueger, p. 232.

      Sir John Davies, Of the Name of Charolus, Being the Diminative of Charus ('The name of Charles, darlinge signifies')
    • DaJ 123 f. 41r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

      First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468-9. Krueger, pp. 232-3.

      Sir John Davies, Verses Sent to the Kinge with Figges By Sir John Davis ('To add unto the first mans happiness')
    • KiH 69 f. 43v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1869), p. 470.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')

  • MS La. III. 468

    An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked).

    Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

    c.1694-1740.

    Inscribed (inside the front cver) Tho: Jesson His Book 1694; (ff. ir, 5v) S Harriott 1740, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed Sarah Harriott.

    Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Jesson MS: CwT Δ 23.

    • CwT 972 f. iv

      Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • CwT 884 f. 1r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • DrJ 276 f. 2v

      Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand.

      California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 266-7.

      John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act V, scene ii, lines 150-65. Song ('Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling')
    • DrJ 272 f. 3r

      Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand, untitled.

      First published in London, 1691. California, XVI (1996), pp. 1-69 (pp. 57-74). Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 123-301 (pp. 184-5). Kinsley, II, 574. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 263.

      John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act IV, scene ii, lines 57-74. Song ('How happy the Lover')
    • StW 1108 f. 4r

      Copy of lines 15-20, headed The Dart and here beginning Oft when I look I may descry.

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

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • CwT 454 f. 9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song ('Give me more love, or more disdaine')
    • BeA 22 f. 39r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI, 389. Todd, I, No. 92, p. 356.

      Aphra Behn, Verses design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent herself to cure her Love. Left unfinishd ('In vain to Woods and Deserts I retire')
    • CgW 51 ff. 42r, 43r

      Copy, headed Upon A Lady's singing Pindarick Ode; 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')
    • CwT 1000 ff. 49r, 50r, 51r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • CwT 405 f. 52r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
    • CwT 181 f. 57r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

      Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
    • CwT 794 f. 58r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris ('If when the Sun at noone displayes')
    • CwT 687 f. 59r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • CwT 936 ff. 59r, 60r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
    • CwT 906 f. 60r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
    • CwT 1090 ff. 61r, 62r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 1172 f. 62r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

      Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse ('Fate's now growne mercifull to men')
    • CwT 1056 f. 63r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

      Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
    • StW 1109 f. 63r

      Copy of lines 15-20, headed The Dart and here beginning Oft when I looke I may descry, deleted.

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

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • CwT 1277 f. 64r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

      Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
    • CwT 860 f. 65r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • CwT 1195 f. 65rbis

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • CwT 965 f. 66r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind ('Wonder not though I am blind')
    • CwT 944 ff. 66r, 67r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
    • CwT 958 f. 67r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
    • CwT 362 f. 68r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
    • CwT 1175 ff. 68r, 69r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
    • CwT 1106 f. 69r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
    • CwT 339 f. 70r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • CwT 347 ff. 70r, 71r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

      Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue ('Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de')
    • CwT 442 f. 72r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

      Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason ('Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames')
    • CwT 1021 ff. 73r, 74r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 81-2.

      Thomas Carew, To a Lady that desired I would love her ('Now you have freely given me leave to love')
    • CwT 58 ff. 96r, 97r

      Copy.

      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')
    • WaE 590 f. 98r

      Copy.

      First published, as To the wife being marryed to that old man, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

      Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')

  • MS La. III. 483

    Three small quarto musical part books of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board).

    c.1575-early 17th century.

    For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.

    • CmT 224 (i) pp. 189-90; (ii) pp. 178-9; (iii) pp. 183-5

      Copies, in a musical setting, the lyrics in secretary script, untitled.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • CmT 11 (ii) p. 179; (ii) p. 194

      Copies of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
    • NaT 13 (ii) p. 184; (iii) p. 200

      Copies of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Doughtie (p. 481).

      First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

      Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')
    • WoH 95 (ii) p. 185; (i) pp. 192-3; (iii) pp. 194, 202

      Copies of the incipit only, here You meaner beauties: &c., in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • CmT 193 (i) p. 191; (iii) p. 190

      Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      These MSS recorded in Davis, p. 508.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate'
    • CmT 41 (iii) p. 187

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. ix. Davis, p. 95.

      Thomas Campion, 'Good men, shew, if you can tell'
    • CmT 148 (iii) p. 187

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. iii. Davis, p. 137.

      Thomas Campion, 'Were my hart as some mens are, thy errours would not move me'
    • SoR 146 (iii) p. 188

      Copy of line 25 only, here With my love my lyf was nestled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • CmT 119 (iii) p. 188

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. iii. Davis, p. 170.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved'
    • CmT 158 (iii) p. 188

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 49

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

      Thomas Campion, 'Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?'
    • BrN 18 Bassus, p. 189

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

      Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon ('Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)')
    • CmT 64 Bassus, p. 190

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvii. Davis, p. 163.

      Thomas Campion, 'Never love unlesse you can'
    • CmT 135 (iii) p. 190

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded 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'
    • CmT 55 (iii) p. 191

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

      Thomas Campion, 'If Love loves truth, then women doe not love'
    • CmT 5 (iii) p. 191

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. x. Davis, p. 144-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Breake now my heart and dye! Oh no, she may relent'
    • CmT 141 (iii) p. 191

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre'
    • CmT 3 (iii) p. 192

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxii. Davis, pp. 190-2.

      Thomas Campion, 'Beauty, since you so much desire'
    • CmT 143 (iii) p. 192

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xx. Davis, p. 188.

      Thomas Campion, 'Turne all thy thoughts to eyes'
    • CmT 146 (iii) p. 192

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.

      Thomas Campion, 'Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love'
    • CmT 69 (iii) p. 192

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ii. Davis, p. 169.

      Thomas Campion, 'Respect my faith, regard my service past'
    • CmT 83 (iii) p. 193

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxv. Davis, p. 161.

      Thomas Campion, 'Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me'
    • CmT 150 (iii) p. 193

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

      Thomas Campion, 'What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?'
    • CmT 75 (iii) p. 193

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxix. Davis, p. 165.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I then hope when faith is fled'
    • CmT 79 (iii) p. 193

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

      Thomas Campion, 'Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely'
    • CmT 168 (ii) p. 194

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.

      First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
    • B&F 89 (iii) pp. 200-1

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 60-1 (collated pp. 154-6).

      Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
    • JnB 35 (iii) p. 201

      Copy of line 21 only, here Heav you seen but a bright lillie grow, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-3.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')

  • MS La. III. 488

    An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf.

    Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, Sr William Maur: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) Robert Muire ist my hand; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, Thomas Lyle Surgeon.

    c.1600s-20.
    • CmT 194 f. 12r

      Copy of the incipit with a musical setting.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate'
    • CmT 241 f. 12v

      Copy of the incipit only, here What is a day, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

      Thomas Campion, 'What is a day, what is a yeere'
    • HnR 34 f. 24v

      Copy of the incipit only, here O mortill man, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Wood, p. xxx.

      Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.

      Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis ('O sinfull man, in to this mortall se')
    • CmT 101 f. 26r

      Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.

      Thomas Campion, 'There is a Garden in her face'
    • GrF 4.8 f. 26v

      Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 469.

      This sonnet first published in John Dowland, First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Bullough, I, 104. Wilkes, II, 114-15.

      Fulke Greville, Caelica, Sonnet lii ('Away with these self-louing lads')

  • MS La. III. 490

    An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

    Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

    Mid-17th century.

    Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

    • CmT 225 pp. 18-21

      Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • CmT 195 p. 31

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate'
    • HeR 239 p. 33

      Copy of the first two lines, 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')
    • WoH 96 pp. 63-4

      Copy of an untitled version in eight three-line stanzas, here beginning Yow minor beawties of the night, in a musical setting, subscribed finis Coronet opus Joannes Squyer.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • LoT 5 p. 73

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Now I see thy looks were fained.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained')
    • CmT 12 p. 75

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
    • CmT 246 p. 77

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

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 507.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.

      Thomas Campion, 'Whether men doe laugh or weepe'
    • CmT 24 pp. 80-1

      Copy of a parodied version of Campion's song, in his musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 500.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

      Thomas Campion, 'Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me'

  • MS La. III. 493

    A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (f. 134v) Anthony Methuen. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Laing MS: DnJ Δ 47.

    • RaW 728.185 ff. 29r, 32r

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 54 f. 32r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • RaW 776 ff. 32r-3v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RnT 426 ff. 49r-55r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Pedler and subscribed Randall, on seven folio leaves of text, ff. 49r and the blank 56v inscribed 7 August 1629 the Pedlar.

      This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, Manuscript Plays of the Seventeenth Century, TLS (4 October 1934), p. 675, and in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 974-6.

      First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.

      Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar
    • ShJ 21 f. 77r

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on the Duke of Buckingham.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.

      James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham ('Here lies the best and worst of Fate')
    • DnJ 3671 f. 88r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 3013 ff. 88v-9r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • DnJ 1845 f. 89v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning When last I dyed, & Deare I dye, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 2303 f. 90r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 309 f. 90v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

      John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
    • DnJ 3743 f. 91r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 1814 f. 92r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 391 ff. 92v-4r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • JnB 113 f. 94r

      Copy, subscribed BJ.

      First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
    • DnJ 1078 ff. 94v-5v

      Copy, headed Elegye on ye death of ye La: Markam, subscribed J. D.

      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')
    • DnJ 1020 ff. 95v-6v

      Copy, headed Elegie on ye death of Mrs. S: Bulstred, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • BmF 70 ff. 97r-8r

      Copy, headed Elegye on ye La: Mas: death, subscribed fra: B:.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • BmF 15 ff. 98r-9r

      Copy, headed To ye Couns. of Rutlande, subscribed F. B.

      First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
    • DnJ 601 ff. 99v-100r

      Copy, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 145 ff. 100v-1r

      Copy, headed Vpon ye passion & Annunciacon falling bothe on one day. 1618, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.

      John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
    • DnJ 3534 ff. 101v-2r

      Copy, headed The Countesse of Bedforde, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
    • DnJ 3500 ff. 102r-3r

      Copy, subscribed Donne.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 3420 ff. 103v-4r

      Copy, headed To Sr. He: Wotton.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

      John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice ('After those reverend papers, whose soule is')
    • DnJ 800 ff. 104v-5v

      Copy, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 3919 ff. 105v-6r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 2055 ff. 106v-7r

      Copy, headed The dyett, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 507 f. 107r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • DnJ 3080 ff. 108r-9r

      Copy, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • BmF 41 ff. 109v-11r

      Copy, headed An Elegye vpon the deathe of the Countesse of Rutlande, subscribed F B.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
    • BcF 26 f. 116r

      Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

      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'
    • ShJ 113 ff. 116v-17r

      Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

      James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')

  • MS La. III. 501

    A folio volume principally of scullery and kitchen accounts, largely in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern calf (repaired).

    Probably connected with the Royal Establishment and kept by David Young, servant of the Scullery, who was presumably related to Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), royal tutor and diplomat, who is cited in the volume at least twice.

    c.1628-38.
    • RaW 777 ff. 65r-6v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sir walter Rauleighes speech at his execution who was beheaded at The old palleice at westminster the 28. of october 1618. betuin the hower of 8 & 9. in the morning theis Lords being prt....

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 921 ff. 66v-7v

      Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 55 f. 67v

      Copy, headed in the margin his Epith.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • MS La. III. 522

    An oblong quarto composite autograph volume, in various styles of script, with decoration and pen-and-ink figures, 36 leaves (paper sizes varying from 110 x 150mm. to 290 x 365mm.).

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Later owned by the advocate David Constable and bought at the D. Speare sale of Constable's library, 13 December 1828, lot 2973, by David Laing.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 6 (pp. 32-3), with facsimiles of ff. 8r and 28r as Plates 7 and 8 (between pp. 42 and 43).

    • *InE 55
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Letters, elaborate drawings, decoration, and moral sentences in English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek, including texts by William Gedde, Cicero (translated into Greek by Jacobus Dorsannus), and other material.

      Esther Inglis, Specimens of various styles of writing [II]

  • MS La. III. 525

    The octavo album amicorum of George Craig, of Edinburgh, with inscriptions in numerous hands, 182 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    1602-5.
    • *InE 60 f. 8r
      Autograph

      Autograph inscription by Esther Inglis, in italic scripts, in French and English, addressed to her intime amy et tres-aimé frere M. G. C., dated from London, 8 August 1604, facing one of the same date (f. 7v) by her husband Bartholomew Kello.

      Edited in Laing, Notes, p. 289. Recorded in Scott-Elliot & Yeo, p. 84.

      Two extracts from Psalms 145 and Ecclesiastes in French.

      Esther Inglis, Inscription

  • MS La. III. 532

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram TSB, within modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Inscribed (inside the front cover) Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten wth his owne bloode 1634 and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him.

    c.1634-43.
    • CoR 618 p. 63

      Copy, headed Dr: Corbet to the Ladies of new dress.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 33 p. 64

      Copy, headed The ladies answer.

      An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
    • ClJ 196 p. [114]

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on ye Earle of Strafford.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • RuB 164 pp. [141-6]

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudiards speech.

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

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

  • MS La. III. 651

    Bale's copious and often extensive autograph additions in his exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1548, xi + 255 leaves now in modern calf, prepared for the enlarged edition published in 1566.

    [1548-58].

    Bought by David Laing in London in 1819.

    This volume recorded in Davies, p. 258 (16); in McCusker (1942), p. 49; and in McCusker, The Library (1935), 164-5.

    • *BaJ 21
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Wesel [i.e. Ipswich], 1548.

      John Bale, Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium

  • MS La. III. 787

    A folio volume comprising two state tracts, the first relating to France, in a single professional secretary hand, 50 unfoliated leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf, with metal clasps.

    Early 17th century.

    Bookplate of John Ludford Esq.

    • BcF 131 ff. [41r-50r]

      Copy, headed A discourse of Policye in Church gouernment written to his Matye by Sr. Francis Bacon Knight

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

  • MS La. III. 798

    A quarto verse miscellany, comprising principally translations or imitations of classical authors, chiefly in a single cursive hand, a later hand writing over a number of pages, entitled A Choice Collection of Miscellany Poems Upon severall Subjects. Gathered out of severall Authors, by Wm. Gordon…In the Year, M.DCC,XI, c.260 pages (plus blanks), all independently paginated in separate sections, in half-morocco.

    1711-12.
    • DrJ 194 p. 10

      Copy, as By Mr Dryden.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 201-2.

      John Dryden, The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song ('On a bank, beside a Willow')
    • WaE 433 p. 12

      Copy, headed A Copy of Verses.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
    • DrJ 257 pp. 22-3

      Copy, headed A Song, in two parts.

      California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 244-5.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts ('How unhappy a Lover am I')
    • DrJ 254 pp. 23-4

      Copy, headed A Song.

      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')
    • CoA 30.5 p. 34

      Copy, headed Gold.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55. Sparrow, pp. 54-5.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. VII. Gold ('A Mighty pain to Love it is')
    • CoA 54.5 pp. 35-8

      Copy, headed The Country Mouse A Paraphrase upon Horace, 2d Book: Sat: 6.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 414-16.

      Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse ('At the large foot of a fair hollow tree')
    • CoA 281 pp. 34-8

      Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • DrJ 390 pp. 35-6

      Extracts from Dryden's plays.

      John Dryden, Extracts
    • DrJ 296 pp. 38-9

      Copy, headed Song.

      This MS collated in part in California.

      First published in London, 1670. California, X, 105-93 (p. 151). Kinsley, I, 121-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 231-2.

      John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song ('Ah, how sweet it is to love')
    • DrJ 249 pp. 39-41

      Copy, headed Song.

      California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song ('Beneath a Myrtle shade')
    • BeA 35 p. 79

      Copy.

      Written by Mrs Taylor.

      Aphra Behn, Song ('Ye Virgin Pow'rs, defend my Heart')
    • DeJ 127 pp. 81-2

      Copy of the song, headed Song and here beginning Morpheus ye humble God yt dwells.

      Banks, pp. 296-7.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy, V, iii, Song ('Somnus, the humble God that dwells')
    • BeA 29 pp. 109 -15

      Copy, with full title.

      Aphra Behn, The Lamentation for Adonis ('I mourn Adonis, fair Adonis dead')
    • BeA 16.5 pp. 115-18
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Summers, VI, 363. Todd, No. 63, pp. 182-4.

      Aphra Behn, Ovid to Julia. A Letter ('Fair Royal Maid, permit a Youth undone')
    • BeA 34 pp. 118-19

      Copy.

      Aphra Behn, Song ('Yee happy Swains, whose Hearts are free')
    • BeA 26 pp. 119-21
      No description or publication history available.
      Aphra Behn, The Complaint, A Song ('I Love, I dote, I rave with pain')
    • BeA 28 pp. 121-8

      Copy, imperfect at the end.

      Aphra Behn, The History of Leander and Hero: From the Greek of Musæus ('Come, sing, my Muse, ytLamp, ytonce did prove')

  • MS La. III. 800

    A copy of Hudibras, in a single cursive hand, 100 octavo pages, in modern boards.

    Late 17th century.
    • BuS 1 pp. 1-99

      Copy of Part II.

      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')
    • BuS 3 p. [101]

      Copy of twelve untitled lines beginning No Jesuit e'er took in hand, subscribed S Butler, followed by Latin versions of three brief passages subscribed Translated by Dr [John] Hanmar [1594?-1670] Greek profess: Oxon.

      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')

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