Harvard, other MSS

MS Am 1007

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.
c.1670s.
Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.
- *BdA 41 pp. [1-2]
  Autograph
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Dedication, beginning Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity..., dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet
- *BdA 43 pp. [2-47]
  Autograph
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall
- BdA 30 p. [47]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, p. 3. Hensley, p. 240. McElrath & Robb, p. 215.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children ('This Book by Any yet vnread')
- BdA 46 pp. [48-61]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  A prose address beginning My dear children./ I knowing by exper^c . y^t y^e exhortat^s. of parents take most effect wn y^e speakers leaue to speak.... Ellis, pp. 3-10. Hensley, pp. 240-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 215-19.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children
- BdA 6 pp. [61-2]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, under a general heading Here follows severall occasionall Meditations.
  
  Ellis, p. 11. Hensley, p. 246. McElrath & Robb, p. 220.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'By night when others soundly slept'
- BdA 10 pp. [62-4]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 12-13. Hensley, p. 247. McElrath & Robb, pp. 220-1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For Delive^rc from a feaver ('When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd')
- BdA 14 pp. [64-6]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 13-14. Hensley, p. 248. McElrath & Robb, pp. 221-2.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, From another sore fitt. etc. ('In my distresse I sovght y^e Lord')
- BdA 8 pp. [66-7]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, p. 15. Hensley, p. 249.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Delive^rc from a fitt of ffainting ('Worthy art Thou o L^d of praise')
- BdA 45 pp. [67-94]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, the prose passages on pp. [67-70, 74-6, 78-9, 86]; the verse elsewhere.
  
  Entries in prose and verse, beginning Lord, why should I doubt any more wⁿ thov hast given me Such assured Pledges of thy Loue...., and including prose meditations dated 8 July 1656, 28 August 1656, 11 May 1657, 30 September 1657, and 11 May 1661.
  Ellis, pp. 16-39 (including verse. Prose on pp. 17, 20-6). Hensley, pp. 250-70 (including verse. Prose on pp. 250-1, 254-5, 257, 259). McElrath & Robb, pp. 223-9.
  For verse, see BdA 1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Meditations when my Soul hath been refreshed w^th the Consolations w^ch the world knowes not
- BdA 38 pp. [70-2]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 17-18. Hensley, pp. 251-2. McElrath & Robb, p. 224.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'What God is like to him I serve'
- BdA 24 pp. [72-3]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 18-19. Hensley, p. 253. McElrath & Robb, pp. 224-5.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'My Soul rejoice thou in thy God'
- BdA 2 pp. [76-7]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed with the date May 13. 1657.
  
  Ellis, pp. 22-3. Hensley, p. 256. McElrath & Robb, pp. 226-7.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'As spring the winter doth succeed'
- BdA 36 pp. [79-80]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 24-5. Hensley, p. 258. McElrath & Robb, p. 228.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England Novem. 6. 1657 ('Thou mighty God of Sea and Land')
- BdA 26 pp. [80-1]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, p. 26. Hensley, pp. 259-60. McElrath & Robb, pp. 228-9.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'My thankfull heart w^th glorying Tongve'
- BdA 12 pp. [82-3]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, p. 27. Hensley, p. 261. McElrath & Robb, pp. 229-30.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague. June 1661 ('When feares and sorrowes me besett')
- BdA 32 p. [83]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, p. 28. Hensley, p. 262. McElrath & Robb, p. 230.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver ('Bles't bee thy Name who did'st restore')
- BdA 28 pp. [84-6]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 28-31. Hensley, pp. 263-4. McElrath & Robb, pp. 230-1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, On my Sons Return out of England. July. 17. 1661 ('All praise to him who hath now rurn'd')
- BdA 34 pp. [86-9]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 32-4. Hensley, pp. 265-6. McElrath & Robb, pp. 232-3.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England. Jan. 16. 1661 ('O thov most high who rulest All')
- BdA 18 pp. [89-92]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 34-7. Hensley, pp. 267-8. McElrath & Robb, pp. 233-5.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence ('O Lord thou hear'st my dayly moan')
- BdA 20 pp.[92-3]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 37-8. Hensley, p. 269. McElrath & Robb, p. 235.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull acknowledgmt for y^e lrs rec'd. from my husband ovt of England ('O Thou that hear'st y^e prayers of Thine')
- BdA 22 pp. [93-4]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 38-9. Hensley, p. 270. McElrath & Robb, pp. 235-6.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull Rememb^rc for my dear husbands safe Arrivall. Sept. 3. 1662 ('What shall I render to thy Name')
- BdA 16 pp. [95-7]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.
  
  Ellis, pp. 40-2. Hensley, pp. 292-3. McElrath & Robb, pp. 236-7.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Here followes some verses vpon y^e burning of o^r house, July 10^th. 1666. Copyed ovt of a loose Paper. ('In silent night when rest I took')
- BdA 4 pp. [98-100]
  
  Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed A Pilgrim.
  
  Ellis, pp. 42-4. Hensley, pp. 294-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 210-11.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'As weary pilgrim, now at rest'
MS Am 1007.1

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).
c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s].
This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.
- *BdA 39 pp. 1-2
  Autograph
  
  Autograph.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of both pages in Ellis, pp. [45-6].
  
  Dedication, beginning Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity..., dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet
- *BdA 42 pp. 3-41
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, subscribed by Simon Bradstreet My hon^d. & dear mother intended to haue filled up this Book wth the like observations but was pvented by Death.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall
- BdA 29 pp. 43-8
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, under his rubric A true Copy of a Book left by my hon^d & dear mother to her children & found among some papers after her Death.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 3. Hensley, p. 240. McElrath & Robb, p. 215.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children ('This Book by Any yet vnread')
- BdA 5 p. 49
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, under a general heading Here follow severall occasionall meditations. &c.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 11. Hensley, p. 246. McElrath & Robb, p. 220.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'By night when others soundly slept'
- BdA 9 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 12-13. Hensley, p. 247. McElrath & Robb, pp. 220-1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For Delive^rc from a feaver ('When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd')
- BdA 13 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 13-14. Hensley, p. 248. McElrath & Robb, pp. 221-2.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, From another sore fitt. etc. ('In my distresse I sovght y^e Lord')
- BdA 7 p. 51
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 15. Hensley, p. 249.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Delive^rc from a fitt of ffainting ('Worthy art Thou o L^d of praise')
- BdA 44 pp. 51-66
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, the prose sections on pp. 51-3, 54-5, 56-7, 58, and 61; the verse elsewhere.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Entries in prose and verse, beginning Lord, why should I doubt any more wⁿ thov hast given me Such assured Pledges of thy Loue...., and including prose meditations dated 8 July 1656, 28 August 1656, 11 May 1657, 30 September 1657, and 11 May 1661.
  Ellis, pp. 16-39 (including verse. Prose on pp. 17, 20-6). Hensley, pp. 250-70 (including verse. Prose on pp. 250-1, 254-5, 257, 259). McElrath & Robb, pp. 223-9.
  For verse, see BdA 1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Meditations when my Soul hath been refreshed w^th the Consolations w^ch the world knowes not
- BdA 37 p. 53
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 17-18. Hensley, pp. 251-2. McElrath & Robb, p. 224.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'What God is like to him I serve'
- BdA 23 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 18-19. Hensley, p. 253. McElrath & Robb, pp. 224-5.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'My Soul rejoice thou in thy God'
- BdA 1 p. 56
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, headed with the date May. 13. 1657.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 22-3. Hensley, p. 256. McElrath & Robb, pp. 226-7.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'As spring the winter doth succeed'
- BdA 35 pp. 57-8
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 24-5. Hensley, p. 258. McElrath & Robb, p. 228.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England Novem. 6. 1657 ('Thou mighty God of Sea and Land')
- BdA 25 pp. 58-9
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 26. Hensley, pp. 259-60. McElrath & Robb, pp. 228-9.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'My thankfull heart w^th glorying Tongve'
- BdA 11 p. 59
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 27. Hensley, p. 261. McElrath & Robb, pp. 229-30.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague. June 1661 ('When feares and sorrowes me besett')
- BdA 31 p. 60
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, p. 28. Hensley, p. 262. McElrath & Robb, p. 230.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver ('Bles't bee thy Name who did'st restore')
- BdA 27 pp. 60-1
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 28-31. Hensley, pp. 263-4. McElrath & Robb, pp. 230-1.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, On my Sons Return out of England. July. 17. 1661 ('All praise to him who hath now rurn'd')
- BdA 33 pp. 61-3
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 32-4. Hensley, pp. 265-6. McElrath & Robb, pp. 232-3.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England. Jan. 16. 1661 ('O thov most high who rulest All')
- BdA 17 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 34-7. Hensley, pp. 267-8. McElrath & Robb, pp. 233-5.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence ('O Lord thou hear'st my dayly moan')
- BdA 19 pp. 64-5
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 37-8. Hensley, p. 269. McElrath & Robb, p. 235.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull acknowledgmt for y^e lrs rec'd. from my husband ovt of England ('O Thou that hear'st y^e prayers of Thine')
- BdA 21 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet, subscribed This was the last Thing written in that Book by my dear and hon'd Mother.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 38-9. Hensley, p. 270. McElrath & Robb, pp. 235-6.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull Rememb^rc for my dear husbands safe Arrivall. Sept. 3. 1662 ('What shall I render to thy Name')
- BdA 15 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy by Simon Bradstreet.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors.
  
  Ellis, pp. 40-2. Hensley, pp. 292-3. McElrath & Robb, pp. 236-7.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Here followes some verses vpon y^e burning of o^r house, July 10^th. 1666. Copyed ovt of a loose Paper. ('In silent night when rest I took')
- BdA 40 pp. 69-70
  
  Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of her dedicatory letter, headed Ad Sim. Bradstreet filium charissimum meum, beginning In posteris Parentes vitam perpetuam faciunt..., and subscribed Hæc Epistola RomanoSermone versus est à Simone Bradstreet hujus Excellentissimæ Fæminæ Pronepote, cum sequentibus Meditatiunculis.
  
  Edited from this MS in Ellis, p. 74.
  
  Dedication, beginning Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity..., dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet
- BdA 43.5 pp. 71-2
  
  Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of the first four meditations, headed Meditationes divinæ & Ethicæ and here beginning Est nihil occulis visibile, hominum nullæ actiones....
  
  Edited from this MS in Ellis, pp. 75-6.
  
  77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall
- *BdA 3 pp. [97-8]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, untitled, dated at the end Aug. 31 69, on a tipped-in leaf.
  
  Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of the last page in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, No. 48.
  
  Ellis, pp. 42-4. Hensley, pp. 294-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 210-11.
  
  Anne Bradstreet, 'As weary pilgrim, now at rest'
bMS Am 1631 (230)

Copy of a letter in Italian from the Republic of Venice to the Resident of England, 8 February 1650, with Killigrew's reply.
- KiT 24
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)
bMS Am 1631 (407)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, [from Whitehall], 27 February 1723/4.
1724.
Edited in Judith Milhous, Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 440-1).
- *VaJ 357
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
bMS Am 1631 (412)

An order of Council for Foreign Plantations for payment of £150 to their secretary, Colonel Froude, signed by Waller, Orrery, and others, 9 March 1662[/3].
1663.
Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 858.
- *WaE 848
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Edmund Waller, Document(s)
bMS Eng 834 (36)

Copy, in a large rounded hand, untitled, on five pages of three unbound folio leaves.
Late 17th century.
- PsK 197
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.
  A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.
  
  Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')
bMS Eng 870 (11)

Autograph petition signed, to Parliament, from the Tower, [1652].
1652.
- *DaW 135
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Letter(s)
bMS Eng 870 (22)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels, from Ratisbon, 12/20 February 1685/6.
1686.
Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1852, lot 105, and 25 January 1853, lot 183. Waller's sale catalogue for 1871, item 85. Sotheby's, 3 May 1889, lot 33, to Bennett.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.
- *EtG 145
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
bMS Eng 991

Miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, 1656-1700.
- *EvJ 208 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph drafts of an attempted translation of the Dies Irae, on pages 2-3 of a letter to Evelyn by William Fuller (1608-75), Bishop of London, dated 27 February 1656[/7].
  
  John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
- *TaJ 56 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to [John Evelyn], 9 June 1657 (the verso containing Evelyn's draft reply).
  
  Thomas Rodd's sale catalogues, [1836], p. 16, and 1838, p. 87. Puttick & Simpson, 19 March 1850, lot 385.
  Edited in Bray, II, i, 174. Eden, I, lxv-lxvi. Wheatley, III, 238-40. Facsimile in The Autograph Portfolio; A Collection of Fac-simile Letters from Eminent Persons (London, 1837).
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
- *TaJ 62 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 12 May 1658, now lacking the signature.
  
  Edited in Eden, I, lxxviii-lxxix. Wheatley, III, 248-9.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
bMS Eng 1107

Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S Pirie in 1959.
- RnT 108 Folder 5
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on the most beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Digbye, imperfect, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, subscribed T: R:.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')
- DaW 24 Folder 5A
  
  Copy, headed Davenats new yeares guift to M^rs Porter, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. The text followed on the same page by The mock new-yeares guift (Goe hunt y^e stinking fox).
  
  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')
- BaR 6 Folder 6
  
  Copy, with the second line (In the merry month of May) placed first, in the hand of Katherine Packer (b.1623/4), later (1644) wife of John Gell, on a single leaf.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobson, pp. 64-5.
  
  First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, pp. 190-2. Arber, pp. 120-1. Klawitter, pp. 183-4.
  
  Richard Barnfield, An Ode ('As it fell upon a Day')
- WiG 7 Folder 11
  
  Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.
  
  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')
- HeR 171 Folder 14
  
  Copy in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed Hericks Epithalamie:, imperfect, on the remains of two conjugate quarto leaves.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
- DnJ 1584 Folder 15
  
  Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed To Christ, on a single folio leaf; imperfect.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
bMS Eng 1143

A collection of unbound separate verse manuscripts.
- DoC 47 [unnumbered folder]
  
  Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
MS Eng 36

Copy, on seventeen quarto leaves, in paper wrappers.

With a title-page in a predominantly italic hand, Monarchie in its Excellence compared with Aristocratie, and Democratie seuerally, and with both Joyntly Written by the hon^ble and learned S_r Foulke Greuill Lord Brooke and left in A Manuscript; with a dedicatory epistle in a mixed hand To the Honored and worp^ll Docto^r Saint Barbe subscribed S^r ffouck Greuill Lord Brooke, by him at his death bequeathed vnto my brother then his Lorps Chaplan And by my brother at his death giuen as A Legacy vnto mee for my better supportance ... The humblest of yo^r seruants / Richard Graues; the text (ff. [3r-16v]) in yet another, professional mixed hand.
c.1630s-40s.
- GrF 13
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in The Remains of Sir Fulke Grevill (London, 1670). Wilkes, II, 31-203.
  
  Fulke Greville, A Treatise of Monarchy ('There was a tyme before the tymes of story')
MS Eng 121

Epigrams.

Fair copy of eighteen Epigrams (McClure Nos. 261, 5, 67, 308, 262, 326, 338, 121, 122 (same as 329), 142, 356, 337, 366, 246, 270, 263, 248, 421), plus a Latin version of No. 421 (The Like in Latten, beginning Stirpis Haringtoniæ Soboles pulcherrima Sara), in a secretary and italic hand, on six quarto leaves, inscribed on the front paper wrapper in a later hand A Booke of verses made by S^r: John Harrington knight who dwelt at Bathe.
Early 17th century.
- HrJ 24
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).
  
  Sir John Harington, Epigrams
MS Eng 218.2 (v.3)

Papers of John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery.
- WyW 23 pp. 37-40
  
  Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from London, 20 August 1677.
  
  Edited in Robert J. Allen, Two Wycherley Letters, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 86-8.
  
  William Wycherley, Letter(s)
- WyW 24 pp. 41-2
  
  Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from Fleet Prison, 24 October 1685.
  
  Edited in Robert J. Allen, Two Wycherley Letters, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 145-6.
  
  William Wycherley, Letter(s)
- DoC 335.5 [unspecified page number]
  
  Copy of lines 1-8.
  
  Recorded in Harris.
  
  Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Revolution in 1688 ('Of a splenetic nation I sing')
MS Eng 228

A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1584-1659), royal chaplain, headed Perditi poëmata, in a single neat roman hand (?autograph), 57 leaves, in paper wrappers.
c.1637.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 481 (1940?), item 1496.
- HeR 377.5 f. 29v
  
  Copy of an adapted version of Herrick's poem, headed The patchd Song. 1636 and beginning Thou mayst be proud, & bee thou so for mee.
  
  Edited from this MS text in The Poems of Thomas Pestell, ed. Hannah Buchan (Oxford, 1940), pp. 59-60, and see also R.G. Howarth, Attributions to Herrick, N&Q, 203 (June 1958), 249.
  
  First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.
  
  Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me')
MS Eng 228*

Copy, headed Jo: Bea: / On Ascension day and here beginning Yee y^t to starrs direct your curious eyes.

With other verse, on the two inner pages of an independent pair of conjugate folio leaves accompanying the MS of Thomas Pestell's poems.

This MS collated in Sell.
- BeJ 35
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 101.
  
  Sir John Beaumont, On Ascension day ('Ye that to heav'n direct your curious eyes')
MS Eng 266

A transcript of Complaints made from the edition of 1591, neatly copied in one or more accomplished hands in variant styles of italic and secretary, with title-pages in facsimile imitation of the printed edition.

In an octavo volume of 96 leaves also containing (ff. 80r-96v) three other English and Latin texts in other hands, in contemporary limp vellum (rebacked).
c.1591.
Inscribed inside the front cover Scudamore and on the main title-page (f. 1r) Her: Leek. Donated in 1940 by Owen D. Young.
- SpE 25 ff. 2r-15r
  
  Copy, including the prose dedication to the Countess of Pembroke.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time ('It chaunced me on day beside the shore')
- SpE 30 ff. 16r-26r
  
  Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Strange.
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses ('Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine')
- SpE 34 ff. 26v-37v
  
  Copy, including the verse dedication to the late Earl of Leicester (beginning Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paine).
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Virgils Gnat ('We now haue playde (Augustus) wantonly')
- SpE 17 ff. 38r-58r
  
  Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Compton and Mounteagle.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale ('It was the month, in which the righteous Maide')
- SpE 22 ff. 59r-67r
  
  Copy, including L'Envoy.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Ruines of Rome: by Bellay ('Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie')
- SpE 13 ff. 68r-75v
  
  Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Carey.
  
  First published (with a separate title-page dated 1590) in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 157-73.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie ('I sing of deadly dolorous debate')
- SpE 41 ff. 77r-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 174-8.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Visions of the worlds vanitie ('One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe')
MS Eng 584

A quarto volume entitled Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf.
c.1703.
Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.
- DrJ 8.5 pp. 20-35
  
  Copy, with a title-page, as Written By M^r. Dryden. 1688. L-Sp 1703.
  
  First published in London, 1688. Kinsley, II, 541-51. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 201-17.
  
  John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva ('Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes care')
- TaJ 7.5 p. 38
  
  Extracts from Job's Curse.
  
  Published, as one of the Festival Hymns, in The Golden Grove (London, 1655). A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Harmonia Sacra (London, 1688).
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Job's Curse ('Let the Night perish curs'd by y^e Morn')
- DrJ 156.5 p. 66
  
  Copy, as By M^r Dryden.
  
  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 374-5. California, I, 164-5. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 371-3.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford ('Discord, and Plots which have undone our Age')
- DrJ 110.5 p. 67
  
  Copy, as by M^r Dryden 1680.
  
  First published in Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba, 2nd edition (London, 1681). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 211-12. California, I, 160-1. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 413-16.
  
  John Dryden, The Prologue at Oxford, 1680 ('Thespis, the first Professor of our Art')
- RoJ 76.8 p. 147
  
  Copy of lines 89-96, beginning To ev'ry Rule their mustie Customers spawn?.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
- RoJ 316 p. 152
  
  Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, this text quoted after the title-page (p. 151) Corinna. or Human Frailty. A Poem. Also An Answer to y^e Earl of Rochesters Satyr. against Man, which begins thus, An Answer to the Satyr Against Man (beginning Were I a Spirit free (which thought's as vain) occurring on pp. 162-4.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
- CoA 84.5 pp. 165-7
  
  Copy, as By M^r Abraham Cowley, here beginning Heare Mortalitie, & things below.
  
  First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 204-6. Sparrow, pp. 161-4.
  
  Abraham Cowley, The Extasie ('I leave Mortality, and things below')
- CoA 100.4 pp. 168-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame ('Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!')
- CoA 37.8 pp. 169-71
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.
  Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford ('Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things')
- SpE 101 pp. 178-82
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Extracts
MS Eng 585

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).
c.1690.
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
- EtG 72 p. 107
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
  
  First published in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fifth Book (London, 1684). Thorpe, p. 32.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Song ('Ye happy Youths, whose hearts are free')
- DoC 245 p. 108
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song ('May the ambitious ever find')
- DoC 326.8 p. 140
  
  Copy.
  
  Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')
- DoC 131 pp. 141-2
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
- EtG 103 pp. 145-9
  
  Copy, headed Nellys Complaint.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')
- DoC 361.6 p. 188 et seq.
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS.
  
  First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')
- EtG 76 pp. 326-7
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Thorpe.
  
  First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.
  
  Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')
- BeA 2 pp. 347-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in La Monstre, or, The Lover's Watch (London, 1686). Summers, VI, 29-30.
  
  Aphra Behn, The Coquet ('Melinda, who had never been')
- EtG 51 pp. 382-5
  
  Copy, headed Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
- DrJ 206 pp. 386-9
  
  Copy, headed M^r Dryden's Letter to S^r. George Etheridge.
  
  This MS collated in California.
  
  First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.
  
  John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')
- EtG 29 pp. 390-1
  
  Copy, headed S^r. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2^d. Letter.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.
  
  Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
- DoC 94 pp. 445-66
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')
MS Eng 586

A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf.
c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].
Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) Thomas Digby, Edward Digby, Robert Debnam, and (p. [640]) Josh: Churchill 1694.
- RoJ 229 pp. 188-9
  
  Copy, headed I remember to haVe seen a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Rochester (who had read and seen all the Fopperies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome, as they are practis'd abroad) to which our poor deluded English Papists are utter Strangers; I think they are very pathetick as follows.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  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')
- DoC 230 p. 190
  
  Copy of lines 26-30, untitled, beginning Protect us, mighty Providence, dated Tuesday June 29. 1714.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
- HrJ 53.5 p. 205
  
  Copy, headed Coniugium & matrimonium Nuptiæ, subscribed S^r Jo: Harrington Epigram y^e 50^th.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as To his wife a rule for Church house and bed beginning Of late in pleasant company by chaunce.
  
  Sir John Harington, The Author to his wife ('Mall, once in pleasant company by chance')
- CoA 57 p. [541]
  
  Copy, subscribed by A. Cowley.
  
  Waller, I, 254-5.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Davideis, Book I, Psalm 114 ('When Israel was from bondage led')
- FuT 5.238 pp. [543-71]
  
  Extracts, headed Observations out of D^r: Fullers holy warre.
  
  First published in Cambridge, 1639.
  
  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
- FuT 6.4 ff. [572-6]
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
  
  Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
- BcF 713 pp. [577-8]
  
  Copy, headed The King.
  
  Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
- RoJ 521 p. [629]
  
  Copy, headed in another hand Seneca's Troas. Chorus of the 2^d Act ... Translated by y^e Earl of Rochester.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
- DrJ 295 p. [640]
  
  Copy of Damilcar's song, headed Song out of Tyrannick Love or y^e Royal Martyr. Dryden, subscribed Transcribed by Josh: Churchill 1694.
  
  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')
MS Eng 598

Copy, including a title-page, prefatory poem To the Parliament, and postscript, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 21 quarto pages (plus blanks), in later calf.
c.1660s.
Bookplate of the Huth library.
- WiG 32
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.
  
  George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum ('Renowned patriots, open your eyes')
MS Eng 606

A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum.
c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777].
Inscribed inside the front cover N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W. Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.
- RoJ 230 p. 8
  
  Copy, headed The Earl of Rochester on Romes pardons.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  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')
- WoH 245.5 p. 15 rev.
  
  Copy, headed A farwell to the world.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. 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!')
- PsK 130 pp. 18-20 rev.
  
  Copy, headed on Happinesse.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.
  
  Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
- PsK 571 p. 21 rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.
  
  Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
MS Eng 611

A set of three quarto verse miscellanies, largely in a single cursive hand, all transcribed from printed books, 276 + 340 + c.350 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

Volume I with a title-page Scraps of Poetry On Winter, Its Opposites, & Concomitants: and many other agreeable Fragments all Collected Chiefly from borrowed Books Begun April 7^th: 1760. and finished May 20^th: 1760. By me Tho: Austen, Rochester.
Volume II, written from both ends, some pages in a second hand, dated 1765.
Volume III, written from both ends, entitled An Abstract of curious, odd, & comical Passages from old Plays as they came casually to hand, Begun Novemb^r. 1767.
1760-7.
Donated by Edgar Huidekoper Wells (class of 1897).
- PsK 45.5 Vol. I, pp. 162-5
  
  Copy, transcribed from a printed source.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).
  
  Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
- CoA 54.6 Vol. I, pp. 252-5
  
  Copy.
  
  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 129.5 Vol. I, pp. 255-6
  
  Copy of line 25 onwards, beginning He was my Friend, y^e truest Friend on Earth, subscribed Cowley.
  
  First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 32-7. Sparrow, pp. 36-41.
  
  Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. William Hervey ('It was a dismal, and a fearful night')
- MnJ 141 Vol. I, pp. 256-62
  
  Extracts from Milton's poems.
  
  John Milton, Extracts
- OtT 28 Vol. III, pp. 20-7
  
  A series of extracts from Alcibiades. a Tragedy, Written by Tho: Otway. 4^to. 1675. in Heroic Verse.
  
  Thomas Otway, Extracts
MS Eng 624

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several cursive hands, viii + 136 pages, in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century.
Ownership inscription (p. [iv]) by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), of Trinity College, Dublin. Colbeck Radford & Co., undated sale catalogue, item 207. Item 117 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
- MaA 341 pp. [1-12]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
  The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
- MaA 378 pp. [12-25]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
- MaA 408 pp. [26-30]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
- MaA 430 pp. [30-4]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in POAS, I, and lines 143-56 edited from it. Recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
- MaA 134 pp. [35-9]
  
  Copy, headed The Warming of Clarendon house.
  
  First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
- MaA 296 pp. [39-40]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Clarendon house.
  
  This MS collated in George A. Aitken, Marvell's Satires, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13, and thence recorded in Margoliouth.
  
  First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
- MaA 286 p. [40]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the E of Clarendons Grand Children.
  
  First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
- WiG 33 pp. [61-78]
  
  Copy, including the prefatory poem To y^e Parliam^t and Postscript.
  
  First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.
  
  George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum ('Renowned patriots, open your eyes')
- DoC 275 pp. [79-80]
  
  Copy, headed L.B. on M^r Howards Poem.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
- MaA 456 pp. [88-92]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in George A. Aitken, Marvell's Satires, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13. Recorded in Osborne.
  
  First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
- MaA 117 pp. [93-100]
  
  Copy, with cropped heading A Dialogue between Britannia & S^r Walter Rawley.
  
  This MS collated in George A. Aitken, Marvell's Satires, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13, and thence in Margoliouth.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
  
  Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
- DoC 231 p. [101]
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Clarendon had witt & sence.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
- DoC 347 pp. [102-7]
  
  Copy, here beginning Filld with y^e noysome follyes of y^e age.
  
  First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
- BrT 0.6 p. [132]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.
  
  Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God ('The night is come like to the day')
MS Eng 628

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf.
c.1620.
Inscribed (p. [i]) This curious Manuscript was bought by me of M^r Muskett the Bookseller. Norwich - J. P. B. Unidentified Dobell sale catalogue, item 182.
- OvT 8 pp. 317-18
  
  Copy, headed S^r Thomas Ouerburies Epitaph.
  
  First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.
  
  Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph ('The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest')
- RaW 408 p. 319
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
- OvT 9 pp. 321-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.
  
  Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph ('The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest')
- HoJ 109 p. 331
  
  Copy of a version of lines 43-68, here beginning The worst is known, the best is hid.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- BmF 150.83 pp. 335-6
  
  Copy.
  
  Rejected by Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Love's Freedom ('Why should man be only tied')
- RaW 947 pp. 362-74
  
  Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- RaW 68 p. 385
  
  Copy, headed S^r walter Rawleigh hys verses written in his byble a lyttell before his deathe and here beginning Yeouen suche ys tyme w^ch takes in haste.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 35A, p. 80. Recorded in Latham (1929), p. 166, and in Latham (1951), p. 154.
  
  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 785 pp. 387-9
  
  Copy, headed october 29 1618 The full effecte and substance of S^r walter Rawliethes speeches at his Execution.
  
  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)
MS Eng 630

A folio commonplace book of verse, in several hands, 102 leaves, in half-sheepskin.
Early 19th century.
Once owned by the master of the Europe, the ship that Byron was suposed to have traveled on when he went to Greace [sic].
- MkM 10 f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
  
  Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
MS Eng 631

A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. [1r]) A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:.
Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.
- SaG 65 Nos 1-69
  
  Extracts, from Sandys's translations of Homer, Virgil, Ovid etc.
  
  George Sandys, Extracts
- SpE 102 Nos 70-88
  
  Extracts, headed Verses taken out of M^r Edmond Spenser's works.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Extracts
- HrG 331 Nos 89-118
  
  Extracts, headed These Verses taken out of M^r George Herbert's Poems.
  
  George Herbert, Extracts
- CrR 457 Nos 119-32
  
  Extracts, headed These Verses Taken out of M^r Richard crashaws Poems.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Extracts
- WaE 916 Nos 133-45
  
  Extracts, headed These Verses Taken out of The Poems of Edmond Waller Esq^r:.
  
  Edmund Waller, Extracts
- CoA 289 Nos 146-58
  
  Extracts, headed These Verses Taken out of The works of M^r Abraham Cowley.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
- ClJ 270 Nos 159-79
  
  Extracts, headed Taken out of the Works of M^r John Cleveland.
  
  John Cleveland, Extracts
- RnT 593 Nos 180-2
  
  Extracts, headed Taken out of the Poems of M^r Thomas Randolph Fellow of Trinity college In cambridge.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Extracts
MS Eng 634

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.
c.1630s.
Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].
- KiH 256.5 f. 1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.
  
  Henry King, Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')
- KiH 308.5 f. 2r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')
- KiH 738.5 ff. 2v-3v
  
  Copy of an early version, headed Vpon a Demand why the Wyne sparkles and beginning Wee doe not giue this wyne a sparkling name.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.
  
  Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles ('So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes')
- KiH 754.5 ff. 3v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
  
  Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. ('In this small Character is sent')
- KiH 761 ff. 4v-5r
  
  Copy, here beginning When that fairie hand receiues this Little booke.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
  
  Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')
- KiH 215 ff. 5v-7v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
- KiH 166 ff. 8r-11v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie Vppon a Lady unfortunately Drowned in the Thames.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')
- KiH 217 ff. 12r-15r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 98-9.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt ('Whether thy Father's, or Disease's rage')
- KiH 237 ff. 15v-24v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
MS Eng 640

An octavo volume principally of verse, in a single hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf.

Entitled Poems on Several Occasions written By S^r W^m. Dawes Bar^nt. An: Dⁿⁱ. 1692^do Ætat. suæ 20^mo...Transcrib'd from the Original. by C. B.: i.e. by Charles Blake, whose name, dated 1692, appears on the flyleaf.
1692.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1241. Item 33 in an unidentified sale catalogue of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts.
- MoH 3 [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Copy on 29 pages, rectos only, with a preliminary two pages of The Contents of the ensuing Discourse. Chap 1^st-3^d by C. B.; headed The Copy of a M.S. Treatise penn'd by that Great Man the truly Learned D^r.Henry More, which he left unfinish'd at his Death, and subscribed N.B. The foregoing Treatise is Part of what D^r. More intended to have intitul'ed, The sure Guide wherefore I can't but heartily Lament the unspeakable Loss which the world has sustain'd, by our Author's being prevented by Death from the farther Prosecution of this his great and charitable Designe C. B.
  
  Unfinished and unpublished treatise, beginning That short but weighty Prophecy of the Prophet Malachi, ch.4. v.2 But unto you that fear my name...
  
  Henry More, The Sure Guide
MS Eng 686

An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28^th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
- CoR 361 ff. 5r-6
  
  Copy, headed On the Spanish Match D^r Corbet to the Duke of Buckingame.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
- WoH 110 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed To the Spanish Lady and beginning Yee meaner beauties 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')
- GrF 42 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed On Treason, here beginning Treason is like the Basiliscus eye.
  
  Bullough, II, 118.
  
  Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
- HrJ 268 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed Aliter.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
- RaW 332 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy, headed Of Passions and here beginning Passions are likened best to flouds & streames.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- DnJ 409 f. 14r
  
  Copy of lines 27-8, headed On the French Crownes and here beginning Although y^e King eclepd most Xtian bee.
  
  Edited from this MS in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33, (p. 228). 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')
- HoJ 288 f. 14r
  
  Copy.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).
  
  John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower ('Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque')
- WoH 36 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy, headed S^r Henry Wooton and here beginning How happy is he borne or taught.
  
  This MS recorded in Main.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- RaW 319 f. 16r
  
  Copy, headed S^r. Walter Rawleigh to his sonne, Walt^r.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
  
  First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne ('Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace')
- RaW 268 f. 17r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- HrJ 43 f. 17v
  
  Copy, headed The degrees of Swearing.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- RaW 352 f. 17v
  
  Copy, headed Rawly his reply, here beginning The word of denyall & the figure of fifty, following Noell To S^r Walter Rawleigh (Th' offence of the stomach and the word of disgrace).
  
  Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19C, p. 29.
  
  First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
- CoR 271 f. 28v
  
  Copy, headed Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem in Henricu Principem.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- DyE 88 ff. 28v-9r
  
  Copy of an 18-line version, headed A lovers conceipt.
  
  First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
- TiC 36 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed Tichbournes Elegy in the Tower before his execution.
  
  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')
- MrC 7 f. 32r
  
  Copy, headed Corinnæ concubitus Ovid. lib. 1° Amorum Eleg. 5 Æstus erat &c..
  
  Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published Middleburg [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).
  
  Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v ('In summers heate, and midtime of the day')
- RaW 424 f. 32r
  
  Copy, headed A Riddle upon the Lady Bendbow.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- CoR 385 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed One wrot this in his loves asence on her lute.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
  Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.
  
  Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
- HrJ 151 f. 34v
  
  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')
- PeW 250 f. 35r
  
  Copy of the abridged version, untitled and here beginning Nay pish, nay phew, in faith & will you? flye.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- DnJ 3213 ff. 35v-6v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed John Dean.
  
  This MS collated in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (pp. 226-8). Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- HoJ 330 ff. 36v-7r
  
  Copy, headed In Loves contempt and here beginning O Love whose force and might.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- DnJ 2358 f. 37r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a woman whom the Author taught to Love & Complement, subscribed J. Deane.
  
  This MS collated in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (p. 228). Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- JnB 263 f. 38v
  
  Copy of an eight-line version headed A grace said before the King by a Jester and beginning The King, the Queen the Prince God bless.
  
  First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
- CmT 172 f. 42r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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'
- BrW 12 f. 44v
  
  Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 481-2, headed a girdle and here beginning This during light I give to clip your waist
  
  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
- CwT 1251.5 f. 50v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- CwT 585 f. 51r
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 716 f. 51r
  
  Copy, headed To his loue and here beginning Thinke not sweet loue that Ile reveale.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1708 f. 51v
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.
  
  John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent ('Thou art not so black, as my heart')
- CoR 725.8 f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed On the blasinge starre and here beginning A starre of late appeared in Virgoe^s traine.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- DaJ 202 f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed On an vntimely death and here beginning As carefull mothers in theire bedes doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- MrJ 86 f. 52r
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
- DnJ 3308 f. 52v
  
  Copy, headed Epigrammes of D^r Donnes makinge to M^isS. P..
  
  This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.
  
  John Donne, To M^r S.B. ('O Thou which to search out the secret parts')
- HrJ 114 f. 54r
  
  Copy, headed Of a gentlewoman that painted her face.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- HrJ 200 f. 54v
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a maiden conceived by a scholler and here beginning A godly maiden w^th one of her societie.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- HoJ 16 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed Of a locke smith.
  
  Whitlock, p. 108.
  
  John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
- CmT 57 f. 56v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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'
- StW 1049 f. 59r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token ('Whatever in Philoclea the Faire')
- DrW 117.37 ff. 59v-60r
  
  Copy.
  
  Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
- StW 683 f. 60v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- StW 762 f. 60v
  
  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')
- StW 670 f. 61r
  
  Copy.
  
  Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
  
  William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
- StW 80 f. 61r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
  
  William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
- StW 257 f. 61r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
  
  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
- StW 150 f. 61v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
- DnJ 93 f. 61v
  
  Copy of lines 35-6, here beginning Beautie is barren oft good husbans say.
  
  Edited from this MS (or DnJ 94) in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (p. 228). Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- StW 216 f. 62r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
  
  William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
- StW 715 f. 62v
  
  Copy, headed On a Sigh.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
  
  William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
- StW 883 f. 63r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- StW 734 f. 63r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
- StW 873 f. 63v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O sing a new song to the Lord')
- StW 725 ff. 63v-4v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955) 444-8 (p. 448).
  
  First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping')
- StW 132 ff. 64v-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- StW 234 f. 65r
  
  Copy, headed Another.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
  
  William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')
- StW 418 f. 65r
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman disfigured by the Pox.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- StW 1096 f. 65v
  
  Copy, headed To a gentlewoman from a freind.
  
  Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
  
  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
- StW 552 f. 66r
  
  Copy of a version of lines 23-46, here beginning Such store of flesh How seldome haue wee seene.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.
  
  William Strode, On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg ('When men for injuries unsatisfied')
- StW 934 ff. 66v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
  
  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
- StW 171 f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, headed The Comendation of Musicke.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- RaW 269 f. 67v
  
  Copy, headed Of Man.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- MoG 32 f. 68v
  
  Copy, headed M^r Morley on King James, incomplete.
  
  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')
- CwT 288 f. 69v
  
  Copy, headed On a flye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- StW 848 f. 71r
  
  Copy, headed A Songe.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- StW 277 f. 71r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
  
  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
- StW 419 f. 72v
  
  Copy, headed Of M^rs Bettie Lambert.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- BrW 213 f. 73v
  
  Copy, headed The Countess of Pembrookes Epitaph.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- RaW 219 f. 75r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
- DnJ 94 f. 78v
  
  Copy of lines 35-6, here beginning Beautie is barren oft good husbans say.
  
  Edited from this MS (or DnJ 93) in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (p. 228). Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- StW 1004 f. 81r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- StW 1005 f. 83r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- WoH 111 f. 84r
  
  Copy of a four-stanza version, headed In reginam Bohemiæ per Henricum Wotton: milite:.
  
  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')
- HrJ 282 f. 85r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Youle wishe mee to a wife that is rich faire & yonge.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- CoR 199 f. 86r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph made by D^r Corbett Bishop of Oxford; on D^r Dun Deane of Paules, here beginning Hee that will write an Epitaph on thee.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
- DaJ 119 f. 86v
  
  Copy of poem 2 (The Divine), headed A Parson to his mistris and here beginning My callinge is divine, followed by Her Answer.
  
  First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.
  
  Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')
- RaW 472 f. 87v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
- StW 1299 f. 87v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- CwT 1013 ff. 90r-1r
  
  Copy, headed Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly a booke seller in litle Brittaine. 28^th of March 1633 and subscribed in a later hand This, by Tho. Carew Esq^r. printed in his Poems.
  
  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 230 f. 91r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- PoW 49 ff. 91v-2r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- DnJ 2971 f. 94v
  
  Copy of a 16-line version, headed A Gentlewoman to her sweetheart risinge, here beginning Stay (sweet) a while, why doest thou rise, and incorporating lines 3-6 of Breake of day.
  
  This MS discussed in C. F. Main, New Texts of Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (pp. 229-30). Collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
- PoW 50 f. 95r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- EaJ 79 ff. 155v-137v rev.
  
  Copy of 35 characters, untitled.
  
  First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography
MS Eng 703

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt.

Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother S^r Hugh Cholmley (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent.
c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Cholmley MS: CwT Δ 27.
- ToA 60 f. 12v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed ignoto.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
- RaW 270 f. 15v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed by one ready to dye.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- BcF 34 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed ignoto.
  
  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'
- HrE 71 f. 19r
  
  Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words, subscribed by S^r Edward Herbert.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')
- WoH 150 f. 19v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed by S^r Hen: Wotton.
  
  Facsimile of this page in Pebworth's AEB article, p. 221.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
- PeW 43 f. 20r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- PeW 111 f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed Answer.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- CwT 562 f. 22r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed by M^r Tho: Carewe.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 253 f. 22v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon A flye lightinge in to his mistres eye, subscribed by T: C:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- CwT 191 ff. 23r-4r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie, subscribed by y^e same T: C:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
- CwT 466 ff. 24r-5r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the returne of certayne papers to his Mistres.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CwT 125 f. 25v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- DrM 27 ff. 27v-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- CwT 162 f. 29
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- CwT 151 f. 29v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
- CwT 377 f. 30r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
- CwT 1107 f. 30v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
- CwT 424 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
- GrJ 56 ff. 31v-2v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- WoH 112 ff. 32v-3r
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the Easte.
  
  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')
- CwT 690 f. 33r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- B&F 144 f. 34r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Discussed and edited from this MS in Peter J. Seng, Early Version of a Song in Fletcher's Nice Valour, N&Q, 228 (April 1983), 151-2.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- JnB 51 f. 34v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Or skorne or on me pity take.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Dreame ('Or Scorne, or pittie on me take')
- MoG 33 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the death of king James.
  
  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')
- JnB 178 f. 59r-v
  
  Copy, headed in another hand By Ben Johnson upon M^rs Venetia Stanley.
  
  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 216 f. 59v
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, untitled.
  
  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')
- KiH 76 f. 60v
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- KiH 599 f. 61r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
- CwT 908 f. 62r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- JnB 313 f. 63r
  
  Copy, untitled, ascribed to Beniamin Johnson.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (i.2) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 129-30.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Hymne to God the Father ('Heare mee, O God!')
- WaE 102 f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, headed in another hand By M^r Edward Waler. the answer [i.e. to a poem on Lady Carlisle by Roger Twysden, 1639].
  
  First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
- SuJ 31 f. 68r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.
  
  John Suckling, The constant Lover ('Out upon it, I have lov'd')
- SuJ 13 f. 68r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.
  
  John Suckling, The Answer ('Say, but did you love so long?')
- SuJ 96 ff. 70r-2r
  
  Copy, headed The Witts.
  
  Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit. Collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.
  
  John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day')
- WaE 302 f. 72v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the misreport of the Lady: D: S: being painted.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
- WaE 277 f. 73r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')
- WaE 457 f. 75v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Madam^elle de Morneys eyes a Lady of y^e Queene Mothers Trayne 1638, subscribed by M^r. Waler.
  
  This MS recorded in Warren L. Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven & London, 1968), p. 69.
  
  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.
  
  Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
- DeJ 72 ff. 75v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e Death of Thomas wentworth Earl of Strafford beheaded ye < > of May 1641, subscribed by M^r Sidney Godolpin.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
- ClJ 198 f. 76r
  
  Copy, under a heading Other verses then made of the same subject.
  
  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')
- ClJ 105 ff. 79r-80v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
MS Eng 704

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly in one predominantly secretary hand, with a series of additions in a second hand, 36 leaves (plus blanks and stubs of extracted leaves), in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf (in a different hand) Charles Tyrrell Anno Domini 1643.
- FeO 18 f. 34r
  
  Copy of lines 22-48, here beginning like lowe Orbes wantinge Primum mobile, subscribed :Owen feltham:, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first 21 lines.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.
  
  Owen Felltham, Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford ('When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then')
MS Eng 705.1

Copy, in a professional hand, ii + 93 quarto leaves, in calf gilt (rebacked).
c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as Unnumbered MS) in Cerovski, p. 87.
- NaR 25
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
  
  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
MS Eng 740

MS of an English translation by Moses Wall, written for presentation to Elizabeth St John, 89 octavo leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, stamped E S on each cover.

With a formal title-page, Henochisme: Or A Treatise Shewinge Howe to walke with God: Written in Latin by Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exeter And Translated into English By M: W:; a five-page dedicatory epistle to Hall; a seven-page presentation epistle to Mrs Elizabeth St John; and 75 pages of text; the presentation epistle in a very small hand, signed Moses Wall and dated Octob: 2. an. 1639, evidently in Wall's hand; all the rest in a neat secretary hand.
1639.
Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Anne Bernard Her Book / Johanna.

Original Latin version first published London, 1635; Wynter, X, 188-207. Wall's translation unpublished.
- HlJ 53
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  The original Latin version first published in London, 1635. Wynter, X, 188-214. Wall's translation unpublished.
  
  Joseph Hall, Henochismus
MS Eng 749

A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in a probably professional secretary hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century calf gilt.
Late 16th-early 17th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf John Burns, November 30 1926: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Acquired in 1944 from Quaritch.

Some verse contents of the volume briefly discussed or edited in Peter J. Seng, Recusant Poems in a More Circle Manuscript, Moreana, 19 (March 1982), 21-4.
- MrT 76 ff. 3r-99v
  
  Copy, imperfect, lacking the first two leaves and title.
  
  First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of S^r Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
  
  Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
- SoR 267.8 ff. 101r-16v
  
  Copy, headed Of the fowre last things, which are these, Death, Iudgment, Hell, and Heaven.
  
  First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')
- TiC 37 f. 163r
  
  Copy, headed Verses made by M^r Titchburne before he suffered death.
  
  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')
MS Eng 764

Copy, in a professional cursive hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering The life of Master Thomas Wolsey Archbishoppe of yorke and Cardinall, written by George Cavendish his Gentleman Vsher, 109 folio leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
c.1600s.
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 6930. No 1321 in an unidentified sale catalogue. From the library of Arthur Vicars, FSA, Ulster King of Arms. Acquired in 1946 from George Bates.

Recorded in Sylvester, p. 287.
- CvG 31
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
  
  George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
MS Eng 765

A folio volume of tracts, in several hands, dating at the end up to 1642, 105 leaves, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum.
Early 17th century.
Charles J. Sawyer, London, bookseller, sold 2 July 1919. Inscribed inside the front cover John Burns. Feb 27 1919: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Burns sale, 1944, lot 534, to Maggs. Bought from Raphael King by Imre de Vegh in 1950 and donated to Harvard.

This MS (MS Burns) collated in Hitchcock & Hallett and briefly described, pp. xiii-xiv.
- MrT 84 ff. [1r-89r]
  
  Copy, in at least three secretary hands, lacking a title-page.
  
  A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).
  
  Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More
MS Eng 846

Copy; imperfect; lacking the ending.
c.1612.
- DaJ 240
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A treatise, dedicated to James I, beginning During the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first yeare of his Majesties raigne) I haue visited all the Prouinces.... First published as A Discoverie of the Trve Cavses why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued...vntill...his Maiesties happie Raigne ([London], 1612). Grosart, II, 1-168.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Discovery of the State of Ireland
MS Eng 886

Copy, headed Of y^e Springe: S: Hen: Wotton and here beginning This day Dame nature seem'd in loue, later subscribed Iz: W., on one side of an octavo leaf.
c.1620s-30s.
A later note on this MS incorrectly claims that it is in the hand of Izaak Walton.
- WoH 61
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring ('And now all nature seemed in love')
MS Eng 886.1

Autograph affidavit signed by Walton, about land in Halfhead, 23 October 1676.
1676.
Edited in Keynes (1929), p. 601. Facsimile in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), p. 116.
- *WtI 33
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Izaak Walton, Document(s)
MS Eng 901 (Lobby XI.2.69)

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed The Digression in Miltons History of England. To com in Lib. 3. page 110. after these words. <from one misery to another.>, on twelve quarto pages, in later diced russia gilt.

This MS represents text excluded from Milton's The History of Britain (London, 1670-1) and later edited by Anglesey in 1681, but includes two additional pages of text suppressed in that edition as well.
Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn 1744 (N^o [98 deleted] 81) and derived from the library of Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90), of Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, Wales. Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 82, and 11 December 1922, lot 129.

Edited from this MS in Columbia and in Yale. Recorded in LR, V, 18-19, 259-60. This MS may conceivably relate to a text in the possession of the Earl of Anglesey, whom, according to Edward Phillips, Milton presented with a Copy of the unlicens'd Papers of his History (see Columbia, XVIII, 378).
- MnJ 47
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A version of this first published as Mr. John Miltons Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in MDCXLI (London 1681). Columbia, X, 317-25. Yale, V, Part 1, 405-67.
  
  John Milton, The Digression in The History of Britain
MS Eng 942

A posthumous presentation copy of Elizabeth's translation of Margarite de Navarre's devotional treatise and of passages from Scripture, 32 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, with remains of ties.
c.1603-6.
From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.
- ElQ 63 ff. [1r-31r]
  
  A semi-calligraphic copy, prepared by or for Thomas Blundeville (1522?-1606?), author and translator, as a formal presentation copy to Catherine Knyvet (1547-1622), Lady Paget, in a professional italic hand, with a title-page, A Godly Meditation of the Soule, concerning a loue towards our Lord Christ. Composed in french, by y^e Vertuous Ladie Margaret Q: of Nauarre, and aptly translated into English, by the right high and most vertuous Princesse, of Late memorie and euer in memorie, Queene Elizabeth -- Who now raigns w^th Christ in heauen; with a dedicatory epistle To the Right Worthy, Vertuous and most honor'd Ladie The Ladie Pagett, Yo^r honors humble deuoted Seruante Thomas Blunville, Wisheth all prosperitie in this life, and life euerlasting in Christ o^r Sauiour; the main text (ff. 4r-29v) followed (f. 30r) by extracts from Ecclesiastes added to the worke, by the Queenes Ma^tie: and (f. 31r) by an anagram on Elizabeth Regina.
  
  The translation first published, edited by John Bale, in A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen Sowle (Marburg, 1548). Translations, pp. 23-125.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Marguerite de Navarre's Le Miroir de l'Âme Pécheresse (The Glass of the Sinful Soul)
- ElQ 53 f. [3v]
  
  Semi-calligraphic copy.
  
  Three quatrains, beginning respectively Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est, Le fol dit en son coeur, il n'ya point de, and Le stolto disse ne'l suo cuore, Egli non. Unpublished.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Certaine Sentences out of the Xiiij Psalme, written by the Queenes Maiestie, in Latine, french and Italian ('Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est')
MS Eng 966

An octavo transcript of annotations by Coleridge to his exemplum of poems by Donne, made by Barron Field (1786-1846) for an intended Percy Society edition of Donne's Songs and Sonnets.

Recorded in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), p. 214.
- DnJ 4168
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Donne, Poems
MS Eng 966.2

MS copy of twenty-nine poems supposedly by Donne (only six actually by him) plus an epitaph by him, in a single hand, transcribed from the O' Flahertie MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.5), with a title-page Poems on several Occasions Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of S^t Pauls, 57 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers.
19th century.
- JnB 294.5 p. 6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- DnJ 2199.5 pp. 20-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- JnB 115.5 pp. 27-8
  
  Copy.
  
  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 430.5 pp. 35-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- JnB 706.5 pp. 37-8
  
  Copy.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
- HoJ 26 pp. 41-2
  
  Copy, headed Song 2^d.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
  
  John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
- DnJ 2895.5 p. 51
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Gosse (1899), I, 51. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 92. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as Il Caualliere Gio: Wingefield).
  
  John Donne, Sir Iohn Wingefield ('Beyond th'old Pillers many have travailed')
- DnJ 532.5 p. 52
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Gosse (1899), I, 47. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 91. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 7 (as Calez and Guyana).
  
  John Donne, Cales and Guyana ('If you from spoyle of th' old worlds farthest end')
- DnJ 2673.5 p. 52
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Ralphius ('Compassion in the world againe is bred')
- DnJ 1909.5 p. 53
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
  
  John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
- DnJ 4065.4 pp. 54-6
  
  Copy.
  
  Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, miserrimum dictu: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.
  
  John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne ('Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque')
MS Eng 979

Copy.

Copy, in a single cursive hand, i + 18 quarto leaves, the last leaf imperfect, in remains of paper wrappers.
c.1634-41.
This MS sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 1019.
- WoH 285
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
MS Eng 980

A quarto volume of proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624, in at least two probably professional cursive hands, 249 pages (plus numerous blanks and eight pages of shorthand at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum.
c.1624.
[?Sotheby's], 31 March 1936, lot 174.
- RuB 6 pp. 41-2
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
- RuB 11 pp. 123-4
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiere:.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
MS Eng 982

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 13 April to 5 May 1640, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, 84 leaves, in quarter-vellum marbled boards.
c.1640s.
[?Sotheby's], 5 October 1937, lot 19.
- RuB 127 ff. 24r-6r
  
  Copy of a report on the speech, headed in the margin S^r. Benia: Rudyard and here beginning Then S^r Ben: Rudyard said S^r. there is a dore now opened to vs of doeing good if wee take the advantage thereof....
  
  Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 138-40.
  
  Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
- RuB 137 ff. 54v-5r
  
  Copy of a report on the speech.
  
  Speech beginning in a reported version S^r: Ben: Rudierd said the house had done wiseley in taking the kings buisnesse into p^rsent consideration....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?23 April 1640
MS Eng 983

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
- RuB 166 pp. 15-21
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars speech in Parliament.
  
  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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
- RuB 182 pp. 115-16
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 2^d speech in Parliament the 29 of December 1640.
  
  Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640
- RuB 191 pp. 163-7
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 3^d speech in parliament January the 22^th Concerning the Scottish affayres 1640.
  
  Speech beginning It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-18 [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1
- RuB 188 pp. 195-6
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning the Queenes Joynture January the 20^th: 1640.
  
  Speech beginning God hath blessed the Queenes Ma^tie with a blessed and hopefull progenie alreadie.... Manning, p. 213.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 January 1640/1
- RuB 196 pp. 196-9
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning Bisho ffebruary the 7^th 1640.
  
  Speech beginning I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-12 [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1
MS Eng 992

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, v + 85 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, J E stamped on each side, with silver clasps.

With a title-page, The Life of Mr^is: Godolphin, Writen at the Request of my Lady Sylvius. By a Friend, a dedicatory epistle to Lord Godolphin, and the text of a letter to Evelyn dated from London 22 September 1678.
c.1702.
Harcourt Library. Sotheby's, 1869 (Mr Dillon's collection), lot 366. Booklabels of Howard A. Levis and of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Edited from this MS in Sampson (1939). Recorded in Keynes, with facsimile examples.
Facsimile of the first page in The Houghton Library 1942-67: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 54.
- *EvJ 114
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A prose account, including verses. First published in London, 1847, ed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Edited by Harriet Sampson (London, New York and Toronto, 1939). Keynes, pp. 244-50.
  
  John Evelyn, The Life of Mrs. Godolphin
MS Eng 992.1

Copy, without preliminaries, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed The Life of M^rs. Godolphin Written at the request of my Lady Sylvius} by a Friend, on 90 quarto leaves (including 32 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.
c.1686.
Inserted letter by James P. Muirhead, to [Samuel Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford, from Henley Court, Telsworth, Oxfordshire, 21 June 1869. Owned before 1956 by Dr Octavia Wilberforce. Sotheby's, 8 May 1956, lot 42, to Maggs. Booklabel of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond and booklabel of Martha Venables Vernon.

Edited from this MS in Wilberforce (1847). Discussed in Sampson (1939), pp. 116-23 (when the MS was lost and presumed autograph), and in Keynes, p. 250.
- EvJ 115
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A prose account, including verses. First published in London, 1847, ed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Edited by Harriet Sampson (London, New York and Toronto, 1939). Keynes, pp. 244-50.
  
  John Evelyn, The Life of Mrs. Godolphin
MS Eng 992.2

A small autograph pocket notebook (c.11.5 x 6 cm.), headed A Particular of My Estate in Svrrey & mid Svssex. 1703, 88 pages (including blanks), in panelled calf.

Containing particulars of Evelyn's estates in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, Things left in my Closet in Dover-streete. May 1703, Abstract of my last Acc[om]pt. as Tress[ure]r of Gr[eenwich]: Hospital and other personal accounts and memoranda.
1681-1704.
Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2823, to Maggs. John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Facsimile examples of this MS in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 173, plate XL, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 4 March 1937 (Moss sale), lot 686.
- *EvJ 65
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers
MS Eng 992.7

An autograph commonplace book, 80 octavo pages (the majority blank), in contemporary calf gilt.

Containing miscellaneous anecdotes, proverbs, maxims, extracts in English and Latin, and other notes, headed 1650 Vade Mecum.
c.1650.
Inscribed inside the front cover B. J. Ashley (or Astley?). Sotheby's, 10 November 1964, lot 456.
- EvJ 32
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books
MS Eng 992.8

Copy, in a large rounded juvenile hand, possibly a member of the Evelyn family, 89 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.
Late 17th century.
John Evelyn's motto, Meliora Retinete, on a flyleaf.
- EvJ 11
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1659. Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 141-67. Keynes, pp. 59-67.
  
  John Evelyn, A Character of England
MS Eng 995 (Lobby X.3.10a)

Autograph draft, untitled, on six quarto leaves, in modern cloth.
[1645?].
Formerly among Herbert's papers at Powis Castle. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956 (Powis Castle sale), lot 216, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Discussed in Rossi, II, 537-8, and III, 542. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956, lot 216. A microfilm is in the British Library (M/471).
- *HrE 143
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  An unpublished translation of Chapter IV and part of Chapter V of Descartes' Discours, beginning I know not whether I may entertaine you with my first Meditations. since they are so Metaphysicall….
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Translation of Descartes' Discours de la méthode
MS Eng 1019, [item 1]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 16 April, 1656.
1656.
Anderson Galleries, New York, sale No. 2275 (George D. Smith Book Company liquidation sale, Part 3), 18 May 1928, lot 240.

Edited in Bray, II, i, 164-6; Eden, I, l-lii; Wheatley, III, 211-13.
- *TaJ 47
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
MSS Eng 1019, [item 2]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], [? from Llangadock], 19 July 1656.
1656.
Sotheby's, 27 November 1945.

Edied in Eden, I, lii-liii; Wheatley, III, 215-17.
- *TaJ 48
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
MS Eng 1021

A folio volume of writings by or or related to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 34 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.
Early 17th century.
Inscribed name Edward Blandy: possibly of the Middle Temple (1617) and of Inglewood, Berkshire. Bought from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, December 1956.
- RaW 728.215 ff. [1r-28r]
  
  Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603 (here dated 1605).
  
  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 948 ff. [28v-32v]
  
  Copies of three letters by Ralegh, to James I (1603), to Lady Ralegh (1603), and to Sir Robert Carr.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
MS Eng 1035

A quarto verse miscellany, in two neat hands, 14 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf cloth.

A (misapplied) title-page (f. 1r) possibly in another hand: Copy of Verses upon y^e Government under the Protectour Cromwel -- By Edmund Waller 1650.
Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) C F[?].
- MaA 30 ff. [2r-8r]
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Written for Gregory Boteler.
  
  First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. ('Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze')
- SeC 57 f. [9v]
  
  Copy, headed A Copy of Verses dedicated to y^e vertue & beauty of M^rs Mary Knapp, of Oxon (while y^e K. & Court were there upon the accident of the plague in London) by S^r Charles Sidley, Barr.^tt A.D. 1665.
  
  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
- WoH 37.5 f. [10r]
  
  Copy, ascribed to S^r Henry Wootten.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- BcF 34.5 ff. [12v-13v]
  
  Copy, headed Humane Life charactered by Fra. Bacon, Viscount S^t. Albans.
  
  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'
- OvT 21 ff. [13v-14v]
  
  Extract, 66 lines headed The Choice of a Wife in a poem by S^r Thomas Overbury, here beginning If I were to chuse a Woman and ending Both may bud, grow green, & wither.
  
  First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.
  
  Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind')
MS Eng 1091

A small octavo volume of verse and prose relating to the Earl of Strafford, in a single hand, ii + 31 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
Mid-17th century.
- DeJ 73 ff. [1r-2r]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
MS Eng 1132

MS of Hudibras: a drama, founded on the Poem of Butler, in a single hand, with some apparent revisions, 14 + 131 large quarto pages, on rectos only, in stiff paper wrappers.
19th century.
- BuS 1.3
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
MS Eng 1178

Drawings of inscriptions on panes of glass at Wotton House, on a single leaf.
- EvJ 122
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Evelyn, Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms
MS Eng 1239

Copy of the Ordinances, unnumbered, on 22 quarto leaves, dated 1618, with Additionall Rules on ff. 22v-3v, in a secretary hand, with various corrections and emendations in another hand, disbound.

Copy, with corrections in another hand; the text followed by additional Ordinances.
c.1619.
Acquired from Frank Hollings, London bookdealer.
- BcF 247
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
  
  Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
MS Eng 1264

A quarto volume of poems and other works by Clement Paman (1612-63) left behind him, in a neat hand, 225 leaves, in leather gilt.
1667.
Later owned by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860) and Edward Herbert Bunbury (1811-95).
- ClJ 199 f. 41v
  
  Copy, ascribed to Clement Paman.
  
  Edited from this MS in Davidson, No. 275 (p. 363).
  
  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')
MS Eng 1266 (v. 1)

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

In various professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI No. 6) and a label with No. 4 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 9 (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.
- RaW 616 ff. 1r-30r
  
  Copy, as written by S^r walter Rawleigh.
  
  A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
- CtR 46 ff. 32r-41r
  
  Copy, as written by S^r Robert Cotton Bruceus.
  
  Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
- RaW 607 ff. 45r-63r
  
  Copy, as written by S^r Walter Rawleigh.
  
  An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
- CtR 457 ff. 111r-17r
  
  Copy, followed (on ff. 120r-8v) by the Answere by the Comittees appointed, etc.
  
  Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
- CtR 379 ff. 132r-41v
  
  Copy, as written by S^r Robert Cotton Knight and Baronett.
  
  Tract beginning Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amitie and Marriage before time, and of late, of the House of Austria and Spaine, with the Kinges of England, to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe
- CoR 772 ff. 206r-11r
  
  Copy.
  
  Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
  
  Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
MS Eng 1266 (v.2)

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 296 leaves, with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

In various professional hands, the predominant and distinctive secretary hand in Harvard MS Eng 1266 (v. 1) here responsible for ff. 1r-41v, 142r-9r, 202r-54r, 257r-73r, 283r-94v.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI No. 4) and a label with No.15 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 7 (= MS 15). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 482.

This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212.
- HrJ 327 ff. 283r-94v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, edited by W.D. Macray (Oxford, 1879). Facsimile of f. 13 (which includes the epigram Musa Jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores) in Kathleen M. Lea, Harington's Folly, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 42-58 (facing p. 48).
  
  Sir John Harington, A Short View of the State of Ireland
MS Eng 1266.1

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1623-8, in professional hands, iii + 116 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Booklabel with an AF monogram.
- RuB 204 f. [11v]
  
  Brief notes on an undated speech of ?1623-4, headed Heads of S^r Ben: Rudyards speach, on one page of a tipped-in pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the verso bearing The heads of the Dukes [Buckingham's] Relation which is dated on an endorsement (f. [12v]) 24^to ffeb: 1623[/4].
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech(es)
MS Eng 1266.2

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A flyleaf inscribed This belongs to M^rs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.
- BcF 482 f. [106r-v]
  
  Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand, the first page foliated 52.
  
  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
- CtR 183 ff. [107r-8r]
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the first page foliated 53, incomplete.
  
  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
- BcF 483 f. 112r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  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
- RuB 7 ff. [125v-6r]
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyers Speech taken as he spake itt, beinge the first in the greate businesse concerninge the Treatise, undated, beginning on the verso of a speech by the Duke of Buckingham dated 24 February 1624, in a section on parliamentary proceedings.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
- HlJ 25 f. [134r]
  
  Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Lo: Bish of Exeus Speech, on a single folio leaf.
  
  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
  
  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
- EsR 132 ff. [153r-9r]
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, the first page foliated 99, the work dated 1598.
  
  First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
MS Eng 1278

Collection of papers relating to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham.
- MrJ 43 Folders 12-17, No. 14
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- CaE 24 Folders 12-17, No. 15
  
  Copy of the six-line epitaph.
  
  This MS recorded in Akkerman.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
MS Eng 1290

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 21 June 1625.
1625.
Edited by T. Spencer (Charles River, Massachusetts, 1930).
- *DnJ 4135
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Donne, Letter(s)
MS Eng 1341

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer, 1674-1737), 306 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.
Early 18th century.
A tipped-in letter by Thomas Stevenson, Cambridge bookseller, to J.A. Wickham, 2 August 1841, says this volume came to him with other books from the Rev. J.W. Berry, vicar of Foxton. A note inside the front cover by one M. J. also records his purchase of this Valuable book from M^r Kerslake.
Sotheby's, 21-22 July 1980, lot 552, with a facsimile of p. 82 in the sale catalogue.
- MoH 2 pp. 288-9
  
  Copy, by Elizabeth Rowe, headed A Hymn by D^er Henry More.
  
  First published in More's Philosophical Poems (Cambridge, 1647).
  
  Henry More, A Hymn on the Creation ('When God the first Foundations laid')
MS Eng 1356

A small octavo commonplace book, in various hands, over a period from c.1649 to1815, unpaginated and imperfect, in contemporary calf.

Including 64 pages with descriptions of dance steps, fifteen pages of verse, and a number of pages of miscellaneous, household and legal memoranda.
Chiefly mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed names passim including Richard Pattricke, Richard Lewis 1654,
- ClJ 8 [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Copy, on three pages in a ten-page section headed Verses on severall occurrenses 1649 in the middle of the volume.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
  
  John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick ('For shame, thou everlasting Woer')
- CaW 29 [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Copy, on five pages.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 209-12. Evans, pp. 462-5.
  
  William Cartwright, On Mr Stokes his Book on the Art of Vaulting ('Reader, here is such a booke')
- LoR 16.5 [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Copy, headed Songs, on one page in a five-page section of verse near the end of the volume.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song ('Why should you sweare I am forsworn')
MS Eng 1359

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, the Exchequer and Star Chamber, 1628/9-34, in several professional hands, c.315 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1635.
Delivered by Edward Jones Smith to Lady Masserene on 19 June 1824.
- RuB 116 f. [29r]
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyard.
  
  A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
MS Eng 1382

Copy of a 581-stanza version, ii + 59 octavo leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary panelled calf.

In a single minute hand, untitled and here beginning I singe thy sad disaster fatall kinge, subscribed Finis By Infortunio.
c.1620s.
Inscribed (at the top of f. 1r), possibly by the scribe, A North her book.
- HuF 12
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.
  Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).
  
  Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')
MS Eng 1400

An octavo commonplace book, with entries under headings, in a single cursive hand, 512 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.
c.1705.
- JnB 568.5 p. 80
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.
  
  Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- BcF 206.7 passim
  
  Extracts, on numerous pages throughout the volume.
  
  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
- DaW 29.8 passim
  
  Extracts, on pages including pp. 88, 315, 356, 572.
  
  First published in London, 1651 [i.e. December 1650]. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book published in London, 1685. Gladish (1971).
  
  Sir William Davenant, Gondibert ('Of all the Lombards, by their Trophies knowne')
- SpE 103 passim
  
  Extracts, including from The Faerie Queene and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, on numerous pages throughout the volume.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Extracts
MS Eng 1490

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iii^r] is dated 1694.
c.1691-early 18th century.
Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, The Book belonged to the late D^r. Nath^l. Bridges Lecturer of S^t Mary Radcliffe & S^t Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease. Other names inscribed after p. 212 including William Trumbu[ll], Joseph Brampton 1691, and Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915.
- WtI 4 p. 123 et seq.
  
  Extracts, with a title-page: M^r. Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Mans Recreation.
  
  First published in London, 1653.
  
  Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler
- WoH 61.5 p. 198
  
  Copy, headed A Copy of Verses of S^r. H. Wottons. who made this description of that pleasantness that possess'd him, as he sat quietly in a summers evening on a Bank a Fishing: it is a Description of the Spring and here beginning This Day Dame nature seem'd in love.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring ('And now all nature seemed in love')
- WoH 217.5 pp. 201-2
  
  Copy, headed A Copy of Verses, thought to be of S^r. H. Wottons composing, in which is an elegat description of the Recreations & pleasures of the Country.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations ('Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares')
- DnJ 320.5 p. 202
  
  Copy, headed Some Verses of D^r Donne's, which because they relate Rivers, fish & fishing were inserted, in the Author's Book. The Bait.
  
  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')
- RaW 68.5 2nd section, f. [18r]
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleighs Epitaph written himself the night before he suffered.
  
  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'
- DoC 204.5 2nd section, f. [28v]
  
  Copy, headed To the Lady Dorchester.
  
  First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
MS Eng 1534

Copy, 155 large quarto leaves, unbound.

With a title-page: A Treatise on Witchcraft Demonstrated by Facts In the family of Edward Fairfax Esq. Of Fuystone, Yorkshire, 1624. With many curious Plates, Transcribed from an old Manuscript. By Ebenezer Sibley. M. D. 1793 Copied by C. Forrest Sen. Jan^y 1870.
1870.
- FaE 6.3
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).
  
  Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft
MS Eng 1544 (Lobby X.1.1)

An octavo volume of some 137 poems from George Herbert's The Temple, in a single minute hand, many with revisions, 237 pages, in later black morocco.

Possibly written by one I.B. (p. 86), perhaps of Hasleborow (p. 25), who refers to himself (p. 136) as the translat^r, in versions adapted as hymns to be sung to (frequently specified) Psalm tunes, with page references to his printed exemplar (conforming to the 1633 edition) bearing complementary annotations, and with references (on pp. 42, 44, 46, 67, 78, 80, 117, 137, 152, 163, 171, 191, 196, 206, 207, 213, and 218) to those poems which are not copied here (though assigned Psalm tunes) probably because he had made no alterations to the printed versions.
1680/1-1682.
Bookplates of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author (his gift to Harvard in 1922). Formerly Her. 2.5.

This MS discussed by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart in his edition of The Complete Works of George Herbert (3 vols, printed for private circulation, 1874), II, pp. xxv-xxx.
- HrG 51.5 pp. 1-25
  
  Copy, docketed Sing it as the C XIII Psalm, subscribed scripsi...ap^d Hasleborow, diebus p^rdict. et Feb. 12. 1680/1.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.
  
  George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
- HrG 230.5 pp. 26-38
  
  Copy, subscribed scripsi Feb. 7. et nunc ulto ejus^d 24. 1680/1.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 26-34.
  
  George Herbert, The Sacrifice ('Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde')
- HrG 261.5 pp. 39-41
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 35-6.
  
  George Herbert, The Thanksgiving ('Oh King of grief! a title strange, yet true')
- HrG 226.5 p. 42
  
  Copy, docketed as Psal. C.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 36-7.
  
  George Herbert, The Reprisall ('I have consider'd it, and finde')
- HrG 10.5 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy, here beginning Philosophers haue by their art.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 37.
  
  George Herbert, The Agonie ('Philosophers have measur'd mountains')
- HrG 241.5 pp. 43-4
  
  Copy, here beginning Lord I'm all ague when I seek.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 38.
  
  George Herbert, The Sinner ('Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek')
- HrG 120.5 p. 44
  
  Copy, here beginning O thou that art my chiefest good.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.
  
  George Herbert, Good Friday ('O my chief good')
- HrG 222.5 pp. 45-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.
  
  George Herbert, Redemption ('Having been tenant long to a rich Lord')
- HrG 233.5 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy, here beginning Oh blessed body (now), docketed as Ps. 113.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 40-1.
  
  George Herbert, Sepulchre ('O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?')
- HrG 92.2 p. 48
  
  Copy, here beginning Rise heart; thy Lord is risen up.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.
  
  George Herbert, Easter ('Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise')
- HrG 94.5 pp. 48-9
  
  Copy, here beginning My tender youthful age.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 43.
  
  George Herbert, Easter-wings ('Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store')
- HrG 126.5 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy, here beginning As he that sees a darksome Grove.
  
  First published in The Temple (1613). Hutchinson, pp. 43-4.
  
  George Herbert, H. Baptisme (I) ('As he that sees a dark and shadie grove')
- HrG 128.5 p. 50
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 44.
  
  George Herbert, H. Baptisme (II) ('Since, Lord, to thee')
- HrG 187.5 p. 51
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.
  
  George Herbert, Nature ('Full of rebellion, I would die')
- HrG 187.8 p. 51
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.
  
  George Herbert, Nature ('Full of rebellion, I would die')
- HrG 237.5 p. 52
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 45-6.
  
  George Herbert, Sinne (I) ('Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!')
- HrG 3.5 pp. 53-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.
  
  George Herbert, Affliction (I) ('When first thou didst entice to thee my heart')
- HrG 224.2 pp. 55-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.
  
  George Herbert, Repentance ('Lord, I confesse my sinne is great')
- HrG 109.5 pp. 56-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 49-51.
  
  George Herbert, Faith ('Lord, how couldst thou so much appease')
- HrG 209.5 p. 59
  
  Copy, here beginning Prayer the Churches banquet is.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.
  
  George Herbert, Prayer (I) ('Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age')
- HrG 130.5 p. 60
  
  Copy, here beginning Not in the richest furniture.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.
  
  George Herbert, The H. Communion ('Not in rich furniture, or fine aray')
- HrG 167.5 p. 61
  
  Copy, here beginning O thou immortal Loue.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
  
  George Herbert, Love I. ('Immortall Love, authour of this great frame')
- HrG 169.5 pp. 61-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
  
  George Herbert, Love II. ('Immortall Heat, O let thy greater flame')
- HrG 259.5 pp. 62-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 56.
  
  George Herbert, The Temper (II) ('It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy')
- HrG 257.5 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, docketed medu this should haue bin placed before the last,.being pag. 46.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.
  
  George Herbert, The Temper (I) ('How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes')
- HrG 152.5 pp. 64-5
  
  Copy, heading Who sayes that fiction & false hair.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 56-7.
  
  George Herbert, Jordan (I) ('Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair')
- HrG 98.5 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 57.
  
  George Herbert, Employment (I) ('If as a flowre doth spread and die')
- HrG 134.5 p. 66
  
  Copy, here beginning Oh Book so infinite.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.
  
  George Herbert, The H. Scriptures ('Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart')
- HrG 285.5 p. 67
  
  Copy of the heading (Whitsunda) and first line only (here Listen sweet dove unto my song), docketed & vid coelora in libro -- onely take out the words thus enclosed [*].
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 59-60.
  
  George Herbert, Whitsunday ('Listen sweet Dove unto my song')
- HrG 122.5 p. 67
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.
  
  George Herbert, Grace ('My stock lies dead, and no increase')
- HrG 205.5 pp. 68-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 61.
  
  George Herbert, Praise (I) ('To write a verse or two is all the praise')
- HrG 4.5 p. 69
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 62.
  
  George Herbert, Affliction (II) ('Kill me not ev'ry day')
- HrG 180.5 pp. 69-70
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 62-3.
  
  George Herbert, Mattens ('I cannot ope mine eyes')
- HrG 239.5 p. 71
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.
  
  George Herbert, Sinne (II) ('O that I could a sinne once see!')
- HrG 106.5 pp. 71-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 63-4.
  
  George Herbert, Even-song ('Blest be the God of love')
- HrG 48.5 p. 73
  
  Copy, here beginning While that my soul faily repairs.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 64-5.
  
  George Herbert, Church-monuments ('While that my soul repairs to her devotion')
- HrG 50.5 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy, here beginning Sweetest of sweets I do you think.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 65-6.
  
  George Herbert, Church-musick ('Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure')
- HrG 44.2 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy, here beginning Full well I know it is.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.
  
  George Herbert, Church-lock and key ('I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares')
- HrG 42.8 pp. 76-8
  
  Copy, here beginning Sir, do you mark that handsome floor?.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 66-7.
  
  George Herbert, The Church-floore ('Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone')
- HrG 68.5 pp. 78-80
  
  Copy, here beginning Peace muttering thoughts, o peace & rest.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.
  
  George Herbert, Content ('Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep')
- HrG 145.5 pp. 80-2
  
  Copy, here beginning I saw the virtues all, subscribed March 28. 1682.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.
  
  George Herbert, Humilitie ('I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand')
- HrG 115.5 pp. 82-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.
  
  George Herbert, Frailtie ('Lord, in my silence how do I despise')
- HrG 65.5 pp. 83-6
  
  Copy, subscribed ita .I.B. mar. 30. 82.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.
  
  George Herbert, Constancie ('Who is the honest man?')
- HrG 5.5 pp. 86-7
  
  Copy, here beginning My heart did heave and presently.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 73.
  
  George Herbert, Affliction (III) ('My heart did heave, and there came forth, O God!')
- HrG 246.5 pp. 87-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 74.
  
  George Herbert, The Starre ('Bright spark, shot from a brighter place')
- HrG 253.5 pp. 88-90
  
  Copy, here beginning O day most calm, most sweet, most bright.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.
  
  George Herbert, Sunday ('O day most calm, most bright')
- HrG 22.5 pp. 90-1
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
  
  George Herbert, Avarice ('Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo')
- HrG 14.8 p. 91
  
  Copy, here beginning How well doth her great Name.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
  
  George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram ('How well her name an Army doth present')
- HrG 264.5 pp. 92-3
  
  Copy, here beginning oh glorious spirits, who on high.
  
  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 100.5 pp. 93-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.
  
  George Herbert, Employment (II) ('He that is weary, let him sit')
- HrG 81.5 pp. 95-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.
  
  George Herbert, Deniall ('When my devotions could not pierce')
- HrG 40.5 pp. 96-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.
  
  George Herbert, Christmas ('All after pleasures as I rid one day')
- HrG 276.5 pp. 99-100
  
  Copy, here beginning Lord with what bounty rare.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 82.
  
  George Herbert, Ungratefulnesse ('Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie')
- HrG 235.5 pp. 101-2
  
  Copy, here beginning After my sins, o do not use.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 83.
  
  George Herbert, Sighs and Grones ('O do not use me')
- HrG 288.5 pp. 102-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.
  
  George Herbert, The World ('Love built a stately house. where Fortune came')
- HrG 279.5 pp. 104-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 85-6.
  
  George Herbert, Vanitie (I) ('The fleet Astronomer can bore')
- HrG 162.5 pp. 105-8
  
  Copy, with the scribe's marginal comment on p. 108 In my poor judg^t. the Poetry is better then the Reason -- therefore though I translated it as piously intended, yet I cannpt say y^t. I am like-minded wth ys worthy Author. May. 30. 1682.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 86-7.
  
  George Herbert, Lent ('Welcome deare feast of Lent: who loves not thee')
- HrG 199.5 pp. 109-11
  
  Copy, here beginning I know the wayes of Learning well.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 88-9.
  
  George Herbert, The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45. ('I know the wayes of Learning. both the head')
- HrG 7.5 pp. 111-12
  
  Copy, docketed As Psal. 25.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 89-90.
  
  George Herbert, Affliction (IV) ('Broken in pieces all asunder')
- HrG 176.5 pp. 112-15
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 90-2.
  
  George Herbert, Man ('My God, I heard this day')
- HrG 278.5 pp. 115-16
  
  Copy, here beginning Lord make me very coy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 93-4.
  
  George Herbert, Unkindnesse ('Lord, make me coy and tender to offend')
- HrG 163.5 p. 117
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 94.
  
  George Herbert, Life ('I made a posie, while the day ran by')
- HrG 9.5 pp. 117-18
  
  Copy, here beginning My glorious God, I read this day.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 97.
  
  George Herbert, Affliction (V) ('My God, I read this day')
- HrG 185.5 pp. 118-20
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 98-9.
  
  George Herbert, Mortification ('How soon doth man decay!')
- HrG 77.5 pp. 121-2
  
  Copy, here beginning The dayes were sweet wn thou (o L^d).
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 99.
  
  George Herbert, Decay ('Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot')
- HrG 183.5 pp. 122-7
  
  Copy, here beginning Lord, Let the Angels high.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 100-2.
  
  George Herbert, Miserie ('Lord, let the Angles praise thy name')
- HrG 154.5 pp. 127-8
  
  Copy, here beginning when first my lines began.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 102-3.
  
  George Herbert, Jordan (II) ('When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention')
- HrG 212.5 pp. 128-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.
  
  George Herbert, Prayer (II) ('Of what an easie quick accesse')
- HrG 189.5 pp. 129-32
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 104-5.
  
  George Herbert, Obedience ('My God, if writings may')
- HrG 64.5 p. 132
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.
  
  George Herbert, Conscience ('Peace pratler, do not lowre')
- HrG 243.5 pp. 133-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 106-7.
  
  George Herbert, Sion ('Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old')
- HrG 140.5 pp. 134-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.
  
  George Herbert, Home ('Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick')
- HrG 30.4 pp. 136-7
  
  Copy, docketed at the foot of p. 136 the translat^rs who in this is not like minded w^th the Rever^d. Author.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.
  
  George Herbert, The British Church ('I joy, deare Mother, when I view')
- HrG 280.5 p. 137
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 111.
  
  George Herbert, Vanitie (II) ('Poore silly soul, whose hope and head lies low')
- HrG 73.5 p. 138
  
  Copy, here beginning wake heart, whom sorrow ever drowns.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.
  
  George Herbert, The Dawning ('Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns')
- HrG 147.5 p. 138
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.
  
  George Herbert, Jesu ('Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name')
- HrG 32.2 pp. 139-41
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Canst thou be idle man.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 113-14.
  
  George Herbert, Businesse ('Canst be idle? canst thou play')
- HrG 90.5 p. 141
  
  Copy, here beginning why do I languish drooping thus.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 115-16.
  
  George Herbert, Dulnesse ('Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull')
- HrG 173.2 p.. 141
  
  Copy, in double columns, here beginning As on a window lately I.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.
  
  George Herbert, Love-joy ('As on a window late I cast mine eye')
- HrG 215.5 pp. 142-51
  
  Copy, subscribed March. 3. 1680/1.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.
  
  George Herbert, Providence ('O sacred Providence, who from end to end')
- HrG 143.5 p. 151
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 121.
  
  George Herbert, Hope ('I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he')
- HrG 242.5 pp. 151-2
  
  Copy, here beginning Sorry I am, my God, I am.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 122.
  
  George Herbert, Sinnes round ('Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am')
- HrG 197.5 pp. 153-4
  
  Copy, here beginning Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwel, I trow.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 124-5.
  
  George Herbert, Peace ('Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave')
- HrG 63.5 pp. 154-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 126.
  
  George Herbert, Confession ('O what a cunning guest')
- HrG 116.5 pp. 155-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.
  
  George Herbert, Giddinesse ('Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power')
- HrG 31.5 pp. 156-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 128.
  
  George Herbert, The Bunch of Grapes ('Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man')
- HrG 174.5 pp. 157-60
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 129-31.
  
  George Herbert, Love unknown ('Deare Friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad')
- HrG 177.5 pp. 160-2
  
  Copy, here beginning Heark how the birds do sweetly sing.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 131-2.
  
  George Herbert, Mans medley ('Heark, how the birds do sing')
- HrG 249.5 pp. 162-3
  
  Copy, here beginning If as the furious winds.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 132.
  
  George Herbert, The Storm ('If as the windes and waters here below')
- HrG 103.5 pp. 163-5
  
  Copy, here beginning And art thou griev'd, o dove.
  
  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 110.5 p. 165
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 136-7.
  
  George Herbert, The Familie ('What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart')
- HrG 244.5 pp. 166-7
  
  Copy, here beginning Content thee oh my greedy heart.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.
  
  George Herbert, The Size ('Content thee, greedie heart')
- HrG 20.5 pp. 168-9
  
  Copy, here beginning Sitting one night before my cell.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 139.
  
  George Herbert, Artillerie ('As I one ev'ning sat before my cell')
- HrG 57.5 pp. 169-71
  
  Copy, here beginning Brave Rose (alas) where art yu now.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 140.
  
  George Herbert, Church-rents and schismes ('Brave rose, (alas!) where art thou? in the chair')
- HrG 159.5 pp. 171-2
  
  Copy, here beginning O dreadful Justice unto man.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.
  
  George Herbert, Justice (II) ('O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour')
- HrG 201.5 pp. 172-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 141-2.
  
  George Herbert, The Pilgrimage ('I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay')
- HrG 139.5 pp. 173-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143.
  
  George Herbert, The Holdfast ('I threatned to observe the strict decree')
- HrG 62.5 pp. 174-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143-4.
  
  George Herbert, Complaining ('Do not beguile my heart')
- HrG 84.5 pp. 175-7
  
  Copy, here beginning Busy enquireing heart, I pray.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 144-5.
  
  George Herbert, The Discharge ('Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know?')
- HrG 192.5 pp. 177-80
  
  Copy, here beginning Come bring thy gift away, subscribed oct. 17. 1682.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 147-8.
  
  George Herbert, An Offering ('Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow')
- HrG 164.5 pp. 181-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 148-50.
  
  George Herbert, Longing ('With sick and famisht eyes')
- HrG 25.8 pp. 184-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 151-2.
  
  George Herbert, The Bag ('Away despair! my gracious Lord doth heare')
- HrG 150.5 pp. 185-6
  
  Copy, here beginning Poor nation long be wildered.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 152.
  
  George Herbert, The Jews ('Poore nation, whose sweet sap and juice')
- HrG 61.2 pp. 186-8
  
  Copy, here beginning I struck upon the board.
  
  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 118.5 pp. 188-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 154-5.
  
  George Herbert, The Glimpse ('Whither away delight?')
- HrG 21.5 pp. 189-91
  
  Copy, here beginning O spiteful woful bitter thought!.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 155-6.
  
  George Herbert, Assurance ('O spitefull bitter thought!')
- HrG 207.5 pp. 191-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 157-9.
  
  George Herbert, Praise (III) ('Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise')
- HrG 155.5 p. 193
  
  Copy, here beginning wounded most sore I sing.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 159.
  
  George Herbert, Josephs coat ('Wounded I sing, tormented I indite')
- HrG 217.5 p. 194
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 159-60.
  
  George Herbert, The Pulley ('When God at first made man')
- HrG 213.5 pp. 195-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.
  
  George Herbert, The Priesthood ('Blest Order, which in power dost so excell')
- HrG 124.5 pp. 196-7
  
  Copy, here beginning O, who will give me brinish tears.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.
  
  George Herbert, Grief ('O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs')
- HrG 71.5 pp. 197-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 164-5.
  
  George Herbert, The Crosse ('What is this strange and uncouth thing?')
- HrG 111.5 pp. 199-200
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 165-7.
  
  George Herbert, The Flower ('How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean')
- HrG 89.2 p. 201
  
  Copy, here beginning False glozeing pleasures, empty casks.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.
  
  George Herbert, Dotage ('False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse')
- HrG 245.5 pp. 201-2
  
  Copy, here beginning Let forraign Nations loudly boast.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 167-8.
  
  George Herbert, The Sonne ('Let forrain nations of their language boast')
- HrG 269.5 p. 202
  
  Copy, here beginning my dearest joy, My life, my Crown!.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 168.
  
  George Herbert, A true Hymne ('My joy, my life, my crown!')
- HrG 16.5 p. 203
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.
  
  George Herbert, The Answer ('My comforts drop and melt away like snow')
- HrG 83.5 pp. 203-4
  
  Copy, here beginning Alas poore sorry death!.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.
  
  George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme ('Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?')
- HrG 283.5 pp. 204-5
  
  Copy, here beginning Thou who impatiently dost dwell.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 170.
  
  George Herbert, The Water-couse ('Thou who dost dwell and linger here below')
- HrG 232.5 p. 205
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 170-1.
  
  George Herbert, Self-condemnation ('Thou who condemnest Jewish hate')
- HrG 117.5 p. 206
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 171-2.
  
  George Herbert, The Glance ('When first thy sweet and gracious eye')
- HrG 178.5 pp. 206-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 173.
  
  George Herbert, Marie Magdalene ('When blessed marie wip'd her Saviours feet')
- HrG 1.5 pp. 207-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 174.
  
  George Herbert, Aaron ('Holinesse on the head')
- HrG 190.5 pp. 209-10
  
  Copy, here beginning How sweetly doth this sentence sound.
  
  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 112.5 p. 210
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 175-6.
  
  George Herbert, The Foil ('If we could see below')
- HrG 113.5 pp. 211-13
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 176-7.
  
  George Herbert, The Forerunners ('The harbingers are come. See, see their mark')
- HrG 146.5 p. 213
  
  Copy of a 32-line version beginning Come ye up hither all, in double columns.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.
  
  George Herbert, The Invitation ('Come ye hither All, whose taste')
- HrG 146.8 pp. 214-15
  
  Copy of a 48-line version headed aliter and beginning Come hither ye, ye all whose taste.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.
  
  George Herbert, The Invitation ('Come ye hither All, whose taste')
- HrG 27.5 pp. 215-16
  
  Copy, headed O welcome sweet and sacred cheer.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.
  
  George Herbert, The Banquet ('Welcome sweet and sacred cheer')
- HrG 202.5 p. 217
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 182-3.
  
  George Herbert, The Posie ('Let wits contest')
- HrG 195.9 pp. 217-18
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.
  Herbert's poem is a Parodie of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries in CELM include both poems indiscriminately.
  
  George Herbert, A Parodie ('Souls joy, when thou art gone')
- HrG 290.2 p. 218
  
  Copy, here beginning A wreathed Garland Lord.
  
  Inscribed on Danby's tomb in Dauntsey Church, Wiltshire. First published in Izaak Walton, Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch (London, 1776). Hutchinson, pp. 208-9.
  
  George Herbert, On Henry Danvers earl of Danby ('Sacred Marble, safely keepe')
- HrG 76.5 pp. 218-19
  
  Copy, here beginning Death, thou wast once an uncouth thing.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.
  
  George Herbert, Death ('Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing')
- HrG 88.5 pp. 219-20
  
  Copy, here beginning oh come, come, come away.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 186-7.
  
  George Herbert, Dooms-day ('Come away')
- HrG 157.5 pp. 220-1
  
  Copy, here beginning All mighty judge, how shall we brook.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 187-8.
  
  George Herbert, Judgement ('Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook')
- HrG 138.5 p. 221
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 188.
  
  George Herbert, Heaven ('O who will show me those delights on high?')
- HrG 171.5 pp. 221-2
  
  Copy, subscribed Dec. 12. 1682.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 188-9.
  
  George Herbert, Love III ('Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back')
- HrG 46.5 pp. 222-36
  
  Copy, here beginning Allmighty God the Lord, who from.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.
  
  George Herbert, The Church Militant ('Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne')
- HrG 102.5 pp. 236-7
  
  Copy, here beginning O King of Glory, King of Peace, subscribed Finis. Dec. 14. 1682.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 199.
  
  George Herbert, L'Envoy ('King of Glorie, King of Peace')
fMS Eng 64

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to the Rev. Richard Busby, [1682].
1682.
Ward, Letter 9.
- *DrJ 310
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 602

A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9^me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of D^r Atterbury and Bish^p Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…M^r [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to M^rs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).
c.1693-8.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.
- WaE 158 ff. [1r-2r]
  
  Copy of Canto I, lines 1-22, 45-54, and Canto II, lines 1-8 only, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
  
  First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Divine Love. Six Cantos ('The Grecian muse has all their gods survived')
- WaE 68 f. [2v]
  
  Copy of the last four lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and here beginning Here beauty, youth, and Noble Virtue Shin'd.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 116.
  
  Edmund Waller, Epitaph Unfinished ('Great soul! for whom Death will no longer stay')
- WaE 798.5 ff. [3v-4v], [8r]
  
  Copy of a series of passages, at least some relating to Waller's adaptation and possibly incorporating rejected drafts, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters on four pages.
  Besides 12 lines (on f. [4]) begininng When I consider life tis all a cheate from Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, IV, i, the passages on these four pages include (i) 16 lines beginning Under what Tyranny are women born!, the first two lines being a version of Evadne's couplet beginning Under how hard a Fate are Women born! near the opening of the play (lines 9-10); and (on lower half of f. [8]) 16 lines beginning Noe forrest, Cave, or Savage Denn, being Aspasia's lines 7-22 in her scene in the Forest. Some of the other, unidentified passages also occur in other Waller family papers.
  
  Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 788.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (1690).
  
  Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered
- WaE 278 f. [5r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')
- WaE 425 f. [6v]
  
  Copy of lines 10-12 in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and here beginning —his precepts bring, subscribed to be added to the verses of the Lords prayer in the second petition.
  
  First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 137-9.
  
  Edmund Waller, Some reflections of his upon the several Petitions in the same Prayer ('His sacred name with reverence profound')
- WaE 196 f. [7v]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir R: H: Mother to the present Prince of Orange and of hir Portraite written by the late Duchesse of Y. while shee liv'd with hir.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 74.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange. and of her portrait, written by the late Duchess of York while she lived with her ('Heroic nymph! in tempests the support')
- WaE 661 f. [8r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled.
  
  First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, Seventh edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
  
  Edmund Waller, Translated out of French ('Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so')
- WaE 156 f. [8v]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of an Eligy vpon the Earl of Rochester: written by a Lady &c..
  
  First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 89.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of Rochester ('Thus mourn the Muses! on the hearse')
- WaE 665 ff. [9r-10r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, here arranged in the order of lines 1-22, 25-6, 23-4, 27-46.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 77-8.
  
  Edmund Waller, The Triple Combat ('When through the world fair Mazarin had run')
- WaE 410 f. [10r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed prologue for the Lady actors &c..
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 95.
  
  Edmund Waller, Prologue for the Lady-Actors: Spoken before King Charles II ('Amaze us not with that majestic frown')
- WaE 345 ff. [11r-12r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of the Duke of Mounmouths expedition to Scotland in the Summer Solstis——1678.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 84-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice, 1679 ('Swift as Jove's messenger, the winged god')
- EtG 69 f. [12r]
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in Nahum Tate, A Duke and No Duke (London, 1685). Thorpe, p. 30.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Song ('Tell me no more I am deceived')
- WhA 47 ff. [12v-13v]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
  
  First published, as Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement ('If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind')
- WhA 54 ff. [14r-15r]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
  
  First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')
- WhA 2 f. [15r]
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
  
  Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by M^rs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')
- WhA 25 f. [16r]
  
  Copy of lines 1-8.
  
  This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah ('Who hath beleived on Earth what we report')
- WaE 254 f. [17v]
  
  Copy of a 21-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning What Mity Princes doe bestow.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 94.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty ('Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays')
- WaE 161 ff. [18r-21v]
  
  Copy of a version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, here arranged as Canto I, lines 1-20, 40-1, 21-39, 42-54, and Canto II.
  
  First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')
- WaE 407 f. [22r-v]
  
  Copy of a 39-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning Not the brave Alexander alone.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114.
  
  Edmund Waller, Pride ('Not the brave Macedonian youth alone')
- WaE 112 f. [23r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Argumentum and including four lines of prose.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
  
  Edmund Waller, Long and Short Life ('Circles are praised, not that abound')
- WaE 408 f. [23r]
  
  Copy of the eighteen-line version, untitled, in an unidentified hand.
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114.
  
  Edmund Waller, Pride ('Not the brave Macedonian youth alone')
- WaE 762 f. [25v]
  
  Copy of twenty lines of dramatic verse in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
  
  Apparently unpublished.
  
  Edmund Waller, 'The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts'
- WaE 256 f. [26v]
  
  Copy of a sixteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of Tea Commended by hir Ma^ty and beginning Venus hir Martle, Phoebus has his bayes, incorporating (as the last six lines) lines subsequently used in Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 [see WaE 177-86].
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 94.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty ('Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays')
- WaE 255 f. [26r-v]
  
  Copy of a 33-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of Tea Commended by hir Ma^ty and beginning The best of Queens and best of harbs we owe, incorporating (as the last six lines) lines subsequently used in Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 [see WaE 177-86].
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 94.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty ('Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays')
- WaE 177 f. [27r]
  
  Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir Ma^ty on hir birth day and beginning Still like themselves the Sun and shee appears with various alternative readings and interlineations.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 178 f. [27v]
  
  Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning May every birth-day find hir still the same with an alternative version of five lines.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 179 f. [27v]
  
  Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir Ma^ty on hir birth day and beginning Shee and the Sunn still like themselves appear.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 60 f. [28r]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.
  
  Edmund Waller, Epitaph on Sir George Speke ('Under this stone lies vertue, youth')
- WaE 180 f. [28v]
  
  Copy of a nine-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Nov: 21 and beginning What revolutions in the world are seen.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 181 f. [28v]
  
  Copy of a thirteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir Ma^ty on hir birth day and beginning What revolutions in the world are seen, with an alternative version of four lines.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 182 f. [29v]
  
  Copy of a five-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed The Queen and beginning Shee and the Sun alone unchang'd appear.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 183 f. [34v]
  
  Copy of a sixteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir Ma^ty on Newyears day, with alternative readings.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 184 f. [35r]
  
  Copy of the eighteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of hir Ma^ty on Newyears day, with an alternative version of two lines.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
- WaE 700 ff. [35v-6]
  
  Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and lacking lines 11-12.
  
  First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
- ShJ 160 f. [36v]
  
  Copy of the dirge, untitled.
  
  Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
  
  James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
- WaE 754 f. [38v]
  
  Copy of a six-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of Higgons and beginning Noe woundes shee so well indites.
  
  First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.
  
  Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons ('Ingenious Higgons never sought')
- WaE 755 f. [38v]
  
  Copy of a twelve-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning Ingenious Higgions that ne're sought.
  
  First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.
  
  Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons ('Ingenious Higgons never sought')
- WaE 756 f. [39r]
  
  Copy of a 24-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled.
  
  First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.
  
  Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons ('Ingenious Higgons never sought')
- DaW 160 ff. [52v-5v]
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Extracts
- EtG 6 f. [56r-v]
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
- RoJ 616 f. [57r-v]
  
  Copy, headed Answere.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
- RoJ 86 ff. [58r-9v]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
- WaE 784 f. [70v]
  
  Copy of a 27-line poem in an unidentified hand, docketed Bishp Atterbury [i.e. found in the handwriting of Atterbury: see f. [65] for a similar note].
  
  Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger. Its authorship is uncertain.
  
  Edmund Waller, Written before a Lady's Waller ('The lovely Owner of this book')
fMS Eng 623

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.
- RoJ 87 Folder 12, pp. 39-42
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Letter To My Lord Musgraue, subscribed Rochester, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
- RoJ 481 Folder 12, pp. 52-7
  
  Copy, headed Satyr vpon a Siner, in two hands, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon (the heading misread by all editors as Diner).
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
- RoJ 255 Folder 13, pp. 37-8
  
  Copy, headed On the Author of the Defence of Satyr, in a professional hand, on pp. 37-8, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 35-8. Late 17th century
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
- RoJ 161 Folder 14, pp. 1-9
  
  Copy, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 1-9, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
- RoJ 586 Folder 14, pp. 10-11
  
  Copy, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 10-11, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.
  
  First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
- RoJ 317 Folder 14, pp. 12-19
  
  Copy, headed Satyr On Man, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 12-19, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
- RoJ 31 Folder 14, pp. 28-32
  
  Copy, headed A Satyr on the Poets, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 28-32, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
- RoJ 587 Folder 15
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.
  
  First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
- *MaB 3 Folder 26
  Autograph
  
  Autograph presentation MS, signed Bathsua Makin, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, undated.
  
  Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), p. 228.
  
  Bathsua Makin, To the right honorable the Countesse Douager of Huntingdon ('Illustrious Lady, where shall I begin')
fMS Eng 626

A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1.
c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony S^t John/ Ann: S^t John/ 1640 Bletso: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]; and (f. 81v) John Watts. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the St John MS: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
- CwT 1251.8 ff. 2v-3r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- DnJ 3024 f. 3r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- CwT 1035.8 ff. 3v-4r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity ('As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death')
- FeO 31 f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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 4 ff. 6v-7r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells that shee weares.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- CwT 1001.5 f. 7r
  
  Copy of lines 37-48, untitled and here beginning Those curious locks soe aptly twin'd.
  
  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 715 f. 7v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- WoH 109 f. 8r-v
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.
  
  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')
- CwT 948 f. 9v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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 929 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
- HeR 324 f. 10r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
  
  Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
- FlJ 12 ff. 10v-12r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.
  
  John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars')
- GrJ 41 ff. 12v-13r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees, subscribed I. G. Listed in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Come you swarms of thoughts and bring'
- GrJ 57 ff. 13v-14r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- GrJ 37.4 f. 14r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Blind beauty! If it be a loss'
- HrE 49 ff. 18v-19r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')
- CwT 357 f. 19r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.
  
  Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris ('You, that will a wonder know')
- HeR 329 ff. 22v-3r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
  
  Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')
- HeR 109 ff. 23r-6r
  
  Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamie.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.
  
  Robert Herrick, An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie ('Now, now's the time. so oft by truth')
- HeR 165 ff. 26r-9r
  
  Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamie.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
- HeR 129 ff. 29r-31v
  
  Copy, headed His old Age to M^r Weekes.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
  
  Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')
- HeR 354 ff. 31v-3v
  
  Copy, headed My [The deleted] Daughters Dowry.
  
  Edited from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.
  
  Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more')
- HeR 196 ff. 33v-4v
  
  Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Goe and with this parting kisse.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')
- HeR 143 ff. 34v-5v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Lilly in a Christal ('You have beheld a smiling Rose')
- HeR 29 f. 35v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares')
- HeR 403 ff. 35v-6v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Carued Cherriestone.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
- HeR 314 ff. 36v-7v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, Elegy ('Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe')
- HeR 318 ff. 37v-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, The farewell ('Sweetest Loue since wee must part')
- HeR 371 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Sonnet ('Ile dote noe more, nor shall mine eyes')
- HeR 255 ff. 38v-9r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.
  
  Robert Herrick, Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie ('Why doe not all fresh maids appeare')
- RnT 578 ff. 39r-40r
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of S^r Edward Burton being blind ('Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true')
- RnT 582 ff. 40r-1v
  
  Copy.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Newes of his Recoverie ('Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast')
- RnT 405 f. 41v
  
  Copy of an untitled translation by T.R: of Latin verses (on f. 41r-v) ascribed to Ser: Hosk: [i.e. John Hoskyns (1566-1638)] and beginning Dum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras
  
  Edited from this MS in Day.
  
  First published in Day (1932), pp. 33-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, 'When gratefull Charles went to Paules hollowed shrine'
- RnT 43 ff. 41v-4r
  
  Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamour'd.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine')
- RnT 257 f. 44v
  
  Copy, headed Englished and preceded (f. 44r-v) by the Latin version headed In Eclipsem solis, christo patienti Contingentem.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?')
- RnT 24 ff. 44v-5v
  
  Copy, headed A Parody to M^r. Johnsons Ode, subscribed Tho Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31. Collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
- RnT 333 ff. 45v-6v
  
  Copy, headed On a very deformed gentlewoeman, but of a voice incomparably sweete, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31, and in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
- RnT 157 f. 46v
  
  Copy, following the Latin version, subscribed Tho: R:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Day.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat, in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished ('By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe')
- RnT 165 f. 46v
  
  Copy, headed Englished and following the Latin version which is headed In Natalem Principis ad Reginam Mariam.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')
- RnT 153 f. 47r
  
  Copy, following the Latin version.
  
  Edited from this MS in Day.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum, in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished ('Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince')
- RnT 303 f. 47r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: R:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute')
- RnT 432 f. 47r
  
  Copy, headed The Masque of Vices, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go')
- RnT 51 ff. 47v-8r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 44-5.
  
  Thomas Randolph, De Histrice. Ex Claudiano ('Fam'd Stymphall, I have heard, thy birds in flight')
- RnT 142 f. 48r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano ('Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse')
- RnT 408 f. 48v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: R:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Day.
  
  First published in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, 'When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse'
- RnT 162 ff. 48v-9v
  
  Copy, headed In Lesbiam, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem ('I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane')
- RnT 62 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano ('Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent')
- RnT 53 ff. 50r-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 46-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, De Magnete. Ex Claudiano ('Who in the world with busy reason pryes')
- RnT 140 ff. 52v-4
  
  Copy, following (ff. 51r-2r) the Latin version, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ ('The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine')
- RnT 150 ff. 54v-5r
  
  Copy, following the Latin version, subscribed Tho: Rand.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd ('Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!')
- RnT 17 f. 55r-v
  
  Copy, headed Excludit sanos Helicone Poetas —— Democritus Ad Amicum Litigantem, subscribed Tho: Rand.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 97-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicum Litigantem ('Would you commence a Poet S^r, and be')
- RnT 242 ff. 55v-8r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch')
- RnT 57 f. 58r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Rand:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Day.
  
  First published in Day (1932), p. 36.
  
  Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna ('Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye')
- RnT 69 ff. 58r-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage ('My Lalage when I behold')
- RnT 173 ff. 59r-60r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: R:.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia ('Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud')
- MsP 12 ff. 60r-2v
  
  Copy, subscribed P: M:.
  
  This MS collated in Edwards & Gibson.
  
  First published in A.K. McIlwraith, The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.
  
  Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character ('Such as doe Trophies striue to raise')
- ShJ 25 ff. 62v-3r
  
  Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a Maister and beginning I have no humour to adore the face.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.
  
  James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris ('O how I blush, to have ador'd the face')
- ShJ 129 f. 63r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
  
  James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
- RaW 303 f. 63r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')
- RnT 325 f. 64r
  
  Copy, headed Against Time.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
  
  First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')
- RnT 284 f. 64r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Madrigall.
  
  This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')
- ShJ 4 f. 64v
  
  Copy, headed Curtesan.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of Cupid's Call (Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.
  
  James Shirley, Another ('Harke, harke how in euery groue')
- ShJ 52 f. 65r
  
  Copy, headed One that lou'd a Mistresse & durst not discouer it.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.
  
  James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris ('I can no longer hold, my body growes')
- ShJ 45 f. 65r-v
  
  Copy of a version headed To his Mistresse, whome hee lou'd to enioye her and beginning Ladie what's your face to mee.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.
  
  James Shirley, Love for Enjoying ('Fair Lady, what's your face to me?')
- JnB 618 ff. 65v-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune ('Helpe me wonder, here's a booke')
- GrJ 74.5 f. 66r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Since all men that I come among.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Since every man I come among'
- JnB 50 ff. 66v-7r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Dreame ('Or Scorne, or pittie on me take')
- DnJ 320 f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded 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')
- JnB 177 ff. 67v-8r
  
  Copy, headed The Picture of 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 215 ff. 68v-9v
  
  Copy, headed The Picture of the Minde.
  
  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')
- HeR 52 f. 73r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- JnB 293 f. 73r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- CwT 584 ff. 73v-4r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistleing Winde.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- BmF 107 ff. 74v-6r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
  Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson ('The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring')
- CwT 229 f. 76r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- DnJ 207 f. 77r
  
  Copy, headed Apparition.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 519 f. 77r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded 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 2068 ff. 77v-8r
  
  Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- JnB 358 f. 78r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind')
- JnB 42 f. 78v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe')
- JnB 725 f. 79v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
- JnB 333 f. 80r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue in Song betweene a Nymph and a Shepheard.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
fMS Eng 629

A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) Poems on Severall Occasions, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
c.1735.
- DrJ 222.3 p. 33
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on Dundee.
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
  
  John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
- SeC 92 p. 45
  
  Copy, headed Against his Mistress's Cruelty, by S^r Cha^s: Sedley.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by His Grace, George, Late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 149-50.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Against his Mistress's Cruelty ('Love, How unequal are thy Laws')
- MkM 11 p. 48
  
  Copy.
  
  Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
  
  Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
- DoC 88 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph and here beginning Here lyes little Patty, a yard deep & more.
  
  This MS collated in Harris. Recorded in Wright & Spears.
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris pp. 93-4.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy ('Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more')
- CgW 41 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed A Song by M^r Congreve, deleted.
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 78. Dobrée, p. 245. McKenzie, II, 326.
  
  William Congreve, Song ('Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs')
- WaE 73.5 pp. 68-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.
  
  Edmund Waller, The Fall ('See! how the willing earth gave way')
- DrJ 102.2 pp. 73-4
  
  Copy, headed Engrav'd on the Monument of a young Lady who dy'd att Bath & is there Interr'd.
  
  Kinsley, IV, 1740-1. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 28-9.
  
  John Dryden, The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at Bath, and is there Interr'd ('Below this Marble Monument, is laid')
- CoR 554.8 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy, headed An Old Ballad made in 1647, by Bishop Corbett entitul'd the Fairies Farewel.
  
  First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
  
  Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will ('Farewell, Rewards & Faeries')
- CoR 578.5 p. 77
  
  Copy, headed To his Son Vincent Corbet by the same hand.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
  
  Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
- RaW 369 p. 152
  
  Copy, headed The following Lines were written by Sir Walter Rawleigh, upon y^e Death of that famous Statesman Robert Earl of Surrey, his Most Implacable Enemy, subscribed The two last lines allude to y^e manner of y^e Earls Death w^ch was s^d. to be Occasioned by his Amours, in a section entitled Miscellany Poems, Song &c from the year 1727.
  
  First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
  Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
fMS Eng 636

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).
c.1690s.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.
- RoJ 50 pp. 1-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
- RoJ 77 pp. 4-8
  
  Copy, headed To My Lord Mulgrave, from Rochester. An Epistolary Essay From M.G. to O.B. Upon their Mutuall Poems.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
- RoJ 482 pp. 8-10
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS and discussed (as text C) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 153-4. Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  First published, as Against jealousie, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 84-5. Walker, pp. 41-2. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3). Love, pp. 24-5.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To a Lady in a Letter ('Such perfect bliss fair Chloris, we')
- SeC 102 pp. 10-12
  
  Copy, here ascribed to Rochester.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, loc. cit.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')
- RoJ 277 pp. 12-20
  
  Copy, headed Upon y^e Nightwalkers in S^t. James Parke.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
- RoJ 140 pp. 20-32
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
- RoJ 14 pp. 40-6
  
  Copy, headed In Imitation of the 10^th Satire Hor: 1^th Lib.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
- MkM 12 p. 48
  
  Copy.
  
  Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
  
  Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
- RoJ 244 pp. 51-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
- DoC 34 pp. 54-5
  
  Copy, headed Catch, here beginning When first Rebellion struck at y^e Crowne and ascribed to Rochester.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Catch ('When rebels first push'd at the Crown')
- RoJ 569 pp. 55-8
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.
  
  First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
- RoJ 486 pp. 58-61
  
  Copy, headed Love.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
- RoJ 556 pp. 61-2
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
- RoJ 548 pp. 62-4
  
  Copy, headed Upon drinking of A Bowle.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')
- RoJ 415 pp. 64-5
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
- RoJ 623 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
- RoJ 93 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
- RoJ 450 pp. 67-8
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
- RoJ 203 pp. 68-9
  
  Copy, headed Song.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')
- RoJ 376 pp. 69-70
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('By all love's soft, yet mighty powers')
- RoJ 378 pp. 77-9
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
- RoJ 514 pp. 79-80
  
  Copy, headed A Paraphrase upon Seneca Trag. Act: 2^d Chorus….
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
- RoJ 291 pp. 80-90
  
  Copy, headed A Satyre Ag^st: Man, lines 174-221 separately headed An Addition to the Satyr Against Man.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
- DoC 111 pp. 99-102
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege ('Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley')
- EtG 35 pp. 103-5
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 113.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')
- DoC 19 pp. 106-10
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me')
- EtG 40 pp. 110-14
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 114.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('So soft and amorously you write')
- RoJ 107 pp. 114-17
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')
- BeA 5 pp. 117-24
  
  Copy, headed An Imperfect Enjoyment, By M^ris A. Behn.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.
  Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.
  
  Aphra Behn, The Disappointment ('One day the Amorous Lysander')
- RoJ 527 pp. 131-40
  
  Copy, headed A Satyre upon Tunbridge Wells.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
- DeJ 6 pp. 148-51
  
  Copy, headed To S^r William Davenant on his Gondibert.
  
  First published, as To Sir W. Davenant, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.
  
  Sir John Denham, 'After so many sad mishaps'
- DrJ 92 pp. 161-71
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth.
  
  First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
  The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
  
  John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
- DrJ 169 pp. 172-4
  
  Copy, headed Prologue to the University Spoaken there 1672.
  
  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman ('What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew')
- DrJ 43 pp. 174-6
  
  Copy, headed The Epilogue.
  
  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 279-81.
  
  John Dryden, Epilogue [to the University of Oxon.], Spoken by the same [Mr. Hart] ('No poor Dutch Peasant, wing'd with all his Fear')
- DrJ 58 pp. 176-83
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy upon Oliver Cromwell Late Lord Protector, by Jn° Dryden.
  
  First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.
  
  John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
- WaE 722 pp. 201-2
  
  Copy, headed On the Same Subject By M^r Waller.
  
  First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
- RoJ 285.5 p. 220-7
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Love.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Love, pp. 81-5.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satyr ('Say Heav'n-born Muse, for only thou can'st tell')
- RoJ 475 pp. 228-36
  
  Copy, headed Satyr Bye S^r Charles Sidley.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
- LeN 4 pp. 236-40
  
  Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the Prince and Princess of orrange and beginning Hail happy Warriour! whose Armes haue won.
  
  First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.
  
  Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage ('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')
- RoJ 171 pp. 246-7
  
  Copy, headed Song.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
- RoJ 409 pp. 247-8
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
- WaE 774 pp. 250-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.
  
  Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 ('Welcome, great Prince, unto this land')
- DoC 150 pp. 253-5
  
  Copy, headed Vpon M^r Edward Howards Playes and here ascribed to Witherley.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
- DoC 276 pp. 255-7
  
  Copy, headed Verses on the same subject [i.e. Edward Howard's play].
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
- BuS 26 pp. 267-74
  
  Copy.
  
  Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
  
  Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
- RoJ 432 p. 277
  
  Copy, headed M^is: Knights Advice to the Dutchess, of Cleavland, in Distress For A Prick.
  
  Edited from this MS in Walker. Recorded in Vieth.
  
  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')
- DoC 48 pp. 286-93
  
  Copy, headed Satyr.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
- RoJ 341 pp. 293-5
  
  Copy, headed Verses By L^d: Roc. and here beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle say som.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
fMS Eng 652

A folio volume of Miscellanies Collected in the Yeare 1683 at Kingstone upon Thames May the 11^th, in verse and prose, predominantly in one neat hand, c.141 pages (usually on rectos only), gilt-edged, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled between 11 May and 25 June 1683 by someone whose monogram is possibly (?) JMD.
1683.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
- RoJ 522 f. 61r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
fMS Eng 676

A folio commonplace book of chiefly Quaker authors, 49 leaves, in a paper wrapper.
c.1745.
- MkM 13 f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
  
  Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
fMS Eng 705

Copy, in a single professional hand, 28 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with traces of ties.
Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of James P.R. Lyell. Given to the library in 1939 by Thomas W. Lamont.

This MS recorded (as Unnumbered MS) in Cerovski, p. 87.
- NaR 26
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
  
  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
fMS 757

A large coucher-size volume of accounts, state letters, speeches, legal documents and other papers, in several professional secretary hands, 402 pages, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with remains of ties and a strap.
Early 17th century.
Inscribed (p. i) Per me Johannem Fry and Per me Gul: Fry.
- EsR 301 pp. 174, 179
  
  Copy, headed Speeches vsed by the Earle of Essex at his deathe.
  
  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
- EsR 79 pp. [175-7]
  
  Copy of a thirteen-stanza version, untitled, on two tipped-in long narrow ledger-size conjugate folio leaves.
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
fMS Eng 771

Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Mrs Dorothy Smith, from Worcester, 21 March 1661/2.
1662.
Edited in HMC 36, Ormonde NS III (1904), pp. 14-15. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (1967), p. 54. Limited facsimile edition also edited as Good Mrs. Smith: A Letter from Izaak Walton ([Cambridge, Mass., 1948]).
- *WtI 9
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Izaak Walton, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 820

Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the Impeachment of the late Earle of Clarendon...1667, 207 folio pages, in vellum boards.
Late 17th century.
Donated by Dr Benjamin Burley.
- ClE 114
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667
fMS Eng 826

A partly autograph presentation copy, 232 large folio leaves, in 19th-century dark blue morocco gilt.

For Robert Devereux (1566-1601), second Earl of Essex, written in the accomplished hands of two or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 3r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Essex emblazoned in their proper colours (f. 3v) superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six more autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard; (ff. [4r-25v]); the Dedication To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie in secretary script, with autograph sidenotes by Howard and signed by him Henry Hwward; (ff. 26r-232v) the main text, in predominantly secretary hands, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes; with a separate title-page for the second book (f. [127v]) and a title in the second half of the page (f. [157r]) for the third book, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard occasionally in the first book and throughout the third book.
c.1590s.
Inscribed (f. [ii^v]) Tho: Chomley is the true ouner of this Booke by the Gifte of his good Mother the Ladie Marie chomley 1623. Sale of the Royal Library, Earl de la Ware, Baron Delamire. American Art Association, 11 March 1936 (Marsden J. Perry sale), lot 218. Charles S. Boesen's sale catalogue No. 1 (c.1951), item 160.

Facsimile examples of the illuminated arms and Dedication in the 1936 sale catalogue.
- *HoH 79
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
fMS Eng 830

Copy, as by S^r Robert Cotton, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen folio leaves.

In a volume also containing numerous blanks and a one-page Italian text at the reverse end, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1620s.
Bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
- CtR 416
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
fMS Eng 868

A large folio volume comprising two tracts in different hands, the second (ff. [31r-42r]) Vox Populi, 43 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
Early 17th century.
- LeC 57 ff. [1r-30r]
  
  Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, complete with a title-page (possibly in another secretary and italic hand), dedicatory epistle, and meditation from Job.
  
  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
  
  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
fMS Eng 870 (13)

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Pont de l'Arche, 1 October 1648.
1648.
Evans's [i.e. Sotheby's], 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 286, to Young.

Facsimile in F. G. Netherclift and R. Sims, The Autograph Souvenir, a Collection of Autograph Letters, 1st Ser. (London, 1865). Facsimile example also in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 12.
- *WaE 815
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (16)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], St Paul's Conversion [25 January] 1655/6.
1656.
Sotheby's (Evans), 16 November 1836, lot 698. Sotheby's, 6 February 1865, lot 934, to Ellis.

Edited in Eden, I, xlviii-xlix. Wheatley, III, 209-11.
- *TaJ 44
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (17)

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to John Davis, from Mortlake, 20 February 1665.
1665/6.
- *CoA 247
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (18)

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, from Westminster, 28 December 1675.
1675.
Later owned (before 1869) by John Young.

Margoliouth, II, 344. Facsimile in F.G. Netherclift, The Autograph Souvenir (1st Series, 1865). Facsimile example also in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), 11.
- *MaA 560
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (20)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 23 February [1698/9].
1699.
Ward, Letter 73. NB. Ward dates this letter 23 February [1699/1700], but see W.J. Cameron, John Dryden and Henry Heveningham, N&Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203 (p. 203).
- *DrJ 353
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (24)

Autograph letter signed by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from London, 23 May 1709.
1709.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxi.
- *WyW 25
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Wycherley, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (29)

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Alexander Pope, 23 June [1720?].
1720.
Hodges, No. 137. McKenzie, III, 185-6 (Letter 69).
- *CgW 108
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Congreve, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 870 (32)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes [Comptroller at Blenheim Palace], from London, 19 December 1706.
1706.
Edited in Judith Milhous, Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 434-5).
- *VaJ 41
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 917

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1630.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
- RuB 20 Item 2, ff. 28r-30v
  
  Copy, headed S^r. Beniamin Ruddyard speech xxij^th of March 1627.
  
  Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
- HoJ 346 Item 2, f. 50v
  
  Copy of a brief summary.
  
  Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give....
  
  John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628
- RuB 21 Item 2, ff. 197r-200r
  
  Copy, headed A Speeche made by Sir Beniamin Rudyard in the Comons house of Parliament March. 22. 1628.
  
  Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
- RuB 101 Item 2, ff. 251v-4v
  
  Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Ruddyarts speech Concerning maintenance of ministers the 22^th: of May 1628.
  
  Speech beginning I did not think to have spoken.... First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628
- HlJ 25.2 Item 2, ff. 289v-90r
  
  Copy, headed The Bishop of Exceters Lre to the howse of Coms, subscribed Josuah Hall.
  
  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
  
  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
fMS Eng 919

A folio composite volume of political and parliamentary tracts, in professional hands, c.400 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf gilt.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701.
- CtR 493 Item 1, pp. 1-14
  
  Copy, as By S^r Robert Cotton. Mid-17th century.
  
  Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining.... First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions
fMS Eng 930

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Henry Marten, 9 May 1622.
1622.
Edited in Gosse, II, 156.
- *DnJ 4127
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Donne, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 966.1

A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1620s-33.
Inscribed inside the rear cover J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carnaby MS: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).
- DnJ 1121 pp. 3-5
  
  Copy, headed Elegie of Prince Henrie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
  
  First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as Elegie on Prince Henry). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.
  
  John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry ('Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God')
- DnJ 3529 pp. 5-6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 3555 pp. 6-8
  
  Copy, headed Another to her, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things')
- DnJ 3730 pp. 8-9
  
  Copy, headed A Valediction, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, 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 375 pp. 9-11
  
  Copy, headed M^r John Donne to a Ladie whose Chaine he had loste.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- DnJ 2739 pp. 11-14
  
  Copy, headed A Satyre of M^r: John Donnes.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
  
  John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
- DnJ 2769 pp. 14-17
  
  Copy, headed Another Satyre of M^r: John Donne.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
  
  John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
- DnJ 2831 pp. 17-23
  
  Copy, headed Another Satyre by the same J: D:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
  
  John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
- DnJ 2801 pp. 23-6
  
  Copy, headed The Fourthe Satyre, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
  
  John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
- DnJ 51 pp. 26-8
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- DnJ 3436 pp. 28-9
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
- DnJ 1423 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy, headed Goodfriday, 1613.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
  
  John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
- DnJ 2291 p. 31
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 665 pp. 31-2
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
  
  John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
- DnJ 2338 pp. 32-3
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- DnJ 2557 pp. 33-5
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 3174 pp. 35-6
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J: D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- DnJ 746 pp. 36-7
  
  Copy, headed To the worthiest of all my Louers, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
  
  John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
- DnJ 3904 pp. 37-8
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, 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 1400 pp. 38-9
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
  
  John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
- DnJ 1360 p. 39
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 184 p. 40
  
  Copy, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 3658 pp. 40-1
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2451 pp. 41-2
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
- DnJ 627 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- DnJ 1226 pp. 43-5
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
  
  John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
- DnJ 2042 pp. 45-6
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, 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 3957 p. 46
  
  Copy, headed The Picture, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
  
  John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
- DnJ 3320 p. 47
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
  
  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
- DnJ 156 p. 48
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.
  
  John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
- DnJ 895 p. 48
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
- DnJ 1912 p. 48
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and Shawcross.
  
  First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
  
  John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
- DnJ 2655 p. 48
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
- DnJ 3064 pp. 48-50
  
  Copy, headed Storme, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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)')
- DnJ 550 pp. 50-2
  
  Copy, headed Calme, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
  
  John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
- DnJ 931 pp. 52-3
  
  Copy, headed A Dreame, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
- DnJ 2204 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- DnJ 1685 pp. 54-5
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
  
  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
- DnJ 116 p. 56
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
  
  John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
- DnJ 1533 p. 57
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
  
  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
- DnJ 2138 pp. 57-60
  
  Copy, with a one-line emendation, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- DnJ 1872 pp. 60-2
  
  Copy, with several emendations, headed A Letter to the Lady Carey, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 588 pp. 62-3
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, 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 300 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated 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 492 pp. 64-5
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, 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 1966 p. 65
  
  Copy, headed Mummey, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
  
  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
- HoJ 25 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
  
  John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
- DnJ 2917 p. 66
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 3029 p. 67
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 78.
  
  John Donne, Sonnet. The Token ('Send me some token, that my hope may live')
- DnJ 2005 pp. 67-8
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
  
  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
- DnJ 3491 pp. 68-9
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
- DnJ 692 pp. 70-1
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- DnJ 3461 p. 73
  
  Copy, headed From Courte a Letter to S^r Henry Wootton, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
- DnJ 1836 p. 74
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 3622 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy, headed Songe, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
  
  John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
- DnJ 2108 p. 75
  
  Copy, headed The Springe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
  
  John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
- DnJ 2635 p. 76
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
  
  John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
- DnJ 3106 pp. 76-7
  
  Copy, headed To the Sunne, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
  
  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
- DnJ 1322 pp. 77-8
  
  Copy, headed The Feauer, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
  
  John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
- DnJ 2172 p. 78
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
  
  John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
- DnJ 3810 pp. 78-80
  
  Copy, headed The Booke, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
- DnJ 3289 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy, headed A Letter to M^r: RowlandWoodward, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
  
  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
- HrE 83 pp. 81-2
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne ('Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till')
- PeW 44 p. 82
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning If her disdaine in yo^w least Change can moue, subscribed J. D.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- DnJ 1101 pp. 83-4
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
  
  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
- DnJ 3594 pp. 84-5
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie to the Ladie Bedforde, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
  
  John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')
- DnJ 1013 pp. 85-8
  
  Copy, headed Another Elegie on the deathe of M^rs: Boulstred.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
- DnJ 1069 pp. 89-90
  
  Copy, headed A Funerall Elegie vppon the Ladie Markeham, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. 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 1038 pp. 90-1
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
- BmF 44 pp. 91-4
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  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')
- BmF 72 pp. 94-5
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on the deathe of the Ladie Markeham, subscribed J D.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3405 pp. 96-7
  
  Copy, headed A Letter to S^r Edward Herbert / Incerti Authoris.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
- DnJ 3840 pp. 97-8
  
  Copy, headed A valediction of Teares.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
- DnJ 3780 pp. 98-9
  
  Copy of lines 1-38, headed A valediction of my name in the Glasse windowe.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
fMS Eng 981

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, in varying styles of script, both secretary and roman, possibly in the same hand, 283 leaves (of which ff. 98-283 are blank), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.
c.1630.
- RuB 117 f. 33v
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ridyard.
  
  A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
- BcF 171.5 ff. 58r-97r
  
  Copy, incomplete.
  
  A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.
  
  Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain
fMS Eng 1015

A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat secretary and italic hands, including pen-and-ink drawings, 127 leaves, in modern vellum boards.

Entitled (f. 1r) in a secretary hand A Book of the Coppies of Letters Libells & ovther In ventions of men, gatherid to gether, to none ovther ende, but to beholde the strainge mvtabilitye of Tyme A. B., and compiled by members of the Bateman family, including Antyne Bateman.
c.1580s.
Sotheby's, 28 March 1906, and 31 January 1956, lot 408. Dobell's sale catalogue of Autograph Letters etc. No 10.
- DyE 55 f. 14v
  
  Copy, headed A sonet said to bee fyrst written by y^e L ver. [i.e. by Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford].
  
  First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
fMS Eng 1041

Copy, on sixteen folio pages, subscribed This was Coppy'd from the printed one, disbound.
c.1677.
- MaA 521
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Amsterdam, 1677. Thompson, II, 555-83. Marvell's authorship rejected by Grosart and by Legouis, pp. 468-9.
  
  Andrew Marvell, A Seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England, to petition for A New Parliament
fMS Eng 1063

A valedictory letter by Rochester on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, expressing his repentance, in the hand of his mother and falteringly signed by Rochester, 25 June 1680.
1680.
Treglown, p. 244. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 52.
- *RoJ 660
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)
fMS Eng 1080

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1627-8, in two or three professional secretary hands, 101 pages, in 19th-century diced russia.

From the Fairfax papers. Phillipps MS 10305. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge.
- CtR 184 pp. 25-9
  
  Copy, as By S^r Robert Cotton K^t & Baronet.
  
  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
- RuB 69 pp. 75-7
  
  Copy, headed S^r. Beniamin Rudyard his speech the xxviij^th of Aprill 1628 in the howse of Comons.
  
  Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
fMS Eng 1081

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1630.
Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.
- RuB 22 ff. 21v-3v
  
  Copy, headed A speech made by S^r Beniamyn Ridearde in the house of Comons of Parliament xx^o Martij 1627.
  
  Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
- HoJ 347 f. 44v
  
  Copy of a six-line summary.
  
  Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give....
  
  John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628
- RuB 48 ff. 50v-1v
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Riddiarde speech [space] of Aprille [space] 1628.
  
  Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
fMS Eng 1084

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in five professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe), 268 leaves (including blanks), in later calf.

Phillipps MS 10463. Bookplate of Alfred Wynne Corrie. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge in 1958.
- DaJ 234 ff. 219-59v
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive hand, the Charge here dated 1620.
  
  Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you.... First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
  
  Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
fMS Eng 1121

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, iii + 73 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties.

With a title-page, Leicestrenseni Rempublicane Anno Dom. 1584, the dedicatory epistle, and the meditation from Job.
Late 16th century.
Acquired in 1960 from Hamill & Barker, Chicago.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.
- LeC 58
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
  
  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
fMS Eng 1285

A folio miscellany of verse, dramatic and heraldic works, 78 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1572-97.
Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 492. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman 1970.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 349.
- RaW 130 f. 72v
  
  Copy of an untitled three-stanza version beginning ffarwell falce loue thow oracle of lies, ascribed in the margin to M^r Rawleigh and subscribed ffinis R.
  
  The text accompanied by a companion poem by Sir Thomas Heneage (d.1595) beginning Most welcome love thou mortall foe to lies. Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, Poems by Sir Thomas Heneage and Sir Walter Raleigh, The Athenaeum (14 September 1901), p. 349. Collated from that publication in Hughey, II, 384. Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 10A, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.
  A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 349).
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies) and 10B, pp. 11-13.
  The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's Farewell False Love, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love ('Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies')
fMS Eng 1312 (1)

A folio miscellany, in a single non-professional hand, 100 pages (plus blanks), in later calf gilt.
Late 17th century.
- CoA 290 pp. 1-29
  
  Extracts, transcribed principally from the 1669 edition of The Works, some Ex Libr.Manuscript.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
- DrJ 297 pp. 91-4
  
  Copy, transcribed from a printed source, dated 1672.
  
  First published at the end of The Conquest of Granada, Part II (London, 1672). California, XI, 203-18.
  
  John Dryden, Defence of the Epilogue. Or, An Essay on the Dramatique Poetry of the last Age
- DrJ 392 p. 94 et seq.
  
  Quotations from Dryden's plays.
  
  John Dryden, Extracts
fMS Eng 1343 (5)

Autograph MS of Cowley's epistolary essay to John Evelyn, including the verses Happy art Thou, whom God does bless, on seven folio pages, sent to Evelyn 16 August 1666.
1666.
Formerly in the Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles) Collection.

The text corrected from this MS in The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Upcott (London, 1825), p. 435. Facsimile of the wrapping leaves, the letter and the first two stanzas of the poem in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 73. Facsimile of the first two stanzas of the poem in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 49, reproduced in Nethercot, facing p. 231.
- *CoA 206
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Verses first published in Poems upon Divers Occasions (London, 1667). The whole essay first published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 420-8.
  
  Abraham Cowley, The Garden
MS Fr 487

The Liber amicorum of Camillus Cardoinus (i.e. Camillo Cerdagni, 1608-40), of Naples.

Formerly Sumner 84 (Lobby XI.3.43).
- *MnJ 58 p. 110
  Autograph
  
  An autograph quotation by Milton from Comus, being the last two lines of the masque.
  
  First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of Comus. The Poem, originally called A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c., ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].
  
  John Milton, Comus
- *MnJ 93 p. 110
  Autograph
  
  Autograph signature (Joannes Miltonius Anglus), after an autograph quotation from Comus (MnJ 58) and a line in Latin (a paraphrase of Horace), the entry dated in another hand 10 June 1639.
  
  This MS quoted in Darbishire, II, 361. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 271, and in LR, I, 419. Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 98, Plate XIV, No. iv; in Illinois, IV, Appendix IX, 344A; in John Milton, Paradise Lost and Other Poems, ed. Maurice Kelley (New York, 1943), p. xvii; in Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 40B; and in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 51.
  
  John Milton, Document(s)
MS Hyde 10 (337)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, of the dedicatory epistle to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640. This MS is extracted from HbT 21.
1640.
Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Edited in part from this MS in The R.B. Adam Library, vol. III (London, 1929), 128-9. Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 492.
- HbT 19.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
  
  Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
MS Hyde 10 (679)

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [April-May 1640].
1640.
Edited in Clayton, p. 151, with a facsimile, Plate 3, after p. xcviii. Facsimiles also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 42, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 273. Edited in part in The R.B. Adam Library, Vol. III (London, 1929), 232.
- *SuJ 186
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Suckling, Letter(s)
MS Hyde 77 (10.372.1)

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to an unidentified correspondent, [April 1652].

Later in the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Recorded in The R. B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 250. Edited in W. Carew Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474-1700, Second Series (London, 1882), p. 631. Reedited in Thorn-Drury, II, 198.
- *WaE 819
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
MS Mus 182

An octavo book of cittern music and miscellaneous entries and recipes, in more than one hand, written from both ends, 166 leaves, in contemporary brown calf.

Owned and probably compiled by John Ridout (1608-post 1665).
Mid-17th century.
Phillipps MS, [unnumbered?]. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971. Gift of John M. Ward, 1985.

Described in John Ward, Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England, Lute Society Journal, 21 (1979-81), 183-95. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 678.
- WyT 53 Item 9
  
  Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.
  
  Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.
  
  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Blame not my lute, for he must sownd'
MS Typ. 49

Autograph calligraphic MS, iii + 128 leaves (47 x 31 mm.), imperfect, in contemporary green velvet embroidered.

A presentation MS to her son Samuel Kello, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in small Roman and italic scripts, with some decoration.
April 1615.
Probably the MS recorded in 1775 as being in the possession of Esther Inglis's great-grandson in 1711. Sotheby's, 24 January 1950, lot 423.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 46 (pp. 74-5).
- *InE 58
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Taylor's brief verse synopsis of the Bible, his Thumb Bible of 1614, with two English verse epistles to Samuell Kello by Esther Inglis.
  
  Esther Inglis, Verbum Sempiternum -- Written at Londo by Esther Inglis April 1615
MS Typ. 212

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, iii + 101 leaves (98 x 140 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

A presentation MS to Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), Baron Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold arms, decoration and figures, and with a self-portrait.
1606.
Later owned by W.L. Boyne (1850); by W.A. White (1915); by A.S.W. Rosenbach; and by Philip Hofer (1949).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo. No. 25 (pp. 54-5), with a facsimile of the portrait page (facing their p. 11).
- *InE 35
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A summary of the Psalms in Latin verse, with Latin verses to Sir Thomas Egerton by Bartholomew Kello and to Esther Inglis by Melville, Rollock, and Johnston.
  
  Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Argumenta in Librum Psalmorum Davidis Estherae Inglis Manu Exarata Londini 1606
MS Typ. 347

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, ii + 65 leaves (45 x 75 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

Apparently prepared as a New Year's Gift, but without a Dedication, in small Roman script throughout, with decorated title-page.
1615.
Later owned by Sir John Arthur Brooke of Fenay Hall, Huddersfield (and sold at Sotheby's, 31 May 1921, lot 817); Quaritch's sale catalogue of illuminated manuscripts, 1931, item 111; afterwards owned until 1968 by Philip Hofer.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 44 (pp. 73-4).
- *InE 50
  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 six vingts et six quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac escrits, par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu ce I. iour de l'an, 1615
MS Typ. 428

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, ii + 60 leaves (34 x 86 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound).

A presentation MS to Sir Edward Stanhope (1546?-1608), Chancellor of the Diocese of London, with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration.
1608.
Later sold by Cochran (catalogue, 1837, item 163) and by Thomas Rodd (1839). Owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser (Corser sale at Sotheby's, 11 July 1870, lot 55); by Ellis; and by Charles Sumner, LL.D, who bequeathed it in 1874.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 35 (p. 64).
- *InE 11
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Guillaume Paradin, Historiarum memorabilium ex Genese descriptio tetrastichis versibus, first published in Lyons, 1558, in Latin.
  
  Esther Inglis, [Genesis] Argumenta singulorum capitum Geneseos per Tetrasticha. Manu Estherae Inglis Exarata Londini 1608
MS Typ.428.1

Autograph calligraphic MS, 41 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

A presentation MS, in English, in numerous styles of script, with decoration, and with a prose Dedication to Susanna, Lady Herbert, from London (probably added in 1605 to a MS written earlier).
20 February 1605.
Later owned (in 1865) by the Rev. Charles W. Bingham, of Dorset, and by Mrs Wynyard of Kensington Palace (in the 19th century). Subsequently owned by the bookdealers Dobell and (on 8 December 1922) by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards the W.A. White Estate; and Philip Hofer (1939).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 2 (pp. 26-7), with a facsimile example as Plate 2 (between pp. 42 and 43).
- *InE 34
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Quotations from the Psalms and Proverbs
Autograph File

A file of miscellaneous autograph signatures.
- *CnC 179 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  A page bearing Cotton's autograph signature, now detached but originally the last page of Cotton's printed exemplum of this work (now untraced).
  The volume was owned in 1868 (and the inscribed leaf extracted) by Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903), novelist.
  
  Recorded by Shorthouse in Charles Cotton the Angler, and Sir Richard Fanshawe, N&Q, 4th Ser. 1 (15 February 1868), 146. Also recorded in Dust, p. 22, and in Parks, p. 15.
  
  Charles Cotton, Fanshawe, Sir Richard. Il Pastor Fido; the Faithfull Shepheard…with…divers other poems [trans. from Giovanni Battista Guarini] (London, 1647-8)
- *AndL 86 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Document signed.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
- *HbT 133 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in French, to Marin Mersenne, from St Germain, [15/]25 May 1648.
  Sotheby's, 17 March 1875, lot 83, to Naylor.
  
  Facsimile in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 471 (1925), item 2835, Plate XVII, opposite p. 136. Edited from this reproduction and discussed in Harcourt Browne, The Mersenne Correspondence: A Lost Letter by Thomas Hobbes, Isis, 34 (1942-3), 311-12. Also discussed in I. Bernard Cohen, A Lost Letter from Hobbes to Mersenne Found, HLB, 1 (1947), 112-13. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 172-3, Letter 59, with English translation.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
- *VaJ 25 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Jacob] Tonson, from London, 15 June 1703.
  
  Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 167. Edited in Works, IV, 7-8 (No. 3). Register, No. 1724.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
- WtI 195 [unnumbered item]
  
  Walton's signature on a detached leaf purporting to come from an edition of Sanderson's sermons.
  
  Izaak Walton, Sanderson, Robert. Sermons
A 1832.5

A printed exemplum of the third edition (London, 1651) with twelve missing pages supplied in MS, the quarto pages all in window mounts, in later half black morocco.

Pages 101-2, 105-12, and 115-16 supplied in the small neat hand of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, who has also annotated the volume throughout with references to the Bedford MS and a MS of the play lent him by Dobell.
- CaW 89
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave
Br 98.319F* Lobby XI. 4. 24

On pp. 113-46 of a larger collection entitled Rerum Britannicarum, ed. Hieronymus Commelinus (Heidelberg, 1587). Allegedly Milton's exemplum with his annotations.
Mid-17th century.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in J. Milton French, Milton's Annotated Copy of Gildas, HSNPL, 20 (1938), 75-80, and, with scepticism about the annotations, in W.H. Davies, A Note on Milton's Annotated Copy of Gildas in Harvard University (Widener) Library, Papers of the British School at Rome, 15 (1939), 49-51. The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 327-30. Recorded in Boswell, No. 434 (and 651).
- MnJ 130
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Gildas. De excidio et conquestu Britanniæ epistola [1587]
*EB.C3804.W651e

A warrant authorizing payment to Sir Henry Hene, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 October 1651.
10 October 1651.
Facsimiles in The History of the Pestilence (1625), ed. J. Milton French (Cambridge, Mass., 1932), after p. xviii, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB, 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 282.
- *WiG 75
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Wither, Warrant(s)
*fEC8 C6795 Zz640d

William Wordsworth's exemplum of Donne's LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), owned by him in 1807, and containing copious marginal annotations by S.T. Coleridge (made c.1809-10).
c.1807-10.
The annotations are edited in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), pp. 245-58.
- DnJ 4171
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Donne, Sermons
*EC65. C8294. 664sb

Copy, subscribed Tuus dum suus Dogrillius Maro.

On a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Cotton's Scarronides, or the First Book of Virgil Travestie (London, 1664), octavo, in calf.
Late 17th century.
Inscribed on the flyleaf Elis Pagett 1682. Owned in 1921 by the playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937) and in 1926 by E.M. Cox.

Edited from this MS in Beresford (where it is erroneously described as autograph). Facsimile in Parks, p. 26 (discussed p. 25).
- CnC 131
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Beresford (1923), p. 403.
  
  Charles Cotton, To Maecenas ('To thee, Oh Knight of Sol's round table')
*fEC65. C8294.674m

Inscribed by Cotton to his cousin Port.
c.1674.
Recorded in Dust, p. 22.
- *CnC 154
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The Commentaries of the Messire Blaize de Montluc [trans. from Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, Seigneur de Montluc] (London, 1674)
*EC65 M642.7.Zz635t (Lobby XI.3.41)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum.
1635.
Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 576; in LR, I, 291; and in Boswell, No. 1383.
- MnJ 134
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Terence. Comoediæ sex (Leiden, 1635)
*EC65.M6427.Zz595t (Lobby XI.3.42)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum.
Mid-17th century.
Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 578; LR, V, 127; and in Boswell, No. 620.
- MnJ 129
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Frischlin, Nicodemus. Operum poeticorum (Strasbourg, 1595)
*EC65.Scu225.664ha

An exemplum signed at the end by Cotton, 1674.
1674.
Recorded in Dust, p. 21, and in Parks, p. 15.
- *CnC 194
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Charles Cotton, Scudamore, James. Homer a la Mode (London, 1665)
*EC C8495 645I

Autograph revisions and additions, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1645, including a change of title to A Mother's Legacie to Her Six Davghters and an autograph epistle presenting the work to her grandson Sir Edward Dering, complaining that it is so falsly printed and needs correcting.
c.1645.
Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's motherlie endeauors in Manuscript, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113 (P. 109). Facsimiles of the autograph presentation epistle in Women's Voices 1540-1700, ed. Charlotte F. Otten (Miami, 1992), p. 302, and, with a transcription, in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp 226-7.
- *RiE 3
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1645. Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), pp. 157-247.
  
  Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters. In three Books
*EC.D7187.633pe (B) [Lobby XII.2.8]

An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. Giuen me by m^r Marryot the 7°. of nouember 1650 and with autograph corrections in the printed text.
1650.
Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 56, and 17 July 1933, lot 228, with facsimiles of the inscription in both sale catalogues.
- *WtI 157
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Izaak Walton, Donne, John. Poems (London, 1650)
EC.D7187.633 pg(B)

An exemplum of the 1669 edition of Donne's Poems annotated by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian, including transcripts of notes by Coleridge.

Recorded in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), p. 215.
- DnJ 4169
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Donne, Poems
*EC D7187. Zz607e (Lobby XII.3.13)

Autograph Latin verse inscription signed, in Donne's printed exemplum of William Covell, A Iust and Temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Policie: written by M. Richard Hooker (London, 1603), bound with nine other printed tracts (published 1592-1607), including The Pictvre of a Puritane (1605) signed by him J Donne, in contemporary vellum.
c.1603.
Later owned by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Acquired by Harvard in 1905.

Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimile in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 7.
- *DnJ 2
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Gosse (1899), I, 270. Milgate, Satires, p. 111. Shawcross, No. 105. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12, and six more versions on p. 13.
  
  John Donne, Ad Autorem ('Non eget Hookerus tanto tutamine. lanto')
*EC F8364 556c

Exemplum of the edition of 1556 containing MS annotations, possibly used as a prompt book for a production (at Oxford or Cambridge?).
c.1562?.
Formerly *53-1371.

This item collated in Smith, p. 376 et seq.
- *FxJ 19
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Basle, 1556. Edited, with a translation, by John Hazel Smith in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 199-371.
  
  John Foxe, Christus triumphans
*EC.H263.Zz507e

Autograph signature and annotations.

Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 212.
- *HvG 75
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Euripides, Hecuba & Iphigenia in Aulide...in latinam tralatae, Erasmo Roterdamo interprete. Eiusdem ode de laudibus Britanniae, Regisque Henrici septimi, ac regiorum liberorum eius, Eiusdem ode de senectutis incommodis (Venice, 1507)
f*EC H2623 Zz555g

Autograph annotations.

Formerly Houghton A1447.3.100F.

Stern, p. 235. Facsimile of f. 68r in Wilson, Plate III after p. 346.
- *HvG 155
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Simlerus, Josias. Epitome Bibliothecae Conradi Gesneri, conscripta primum a Conrado Lycothene Rubeaquensi: nunc denuo recognita & plus quam bis mille authorum accessione (qui omnes asterisco signati sunt) locupletata: per Josiam Simlerum Tigurinum (Zürich, 1555)
*EC H2623 Zz563o

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton A1447.5.10.

Stern, p. 230.
- *HvG 139
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Ovidius, Publius. Metamorphoses...argumentis quidem soluta oratione; ennarationibus autem & allegoriis elegiaco versu accuratissime expositae; summaque; diligentia ac studio illustratae, per M. Johan. Sprengium Augustan. (Frankfurt, 1563)
*EC H2623 Zz578f

Copious autograph annotations.
Late 16th century.
Formerly Houghton *70-81.

Stern, p. 213. Discussed in Clifford Chalmers Huffman, Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot, N&Q, 220 (July 1975), 300-2.
- *HvG 79
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Florio, John. Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues (London, 1578)
*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly STC 3060 Houghton *70.83.

Stern, p. 202.
- *HvG 37
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, [Billerbege, Frauncis]. Most Rare and straunge Discourses, of Amurathe the Turkish Emperor that nowe is (London, [1584?])
*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton *70-84.

Stern, p. 223.
- *HvG 116
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Jovius, Paulus. Novocomensis Libellus de Legatione Basilii Magni Principis Moschoviae ad Clementem VII. Pontifex Max. (Basle, 1527)
*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton *70-82.

Stern, p. 237.
- *HvG 161
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Thomas, William. The Historie of Italie (London, 1561)
*EC H2623 Zz654t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 237.
- *HvG 160
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Terence, P. Le Comedie di Terentio Volgari; di nuovo ricorette, et a miglior tradottione ridotte (Venice, 1546)
*EC.H4157.W670w2

Copy, subscribed Geor. Herbert, pasted on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670), a sextodecimo, in olive morocco.
17th century.
Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], in item 438 (pp. 89-90), where it is erroneously described as in George Herbert's autograph.

This MS collated in Hutchinson.
- HrG 308
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.
  
  George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem ('Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus')
*EC.J7382. Zz620f

A printed exemplum of Lucretius, De rerum natura (Amsterdam, 1620), owned and annotated by Ben Jonson, including his extracts from Sandy's translations of Ovid and Lucretius, on the title-page, on p. 169 and on the rear pastedown.
c.1620s.
- SaG 66
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Sandys, Extracts
*fEC.H4157.Zz620j

Copy, in an unidentified hand, subscribed G. Herbert Orator.

On the blank page facing the title-page in a printed exemplum of The Workes of James I (London, 1616 [1620 issue]), a folio volume in contemporary calf.
c.1620s.
Bookplate with the motto Timet Pudorem.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, where it is mistakenly described as autograph. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 53.
- HrG 326
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in J. Gibbs, An Unknown Poem of George Herbert, TLS (30 December 1949), p. 857.
  
  George Herbert, 'Peregrinis Almam Matrem Invisentibus'
*EC.Sul 85. 646fba

A printed exemplum bearing Philips's inscription on a flyleaf (beneath the name Eliza: Pitt:) Katharine Phillips: her book.
c.1648.
- *PsK 591
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Katherine Philips, Suckling, Sir John. Fragmenta Aurea (2nd edition, London, 1648)
*EC. Su185.646f(C)

Printer's cast-off marks, marked up for Jacob Tonson's 1709 edition of Suckling's Works.

On pages 3, 15-24 of Aglaura in an exemplum of Poems &c Written by Sir John Suckling (London, 1646).
c.1709.
Facsimile of pp. 22-23 in Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1985), p. 7, No. 6.
- SuJ 161.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
  
  John Suckling, Aglaura
Lowell Autograph / Ben Jonson to George Garrard

Autograph fair copy.

In an autograph letter signed by Jonson (Yo^r true Louer Ben: Jonson), on the first page of a pair of quarto conjugate leaves, the fourth page bearing the address panel To my right worthy Freind M^r. Geo: Garrard.
[1609].
Formerly among the MSS of the Bromley-Davenport family, at Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8-9 March 1903, lot 345, to Quaritch. Acquired in May 1903 by Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet.

Edited from this MS in Harper; in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 79; in Percy Simpson, letter in TLS (6 March 1930); and in Herford & Simpson.
Facsimiles in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 83; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 27; in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 204; and in Mark Bland, Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 173).
- *JnB 102
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
*OGC.P653.620 (B) (Lobby XI.3.44)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum.
Early-mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 5 August 1871, lot 1588.

The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 276-304. Discussed, with facsimile examples (and the attribution disputed), in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, Milton and the Harvard Pindar, Studies in bibliography, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in LR, I, 204-5, 221-2, and in Boswell, No. 1119.
- MnJ 132
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Pindar Olympia (Salmurii, 1620)
fSTC 6385

Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph corrections, her autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, and her autograph dedicatory sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, in contemporary green vellum.
c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
- *CaE 41
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie ('Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine
STC 1118

Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the six unprinted pages supplied in MS in two probably professional hands.

Sigs E1^v, E2^r, E3^v, E4^r in a cursive secretary hand, sig F1^r-v in a rounded secretary hand.
c.1604.
- BcF 131.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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
STC 11402

Autograph annotations, signed Gabriel Haruejus. 1580.
1580.
Formerly Houghton Lf.18.54.8*.

Stern, p. 214. Facsimiles of the annotated verso of the title-page and sig. av^rin Wilson, Plates IIa and IV after p. 346.
- *HvG 86
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Frontinus, Sextus Julius. The stratagemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre gathered togyther, by S. Julius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Richard Morysine (London, 1539)
STC 11445.5

Autograph annotations, signed Gabrielis Haruey.

Formerly Houghton 24232.6.25*.

Stern, p. 215. Facsimile of the signed title-page in Wilson, Plate IIb after p. 346.
- *HvG 87
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Fulke, William. OYPANOMAXIA. Hoc est Astrologorum Ludus, Ad bonarum artium, & Astrologiae in primis studiosorum relaxationem comparatus, nunc primum illustratus (London, 1572)
STC 13858 (B)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton STC 13858.2.

Stern, p. 222.
- *HvG 109
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Howard, Henry. A Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophesies (London, 1583)
STC 14497.100* (Lobby XI.3.40)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum.
Mid-17th century.
American Art Association, New York, 26 January 1922, lot 35. with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Discussed in Washington Moon, Milton's Autograph, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 6 (10 July 1858), 39; and in T.O. Mabbott, The Notes on Farnaby ascribed to John Milton, N&Q, 171 (29 August 1936), 152-4. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 346; in LR, II, 29; and in Boswell, No. 587.
- MnJ 128
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Farnaby Thomas. Systema grammaticum (London, 1641)
fSTC 14751 v. 1.

Inscribed G. H: pretiu i9^s, but not in Harvey's hand and lacking annotations.
c.1620.
Bookplate of Heathcote of Hursley Barnet. Inscribed From the library of Norton Perkins November 11, 1925. Formerly Houghton 14426.4F*.

Stern, pp. 223-4.
- HvG 176
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Jonson, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (London, 1616)
STC 17996

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton Ott.251.1.20.

Stern, pp. 227-8.
- HvG 130
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Mohammed II, Sultan. The Turkes Secretorie. Conteining his Sundrie Letters Sent to divers Emperours, Kings, Princes, and States; full of proud bragges, and bloody threatnings: With severall Answers to the Same, both pithie and peremptorie. Translated truly out of the Latine tongue (London, 1607)
fSTC 21730 (B)

Copy, neatly written in two styles of hand, two pages in roman, two pages in italic.

On pp. 309[-12] in a printed exemplum of Sandys's A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610, 4th edition (London, 1637), a folio in modern cloth.
Mid-17th century.
A tipped-in letter by Thomas Sandys, 13 March 1686. Inscribed inside the front cover J. L. Philips. 1807. Bookplate of John Snowden Henry.
Formerly Ott 3100. 5.4F*.

This item recorded in Bowers & Davis, p. 176.
- SaG 1
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published with A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636). Hooper, II, 403-6.
  
  George Sandys, Deo Opt. Max ('O Thou who All-thinges hast of Nothing made')
fSTC 22544 (B)

Copy, inscribed inside the front cover of a printed exemplum of Sidney's Arcadia (London, 1613), a large folio, in contemporary calf.

The volume neatly annotated up to p. 332 in an unidentified roman hand, once thought to be that of Gabriel Harvey.
Early-mid-17th century.
Lot 869 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector.
Formerly Houghton 14457.23.8.7*.

This MS recorded, and the volume discussed, in W.L. Godshalk, Gabriel Harvey and Sidney's Arcadia, MLR, 59 (1964), 497-9.
- BrW 214
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
Sum 132

Waller's signature on the title-page.

This corresponds to lot 245 in the Waller sale of 1832.
- *WaE 891
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Edmund Waller, Monluc, Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, Seigneur de. Commentaires, 2 vols (Paris, 1594)

Harvard, other MSS

MS Am 1007

MS Am 1007.1

bMS Am 1631 (230)

bMS Am 1631 (407)

bMS Am 1631 (412)

bMS Eng 834 (36)

bMS Eng 870 (11)

bMS Eng 870 (22)

bMS Eng 991

bMS Eng 1107

bMS Eng 1143

MS Eng 36

MS Eng 121

MS Eng 218.2 (v.3)

MS Eng 228

MS Eng 228*

MS Eng 266

MS Eng 584

MS Eng 585

MS Eng 586

MS Eng 598

MS Eng 606

MS Eng 611

MS Eng 624

MS Eng 628

MS Eng 630

MS Eng 631

MS Eng 634

MS Eng 640

MS Eng 686

MS Eng 703

MS Eng 704

MS Eng 705.1

MS Eng 740

MS Eng 749

MS Eng 764

MS Eng 765

MS Eng 846

MS Eng 886

MS Eng 886.1

MS Eng 901 (Lobby XI.2.69)

MS Eng 942

MS Eng 966

MS Eng 966.2

MS Eng 979

MS Eng 980

MS Eng 982

MS Eng 983

MS Eng 992

MS Eng 992.1

MS Eng 992.2

MS Eng 992.7

MS Eng 992.8

MS Eng 995 (Lobby X.3.10a)

MS Eng 1019, [item 1]

MSS Eng 1019, [item 2]

MS Eng 1021

MS Eng 1035

MS Eng 1091

MS Eng 1132

MS Eng 1178

MS Eng 1239

MS Eng 1264

MS Eng 1266 (v. 1)

MS Eng 1266 (v.2)

MS Eng 1266.1

MS Eng 1266.2

MS Eng 1278

MS Eng 1290

MS Eng 1341

MS Eng 1356

MS Eng 1359

MS Eng 1382

MS Eng 1400

MS Eng 1490

MS Eng 1534

MS Eng 1544 (Lobby X.1.1)

fMS Eng 64

fMS Eng 602