Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7

  • MS Eng 966.7

    A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt.

    c.late 1620s.

    Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Junr; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Jon: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. Was[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

    • DnJ 2305 f. 1r

      Copy, headed A Songe p J. D:.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 969 f. 1v

      Copy, headed Of Sleepe J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 3633 f. 2r

      Copy, headed ffooles.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 195 f. 2v

      Copy, headed Apparition.

      This MS recorded 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 602 f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed Canonizatio p J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 1847 f. 4r

      Copy, headed A Songe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 510 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy, headed Songe. JD.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • CmT 112 f. 5r

      Copy, headed A Sonnet.

      Edited from this MS by Sir John Simeon in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (1856-7), No. 3, pp. 23-4.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
    • DnJ 271 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, headed Springe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 64 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, beginning at line 29 (here Weomen are like Angells & the faire bee).

      This MS recorded 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 2370 f. 7r

      Copy, headed The Nothinge.

      This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

      John Donne, Negative love ('I never stoop'd so low, as they')
    • DnJ 2057 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy, headed Loues Diett p J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 2018 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded 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 2721 f. 9r

      Copy of lines 55-64, here beginning Mee, in my glasse I call thee, But (alas), untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

      John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
    • DnJ 869 f. 9v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

      John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
    • DnJ 1182 ff. 10r-12r

      Copy, headed St Valentine.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

      John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
    • DnJ 3388 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

      John Donne, To Mrs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
    • DnJ 3081 ff. 13v-14v

      Copy, headed A Storme per J. D:.

      This MS recorded 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 565 f. 15r-v

      Copy, headed A Calme. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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')
    • BmF 147 f. 16r

      Copy, headed In ebrium mortuum, subscribed F. B..

      First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

      Francis Beaumont, 'Why should not pilgrims to thy body come'
    • RaW 479 f. 16v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Shall I, like an hermit, dwell'
    • ToA 59 f. 17r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • WoH 37 f. 17v

      Copy, headed Sr Henry Wotton.

      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')
    • DnJ 2518 f. 19r-v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to Joh: Donne.

      This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • HoJ 30 f. 20r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning That time and absence proves, ascribed at the top to J. 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 3034 f. 20v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D..

      This MS recorded 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 2646 f. 22r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • HrE 87 f. 22v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J D.

      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')
    • DnJ 676 f. 23r

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 840 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, headed The Curse. J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 161 f. 24r

      Copy, untitled, under a general heading Epigrams per J. D.

      This MS recorded in 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 898 f. 24r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded 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 1916 f. 24r

      Copy, untitled.

      Printed, probably from this MS in Simeon and, incorporating the original orthography, in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3), II, 270; recorded in 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 1723 f. 24v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Rockius soe deeply hath vow'd ne're more to come.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
    • DnJ 2271 f. 24v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
    • DnJ 2594 f. 24v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
    • DnJ 2404 f. 24v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

      John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
    • JnB 707 f. 25v

      Copy, headed J. D. Sonnett.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • DnJ 1944 ff. 26r-30v

      Copy, headed J. D. A Letanie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • HoJ 246 f. 30v

      Copy, headed Mr Hoskins to his sonne and here beginning Sonne Baniamin while thou art yong.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • DnJ 801 ff. 31r-2r

      Copy, headed Of the Crosse. J. D.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

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

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • JnB 295 f. 32r

      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')
    • DnJ 2091 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy, headed J. D. Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

      John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
    • DnJ 2147 ff. 33v-5r

      Copy, headed J. D. Loues Progresse.

      This MS recorded 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 1286 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.

      John Donne, Farewell to love ('Whilst yet to prove')
    • DnJ 2180 f. 36v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D. and here beginning ffor euery hower that thou willt spare to mee.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 3708 f. 37r-v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 28 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 1463 f. 38v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 2118 f. 39r

      Copy, headed A Springe. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 1332 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy, headed A Feaver J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 3016 ff. 40v-1r

      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')
    • DnJ 2618 ff. 41v-2r

      Copy, headed J. D. The Primerose.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

      John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
    • DnJ 355 ff. 42r-3r

      Copy, headed J D. The Blossome.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

      John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
    • DnJ 2698 f. 43r-v

      Copy, headed J D. The Relique.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

      John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
    • DnJ 1405 f. 44r

      Copy, headed The Funerall. J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 125 f. 46r-v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to JD.

      This MS recorded 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 2536 ff. 46v-7r

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

      John Donne, The Paradox ('No Lover saith, I love, nor any other')
    • DnJ 1209 f. 47r

      Copy, headed Sonnet. Valedictio Amoris.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • DnJ 3920 ff. 47v-8v

      Copy of a five stanza version, headed J. D. Loves Legacie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 989 ff. 49r-52v

      Copy of lines 1-170 (including poems i-vi of the Epithalamion), headed Eclogve. J D.

      This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
    • DnJ 1654 f. 53r

      Copy, headed Songe. J. D..

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 774 ff. 53v-5r

      Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, headed La Corona. I. D.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

      John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
    • DnJ 1428 ff. 56v-7r

      Copy, headed Good Friday. 1613. J. D.

      This MS collated 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 3501 ff. 57v-8v

      Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J. D. and subscribed Donne.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 3327 f. 59r-v

      Copy, headed To Mr T. W. J. D..

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 3297 ff. 59v-60v

      Copy, ascribed to J. D.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3440 ff. 60v-1v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
    • DnJ 3535 ff. 61v-2v

      Copy, headed To the Countesse of Bedford J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 392 ff. 62v-4r

      Copy, headed Armilla. J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • BmF 17 ff. 64v-5v

      Copy, headed To the Countess of Rutland. ff. B.

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

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
    • CoR 679.5 ff. 65v-6v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • DnJ 2752 f. 68r-v

      Copy, headed Satyr. 1. p J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 2782 ff. 69r-70v

      Copy, headed Satyr 2.

      This MS recorded 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 2813 ff. 71r-2v

      Copy, headed Satyr 3. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 2843 ff. 73r-6v

      Copy, headed Satyr. 4. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 2875 ff. 77r-8r

      Copy, headed Satyr. 5.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 707 f. 84r-v

      Copy, headed Elegies 1a.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 2568 ff. 85r-6r

      Copy, headed Elegye. 2a. J. D.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 1695 ff. 86v-7r

      Copy, headed Elegie 3a.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2463 ff. 87r-8r

      Copy, headed Elegie 4a.

      This MS recorded 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 2352 f. 88r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie 5a.

      This MS 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'
    • DnJ 640 f. 89r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie 8a. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 1547 f. 90r

      Copy, headed Elegie 9a. J. D.

      This MS recorded 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 65 ff. 90v-1r

      Copy, headed Elegie 10a. J. D.

      This MS 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')
    • DnJ 3600 f. 91r-v

      Copy, headed J D. An Elegie to the La: Bedford.

      This MS collated 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 1235 ff. 92r-3r

      Copy, headed Elegie. J. D..

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • DnJ 1079 ff. 94r-5r

      Copy, headed A Funerall Elegye vpon the death of the Lady Markham.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • BmF 45 f. 95v

      Copy, headed On the Countesse of Rutland / Franc: Beaumont.

      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')
    • DnJ 2221 f. 96r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie. 6a. J. D.

      Edited probably from this MS in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, pp. 17-19. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • CoR 74 ff. 99r-100v

      Copy, headed An Elegye on the late Lo: Willm Howard Baron Efingham who dyed Decem: 10. 1615. Dr Corbet.

      This MS probably that recorded (as N2) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')
    • CoR 125 ff. 100v-1r

      Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of Sr. Thomas Overbury Knight. Dr. Corbett.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
    • EaJ 28 ff. 101v-2v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the deathof Sr John Burrowes slayne in the Iland of Rez, 1627, imperfect at the end.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')

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