Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

King's College, Cambridge

  • Hayward Collection, H. 10. 81

    Copy.

    Late 17th century.
    • RoJ 104.36
      No description or publication history available.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')

  • Hayward Collection, H. 10. 82

    Copy, headed A Satyr agst man — by Ld Rochester, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • RoJ 320
      No description or publication history available.

      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)')

  • Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10

    A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves.

    1689.
    • RoJ 321 ff. [1r-6r]

      Copy, headed Satyr agt. reason and mankind by ye Earle of Rochester Copied for and by ye desire of ye Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689.....

      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 322 f. [1r rev.]

      Copy of lines 1-10, written with the page turned sideways.

      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)')
    • WaE 349 ff. [7r-9r]

      Copy, made for and by ye desire of ye. Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689 whereunto is annexed a Copy of Verses writ by that famous poet Mr Waller about two months before his Exit. viz. 1684.

      First published in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.

      Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos ('The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace')

  • Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13

    A verse miscellany.

    c.1674.

    Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

    • ShJ 133.8 f. [7r]

      Copy.

      The prose preface that Shirley wrote for the Folio edition of the Comedies and Tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher (London, 1647).

      James Shirley, To the Reader
    • RoJ 323 ff. [7v-9v]

      Copy, headed A Satyr: & Com: Roffens. June 1674.

      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)')
    • MaA 20 ff. [14v-15r]

      Copy, headed A Poeticall Dialogue set by mr Mathew Locke.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • WaE 723 f. [20v]

      Copy, headed Vpon ye storm just before Cromwells Death.

      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')
    • CoA 177 f. [22r]

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

      Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

      Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')
    • DeJ 7.7 f. [25r-v]

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')
    • WaE 328 f. [26r]

      Copy, headed on Fl——cher.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.

      Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays ('Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe')
    • HaW 2 f. [26v]

      Copy, headed On Fletcher.

      First published in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Allott, pp. 158-9.

      William Habington, On Master John Fletchers Dramaticall Poems ('Great tutelary Spirit of the Stage!')
    • LoR 49 f. [27r]
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Lucasta (London 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 53-5. (1930), pp. 59-61.

      Richard Lovelace, To Fletcher reviv'd ('How have I bin Religious? What strange good')
    • EaJ 6 ff. [28v-9r]

      Copy, ascribed to John Earle.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1r-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
    • CoR 418 f. [30r]

      Copy, here beginning He yt hath such acuteness, & such wit.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit')
    • JnB 487.5 f. [30r]

      Copy, headed To Beamt: yn living.

      First published in Epigrammes (lv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 44.

      Ben Jonson, To Francis Beaumont ('How I doe loue thee Beaumont, and thy Muse')
    • HeR 451 f. [30r]

      Extract, a couplet by Rob Herrick.

      Robert Herrick, Extracts
    • ShJ 117 f. [35r]

      Copy, headed On H: works.

      First published in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Armstrong, p. 40.

      James Shirley, Upon the Printing of Mr Iohn Fletchers workes ('What means this numerous Guard? or do we come')

  • Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14

    An octavo verse miscellany.

    End of 17th century.

    Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

    • RoJ 324 pp. 1-7

      Copy, headed A Sater against Man.

      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 88 pp. 7-11

      Copy, untitled.

      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 163 pp. 11-20, 29

      Copy, headed A letter fancyed from Artemise in Town to Cloe in ye Country, lines 197-200 added in the margins of p. 29.

      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')
    • DoC 277 pp. 21-2

      Copy, headed On Mr E- H- upon his B- P-.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • DoC 152 pp. 23-4

      Copy, headed On the same Author upon his New Ut-.

      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!')
    • RoJ 182 p. 29

      Copy, untitled.

      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 428 p. 29

      Copy, untitled.

      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 562 p. 29

      Copy, untitled.

      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')

  • Keynes C.3. 11

    Autograph inscription and autograph annotations by Fletcher on two pages in the printed text of The Purple Island: a marginal note on page 147 and a textual correction on page 177.

    1633.
    • *FlP 23
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island...together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies (Cambridge, 1633)

  • Keynes MS 90

    A folio volume comprising 60 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single probably non-professional hand, showing variations of style, 46 leaves (plus c.30 blanks) imperfect at the beginning, in calf.

    c.1640s.

    Inscriptions on flyleaves including Gyfford; we went to london the 13 of Aprill and came home the 23 of June 1687; Mary Stane Anno Dom: 1747: December 8th; and, on f. 3r, Suf folk. Offered for sale in Percy Dobell's Catalogue of an Important Collection of Poetical Manuscripts (1927), p. 10. At some time lot 2124 in a [?]Sotheby's sale. Later owned by John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883-1946), economist.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Keynes MS: WaE Δ 3.

    • WaE 260 f. 3r-v

      Copy of lines 118-70, here beginning But halfe reueale and halfe their beauties hide, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
    • WaE 613 f. 5r

      Copy of lines 17-32 (here beginning 'Tis not so hard for greedy foes to spoyle), imperfect, lacking the first part.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 681 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • WaE 249 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.

      Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
    • WaE 639 ff. 7r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
    • WaE 414 f. 8v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.

      Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
    • WaE 14 f. 9r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
    • WaE 306 ff. 9v-11r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')
    • WaE 633 f. 11r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
    • WaE 47 f. 12r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

      Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
    • WaE 54 f. 13r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

      Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
    • WaE 174 f. 13v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')
    • WaE 97 f. 14r

      Copy, headed In answeare to Etc:.

      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')
    • WaE 25 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
    • WaE 20 f. 15r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
    • WaE 331 f. 16r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
    • WaE 269 f. 16v

      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 295 f. 17r

      Copy.

      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 188 f. 17v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 579 f. 18r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
    • WaE 514 f. 18v

      Copy, headed To my young Lady Lucy Sidney.

      First published, as To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

      Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
    • WaE 647 ff. 18v-19v

      Copy, headed To Mrs Braughton.

      First published, as To Mistris Braughton, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady ('Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear')
    • WaE 565 ff. 19v-20v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
    • WaE 559 ff. 20v-1v

      Copy.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
    • WaE 525 ff. 22r-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 519 f. 23r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 353 f. 23v

      Copy, headed On the Freindshipp betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret.

      First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
    • WaE 3 f. 24r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.

      Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
    • WaE 571 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
    • WaE 470 ff. 25v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.

      Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
    • WaE 599 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published, as The cunning Curtezan, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
    • WaE 593 f. 27

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
    • WaE 653 ff. 27v-8r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • WaE 71 f. 28v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53.

      Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos')
    • WaE 460 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

      Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')
    • WaE 225 f. 29v

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 340 f. 30r

      Copy.

      First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 481 f. 30v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')
    • WaE 314 f. 31r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
    • WaE 361 f. 31r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 496 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy, headed To a lady in retirement.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
    • WaE 118 f. 32r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

      Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')
    • WaE 219 f. 32v

      Copy.

      First published, headed The Reply on the Contrary, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to Tho. Batt. in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.

      Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')
    • WaE 420 f. 33r

      Copy.

      First published, as The Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')
    • WaE 31 ff. 33r-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

      Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')
    • WaE 692 ff. 37v-8v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')
    • WaE 207 f. 39r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 626 ff. 40r-1r

      Copy.

      First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.

      Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')
    • WaE 128 f. 41r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
    • WaE 585 f. 41r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
    • WaE 78 f. 41v

      Copy of the 18-line version.

      First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

      Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')
    • WaE 446 f. 42r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
    • WaE 37 f. 42v

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.

      Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')
    • WaE 85 f. 43r

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 441 f. 43v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
    • WaE 737 f. 43v

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • WaE 452 f. 44r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
    • WaE 539 f. 44r-v

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 125.

      Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
    • WaE 237 f. 45r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • WaE 74 ff. 45v-6r

      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')

  • Keynes MS 215

    Copy, in a professional hand, 235 folio pages.

    Late 17th century.

    Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 629 (1945), item 259.

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96. Recorded in C.N. Greenough and J.M. French, A Bibliography of the Theophrastan Character in England (Cambridge, Mass., 1947), p. 149.

    • HaG 13
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • Rowe MS 1

    MS music book.

    17th century.
    • B&F 205 No. 32

      Copy, in a musical setting by Dowland.

      Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and also in The Bloody Brother, III, iii. Bowers, II, 429.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('I am three merry men, and three merry men')

  • Rowe MS 2

    A lute book.

    c.1610.

    Owned by one Francis Turpyn.

    • BrN 48.5 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy of stanzas 1-3, in a musical setting by Robert Hales.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 583-4.

      Facsimile in The Turpyn Book of Lute Songs, ed. Richard Rastall (Leeds, 1973).

      First published in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610), No. 3. Authorship unknown.

      Nicholas Breton, 'Oh eies, leave of your weepinge'

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