Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel

2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4

A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.

c.late 1640s.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

WoH 40.5 pp. 1-2

Copy, headed A Perfect happy man described by Sir H. W.

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')
HoJ 230 pp. 2-3

Copy, headed Verses extempore betweene Sir. H. Wotton & M^r. Hoskins, as they rode together from Oxford to London. y^e theame a mistris.

First published in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (London, 1651), p. 517. Osborn, pp. 211-12.

John Hoskyns, Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins, riding on the way ('Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature')
WoH 211.5 pp. 3-4

Copy, headed A chorus upon the suddaine restraint of a great favourite, here beginning Thus dazle'd with height of place.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
SuJ 47.5 p. 5

Copy.

First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.

John Suckling, On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge ('What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed')
CwT 60.5 pp. 5-6

Copy, headed D^r. Donnes comparison.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
BrW 173.2 pp. 9-10

Copy, headed On a Man drown'd in the snow.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
FeO 33 p. 11

Copy, headed On Absence and here beginning When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am.

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 349.5 pp. 16-18

Copy, headed Oberon Kinge of the Fairyes, his apparrell.

First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
PoW 53 pp. 22-3

Copy, headed Verses in prayse of a black wench.

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'
WoH 62.8 pp. 24-5

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wottons verses of the Queen of Bohemia, here beginning Yee meaner beautyes of the night.

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

Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
BrW 53.5 pp. 32-3

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Sir John Stroude.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.

William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde ('After a march of twenty years and more')
RaW 73.5 p. 35

Copy, headed The coppy of that w^ch was deliver'd by S^r Walter Rawley to the Deane of Westminster upon the scaffold, for his Epitaph.

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'
CoR 199.5 pp. 37-8

Copy, headed Doctor Donnes Epitaph.

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')
WoH 58.2 pp. 40-1

Copy, headed An Ode made upon the Kings speedy returne to the Queene from his coronation in Scotland.

First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')
WoH 160.8 pp. 42-4

Copy, headed Att the tombe of Sir. Albertus Morton by Sir H. W. one of his nearest freinds.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')
WoH 174.5 pp. 44-7

Copy, as by Sir. H. Wotton.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 525. Hannah (1845), pp. 36-9.

Sir Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the original sense ('My soul exalt the Lord with hymns of praise')
WoH 165.5 pp. 48-9

Copy, headed A hymne or meditation by the same Author at Venice in y^e time of a languishinge Feaver.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
PeM 4 pp. 50-4

Copy.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, The Countesse of Pembrokes meditation & sonnet ('Out of y^e depth of all afflictions smart')
PeM 5 pp. 54-5

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of a little River in Oxfordshire neare Kiddington ('By silver'd streams sweet murmur, sad delight')
PeM 6 pp. 55-6

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of a little spring hard by Kiddington house which droppes out of a Rock ('Teare-like from aged Rocks incased side')
PeM 8 pp. 56-7

Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Upon the death of the Countesse of Rutland daughter to S^r Philip Sydney ('That thou art dead (faire life) & cannot dye')
PeM 7 p. 57

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Schlueter.

First published, and attributed to Mary, Countess of Pembroke, in Schlueter (2010).

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Of the River Bankes between Meziers & Liege ('So huge, so faire so goodly to behold')
StW 1284.5 p. 60

Copy, headed D^r. Valentines verses on the church.

First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
BcF 38.5 pp. 60-2

Copy, headed A description of mans life.

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'
BrW 57.5 pp. 62-4

Copy.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 5-7.

William Browne of Tavistock, The Happy Life ('O blessed man! who, homely bred')
WaE 9.5 pp. 65-7

Copy, here beginning They who never knew the use.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.

Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')
ClJ 28 pp. 67-70

Copy, headed A dialogue between two zelotts concerning Et Cætera in y^e new oath.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
KiH 345.5 pp. 70-3

Copy, headed D^r. Kinges Elegie upon his wife.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
HeR 209.5 pp. 78-9

Copy, headed Of one in despaire of his M^rs, and here beginning Fly to my mistresse yellow-footed bee.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee ('Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee')
MrC 2.5 p. 79

Copy of First Sestiad, line 269 et seq., headed On a mayden-head and beginning Theif [sic] idoll which you terme virginity.

First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander ('On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood')
StW 762.2 p. 80

Copy, headed Of his M^rs.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
CwT 1047.5 pp. 82-3

Copy, headed To his M^rs comparing himselfe to a ship.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
WoH 257.8 pp. 85-92

Copy.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519.

Sir Henry Wotton, A short hymn upon the birth of Prince Charles ('You that on stars do look')
SuJ 40 pp. 92-3

Copy, headed Songe.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 52-3.

John Suckling, Loves Offence ('If when Don Cupids dart')
SuJ 139.8 pp. 93-5

Copy of a version headed Songe and beginning There was no woman ever made.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 61-2.

John Suckling, Womans Constancy ('There never yet was woman made')
WaE 253.5 pp. 103-4

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 97.

Edmund Waller, Of Sylvia ('Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares')
WaE 74.5 pp. 104-5

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')
WaE 237.5 pp. 105-6

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 539.5 pp. 106-7

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (''Tis not your beauty can engage')
WaE 452.5 pp. 107-8

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
WaE 737.8 pp. 108-9

Copy.

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 441.5 p. 109

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
WaE 85.5 pp. 109-10

Copy.

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 37.5 p. 111

Copy.

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 446.5 pp. 111-13

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
WaE 78.5 pp. 113-14

Copy of the 18-line version beginning at line 7, here Let brutes & vegetalls that cannot think.

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 585.5 p. 114

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 128.5 pp. 114-15

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 626.5 pp. 115-18

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 207.5 pp. 118-20

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
WaE 692.5 pp. 120-4

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 31.5 pp. 124-34

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 420.5 p. 135

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 219.5 pp. 136-7

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 118.5 pp. 137-8

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 496.5 pp. 138-9

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 361.5 pp. 139-40

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 314.5 p. 140

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 481.5 pp. 140-2

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 340.5 pp. 142-3

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 225.5 pp. 143-4

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 71.5 p. 144

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes ('Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos')
WaE 460.5 pp. 144-5

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 653.5 pp. 145-7

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
WaE 599.5 pp. 147-8

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 593.5 pp. 148-50

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
WaE 470.5 pp. 150-2

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
WaE 571.5 pp. 153-4

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 5.5 pp. 155-6

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
WaE 353.5 pp. 156-7

Copy, headed On y^e freindship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett.

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 519.5 pp. 157-8

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
WaE 525.5 pp. 158-61

Copy.

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

Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
WaE 559.5 pp. 161-4

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 565.5 pp. 164-6

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 647.5 pp. 166-8

Copy, headed To M^rs. Broughton.

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 514.5 pp. 168-9

Copy, headed To y^e 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 579.5 pp. 169-71

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 269.5 pp. 171-2

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 295.5 pp. 172-3

No description or publication history available.

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 188.5 pp. 173-4

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 331.5 pp. 174-5

Copy, headed Of the Lady Dorothy Sidneys picture, here beginning Such was Philoclea, such was Dorus flame.

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 20.5 pp. 175-7

Copy, here beginning Had Dorothæa liv'd when mortally made.

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

Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
WaE 25.5 pp. 177-9

No description or publication history available.

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

Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
WaE 47.5 pp. 179-80

Copy, headed To y^e Countesse of Carlisle in mourning.

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 54.5 pp. 190-1

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 174.5 pp. 191-2

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 97.5 pp. 192-3

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 633.5 pp. 193-5

Copy, headed To y^e Queen-Mother upon her landing.

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 306.5 pp. 196-8

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 14.5 pp. 198-200

Copy, headed The Apologie of sleep for not approaching y^e Lady who can doe any thing but sleep when she pleaseth.

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 414.5 pp. 200-1

Copy, here beginning Yee Gods that have y^e power.

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

Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
WaE 639.5 pp. 201-4

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 249.5 pp. 204-6

Copy, headed Of Salley.

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

Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
WaE 681.5 pp. 206-9

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 613.5 pp. 209-10

Copy.

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 199.5 pp. 211-12

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
WaE 260.5 pp. 212-20

Copy.

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')
DeJ 75.4 p. 235

Copy, headed Verses made upon the Earle of Strafford.

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')
DaW 69.5 pp. 241-3

Copy.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 139-40.

Sir William Davenant, To the Queen ('Madam. so much peculiar and alone')
CoA 190.5 pp. 243-5

Copy.

First published in The Foure Ages of England ([London], 1648).

Abraham Cowley, To my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ('How much you may oblige, how much delight')
ClJ 201 pp. 245-6

Copy, headed Verses upon the Earle of Strafford and here beginning Here rest wise & valiant dust.

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')
WaE 290.8 pp. 247-8

Copy, headed To a faire Lady, of the late marriage at court of the the [sic] two Dwarfes of my L^d Chamberlaines & the Dutchesse of Lenox.

First published, as On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')
WaE 503.5 pp. 248-9

Copy, headed Songe.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
CoR 210.5 pp. 249-53

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
KiH 78.5 p. 259

Copy, headed An answeare to y^e Black-more Wench, following (on pp. 258-9) Of a Black-more Wench in love with a pretty boy.

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')
HrE 73.5 pp. 260-1

Copy, headed My Lord Herbert of my Lady of Oxford, here beginning That rare beauty thou dost show.

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')
JnB 180.5 pp. 261-2

Copy, headed The Picture of the Body.

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 218.5 pp. 262-6

Copy, headed The Mind.

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')
CoA 136.5 pp. 271-2

Copy, headed A Prologue & Epilogue to a play acted before the Prince at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge 19^th Martii 1641.

First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
CoA 78.5 pp. 272-3

Copy.

First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')

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