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TN/Corr. 5/82

Earle's signature on a statement of the exceptions to the articles of marriage of Henry Ingram, first Viscount Irwin, with Essex, daughter of Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, dated 19 February 1662/3.

Among the archives of the Ingram family, of Temple Newsam.
1663.
- *EaJ 111
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Document(s)
WYL100/F7

Unbound verses.

Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.
- ClJ 29 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue betweene two Zelots concerning &c. in the new oath, on both sides of a large folio leaf.
  
  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')
- ClJ 202 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy, in a rough cursive hand, untitled, here beginning Here rests wise & valiant Dust, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
  
  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')
- DoC 261 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
  
  First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays ('Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave')
- MrJ 46 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, with various alterations, headed In Ducem re-ducem, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- MrJ 47 [unnumbered item]
  
  Another copy, with some alterations, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed In praise of y^e Duke.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
WYL119/B3

A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in two or more hands, c.350 pages (including blanks), in vellum boards.
c.1752.
Formerly BF. B. 3. From the Bacon Frank papers, of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 448.
- LeJ 86 pp. 104-26
  
  Extracts relating to Pontefract, transcribed by Richard Frank (1698-1762), Yorkshire antiquary, from the papers of Nathaniel Johnston (1629?-1705), political theorist and antiquary, of Pontefract, and dated 1752.
  
  John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
WYL156/237

A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.
- CoR 545 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Arbella, by D^r Corbet.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
- BcF 54.108 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed On the Duke of Richmond, dead sodainely.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- CmT 173 f. 5r-v
  
  Copy, headed A maides delibertion and resolucion.
  
  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'
- CwT 322 f. 5v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
  
  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
- PeW 251 f. 6r
  
  Copy, headed A maides deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay faith and will you? fy.
  
  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 410 f. 6r
  
  Copy of lines 27-8, headed of French Crownes and here beginning Although the French king most Christian bee.
  
  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')
- KiH 367 f. 6v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
  
  Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
- CwT 33 f. 7r
  
  Copy, headed Of his m^rs letting Blood and here beginning Foole that belleues her clearer blood.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
  
  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
- CwT 813 f. 7r-v
  
  Copy, headed Cælia singing to her Lute.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- CwT 213 f. 7v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon absence and here beginning Perhapes you'le wonder why I stay.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- RaW 273 f. 7v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink Tho: Harding.
  
  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')
- BmF 75 f. 8r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- RaW 475 f. 8v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning S^r say not that you loue unlesse you doe.
  
  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'
- BmF 21 f. 9r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- HeR 18 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed Upon a Ladyes dress of heayre stuck w^th Jewells, subscribed in different ink R Hericke.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- FeO 12 f. 10r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.
  
  Owen Felltham, The Appeal ('Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale')
- CwT 517 f. 10v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon the seeing his m^rs face in the water and here beginning Stand still you streames, doe not deface.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
  
  Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
- DnJ 3761 ff. 10v-11
  
  Copy, with a correction in another hand, headed Vpon partinge.
  
  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')
- KiH 641 ff. 11v-12
  
  Copy, headed The discoraged Sutor.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
- KiH 621 f. 12r
  
  Copy, headed Loue ill requited.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
- DnJ 2319 f. 13r
  
  Copy, headed To a dissembling Lady, here beginning Send home my straying eyes to mee, and subscribed Jo: Donne.
  
  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')
- CwT 163 f. 13v
  
  Copy, headed Disdaine Returnd.
  
  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 1002 f. 15v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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 563 f. 16v
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistling 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')
- HeR 95 f. 16v
  
  Copy, headed A forsaken lady y^t dyed for loue, with an emendation in a different ink.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- CwT 102 f. 17r-v
  
  Copy, headed Loues complement.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- HrJ 178 f. 18v
  
  Copy, headed A storie of a Taylor by S^r. John Harrington.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
- CwT 638 ff. 19r-21r
  
  Copy, headed Caries Rapture.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- MoG 72 f. 21r-v
  
  Copy, headed On the Nightingale, subscribed in different ink Geo: Morley.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- StW 1330 f. 21v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Shall I tell you how the Rose did first growe redd.
  
  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 152 ff. 21v-2r
  
  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')
- StW 294 f. 22v
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewomans blistred lipp and here beginning Hide not thy sprowting lipp, nor kill.
  
  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')
- JnB 334 f. 23r
  
  Copy, headed Too Ladyes enuiting each other to sing, subscribed Ben: Johnson.
  
  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')
- CwT 468 f. 24r
  
  Copy, headed Uppon his inconstant m^rs comanding him to returne back his letters, subscribed Jo: Donne.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1902 f. 24r
  
  Copy, headed To a whoremaster.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- CwT 848 f. 24v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Ladyes flee from loues sweete tale
  
  First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
- DaJ 203 f. 25v
  
  Copy, headed An other [i.e. Epitaph] and here beginning As carefull mothers use there children 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')
- BrW 216 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Countesse of Penbroke.
  
  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')
- CoR 452 ff. 29v-30r
  
  Copy, headed On Tom of Christ-Church the great Bell newly cast.
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- RnT 392 f. 30r
  
  Copy, headed Randolls verses of the losse of his finger.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- WoH 191 f. 30v
  
  Copy, headed Of a gentlewoman y^t dyed within a few dayes after her Husband.
  
  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
- CaE 25 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham.
  
  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')
- JnB 299 f. 34r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Consider but this dust heere in this glasse.
  
  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')
- BrW 107 f. 35r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon the death of M^r Vaux A famous Phisition.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician ('Stay! this grave deserves a tear')
- DkT 28 f. 35v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon the dead body of Queene Elizabeth brought from Richmond to White Hall and here beginning The Queen is come from Richmond to White Hall.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- FeO 19 f. 37r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph vpon the Earle of Oxforde.
  
  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')
- CoR 580 f. 38v
  
  Copy, headed The B^p of Oxon his wishes to his little sonne Vincent.
  
  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')
- PoW 54 ff. 39v-40r
  
  Copy, headed In prayes of black eyes.
  
  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'
- StW 55 f. 40r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
  
  William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
- StW 466 ff. 40v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- CwT 378 f. 41v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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,)')
- StW 818 f. 41v
  
  Copy, headed A Songe.
  
  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 864 f. 42r
  
  Copy, headed in a different hand On a gentlewoeman Masked.
  
  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')
- CwT 1251 f. 42v
  
  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 61 f. 42v
  
  Copy, headed On his Mistresses features and here beginning ffayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gold.
  
  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')
- CwT 1278 f. 43r
  
  Copy, headed On a fayre Lady that wore in her brest a wounded hart kerved in pretious Stone, subscribed Hen: Blount:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.
  
  Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
- GrJ 59 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy, headed A Discription of a wisht M^rs, here beginning Not that I could wish my Mistrisse, and subscribed Jo Grange.
  
  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'
- CwT 1230 f. 44r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon the sicknes of his M^rs beeing sick of a Calenture.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
- JnB 181 f. 45r
  
  Copy, headed Of his m^rs sitting to haue her picture drawne / 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 219 ff. 45v-6r
  
  Copy, headed 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')
- CwT 959 f. 48r
  
  Copy, headed To one that desired to know my M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
- CwT 126 f. 49r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 691 f. 49r
  
  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')
- ToA 61 f. 49v
  
  Copy, headed The reuolt of a gentleman from his first Choyce at the sight of fayrer face / To his mistris.
  
  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')
- CwT 665 ff. 49v-50
  
  Copy, headed The Epicures Paradox That there is no pleasure but in Venery.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
- CwT 1197 f. 50r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a sikken bracelet giuen to a gentelman by his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 1141 f. 51r
  
  Copy, headed Of one like his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- HeR 394 f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed On a falce m^rs.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
- JnB 428 f. 52v
  
  Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning Aske not to know this woman: shee is worse.
  
  edited from this ms in Beal? check
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- JnB 596 f. 53r
  
  Copy, headed To a spruse Lady, subscribed Ben: Johnson.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- CwT 1176 f. 54r
  
  Copy, headed A louer to Cupid.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
- JnB 53 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed On a Virgin fallen in loue in her sleepe not knowing with whome.
  
  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')
- PeW 77 f. 55r-v
  
  Copy, headed Of frendship.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- StW 187 f. 55v
  
  Copy, headed The comendation of musick, here beginning When Whispering straynes w^th creeping wynd, and subscribed in a different hand WS.
  
  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')
- CwT 887 f. 56r
  
  Copy, headed A charmge beauty.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- StW 1033 f. 56v
  
  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 212 f. 56v
  
  Copy, headed Of Fauorites, subscribed in different ink S^r Water Ralegh.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 49, p. 122.
  
  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')
- PeW 252 ff. 57r-8r
  
  Copy, headed The Parradox.
  
  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')
- CwT 1059 f. 59v
  
  Copy, headed A louer to his m^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
  
  Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
- DnJ 3214 ff. 59v-60v
  
  Copy, headed A louer to his m^rs, subscribed in a different hand John Donne.
  
  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 519.5 ff. 60v-1r
  
  Copy, headed That no man can Loue aboue halfe an hower and here beginning I cannot think that any man.
  
  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')
- StW 722 f. 61r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a Sigh, subscribed John Dunne.
  
  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')
- JnB 610 f. 62v
  
  Copy, headed Some Ladyes richly adorn'd and refusing to Dance at a Masque, wer woo'd to it after this manner.
  
  First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).
  
  Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song ('Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide')
- JnB 350 f. 64r
  
  Copy, following (on f. 64v) William Burlase's The painter to the poett.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
- ToA 35 ff. 64r-5r
  
  Copy, headed A paradox prouing no louer can bee falce and subscribed Jo: Grange.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
- CwT 861 f. 65r
  
  Copy, headed Eternity of Loue pourtrayd.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
- PeW 291 f. 65v
  
  Copy.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')
- DnJ 2973 f. 66v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- DnJ 465 f. 66v
  
  Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (see DnJ 2973), subscribed John Dun.
  
  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?')
- DnJ 3684 ff. 66v-7r
  
  Copy, headed On Twitnam garden.
  
  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')
- KiH 681 f. 68r-v.
  
  Copy, with corrections in a different ink, headed A departing betweene two Louars.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
  
  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
- KiH 79 f. 70v
  
  Copy, headed The boyes 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')
- HrJ 225 f. 73v
  
  Copy, headed A Vicar and a blind man and here beginning An honest vicar riding on the way.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
- StW 961 ff. 79v-80r
  
  Copy, headed Of Capps, subscribed in a different hand W Strode.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
  
  William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
- KiH 457 f. 80v
  
  Copy, headed A midnights Meditation.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- HoJ 332 f. 82r
  
  Copy, in double columns, headed A Clownes Loue letter.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- FeO 49 ff. 82v-3r
  
  Copy, headed On the Duke of Buckinggame.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
  
  Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')
- JnB 418 f. [82d^v]
  
  Copy, headed King James his coming to the croune.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- PeW 191 f. [82f^r]
  
  Copy, headed On Lidea.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- JnB 537 f. [82f^v]
  
  Copy, headed A new yeares giuft sent to the Right Honorable, subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state')
- CoR 200 f. [82h^r]
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaphe made uppon Doctor Donne Deane of Paules by Doctor Corbet Bishoppe of Oxforde.
  
  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')
- RnT 354 ff. [82h^v-82i^v]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the French Woman with the hard face that singes in Masques at Court.
  
  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')
- KiH 655 f. 85r
  
  Copy, headed Sonet 1.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
- KiH 506 f. 85r
  
  Copy, headed Sonet 2.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
  
  Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
- CoR 651 f. 87r
  
  Copy, headed On the Princes birth 29 May 1630 A starre appearing the next day at noone: And an Ecclipse of the Sunn y^e next day following.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')
- KiH 181 f. 88v
  
  Copy, headed An other [i.e. on Prince Henry].
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
- CoR 272 f. 89r
  
  Copy, headed Against D^r Price his Aniuersarys vppon Prince Henry 1613: 1614 and subscribed R. C.
  
  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')
- CoR 242 ff. 89v-90r
  
  Copy, headed The reply and subscribed R C.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
- BmF 47 ff. 91r-2v
  
  Copy, headed An: Elogie On the Countesse of Rutland, subscribed Fra: 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')
- JnB 132 f. 92v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Wilt thou heare what man can say?, and subscribed B J.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
WYL156/239

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, as by S^r Robert Cotton, on eleven large folio leaves (plus two blanks), frayed and stained, unbound.
c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
- CtR 418
  
  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
WYL156/269

A folio booklet of state letters and tracts, in a secretary hand, 15 leaves (lacking a leaf torn out after f. 4), in a paper wrapper.
c.1620s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 269.
- RaW 710.248 ff. [11r-13r]
  
  Copy.
  
  Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
- RaW 732 f. [13v]
  
  Copy, headed An answere made by S^r: walter Rawleigh at his death to the false accusations, y^t a repriued and infamous fellow called Lewds stukleye charged him w^thall, & therby caused & brought him to his vntimely end: as it is suspected induced thervnto by y^e youthfull vertue of certaine spanish pistols. w^ch were shot at his treatcherouse soule.
  
  Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note

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