Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection

  • MS Lt 2

    An octavo volume, chiefly devoted to Colvil's Mock poem, in a single small hand, with verses etc. in English and Latin added afterwards, written from both ends, 86 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1680.

    Scribbling (f. ir-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

    • SiP 116.5 f. 7r rev.

      Copy, headed The Praises of Mopsa daughter to Dametas.

      Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 ('What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show')
    • SiP 118.5 f. 7v rev.

      Copy, headed Dametas song.

      Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 ('Now thanked be the great God Pan')
    • SiP 34.5 ff. 7v-8r rev.

      Copy, untitled.

      Ringler, pp. 142-3.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 12 ('You better sure shall live, not evermore')
    • SiP 34.8 f. 8r rev.

      Copy, untitled, preceded by the original Latin headed Out of Catullus.

      Ringler, p. 143.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 13 ('Unto no body my woman saith she had rather a wife be')
    • SiP 45.5 ff. 8v-9v rev.

      Copy, headed The Seven Wonders of England.

      Ringler, pp. 149-51.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 22. The 7. Wonders of England ('Neere Wilton sweete, huge heapes of stones are found')

  • MS Lt 6

    An octavo manuscript of poems by Henry Hall (1656?-1707), in a single hand, ii + 16 leaves, bound at the end of a composite volume containing otherwise thirteen printed items dated 1709-1713.

    With a title-page (f. ir): The Remains of Mr Henry Hall late organist of Hereford.

    Early 18th century.

    Inscribed names (f. ir) of Rich: Witherstone, Susanna Witherston, and Geo Prosser 1768.

    • PsK 577.5 f. 15v

      Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed Justice and here beginning If Justice be a thing divine, followed by Hall's answer, recasting Philips's lines, beginning Bright Justice is a thing divine.

      Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song ('See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride')

  • MS Lt 7

    An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two hands, 36 leaves (including blanks), with loosely inserted notes, in a contemporary green vellum wallet binding.

    c.1736-47.
    • CoA 126.5 f. 6r

      Two extracts from the poem.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 48-9. Sparrow, pp. 46-8.

      Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ('Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given')
    • CrR 238.5 f. 7r

      Extract, comprising lines 35-6, here beginning A pillow for thee will I bring, subscribed Crashaw.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

      Richard Crashaw, The Teare ('What bright soft thing is this?')
    • CrR 157.5 f. 8v

      Copy, subscribed Crashaw.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.

      Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call ('Thou hast the art on't Peter. and canst tell')

  • MS Lt 8

    A commonplace book, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by William Stone.

    c.1748.
    • JnB 268.8 f. R14r

      Copy of lines 101-4 of the 1640 duodecimo version, beginning Much phrase that now is dead shall be reviv'd.

      First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.

      Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry ('If to a Womans head a Painter would')

  • MS Lt 9

    A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards.

    c.1730s.
    • MkM 14 p. 8

      Copy, headed From a lady extreamly ill at Bath to her husband.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
    • CgW 16.5 p. 47

      Copy, headed Amoret.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • CgW 45.2 p. 53

      Copy.

      Summers, IV, 45.2. McKenzie, II, 376.

      William Congreve, To a Candle Elegy ('Thou watchful Taper, by whose silent Light')
    • CgW 1.5 pp. 54-6

      Copy.

      First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 142-3. Dobrée, pp. 285-7. McKenzie, II, 370-1.

      William Congreve, Doris ('Doris, a Nymph of ripe Age')
    • CgW 30.5 pp. 57-60

      Copy.

      Summers, IV, 148-51. McKenzie, II, 406-9.

      William Congreve, Of Pleasing; an Epistle To Sir Richard Temple (''Tis strange, dear Temple, how it comes to pass')
    • CgW 45.8 pp. 63-5

      Copy.

      First published in Dryden's Miscellany (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 103. McKenzie, II, 367-8.

      William Congreve, To Cynthia Weeping and not speaking. Elegy ('Why are those Hours, which Heav'n in Pity lent')
    • DrJ 3.6 pp. 88-92

      Copy, headed Drydens ode on St Cecilias Day.

      First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 3-18.

      John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (''Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won')

  • MS Lt 12

    A quarto volume of Miscellany Poems 1728, in several hands, 145 pages (plus a number of blanks), with an index, in quarter-calf on boards.

    c.1728-69.

    Bookplate of George Scott, of Woolston Hall, Essex. Sotheby's, 28 July 1964, lot 451.

    • DrJ 246.3 p. 17

      A seven-line extract, preceded by five Latin verses headed Line 511th lib: 4th of Virgil's Georgicks, and headed thus translated by Dryden, beginning So underneath a poplar's shade, her young.

      First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

      John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')
    • ShW 59.6 [at the back]

      Extract from I, vii (Even-handed Justice / Returns the'Ingredients of our poison'd Chalice / To our own Lips.).

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

  • MS Lt 13

    A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1719-50.

    Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, January 1963.

    • HoJ 138 f. 32v

      Copy, headed On a Parliament Fart, beginning Reader, it was born and cryed.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • ClJ 217 f. 42v

      Copy.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • JnB 263.5 f. 42v

      Copy of a short version, here ascribed to King Charles 2ds Fool.

      First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

      Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
    • RoJ 591 f. 43v-43r

      Copy.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • WoH 53.5 f. 44r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')

  • MS Lt 15

    A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723.

    c.1723.
    • DrW 2.5 p. 1

      Copy, headed On the Spring.

      First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Change should breede Change ('New doth the Sunne appeare')
    • DrW 20.5 pp. 1-2

      Copy, headed Solitude.

      First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 30.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Praise of a Solitarie Life ('Thrice happie hee, who by some shadie Groue')
    • DrW 1.5 pp. 2-3

      Copy, headed Peace of mind.

      First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'As when it hapneth that some louely Towne'
    • SpE 9.5 pp. 8-9, 51, 60, 64-72

      Series of extracts, including Book I, Canto IX, stanza 35; Book II, Canto VI, stanza 3; Canto VII, stanzas 40-1; Canto XI, stanzas 21-2; Canto XII, stanza 70; Book III, Canto XII, stanza 11; Book IV, Canto I, stanzas 20-2, 24; Canto X, stanza 16; and Book VI, Canto VII, stanzas 41 and 43, variously headed description of death, danger, Dispair, discord, and disdain.

      Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

      Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
    • DrJ 3.8 pp. 12-14

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 3-18.

      John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (''Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won')
    • PsK 197.5 pp. 38-9

      Copy of sixteen lines, headed Solitude.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

      A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

      Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')
    • CgW 29.9 pp. 45-6

      Copy, headed Shade.

      First published in 1695. Summers, IV, 39-44. McKenzie, II, 279-85.

      William Congreve, The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary of ever Blessed Memory ('Behold, Alexis, see the Gloomy Shade')
    • OvT 4 p. 54

      Copy.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph ('The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest')
    • ShW 60.8 pp. 61-2

      Extract.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    • ShW 44.5 pp. 74-5

      Copy of Hamlet's To be or not to be speech, headed Futurity.

      First published in London, 1603.

    • ShW 50.8 pp. 75-6

      Extract, headed Greatnes.

      By Shakespeare and John Fletcher. First published in the First Folio (1623), as The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth. Cited in 1613 by the title All is True.

      William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
    • OtT 16 pp. 76-7

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1680.

      Thomas Otway, The Orphan
    • OtT 18 pp. 80-1

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1682. Ghosh, II, 197-289.

      Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
    • JnB 559.8 p. 82

      Copy of sixteen lines of Catiline's speech.

      Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 ('It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome')
    • ShW 79.8 pp. 84-5, 190-5

      Extract, headed K. Richard 2d in Prison.

      First published in London, 1597.

      William Shakespeare, Richard II
    • LeN 13.5 pp. 88-91

      Extract from Act I, headed The interview of Hannibal and Scipio and beginning Han. Are you the cheif whom men fam'd Scipio call....

      First published in London, 1675. Stroup & Cooke, I, 73-144.

      Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba
    • B&F 146.7 pp. 110-11

      Copy, headed Melancholy.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • PsK 579.5 pp. 114-15

      Copy of most of the the song, untitled.

      A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')
    • RaW 184.5 pp. 119-20

      Copy, headed Dispair.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
    • DeJ 80.5 pp. 122-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 179-80.

      Sir John Denham, Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the 12th of Homer ('Thus to Glaucus spake')
    • BrW 215.5 p. 126

      Copy, headed Epitaph on C. of Pembroke.

      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')
    • SeC 16.5 pp. 138-9

      Copy.

      First published in The Mulberry Garden (London, 1668). De Sola Pinto, I, 186.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Epilogue [to The Mulberry Garden] ('Poets of all men have the hardest Game')
    • SeC 119.5 pp. 139-44

      Copy of the First scene in the Mubery Garden.

      First published in London, 1668. Sola Pinto, I, 107-86.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Mulberry Garden

  • MS Lt 20

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, xvi + 140 pages, in contemporary calf.

    With a title-page (p. ir): The Six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some Miscellany Poems. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724.

    1724.

    Later owned by William Rees-Mogg.

    • DrJ 246.5 pp. A, pp. 1-40

      Copy of the Pastorals, Eclogues I-VI.

      First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

      John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')
    • DrJ 246.6 B, pp. 1-96

      Copy of the Georgics, Books I-III.

      First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

      John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')
    • JnB 131.5 B, p. 126

      Copy of lines 3-6, headed Epitaph by Mr. Dryden, on his Sweetheart, beginning Underneath this Stone does lye.

      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')

  • MS Lt 22

    A commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single hand, lacking various leaves.

    c.1680s.
    • BuS 39 ff. 8r-19v

      Copy of the original version, subscribed Winniard Johann. Oxon.

      A satire first published in 1682 with the subtitle The Loyal Satyrist, or, Hudibras in Prose. Almost certainly written by Thomas Winyard (or Winnard or Winwood), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford: see De Quehen, RES, (1982), 274-5, and Lamar, pp. 347-65. Before its re-publication in Butler's Posthumous Works, it was heavily doctored with interpolated Hudibrastic verses.

      Samuel Butler, Mercurius Menippeus

  • MS Lt 24

    An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated 3d. Jany 1740/1.

    c.1729-41.

    Inscribed (f. iiv) purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8th. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.

    • StW 427.5 f. 2v

      Copy, headed A sonG, here beginning As I saw fair Clora walk alone, followed by a Latin version headed Latinè redditum. p Mr Denny (beginning Jupiter in Cloram tacitus descendit euntem).

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • LeN 18.5 f. 1r-v rev.

      Copy, headed A Song.

      Published separately, as Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

      Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] ('Hail to the Mirtle Shade')
    • FrG 11.5 ff. 24r-5r rev.

      Copy of the song, headed A Song on a Trifle, subscribed Andover 17. Aug. 1730.

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')
    • CoA 24.5 f. 28r rev.

      Copy, headed Drinking, subscribed Anacreon .31. Decembr. 1740, followed (f. 28v rev.) by an anonymous The Answer (beginning The thirsty Earth, wn one would think).

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

      Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • ShW 44.7 ff. 35r-6r rev.

      Extract, headed The Scene in Hamlet Prince of Denmak. The Ghost & Hamlet, subscribed Andover 4th. 9th mo. 1730.

      First published in London, 1603.

  • MS Lt 25

    An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

    Early 17th century.
    • MrT 7 ff. 1r-6r

      Copy of the five epigrams and the prose preface, imperfect.

      Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 100-17, with English translations.

      Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 19-23 ('Si qua dies unquam, si quod fuit Anglia tempus')
    • GrF 34 f. 6v

      Copy of the first ten lines of Achmat's soliloquy (II, i, 1-10), headed Sir ffulke Greuille of ambition and here beginning Who standing in the shade of humble valleyes.

      Bullough, II, 79-80.

      Wilkes, I, 230-1.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, II, i, 1-10
    • DaS 53.5 f. 6v

      A brief extract, under the subject heading Confidence, here beginning He most is to be feared that nothing feares.

      First published in London, 1605. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1949).

      Samuel Daniel, Philotas
    • WoH 39 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Sir Henry Wotto[n], imperfect.

      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')
    • HrJ 285 f. 7v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Sr I do wish to you a wife, rich, faire & yong.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

      Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
    • HrJ 240 f. 7v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A great man speaking one day in scorne.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning A gallant talking late in way of skorne.

      Sir John Harington, Of cursing Cuckolds ('A Lord that talked late in way of scorne')
    • HrJ 45 f. 8r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • HrJ 247 f. 9r

      Copy, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 16. McClure No. 270, p. 259.

      Sir John Harington, Of Lynus borrowing ('Lynus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow')
    • DrM 45.2 f. 9v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1604. Hebel, II, 477-514.

      Michael Drayton, The Owle ('What time the the Sunne by his all-quickning Power')
    • CmT 127.5 f. 9v

      Copy of the first couplet only, here beginning Though you be yonge & I be old.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though you are yoong and I am olde'

  • MS Lt 30

    MS poems on otherwise blank leaves (pp. 25-[28]) at the end of a printed exemplum of The Speeches of the Lord Digby (London, 1641), heavily cropped by a binder, now disbound.

    c.1690.
    • RoJ 231 p. 25

      Copy, written sideways down the length of the page.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

  • MS Lt 34

    An octavo verse miscellany, containing chiefly songs, largely in a single hand, 46 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1680s.
    • DrJ 259.4 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed A dialogue betwixt a shepherd and shepherd[ess].

      Written in collabotation with Nathaniel Lee. First published in London, 1683. California, XIV (1992), pp. 205-305 (pp. 290-1). Kinsley, I, 330. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 144-5.

      John Dryden, The Duke of Guise, Act V, scene i, lines 1-34. Song ('Tell me Thirsis, tell your Anguish')
    • BeA 23.9 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      First published in London, 1681. Summers, I, 115-213 (p. 188). Todd, VI, 228-98 (pp. 280-1). Also edited, as The Counsel. A Song. Set by Captain Pack, in Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 190-1.

      Aphra Behn, The Second Part of The Rover, Act IV, scene i. Song ('Ah pox upon this needless score')
    • DrJ 286.8 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 420-1.

      John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: or, The Double Discovery, Act V, scene i, lines 64-87. Song ('Farewell ungratefull Traytor')
    • BeA 23.3 f. 33r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      First published in London, 1677. Summers, II, 6-98. Todd, V, 245-315.

      Aphra Behn, Abdelazar, or The Moor's Revenge, Act I: song ('Love in fantastick triumph sat')
    • DrJ 102.6 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy, on a loosely inserted folded quarto leaf.

      First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 386-7.

      John Dryden, A New Song ('Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen')
    • DrJ 183.5 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy, on a loosely inserted folded quarto leaf.

      First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

      John Dryden, Song ('Go tell Amynta gentle Swain')

  • MS Lt 36

    An octavo verse miscellany, 58 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Including 39 poems by Waller on ff. 20v-36r; poems on ff. 1-52v in a single neat, possibly feminine, hand; poems on ff. 53-8v added later in another hand.

    Early 18th century.

    Sotheby's, 21 July 1970, lot 652.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Brotherton MS: WaE Δ 14.

    • WaE 529 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, headed To Amoret - by Mr Waller.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 132 f. 21r

      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 274 f. 21v

      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 741 f. 21v

      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 465 f. 22r

      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 321 f. 22r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

      Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')
    • WaE 335 f. 22v

      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 505 f. 22v

      Copy.

      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')
    • WaE 358 f. 23r

      Copy.

      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 590.5 f. 23r

      Copy, heavily deleted.

      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 423 f. 23v

      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 90 ff. 23v-4r

      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 602 f. 24r

      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 210 ff. 24v-5

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 673 f. 25r

      Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Hellen was….

      First published, in a six-line version headed To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture and beginning at line 3 (Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

      Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
    • WaE 243 f. 25v

      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 115 f. 25v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 93.

      Edmund Waller, Love's Farewell ('Treading the path to nobler ends')
    • WaE 291 f. 26r

      Copy.

      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 318 f. 26r

      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 82 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 94.

      Edmund Waller, From a Child ('Madam, as in some climes the warmer sun')
    • WaE 28 ff. 26v-7r

      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 485 f. 27v

      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 6 f. 28r

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
    • WaE 10 f. 28v

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')
    • WaE 477 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published, as The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

      Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know')
    • WaE 696 ff. 29v-30v

      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 517 f. 30v

      Copy.

      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 147 ff. 31r-2r

      Copy.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
    • WaE 749 f. 32r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 92.

      Edmund Waller, Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombre ('The cards you tear in value rise')
    • WaE 66 f. 32v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 63.

      Edmund Waller, Epitaph to be written under the Latin Inscription upon the Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover (''Tis fit the English reader should be told.')
    • WaE 467 f. 32v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 88.

      Edmund Waller, These Verses were writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness ('Tasso knew how the fairer sex to grace')
    • WaE 265 f. 33r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady Mary, &c. ('As once the lion honey gave')
    • WaE 487 f. 33v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes')
    • WaE 134 f. 33v

      Copy.

      First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')
    • WaE 664 f. 33v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

      Edmund Waller, Translated out of Spanish ('Though we may seem importunate')
    • WaE 650 f. 34r

      Copy.

      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 124 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

      Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark ('Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms')
    • WaE 609 f. 35r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 72.

      Edmund Waller, To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of the Court at Dover ('That sun of beauty did among us rise')
    • WaE 629 ff. 35r-6r

      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 281 f. 36r

      Copy, headed writ on a blank leaf of a waller by ——.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

      Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')

  • MS Lt 38

    An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, predominantly in a single small hand, 42 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Compiled by a twenty-year-old Oxford University graduate.

    1670.

    Sotheby's, 28 November 1972, lot 302.

    • WaE 390 ff. 25r-6v

      Copy, headed A Panegyrick to ye Ld Protectour.… 1655.

      First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

      Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
    • WaE 153 ff. 27r-8r

      Copy, headed On the Victory over the Spanish Plate fleet in the Protectour's Time. 1655.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
    • ClJ 203 f. 28v

      Copy.

      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')
    • MaA 296.5 f. 30v

      Copy, headed An epitaph on Dunkirk House.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
    • WaE 724 ff. 31v, 32v, 33v

      The text accompanied (on ff. 32, 33, 34) by Godolphin's answer (A Construction of Wallers Poem by Mr Godolphin Student of ch: ch: 1660).

      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')
    • AlW 165 f. 36v

      Copy, headed De Vno Gulielmo & Dno Johanne Reynolds, qui in diversa fide educati; intricem disputando à fide suâ averlebant. 1639, subscribed Dr. Alabaster.

      First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • MaA 342 ff. 36v-8v, 30v-1r

      Copy, the envoy separated on ff. 30v-1r.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 409 ff. 38v-40v

      Copy, headed New Directions to a Painter. 1668.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

  • MS Lt 43

    A small notebook (c.15.5 x 6.5 cm) compiled by Henry Fairfax, of Denton, Yorkshire, second son of Henry Fairfax (1631-88), fourth Baron Fairfax of Cameron.

    c.1679-82.

    Later owned by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 21466. Sotheby's, 24 June 1974, lot 2919.

    • PsK 21 ff. 3r-2v rev.

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 155. Saintsbury, p. 594. Hageman (1987), p. 600. Thomas, I, 227-8, poem 108.

      Katherine Philips, An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage ('Forbear bold Youth, all's Heaven here')
    • DrJ 255 ff. 38r-37r rev.

      Copy.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')

  • MS Lt 45

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 416 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1743-67.
    • CgW 9.5 pp. 386-7

      Copy.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

      William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve ('Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis')

  • MS Lt 48

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1700.
    • ShW 60 ff. 16v, 20r

      Copy of two of the Duke's speeches (III, ii, 178-81, beginning No might nor greatness in mortality, and III, ii, 253-66, beginning He, who the sword of heaven will bear).

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    • CoA 291 ff. 21r-2v, 43v

      Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • RoJ 325 f. 30r

      Copy of lines 1-24, headed Earl Rochestr.

      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)')
    • DrJ 246.8 f. 37r

      Extracts from the Aeneis, Books I (lines 105-11, 176-7), III (lines 628-31), and IV (lines 252, 255-73).

      First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

      John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')
    • FrG 1 f. 40v

      Copy.

      First published, as part of the dedicatory epistle to Peregrine Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen and later second Duke of Leeds, in Love and a Bottle (London, 1699). Stonehill, I, 7. Kenny, I, 25.

      George Farquhar, 'Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend'
    • BuS 1.5 f. 41r

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
    • JnB 560 f. 42r

      Copy of Catiline's speech.

      Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 ('It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome')
    • RoJ 45.8 f. 42v

      Copy of stanzas 4-7 (lines 13-28), beginning Tell me then the reason why, subscribed Sr John Suckling.

      First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as [Epigram on Samuel Pordage], among Impromptus.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne ('Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er')
    • WaE 323 f. 43r

      Copy, lacking lines 5-6.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

      Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')
    • DrJ 277 f. 43v

      Copy of the song, untitled, subscribed Dryden.

      First published in London, 1694. California, XVI (1996), pp. 167-259. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 365-475 (pp. 417-18). Kinsley, II, 856-7. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 340.

      John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail, Act III, scene i, lines 1-30. Song of Jealousie ('What State of Life can be so blest')
    • WoH 40 f. 49r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed A Caracter of a happy man.

      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')
    • ShW 41 f. 34r rev.

      Brief quotations, including Aegeon's lines beginning Yet this my comfort: when your words are done (I, i, 27-8).

      Extracts.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
    • BrT 5.96 ff. 54r-v rev.

      Extracts.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
    • DrJ 44.5 ff. 91r-92r rev.

      Four extracts, quoted in an abridged copy of Book I, Chapter I, of George Stanhope's translation (Of Wisdom, 1697) of Pierre Charron's De la sagesse.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 799-828. California, IV, 362-431. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 230-84.

      John Dryden, The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ('Of Bodies chang'd to various Forms I sing')

  • MS Lt 53

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, 74 leaves, in a contemporary green vellum wallet binding.

    Compiled, and partly composed, by Benjamin Coles, of Great Forster's, near Egham, Surrey.

    c.1741.

    Inscribed (f. 74v) Jas. Foster Trusley / Derbyshire / Jos: Foster / Thulston / Derbyshire 1787.

    • CoA 86.5 f. 1v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed 17th. Janry. 1740/1 B Coles.

      First published, at the end of the essay Of Liberty, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.

      Abraham Cowley, 'For the few Houres of Life allotted me'
    • OtT 17 f. 32r

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1680.

      Thomas Otway, The Orphan

  • MS Lt 54

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

    In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

    c.1680s-90s.

    Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

    Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

    • DrJ 96 pp. 1-10

      Copy.

      Facsimiles of first page in Christie's sale catalogue, 27 June 1979, lot 16, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. The MS collated, with a complete facsimile, and discussed in relation to other texts, in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 281-96. Facsimile of the first page in Hammond & Hopkins, I, facing p. 305.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • DoC 316.8 pp. 15-20

      Copy.

      Walker, pp. 130-1.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')
    • ShJ 162 pp. 16-17

      Copy of the dirge, headed Anglice. The text followed by a Latin version.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • DoC 153 pp. 25-7

      Copy, headed Satyr on Ned. Howard. By the Earl of Dorset.

      This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 297-8.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • DoC 278 pp. 27-9

      Copy, headed Another, by the same hand.

      Lines 21-34 edited from this MS in Hammond, Robinson, p. 298.

      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 49 pp. 29-36

      Copy, headed Colon; a Satyr.

      This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 298-9.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • DrJ 43.88 pp. 36-49

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 232 p. 85

      Copy, headed On our young Statesmen.

      This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, p. 303.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • RoJ 51 pp. 86-8

      Copy.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 557 pp. 89-90

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
    • RoJ 515 p. 91

      Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • RoJ 476 pp. 92-100

      Copy, headed Timon, A Satyr.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, in Walker, and in Love, Text of Timon.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • RoJ 278 pp. 100-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
    • RoJ 78 pp. 108-12

      Copy, headed A Letter from the E. of R: to my Lord O.B..

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 487 pp. 113-15

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
    • RoJ 624 pp. 116-17

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
    • RoJ 463 pp. 118-19

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')
    • RoJ 386 p. 120

      Copy, headed To Thirsis; the text followed (pp. 121-2) by Lady Rochester's answer.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

      Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • SdT 23.7 p. 122

      An extract, the closing couplet of Act IV, beginning I to my husband scorn to be a slave.

      First published in London, 1673. Summers, II, 95-182.

      Thomas Shadwell, Epsom-Wells
    • RoJ 379 pp. 123-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
    • CgW 44 p. 125

      Copy, headed An answer to a friend for loving a common Jilt.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 306.

      First published, as A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

      William Congreve, Song from The Maid's Last Prayer. Set by Mr. Purcell, and Sung by Mrs. Ayliff ('Tell me no more I am deceiv'd')
    • RoJ 416 p. 126

      Copy, headed To Phillis.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 441 p. 127

      Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
    • RoJ 172 p. 128

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • RoJ 451 p. 129

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond, Robinson.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
    • RoJ 94 p. 130

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond, Robinson.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
    • RoJ 410 p. 132

      Copy, headed Love a Woman.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
    • RoJ 7 p. 133

      Copy, headed Of Marriage and here beginning Out of stark Love..., with four lines added in another hand.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker (and the additional lines edited, p. 222).

      First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage ('Out of mere love and arrant devotion')
    • RoJ 245 pp. 134-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 15 pp. 137-42

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • DoC 349 pp. 166-75

      Copy.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DrJ 184 pp. 204-5

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Hammond, Robinson, p. 312.

      First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

      John Dryden, Song ('Go tell Amynta gentle Swain')
    • RoJ 342 pp. 205-7

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson. Recorded in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • BeA 3 pp. 214-15

      Copy.

      First published in La Monstre, or, The Lover's Watch (London, 1686). Summers, VI, 29-30.

      Aphra Behn, The Coquet ('Melinda, who had never been')
    • WaE 186 p. 242

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

      Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
    • BeA 17.5 pp. 245-56

      Copy, headed A Pindaric ode on the marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorcett and Middlesex to the Lady Mary Compton and here beginning Whether goeing Damon whether in shuch hast

      First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 350-6. Todd, I, No. 76, pp. 275-80.

      Aphra Behn, A Pastoral Pindarick. On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorset and Middlesex, to the Lady Mary Compton. A Dialogue. Between Damon and Aminta ('Whither, young Damon, whither in such hast')
    • DoC 361.7 pp. 321-8

      Copy, with a side note referring to Copt Hall.

      This MS discussed in Pickering.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')
    • EtG 53 pp. 333-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 318.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • DrJ 207 pp. 337-40

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 318-19.

      First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')
    • EtG 31 pp. 341-3

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 319.

      First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
    • ShJ 163 p. 357

      Copy of the dirge, untitled.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • MaA 459 pp. 358-64

      Copy.

      A note on the collation of this MS in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 319-20.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • MaA 343 pp. 390-405

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham and the poem dated 1667.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 320.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 379 pp. 406-25

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 320.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 410 pp. 426-32

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 320-1.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • DrJ 76 p. 448

      Copy, headed The Queen of May.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 321.

      First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 247-8.

      John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')
    • RoJ 129.8 p. 449

      Copy, headed The following lines spoke ex tempore by the late Lord Rochester, at the Dutchess of Portsmouths and here beginning Monmouth the witty Lauderdale the pretty.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')
    • DrJ 144 pp. 458-60

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 323.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • RoJ 402 p. 463

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

      First published, in a truncated version headed The Expostulation, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart')

  • MS Lt 55

    An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

    c.late 1670s [-1764].

    Inscribed (f. ir) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

    • MaA 201 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed An auncient Prophecy of Notre-dame written originally in frensh & now done into English and dated Bayes Jan. 6th-71°.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
    • MaA 479 ff. 4v-6r

      Copy, headed The 4 or 5 advise to ye Painter. ffeb. 1670/1.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • ShJ 163.5 ff. 9v-10r

      Copy, headed Anglicè, preceded by a Latin version beginning Quid profunt monumenta....

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • MaA 256 f. 10v

      Copy, headed Upon Bloods late attempt of borrowing ye Crowne.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • MaA 87 f. 10v

      Copy.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
    • MaA 236 ff. 10v-12r

      Copy, headed Upon Sr Robt. Vyners setting up of ye King's Statue in Wool=Church Market.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
    • MaA 505 ff. 12v-16v

      Copy, here anonymous and headed The Alarum. Written in November 1669 and sent in a letter to a member of ye house of Commons.

      An unpublished tract, beginning Like the dumb man that found his tongue when he saw an arm lifted up to kill his father.... Discussed as a work of doubtful authorship in Legouis, pp. 470-1.

      Andrew Marvell, The Alarme
    • MaA 439 ff. 24v-6v

      Copy.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • MaA 304 ff. 32r-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')
    • MaA 511 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy, headed The King's speech to ye Parliament 13th of Aprill 1675.

      A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

      Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675
    • MaA 163.91 pp. 35-46

      Copy.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • DoC 326.1 f. 36r

      Copy of the couplet, at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich beginning Par domus haec urbi est, urbs urbi, neutra triumphis and its English translation (The Louvre to Paris, that to ye world compare) followed by the heading Burlesqued by my Ld Buckhurst.

      Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Distich ('This was ye house yt was built by Harris')
    • RoJ 128 f. 36r

      Copy, headed Anglice and following a Latin version.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
    • RoJ 352 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy, headed My Ld. R. verses and here beginning There was a Monarch in all Isle say some.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • MaA 66 ff. 37r-40r

      Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inne and the poem here dated 1674.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • MaA 103 ff. 40v-3v

      Copy, headed A Dialogue, Brittannia, Rawleigh.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • RoJ 104.41 ff. 43v-5v

      Copy, headed The Chronicle.

      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')
    • MaA 145 ff. 46r-9r

      Copy, the poem here dated 1675.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • MaA 519.6 ff. 50r-3r

      Copy.

      Unpublished. A mock-speech, possibly by Marvell, which may perhaps have been confused with The Earl of Shaftesbury's Speech in the House of lords, upon the Debate of Appointing a Day for the hearing Dr Shirley's Cause Oct. 20. 1675. See the discussion in the Introduction.

      Andrew Marvell, The Lord Chancellour's Speech to the Parliament. 20th of October 1673
    • RoJ 342.5 pp. 70-1

      Copy of a version headed My Lord R. verses and beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle say some.

      Edited from this MS in Love, pp. 89-90.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')

  • MS Lt 57

    An octavo miscellany, probably compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, 76 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Mid to late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 30.

    • WiG 9 f. B3r rev.

      Copy of the first stanza, headed Of a great man and here beginning Shall I lye wasting in despare?.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')

  • MS Lt 61

    A quarto verse miscellany, 40 leaves (plus some blanks), in engraved wrappers (with an image of William, Prince of Orange, on horseback, 1650).

    c.1712.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) James Gollop, possibly the compiler.

    • MaA 49 ff. 18v-19r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 50-1. Smith, pp. 150-1.

      Andrew Marvell, Musicks Empire ('First was the World as one great Cymbal made')
    • MaA 60 ff. 24v-5v

      Copy, headed To a Coy Mistress, subscribed Marvell. Misc. Poems. p. 19.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 27-8. Lord, pp. 23-5. Smith, pp. 81-4.

      Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress ('Had we but World enough, and Time')
    • WaE 606 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy, headed Wooing.

      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 324 f. 29r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

      Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')
    • WaE 246 ff. 29v-30r
      No description or publication history available.

      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!')

  • MS Lt 66

    A quarto MS Latin grammar by the pedagogue Lewis Maidwell (1650-1715), in a single immature hand, 73 pages.

    c.1684.

    Once owned by the Lowther family, probably by Sir John Lowther, second baronet (1642-1706), whose two sons Christopher, later third Baronet (c.1666-1731), and James, later fourth Baronet (c.1673-1755), were both pupils of Maidwell at Hatton Garden in the 1680s.

    • DrJ 197.5 f. 1r-v

      Copy, ascribed to J. Drydon.

      Edited from this MS in Hammond & Hopkins, with a complete facsimile in II, after p. 196.

      First described, at some length, in Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 652 (January 1984), item 50. The arguments set forth there were elaborated, and the poem itself first published, by John Barnard and Paul Hammond in Dryden and a poem for Lewis Maidwell, TLS (25 May 1984), p. 586. Correspondence, by Alan Roper and others, partly questioning the attribution, appeared in subsequent issues of the TLS on 8 June (p. 637), 22 June (p. 696) and 29 June (p. 727). Arguments for Dryden's authorship supported in G.J. Clingham, Dryden's New Poem, Essays in Criticism, 35/4 (October 1985), 281-93. The poem is accepted in the canon and edited in Hammond & Hopkins, II, 225-7. Plainly, in view of Dryden's known association with Maidwell and the appropriateness of some of the allusions and sentiments in the poem, there is a strong case for his authorship. On the other hand, the poem is decidedly mediocre: it is questionable whether he would have been capable of writing such a piece in the mid-1680s. Another candidate for J. Drydon offers itself in the form of the poet's cousin Jonathan Dryden (1639-1702), who is known, inter alia, to have written commendatory poems in Latin.

      John Dryden, To Mr. L: Maidwell on his new method ('Latine is now of equal use become')

  • MS Lt 67

    An octavo bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous MSS, largely in one hand.

    Early-mid-18th century.
    • DrJ 242.8 ff. 45v-6v

      Copy, as by Mr Dryden, among a group of Divine Poems.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 308-10.

      John Dryden, Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase ('Creator Spirit, by whose aid')
    • CoA 36.2 ff. 54r-5v

      Copy, headed Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by mr masters of new College in oxford, on two conjugate octavo leaves.

      First published in John Sargeaunt, Annals of Westminster School (London, 1898), p. 282. Reprinted in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley: Sa Vie, Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1931), pp. 648-9.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Behould the silent night with happy birth'

  • MS Lt 71

    An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf.

    c.1690s.

    Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

    • CoA 177.5 f. 38r

      Copy of a version, headed K. Charles I at Oxford being at a sport called Sortes Virgilianae drew for his lot some part of the 4th Eneid about vers 615 and had six verses translated, followed by the original Latin.

      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')
    • CgW 9.8 ff. 40v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

      William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve ('Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis')
    • CgW 21.5 ff. 42r-3r

      Copy, as By Mr Congreve.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems (London, 1692). Dobrée, pp. 237-9. McKenzie, II, 318-20.

      William Congreve, In Imitation of Horace. Ode IX. Lib. I ('Bless me, 'tis cold! how chill the Air!')
    • CgW 51.5 ff. 44r-5v

      Copy.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

      William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')
    • BeA 7.8 f. 48v

      Copy, as by Mrs Behn.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI. Todd, I, 355 (No. 91).

      Aphra Behn, On a Conventicle ('Behold that race, whence England's Woes proceed')
    • CgW 29.5 f. 51r

      Copy, headed The Message, By W. C.

      Published in Works (1710). McKenzie, II, 465.

      William Congreve, The Message ('Go thou unhappy victim')
    • WhA 48 f. 56r

      Copy of lines 47-53, untitled and here beginning But now alas he rules a giddy crowd.

      First published, as Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.

      Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement ('If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind')

  • MS Lt 72

    A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, with loosely inserted leaves.

    c.1724-41.
    • MaA 21 f. 7r-v

      Copy.

      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')

  • MS Lt 78

    A quarto volume of Poems on Several Occasions, Written by Iohn Fountain Gent., in a single hand, 163 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1721.

    The title-page inscribed Liber Georgij Newell emptus 22o Martii Annoque 1720/21 Pretium 3s, and inside the lower cover This Book was paid for the 10th of May Anno Domini 1721. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 17.

    • WiG 10 pp. 158-9

      Copy, headed The Careless Lover, ascribed in another hand to Mr. John Fountain (d.1663).

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')

  • MS Lt 79

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum.

    End of 17th century-1700s.

    In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

    • DeJ 122.2 ff. 81r-95v

      Copy, as written by John Denham Esq., subscribed Aprill 21th. Finis. Anno. 1651.

      First published in London, 1651.

      Sir John Denham, The Anatomy of Play
    • CoA 292 f. 126v

      Extract from The Mistresse.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • HrJ 234.1 ff. 129v-30r

      Copy, headed The Holy Sisters and here beginning Six holy sisters of ye purest Sect.

      First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

      Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
    • DoC 206.5 ff. 133v-4r

      Copy, headed Dorset on Dorshester.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')

  • MS Lt 80

    Two quarto volumes of poems, translations and other material, including (with title-page f. 53r) Poems & Translations. by Hugh Wormington. A.D, 1718, in a single hand, probably autograph, 216 leaves, both volumes in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1715-23.

    Inscribed (f. 3r) Ex Libris Hugonis Wormington S2. C. D. Anno Dom 1715, and (f. 1r) Presented by The Marchioness De Crequy To Randle Jackson. With Jackson's bookplate.

    • ShW 44.9 I, f. 7r-v

      Copy of Hamlet's To be or not to be speech, headed Futurity, subscribed Shak. Hamt.

      First published in London, 1603.

    • CoA 63.5 I, ff. 14v-15r

      Copy of the last twelve lines, beginning It grieves me when I see what Fate.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 59-62.

      Abraham Cowley, Elegie upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a Grape-Stone ('How shall I lament thine end')
    • CoA 170.5 I, f. 15v

      Copy of the last fourteen lines of the 9th canto, beginning Art lives on Nature's Alms is weak and poor.

      First published in Pindarique Odes (London, 1668). Waller, I, 157-62.

      Abraham Cowley, The Second Olympique Ode of Pindar ('Queen of all Harmonious things')
    • CoA 62.5 I, f. 126v

      Copy, beginning at stanza 5, here beginning Thou first perhapps who didst the fault commit, in the middle of a prose Longwinded Epistle...sent by a faire Lady from the Feather Tavern in Clarkenwell to exercise a wild fancy.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 147-8.

      Abraham Cowley, Dialogue ('What have we done? what cruel passion mov'd thee')

  • MS Lt 84

    A small (?sextodecimo) notebook comprising chiefly religious poems and prayers, written from both ends, 94 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1715.
    • HuF 13 ff. 14r, 21v-5v

      Series of extracts, the first untitled and beginning Thus fares it wth or Fortune & or state; the second headed Humility and beginning Storms rage more fiercely on ye Hills ye Dales; the third headed The Humble contented man and beginning Happy thrice Happy is that sweet estate.

      First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

      Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

      Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')
    • SpE 27.1 f. 18r

      Copy of a version of II, 17-22, beginning Life have I worn out thrice thirty years.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

      Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time ('It chaunced me on day beside the shore')

  • MS Lt 86

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (including blanks), in a paper wrapper.

    c.1690s.

    Sotheby's, 20 July 1989, lot 36.

    • SiP 118.8 f. 5v

      Copy, headed demetrius on dorus, in Sr: Philp sidneys Arca, 1671.

      Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 ('Now thanked be the great God Pan')
    • DrJ 267.65 ff. 9r-11r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

  • MS Lt 87

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt.

    c.1680s.

    Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.

    • MaA 139.9 ff. 25r-7r

      Copy.

      First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

      First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')
    • DoC 49.5 ff. 27v-30r

      Copy, headed Satyre.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • MaA 205 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy of a version headed Nostredamus A Propesy and beginning Her faults, and Follies London doom shall fix.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
    • DrJ 43.89 ff. 37r-44r

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 232.5 f. 60r

      Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 6, untitled.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • DoC 322.5 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Tho Religions an Pollitick Law.

      Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons ('Religion's a politic law')

  • MS Lt 91

    An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf.

    c.1620-late 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. 31v) Henry Gould his Book 1620. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.

    • WiG 12.5 f. 9r

      Extracts.

      First published, with preliminary material including a dedication to Chares I, in London, 1628. Spenser Society, Nos 28-29 (1980; reprinted in New York, 1967).

      George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer ('One Storm is past, & though some clouds appear')
    • SoR 210.8 f. 36v

      Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning We trample grass & prize ye flowers of [May].

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')
    • SoR 116.8 f. 51r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')
    • SoR 122.5 f. 52r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')
    • SoR 210.6 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')
    • SoR 90.8 f. 53r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')
    • SoR 242.5 f. 54r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
    • SoR 44.8 ff. 54v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi ('In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone')
    • SoR 12.5 f. 55r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe ('As I in hoarie Winters night')
    • SoR 198.8 ff. 56r-7v

      Copy of Part of St Peters Plaint, beginning at line 637 (here Ah sin ye nothing yt doth all things file; of hell).

      First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint ('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares')
    • WiG 25.8 f. 61r

      Copy.

      First published, with preliminary material, in London, 1648. Spenser Society, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. Fourth Collection, pp. 1-117.

      George Wither, Prosopopæia Britannica: Britans Genius, or Good-Angel ('When, in his might, the Dogstar, raigned here')
    • SoR 242.8 f. 61v

      Copy of the last two lines, untitled and beginning Unmedled joys here to no man befall.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
    • RnT 179.6 f. 62r

      A version of the nineteenth century precept.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

      Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations ('First worship God, he that forgets to pray')
    • CnC 41.5 f. 96r-v

      Extracts, 34 lines in all.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 36-44. Beresford, pp. 318-22.

      Charles Cotton, The Joys of Marriage ('How uneasy is his life')
    • ShJ 139 ff. 144r-66v

      Copy of the whole play, but imperfect, lacking the last few pages, probably transcribed from the first edition.

      First published in London, 1659. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 369-97.

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles
    • DrJ 189.5 f. 164v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.

      John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ('From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony')
    • RaW 273.5 f. 168r

      Copy, headed In vitam.

      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')

  • MS Lt 93

    A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards.

    Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name Sarah Bignell, possibly the principal compiler.

    c.1750-70 [plus later additions].

    Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.

    • PsK 553.5 f. 6v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

      Katherine Philips, The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')
    • WoH 191.5 f. 15v

      Copy, headed Epitaph on two Lovers, who were contracted, both dying before Marriage.

      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')
    • MoG 35 f. 46r-v

      Copy, headed On K. James 1st. and here beginning He that hath eyes, now wake and weep.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • CwT 23.5 f. 63v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

      Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')

  • MS Lt 94

    An exemplum of the octavo Fifth printed edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686) with MS copies of ten further poems by him written on various pages in a single hand, varying in degrees of neatness, in contemporary calf.

    End of 17th century.

    Scribbling (on the title-page and verso) including the names Tho: Trevor and [?] Herbert Lloyd, and with the bookplate of The Honble Tho: Trevor. Esqr. A slip pasted on the calf cover bearing the name Elianore Mary below the monogram EMR.

    The bookplate is presumably that (between 1712 and 1730) of Thomas Trevor (c.1692-1753), second Baron Trevor of Bromham, son of Thomas, first Baron (1658-1730), Lord Chief Justice &c., whose grandfather was Edmund Waller's first cousin and neighbour, the statesman John Hampden (1594-1643). Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 288.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1997) as the Trevor volume: WaE Δ 16.

    • WaE 58 the verso of the frontispiece

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, An Epigram on a Painted Lady with Ill Teeth ('Were men so dull they could not see')
    • WaE 64 the recto of the second endpaper

      Copy.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114-15.

      Edmund Waller, Epitaph on the Lady Sedley ('Here lies the learned Savil's heir')
    • WaE 113 front paste-down

      Copy.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

      Edmund Waller, Long and Short Life ('Circles are praised, not that abound')
    • WaE 347 verso of the second end-paper and the end paste-down

      Copy of a 47-line version, headed On ye D of M's expedition into Scotland in ye summer.

      The text corresponds with lines 1-38, 46-7, 39-45 (and lacking lines 49-50) of Thorn-Drury's printed version.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 84-5.

      Edmund Waller, On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice, 1679 ('Swift as Jove's messenger, the winged god')
    • WaE 372 front paste-down

      Copy of lines 11-16, headed The continuation of the poem On the picture of a fair youth taken after he was dead. page 230: [i.e. supplying missing lines in the printed text which are there represented by the remark The rest is lost], the lines here beginning No wonder then he sped in Love so well.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.

      Edmund Waller, On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead ('As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new')
    • WaE 378 front paste-down and both sides of the flyleaf

      Copy of lines 63-156, 173-88, written in an irregular sequence, some verses sideways down the margin, and without a heading.

      First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

      Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
    • WaE 409 end paste-down

      Copy.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114.

      Edmund Waller, Pride ('Not the brave Macedonian youth alone')
    • WaE 429 verso of the first end-paper

      Copy, headed A copy of Verses written by Mr Waller, above forty years since, & never printed in any edition of his Poems.

      Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection Review 1991-94 (Leeds. 1996), p. 9.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
    • WaE 536 verso of the frontispiece

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 122.

      Edmund Waller, To Chloris ('Chloris! what's eminent, we know')
    • WaE 704 recto of the first end-paper

      Copy.

      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')

  • MS Lt 95

    Series of verse translations, in a single hand, written as annotations to Octavius, or a dialogue betwixt a Christian and an Infidel. From the original of M. Minutius Felix [...] by William Cooke MA, Vicar of Enford in Wiltshire and Rector of Oldbury and Dedmarton in Gloucestershire.

    c.1750.

    Inscribed name of William Cooke.

    • CoA 28.5 f. 42v

      Extract.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656).

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. III. Beauty

  • MS Lt 96

    A verse miscellany.

    Mid-late 18th century.
    • DrJ 2.8 f. 2v

      A version of lines 686-91, 232-43.

      First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

      John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')

  • MS Lt 98

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1684 with a series of sixteen MS poems by one Joseph Sparrow, with other didactic material giving advice to children, etc., on four flyleaves and sig. Q4v.

    1705-6.

    Other inscribed names of John Story, Durant, John Cready, Jo Hendy, and Ann Richards. Christie's, 24 August 1973.

    • JoE 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, edited by Thomas Goad, London, 1624.

      Elizabeth Jocelin, The mother's legacie, to her unborne childe

  • MS Lt 100

    A quarto commonplace book containing original and transcribed verse and prose, with references to theatrical performances by Garrick, Mrs Siddons and others at York and elsewhere, in several hands, written from both ends, 119 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Late 18th century.
    • DrJ 43.4 f. 106r rev.

      Copy, headed Epitaph on a young Lady, subscribed J. S.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 845. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 243-4.

      John Dryden, An Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore ('Fair, Kind, and True, a Treasure each alone')

  • MS Lt 106

    A miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, including tipped-in printed matter.

    Mid-late 18th century.
    • WoH 218.5 f. 144r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 540, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Epigram ('If breath was made for every man to buy')

  • MS Lt 110

    An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

    1726-c.1768.

    The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

    Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

    • CgW 38.5 ff. 1r-4r

      Copy, headed Absence, on rectos only.

      First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, p. 241 and McKenzie, II, 322 (both as Absence and beginning Ah! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 4-8.

      William Congreve, Song ('Alas! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves')
    • RoJ 325.5 ff. 1v-18v

      Copy of a 198-line version, headed A Satire on Man, as by L--R, written lengthways down the pages on versos only.

      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)')
    • CgW 45.25 ff. 9r, 10r

      Copy, headed To a Candle.

      Summers, IV, 45.2. McKenzie, II, 376.

      William Congreve, To a Candle Elegy ('Thou watchful Taper, by whose silent Light')
    • RoJ 325.8 ff. 12r-16r

      Copy of lines 60-71, headed Man, here beginning Bless'd glorious Man, to whom alone kind heaven, incorporated (as lines 1-12) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

      Edited from this MS in Hammond's EMS article.

      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)')
    • PsK 571.5 ff. 14r, 15r

      Copy of lines 7-12, 15-16, 21-2, 27-30, 33-4, 45-56, 59-62, 65-6, and 69-70, incorporated (as lines 25-60) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

      Edited from this MS in Hammond's EMS article.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

      Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
    • RoJ 591.5 ff. 33v-8v

      Copy, headed Upon Nothing. A Poem by D B: [Duke of Buckingham] & E Roc, written lengthways down the page.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • CgW 30.8 ff. 39r-43v

      Copy, headed Of Pleasing: An Epistle to Sr Rd. T---e, written lengthways down the pages.

      Summers, IV, 148-51. McKenzie, II, 406-9.

      William Congreve, Of Pleasing; an Epistle To Sir Richard Temple (''Tis strange, dear Temple, how it comes to pass')
    • CgW 46.8 ff. 44r-46r

      Copy, headed To Sleep. an Elegy, on rectos only.

      First published in Works (1710). Summers, IV, 144-5. McKenzie, II, 372-3.

      William Congreve, To Sleep Elegy ('O Sleep! thou Flatterer of happy Minds')
    • RoJ 271.8 f. 52r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8, in his Appendix Roffensis.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Plain Dealings Downfall ('Long time plain dealing in the Hauty Town')
    • RoJ 231.5 f. 53r

      Copy, headed Romes Pardons.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • RoJ 89.5 f. 60r

      Copy of lines 89-100, headed Fame and here beginning There's not a thing on Earth that I can Name.

      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 163.5 f. 69r-v

      Copy of lines 40-49.

      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')

  • MS Lt 114

    A quarto commonplace book, written from both ends, unnumbered pages, in contemporary vellum rebound in modern vellum.

    Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.

    • StW 207.5 f. [iiir]

      Copy, headed Uppon Justification.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

      William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
    • JnB 642.5 ff. [iiiv]-[ivv]

      Copy, headed The Divell feasted.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
    • CoA 24.8 f. 1r

      Copy of an abbreviated version, untitled.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

      Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • FuT 5.23 [unspecified page numbers]

      Extracts.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

  • MS Lt 123

    An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations of classical texts, predominantly in one clear hand up to p. 151, with additions in other hands over a period, written from both ends, 273 pages (plus a number of blanks), in half-calf marbled boards.

    Early 18th century.
    • BcF 38.8 pp. 63-5

      Copy, headed The World. a fit recitation for Evening.

      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'
    • BrT 0.7 pp. 65-6

      Copy, headed A Night Poem.

      First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God ('The night is come like to the day')
    • RnT 392.5 pp. 99-100

      Copy, headed Upon one that had lost his little 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')
    • RnT 181.5 ff. 100r-4r

      Copy of 21 Precepts.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

      Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations ('First worship God, he that forgets to pray')
    • CgW 45.3 pp. 243-5

      Copy, headed To Cynthia weeping & not Speaking by Mr Congreve / Elegy.

      First published in Dryden's Miscellany (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 103. McKenzie, II, 367-8.

      William Congreve, To Cynthia Weeping and not speaking. Elegy ('Why are those Hours, which Heav'n in Pity lent')

  • MS Lt q 5

    A large folio volume of poems attributed to Henry Hall (1656?-1707), largely in a probably professional hand, 113 leaves, in contemporary quarter-vellum marbled boards.

    c.1710-20?.
    • PsK 577.3 p. 50

      Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed By Mrs. Katherine Philipps and here beginning If Justice be a thing divine, followed by Hall's Answer recasting her lines, beginning Bright Justice is a thing divine.

      This MS recorded in Thoma, I, 315.

      Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song ('See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride')

  • MS Lt q 9

    A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Compiled principally by one Jo. Tempest.

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed inside the front cover G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.

    • RaW 74 f. 17r

      Copy, untitled, indexed (f. 13v) as Verses made by Sir walter Rawleigh.

      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'
    • BcF 54.931 ff. 53r-4v

      Extracts.

      First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
    • HyJ 16 f. 65r

      Copy, in triple columns, headed In praise of a gentlewoma.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

      John Heywood, A song in praise of a Ladie ('Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone')

  • MS Lt q 11

    A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

    Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

    • DoC 350 No. 1

      Copy, on three folio leaves.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • HeR 350 No. 29

      Copy, headed The kinge of ffairies Dresse on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      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')
    • DoC 50 No. 30

      Copy, in double columns, headed Satyr, with annotations, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • PsK 46 No. 32

      Copy, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 267 No. 33

      Copy, originally untitled, the heading Vpon the Kings coming in. 1660 added in another hand, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

      Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')
    • DrJ 143 No. 39

      Copy, headed The Prologue to ye Prophetess by Mr Dryden, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed 1690 May Mr Drydens Prologue to the Prophetesse.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • MoG 36 No. 46

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed On ye late Kinge, on one side of a single long folio leaf.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • BmF 76 No. 50

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ff B, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      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')
    • JnB 243 No. 51

      Copy, in a small neat hand, in double columns, headed An Execration on Vulcan and docketed By Ben Johnson, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')

  • MS Lt q 16

    Killigrew's own annotated printed exemplum of Four New Playes (London, 1666) bound with The Imperial Tragedy (London, 1669), a small folio, in contemporary vellum.

    1666-1669.

    Once owned by Arthur Annesley (1614-86), first Earl of Anglesey, book collector, and by Alexander Thistlethwayte (1718-71). The title-page inscribed Thos. Baker Md. A tipped-in leaf at the rear inscribed Sr: Edward: Buttler: his: Book:. Sotheby's, 11-13 March 1884, lot 1237, to Robson. Sotheby's, 13 June 1966, lot 12.

    Discussed in John Horden, Sir William Killigrew's Four New Playes (1666) with his Imperial Tragedy (1669): A Second Annotated Copy, The Library, 6th Ser. 6 (1984), 271-5, and, with collations, in John Horden and J.P. Vander Motten, Five New Playes: Sir William Killigrew's Two Annotated Copies, The Library, 6th Ser., 11/3 (September 1989), 253-71.

    • *KiW 14 [Item 1]
      Autograph

      Autograph revisions and additions to the printed text, including an autograph full page on sig. *4v and autograph leaves tipped-in after pp. 4 and 32.

      The annotations collated in Horden & Vander Motten.

      First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).

      Sir William Killigrew, The Siege of Urbin
    • *KiW 6 [Item 2]
      Autograph

      A few minor autograph additions to the printed text and a leaf tipped-in after p. 58 with an autograph Epilogue (beginning Our Author sent his Epelogue so late).

      First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

    • *KiW 3 [Item 3]
      Autograph

      A few minor autograph revisions to the printed text.

      First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

      Sir William Killigrew, Ormasdes or Love and Friendship
    • *KiW 5 [Item 4]
      Autograph

      Several autograph lines added down the margin of the printed text on p. 8 and two autograph lines added similarly on p. 44.

      First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

    • *KiW 1 [Item 5]
      Autograph

      Copious autograph revisions to the printed text, including several lines rewritten in the Prologue, thirteen lines deleted on p. 43 with an explanatory note signed W: K:, thirteen new lines on a tipped-in slip of paper after p. 47, and signature on p. 51 Wm: Killigrew.

      Facsimile of p. 43 in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds (Leeds, 1986), No. 10.

      First published London, 1669.

      Sir William Killigrew, The Imperial Tragedy

  • MS Lt q 18

    A volume containing parallel translations from Latin of Martial's Epigrams, Other epigrammes ancient and moderne, Epigrammes or sentences epigrammelike out of classical heathen authors, and the anonymous author's own epigrams, in a single hand, with some emendations.

    c.1650.
    • HrJ 268.8 f. 5v

      Copy, headed Prosperous treason.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')

  • MS Lt q 20

    A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 96 leaves, in modern boards.

    Entitled (f. 4r) A Collection of Verses upon Several Occasions by Several Hands. Begun March 26th: 1732 / W: Jermy 1732.

    c.1732-41.
    • ElQ 22 f. 76v

      Copy of a garbled version, with a long preamble beginning A Copy of Verses by Queen Elizabeth; on occasion of her first uneasiness, concerning Mary Queen of Scots..., the poem here beginning Watchful, to shun those Snares wch: wd: my peace destroy.

      A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'

  • MS Lt q 23

    Twelve unbound quarto leaves, in a single hand, f. 11v inscribed at the foot Dec. 1678.

    1678.

    Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.

    • DaW 40 ff. 1r-10v

      Copy of a version comprising an introductory Argument and first stanza (beginning The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, the whole preceded by a lengthy explanation: The Following Poem I found not alltogether, but gleand it up, out of Severall Papers. Among my Ld Mordaunts Papers, I found, thus. Sr Wm Davenant out of Complemt sent me severall Cantos of ye. 2d Part of Gondibert...I dissuaded ye Printing...I could never find out ye whole Canto, but believe I want now only ye 9 Stanzas after ye first....

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

      Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian ('Before by death you newer knowledge gain')
    • DaW 1 ff. 11r-12r

      Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Astragon dying, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, the whole preceded by a note: At the End of a Quarto Gondibert printed Anno 1651. & given by ye Author to a Friend, I found these stanzas written by his own hand, & subscibd with his name. Will Davenant....

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 196-8.

      Sir William Davenant, The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher ('The Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown')

  • MS Lt q 32

    A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf.

    Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82.

    c.1655-61.

    Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

    Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

    • PuH 27 f. 1r

      Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Honor I have I want no heartly pellt'
    • PuH 41 f. 1r

      Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Marvall not my names conceald'
    • PuH 25 ff. 3r-4r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Eclips ('Why doe those frowning vapours interpose')
    • PuH 34 ff. 4v-7r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The invitation into the Countrey to my D.D. MP: PP 1647 when his Sacred Majtie: was at unhappy home ('Deare daughters come make hast away')
    • PuH 7 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Aurora ('Lovely Aurora, o how Heavenly faire')
    • PuH 19 ff. 8v-10r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of Kings was imprisoned by the worst of Rebels at Holmbie ('Late in an evening as I walk'd alone')
    • PuH 49 f. 10r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Of Night and Morning ('Night's like the Grave wherein wee lie forelorn')
    • PuH 99 ff. 10v-13r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Universal dissolusion, made when I was with Child of my 15th: child I being my sonne John very one thought in a Consumption 1648 ('My Soule why art thou sad at the decay')
    • PuH 58 ff. 13v-15r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On those two unparraleld friends, Sr: G: Lisle and Sr C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester ('Is Lisle and Lucas Slaine? Oh Say not soe')
    • PuH 52 ff. 15v-16r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On that Unparraleld Prince Charles the first: his Horrid Muther ('Those glittring Globes of light which grace')
    • PuH 101 ff. 16v-17v

      Copy, with an inserted note identifying J P as Jane Pulter, baptized May 1. 1625, buried oct 8 1645, aet. 20.

      Facsimile of f. 17v in Robson, p. 240.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Vpon the Death of my deare and lovely daughter J P ('All you that haue indulgent Parents been')
    • PuH 56 ff. 17v-18v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 250-1, with a facsimile of f. 17v on p. 240.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On the Same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter J P] ('Tell mee noe more her haire was lovly brown')
    • PuH 26 ff. 19r-32v

      Copy, the name Pulter in the title deleted.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Garden, or The Contention of fflowers, To my Dear Daughter Mris Anne [Pulter] at her desire written ('Once in my Garden as a lone I lay')
    • PuH 102 f. 33r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd Prince King Charles the ffirst ('Why I sit sighing here ask mee noe more')
    • PuH 54 f. 34r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On the Horrid Murther of that incomparable Prince, King Charles the ffirst ('Let none presume to weep, tears are to weak')
    • PuH 57 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First] ('Let none sigh more for Lucas or for Lisle')
    • PuH 61 ff. 36r-7v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Revolution ('Oh thou which Circumvolveth all')
    • PuH 12 f. 38r-v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle ('In sighs and tears there is noe end')
    • PuH 23 f. 38v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The desire ('Dear God, vouchsafe from thy High Throne')
    • PuH 107 f. 39r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Welcom ('Dear Death thou'rt welcom to my troubled soul')
    • PuH 22 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy, untitled.

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Dear God turn not away thy fface'
    • PuH 14 f. 40v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle ('Those that ye hidden Chimick Art pfess')
    • PuH 94 f. 41r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora ('Faire Rosie Virgin when wilt thou Arise')
    • PuH 93 f. 41v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, To Astrea ('Thou blessed Birth of the Celestiall Morn')
    • PuH 15 f. 42v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle ('To bee unwilling or afraid to die')
    • PuH 95 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora ('Look up sad eyes behould the smileing Morn')
    • PuH 55 f. 44r-v

      Copy, the heading in another hand.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On the kinges most exelent magisty K Charles ye 1st ('Victorious palm triumphing lawrell boughs')
    • PuH 47 f. 46r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, My Souls Sole desire ('Thou that didst on the Chaos move')
    • PuH 11 ff. 46v-7v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Center ('Oh that the Splendent & Illustrious Sun')
    • PuH 38 f. 48r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Made when I was Sick 1647 ('Oh mee! how sore, how sad is my poor heart')
    • PuH 2 ff. 48v-51r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Alitheas Pearl ('ffair Alithea (when I was A Girle)')
    • PuH 108 f. 51v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Welcome ('Death come and welcome thou'rt my Ancient friend')
    • PuH 96 ff. 52r-3r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora ('Why doth Pale Phoebe thus her bevty shrowd')
    • PuH 60 ff. 53r-4r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Pismire ('Walking a broad once in a Sumers day')
    • PuH 13 f. 54v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle ('The eternall Spirit of Life and Love')
    • PuH 17 f. 56r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, To my Deare J P: M: P:, P:P: They beeing at London, I at Bradfield ('Come my Deare Children to this lonely Place')
    • PuH 59 ff. 57r-8r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The perfection of Patience and Knowledg ('My soul in strugling thou dost Jll')
    • PuH 46 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'My Soul why art thou full of trouble'
    • PuH 35 ff. 59v-62v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The invocation of the Elements the longest Night in the Year 1655 ('Have patience my aflicted soul')
    • PuH 48 ff. 62v-4r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Of A young Lady at Oxford 1646 ('A Noble pair in Love without Compare')
    • PuH 64 ff. 64v-7r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, A solitary discoars ('How canst thou heavie bee now shee apears')
    • PuH 91 ff. 67r-8v

      Copy, the name Pulter deleted in the title, the date 1655 written as a corrective sidenote in a different hand.

      Lady Hester Pulter, This was written 1648 when I Lay Inn, with my Son John [Pulter] beeing my 15 Child I beeing soe weak that in Ten dayes and Nights I never moued my Head one Jot from my Pillow, out of which great weaknes my gracious God restored me; that I still Live to magnifie his Mercie 1665 ('Sad, Sick, and Lame, as in my Bed I lay')
    • PuH 36 ff. 68v-70v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Larke ('See how Arachne doth her Howres Pass')
    • PuH 118 f. 71r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Why art thou sad at the aproach of Night'
    • PuH 31 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Immense ffount of Truth, Life, Love, joy, Glory'
    • PuH 44 f. 72v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'My Heart why dost thou Throb soe in my breast'
    • PuH 37 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Made when I was not well. April 20. 1655 ('My Soul why dost thou such a mourning make')
    • PuH 120 f. 74r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Wish ('Oh that I were a Sun that I might Send')
    • PuH 100 f. 74v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Upon the Crown Imperiall ('Why doth the Tears stand in the Orient eyes')
    • PuH 63 f. 75r-v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, A Solitary Complainte ('Must I bee still confind to this Sad Grove')
    • PuH 24 ff. 77r-8r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, A Dialogue between two Sisters Virgins bewailing their solitary life, P:P:, f.p. ('Come my deare sister sit with mee a while')
    • PuH 119 ff. 79r-81r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Why must I thus for ever bee confin'd'
    • PuH 45 f. 82r-v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, My Loue is Fair ('And is thy Love soe Wonderous ffair')
    • PuH 97 ff. 83r-4r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Sr: Wm: D: Upon the unspeakable Loss of the most conspicuous and chief Ornament of his ffrontispiece ('Sir / Extreamly I deplore your loss')
    • PuH 106 f. 84v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The weepeinge wishe January .1665 ('O that the tears that tricle from mine eyes')
    • PuH 53 f. 85r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 246-7, with a facsimile of f. 85r on p. 241.

      Lady Hester Pulter, On the Fall of that Grand Rebel the Earl of Essex his Effigies in Harry the 7th's Chappel in Westminster Abby ('When that Fierce Monster had usurp'd the Place')
    • PuH 21 f. 86r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Dear God from thy high Throne look down'
    • PuH 5 f. 87r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of f. 87r in Robson, p. 242.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'And must the sword this controverse deside'
    • PuH 28 f. 88r

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Hope January :1665: ('Deare Death desolve theise mortall charms')
    • PuH 39 f. 88v

      Copy.

      Lady Hester Pulter, Made when my spirits were sunk very low with sickness & sorrow. May 1667 I being seventy one years old ('Droop not my soul, nor hang the Wing')
    • PuH 113 f. 91r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When Mighty Nimrade Hunting after fame'
    • PuH 16 ff. 91v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Come my Dear Children come and Happy bee'
    • PuH 104 f. 93r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Vertue once in the Olympicks fought a duell'
    • PuH 80 ff. 93v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Manucodiats as Authors write'
    • PuH 98 ff. 94v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Two Mountebancks contended for A Stage'
    • PuH 77 f. 95v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Indian Mooze three Young at once doth bear'
    • PuH 29 f. 96r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'How fast this creature runs upon the earth'
    • PuH 116 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When scornd Medea saw Cruesa led'
    • PuH 65 f. 97v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Some Birds their bee sure they noe love doe lack'
    • PuH 73 f. 98r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Dubious Raven doth her young forsake'
    • PuH 90 f. 98v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'This vast Leviathan Whose Breathing blows'
    • PuH 82 f. 99r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Porcupine went Ruffling in his pride'
    • PuH 32 ff. 99v-100r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'In Africa about the ffountain's brink'
    • PuH 71 f. 100v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Cruel Tiger Swiftly on doth Pass'
    • PuH 70 f. 101r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Cockatrice as vulgarly receiv'd'
    • PuH 112 ff. 101v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When God (who is to Mercie most inclin'd)'
    • PuH 74 ff. 102v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Eliphant when Radiant Sol doth rise'
    • PuH 117 ff. 103v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile and transcription of f. 104r in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 390-1.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Who can but pitty this poor Turtle Dove'
    • PuH 121 ff. 104v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'You that love Poppit Playes, Masks, Court Buffoons'
    • PuH 76 f. 105r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The hunted hart when shee begins to Tire'
    • PuH 84 ff. 106r-7v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Toad and Spider once would trie the might'
    • PuH 81 f. 107r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Marmottanes for Unitie's renownd'
    • PuH 10 f. 107v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Behold this flying ffish with shineing Wings'
    • PuH 92 f. 108r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Those that imployed are the Apes to catch'
    • PuH 83 ff. 108v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Stately Mooz being mounted up the hill'
    • PuH 103 ff. 109v-10r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Vain Erostratus was soe fond of ffame'
    • PuH 72 f. 110r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Cuckoes constitution's cold shee knows'
    • PuH 89 f. 111r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'This Ugly Sow descendent of that Bore'
    • PuH 51 ff. 111v-12r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Old Esculus being told that hee should die'
    • PuH 78 f. 112r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Lion Roars his vassals fear and tremble'
    • PuH 20 f. 113r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Could this ffell Catablepe lift up her head'
    • PuH 40 f. 113v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Mark but those Hogs wch underneath yond tree'
    • PuH 62 f. 114r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Seest thou this Horizentall Bird whose eyes'
    • PuH 18 ff. 114v-15r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Come my Dear Pledges of our Constant Loves'
    • PuH 9 f. 115r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Behold how many Cobwebs doth invest'
    • PuH 79 f. 116r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Lyon that of late soe Domineer'd'
    • PuH 3 f. 117r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'All Creatures then the Dolphin are more slow'
    • PuH 105 f. 118r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'View but this Tulip, Rose, or July fflower'
    • PuH 75 f. 119r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Estrich with her gallant gaudy plumes'
    • PuH 87 f. 120r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'This huge Leviathan for all his Strength'
    • PuH 88 ff. 120v-1v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'This Stately Ship Courted by Winds & Tide'
    • PuH 68 ff. 121v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Brackman th'angrie Deities to appeas'
    • PuH 6 ff. 122v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Aristominus his Strang Ambiguous ffate'
    • PuH 33 f. 123r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'In Ments[?] when Corn was grown excessive dear'
    • PuH 109 f. 124r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When as that Geniall Universall ffire'
    • PuH 115 ff. 124v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When royal ffergus Line did rule this Realm'
    • PuH 1 f. 125r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'A Ruffian Rustick Clambring up a Tree'
    • PuH 114 f. 126r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When Phalaris for Tiranny soe ffam'd'
    • PuH 110 f. 126v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When Brittish Brennus Sack'd that Noble Citty'
    • PuH 69 f. 127r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'The Caucasines with Locusts were anoy'd'
    • PuH 111 ff. 128r-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'When fair Aurora drest with raidient Light'
    • PuH 4 f. 130r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'An old Man through a Town did often pass'
    • PuH 86 f. ir rev.

      Copy, untitled.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'There is one black & sullen hour'
    • PuH 122 ff. 1r-36v rev.

      Copy, headed (f. 1r rev.) The unfortunate Florinda Written by the Noble Hadrassas The first Part, The Second Part beginning on f. 32r rev., incomplete.

      An unfinished prose romance, in two parts, beginning When that voluptuous Prince Roderigo had driven his Infant Nephew and King....

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda
    • PuH 123 ff. 32Ar-43Ar

      Copy of The Second Part of the Unfortunate fflorinda, a sheaf of twelve folio leaves in a separate folder.

      An unfinished prose romance, in two parts, beginning When that voluptuous Prince Roderigo had driven his Infant Nephew and King....

      Lady Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda
    • PuH 66 f. 130Ar-v

      Copy, on a leaf in a separate folder.

      Lady Hester Pulter, 'Somnus why art thou still to mee unkinde'

  • MS Lt q 36

    A folio MS of poems and a prose text by Daniel, in a single neat italic hand, ten leaves, in paper wrappers.

    c.1616.

    Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.

    Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.

    • DaS 24 ff. 1r-4r

      Copy of a 236-line verse epistle, composed c.1609-10.

      First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

      Samuel Daniel, To Prince Henrie ('Theare be great Prince, such as will tell you how')
    • DaS 25 ff. 4v-5v

      Copy of a 96-line verse epistle probably to Sir Robert Carr (or Kerr), later first Earl of Ancrum (1578-1654), composed c. 1610.

      First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

      Samuel Daniel, To Sr. H. C. ('Whereas you doe out of the lardg extent')
    • DaS 26 ff. 6-8

      Copy of a 152-line verse epistle to Lady Anne Harington (d.1620), mother of Lucy, Countess of Bedford, composed c.1614-15.

      Facsimile of f. 7r also in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds (Leeds, 1986), No. 7.

      First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

      Samuel Daniel, To the Ladye Harrington ('Great are the afflictions, you haue mett withall')
    • DaS 17 ff. 8v-10

      Copy of a verse epistle probably to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (1581-1627), composed c.1615, here comprising 118 lines but lacking the beginning (for which a space for about a dozen lines has been left) and a heading.

      First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

      Samuel Daniel, '...If your forenone hath faild you, why should you'
    • DaS 30 f. 10r-v

      Copy of a 330-word address probably to Sir Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (d.1645), beginning Although this worke of myne had not heretofore the fate to be continued…, composed c.May-June 1616.

      First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

      Samuel Daniel, [Apology]

  • MS Lt q 38

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &ca. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality, 298 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Early 18th century.

    From the library of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and possibly once belonging to Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

    • DrJ 235 p. 29

      Copy, headed On Dundee 1689. By Mr Dryden.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
    • DoC 297 pp. 93-5

      Copy, headed An Excellent new Ballad, giving a true Accot. of the Birth and Conception of a Late famous Poem call'd The Female Nine. To the tune of Packingtons Pound., following a copy of The Female Nine 1693 on pp. 87-93.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
    • DoC 180 p. 159

      Copy, headed On the Countess of Dorc-r. 1694.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • DoC 206 p. 160

      Copy, headed Another on the same Lady By E. D-t.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
    • CgW 17 pp. 178-9

      Copy, headed A hugh and cry after fair Amoret. 1696 By E. D--t.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • VaJ 2.5 pp. 248-9

      Copy, the poem here dated 1698.

      This MS recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as Sir George Etherege, EtG 112.

      First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival ('Of all the Torments, all the Cares')
    • VaJ 10 pp. 249-50

      Copy, the poem here dated 1698.

      First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair ('Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse')
    • DoC 326.997 p. 288

      Copy.

      First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')

  • MS Lt q 39

    Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions entered in another hand, on two conjugate leaves; imperfect.

    The original title To the right honorable the Ladie Margaret Countesse of Cumberland deleted and the epistle retitled in the second hand [M]y La: El: H. [i.e. Lady Elizabeth Hatton] seate & prospect on the Isle of Purbecke.

    c.1600-7.

    From the papers of the North family.

    Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile in Arthur Freeman, An Epistle for Two, The Library, 5th Ser. 25 (1970), 226-36; discussed further by Freeman and I.A. Shapiro in The Library, 26 (1971), 63-4; 28 (1973), 333-7 (suggesting dates of composition and revision between 1598 and 1619).

    • DaS 27
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, with A Panegyrike Congratulatorie to the Kings Maiestie, in Certaine Epistles [London, 1603]. Grosart, I, 203-7. Sprague, pp. 111-15.

      Samuel Daniel, To the Ladie Margaret Countesse of Cumberland ('He that of such a height hath built his minde')

  • MS Lt q 44

    A folio volume of verse, some of it relating to the Cecil family, in a professional secretary hand up to f. 47r, with additions in two other hands thereafter, 60 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1626-40s.

    Inscribed At Leith the 4 June 1649 Ro: Carre. Later owned by Professor Douglas Grant (1921-69). Sotheby's, 20-21 July 1981, lot 493, to Quaritch.

    Discussed in Tom Lockwood, All Hayle to Hatfield: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44, ELR, 38, No 2 (Spring 2008), 270-303.

    • DrW 117.39 ff. 1r-2r

      Copy.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • GrJ 88 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy.

      A poem based on Ben Jonson's song If I freely may discouer in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.

      John Grange, 'To the world Ile nowe discouer'
    • HrG 290.3 f. 47v

      Copy.

      Inscribed on Danby's tomb in Dauntsey Church, Wiltshire. First published in Izaak Walton, Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch (London, 1776). Hutchinson, pp. 208-9.

      George Herbert, On Henry Danvers earl of Danby ('Sacred Marble, safely keepe')
    • BcF 54.109 f. 57r-v

      Copy.

      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')

  • MS Lt q 46

    A collection of unbound papers, including verse MSS.

    Papers of John Salvio, tutor to the Ward family, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, and mostly written or composed by him.

    c.1730s.

    Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 0.

    • RoJ 232 Folder B17589, f. 1r

      Copy, on a single folio leaf, split in two.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • DrJ 199.4 f. 16r
      No description or publication history available.

      Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 190-201.

      John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire ('How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life')

  • MS Lt q 47

    An octavo miscellany.

    • CoA 293 pp. 106-8

      Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts

  • MS Lt q 48

    A collection of unbound verse MSS and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families of Norfolk.

    Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.

    • EtG 52 Envelope 1, ff. 2r-5r

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed Sir George Etheredge's Letter to my Lord Middleton, on seven pages of three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • EtG 30 Envelope 1, ff. 8r-9v

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed Sir George Etheredge to the Earl of Middleton, greeting, on four pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
    • CwT 1164 Envelope 1, f. 37r

      Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

      Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')

  • MS Lt q 50

    A tall folio verse miscellany, compiled by George Weller (1710-78) of Tonbridge, Kent, 157 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1750.

    Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (1990), item 128, with a facsimile example.

    • RoJ 291.8 pp. 200-3

      Copy, headed A Satyr on 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)')
    • MrJ 48 p. 207

      Copy, headed In Reducem Ducem, here beginning And art returned great Duke with all thy faults, incomplete.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

  • MS Lt q 51

    A folio verse miscellany, 225 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled, and partly composed, by George Weller (1710-78), lawyer, of Tonbridge, Kent.

    c.1745.

    Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 128.

    • HuF 14 pp. 1-99

      Copy of a 589-stanza version, untitled, transcribed from an earlier MS, with Weller's notes about the poem's publication (one dated 1769).

      First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

      Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

      Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')
    • RoJ 326 pp. 168-71

      Copy of lines 1-55, 60-158, 168-9, 179-82, 222-5, headed in the margin A Satyr on 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)')
    • DrJ 199.6 p. 195
      No description or publication history available.

      Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 190-201.

      John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire ('How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life')
    • MrJ 49 p. 207

      Copy, headed In Reducem Ducem.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

  • MS Lt q 52

    A collection of unbound verse MSS.

    Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.

    Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.

    • ClJ 218 f. 8r

      Copy.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • WaE 725 f. 9r

      Copy, in Gibson's hand, headed Mr Waller on Oliver Cromwells Death. 1659, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      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')
    • MaA 183 f. 20r

      Copy, headed A Vow on one side of a single folio leaf.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • MaA 36 f. 20v

      Copy, headed In Picturam Oliveri Protectoris Christinae Sweciae Reginae Dedicatam and endorsed A.M. on Oliver's Picture, sent to Q. Christina, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam ('Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum')
    • MaA 487 ff. 21r, 22r

      Copy, untitled but endorsed Advice to A Paintr: 1671, on the first and third pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • RoJ 592 ff. 25r-6r

      Copy, arranged as a dialogue between the Duke of Buckingham (lines 1-18), Rochester (lines 19-45), and Mr. [Fleetwood] Sheph[er]d (lines 46-51), on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      Facsimile of f. 25r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 18 June 1991, lot 164, and in The Brotherton Collection Review 1988-92 (Leeds, 1992), p. 10.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • MaA 460 ff. 27r-8r

      Copy, headed Advice to ye Painter to draw ye Duke & othrs by, endorsed Jan. 73, on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • DoC 142.5 f. 74r

      Copy, headed On the intended Assassination of Kg Wm, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination ('The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd')

  • MS Lt q 56

    • MnJ 142 ff. 21r-3r
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts

  • MS Lt q 57

    A folio booklet of state letters and papers, chiefly relating to the Earl of Essex, closely written in a single hand, on two paires of conjugate leaves, in modern boards.

    Early 17th century.
    • ElQ 11 f. 3v

      Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth verses on Monsieurs departure out of England.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

      Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 ('I grieve and dare not show my discontent')
    • EsR 12 f. 4v

      Copy, headed Verses made by him.

      May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'

  • MS Lt q 70

    MS verses on front and rear endpapers of a printed exemplum of The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (London, 1684), a folio in contemporary calf gilt (repaired).

    End of 17th century.
    • RoJ 232.5 f. [ir]

      Copy, headed Ld Rocheter verss, f. [iiir] inscribed E: Rochesters boack.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • SeC 57.5 [Last leaf]

      Copy, headed by Sr Charles siddly

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')

  • Lt DAN

    An autograph marginal sidenote in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1609, a quarto in modern green morocco gilt.

    On p. 208, against Book VIII, stanza 18, stating Willm ye Conqr. first brought in ye vse of long bowes.

    c.1609.

    Bookplate of Samuel F. Barger.

    • *DaS 2.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).

      Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke

  • Lt SHI

    An exemplum of the first printed edition with extensive MS annotations, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre.

    c.1663-7.

    Acquired from William H. Robinson, April 1956.

    Discussed in Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, A 1660s Promptbook of Shirley's Loves Crueltie, Theatre Research International, 11 (1986), 1-13.

    • ShJ 185
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1640. Gifford & Dyce, II, 189-267.

      James Shirley, Love's Cruelty

  • Lt q DAV

    Copy of a poem allegedly omitted in his works, written on a blank page at the end of an exemplum of Davenant's printed Works (London, 1673).

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by Rd Milles.

    • DaW 76
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished. Allegedly omitted in [Davenant's] works.

      Sir William Davenant, An Epitaph on ye Lady Merri ('Though 'tis but vain to raise dead stones to her')

  • Lt q JOS

    An exemplum signed on the title-page by Cotton and also by his daughter Catherine (Catherine Cotton. given mee by my Deare Father).

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscribed later Joa. Beresford.

    • *CnC 182
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Josephus, Flavius. the Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus [trans. Thomas Lodge] (London, 1655-6)

  • Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, 3rd Series, 11, f. 1r-v

    Autograph revisions and additions by Milton to a scribal draft of a parliamentary letter to the Senate of Hamburg, in Latin, on the first page of a single folio leaf, 2 April 1649.

    1649.

    Recorded, and edited in translation, in Yale, V, Part 2, 478 (State Papers No. 1). Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 79

    • *MnJ 71
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Letter(s)

  • Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Political and Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, 1651-1658, f. 112r-v

    Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Colonel Henry Marten, from the Tower, 8 July 1652.

    1652.

    Recorded in HMC, 13th Report (1892), Appendix IV, p. 389. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 284-5.

    • *DaW 136
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

  • Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Box 78

    Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Colonel Henry Marten, [1643/4].

    1644.

    Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), No. 43.

    • *WaE 802
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • MS Trv. d. 1

    An octavo journal and notebook.

    Compiled by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), Secretary of State.

    c.1668.

    Sotheby's, 30 July 1963 (Trumbull sale), lot 569. Acquired from H.W. Edwards, 11 October 1966.

    • DrJ 298.5 ff. 41r-5v.

      A series of extracts, comprising some 33 passages, probably transcribed from the first printed edition.

      These MS passages edited and discussed in Michael G. Brennan, Sir William Trumbull and Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, N&Q, 234 (March 1989), 41-6.

      First published in London, 1668. Scott-Saintsbury, XV. California, XVII, 2-81.

      John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatick Poesie

  • Yks 1

    A volume of material relating to the Fairfax family (Analecta Fairfaxiana).

    Compiled principally by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673), and owned also by Henry Fairfax, Dean of Norwich.

    c.1661.
    • FaE 2.5 f. 68r

      Extract.

      A couplet first published in Lea & Gang (1981), p. 691.

      Edward Fairfax, Epitaph on Lady Fairfax ('Here Lea's Fruitfulness, and Rachel's beauty')

  • Yks 2

    A folio volume of material relating to the Fairfax family (Analecta Fairfaxiana).

    Largely written in the hand of Charles Fairfax (1597-1673).

    Phillipps MS. Fairfax of Cameron

    • FaE 2.8 p. 171

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1600. Ed. R. Weiss (Carbondale, 1962). Ed. Lea & Gang (1981).

      Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne ('I sing the warre made in the Holy land')

  • Miscellaneous Letters, Marvell

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, 17 December 1670.

    1670.

    Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

    Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), IV, 161-2. Margoliouth, II, 319-20. A facsimile, once owned by Margoliouth, is in Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 119, in ff. 127-40.

    • *MaA 538
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Miscellaneous Letters, Marvell

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 9 December 1675.

    1675.

    Margoliouth, II, 343-4.

    • *MaA 558
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

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