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MR 0799

A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637 and erroneously annotated Chiefly in the Autograph of D^r. Donne Dean of S^t. Paul's.67 pages (plus index).
c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
- DnJ 278 pp. 1-2
  
  Copy, headed The widdow, subscribed finis J D:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
  
  John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
- DnJ 1656.5 p. 2
  
  Copy of lines 1-9, headed in the margin Sonnett:.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
  
  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
- DnJ 1749.5 p. 2
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning I am not able yonder beggar cryes.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- DnJ 2646.5 p. 3
  
  Copy of lines 17-24, untitled, here beginning Loue & hate mee too.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
  
  John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
- DnJ 1239 pp. 4-5
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
  
  John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
- JnB 731.5 p. 6
  
  Copy of Sejanus's speech beginning, Swell, swell my ioys and faint not to declare (V, 1-3, 6-24), headed in the margin Sejanus Ben Jhons.
  
  First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
  
  Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
- JnB 674.2 p. 8
  
  Copy, headed in the margin A Cry for Cupidd B: J:.
  
  First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).
  
  Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song ('Beauties, haue yee seene this toy')
- B&F 146.8 p. 10
  
  Copy of a variant, garbled version, beginning Hence vaine delights as short.
  
  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')
- CwT 719 p. 11
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Think not deare loue y^t Ile reveale.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- PoW 55 pp. 12-13
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- DnJ 710 pp. 14-16
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- DnJ 72 pp. 16-18
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS or DnJ 72.5 collated in Grierson.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- DnJ 2573.5 pp. 18-21
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 2355 pp. 21-2
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- DnJ 397 pp. 23-7
  
  Copy, headed Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- JnB 428.5 pp. 27-8
  
  Copy of a 32-line version (plus one deleted line), headed Satyre.
  
  Edited from this MS in Ioppolo.
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- DnJ 3349.5 p. 29
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
  
  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
- DnJ 3327.5 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
  
  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
- DnJ 3298.5 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
  
  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
- DnJ 3472.5 pp. 31-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
- DnJ 3504.5 p. 32
  
  Copy of lines 1-24.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
- DnJ 3411.5 p. 33
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
- DnJ 1876 pp. 34-6
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 3536 p. 36
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
  
  John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
- DnJ 312.5 p. 37
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed D.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DkT 36.8 p. 40
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Death of Q Eliz:.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- BrW 4.5 p. 41
  
  Copy, in a formal pattern, headed Prayer, here beginning Behold o God INRIvers of my teares and subscribed Will Browne seruiens Com Pembrock.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, 'Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears'
- HoJ 333 p. 42
  
  Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin Love, here beginning Love whose pow^r & might.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- DnJ 515 p. 43
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Hee is made who eu^r sayes.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 3714.8 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed J D.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- HoJ 33 p. 47
  
  Copy, headed A Poeme:.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
  
  John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
- JnB 714.5 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed Qualities for a Louer.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
- DnJ 3678.5 p. 49
  
  Copy of lines 19-27, headed in the margin Womens Tears and here beginning Hither with Cristall glasses louers come.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 3923 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, subscribed J D:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 755.5 pp. 51-2
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
  
  John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
- DnJ 2933.5 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed in the margin A Songe.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 2521 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy, headed Elegie, subscribed D:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- ShW 86.8 p. 56
  
  Extract, headed in the margin In Juliett & Romeo, comprising a version of Romeo's speech in Act I, scene v, lines 44-51, here beginning Oh shee doth teach the torches to burne bright, and, with a stage diection taking her by y^e hand, lines lines 93-6, here beginning Yf I pfane w^th my unworthyest hand.
  
  First published in London, 1597.
  
  William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- DnJ 2060.5 pp. 58-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- DnJ 1815.5 p. 60
  
  Copy, headed in the margin Shadow.
  
  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
  
  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
- JnB 192.5 p. 61
  
  Copy, headed The Bodie:, as by B Johnson.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- MiT 4.5 p. 62
  
  Copy of an eight-line version, headed to y^e Kinge / Middletons Verses who was comitted to y^e Fleet for y^e play called the Game at chess.
  
  First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.
  
  Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James ('A harmless game raised merely for delight')
- DrM 36.5 p. 63
  
  Copy, in double columns, untitled.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- ShJ 64 p. 63
  
  Copy of a fourteen-line poem, headed Riddle on Love, subscribed Sherly.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  James Shirley, Riddle on Love ('Who can define this all thing nothing loue')
- DnJ 451.5 p. 64
  
  Copy, headed in the margin Woman, subscribed D..
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 972.5 p. 64
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stringer and in Variorum.
  
  First published, and attributed to Donne, in Gary A. Stringer, Donne's Epigram on the Earl of Nottingham, John Donne Journal, 10 (1991), 71-4. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 276.
  
  John Donne, E. of Nottingham ('I Earle of Nothing=am, am iustly soe')
- DnJ 1374.5 p. 65
  
  Copy, headed in the margin Flea, subscribed D.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 72.5 p. 67
  
  Copy of lines 1-26, headed Elegie Jocos:.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
MR 0840

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).
c.1595-1620s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.
- BcF 135 pp. 1-58
  
  Copy, with some corrections in another hand.
  
  A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
  A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
  
  Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
- BcF 320 pp. 63-100
  
  Copy of the complete entertainment, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, headed Tribuit or Givinge that w^ch is due; inscribed in the second hand printed by F B. in edibus Georgij fistuli.
  
  Edited from this MS in Vickers.
  
  The third and fourth speeches first published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VIII, 123-43. A defective text of the whole entertainment, with missing text conjecturally supplied, published as A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London, 1870). Full text edited in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1996), pp. 22-51.
  
  Francis Bacon, Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due
- ElQ 193 pp. 881-4
  
  Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.
  Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.
  Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
- ElQ 158 pp. 884-5
  
  Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  First published in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).
  Version I. Beginning If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter.... Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.
  Version II. Beginning If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter.... Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566
- ElQ 129 pp. 946-8
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons.... First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563
- WyT 430 pp. 1000-3
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.
  
  Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)
- WyT 439 pp. 1003-7
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiii^th of June. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.
  
  Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)
- SiP 183 pp. 1028-35
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and incomplete (a leaf skipped between pp. 1030 and 1031), under the classification Aduise.
  
  Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 31.
  
  First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
  This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
[Cavendish MS]

Copy, largely in the cursive secretary hand of John Stow (1524/5-1606), London historian, 145 leaves.

Alan Thomas, sale catalogue No. 41 (1980), item 57. Afterwards owned by Colin Franklin, bookdealer.

Recorded in Edwards (No. 4).
- CvG 37
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
  
  George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
[Shakespeare 1640]

A printed exemplum of Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent. (London, 1640), with extensive MS emendations and alterations throughout in an unidentified hand.
Late 17th century.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027, English Poetry before 1701 (1982), item 192, with a facsimile opening facing p. 64.
- ShW 129
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Shakespeare, Miscellaneous

Meisei University

MR 0799

MR 0840

[Cavendish MS]

[Shakespeare 1640]

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