Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Merton College, Oxford

  • MS D. 1. 2

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, closely written from both ends in several hands, 144 leaves (plus entries on inside covers), in contemporary calf.

    Owned (name inscribed on f. 1r), and probably compiled in part, by one Thomas Watson.

    c.1680s.

    Formerly MS P. 3. 1.

    • HrJ 293 f. 12v

      Copy, headed Of Women in a double sense.

      First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

      Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')
    • HrJ 162 f. 13r

      Copy, headed On a Preacher.

      First published in 1618, Book II, No. 56. McClure No. 152, p. 207. Kilroy, Book II, No. 90, p. 163.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Preacher that sings Placebo ('A smooth-tong'd Preacher that did much affect')
    • JnB 429 f. 144

      Copy of a version of lines 17-24, untitled, here beginning Trust not yt thing call'd woman, she is worse, and subscribed Rochester.

      Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven & London, 1968), p. 159. Collated in Beal.

      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')

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