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Mr Richard Waller

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    A quarto volume of poems to the memory of Edmund Waller, in the hand of the Quaker writer Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713), transcribed from the edition of 1688.

    c.1688.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • BeA 11 ff. [7v-9r]

      Copy.

      First published in Poems to the Memory of that Incomparable Poet Edmund Waller, Esquire (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 405-7.

      Aphra Behn, On the Death of E. Waller, Esq ('How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring')

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    An unbound folio booklet of verse.

    c.1680s-90s.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • MaA 54 f. [14r-v]

      Copy, in the hand of one of the daughters of the poet Edmund Waller, headed The Picture of my little neece Hardey in a Prospect of Flowers.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 40-1. Lord, pp. 37-8. smith, pp. 114-15.

      Andrew Marvell, The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers ('See with what simplicity')
    • MaA 159 f. [14r-v]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.

      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')

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    A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

    Among the papers of the Waller family.

    • WaE 279 ff. [2v-3r]

      Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed The last verses my Dear ffather made.

      This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.

      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')
    • WaE 761 f. [3r]

      Copy of four lines, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed The ffoollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods at Hallbarn where he found the trees as bare & withered as himselfe but with this diferance.

      First published in Thorn-Drury (1893). Thorn-Drury (1904), I, lxviii.

      Edmund Waller, 'That shortly they shall fflourish and wax green'
    • WaE 764 f. [3r]

      Copy of an eight-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      Apparently unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, 'The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts'
    • WaE 662 f. [6r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, ascribed in another hand to Waller.

      First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, Seventh edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

      Edmund Waller, Translated out of French ('Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so')
    • WhA 56 ff. [6v-7r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed To my ffather by Mrs Wharton.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

      Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')
    • WhA 5 ff. [7r-8r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed The Despair of Knowledge by Mrs Wharton.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

      Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')
    • RoJ 331 ff. [9v-10r]

      Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Rochester.

      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)')
    • WaE 663 f. [12r]

      Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, Seventh edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

      Edmund Waller, Translated out of French ('Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so')
    • CoA 88 f. [14r]

      Copy, untitled.

      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'
    • CoA 105 f. [14r-v]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386-7.

      Abraham Cowley, Martial. Lib. 2. Vota tui breviter, &c. ('Well then, Sir, you shall know how far extend')
    • CoA 103 f. [14v]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.

      Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. ('Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say')
    • RoJ 600 f. [15v]

      Copy of stanzas 13-17, beginning But Nothing, why does something still permit, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, lacking the first twelve stanzas.

      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')
    • RoJ 447 f. [16r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.

      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')
    • WhA 12 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of a 33-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

      Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester ('Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine')
    • WhA 49 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      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')

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    Copy of the complete poem, in the hand of an amanuensis, with autograph revisions and two lines (75-6, on p. [3]) in the poet's hand, the last four lines added in yet another hand, on eleven pages of four pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

    Headed Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture & Progresse of his Maties forces at Sea under the Command of His H: R: together with [a description of deleted] the Battel & victory obteynde ouer the Dutch 3 June 1665, followed by thirteen lines in French beginning Je suis vaincu du temps, subscribed Malherbe au Roy Henry le Grand.

    c.1665.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • *WaE 104
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.

      Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between')

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    A draft of 29 lines (including repetitions), in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions by Waller (notably in line 15 here [= Canto II, line 61 in the printed text]) and some passages deleted with crosses, headed Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers and here beginning Esaiah She, to speak our tonge, has taught, on a single folio leaf, imperfect at the bottom.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXb.

    • *WaE 162
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    A draft of 93 lines (including repetitions, half-lines and deletions), with revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with two lines on the third page (lines 65-6 here [= Canto II, lines 67-8 in the printed text]) in Waller's hand, headed Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • *WaE 163
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    A draft fragment of eighteen lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers, and here beginning This Lady shares in the great prophets glory, followed (inverted on the fourth page) by 23 lines beginning As Ivy lives wch on the oak takes hold, with a few autograph revisions and insertions by Waller in both sections, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • *WaE 164
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    A fair copy of 91 lines, with some revisions and lines in draft, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions and insertions by Waller (notably in line 28 here [= Canto I, line 50 in the printed text]), headed Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • *WaE 165
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    A draft of 68 lines, including revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • WaE 166
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    A draft of two separate sets of verse, the first being four lines beginning No verse produced by so divine a rage [= a version of Canto II, lines 4-5], the second being six lines beginning The truth she told in a sublimer strain [= Canto II, lines 53-60], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    Late 17th century.
    • WaE 167
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

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    Copy, in the hand of Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713), headed Of the ffear of god in 2 Cantos, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1680s.

    Among papers of the Waller family.

    • WaE 348
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.

      Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos ('The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace')

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    Printed edition of Malherbe.

    • *WaE 888 The volume as a whole
      Autograph

      A printed exemplum, with signature Edm Waller on the title-page, the text marked with various MS crosses.

      Malherbe is mentioned in Waller's letter to Mrs Myddelton, 12 May 1678 (WaE 828), and see also the copy of a poem by Malherbe appended to WaE 104. Lot 153 in the Waller sale of 1832 includes Poesies de Malherbe and 2 others, Paris, 1666, and another exemplum of the edition of 1666 is lot 329.

      Edmund Waller, Malherbe, François de. Les oeuvres (Paris, 1659)
    • *WaE 779 Flyleaf
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of six largely unrelated lines jotted on the flyleaf.

      Unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, 'Venus came from the sea & sits by him that governs it'

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    A folio booklet of four leaves.

    c.1700.
    • WhA 22 f. [3r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Mrs Wharton.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.

      Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time ('When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar')
    • WhA 50 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      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')
    • WhA 57 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

      Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')
    • WhA 6 [unspecified page numbers]

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

      Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')

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    A folio volume of 51 poems by Edmund Waller, in a probably professional hand, with alterations in another hand (possibly collations with one of the editions of 1645), 149 pages, imperfect (pp. 49-50, 55-6, 61-2 and most of pp. 57-8 excised), in calf.

    On pp. 1-3, in the hand of the main scribe, is a prose dedication To the Queene [Henrietta Maria] and, on pp. 147-9, another To my Lady Sophia [Bartie—ye earle of Linseys Daughter added in another hand], and four poems by other writers added in yet another hand on pp. 122-46.

    c.1640s.

    The volume purchased by a later member of the Waller family, in 1868, from the London bookseller F.S. Ellis, who notes in an enclosed letter (dated 20 August 1868) that he bought it from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1813), bibliographer and writer, who had bought it in a miscellaneous sale of books & furniture at Robinson's Rooms in Bond St. some eight or ten years since. In another enclosed letter (dated 3 August 1868) Ellis expresses the wholly erroneous view that some of the corrections are his [Waller's]… and …the whole was written under his eye — the writing is certainly identical with that of the dedication in the volume of his poems in the British Museum, addressed to the Duchess of York [WaE 610, WaE 688]. The volume was owned in 1893 by Mr Waller, of Farmington Lodge, Northleach.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Hazlitt MS: WaE Δ 4. Recorded in Thorn-Drury and the dedication To the Queene printed (I, vi-vii).

    • WaE 261 pp. 5-11

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
    • WaE 200 pp. 13-14

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
    • WaE 614 pp. 15-16

      Copy, with an alteration in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 682 pp. 17-19

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • WaE 250 pp. 21-2

      Copy, headed Of the taking of Sallye, with alterations and an inserted line in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Salle ('Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old')
    • WaE 640 pp. 24-6

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
    • WaE 15 pp. 27-8

      Copy, headed The Apology of Sleepe for not approaching the Lady who can doe any thing butt sleepe when shee pleaseth, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
    • WaE 55 pp. 29-30

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

      Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
    • WaE 48 pp. 30-2

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

      Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
    • WaE 98 p. 33

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
    • WaE 332 p. 34

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      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 654 pp. 35-7

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • WaE 26 pp. 38-40

      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 21 pp. 40-1

      Copy, with an alteration in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
    • WaE 580 pp. 42-3

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
    • WaE 515 pp. 43-4

      Copy, headed To my young Lady Lucy Sidney.

      First published, as To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

      Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
    • WaE 270 p. 45

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      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 296 p. 46

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • WaE 189 pp. 47-8

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 526 pp. 51-3

      Copy with alterations in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 461 p. 54

      Copy, with an alteration in another hand.

      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 341 p. 57

      Copy of the last stanza (lines 19-24, here beginning A reall beautie though to neare), imperfect, the first eighteen lines excised.

      First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 482 p. 58

      Copy of lines 11-17 (here beginning Immortall praise forwhat I wrought), imperfect, the rest excised.

      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 315 p. 59

      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 362 pp. 59-60

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 119 pp. 64-5

      Copy, with a line inserted in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

      Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace')
    • WaE 566 pp. 65-7

      Copy, with alterations in another hand and a gloss on Lady in the title (my lord of Sallisbery's Daughter).

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
    • WaE 560 pp. 68-70

      Copy.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery ('With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades')
    • WaE 354 pp. 71-2

      Copy, headed On the freendship betuixt Sacharissa and Amoret, with a note in another hand Lady Dor. Sidnei & Lady Anne Caudish. wife to my Lord Rich.

      This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.

      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 86 pp. 72-3

      Copy.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 471 pp. 73-5

      Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea ('As lately I on silver Thames did ride')
    • WaE 32 pp. 76-85

      Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

      Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands ('Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight')
    • WaE 79 pp. 85-7

      Copy of the 34-line version, headed Ane answeare to on that write against Healths, with alterations in another hand.

      Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

      First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

      Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths ('And is antiquity of no more force!')
    • WaE 693 pp. 87-91

      Copy, with two words inserted in another hand.

      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 634 pp. 92-3

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing ('Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears')
    • WaE 442 p. 94

      Copy, headed Banist if he made Loue.

      This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.

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

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Peace, babbling Muse!')
    • WaE 208 pp. 95-7

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 627 pp. 97-100

      Copy, with an insertion in another hand.

      The text corrected from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

      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 675 pp. 102-3

      Copy, headed Vpone Ben: Johnsone the most excellent of Comick Poets.

      First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.

      Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson ('Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!')
    • WaE 129 p. 104

      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 586 p. 104

      Copy.

      First published, as To the wife being marryed to that old man, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

      Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man ('Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)')
    • WaE 648 pp. 106-8

      Copy, with an alteration in another hand, headed To Mirs: Braughton.

      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 415 pp. 108-9
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
    • WaE 594 pp. 110-11

      Copy, with one word inserted in another hand.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
    • WaE 738 p. 112

      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 453 p. 113

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
    • WaE 520 p. 114

      Copy, here beginning Amidst the milky way.

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

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 572 pp. 115-6

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
    • WaE 43 pp. 117-8

      Copy, with alterations in another hand.

      First published, as On the approaching Spring, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.

      Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas ('Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute')
    • WaE 545 p. 119

      Copy, with alterations in another hand, headed To his worthy freend Mr: George Sandys—on his sacrad Poems.

      First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.

      Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible ('How bold a work attempts that pen')
    • WaE 668 p. 120

      Copy of lines 3-8, beginning Such Helen 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')
    • DaW 85 pp. 125-6

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

      Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song ('Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!')

  • [no shelfmark]

    A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to Mr Waller added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf.

    Including such association texts as An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667 (f. [2v]), On ye Wallers arms (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to my Dearest Neece (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her Honrd Uncle ascribed in another hand to Lady Speake (f. 21r-v), and The ffollowing line my ffather write… dated from Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 (f. [33v]).

    c.1680s [-1700s].

    Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name Edmond Waller and Edmund Waller his Bookes: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d.1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.

    • WaE 145 f. [1v]

      Copy of a version of lines 95-6, here How frail is man how quickly changed are / Our wraugh & fury to a frindly care, among jottings in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      These lines recorded in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8. They also correspond to two lines spoken by Melantius in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (on p. 206 in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711)).

      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 763 f.[2r]

      Copy of a twelve-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to Mr Waller.

      Apparently unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, 'The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts'
    • WaE 751 f. [6v]

      Copy of four lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to Waller.

      Apparently unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, 'Hide for adresses pays as many grotes'
    • WaE 157 f. [8r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of A Ladyes Elegy upon ye Earl of Rochester, ascribed in another hand to Mr Waller.

      First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 89.

      Edmund Waller, Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of Rochester ('Thus mourn the Muses! on the hearse')
    • DrJ 6 ff. [10r-11r, 12v-14r]

      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')
    • WaE 346 ff. [14r-15r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Of the Duke of Monmouths expedition to Scotland in the summer solstis 1678, ascribed in another hand to Waller.

      The last four lines (46-9) edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

      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 752 f. [15r-v]

      Copy of ten lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, subscribed these are imperfectly remember'd, ascribed in another hand to Waller.

      Apparently unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs Dunch ('This haughty cariage in my Mrs shows')
    • WaE 411 f. [16r]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Prologue for the Lady actors &c..

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 95.

      Edmund Waller, Prologue for the Lady-Actors: Spoken before King Charles II ('Amaze us not with that majestic frown')
    • RoJ 332 ff. [17r-18v]

      Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, headed Satyre.

      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)')
    • WaE 786 f. [20r]

      Copy of a nine-line poem, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to Waller.

      First published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

      Edmund Waller, Written in my Lady Speke's Singing-Book ('Her fair eyes, if they could see')
    • WaE 670 f. [20r]

      Copy of lines 1-3, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed This was writen under my Lady Spekes Picture.

      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')
    • RoJ 35 f. [27r-v]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.

      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')
    • WaE 701 f. [28r-v]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed on ye death of Oliver Cromwell.

      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')
    • WaE 373 f. [31v]

      Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed Mr Waller on ye statue of King Charles ye 1st at Charing-crosse erected by ye D: of Leeds.

      First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 75.

      Edmund Waller, On the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross ('That the First Charles does here in triumph ride')
    • WaE 760 f. [33v]

      Copy, probably in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 The ffollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods where he found ye trees as bare & withered as himselfe But wth this diferance.

      Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Thorn-Drury (1893). Thorn-Drury (1904), I, lxviii.

      Edmund Waller, 'That shortly they shall fflourish and wax green'
    • WaE 412 f. [6r-v rev.]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 96-7.

      Edmund Waller, Prologue to the Maid's Tragedy ('Scarce should we have the boldness to pretend')
    • WaE 798 ff. [8r-23r rev.], [25ret seq. rev.], f. [2r]

      Copy of all Waller's adaptation on ff. [8r-23r rev.], with additional passages on f. [25r et seq. rev.], also (on f. [2r]) a sixteen-line passage beginning Under what Tyranny are Women born [a version of Evadne's lines near the beginning of the play, line 9 et seq.], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 787.

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

      Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered
    • WaE 59 f. [24r-v rev.]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 98.

      Edmund Waller, Epilogue to the Maid's Tragedy. Spoken by the King ('The fierce Melantius was content, you see')
    • RoJ 166 ff. [27r-28v rev.]

      Copy in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, imperfect, lacking lines 1-61 and here beginning To an exact perfection they have wrought.

      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')
    • WaE 666 f. [30r-v rev.]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to Mr Waller.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 77-8.

      Edmund Waller, The Triple Combat ('When through the world fair Mazarin had run')
    • WaE 375 ff. [31r-34r rev.]

      Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and incomplete.

      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 133 [unnumbered loosely inserted leaf]

      Copy of a 22-line version, headed On the Lady Isabella [Thynne's] cutting Trees in Paper and subscribed I had these Verses from my Lady Long in 1656. Her Lap: had several other Copies of Mr Wallers Verses. (of which Mr Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to the Dutches of Beaufort, and were never return'd. Their friendship is now broken; but I hope her Grace will be so kind as to grant Transcripts of them upon the reprinting of ye Book, on a single quarto leaf, a note on the verso referring to Mr Aubery.

      Lines 15-20 edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

      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')

  • [no shelfmark]

    Edmund the younger's miscellany.

    • DrJ 247.93 f. 8v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

  • [no shelfmark]

    Unnumbered bundle of verses.

    • DrJ 247.95 f. [12r]

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

  • [no shelfmark]

    Folio booklet of verse, sixteen leaves, unbound, predominantly in the hand of one of Waller's daughters. Contents include poems by Marvell, Lord Cutts, Dryden, Rochester, Mrs Higgons, and others.

  • [no shelfmark]

    Waller Family MS No. iii. Some sixteen unbound, or possibly disbound, folio leaves of verse.

    All in the hand of one of Waller's daughters. Contents include poems by Cowley, Thomas Flatman, Rochester, Dryden, at least four by Waller himself (The last Verses my Dear ffather made, The ffoollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh…, etc.), and one addressed to Waller by Mrs Wharton.

  • [no shelfmark]

    Sheaf of unbound letters (some of a later date) and a few copies of verse.

    • WaE 348.5 passim

      A contemporary copy on a separate folio leaf.

      First published in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.

      Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos ('The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace')
    • DrJ 244.8 passim

      Extracts from Dryden's Aeneid, beginning in Book 9, line 579 (Down fell the beautiful Youth, the yawning wound).

      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')
    • RoJ 647 passim

      A twelve-line extract, from Act IV, scene iv, beginning At this she fell - choakt with a thousand sighs.

      The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape

  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, 14 February [no year, but before 1677].

    c.1676.
    • *WaE 826
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, Thursday 2 [or 9] a clock att night [no year, but before 1677].

    [c.1676].

    Facsimile of the second page in Wikelund (1970), before p. 73.

    • *WaE 826.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • [no shelfmark]

    Waller's last will and testament, dated 12 September 1681, with a codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2], on vellum and signed by the poet.

    1681-2.
    • *WaE 858
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

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