National Library of Scotland, MS 2060

MS 2060

• *DrW 353 The MS as a whole

  Autograph

  Autograph miscellany of verse and prose, including poems by himself and others, miscellaneous extracts, anecdotes, jests, pasquils, epitaphs, &c, entitled Democritie, a labyrinth of delight.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Democritie A labyrinth of Delight
• RaW 76 f. 2r

  Copy, headed Epitaphe S^r W R. by himselfe.

  Edited from this MS in David Laing, Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (p. 238), and in Rudick, No. 35B, p. 80. Recorded in Latham, p. 153.

  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'
• *DrW 304 ff. 3r-4r

  Autograph

  Copy, headed B. Jonsons his Epitaph told to mee by himselfe. not made by him, and two anecdotes told to Drummond by Jonson, corresponding to passages in the Conversations with Jonson.

  First published (in an abridged form) in Works (1711). Laing (1833), pp. 241-70. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 132-51. Of Drummond's original MS only the cover remains, in National Library of Scotland, MS 2061, f. 140r.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond
• RaW 296 ff. 12r-13r

  Copy of a 36-line version of the petition (cp. RaW 294-5), headed S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene. 1618 and here beginning O had Truth power the guiltless could not fall.

  This version first published, from this MS, in David Laing, Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (pp. 236-7). Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 70-1, and in Rudick, No. 34, pp. 78-9.

  In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen ('My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun')
• *DrW 177 f. 31r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy by Drummond.

  First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
• *DrW 100 f. 31v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph ('Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles')
• *DrW 101 f. 31v

  Autograph

  Another autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph ('Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles')
• *DrW 242 f. 38r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'That which preserueth cherries, peares and plumes'
• CoR 108 f. 44r-v

  Copy, headed Epitaph on the late Queene Anne.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
• SiP 91 f. 48v

  Copy, as by S^r P. S.

  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 518 (with one folio incorrectly cited as f. 9v).

  First published in A.C. Judson, Sidney's Appearance (Bloomington, Indiana, 1958), p. 51. Ringler, p. 345, as his Poems Possibly by Sidney No. 3.

  Sir Philip Sidney, Inscription on Sidney's portrait at Longleat, 1577 ('Who gives him selfe, may well his picture give')
• BcF 494 ff. 49r-53r

  Copy.

  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
• *DrW 155 f. 63v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 279. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116-17.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Loue once thy lawes'
• *DrW 110 f. 77v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaphe on a Cooke ('Heere lyes a sowre and angry cooke')
• *DrW 237 f. 79r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Strange is his end, his death most rare and od'
• *DrW 102 f. 117v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph ('Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles')
• *DrW 38 f. 126r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284.

  Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'A lady in her prime to whom was giuen'
• *DrW 238 f. 126r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Strange is his end, his death most rare and od'
• *DrW 152 f. 126r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Killd by ingratitude heere blest within doth rest'
• SiP 91.6 f. 128r

  Copy, as by S^r P. S.

  First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 357-8, as Wrongly Attributed Poems, AT 21. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-3 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.

  Sir Philip Sidney, 'Singe neighbours singe, here yow not Say'
• CwT 290 f. 151r

  Copy, headed on a flye.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
• JnB 119 f. 164r

  Copy.

  First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

  Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
• DnJ 1048 f. 165r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.

  John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
• DnJ 1025 f. 165v

  Copy of lines 35-40, 46-8.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
• DnJ 1113 ff. 165v-6v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
• *DrW 263 f. 171r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy of a French poem and Drummond's English translation.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 274. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 115.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, To Anne, the french Queen, new come from Spaine, and applyable to Marye of England, meeting the King at Douer ('At length heere shee is: wee haue got those bright eyes')
• *DrW 125 f. 199v

  Autograph

  Autograph draft.

  First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 211.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Gods iudgments seldome vse to cease, vnlease'
• *DrW 217 f. 199v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'S. Andrew, why does thou giue up thy Schooles'
• *DrW 306 ff. 204r-8r

  Autograph

  Autograph draft, with revisions, of a portion of the essay, here beginning If on the Great Theater of this Earth... and ending ...in the midst of multitudes rather garded than regarded.

  First published appended to Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh], 1623). Kastner, II, 65-104 (11. 115-274).

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, A Cypresse Grove
• CmT 204.8 f. 233r

  Copy, here ascribed to Philip Rosseter.

  This MS discussed in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 451.

  Thomas Campion, 'No graue for woe, yet earth my watrie teares deuoures'
• CmT 97 f. 234r

  Copy.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ix. Davis, p. 32.

  Thomas Campion, 'The Spyres curten of the night is spread'
• CmT 152.5 f. 234r

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xx. Davis, p. 46.

  Thomas Campion, 'When thou must home to shades of vnder ground'
• PlG 7 f. 236r

  Copy of the song of Coridon and Melampus.

  This song published separately in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Horne, p. 207.

  George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song ('Melampus, when will Love be void of feares?')
• CmT 242.5 f. 237r

  Copy, here ascribed to Philip Rosseter.

  This MS discussed in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ix. Davis, p. 455.

  Thomas Campion, 'When Laura smiles'
• JnB 439 f. 238r

  Copy.

  First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

  Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes ('Follow a shaddow, it still flies you')
• JnB 399 f. 238r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in Epigrammes (cxvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 75.

  Ben Jonson, On Groyne ('Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand')
• JnB 464 f. 238r

  Copy of an eight-line version.

  First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

  Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
• CmT 63 f. 241v

  Copy.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. viii. Davis, p. 31.

  Thomas Campion, 'It fell on a sommers day'
• CmT 18 ff. 244r-5r

  Copy, headed Saphickes.

  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xxi. Davis, pp. 48-9.

  Thomas Campion, 'Come let us sound with melody the praises'
• DnJ 606 f. 246r

  Copy of lines 6-8, 20-1, 28-34, 37-8, here beginning observe his honor or his Grace, subscribed Jone Done.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

  John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
• DnJ 2469 f. 246r-v

  Copy of lines 15-34, 39-40, here beginning so carelesse flowers strowd on the Waters face, inscribed in the margin simile.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
• DnJ 1470 f. 246v

  Copy of lines 4, 15-18, inscribed images, here beginning Snorted we in the seven slepers denn.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
• DnJ 1267 f. 246v

  Copy of lines 1-4, 7-8, inscribed in the margin a bancke.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

  John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
• DnJ 2063 f. 246v

  Copy of lines 28-30, here beginning I spring a mistresse sware writ sigh and weep.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  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 3924 f. 246v

  Copy of lines 48-9, 51, here beginning then all your beauties will bee no more worth.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  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 2092 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 29-35, inscribed in the margin Beautie, here beginning This face by which ye couls command.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

  John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
• DnJ 199 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 11-12 inscribed fearful, here beginning Poor aspen Wretch neglected then.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
• DnJ 3558 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 40-2, inscribed Witt and here beginning With that which doth religion but invest.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

  John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things')
• DnJ 3968 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 1-4, inscribed eies.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

  John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
• DnJ 845 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 20-1, here beginning his sones which none of his may be.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
• DnJ 3793 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 49-50, here beginning and when t hy melted mayde.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

  John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
• DnJ 2121 f. 247r

  Copy of lines 11-12, inscribed loue, here beginning loues not so pure and abstract as they vse.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

  John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
• DnJ 972 f. 247v

  Copy of lines 23-6, here beginning though you staye here you passe to fast away.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

  John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
• DnJ 642 f. 247v

  Copy of lines 5-6, inscribed Women, here beginning Women are like vnto the arts, forc'd vnto none.

  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
• DnJ 1085 f. 247v

  Copy of lines 15-16, 59-60, inscribed Teares, here beginning teares are false spectacles wee can not see.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
• DrM 46 ff. 268r-75r

  Extracts.

  First published in London, 1612. 1622. Hebel, IV.

  Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
• *DrW 137 f. 292v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy, untitled.

  First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 230. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'I feare to me such fortune be assigned'
• *DrW 114 f. 292v

  Autograph

  Autograph copy, untitled.

  First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'First in the orient raign'd th'assyrian kings'
• *DrW 129 f. 293r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy, untitled.

  First published in Kastner (1913), II, 269. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Great Queene whom to the liberall Heauens propine'
• *DrW 203 f. 300r

  Autograph

  Autograph copy.

  First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 240. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'Prometheus am I'