National Library of Scotland, MS 2067

MS 2067

A quarto volume of 27 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, a title-page in another 17th-century hand inscribed Thirre [i.e. These] poems belonginge to Jhon Don Transcribed by William Drummond, 40 leaves, bound with an independent notebook of Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, 96 leaves in all, in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1613?-33.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XV.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Hawthornden MS: DnJ Δ 54. Drummond cites Jhone Dones Lyriques in his autograph list of Bookes red be me in Anno 1613 (National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 366r).

CwT 786 f. 4r

Copy, here beginning In your faire cheekes two Pitts their lye, subscribed B.R.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye') | Catalogue
HoJ 176 ff. 6v-7r

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. H.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).

John Hoskyns, 'Loue is a foolish melancholie' | Catalogue
DnJ 1110 ff. 10v-12r

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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') | Catalogue
DnJ 1046 f. 12r-v

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and 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') | Catalogue
DnJ 1022 ff. 13r-14v

Copy, headed Elegye funerall on the Death of M^rs Boulstrood.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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') | Catalogue
DnJ 2845 ff. 15r-20v

Copy, headed SAT. 4 anno 1594.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne') | Catalogue
DnJ 2783 ff. 21r-3r

Copy, headed Satyre 2., inscribed by Drummond after C[hristopher]. B[rooke's]. coppy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate') | Catalogue
DnJ 3082 ff. 23v-5r

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)') | Catalogue
DnJ 566 ff. 25r-6v

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage') | Catalogue
DnJ 3502 ff. 27r-8v

Copy, headed To M^r. H. W.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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') | Catalogue
DnJ 3471 f. 29r-v

Copy, headed To M. H.W. 20 Jul. 1598 at Court.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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') | Catalogue
DnJ 2569 ff. 30r-1v

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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') | Catalogue
DnJ 3634 f. 32r-v

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know') | Catalogue
DnJ 1303 f. 32v

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Shawcross.

First published, and attributed to Donne, in John T. Shawcross, John Donne and Drummond's Manuscripts, AN&Q (March 1967), 104-5. Reprinted in Shawcross (1968), No. 102. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12.

John Donne, 'Faustus keepes his sister and a whore' | Catalogue
DnJ 1746 f. 32v

Copy, headed A beggar, here beginning I cannot stand, nor sitt this begger cries.

Edited from this MS in Milgate, p. 198. Collated in Grierson, Recorded in Shawcross.

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') | Catalogue
DnJ 1237 ff. 33r-4v

Copy, headed Elegye.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.

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') | Catalogue
HoJ 34 f. 35r-v

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. H.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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') | Catalogue
DnJ 1484 f. 36r

Copy, under a general heading Epigrammes.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground') | Catalogue
DnJ 2659 f. 36r

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare') | Catalogue
DnJ 2381 f. 36r

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

John Donne, Niobe ('By childrens births, and death, I am become') | Catalogue
DnJ 1281 f. 36r

Copy, headed Caso di muro.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall).

John Donne, Fall of a wall ('Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall') | Catalogue
DnJ 2884 f. 36r

Copy, headed A mistrisse.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.

John Donne, A selfe accuser ('Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you') | Catalogue
DnJ 1892 f. 36r

Copy, headed A Whorer.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call') | Catalogue
DnJ 163 f. 36v

Copy, headed Hammon.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.

John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care') | Catalogue
DnJ 2676 f. 36v

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

John Donne, Ralphius ('Compassion in the world againe is bred') | Catalogue
DnJ 1725 f. 36v

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come') | Catalogue
DnJ 2257 f. 36v

Copy, headed The Jughler.

This MS collated in John T. Shawcross, John Donne and Drummond's Manuscripts, AN&Q (March 1967), 104-5, and in Milgate and in Shawcross (1968).

First published in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. Roger Bennet (Chicago, 1942). Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 101. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as The Iughler).

John Donne, Manliness ('Thou call'st me effeminat, for I love womens joyes') | Catalogue
DnJ 900 f. 36v

Copy, headed one disperited.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will') | Catalogue
DnJ 2596 f. 36v

Copy.

This MS collated in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee') | Catalogue
DnJ 1918 f. 37r

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers') | Catalogue

MS 2067

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