National Library of South Africa, Cape Town

MS Grey 7 a 29

• SaG 5 p. 35

  Copy, headed A hymne dictated to o^r Sauio^r christ at his sepulchre in Jerusalem ano. 1610. by M^r Geo: Sandys.

  First published in A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 (London, 1615), p. 167. Hooper, I, xxiv-xxv.

  George Sandys, Hymn to my redeemer ('Saviour of mankind, Man, Emanuel')
• DnJ 1112 pp. 46-7

  Copy.

  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')
• PeW 79 pp. 47-8

  Copy, untitled.

  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
• DnJ 3190 pp. 48-9

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
• DnJ 870 p. 49

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

  John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
• DnJ 2148 pp. 50-2

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
• DnJ 2223 pp. 52-3

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
• DnJ 1696 pp. 53-4

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
• DnJ 1083 pp. 54-5

  Copy.

  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')
• DnJ 276 pp. 56-7

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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 70 pp. 57-8

  Copy, headed Elegya.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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 708 pp. 58-9

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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 164 p. 60

  Copy.

  This MS recorded 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')
• DnJ 514 p. 60

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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 1749 p. 60

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 1893 p. 60

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 197 p. 60

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2597 p. 61

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 2406 p. 61

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

  John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
• DnJ 942 p. 61

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
• DnJ 2699 pp. 62-3

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

  John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
• DnJ 530 p. 63

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa) and 10.

  John Donne, A burnt ship ('Out of a fired ship, which, by no way')
• DnJ 1282 p. 63

  Copy.

  This MS recorded 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')
• DnJ 3967 p. 63

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2060 p. 64

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 1485 p. 64

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 2660 p. 64

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 842 p. 65

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 1982 p. 66

  Copy, headed Mummy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
• DnJ 1853 pp. 66-7

  Copy, heaed Elegye.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

  John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
• DnJ 3995 p. 67

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

  John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
• DnJ 3119 p. 68

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
• DnJ 311 pp. 68-9

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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')
• DnJ 2722 pp. 69-70

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

  John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
• DnJ 3746 p. 71

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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')
• DnJ 3922 pp. 71-2

  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Loves Legacyes.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 1406 p. 73

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

  John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
• DnJ 2619 pp. 73-4

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

  John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
• DnJ 451 p. 74

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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?')
• JnB 304 p. 75

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
• CwT 949 p. 76

  Copy, untitled, subscribed T. Cary:.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

  Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
• CwT 930 p. 76

  Copy, untitled, subscribed T. C:.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

  Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
• CwT 298 pp. 76-7

  Copy, headed The fflye.

  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')
• DaJ 214 p. 77

  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a child and here begininng As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
• GrJ 13 p. 78

  Copy, headed A Dialogue, subscribed J Grange.

  First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man are superscribed P. and those by Woman superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

  John Grange, 'Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim'
• CwT 592 pp. 78-9

  Copy, headed An imprecation to the winde made vpon a sigh.

  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
• ToA 62 pp. 79-80

  Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman that requested him to write to her, subscribed J. Grange.

  First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

  Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
• CwT 870 p. 80

  Copy, headed Eternity of love vowed.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
• HeR 54 p. 81

  Copy, headed Vpon a periured man by a woman, subscribed J. Grange.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
• CwT 1019 pp. 81-3

  Copy, subscribed T: Cary.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
• HeR 131 pp. 84-7

  Copy, headed To his peculiar friend M^r John Weeks he dedicates his age —.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

  Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')
• HeR 175 pp. 87-8

  Copy, without the preliminary lines.

  First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

  Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
• CwT 144 pp. 88-9

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
• CwT 1052 p. 89

  Copy, headed To his M^ris from Sea.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
• StW 827 p. 89

  Copy.

  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• KiH 88 p. 90

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
• DnJ 3677 pp. 90-1

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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')
• HeR 256 p. 91

  Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.

  Robert Herrick, Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie ('Why doe not all fresh maids appeare')
• DnJ 1594 p. 92

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

  John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
• DnJ 805 pp. 93-4

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

  John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
• DnJ 2707 p. 94

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, A Text of Resurrection. Imperfect, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

  John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect ('Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast')
• DnJ 1429 p. 95

  Copy, headed Good ffryday made as I was rideing Westward that day.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

  John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
• DnJ 1374 p. 96

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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 604 pp. 96-7

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 1467 p. 98

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2466 pp. 98-9

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 3636 pp. 99-100

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• DnJ 1335 p. 100

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

  John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
• DnJ 2120 p. 101

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 126 pp. 101-2

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

  John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
• DnJ 991 pp. 102-8

  Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

  John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
• DnJ 1158 pp. 108-10

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

  John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
• BcF 49 p. 111

  Copy, headed Of Mans mortality, subscribed ffranc: S^t Albans.

  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
• DnJ 356 p. 112

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

  John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
• HeR 334 pp. 113-14

  Copy, headed Oberons Cloathing, the original subscription Ro: Herrick deleted and replaced by S^r Si: Steward.

  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
• HeR 404 pp. 114-15

  Copy, headed Vpon a Carved cherrystone, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
• HeR 144 pp. 115-17

  Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.

  Robert Herrick, The Lilly in a Christal ('You have beheld a smiling Rose')
• HeR 198 pp. 117-18

  Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Goe, and with this parting kisse, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

  Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')
• HeR 355 pp. 119-21

  Copy, headed My Daughters Dowrye, here beginning 'ffore I go hence, & be no more, subscribed finis Ro: Herr:.

  Facsimile of p. 119 in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, BC, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

  Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more')
• HeR 166 pp. 121-2, 124-7

  Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed An Epithalamye, subscribed (first part) finis R: Her: and (at the end) finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

  Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
• PoW 56 pp. 123-4

  Copy, headed Vppon black hayre and eyes, unascribed.

  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'
• HeR 315 pp. 127-8

  Copy, headed Elegye, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

  Robert Herrick, Elegy ('Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe')
• JnB 187 pp. 128-9

  Copy, headed The Picture.

  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')
• JnB 223 pp. 129-30

  Copy, headed The picture of the minde, subscribed in a different ink Rob: Herrick.

  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
• HeR 113 pp. 131-2

  Copy, headed My farewell to Sack, subscribed finis Ro: Herr:.

  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

  Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
• HeR 260 pp. 132-4

  Copy, headed My wellcome to Sacke, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
• HrE 51 pp. 134-5

  Copy, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')
• HeR 325 pp. 135-6

  Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

  First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

  Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
• GrJ 62 pp. 136-7

  Copy, subscribed finis J. Grange.

  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
• BmF 112 pp. 137-9

  Copy, headed ffr. Beaumont to B. Johnson at London.

  First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

  Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

  Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson ('The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring')
• RaW 286 p. 139

  Copy, untitled.

  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
• DnJ 2932 p. 145

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  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')
• AlW 52 p. 146

  Copy, headed of the Virgin Marys conception, subscribed finis S.B.

  Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 37).

  William Alabaster, To the Blessed Virgin ('Hail graceful morning of eternal day')
• AlW 49 p. 147

  Copy, headed Of Christ, subscribed SB.

  Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 36).

  William Alabaster, 'To style Christ's praise with heavenly muse's wing'
• AlW 28 p. 147

  Copy, headed Of the passion of Christ, subscribed SB.

  First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 13 (No. 24).

  William Alabaster, The Sponge ('O sweet and bitter monuments of pain')
• HrJ 97 p. 157

  Copy, untitled and here beginning It is of certaine that a ceraine preacher, followed (pp. 157-8) by an answer (here beginning That no man yett could in the Scriptures find).

  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

  Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')