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New York Public Library, Arents Collection

  • Acc. No. 7482

    Copy of two texts relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Later owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (De Coppet sale), lot 984.

    • RaW 791 [item 1]

      Copy, untitled, on three pages, endorsed on the fourth page Sr Walter Raleigh's Execution.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 79 [item 2]

      Copy, on a slip pasted at the bottom of the third page.

      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'

  • S 115, [item 1]

    Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in double columns, headed The Poor Labouring Bee, subscribed Essex, on two quarto pages.

    c.1598-1600s.

    Later owned by James Douglas; by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836, (Heber sale Part VIII), lot 208, to Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Britwell sale, 1927, lot 1499.

    A complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

    • EsR 84
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

  • S 115, [item 2]

    Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed The poor labouring Bee, on the rectos of fourteen octavo leaves.

    c.1598-1600s.

    Owned in 1882 by William A. Bragge, and later by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 1499]. Subsequently owned by Francis B. White.

    Complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

    • EsR 85
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

  • Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167)

    A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

    Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

    c.1620-5.

    Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

    • DnJ 2742 Satires, pp. 1-4

      Copy.

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

      Facsimile of p. 3 in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), p. 195, No. 191.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2772 Satires pp. 5-8

      Copy.

      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')
    • DnJ 2804 Satires, pp. 9-12

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2834 Satires, pp. 13-20

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      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')
    • DnJ 2866 Satires, pp. 21-4

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 1938 Satires, pp. 25-37

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • DnJ 3068 Satires, pp. 38-40

      Copy, headed The Storme to Sr Basill Brooke.

      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)')
    • DnJ 380 Elegies pp. 1-5

      Copy.

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

      Facsimile of p. 3 in Tobacco: A Catalogue of...the Arents Tobacco Collection..., [Supplement], comp. Sarah Augusta Dickson, Vol. I (New York Public Library, 1961), p. 195, No. 191.

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 696 Elegies, pp. 5-7

      Copy, headed Elegia 2da.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2560 Elegies, pp. 7-10

      Copy, headed Elegia 3ia.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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')
    • DnJ 1688 Elegies, pp. 10-11

      Copy, headed Elegia 4ta.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2454 Elegies, pp. 11-13

      Copy, headed Elegia 5ta.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 2343 Elegies, pp. 13-14

      Copy, headed Elegia 6ta.

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

      First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 2209 Elegies, pp. 14-16

      Copy, headed Elegia 7ma.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 3178 Elegies, pp. 16-18

      Copy, headed Elegia 8ua.

      This MS collated in Grierson, 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 631 Elegies pp. 18-19

      Copy, headed Elegia 9na.

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

      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 54 Elegies pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed Elegia 10ma.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2508 Elegies, pp. 22-4

      Copy, headed Elegia 11ma.

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

      First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • DnJ 1537 Elegies, p. 24

      Copy, headed Elegia 12ma.

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

      First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 1042 Elegies, p. 25

      Copy, headed Elegia 13ma.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3734 Miscellanea, pp. 27-8

      Copy, headed To his loue vpon his departure fro her.

      This MS collated in Grierson, 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 2695 Miscellanea, pp. 29-30

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 830 Miscellanea pp. 31-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 352 Miscellanea pp. 33-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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')
    • DnJ 2141 Miscellanea, pp. 35-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2243 Miscellanea, pp. 39-40

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 496 Miscellanea pp. 40-1

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 554 Miscellanea pp. 41-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and 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')
    • DnJ 3704 Miscellanea, pp. 42-3

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 1202 Miscellanea, p. 43

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • DnJ 865 Miscellanea p. 44

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2296 Miscellanea, p. 45

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 188 Miscellanea p. 46

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3005 Miscellanea, pp. 46-7

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • DnJ 438 Miscellanea p. 48

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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?')
    • DnJ 2891 Miscellanea, p. 49

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 73-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 107-8 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 80.

      John Donne, Selfe Love ('He that cannot chuse but love')
    • DnJ 1328 Miscellanea p. 50

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2921 Miscellanea, p. 51

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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')
    • DnJ 593 Miscellanea pp. 52-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3662 Miscellanea, pp. 54-5

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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')
    • DnJ 2112 Miscellanea, p. 57

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 965 Miscellanea p. 58

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Gardner. 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 121 Miscellanea p. 59

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 1647 Miscellanea, p. 60

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 303 Miscellanea p. 61

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 3909 Miscellanea, pp. 62-3

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed His last will and Testament.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3845 Miscellanea, p. 64

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 670 Miscellanea p. 65

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 2088 Miscellanea, pp. 66-7

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 1175 Miscellanea pp. 67-71

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

      John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
    • DnJ 1263 Miscellanea, pp. 72-3

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3960 Miscellanea, p. 73

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 263 Miscellanea pp. 74-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson. 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 1971 Miscellanea, p. 76

      Copy, headed Mummie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 3786 Miscellanea, pp. 77-9

      Copy, headed A Valediction of my name engrauen.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 3110 Miscellanea, pp. 80-1

      Copy, headed Ad Solem.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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 2009 Miscellanea, pp. 81-2

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 1807 Miscellanea, pp. 82-3

      Copy, headed Loues Phylosophie.

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

      First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 23 Miscellanea pp 83-4

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 3626 Miscellanea, pp. 84-5

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardener. Recorded 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 3816 Miscellanea, pp. 85-7

      Copy.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 3292 Miscellanea, pp. 88-9

      Copy, headed A Letter.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3465 Miscellanea, pp. 89-90

      Copy, headed Another Letter.

      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 Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 751 Miscellanea pp. 90-1

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

      John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
    • DnJ 3495 Miscellanea, pp. 91-3

      Copy.

      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 Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 1455 Miscellanea, p. 94

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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 2639 Miscellanea, p. 95

      Copy, untitled.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • DnJ 1071 Miscellanea pp. 96-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson. 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 2424 Miscellanea, pp. 98-107

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

      John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
    • DnJ 793 Miscellanea pp. 108-10

      Copy.

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

      Facsimile of p. 110 in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28 April 1952, lot 12, and in Variorum, 2, p. 392.

      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 3858 Miscellanea, pp. 110-12

      Copy, headed Elegia 17ma.

      Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2, with a facsimile of p. 110 on p. 392. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      Facsimile of p. 110 in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28 April 1952, lot 12.

      First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

      Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

      John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')
    • DnJ 2718 Miscellanea, pp. 113-14

      Copy of lines 1-30, 55-64, headed Eleg. 18th

      This MS collated in Grierson, 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')
    • CoR 362 f. [2r-v rev.]

      Copy, headed To the Lord Marquess Buckingha, vpon his Journey into Spayn Richard Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
    • CoR 336 ff. [3r-4r rev.]

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • CoR 304 ff. [4r-14v rev.]

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northward from Oxford.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 680 f. [15v rev.]

      Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Malletts being in loue wth him.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • PeW 252.5 f. [16r rev.]

      Copy.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • HeR 46 f. [18r-20r rev.]

      Copy.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

      Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')
    • PoW 58 f. [20r-v rev.]

      Copy, headed On the Black Ladie.

      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'
    • CoR 594 f. [21r rev.]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
    • CoR 253.5 f. [22r-v]

      Copy, untitled, subscribed R: C:.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

  • Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442)

    An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index).

    Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford.

    c.1638.

    Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.

    • RnT 198 pp. 5-7

      Copy, headed Tho: Randall to his Creditors.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

      Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
    • StW 295 pp. 12-13

      Copy, headed On the blisterd lip of his mris:.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • CwT 1238 pp. 13-14

      Copy, headed On his mris: sicke of a Calenture.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
    • StW 1204 pp. 15-17

      Copy, headed Of ye translatinge of ye nightingale out of Strada by W: Stroud.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • KiH 346 pp. 17-20

      Copy, headed Dr Kinge on his wifes death.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • HoJ 139 p. 20

      Copy, headed On a fart in ye parliament house.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • KiH 297 p. 21

      Copy, headed On ye Earle of Dorsets death.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • WoH 192 p. 23

      Copy, headed on one dying prsently after her husband and here beginning He first deceasts, she after liv'd & tryed.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • CoR 494 p. 23

      Copy, headed On ye Death of John Dawson Butler of Christ=church.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • JnB 673 p. 26

      Copy, headed Cupid runs from Venus.

      First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).

      Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song ('Beauties, haue yee seene this toy')
    • KiH 128 p. 31

      Copy, headed Verses sent to his friend who blameinge him for not likeinge his Mris: and saying she was foule and blacke.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • HeR 158 pp. 31-2

      Copy, headed On his Mris and here beginning Amg ye woods as I walked.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')
    • CwT 143 p. 32

      Copy, here beginning We read of gods…

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

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 1017 pp. 35-7

      Copy, headed An admonition to coy acquaintance.

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

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • DnJ 2976 p. 48

      Copy of a four-line version, headed A Louer and here beginning Sweete alas why doe you rise.

      First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
    • CoR 305 pp. 54-67

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • KiH 161 pp. 70-2

      Copy.

      First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
    • RnT 102 p. 73

      Copy, headed On Sr Rowland Cottons death.

      First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. G4v-Hv. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 89-92.

      Thomas Randolph, An Elegie on the death of that Renowned and Noble Knight Sir Rowland Cotton of Bellaport in Shropshire ('Rich as was Cottons worth, I wish each line')
    • CwT 391.5 p. 77

      Copy.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid ('Since I must needes into thy schoole returne')
    • StW 589 p. 77

      Copy of lines 1-12, headed On the death of an old man.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
    • JnB 554 p. 78

      Copy of lines 1-4.

      First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

      Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke ('I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find')
    • JnB 420 pp. 78-9

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

      Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
    • JnB 391 p. 79

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (xxxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 36.

      Ben Jonson, On Banck the Vsvrer ('Banck feeles no lamenesse of his knottie gout')
    • JnB 405 p. 79

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (xl) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 39.

      Ben Jonson, On Margaret Ratcliffe ('Marble, weepe, for thou dost couer')
    • JnB 409 p. 79

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 30.

      Ben Jonson, On Some-Thing, That Walkes Some-Where ('At court I met it, in clothes braue enough')
    • JnB 498 p. 80

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.

      Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne ('Donne, the delight of Phoebvs, and each Muse')
    • StW 56 p. 80

      Copy, headed On the praise of gray eyes.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • HrJ 46 p. 81

      Copy, here beginning In older times an auncient custome was.

      First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • StW 428 p. 83

      Copy, headed on a gentlewoeman yt had ye pox.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • TiC 41 p. 84

      Copy.

      First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
    • HrJ 240.5 p. 84

      Copy.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning A gallant talking late in way of skorne.

      Sir John Harington, Of cursing Cuckolds ('A Lord that talked late in way of scorne')
    • RnT 109 p. 88

      Copy, headed on the Lady Verona Digby.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

      Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')
    • CoR 681 pp. 96-7

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett to his Mris: Mallett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • CoR 527 p. 103

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
    • StW 406 pp. 103-4

      Copy, headed On A Ladye that songe And plaid on a Lute.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • DnJ 1089 pp. 104-6

      Copy.

      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')
    • RaW 121 pp. 106-7

      Copy, headed A fancy and here beginning Callinge to minde eyes went longe aboute.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
    • StW 740 pp. 107-8

      Copy, headed A strange gentlwoman passinge by his window.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

      William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
    • StW 1348 p. 108

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')
    • StW 377 p. 109

      Copy, headed A songe on ye absence of a friend.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

      William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
    • CoR 546 p. 109

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
    • StW 1162 pp. 110-11

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.

      William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers ('Gold is restorative. How can I then')
    • CwT 1097 pp. 112-13

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 1207 pp. 113-14

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • DnJ 1379 pp. 114-15

      Copy.

      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')
    • RnT 464 pp. 115-18

      Copy.

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

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