Copy of part of the work, in a secretary hand.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
A receipt book of one Mris Gratia Bartlet
.
Sotheby's, 22 February 1972, lot 544, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Lady Poole, London.
Copy of Sir Walter Rawleigh's great Cordiall
.
Copy, in a professional hand, on 40 folio pages, imperfect, used as wrapping papers.
c.1636.First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
Autograph letter signed, to her father, 31 January 1599
.
Facsimile of this MS in Spence (1997), p. 13.
Copy, written on a preliminary blank leaf in a printed exemplum of The Royall Game of Chesse-Play (London, 1656).
Mid-late 17th century.First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 113-14.
Copy, on an endpaper in a printed exemplum of Denham, Poems and Translations, 3rd edition (London, 1684).
Late 17th century.Once owned by two Cambridge men. Stuart Bennett's sale catalogue No. 2: English Verse from Chaucer to Hardy (1981), item 41.
First published in Edward Howard, The British Princes (London, 1669). Banks, pp. 155-6.
Copy, headed Epilogue to ye Earl of Essex
, on a single folio leaf.
First published in John Banks, The Unhappy Favourite: or The Earl of Essex (London, 1682). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 245-6. California, II, 182-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 429-32.
A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.
Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor Captain
Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), Secretary of the Muses
, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners.
Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it
. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby
.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.
Copy, headed A Panegirick By E: W:
.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Copy, untitled, inscribed in another hand by Hen: Savill
.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
Copy.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy, headed Advice to the King
.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy.
First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision
, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
Copy.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed On the Statue in the Stock's Markett
and here beginning As Cittizens that to their first Conquerours yeild
.
Facsimile of p. 109 in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 22.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
Copy, headed Character of E: M.
Love, pp. 92-3.
Copy, headed The Game att Chess
and here beginning My Muse and I are drunk to night
.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's
. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Richard Salwey, [6 June 1664].
1664.Owned in 1961 by R. Salwey, Ludlow.
Ward, Letter 2. Facsimile in Osborn, after p. 272.
A folio volume, with a few manuscript poems entered, probably by an Oxford University man, on the first ten pages, all the rest blanks, in a vellum wrapper.
c.1670s.Among archives of the Harcourt family, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.
Copy, headed On the numerous access of the English to waite vpon his Mats in Flanders
and ascribed to Katherin Philips
.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.
Copy, headed Carmina un delectum Bloodij fairnus de raptu Diademitis. Per Marvellum
, followed by an English version (beginning Whilst Valiant Blood, his Rents to haue regained
).
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
A second copy of Marvell's poem, followed by a version English'd by Mr Freak of Wadham
(beginning Blood to regaine his Rents
) and another Latin poem on Blood with a translation English'd by Dr Arden
(beginning Noe fitter Advocate e're cause did owne
).
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
A quarto miscellany, containing eleven texts in verse and prose, in several hands, including seven poems by Donne in a single hand, 114 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum wrapper.
Early 17th century.Inscribed on the cover Mich: Heneage: A Paris: i.e. probably either the son (fl.1640) or the grandson (1632-c.1707) of Michael Heneage (1540-1600), antiquary. Formerly Somerset Record Office DD/WHb/3086, among the Button-Walker-Heneage MSS.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Heneage MS
:
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
Copy.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
Copy.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
Copy, closely written in a cursive mixed hand.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on the rectos only of 32 leaves.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Autograph calligraphic MS, chiefly on rectos only, iv + 66 leaves (44 x 66 mm.), in contemporary green velvet embroidered.
A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Prince Henry, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in Roman and italic scripts, with gold and colour arms and decoration and with a self-portrait.
1 January 1608/9.Later owned by Princess Louisa Stuart (1692-1712); Edmund Stiles; Lucy Knight (d.1781) and by her husband (in 1746) Sir Thomas Rokewode Gage, Bt, of Hengrave, Suffolk, and their descendants. Recorded in Scott-Elliot and Yeo as in private ownership in Norfolk.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 37 (pp. 65-8), with facsimiles of the first page and the binding as Plates 26A and 26B (between pp. 342 and 43). They also record the Prince's Privy Purse Accounts recording payment to Esther Inglis (Mrs Kello) of £5 for gevinge a booke of armes to his highnes
, 20 April 1609.
Sixty-four coats of arms and crests of the nobility.
Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, iii + 37 leaves (97 x 135 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.
A presentation MS to the courtier Thomas Wotton (1587-1630), Baron Wotton of Marley, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in numerous styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures.
1606.Owned in 1657 by Charles Cotton (possibly the poet, 1630-87). Owned in 1832 by Robert J. Gabbett; bequeathed in 1857 to his niece Lucy O'Brien, then bequeathed by her to her daughter Mary Gwynn, and thence to the owner in 1990. Recorded in Scott-Elliot & Yeo as in private ownership in Northamptonshire.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 26 (pp. 55-6).
An anonymous verse summary of the Book of Genesis in fifty Latin stanzas.
Autograph letter signed, endorsed For my Lord Chancelor from Sr W. Killigrew 1664
.
Autograph MS.
Selectively edited from this MS in Meynell's edition (1918) and in Kissing the Rod (1988).
1653-7.In the possession of the Meynell family. Recorded in the online Perdita Project as seen by Faith Lanum in 2001.
Selectively edited in Meditations from the Note Book of Mary Carey 1649-1657, ed. Francis Meynell (Westminster, 1918), and in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 156-61.
Copy, on a single folio leaf.
c.1640s.Among papers of the Mainwaring family.
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
c.1700.From the papers of the Malet family of Somerset.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, in Latin, to Francisco Melo e Torres, Portuguese Ambassador to England, frpm Whitehall, 4 April 1660. Photocopy in the
In the Francisco Melo e Torres archive sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1978, lot 108, to Wesness
, with a facsimile example of the letter in the sale catalogue. Now privately owned: in UK sold to Brian T. Bristol, c/o Sotheby's, New York.
Unpublished in full; quoted and discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Some Uncollected Letters of Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 5 (1979), 145-57 (pp. 148-9).
A printed exemplum with Harington's autograph corrections. Allegedly Milton's exemplum.
c.1591-early 17th century.The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 330-6. Discussed in Ralph A. Haug, Milton and Sir John Harington, MLQ, 4 (1943), 291. Recorded in LR, II, 78-9; in Carey & Fowler, p. 155; in Boswell, No. 64.
Conveyance of land to Cyriack Skinner, signed on Milton's behalf by Jeremie Picard, with Milton's seal, 5 May 1660.
1660.Sotheby's, 2 August 1820, lot 62 (with other Milton family papers), to Boswell, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's 3 August 1858 (S. W. Singer sale), lot 75, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.
Facsimile of the signature
in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. ii, item 4). Reprinted in Hanford, PMLA, 38 (1923), 290-6 [Plate 3]. Edited in Columbia, XVIII, 420-1, and in LR, IV, 317-18.
A folio volume of 63 pedigrees of English noble families, with 65 coats of arms, on 225 pages, in old calf (rebacked).
Originally written in 1597 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, with Camden's extensive autograph additions, the latest for the year 1622, entitled Baronagium Angliae. Magnatum scilicet illius Regni Stemmata recentiora…delineata; with a contemporary index and a later index.
c.1597-1622.Later owned by Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 220. Christie's, 16 July 1969, lot 122, and 21 February 1973, lot 254, to Hofmann and Freeman.
A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.
Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, headed Ansuer to the defence of Satyr
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
Copy, headed Post Nihill Mortem &c.
.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
Copy of lines 174-221 only, headed Apologie
.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
Copy, headed On Sr cha: Scroop for Answering Ephelia To Bajazet
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
Copy, headed Ansuer'd againe by Sr char: Scroop on ye Ld Alpride
.
First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
Copy, headed on mr Edward Howard
, here beginning Raile on ye crittiques find one fault who dare
, and subscribed By ye Ld Dorsett
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
Copy, headed On mr Edward Howard
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
Copy of the full five-act version, headed The Farce of Sodom. or The Amours of Bolloximion
.
First published (?) at Antwerp
[i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.
Copy, headed on-portsmouths departure
.
First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.
Copy, headed A-satyr-Agst. Mankind
, lines 174-221 separately headed The Appology
, subscribed By the Earle of Rochester.
.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
Copy, headed Royall Resolutions
.
First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown
authorship, possibly Marvell's
, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.
Copy, headed The ExChequer Inn
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy, headed Song
.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
Copy, headed A Satyr
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
Copy.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
Copy.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, headed observations on Tunbridge wells
.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
Copy, here beginning out of stark love and Arrant devotion
.
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester
. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion
.
Copy, headed Song By ye Ld Rochester
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
Copy, headed The Duell of ye crablice
.
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
Copy, headed Letter from ye Lord Dorset to Sir George Etheridge
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.
Copy, headed The Ansuer by sr George Etheridge
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.
Copy, headed Second Letter from the Lord Dorset
.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
Copy, headed Ansuer to ye 2d=letter By Sir George Etheridge
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.
Copy of the Song
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.
Copy, headed The mock to it By Ld. Rochester
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe
.
Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.
Copy.
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset
.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Copy.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.
Copy, headed The Disable'd Debauch
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
Copy, headed My opinion
, with inserted sub-title or comment Agt york & Monmouth
.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
Copy, headed A Dialogve betuein ye tuo Horses att Wooll Church and Chareing Cross
.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's
. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed Advice to a painter
.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy, headed The Lord Rochester on St James's Park
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
Copy, headed Reginae de vive
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester
). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.
Copy, headed Satyr
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
Copy, headed Brittania & Rawleigh's Ghost
.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed The Lord Rochesters Fairweill
.
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset
in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705),
Copy, headed An Epitaph upon King James his death, written by Rt. Reverend Dr. Morley C.C.C. Oxon.
A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James
and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep
, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see
Copy, headed Sir Walter Rawleigh his Epitaph wreaten be himselfe before his death which was in @nno i6i8. Being beheaded in ye parliamt yeard att west=minster @nno forsaide
.
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
Copy, headed on The happy Corydon and Phillis By Sir Charls Sedley
.
First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.
A quarto MS volume of works by Octavia Walsh, entitled The Private Entertainments of Mrs: Octavia Walsh In her vacant Hours From the Age of Fifteen to Twenty-Nine, At which Time it Pleas'd Almighty God by ye Small-pox to take her out of this World. A:C.MDCCVI
, probably compiled by her family after her death, comprising some 33 poems on miscellaneous subjects and several prose discourses on religious themes, including a pen and wash portrait of her and some notes on the related Walsh and Bromley families, c.400 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Book label Bromley - Martin, Ham Court
. With a note by W[illiam] B[romley] paying tribute to Octavia Walsh and stating that the contents of the MS were found among her Papers after her death, till which time none of her nearest Relations knew that she was an Author
. Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33, with a facsimile of the title.
Unpublished.
Copy, on a flyleaf of a printed exemplum of John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1665).
Late 17th century.First published in John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1651). Works (1673). Gibbs, pp. 153-5.
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1591, with a few autograph marginal annotations by Harington, notably in the dedication to Princess Elizabeth and on p. 7, with yet later annotations in other hands.
c.1591.Later owned by one Gregory Haines; by the Rev. H.A.D. Surridge in 1908; and by his daughter Miss M.K. Surridge in 1947; and in the hands of Quaritch in the 1980s. The volume was once erroneously thought to have been owned and annotated by John Milton.
First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent
, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.
Autograph corrections and revisions by Mary Wroth to the printed text, in an exemplum of The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621).
c.1621.Later owned by Hugh McDonald (his inscriptions (Dublin, 12 May 1784
and 1783
); by Fitz Edward Hall (DCL at Oxford 1860); and by W.B. Chorley. Sold in 1948 by the bookseller Howard C. Howe, Waukegan, Illinois.
These authorial alterations are discussed and all incorporated in Josephine Roberts's edition, where a facsimile of sig. 3Y1r-v appears on p. cxvii.
First published as The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited by Josephine A. Roberts, as The First Part of the Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (Binghamton, NY, 1995). Poems alone edited in Roberts, Poems, and in Pritchard, pp. 127-99.
Walton's autograph signature on an indenture for his sale of the Black Boy
, in a street between Temple Bar and Drury Lane, to Richard Startyn of St Mary Savoy in the Strand, 19 May 1655.
