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Royal Library, Stockholm

  • Cod. Holm. A.781

    Autograph calligraphic MS, iv + 8 leaves + 308 pages, in contemporary white silk over millboard embroidered.

    A presentation MS to Prince Henry, with a Dedication to him, in a small Roman script, with colour and gold decoration, a miniature, and a self-portrait.

    15 September 1612.

    Later owned by Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg, great-granddaughter of Prince Henry's sister, Elizabeth of Bohemia; then by Sophia Dorothea's daughter, Louisa Ulrica, who married Adolf Fredrik of Sweden in 1751.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 39 (pp. 69-70).

    • *InE 40
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A French translation of the Psalms, the headings in Latin, with verses in French to Esther Inglis by Velde.

      Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Les Pseaumes de David. Escrit par Esther Inglis le xv de Sept: 1612

  • MS Vu. 69

    A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

    c.1680.

    Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

    • RoJ 146 pp. 5-19

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 295 pp. 21-34

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      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).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • DoC 318 p. 35

      Copy, headed Regime d'viver.

      This MS collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

      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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')
    • RoJ 479 pp. 37-46

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • RoJ 55 pp. 47-50

      Copy, headed The Maim'd Drunkard.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 518 pp. 51-2

      Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • RoJ 109 pp. 53-7

      Copy, headed The Disappointment.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')
    • RoJ 559 pp. 61-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
    • DoC 82 pp. 63-9

      Copy, headed A Duell Between Two Monsters upon my Lady Be-ts C-t.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
    • RoJ 83 pp. 71-6

      Copy, headed From E:R: to E:M..

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 280 pp. 77-86

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
    • RoJ 550 pp. 87-8

      Copy, headed Nestor.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')
    • BeA 6 pp. 89-96

      Copy, headed The Imperfect Enjoyment.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.

      Aphra Behn, The Disappointment ('One day the Amorous Lysander')
    • DoC 113 pp. 97-101

      Copy, under the general heading Familliar Letters.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege ('Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley')
    • EtG 37 pp. 102-5

      Copy.

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')
    • DoC 22 pp. 107-12

      Copy, headed Second Letter.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      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. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me')
    • EtG 42 pp. 113-18

      Copy.

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('So soft and amorously you write')
    • EtG 11 pp. 119-22

      Copy.

      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.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 612 pp. 123-6

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published 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. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • RoJ 211 pp. 127-8

      Copy, headed Poet Ninny.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
    • RoJ 195 pp. 129-30

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
    • RoJ 189 p. 132

      Copy, headed Answer and here beginning I ffuck no more then others doe.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')
    • RoJ 249 pp. 141-3

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      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).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 18 pp. 145-52

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • RoJ 572 pp. 153-6

      Copy, headed On Nothing.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • RoJ 205 pp. 157-8

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth, in Walker, and in part in Love.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')
    • RoJ 490 pp. 159-62

      Copy, headed Ovid...To Love.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
    • RoJ 628 pp. 163-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
    • RoJ 467 pp. 165-6

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')
    • RoJ 389 p. 167

      Copy, headed To Thirsis, followed (p. 168) by Lady Rochester's answer.

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

      Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • RoJ 381 pp. 169-71

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
    • RoJ 175 p. 173

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in part in Love. Collated in Walker.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • RoJ 444 p. 174

      Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
    • RoJ 97 p. 175

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker. Facsimile in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
    • RoJ 420 p. 176

      Copy, headed Phillis.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 454 p. 177

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
    • SeC 104 pp. 179-81

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')
    • RoJ 412 p. 182

      Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
    • DrJ 99 pp. 189-201

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Vieth.

      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.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • DoC 58 pp. 237-44

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • DrJ 43.98 pp. 245-60

      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.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 356.2 pp. 285-94

      Copy.

      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), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • BeA 14 pp. 295-8

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.

      Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter ('What doleful crys are these that fright my sence')

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