A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription to Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham.
c.1552.Facsimile of the inscription in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Monograph No.5 (London, 1962), Plate 7.
A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription to Cardinal Reginald Pole.
1552.Copy, on 231 quarto pages.
c.1630s-42.Later owned by Bainbridge Dean (b.1663/4), of St John's College, Cambridge.
This MS recorded and collated in part by Denonain (1953) and subsequent editors.
First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in vellum boards.
Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr: Walter Rawleghe his apologie
, apparently transcribed by of for one A. Throkmorton for an aristocratic friend a (knight), with Throkmorton's accompanying letter (on f. 1r-v) sending this pleadinge Appologye
and commenting on the morals it exemplifies, dated 31 October 1618. 1618.
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Autograph draft, with copious autograph revisions, ff. 283r-6r in the hand of an amanuensis, 327 folio leaves, written on rectos only, bound in two volumes, in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed at the beginning of the second volume (f. [iv]) Authore Ed. Herbert...1619
and at the end (f. 327r) Parisji consum. 20/30 Juni. 1623
.
Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
These MSS discussed in Rossi, III, 417, and in Gawlick, p. xiii.
First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).
Copy of the Old Arcadia, in a professional secretary hand, to which is added some of the Certain Sonnets in an italic hand, 242 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties, within modern vellum.
Late 16th century.Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633.
and (f. 239v) This Manuscript wth many others were bought of Mr Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:
. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
Copy of the complete text, with some corrections in a later hand.
Edited from this MS in Robertson. The poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 528-9.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia
) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.
Copy, in a second secretary hand, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Ringler, pp. 147-8.
Copy, headed To the tune of Basciam vita mia
.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Ringler, p. 139.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Ringler, p. 138.
Copy, headed Non credo gia che piu infelice am'te
.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Ringler, pp. 136-7.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Ringler, pp. 159-61.
A quarto academic miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, associated with Oxford, iv + 206 + iv pages, in half-leather marbled boards.
Mid-late 17th century.A doubtful later inscription (p. 23) Common-Place -book by G [altered in pencil to H] Vaughan
. Given to the library in 1877 by Professor J.E.B. Mayor.
Copy.
Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...
, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, vi + 210 + iii pages, in red morocco gilt.
c.1680s-90s.Owned (and possibly partly written) in 1689 by Samuel Clark; by Christopher Dalton, of Acorn Bank, Westmorland; on 30 December 1796 by George Ashby (1724-1808), of Barrow, President of St John's College, Cambridge; and (in 1791) by Sir Isaac Pennington (1745-1817), physician and chemist, also President of St John's College, Cambridge, who bequeathed it to the college.
Copy, untitled.
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.
A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders.
c.1628.Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A Letter sent by the bishop of Exeter to the house of Commons 28th Ap: 1628
, on a single folio leaf, imperfect.
Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal...
. First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a side-note Ecles: 10
, endorsed Vpon dissolucon of the Parliamte. Ao quinto Re Caroli
, on a single folio leaf.
First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd
. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
Copy, in a secretary hand, unattributed, on seven pages of four folio leaves.
Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...
. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Verses on ye Mitre Taverne in Cambridge &.
, with side-notes and glosses, on one side of a small, mutilated quarto leaf.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning I have heard of Ilands flotinge and remoud
, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves of verse relating to Corbett, endorsed Dor. Corbetts verses
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but endorsed The Townes new teacher
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning Here lyes Hobbynoll or shepheard whileere
, with two other poems on Cecil's death, on one side of a half-folio leaf.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
Copy.
Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.
Copy, in an early 17th-century hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1602, bound (on ff. 121v-8v) with an early 15th-century copy of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseide, 129 folio-size leaves of vellum in all.
Early 17th century.This MS collated in Wood. Recorded in Fox.
Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.
Autograph fair copy, entitled Expositiones quaedam antiquae in Epistolam Divi Pauli ad Philemonem ex diversis Sanctorum Patrum graece scriptis commentariis opera et diligentia Oecumenii collectae et nunc primum latine versae; with a dedication to John Seton, and presented to him on 1 January 1542/3.
1543.This MS recorded in Ryan, Roger Ascham, p. 301.
Facsimiles of the title-page and f. 6r in Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts (London, 1960), plate 34. A transcript of the dedication to Seton made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740) is in Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 43, pp. 535-7.
Ascham's Latin translation of Oecumenius's collection of Greek commentaries on St Paul's Epistle to Philemon. First published in Apologia pro caena dominica, ed. E. Grant (London, 1577).
A MS, chiefly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, mainly a fair copy with revisions, partly a first draft, of a 192-stanza poem incorporating The Induction and The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham (published in 1563), plus an unfinished draft of what is possibly an Epilogue to the poem (beginning Be this phaeton whirled within his cart
).
Additional passages in the MS first published in Marguerite Hearsey, The MS. of Sackville's Contribution to the Mirror for Magistrates, RES, 8 (1932), 282-90. The whole MS edited, with facsimiles of three pages, by Marguerite Hearsey (New Haven, 1936). Facsimiles of two pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 10-11, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), pp. 260-1.
The Induction and The Complaint of...Buckingham first published in A Myrrour for Magistrates, 2nd edition (London, 1563).
Copy, in two probably non-professional secretary hands, the title-page bearing the date 1584, 294 quarto leaves, in old reversed calf.
Early 17th century.Inscribed Ex dono Dignissimi viri Joannis Bagford noti in Historiâ Typographica
[i.e. by John Bagford (1650/1-1716), bookseller and antiquary], and Ex dono T. Baker
[i.e. by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary].
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
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 single neat hand, on sxteeni quarto leaves, in modern half-calf.
c.1620s-30s.A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...
. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
A quarto commonplace book, c.360 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
Inscribed (p. 99) J: Alsop Darbiensem
: i.e. John Allsop (b.c.1668), Fellow of St John's Collee, Cambridge, who is probably the compiler.
Copy of the shorter version, headed ye Maids Deniall
and here beginning Nay pish, nay phew, and will you? phie
.
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].
A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1630s-40s.Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting
(ff. 26r, 56r) and John M.
and John Susan
(rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS
:
Copy, headed An Ode to him selfe
.
First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe
, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
Copy, headed To Ben Johnson uppon occasion of his Ode to himselfe
, subscribed T. Carew
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
Copy, headed Iter Boriale. D. Corbet
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
Copy, after a false start (f. 17v), headed Song T C
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.
Copy, headed An Elegie on Cap: Haslerigge by wi: Dauenon
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 59-61.
Copy, headed To the Coun. of Anglyse
, subscribed T Carew
.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.
Copy, headed Ode Pindarique
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.
Copy, headed A trewe discription of the lamentable estate of the Cittie of London in the visitation of 1625
, subscribed P Messinger
.
This MS collated in Edwards & Gibson.
First published in H.W. Garrod, Genius Loci and other Essays (Oxford, 1950). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 399-405.
Copy, headed An Eclogue to his worthy father mr. Ben. Jonson
, subscribed Tho: Randulph
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.
Copy, headed A new yeares gift to mrs Porter
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
Copy, headed To the Right honbl: the Lord tre: weston
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
Copy, untitled, subscribed W. Shakspere
.
This MS collated in H.T. Price, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (6 September 1913), p. 230, and edited in Alden, p. 22. Recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
Copy, headed An Elegie vpon Dr. Donne Deane of Paules
, subscribed Tho: Carew
.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 250.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.
Copy, headed vppon my euer desired friend Dr. Dunne
, subscribed in a different hand D. H. kinge
.
This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 417
) collated in Crum, p. 200.
First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Aurelian Tounshind
.
Version Two edited from this MS in Brown.
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
Copy, headed on the Countesse of Pembroke
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy, headed on the death of Rice manciple of Ch: Church. R. Corbet
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
Copy, headed Song
and here beginning When whispering straines with gentle winde
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
Copy, headed To mr. John Hammond Parson of Beudly for the beating doune of the Maypole
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets
and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
Copy, headed F Beamond to his friend B Johnson
.
First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club
, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
Copy, headed On a good voyce and a bad face
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
Copy, headed Dr. Corbett to his sonne vincent Cor:
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
Copy, headed Dr. Corbett on his father
.
First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
Copy, headed A dialog betweene two Ladies. B. J.
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
Copy, headed J.M. vppon mrs. Anne kings Booke of pictures
and here beginning My eyes were once blest with the sight
.
Unpublished?
Copy, headed On Doctor Raines Bish: of London
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
Copy, after a false start, headed vppon B. Johnsonns ode
.
A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.
Copy, headed A hymenæall Dialogue in the persones of the Bride and Groome
, subscribed T. Carew
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.
Copy, headed Sent (with mellons) to the Lady Kingsmell, after a report of my death
, subscribed W. Dauenon
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 29-30.
Copy, headed To the greene sickness
, subscribed T. Carew
.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 292.
First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
Copy, headed To my noble friend mr John Croftes newly robde
, subscribed W Dauenon
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 44-5.
Copy, headed on a man and his wife
and here beginning Shee first deseased, he after liued and try'd
.
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
Copy, headed To a Ladie vpon Chast Loue
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.
Copy, headed Elegie On Gustauus Adolphus victorious king of Sweden
, subscribed Dr Hen: King
.
This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 417
) recorded in Crum.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
Copy, headed Elegie on the Earle of Rutland
, subscribed Will: Dauennant
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.
Copy, headed Aurelian Tounsend to Tho: Carew vpon the death of the King of Sweden
.
This MS collated in Brown. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 170 (pp. 198-9).
Brown, pp. 48-9.
Copy, headed Thomas Carewe his Answere
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.
Copy, headed A writt of Ne exeat regno agaynst mr Walter Mountague going to trauyle
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 78-9.
Copy, headed mr Herick to his friend mr. Weeks
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
Copy, headed vpon mrs Cicille Croftes
, subscribed T Carew
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.
Copy, headed To a Ladye mistrustfull of hir owne beawtie. T Carew.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.
A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.
c.1636-40s.The name of the possible compiler John Pike
inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS
:
Copy, untitled and here beginning As Carefull Nurses to theire bede doe lay
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent
).
Copy, headed A meditation
and ascribed to Dr [Jhon King deleted] Hen: King
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K
, 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. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
Copy, headed The Rusticke gallants wooinge
and here beginning (ffaire wench) I cannot Court thy sprightly eyes
.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh
[i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
Copy, headed On Mans life
.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy.
Copy, headed On a Lady yt wore in her brest a wounded heart Carv'd in a pretious stone
, here ascribed to H Blunt
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.
Copy.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
Copy.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
Copy, headed On Malancholly
.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
Copy, headed One inamor'd on his mrs perfeccons
and here ascribed to Tho: Carew
.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy, headed On A gentlewoman walkeing in ye snowe
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy, headed Vppon A flye discou'rd in a ladies eye
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, here ascribed to Wm Stroude
.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy, headed his answeare
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee
). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as by Henry Reynolds.
Copy, headed Loues Complement
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
Copy, here arranged as lines 1-12, 27-8, 13-14, 21-4, 29-34, headed Another of old Hobson who dyed in the vacancie of his Carriage the sicknes being breife in Cambridge. 1630
, beginning Here Hobson lyes, who did most truly prove
and ascribed to Jo: Milton
.
This MS collated in Shawcross, RES, 18 (1967).
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.
Copy, introduced (on f. 19r) Ben: Iohnsons verses to Sir Richard Weston Lord Trer Jan: 10 for wch bee gaue him 401r
; 1636-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
Copy of lines 1-16.
First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.
Copy.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
Copy, headed On a Crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling & somewhat boasting
.
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
Copy, ascribed to J. E.
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
Copy, headed Dr Dons last verses
.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy of a version in praise of great Buckinghame
, possibly satirical.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see
Copy, headed On a Beggar
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo
) and 10.
Copy, headed A discontented louers passion for the losse of a false Mrs
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
Copy, headed On a Whoremaster
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes
in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray
).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more
: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more
and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
Copy.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy of a version headed on a Mrs
and here beginning That you haunt whores yor Mrs taxeth you
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.
Copy, headed By Th: Randall on ye losse of his finger
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
Copy, headed A dialogue betweene Orpheus & Charon
.
Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 84, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
.
Copy, headed By Sr Wa: Raleigh the night before his execucon
.
First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
Copy, headed The morneing before his execucon
.
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 a New years guift By Mr Dauenant on Sr Endimions Porters
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.
. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
Copy, headed By Mr Thomas Carey on his entertainement att a gent house in the winter
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
Copy.
This MS recorded 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.
Copy, headed To the Marques of Buck on his iourney to Spaine R Corbet
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
Copy.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
Copy, headed On a louer that made diverse copies of Vses to his Mrs. that car'd not for him
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Copy, headed On ravisht wth his Mrs perfeccons
and here ascribed to Th: Ca:
.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy, headed Against Dr Prices Anniversaries of P Henry
.
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
Copy.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night
): see
Copy, headed Dr Corbetts Answeare
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett on Mrs Mallett
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
Copy, headed A gratulatorie to Mr Johnson ffor his voluntarie adoption of me to bee his sonne
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
Copy.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as by John Grange.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628-40, in a single non-professional hand, 62 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1640s.Copy, headed Sr Benjamin Rudyers speech Nou ye 9th
.
Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...
. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
A duodecimo commonplace book, in several hands, in English and Latin, probably associated with Oxford, written from both ends, 147 leaves, in contemporary calf.
The original blanks later filled with texts with headings including (f. 116v rev.)By my cousen Stansfild oct 2 87
and (f. 102v rev.) By Mr Band of Stroud oct 1687
.
Copy, headed Oratio habita coram Rege, Woodstockiæ, die 30 Augusti A°. 1635, á Guliel. Strode publice Academiæ Oratore
.
Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro …
.
Copy, headed Sr Kellam Digbie's Farewell to the World
.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, probably in several hands, ii + 176 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
Inscribed inside the front cover Beinge Boughte of Joh grocer. 1617
[vnwritten
added in different ink]. Later owned by Samuel Newton (d.1718), antiquary and Mayor of Cambridge, and then by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
Copy, the main text in probably a single secretary hand, the title-page supplied by Thomas Baker.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
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.
A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.
Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.
c.1630s.Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq
, Jos. Nicholson
, Wm Richardson
, and Somers
. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
Copy of the song.
First published, as The Song
, in Nashe's Pleasant Comedie
Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.
Copy, headed Vppon a Puritan Taylor
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
Copy of poems 1-3, 10-12 (The Courtier, The Divine, The Souldier, The Marryed
[i.e.The Wyfe
], The Widowe, and The Mayde), the poems numbered in the margin 22-24, 31-33, imperfect, lacking pp. 33-4.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601.
First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.
Copy, headed In Sabinam
.
First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.
Copy of lines 1-16, set out as five lines, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, headed vppon a cobler & a curate
.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
Copy, headed Vppon a Puritan beeinge a lock smythe
and here beginning A zealous brother, dyed of late
.
Whitlock, p. 108.
Copy, headed The Oxford ballad
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
Copy, headed A hermite in an arboure, wth a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurninge A Globe
.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, untitled, here beginning Six of ye weakest sex yet purest secte
.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
Copy, headed An Elegie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed Vppon A Chayne
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.
Copy of a five-stanza version.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
Copy, headed Erat quidam homo
and here beginning Ther was no certayne when a Certyne teacher
, followed (p. 17) by an answear
(here beginning That noe man yet Could in the Bible find
).
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
Copy, headed An Elegy vpon ye Death of Sr John Burrows
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
Copy of the Omnibus, headed Epitaph
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr Ed: Herberte
.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 132.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 53.
Copy, headed A Sonnet
.
First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.
Copy, headed Sr Jo: Harringtonn to his wife
.
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 81. McClure No. 177, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 20bis, p. 175.
Signed by Harvey.
Late 16th century?.Stern, p. 200.
Copy of 64 sonnets by William Alabaster, together with a prose meditation (An admonition for the morninge
by Elizabeth Grymeston and an anonymous prayer, in a single secretary hand, on seventeen quarto leaves (plus five blanks), subscribed at the end Finis Anno dni 1628
.
Bound with a printed exemplum of Heures en Françoys et en Latin a l'Usage de Rome (Lyon, 1558), in elaborately tooled contemporary calf gilt.
1628.Later owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. A flyleaf (f. [ir]) inscribed in pencil by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar, ascribing the sonnets to Alabaster.
A reproduction of this MS is in the Huntington (FAC 636).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 1
, the page headed Anno dom / 16-27
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 1 (No. 1).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 2
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 1 (No. 2).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 3
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 2 (No. 3).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 4
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 2 (No. 4).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 5
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 3 (No. 5).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 6
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 3 (No. 6).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 7
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 4 (No. 7).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 8
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 4 (No. 8).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 9
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 5 (No. 9).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 1o
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 5 (No. 10).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 11
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 6 (No. 11).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 12
.
Edited from this MS in Pollen and in Sonnets.
First published in J.H. Pollen, William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Sonnets, p. 7 (No. 12).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 13
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 7 (No. 13).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 14
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 8 (No. 14).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 15
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 8 (No. 15).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 16
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 9 (No. 16).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 17
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 9 (No. 17).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 18
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 10 (No. 18).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 19
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 11 (No. 20).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 20
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
First published in John Boys, An Exposition of the Festivall Epistles and Gospels (London, 1613). Sonnets, p. 10 (No. 19).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 21
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 12 (No. 22).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 22
.
Edited from this MS in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 12 (No. 23).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 23
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 13 (No. 24).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 24
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
First published in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 35).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 25
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 36).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 26
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 37).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 27
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 17 (No. 32).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 28
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 25).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 29
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 26).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 30
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 33).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 31
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 38).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 32
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 39).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 33
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 40).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 34
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 22 (No. 41).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 35
.
Edited from this MS in Pollen Collated in Sonnets.
First published in J.H. Pollen, William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 348. Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 34).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 36
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 23 (No. 42).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 37
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 43).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 38
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 44).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 39
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 25 (No. 45).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 40
.
Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.
First published (with errors) in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 26 (No. 46).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 41
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 48).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 42
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 28 (No. 49).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 43
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 29 (No. 52).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 44
.
Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 30 (No. 53).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 45
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Copy, the sonnet numbered 46
.
Edited from this MS, as The Mystery, in I.I. Guiney (ed.), Recusant Poets: More to Jonson (1938), pp. 335-49. This MS collated in Sonnets.
First published, as The Mystery, in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 347. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 55).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 47
.
Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 56).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 48
.
Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-, and in Louise I. Guiney (ed.), Recusant Poets: More to Jonson (1938), pp. 335-49. Collated in Sonnets.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. As Sons of God in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p 347. Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 57).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 49
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 58).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 50
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 59).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 51
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 61).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 52
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 62).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 53
.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 47).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 54
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 63).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 55
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 64).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 56
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 65).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 57
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 66).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 58
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 37 (No. 67).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 59
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 68).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 60
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 69).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 61
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
First published in Bertram Dobell, The Sonnets of William Alabaster, Athenaeum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-8. Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 70).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 62
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 71).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 63
.
First published in J.H. Pollen, William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 349. Sonnets, p. 42 (No. 77).
Copy, the sonnet numbered 64
, subscribed finis / Anno dom 1628
.
This MS collated in Sonnets.
Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 60).
Herrick's signature (Robert Hearick
). The signature appears under a similar heading to the poet's previous entry (which in this instance is in Herrick's hand). [1620].
Admission Book.
Nashe's signature, 1584.
Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XX(e).
