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  • SC 149

    A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624.

    1624.

    Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

    This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

    • SoR 18 p. 25

      Copy of lines 5-16, beginning Loves seetest mark, Lawdes highest theme, mans most desired light and headed Op Xt.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child') | Catalogue
    • SoR 128 pp. 27-8

      Copy.

      Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot ('Love mistris is of many mindes') | Catalogue
    • SoR 227 pp. 31-3, 25

      Copy of poems i-xii.

      Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude') | Catalogue
    • SoR 325 pp. 37-44

      A MS abridgement, headed Comfortes por the apflicted of the that haue lost a sister or such like, with lines 5-6, 13-18 of the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville, here beginning Fame, honor, grace, gaue aire vnto his breath, and lines 3-4, 9-10 of the Latin epitaph, here beginning Dotibus ornauit, superauit moribus ortu.

      First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

    • SoR 248 p. 44

      Copy of lines 3-10, 17-18, beginning Give sobrest countnance leave sometime to smyle.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style') | Catalogue
    • SoR 199 pp. 44-51

      Copy, with 12 lines of The Author to the Reader arranged in the sequence of lines 7, 9, 8, 10-12, 20-1, 23-4, 3-4 (beginning If equities even-hand the balance held).

      First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint ('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares') | Catalogue

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