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 56 p. 24
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode ('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie') -
SoR 211 p. 24
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong') -
SoR 18 p. 25
Copy of lines 5-16, beginning
Loves seetest mark, Lawdes highest theme, mans most desired light
and headedOp 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') -
SoR 38 p. 26
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte') -
SoR 117 p. 27
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse') -
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') -
SoR 75 p. 28
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?') -
SoR 97 p. 28
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die') -
SoR 6 p. 29
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven ('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?') -
SoR 104 p. 29
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live') -
SoR 260 p. 29
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy') -
SoR 91 p. 30
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure') -
SoR 123 p. 30
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure') -
SoR 63 pp. 30-1
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race') -
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') -
SoR 26 p. 33
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse') -
SoR 33 p. 33
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest') -
SoR 282 p. 33
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 71-2.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse ('What mist hath dimd that glorious face') -
SoR 190 p. 34
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde ('if that the sicke may grone') -
SoR 205 p. 34
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse ('Remorse upbraids my faults') -
SoR 271 p. 34
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side ('O pleasant port, O place of rest') -
SoR 254 p. 35
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares ('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades') -
SoR 280 p. 35
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 73-4.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Upon the Image of death ('Before my face the picture hangs') -
SoR 135 p. 36
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven') -
SoR 182 p. 36
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore') -
SoR 220 p. 37
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest') -
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 theEpitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville
, here beginningFame, honor, grace, gaue aire vnto his breath
, and lines 3-4, 9-10 of the Latin epitaph, here beginningDotibus ornauit, superauit moribus ortu
.First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.
Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death -
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') -
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')