Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999

  • Add. MS 15116

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 39 folio leaves, in modern half brown calf on marbled boards.

    Early 17th century.

    Acquired from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, on 13 April 1844.

    • BcF 168
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

  • Add. MS 15214

    Autograph MS of John Florio's Giardino di recreatione, including related poems in Italian and Latin by Florio and others in different hands, one (f. 12v) in the hand of the playwright Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), and (ff. 6r-10r) Florio's dedication to Sir Edward Dyer dated 12 November 1582, 145 octavo leaves, in modern half blue morocco.

    1582.

    Once owned by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda (see PsK 589.5) from whom the MS passed to her sister-in-law M. Philips, who presented it to Phineas Fowke (1639-1710), physician. Inscribed (f. 3r) Ex dono Gul: Oldys / Isaac Hard: i.e. given by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, to Sir Isaac Heard (1730-1822), Clarenceux King of Arms (and with his bookplate). Then owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 98. Inscribed (ff. 1r-2r) by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861), antiquary, on 13 September 1858.

    • *PsK 589.5 f. 4r
      Autograph

      Inscribed Katharine Philips, another page containing later notes about her by Phineas Fowke, M.D.:This book I suppose was presented by ye Author to ye famous Orinda [hardly likely since Florio died in 1626 before she was born], being found among her bookes of Italian & ffrench in wch she was admirably skilled, & was prsented me by her most deserveing Sister in law, Mris M. Philips. at Cardigan. A.D. 83.

      It is not clear how this volume came into Katherine Philips's hands, but it is a reminder of her knowledge of Italian (to her improvements in which in 1662-3 her letters refer repeatedly, while at least one of her songs — Amanti ch'in pianti &c. — is translated from that language). Moreover, (as Claudia Limbert has shown in Restoration, 13 (1989), 62-7) Philips's close friend Regina Collyer (whose mother's name was Anna Semiliano) was Italian.

      This volume recorded in both Souers and Thomas. Facsimile of the inscribed pages in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 187.

      Katherine Philips, Florio, John. Giardino di recreatione
    • *FloJ 1 ff. 5r, 14r-145r
      Autograph

      Autograph MS of the complete work, with a title-page.

      This MS recorded in Yates.

      First published in Second Fruits (London, 1591).

      John Florio, Giardino di recreatione
    • DaS 18 f. 13r

      Copy of a four-line Latin commendatory poem by Daniel, in an italic hand.

      Edited from this MS in Sellers.

      First published in H. Sellers, Samuel Daniel: Additions to the Text, MLR 11 (1916), 28-32 (p. 31).

      Samuel Daniel, In prouerbia Italica Johannis Flori Tetrastichon Samuelis Danielis ('Italicos poterit flores cum nectere Florus')

  • Add. MS 15225

    A quarto miscellany of largely religious ballads, in one or possibly more cursive secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

    c.early 1600s.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 188.

    • AlW 151 f. 7r

      Copy.

      First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • AlW 172 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Engl: by Ben: Johnson.

      A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
    • HyJ 15 f. 16v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Milligan, pp. 252-4.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

      John Heywood, A song in praise of a Ladie ('Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone')
    • DyE 40 f. 43r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Sargent.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'

  • Add. MS 15226

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several largely secretary hands, written from both ends over a long period, 149 leaves, in modern half blue morocco.

    c.1627-c.1673.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

    • ShW 20 f. 4v

      Copy, headed In laudem Musice et opprobrium Contemptorij eiusdem, subscribed W: Shakespeare.

      Printed from this MS in Alden, pp. 33-4, and in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 211; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 8 ('Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?')
    • MoG 10 f. 26r

      Copy, headed In obitum Jacobi Regis.

      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 MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • B&F 124 f. 28v-9r

      Copy, headed In laudem Melancholie.

      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 StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • DnJ 1580 f. 29r

      Copy, untitled, headed P Doctor Donne.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
    • TiC 53 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, headed The Oration of chidiake Thickbarne at his executon.

      First published in George Whetstone, The Censure of a Loyall Subiecte (London, 1587). Hirsch, p. 313.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Speech at his Execution

  • Add. MS 15227

    An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

    Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

    • DkT 10 f. 2v

      Copy, headed On the careying of Q: Elizab: dead body to Whitehall.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • DnJ 1759 f. 2v

      Copy, headed In Claudum Epig: and here beginning I cannot goe, nor stand, the Cripple cries.

      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.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • HeR 67 f. 3r

      Copy, headed In perjuratum amatorculum, subscribed R. Ramsey: i.e. Robert Ramsey (c.1595-1644), composer and organist.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      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).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • BrW 194 f. 3r

      Copy, headed In Comitissam Sussexiae and here beginning Vnder this cold marble hearse.

      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.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • HeR 209 f. 3v

      Copy, headed Nuncius amoris Apes and here beginning Fly to my Mistresse yellow footed Bee.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

      Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee ('Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee')
    • StW 787 f. 4r

      Copy, headed De perambulante puella, here beginning I saw faire Locris walke alone and ascribed to Joh: Earles.

      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).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • HrJ 36 f. 5v

      Copy, headed Juramenta antiqua, subscribed Sr John Har:.

      First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • HrJ 58 f. 6r

      Copy, headed Ad. reg: Elizab:, subscribed Sr John Harri:.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

      Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading ('For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince')
    • HrJ 137 f. 6r

      Copy, headed Sr John Harrington on his wife.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • HrJ 222 f. 6r

      Copy, headed Sacerdotis benedictio and here beginning A certaine preist once riding on the way, subscribed Ibid.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

      Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
    • HrJ 164 f. 6v

      Copy, headed On a Curate and a Cobler.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat ('A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed')
    • AlW 152 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Epigr: in duos fratres disputantes, alterum Papistam, Protestante alterum, et sese inuicem convertentes.

      First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • HoJ 321 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Juuenis delicantem quandam ancillam illudens and here beginning O Loue whose forces might none euer yet withstood.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • KiH 52 f. 8r

      Copy, headed The Answer.

      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).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • StW 1019 f. 8v

      Copy, headed Lusus amatorius.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • JnB 417 f. 8v

      Copy, headed In Vnionem Angliae & Scotiae and here beginning Was ever Contract better drawne by fate?.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

      Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
    • HoJ 148 f. 11v

      Copy, untitled but inscribed Ignoti cuiusdam.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')
    • HrJ 173 f. 14r

      Copy, headed The Taylors reformation.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
    • RaW 242 f. 14v

      Copy, headed Vita Fabula, subscribed Tho: Dod, Jesu.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • HrJ 193 f. 14v

      Copy of a ten-line version, headed Parturiens Puritana and here beginning A godly sister, by one of her Society.

      Edited partly from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 174.

      First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

      Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
    • DaJ 137 f. 15r

      Copy, headed On a Bellowes maker and here beginning Here lieth John Ellowes the King of good Fellowes.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

      Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
    • HrJ 91 f. 16r

      Copy, headed On Quidam Homo and here beginning There was not certaine, when a Certaine Teacher.

      This MS text followed by The Answ: to it by the Lady cheeke (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.

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • RnT 423 f. 20r-v

      Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed In laudem Aristippi and beginning Aristippus is better in every letter.

      First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

      Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher
    • HoJ 55 ff. 17v-18v

      Copy, headed On the Fart let in the Parliament house, here beginning Downe came Graue ancient Serjeant Crooke.

      Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • EaJ 20 ff. 25r-6v

      Copy, headed An Elegie upon the Death of Sr John Burrowes who was slaine by an unfortunate bullet at the seidge of the Fort in the Isle of Ree 1627.

      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).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
    • OvT 1 f. 28r

      Copy, headed Sr Thomas Overburys epitaph upon himself.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph ('The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest')
    • HoJ 298 f. 37v

      Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed Certaine verses sent from Serjeant Hotchkins to one Mr Hyrne of Bramford who then preached at Pauls crosse, on that day the King came thither to offer up his oblation at the altar for the birth of his sonne, inscribed in the margin Mar: 30 Ano: 1630.

      This MS cited in Osborn.

      The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

      John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')
    • CoR 378 f. 39v

      Copy, headed Verses inscript upon a Lute and here beginning Pretty Lute when I am gone.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

      Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • RaW 397 f. 42v

      Copy, headed In Robertum Car, comitem Somersetensem, postquam Essex: vxorem dixit.

      Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • EaJ 66 ff. 44-5

      Copy, subscribed Jo: Earles.

      First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford & Percy and Evelyn Simpson, X (Oxford, 1950), 333-4.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Ode ad B: J: ('Quin te Theatri sordibus, et magis')
    • HoJ 278 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, subscribed Hosequinus.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).

      John Hoskyns, In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi ('Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras')
    • StW 959 ff. 49v-50v

      Copy, headed The Capps.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
    • RnT 412.8 f. 56

      Copy.

      Thomas Randolph, Cantabrigiensium oenopoliorum Fatum miserabile ('Triste nefas morbo languent sitiente taberna')
    • RnT 383 f. 62v

      Copy, headed One upon ye losse of his finger, the poem followed by a Latin translation beginning Ter ternes tantum numerandi novimus arte.

      This MS (the English poem) collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
    • HrG 314.5 f. 63r-v

      Copy, ascribed to G: H.

      Unpublished?

      George Herbert, In obitum integerrimi pharmacopoloe Hadleiensis, Edvardi Gale febre extincti Carmen ('Anglici numquid pars regni nulla vacabit?')
    • DnJ 458 f. 75r

      Copy of lines 1-12, headed Amator.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • B&F 125 f. 75v

      Copy, headed Melancholicus.

      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 StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • WoH 82 f. 76r

      Copy, headed An ode upon ye Lady Elizab: Qu: of Bohemia, subscribed Sr Hen: Wotton.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • HrJ 87 f. 76v

      Copy, headed Roma, Amor.

      First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir John Harington, In Romam ('Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread')
    • HoJ 123 f. 79r

      Copy, headed The Parliament Farte.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • ElQ 36 f. 81v

      Copy of the Latin lines only, headed Papa ad reginam Elizabetham.

      This MS cited in Collected Works.

      First published in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), p. 227. Bradner, p. 7, one line as A Latin Hexameter, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 13, pp. 409-10. Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip of Spain, circa Spring 1588 ('When Greeks do measure months by the moon')
    • StW 395 f. 82r

      Copy, headed On a faire Woman that sung excellently.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • CwT 1244 f. 82r

      Copy, headed An health to his Mris, subscribed R: clerke.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

      Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
    • JnB 569 f. 82v

      Copy of Hedon's song, headed On a Kisse.

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 242-53. Song ('O, That ioy so soone should waste!')
    • CoR 413 f. 82v

      Copy, headed Epitaph: on Beamont.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit')
    • CoR 519 f. 83r

      Copy, headed Vpon ye Prince.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
    • RaW 139 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Vnto his Loue.

      This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
    • RaW 111 f. 88v

      Copy, headed To his Loue, subscribed Sr Walt: Raleigh.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 9B, p. 10. Collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 101.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
    • JnB 326 f. 88v

      Copy, headed Cantilena.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
    • JnB 8 f. 89r

      Copy, headed In Dominam amatoriam and here beginning See now ye chariot at hand heere of Loue, subscribed B: Johnson.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • BrW 118 f. 89r

      Copy, headed On a childe.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • HrJ 65 f. 90v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • BcF 14 f. 91r

      Copy headed Humani casus.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • MoG 11 f. 91v

      Copy, headed Vpon K: James.

      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 MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • RnT 586 ff. 92v-3v

      Copy.

      Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.

      Thomas Randolph, Verses upon the Vicechaun: pulling downe ye signes ('The Vicechauncelour doth like ye sunne appeare')
    • HeR 7 f. 95v

      Copy, headed On a dressing of hayre stucke wth jewels and here beginning Seest thou those rubies that shee weares.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
    • StW 1318 f. 96r

      Copy, headed To his Mris.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • PeW 205 f. 96r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 26, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On the Countess of Pembrokes Picture ('Here (though the lustre of her youth be spent)')
    • CwT 222 f. 96v

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • JnB 279 f. 96v

      Copy, headed Of Sand in an houreglasse.

      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.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • BcF 54.6 f. 97r

      Copy, headed On the Duke of Lennox yt died the day hee should goe to Parliament. 1624.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

      Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
    • JnB 128 f. 97v

      Copy of lines 1-8, headed On a Gentlewom: Tomb and here beginning Wilt thou heare what wee can say.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
    • RnT 324.5 f. 97v

      Copy.

      First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.

      Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')
    • DaJ 178 f. 98r

      Copy, headed On an Infants tombe.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')

  • Add. MS 15228

    A small quarto verse miscellany, including translations from Boethius, Martial, Horace, etc., in at least two secretary hands, one predominating, 73 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

    c.1630s.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 195, to Thomas Rodd.

    • RnT 400 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed Vpon the Newes of the King of Sweden's death.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death ('I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse')

  • Add. MS 15230

    Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 28 folio leaves, in marbled boards.

    c.1620s.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 217, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

    • HoJ 340
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.

      John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style

  • Add. MS 15232

    A quarto verse miscellany, in nine secretary and italic hands, 42 leaves (including blanks), in old marbled boards within modern reversed calf.

    Late 1580s.

    Inscribed names (on front pastedown) John [?]roper and (f. 40r) ffraunces [?]ington of the [?]. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author (with a note by him on f. 39r). Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 240.

    This MS (the Bright MS) described in Ringler, pp. 538-9.

    • *PeM 11 f. 1
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to the Countess's sister-in-law Barbara, Lady Sidney, from Wilton, 9 September 1590 (altered from 1591).

      Edited in Collected Works, I, p. 286. Facsimile in W.W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650, 3vols (Oxford, 1925-32), No. XLII(a).

    • SiP 1 ff. 21r-38r

      Copy of sonnets 1-20, 105-8, and songs viii and xi, in a predominantly roman hand, f. 31r in another roman hand, untitled, here beginning Louing in [truth and faine] in verse my loue to shou.

      This MS collated in Ringler.

      First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella

  • Add. MS 15233

    An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

    c.1530s-40s.

    Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

    This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

    • GaG 2.5 ff. qv-r

      Copy.

      This MS discussed in Pigman, pp. 646-8.

      First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 55-7. Prouty, pp. 161-3. Pigman, No. 64, pp. 286-8.

      George Gascoigne, Gascoignes good morrow ('You that have spent the silent night')
    • HyJ 9 f. 31v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynis qd Jhon Heywoode.

      Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 254.

      First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 61-2.

      John Heywood, 'I desyre no number of manye thynges for store'
    • HyJ 13 f. 41r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 77-8. Milligan, pp. 255-6.

      John Heywood, 'Man, for thyne yll lyfe formerly'
    • HyJ 17 f. 44r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

      John Heywood, 'What hart can thynk or toong expres'
    • HyJ 12 f. 43r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed John Redford.

      Edited from this MS in Milligan.

      First published in John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (London, 1831), I, pp. 70, 72. Milligan, pp. 275-7. Possibly written by John Redford.

      John Heywood, 'Long haue I bene a singynge man'
    • HyJ 5 f. 46r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 86-8. Milligan, pp. 257-9.

      John Heywood, 'All a gene wyllow is my garland'
    • HyJ 6 ff. 56r-7r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed finis qd mr Haywood.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 104-6. Milligan, pp. 259-61.

      John Heywood, 'Be merye, frendes, take ye no thowghte'
    • HyJ 10 f. 57r-v

      Copy, plus the first stanza mistakenly copied in Be merye, frendes (see HyJ 6) and deleted, untitled, subscribed ffnis qd mr Haywood.

      Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 261.

      First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 106-7.

      John Heywood, 'Yf loue for loue of long tyme had'
    • HyJ 19 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynis qd Jhon Haywood.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 111-13. Milligan, pp. 261-3.

      John Heywood, 'Ye be wellcum, ye be wellcum'
    • HyJ 8 ff. 60v-1v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynis qd Jhon Heywood.

      Edited from this in Milligan

      First published as a broadside entitled A ballad against sklander and detraccion (London, [1562]). Milligan, pp. 236-7.

      John Heywood, 'Gar call hym downe'
    • HyJ 14 f. 62r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed finis qd Jhon Haywoode.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 118-19. Milligan, pp. 268-9.

      John Heywood, 'Man, yf thow mynd heuen to obtayne'

  • Add. MS 15476

    A quarto volume of verse and prose relating to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613, almost entirely in a single largely italic hand, 94 leaves, with (f. 2r) a title-page and list of contents, in modern quarter-vellum boards.

    Compiled by Nicholas Oldisworth, who records (f. 2v) that I Nicholas Oldisworth who wrote this Booke...did deliberately reade it over, on thursday the ixth of October 1637, and in the Hearing of my old grandfather Sir Nicholas Overbury....

    c.1637-40.

    Ourchased at Southgate's saleroom, 12 March 1845, lot 131.

    • RaW 398 f. 1r

      Copy, added to Oldisworth's compilation in a different hand.

      Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'

  • Add. MS 15664

    A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous documents, in several professional hands, 230 leaves.

  • Add. MS 15858

    A folio composite volume of correspondence of John Evelyn and Sir Richard Brown (d.12 February 1682/3), 246 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco marbled boards.

    Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

    • *EvJ 59 f. 241r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed A Note of Writings & Original Papers & matters of state, Accompts, Letters, Petititons, Grants &c. Relating to Sr: Rd. Browne Mr: Evelyn &c. Concerning ther Title to the pastures & other estate of Saye-Court, on both sides of a folio leaf.

      John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers
    • *EvJ 80 ff. 244r-6r
      Autograph

      Draft of a prose epitaph for the proposed monument of Evelyn's father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne (d.12 February 1682/3) at Deptford Church, with a drawing of it and a list of Browne's children.

      John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions

  • Add. MS 15891

    A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf.

    Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor.

    c.1640.

    Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

    • BcF 575 f. 4r-v

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • ElQ 202 f. 148r

      Copy, headed Her Mates speche in the parliamete howse at the progation of the laste Session 29 Martij 1584, with sidenotes.

      Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly collated in Hartley.

      Beginning My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner.... Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585
    • ElQ 184 ff. 198r-9r

      Copy of Version I, headed in another hand A speache of Quene Elizabethe in Pliament.

      This MS collated in part in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

      First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

      Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

      Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
    • RaW 859 f. 200r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, [December 1608].

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • EsR 64 ff. 244v-5v

      Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning There was a time when silly bees could speake.

      This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

  • Add. MS 15948

    A folio composite volume of Evelyn family correspondence, in various hands, c.156 leaves.

    • *EvJ 34 f. 156r
      Autograph

      Autograph Note of the Books, Prints, Letters, Mapps, Papers of state & particulars, Lent to Mr. Sam: Pepys, Late Secretary to ye Admiralty to be all returned me againe, on a single folio leaf; 5 December 1681.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 15950

    Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

    This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

    • *EvJ 35 ff. 76r-80v
      Autograph

      Autograph lists of books and manuscripts belonging to and written by Evelyn.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries
    • *EvJ 101 ff. 81r-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph Latin notes, headed Brevissimae Graecae Grammatices Institutiones, on seven quarto leaves.

      John Evelyn, Grammar
    • *EvJ 102 ff. 88r-93v.
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of A Compendium of the Pronunciation of the ffrench toung, on six quarto leaves. Notes on French vocabulary also occur on ff. 31, 59, 69 among historical notes chiefly written by John Evelyn Jr.

      John Evelyn, Grammar
    • *EvJ 103 ff. 94r-105r
      Autograph

      Autograph drafts of The English Grammer and The Latine Grammar, on 12 quarto leaves.

      John Evelyn, Grammar
    • *EvJ 146 ff. 106r-7v
      Autograph

      Fragment of an autograph draft on two folio leaves.

      First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

      John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend
    • *EvJ 147 ff. 108r-10v
      Autograph

      Fragment of an autograph draft on three quarto leaves apparently cut from EvJ 145.

      This MS printed in Sampson, Appendix B1, pp. 218-23; recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 167, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

      John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend
    • *EvJ 127 ff. 112r-21r
      Autograph

      Autograph notes from John Willis, The arte of Stenographie, or Shortwriting (London, 1628) on ten quarto leaves.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts
    • EvJ 128 ff. 122r-4r

      Portion of a copy of an essay in Latin in praise of Pliny and Juvenal, imperfect, on three quarto leaves.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts
    • *EvJ 129 f. 125r
      Autograph

      Autograph fragment of a treatise on metaphysics, on a single folio leaf.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts
    • *EvJ 74 ff. 142r-74r
      Autograph

      Autograph collections and notes, together with a printed prospectus.

      The prospectus printed in Bray, II, part i, pp. 107-9.

      Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

      John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum
    • *EvJ 214 f. 177r
      Autograph

      Autograph cancelled draft of part of Act I, scene ii, on a single quarto leaf, with an autograph drawing on the verso.

      John Evelyn, Thersander. A Tragi-Comoedy

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