The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999

Add. MS 18016

• BcF 334 ff. 91r-4v, 95r-106v

  Copy of speeches by Bacon, to the Judges in Star Chamber, Trinity 1617, and at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, in two professional secretary hands.

  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Add. MS 18040

• DrM 42 f. 9r

  Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Mic: Draiton.

  Edited from this MS in Simpson and in Hebel.

  First published in Percy Simpson, Thomas Palmer, N&Q, 8th Ser. 8 (28 September 1895), 243-4. Hebel, I, 497.

  Michael Drayton, 'Nature, and Arte are overmatcht by thee'
• JnB 555 f. 10r

  Copy, in a formal secretary and italic hand, untitled, subscribed Ben: Jhonson.

  Edited from this MS in Percy Simpson's article and in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in Percy Simpson, Thomas Palmer, N&Q, 8th Ser. (28 September 1895), 243-4. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 361-2.

  Ben Jonson, 'When late (graue Palmer) these thy graffs and flowers'

Add. MS 18044

• CrR 136 ff. 7v-12r

  Copy, with general heading Out of Crashawes Poemes.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published (in a compressed form) in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 263-75.

  Richard Crashaw, The Office of the Holy Crosse ('Lord, by thy Sweet & Saving Sign &c')
• CrR 222 f. 13r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 276.

  Richard Crashaw, The Recommendation ('These Houres, & that which houer's o're my End')
• CrR 314 f. 13r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin, p. 277.

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 86 (and later version, p. 277).

  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Sepulchre of Our Lord ('Here, where our Lord once laid his Head')
• CrR 321 ff. 13v-14v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 277-9.

  Richard Crashaw, Vexilla Regis, The Hymn of the Holy Crosse ('Looke vp, languishing Soul! Lo where the fair')
• CrR 270 f. 14v

  Copy, headed To our B Lord uppon the Choise of his Sepulcher.

  Copy.

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.

  Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid ('How life and Death in Thee Agree?')
• CrR 223 ff. 15r-16r

  Copy of stanzas 1-6.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 283-7.

  Richard Crashaw, Sancta Maria Dolorvm or The Mother of Sorrows ('In shade of death's sad Tree')
• CrR 18 ff. 16v-18r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 298-301.

  Richard Crashaw, Dies Irae Dies Illa. The Hymn. of the Chvrch, In Meditation of the Day of Ivdgment ('Hears't thou, my soul, what serious things')
• CrR 161 ff. 18r-19v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).

  Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption ('Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come')
• CrR 324 f. 19v

  Copy of the preliminary couplet published in the second edition of Steps to the Temple (London, 1648), beginning Loe where a wovnded Heart with Bleeding Eyes conspire.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).

  Richard Crashaw, The Weeper ('Haile Sister Springs')
• CrR 228 f. 20r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.

  Richard Crashaw, A Song ('Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace')
• CrR 255 ff. 20v-1v

  Copy, headed Good Councell to a yonge Gentlewoman.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 331-3.

  Richard Crashaw, To the Same party Covncel Concerning her Choise ('Dear, heaun-designed Sovl!')
• CrR 43 ff. 21v-2r

  Copy, headed An Epitaph of a yonge Maried Cupple dead and buried togeather.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).

  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together ('To these, Whom Death again did wed')
• ShJ 40 f. 72r

  Copy, headed Of the old Cittie of verulam nere S^t Albons

  This MS collated in Howarth and in Armstrong.

  First published in R. G. Howarth, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a Doubtful Poem.

  James Shirley, In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere S^ct Albions ('Stay thy foot that passeth by')
• CaE 11 f. 81r

  Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Vppon a monument of George Duke of Buckingham att Porsmouth.

  This MS recorded in Ackerman.

  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
• DaS 53.2 f. 142r-v

  Extract, comprising a version of lines 150-1, 154-5, headed Out of Daniels Phylotas, and here beginning He that will frett att greate lords and the raine.

  First published in London, 1605. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1949).

  Samuel Daniel, Philotas
• WoH 53 ff. 147v-8r

  Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')
• WoH 16.5 f. 148r

  Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
• WoH 184.5 ff. 148v-9r

  Copy.

  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 HrG 290.5-290.8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
• WoH 163.5 ff. 150r-1r

  Copy, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae.

  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
• WoH 217.8 ff. 151r-2r

  Copy, headed Of the Country life, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottoniana.

  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations ('Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares')
• BcF 14.5 ff. 153v-4r

  Copy, headed Of the world By s^r H: wotton, transcribed from a printed source.

  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'
• RaW 33 f. 153v

  Copy, headed S^r. Walter Raliegh the night before his death, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651).

  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153. See also RaW 101.

  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 RaW 739-822).

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
• RaW 243 f. 154v

  Copy of a version headed S^r. walter Raliegh of life and death and beginning Our lifes a play of passion.

  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')
• RaW 441 ff. 155r-6r

  Copy, headed S^r Walter Raileieghs Pilgrim, probably transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.

  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
• RaW 309 f. 156r

  Copy, headed By the same of feare, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.

  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 156.

  First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
• DnJ 2877.8 ff. 157v-8r

  Copy of lines 85-120, 339-54, headed Out of D^r Dunns Poems / Of Death and here beginning Thinke thou my soule that death is but a grome,.

  First published in London, 1612. Grierson, I, 251-66. Shawcross, No. 157. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 41-56. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 25-37.

  John Donne, The second Anniversary. Of the Progresse of the Soule ('Nothing could make me sooner to confesse')
• DnJ 3150.8 ff. 158v-9r

  Copy, under a general heading Holly Sonnetts.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).

  John Donne, 'Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?'
• ElQ 27 f. 159r

  Copy of a version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the word that spake itt.

  First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2^v of his sermon on Give us this day our daily bread. Bradner, p. 6, as Christ was the Word, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.

  A version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the Word that spake it published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among Poems attributed to John Donne.

  Queen Elizabeth I, 'Twas Christ the Word that spake it'
• HrG 115.2 f. 174r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.

  George Herbert, Frailtie ('Lord, in my silence how do I despise')
• HrG 12.5 f. 174v

  Copy, in an alter pattern, under a general heading Out of Herberts Poems.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.

  George Herbert, The Altar ('A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares')
• HrG 92.1 f. 175r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.

  George Herbert, Easter ('Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise')
• HrG 267.5 f. 175r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 68.

  George Herbert, Trinitie Sunday ('Lord, who hast form'd me out of mud')
• HrG 224.8 f. 175v

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.

  George Herbert, Repentance ('Lord, I confesse my sinne is great')
• HrG 14.5 f. 175v

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

  George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram ('How well her name an Army doth present')
• HrG 22.8 f. 176r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

  George Herbert, Avarice ('Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo')
• HrG 235.8 ff. 176v-7r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 83.

  George Herbert, Sighs and Grones ('O do not use me')
• HrG 61.6 f. 177r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

  George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God ('My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion')
• HrG 36.5 f. 177v

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

  George Herbert, Charms and Knots ('Who reade a chapter when they rise')
• HrG 30.6 f. 178r-v

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.

  George Herbert, The British Church ('I joy, deare Mother, when I view')
• HrG 148.5 ff. 178v-9r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

  George Herbert, Jesu ('Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name')
• HrG 32.4 ff. 179v-80r

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 113-14.

  George Herbert, Businesse ('Canst be idle? canst thou play')
• HrG 262.8 f. 180r-v

  Copy.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 122-3.

  George Herbert, Time ('Meeting with Time, Slack thing, said I')
• BrW 7.3 ff. 185r-6r

  Extracts, headed Seuerall sententious veres [sic] out of Britanias Pastorals, here beginning He that is stuffed w^th a faithlesse tumour.

  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Add. MS 18220

• CwT 625 ff. 10r-11r

  Copy, headed A Paraphrase upon the 137^th Psalm by Lord Digby, Earl of Bristol: April. 20: 1667.

  This MS collated in Dunlap.

  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).

  Thomas Carew, Psalme 137 ('Sitting by the streames that Glide')
• MaA 501 f. 23r

  Copy of lines 29-48, headed A Libell Taken out of the Painter, vpon H. Jermyn E of S^t Albans, here beginning Paint me S^t Alban full of Sup & gold and subscribed Comunicat ab H. North Arm^ro Julij 10: 1668.

  This MS recorded in Osborne and in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 99. Also briefly discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343 (pp. 328-9).

  First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

  Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State')
• HrG 324.2 ff. 30v-1r

  Copy of three poems in the sequence: Nos XI (De iuramento Ecclesiæ); XIX (De Textore Catharo); and XL (Ad D.O. M), copied c.1663 as not yet printed.

  Hutchinson, pp. 389, 382, 402-3. McCloskey & Murphy, pp. 20, 28, 60.

  A series first published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, pp. 384-403. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 2-61.

  George Herbert, Musae Responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Ante-tami-cami-categoriam ('Cvm millena tuam pulsare negotia mentem')
• DoC 272 f. 31r-v

  Copy, headed A Satyr upon Ed: Howards Poem, made by L^d. Buckhurst and subscribed Comunicat à D^re Sim: Patrick Sept. 6°. 1669.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
• DeJ 26 ff. 33r-4r

  Copy, subscribed Communicat a frater Tho: Watson Januar: 20: 1669/70.

  This MS recorded in Croft. See also Introduction.

  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W. C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [270-3]. James M. Osborn, New Poems by Sir John Denham, TLS (1 September 1966), p. 788. Banks, pp. 323-5.

  Sir John Denham, Elegy on Sir William D'avenant ('Though hee is dead th'Imortall name')
• MaA 176 ff. 44v-5r

  Copy of a 39-line version headed A Libellous Poem, subscribed Anonymus and Comunicat a fr: T.W. May. 20: 1670.

  First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

  Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
• ShJ 148 ff. 46v-7r

  Copy of the dirge, headed The Good Old English Sonet made by M^r James Shirley Thus (at the Request of a friend) In Latin Metrified, followed (f. 47v) by The Latin Version beginning Natalium Lux et Magnificentia, and subscribed Comunic. a frater Tho: Watson. 1669.

  Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

  James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
• CoA 16 f. 59r

  Copy, headed Paraphras'd by A Cowley and here beginning The thirsty Earth drinkes up the rain.

  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

  Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

  Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
• HrG 290.1 f. 60r

  Copy, subscribed Hæc omnia comunicata frater Ben. Watson & Rob. Peachy A. M.

  George Herbert, An Answer to Anacreon (suppos'd) by M^r Geo Herbert. Against Drinking ('The parched Earth when one would thinke')
• WoH 229 f. 69r-v

  Copy, headed S^r Kenelm Digby's Farewell to England, subscribed ex chastis M^ri Joan. Nitingale B. M. Jan. 20. 1658/9.

  This MS collated in Grierson.

  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. 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.

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
• WaE 368 f. 71v

  Copy, headed A Poem upon hunting the Stag by Waller, in print. The text followed (f. 72) by a Latin version headed Thus paraphras'd by Mr T: Townes and subscribed Comunicat ab Authour May. 15. 1671.

  First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

  Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
• MaA 263 f. 102v

  Copy, untitled, subscribed Comunicat a frater Ben: Whiting Aug: 5, 1672.

  This MS collated in POAS, I.

  First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

  This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

  Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
• JnB 426 f. 103r

  Copy of a version of lines 17-24, in an unidentified hand, headed Lord Buckhurst Rodomandado upon his Mistris, here beginning Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse, and subscribed Comunicat: á M^rs. Sam: Naylour Aug: 14. 1672.

  This version edited in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671), p. 14. Edited from this MS in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset (Urbana, 1940), p. 37. Collated in Beal. Recorded in Herford & Simpson. XI, 60.

  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
• DrJ 55 ff. 115r-17v

  Copy, headed Three Poems upon y^e Death of his Highness Oliver L^d Protecto^r of Engl. Scot. & Ir^d. Written by M^r John Dryden. M^r Spratt of Oxford. M^r Edmund Waller [but only Dryden's poem copied] and subscribed By M^r John Dryden written after the Celebratio of y^e ffunerall. Comunicat. a M^ro Hern.

  This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc cit.

  First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.

  John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
• RoJ 23 ff. 121r-3r

  Copy, in an unidentified cursive secretary hand, untitled (but for the Latin quotation), subscribed L^d Rochester.

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')

Add. MS 18647

• DnJ 36 f. 1r-v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; 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.

  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
• DnJ 3276 f. 2r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
• DnJ 3447 ff. 2v-3r

  Copy, inscribed in the margin D. to M^r. H: W:.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
• DnJ 680 ff. 3v-4r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
• DnJ 2542 ff. 4v-5v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
• DnJ 612 ff. 5v-6r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
• DnJ 2327 f. 6r-v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
• DnJ 246 ff. 6v-7v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

  John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
• DnJ 949 ff. 7v-8r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

  John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
• DnJ 420 f. 8r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; 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?')
• DnJ 3093 ff. 8v-9r

  Copy, headed Sunn Risinge.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
• DnJ 1790 f. 9r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
• DnJ 3716 ff. 9v-10r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
• DnJ 2436 f. 10r-v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
• DnJ 1822 ff. 10v-11r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

  John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
• DnJ 3609 f. 11r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

  John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
• DnJ 1056 ff. 11v-12v

  Copie, headed An Elegie vppon the death of the Ladie Marckham.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
• DnJ 1000 ff. 12v-13v

  Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of Mistris Bulstrod.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
• DnJ 1438 ff. 13v-14r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
• DnJ 478 f. 14r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
• DnJ 3645 ff. 14v-15r

  Copy, headed Twittnam Garden.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
• DnJ 2189 ff. 15r-16r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
• DnJ 1091 ff. 16r-17r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
• DnJ 812 f. 17r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
• DnJ 1953 f. 17v

  Copy, headed Mummy.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
• DnJ 578 f. 18r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

  John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
• DnJ 2029 ff. 18v-19r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
• DnJ 3891 ff. 19v-20r

  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Loues Legacies.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
• DnJ 2524 f. 20r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

  John Donne, The Paradox ('No Lover saith, I love, nor any other')
• DnJ 2903 f. 21r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
• DnJ 652 f. 21v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

  John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
• DnJ 3975 f. 22r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

  John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
• DnJ 1346 f. 22v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
• DnJ 1249 ff. 23r-4r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

  John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
• DnJ 1991 f. 24v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
• DnJ 1388 f. 25r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

  John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
• DnJ 2128 ff. 25v-7r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
• DnJ 340 f. 27r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

  John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
• DnJ 3160 f. 28r-v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and 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.

  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
• DnJ 173 f. 29r

  Copy, headed An Apparition.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
• DnJ 3479 ff. 29v-30v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
• DnJ 2606 f. 31r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

  John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
• DnJ 3309 ff. 31v-2r

  Copy, headed To: M: J: W:.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
• DnJ 3352 f. 32r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure')
• DnJ 3360 f. 32v

  This MS collated in Gardner; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare')
• DnJ 3334 ff. 32v-3r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

  John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
• DnJ 3228 f. 33r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

  John Donne, To M^r C.B. ('Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine')
• DnJ 3300 f. 33v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

  John Donne, To M^r S.B. ('O Thou which to search out the secret parts')
• DnJ 3219 ff. 33v-4r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

  John Donne, To M^r B.B. ('Is not thy sacred hunger of science')
• DnJ 3255 f. 34r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

  John Donne, To M^r R.W. ('If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be')
• DnJ 3247 ff. 34v-5r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

  John Donne, To M^r I.L. ('Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart')
• DnJ 3238 f. 35r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

  John Donne, To M^r I.L. ('Blest are your North parts, for all this long time')
• DnJ 3412 ff. 35v-6r

  Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton at his going Ambassadour to Venice.

  This MS collated in Grierson Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

  John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice ('After those reverend papers, whose soule is')
• DnJ 3427 ff. 36v-7r

  Copy, headed To H: G: movinge him to travell.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

  John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
• DnJ 3395 ff. 37v-8r

  Copy, headed To S^r: E: H:.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

  John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
• DnJ 3373 ff. 38v-9r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

  John Donne, To M^rs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
• DnJ 2708 ff. 39v-40v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

  John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
• DnJ 1673 ff. 40v-1r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
• DnJ 2493 ff. 41r-2r

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
• DnJ 1522 f. 42r-v

  Copy, headed Elegie.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
• DnJ 2382 ff. 42v-3v

  Copy, headed A Nocturnal vppon S^t: Lucies daye beinge the shortest night.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

  John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (''Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes')
• DnJ 715 f. 43v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

  John Donne, The Computation ('For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday')
• DnJ 906 ff. 43v-4r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

  John Donne, The Dissolution ('Shee is dead. And all which die')
• DnJ 3947 f. 44v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

  John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
• DnJ 1697 ff. 44v-5r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

  John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent ('Thou art not so black, as my heart')
• DnJ 2076 ff. 45r-6r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

  John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
• DnJ 1311 f. 46r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

  John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
• DnJ 1634 ff. 46v-7r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
• DnJ 3770 ff. 47v-8v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

  John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
• DnJ 9 ff. 48v-9r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

  John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
• DnJ 2098 f. 49v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

  John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
• DnJ 919 f. 50r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
• DnJ 2625 f. 50v

  Copy of lines 1-16.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

  John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
• DnJ 106 ff. 50v-1r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

  John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
• DnJ 852 f. 51v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

  John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
• DnJ 2683 f. 52r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

  John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
• DnJ 2360 f. 52v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

  John Donne, Negative love ('I never stoop'd so low, as they')
• DnJ 3829 f. 53r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

  John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
• DnJ 3801 ff. 53v-4v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

  John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
• DnJ 1188 f. 55r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

  John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
• DnJ 3691 f. 55r-v

  Copy, headed Platonique Loue.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

  John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
• DnJ 736 f. 56r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

  John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
• DnJ 2279 f. 56v

  Copy, untitled but under general heading Songes w^ch were made to certaine Ayres w^ch: were made before.

  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
• DnJ 2990 f. 57r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
• DnJ 291 f. 57v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
• DnJ 1473 f. 58r

  Copy, under general heading Epigrammes.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

  John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
• DnJ 2647 f. 58r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

  John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
• DnJ 2372 f. 58r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

  John Donne, Niobe ('By childrens births, and death, I am become')
• DnJ 521 f. 58r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa) and 10.

  John Donne, A burnt ship ('Out of a fired ship, which, by no way')
• DnJ 1270 f. 58r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall).

  John Donne, Fall of a wall ('Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall')
• DnJ 1729 f. 58v

  This MS collated in Grierson; 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.

  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
• DnJ 1880 f. 58v

  This MS collated in Grierson; 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.

  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
• DnJ 146 f. 58v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.

  John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
• DnJ 2258 f. 58v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

  John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
• DnJ 2584 f. 58v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

  John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
• DnJ 2395 f. 59r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

  John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
• DnJ 1714 f. 59r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

  John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
• DnJ 2663 f. 59r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

  John Donne, Raderus ('Why this man gelded Martiall I muse')
• DnJ 1144 ff. 59r-60v

  Copy, headed Epithalamion one a cittisen.

  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

  John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
• DnJ 978 ff. 61r-5v

  Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion, headed Eclogue Inducing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

  John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
• DnJ 4068 ff. 66r-82r

  Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 17 Problems.

  This MS discussed in Evelyn Simpson, More Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems, RES, 10 (1934), 288-300, 412-16 (p. 413).

  Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

  John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
• DnJ 1926 ff. 83r-8r

  Copy, headed A Letanie.

  This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

  John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
• DnJ 1413 f. 88r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

  John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
• DnJ 780 ff. 89r-90r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

  John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
• DnJ 2700 f. 90r-v

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, A Text of Resurrection. Imperfect, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

  John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect ('Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast')
• DnJ 1550 ff. 90v-1r

  Copy, headed A Hymne to Christ.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

  John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
• DnJ 1569 f. 91v

  Copy, headed To Christ.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and 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')
• DnJ 1660 ff. 92r-102r

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

  John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
• DnJ 761 ff. 102v-4r

  Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, under general heading Diuine Poems.

  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

  John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
• DnJ 214 f. 104r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

  John Donne, 'As due by many titles I resigne'
• DnJ 2476 f. 104v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. II, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. IV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

  John Donne, 'Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned'
• DnJ 3134 ff. 104v-5r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

  John Donne, 'This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint'
• DnJ 229 f. 105r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

  John Donne, 'At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow'
• DnJ 1615 f. 105r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. IX). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

  John Donne, 'If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree'
• DnJ 879 f. 105v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. X). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

  John Donne, 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
• DnJ 3039 ff. 105v-6r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

  John Donne, 'Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side'
• DnJ 3877 f. 106r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

  John Donne, 'Why are wee by all creatures waited on?'
• DnJ 3866 f. 106r-v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. IX, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

  John Donne, 'What if this present were the worlds last night?'
• DnJ 328 f. 106v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. X, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

  John Donne, 'Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you'
• DnJ 3935 ff. 106v-7r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. XI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

  John Donne, 'Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest'
• DnJ 1292 f. 107r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published, as Holy Sonnets. XII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XVI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

  John Donne, 'Father, part of his double interest'
• DnJ 1587 ff. 108v-9r

  Copy, the Lady Desmond inscribed after the title in a later hand which also adds the subscription J D.

  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

  John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
• PeW 23 f. 109v

  Copy, untitled, subscribed W: P:.

  This MS collated in Krueger.

  Krueger, p. 55, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Had she a glass and feared the fire'

Add. MS 18648

• FeO 75 ff. 1r-8v

  Copy, headed Three Moneths Obseruation of the Lowe Countries especially Holland, docketed No. 35.

  This MS discussed in Van Strien.

  First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

  Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Add. MS 18653

• B&F 167

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in A Collection of Old English Plays, ed. A.H. Bullen, II (London, 1883), 201-314. Edited by Wilhelmina P. Frijlinck (Amsterdam, 1922), and by T.H. Howard-Hill, Malone Society, 1979 (Oxford, 1980). Bowers, VIII, 503-89, ed. Fredson Bowers.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt

Add. MS 18752

• WyT 268 f. 87v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

  First published (?) in A Boke of Balettes, [c.1548]. The Court of Venus, later edition [c.1563]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Shall she neuer out of my mynde'
• WyT 189 f. 89r

  Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. See also WyT 21.

  Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 163.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres'
• WyT 21 f. 89r-v

  Copy, untitled, immediately following on from lines 1-8 of Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres (WyT 189).

  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

  Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 126.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Alas! dere herte, what happe had I'
• WyT 38 ff. 89v-90r

  Copy of lines 3-37, untitled and here beginning Evyn as yo lyst my wyll ys bent.

  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

  Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'As power and wytt wyll me Assyst'
• WyT 74 f. 163v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Edited in Daalder, p. 62.

  First published in The Court of Venus, [? c.1538] (no perfect exemplum known. It is in the later edition of c.1563). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 257-8. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Recovering the Text of Wyatt's Disdain Me Not Without Desert, Studia Neophilologica, 58 (1986), 59-66.

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Dysdaine me not without desert'

Add. MS 18861

• MnJ 111

  No description or publication history available.

  John Milton, Document(s)

Add. MS 18920

• *HrJ 8 ff. 1r-338r

  Autograph

  A fair copy of Books XIV to the Briefe and Summarie Allegorie after Book XLVI, partly autograph, partly in the italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, imperfect, with printer's marks, this MS being the printer's copy for the first edition.

  This MS collated in McNulty. Discussed, with facsimile pages, in W.W. Greg, An Elizabethan Printer and his Copy, The Library, 4th Ser. 4 (1923-4), 102-18, reedited in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 95-109; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLV(b); in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935), pp. 71-5; in Kathleen M. Lea, op. cit.; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 20; in Gaskell, op. cit., p. 11 et seq.; in R. H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 51.

  First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

  Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso ('Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight')
• ElQ 48 f. 322r

  Copy, in Sir John Harington's hand, with his introduction ...she that wrote in the window at wodstocke with a diamont, subscribed quoth Elizabeth prisoner, and with his longer subscription concluding with her(?) Latin translation, beginning Plurimi de me male suspicantor.

  This MS cited in Selected Works.

  First published in John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (London, 1563), p. 1714. Bradner, p. 3, as Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock. Collected Works, Poem 2, p. 46. Selected Works, Poem 2, p. 4.

  Queen Elizabeth I, Written with a Diamond ('Much suspected by me')

Add. MS 19253

• RoJ 167 f. 38r

  Copy, headed From M^rs: Prise [i.e. Henrietta Maria Price] Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent me a pair of Itallian Gloves, subscribed I had a mind you should see these inclosed papers which were writ by the Lord Rochester, and that hath occationd you this trouble from your humble servant.

  Edited from this MS by all editors.

  First published in Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1829). Vieth, p. 24. Walker, pp. 61-2. Love, pp. 92-3, as [Lines from Chesterfield's letterbook] From Mistress Prise Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent mee a pair of Itallian Gloves.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter from Miss Price to Lord Chesterfield ('My Lord, / These are the gloves that I did mention')
• SeC 126 ff. 121v-2r

  Copy of a letter by Sedley, to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, August 1682.

  Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 152-3.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
• DrJ 332 f. 179v

  Copy of a letter by Dryden to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, from London, 17 February 1696/7.

  Ward, Letter 41.

  John Dryden, Letter(s)
• DrJ 334 f. 180v

  Copy of a letter by Dryden, to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, 18 August 1697.

  Ward, Letter 45.

  John Dryden, Letter(s)
• BrT 0.93 f. 210r rev

  Copy, introduced this following Epitaph made by Doctor Broun, a fine Poet.

  Edited from this MS in Keynes.

  Epitaph of forty lines on the Professor of Divinity at Leiden (d. c.1645). Published in Keynes, III, 237-8.

  Sir Thomas Browne, An Epitaph on Monsieur Poliander ('Here lys deposited in trust')

Add. MS 19256

• DaW 142 f. 74r

  Copy of an unsigned petition by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2.

  Sir William Davenant, Letter(s)

Add. MS 19268

• ShJ 108 ff. 2r-3r

  Copy, headed Uppon the birth of the Young prince and here beginning fayre fare their muses which in welchim'd verse.

  This MS recorded in Armstrong.

  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

  James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
• JnB 280 f. 4v

  Copy, headed On an Howglasse.

  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')
• CaW 45 f. 7v

  Copy, headed A sigh sent to his Mistresse.

  Edited from this MS in Evans, pp. 701-2.

  First published in William Shakespeare, Poems (London, 1640). Evans, pp. 472-3.

  William Cartwright, A Sigh sent to his absent Love ('I sent a Sigh unto my Blest ones Eare')
• JnB 700 f. 8v

  Copy, headed A sonnet.

  Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
• CaW 13 f. 9r

  This MS collated in Evans.

  First published in Works (1651), pp. 215-16. Evans, pp. 468-70.

  William Cartwright, Falshood ('Still do the Stars impart their light')
• DnJ 2314 f. 10r

  Copy, headed To a dissemblinge Lady and here beginning Send home my strayinge eyes to me.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
• CwT 172 f. 10v

  Copy, headed A sonnet.

  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
• StW 994 f. 11r

  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')
• CoR 505 f. 11v

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
• KiH 614 f. 11v

  Copy, headed Loue ill-requited.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
• StW 877 f. 11v

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
• CwT 1261 f. 12r

  Copy, here ascribed to W.S..

  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.

  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
• StW 380 f. 12r

  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman playinge vppon y^e Lute.

  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')
• WoH 184.8 f. 12r

  Copy, headed On a gentleman dyeinge soone after his wife and here beginning She first deceased he after liu'd, & tryde.

  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 HrG 290.5-290.8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
• StW 366 f. 12v

  Copy.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

  William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
• CoR 414 f. 12v

  Copy, headed On S^r francis Beaumont's death.

  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')
• StW 160 f. 13r

  Copy, headed On Musicke.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

  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).

  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
• StW 909 f. 13v

  Copy, headed A sonnet.

  First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

  William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
• JnB 18 f. 14r

  Copy of lines 21-30, headed Another and here beginning Have you seen y^e white lilie growe.

  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')
• RnT 164.5 f. 18r

  Copy, following the Latin version.

  First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

  Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')
• JnB 66 f. 18v

  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons Epigram on the prince his birth.

  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

  Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
• CoR 520 f. 18v

  Copy, untitled.

  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')
• DnJ 2961 f. 19r

  Copy, headed Uppon 2 louers loath to depart, here beginning Lie still my dear, why dost thou rise (and see DnJ 458.5).

  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
• DnJ 458.5 f. 19r

  Copy of lines 1-6, untitled, immediately following DnJ 2961.

  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?')
• StW 839 f. 19r

  Copy, headed To his Mistres not to torment him, subscribed W. S.

  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
• DnJ 316 f. 19v

  Copy, headed An invitation to his M^rs. to com and fish, subscribed Henry Wotton.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
• StW 446 f. 20r

  Copy, subscribed W. S.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
• StW 728 f. 21v

  Copy, headed Vppon a Lady as hee saw her out of a Casem^ent walking in the streete, subscribed W. Straod.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
• HeR 383 f. 22r

  Copy, headed A complaint of his piurd M^rs.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
• HeR 68 f. 22r

  Copy, headed Her Answere.

  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')
• KiH 53 f. 22v

  Copy, headed The faire boys answere to the black mayde.

  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')
• HeR 8 f. 23r

  Copy, headed On his M^rs adornd with sewerall sorts of jewells and here beginning Seest thou thos rubies w^ch 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 752 f. 23r

  Copy, headed On his M^ris walkinge in the 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).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• BrW 85 f. 23v

  Copy, headed Vppon an Infant unborne the Mother dying thereof.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
• DnJ 3202 f. 24r-v

  Copy, headed On his Mistres as she was Cominge to Bed, subscribed D^r Donne.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.

  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
• StW 1086 f. 25r-v

  Copy, headed To a gentle-woeman [for a friend W. S. added in a different ink], subscribed Will: Strowd.

  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.

  Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
• MrJ 31 f. 31r-v

  Copy, headed Verses on the Duke of Buckingham, here beginning And art thou turnd w^th all thy faults.

  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
• CaE 12 f. 32r

  Copy of a 50-line version.

  This MS recorded in Akkerman.

  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
• StW 265 ff. 34v-5r

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 205-7.

  William Strode, A Newyeares-gift ('Others may give you presents out of Thrift')
• CoR 85 ff. 35v-6r

  Copy, headed An Epitaph on D^r Corbets father, subscribed D^or Corbett.

  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.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
• DnJ 1087 f. 36v

  Copy of lines 43-6 (beginning She sinn'd, but just enough to let us see), untitled.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
• DnJ 1115 f. 36v-7r

  Copy, untitled and incomplete.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
• DnJ 1027 f. 37r

  Copy of lines 5-6, 46-52, 73-4, here beginning Th' earths face is but thy table, ther are set.

  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
• WiG 19 f. 37v

  Copy.

  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 915. Sidgwick, II, 177.

  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue ('Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye')
• CwT 709 f. 38r

  Copy, headed To his M^rs. J. C.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
• HeR 268 ff. 39v-41

  Copy, headed Mr Herrickes welcome to Sacke.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
• StW 987 f. 41r

  Copy, as p W. S.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.

  William Strode, A song on the Baths ('What Angel stirrs this happy well?')
• StW 635 f. 41v

  Copy, as p W. S.

  Edited in part from this MS in Seventeenth Century Lyrics, ed. Norman Ault (London, 1928)m p., 172, and from this MS in Poetry of the English Remaissance 1509-1660, ed. J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson (New York, 1929), pp. 635-6.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

  William Strode, On Westwell Downes ('When Westwell Downes I gan to treade')
• StW 474 f. 42r

  Copy, here beginning A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part, as by W. S.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.

  William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith ('Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part')
• StW 305 f. 42r

  Copy, as by W. S.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
• CoR 670 ff. 42v-3r

  Copy, headed On M^rs Mallett.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
• StW 1363 f. 43v

  Copy, headed A Blush.

  This MS recorded in Forey.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')

Add. MS 19269

• HeR 231.5 f. 166r

  Copy.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

  Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
• OxE 24 ff. 202v-3r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in May.

  First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). May, Poems, No. 13 (p. 35). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 279-80. EV 30349.

  Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Wheras the Harte at Tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall'

Add. MS 19333

• *HuL 1

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Lucy Hutchinson's verse translation from Lucretius. First published in London, 1656. Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerum natura, ed. Hugh de Quehen (London, 1996). The Works of Lucy Hutchinson. Volume 1: The Translation of Lucretius, ed. Reid Barbour and David Norbrook (Oxford, 2012).

  Lucy Hutchinson, De Rerum Natura

Add. MS 19399

• *CoA 219 ff. 49r-50v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed, [to ? Henry Bennet], from Paris, 8 January 1648.

  Edited in Grosart, II, 352-3. Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII (a-b).

  Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
• *CoA 252 ff. 72r-3v

  Autograph

  Instructions for M^r. Denham, entirely in Cowley's hand and signed by Queen Henrietta Maria, 10 May 1649.

  Edited in Hilton Kelliher, John Denham: New Letters and Documents, BLJ, 12 (1986), 1-20 (pp. 18-19).

  Abraham Cowley, Document(s)

Add. MS 19591-19618

Add. MS 19592

• *VaJ 394

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19593

• *VaJ 395

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19594

• *VaJ 396

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19595

• *VaJ 397

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19596

• *VaJ 398

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19597

• *VaJ 399

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19598

• *VaJ 468

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19599

• *VaJ 400

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19602

• VaJ 477 ff. 84r-8r

  Copy of a version of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury on Blenheim Palace, [c.1714-15].

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• VaJ 130 f. 85r

  Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 141 ff. 85v-6r

  Autograph

  Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• VaJ 478 ff. 95r-8r

  Copy of The Reply of S^r. John Vanbrugh on the behalf of the Workmen employed in the Building of Blenheim, Humbly presented to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, [c.1714-15].

  Edited in Works, IV, 198-203 (Appendix I, No. 3).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19603

• VaJ 470 f. 52r

  Copy of a report to the Treasury (the original signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes), 2 December 1714.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• VaJ 469 ff. 53v-4r

  Scribal draft.of a report to the Treasury (the original signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes), 2 December 1714.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• *VaJ 471 ff. 55v-6r

  Autograph

  Report to the Treasury, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes, 2 December 1714.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• *VaJ 461 f. 57r-v

  Autograph

  Memorandum on money Due to Severall Workmen and Artificers for Worke pform'd by them at the Building of Blenheim, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes, July 1712.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• *VaJ 472 ff. 58r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh on the St[ate] of the Debt at Blenheim, comprising a few calculations with an endorsement, ante 5 December 1714.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19605

• *VaJ 37 ff. 4r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], 1 January 1705[/6].

  Edited in Works, IV, 207 (Appendix II, No. 1).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 89 ff. 6r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 26 December 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 223 (Appendix II, No. 23).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 42 ff. 12r-13v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 11 January 1706[/7].

  Edited in Works, IV, 208 (Appendix II, No. 2).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 43 ff. 16r-17v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], 24 January 1706[/7].

  Edited in Works, IV, 208-9 (Appendix II, No. 3).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 44 ff. 18r-19v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, 6 March 1706[/7].

  Edited in Works, IV, 209 (Appendix II, No. 4).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 39 ff. 20r-1v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 7 March 1705[/6].

  Edited in Works, IV, 209-10 (Appendix II, No. 5).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 48 ff. 23r-4v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 July 1707.

  Edited in Works, IV, 211-12 (Appendix II, No. 7, misdated 1710).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 50 ff. 28r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from Hatfield, 25 July 1707.

  Edited in Works, IV, 212-13 (Appendix II, No. 8).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 55 ff. 33r-33bis^v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 11 November 1707.

  Edited in Works, IV, 213-14 (Appendix II, No. 9). Facsimile example in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XLI, The Book Collector, 11 (Spring 1962), 63.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 54 ff. 34r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 November 1707.

  Edited in Works, IV, 214 (Appendix II, No. 10).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 56 ff. 36r-7v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 December 1707.

  Edited in Works, IV, 214 (Appendix II, No. 11).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 68 ff. 38r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 29 March 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 215 (Appendix II, No. 12).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 69 ff. 40r-1v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 1 April 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 215-16 (Appendix II, No. 13).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 72 ff. 42r-3v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from Henley, 25 April 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 216 (Appendix II, No. 14).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 73 ff. 44r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 1 May 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 217 (Appendix II, No. 14).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 77 ff. 47r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 19 June 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 218-19 (Appendix II, No. 16).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 78 ff. 50r-1v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London. 24 June 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 219 (Appendix II, No. 17).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 84 ff. 54r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 21 September 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 219-20 (Appendix II, No. 18).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 85 f. 56r

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 28 September 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 220 (Appendix II, No. 19).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 86 ff. 58r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 6 November 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 220-1 (Appendix II, No. 20).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 87 ff. 61r-2v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 November 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 221-2 (Appendix II, No. 21).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 88 ff. 65r-6v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 9 December 1708.

  Edited in Works, IV, 222 (Appendix II, No. 22).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 90 ff. 69r-70v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 13 January 1708[/9].

  Edited in Works, IV, 224 (Appendix II, No. 25).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 91 ff. 71r-2v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 10 February 1708/9.

  Edited in Works, IV, 224-5 (Appendix II, No. 26).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 93 f. 73r

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 17 February 1708/9.

  Edited in Works, IV, 225 (Appendix II, No. 27).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 104 ff. 78r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 29 September 1709.

  Edited in Works, IV, 225-6 (Appendix II, No. 28).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 107 f. 81r-v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to an unidentified correspondent, from London, 6 December 1709.

  Edited in Works, IV, 226 (Appendix II, No. 29).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 108 ff. 83r-83bis^v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 18 December 1709.

  Edited in Works, IV, 226-7 (Appendix II, No. 30).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 109 ff. 84r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 20 December 1709.

  Edited in Works, IV, 227-8 (Appendix II, No. 31).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 111 ff. 87r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 14 March 1709/10.

  Edited in Works, IV, 236 (Appendix II, No. 46, the date given as 1710[11?]).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 112 ff. 90r-1v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart [Comptrollers at Blenheim Palace], 1 April 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 228 (Appendix II, No. 32).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 114 ff. 93r-93bis^v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 29 April 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 228-9 (Appendix II, No. 33).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 115 ff. 94r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 6 May 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 229 (Appendix II, No. 34).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 120 ff. 96r-7v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart, from London, 6 June 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 229-30 (Appendix II, No. 35).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 122 ff. 98r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 8 June 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 230 (Appendix II, No. 36).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 126 ff. 103r-4v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 7 September 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 231 (Appendix II, No. 37).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 127 ff. 106r-7v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 21 September 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 231 (Appendix II, No. 38).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• VaJ 475 ff. 108r-9r

  Copy of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury, giving An Account of what has passed with the Treasury relating to the Building at Blenheim since my Lord Godolphin was removed (incorporating Vanbrugh's copies of his related letters to various bodies). [c.1714-15].

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• VaJ 133 f. 108r

  Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

  Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 44 (No. 33).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• VaJ 135 f. 108r-v

  Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to Lord Poulet, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

  Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 45-6 (No. 33a).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• VaJ 131 f. 108v

  Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of his report sent to the Treasury.

  Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 46 (No. 33b) and 193-4.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 142 f. 109r

  Autograph

  Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710, as part of his report sent to the Treasury.

  Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 47-8 (No. 33d), and 195.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 144 ff. 110r-11v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart, from London, 10 October 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 232 (Appendix II, No. 39).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 146 ff. 112r-13r

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Henry Joynes], from London, 12 October 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 232-3 (Appendix II, No. 40).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 147 ff. 116r-17v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 19 October 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 233-4 (Appendix II, No. 41).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 148 ff. 118r-19v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 25 October 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 234 (Appendix II, No. 42).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 150 ff. 122r-3v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 2 November 1710.

  Edited in Works, IV, 234-5 (Appendix II, No. 43).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 153 ff. 124r-5v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 9 January 1710[/11].

  Edited in Works, IV, 235 (Appendix II, No. 44).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 155 ff. 128r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 17 February 1710[/11].

  Edited in Works, IV, 236 (Appendix II, No. 45).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 157 ff. 132r-3v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 22 March 1710[/11].

  Edited in Works, IV, 237 (Appendix II, No. 47).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 158 ff. 135r-6v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 17 May 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 237-8 (Appendix II, No. 48).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 160 ff. 139r-40v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 11 September 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 238 (Appendix II, No. 49).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 161 ff. 143r-4v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 15 September 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 239 (Appendix II, No. 50).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 162 ff. 146r-7v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 25 September 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 239-40 (Appendix II, No. 51).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 163 ff. 148r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 September 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 240 (Appendix II, No. 52).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 164 ff. 150r-1v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 27 October 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 240 (Appendix II, No. 53).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 165 ff. 152r-3v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 13 November 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 241 (Appendix II, No. 54).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 166 ff. 155r-6v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 22 November 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 241 (Appendix II, No. 55).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 168 ff. 157r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 1 December 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 242 (Appendix II, No. 56).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 169 ff. 159r-60v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 3 December 1711.

  Edited in Works, IV, 242-3 (Appendix II, No. 57).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• VaJ 459 f. 166r

  Copy of a memorial by Vanbrugh about Worke which the Duke of Marlborough has desir'd may be done this Year at Blenheim, 15 June 1712.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
• *VaJ 174 ff. 168r-9v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 October 1712.

  Edited in Works, IV, 243 (Appendix II, No. 58).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 204 ff. 181r-2v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 3 May 1715.

  Edited in Works, IV, 243-4 (Appendix II, No. 59).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 205 ff. 183r-4v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 5 May 1715.

  Edited in Works, IV, 244 (Appendix II, No. 60).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 206 ff. 185r-6v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 7 May 1715.

  Edited in Works, IV, 244 (Appendix II, No. 61).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 207 ff. 187r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 12 May 1715.

  Edited in Works, IV, 244-5 (Appendix II, No. 62).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 217 ff. 189r-90v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, 5 April 1716.

  Edited in Works, IV, 245 (Appendix II, No. 63).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 219 ff. 191r-2v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 1 May 1716.

  Edited in Works, IV, 245-6 (Appendix II, No. [64]).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 51 ff. 195r-6v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Henderskelfe, August [1707], in defective condition.

  Edited in Works, IV, 223-4 (Appendix II, No. 24, [among letters of 1708]).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 40 ff. 197r-8v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter, from London, 8 November [1706].

  Edited in Works, IV, 210 (Appendix II, No. 6).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 329 ff. 199r-200v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 18 November 1721.

  Edited in Works, IV, 140 (No. 132).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
• *VaJ 351 ff. 202r-3v

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Greenwich, 11 November 1723.

  Edited in Works, IV, 152-3 (No. 146).

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Add. MS 19633

• *InE 49

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

  Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac, escrits par Esther Inglis, ce premier jour de l'an 1615.

Add. MS 19863

• RnT 505.5 ff. 15v-17r

  Copy, captioned above A description on Newgate vpon my first committment thither as a Prisoner of warre. To my honord Freind S^r: Clo: k^t.

  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')