Folger Shakespeare Library
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The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999

  • Add. MS 25014

    Autograph copy (f. 2v) of an eight-line epitaph on Bede, headed Epitaphu Bedæ venerabilis p br and beginning Beda Dei famulus monachoru nobile sydus, subscribed Obiit Beda (735, with Bale's notes on Bede, signed Joan. Bale, written by him in a 12th-century MS of works by Bede and others on 119 folio vellum leaves, in modern calf.

    Early 16th century.

    Inscribed (f. 1r and elsewhere) Jure me tenet Franciscus St. John. Later owned by Sir James Palgrave. His sale, 20 November 1862, lot 90.

    This MS not recorded in McCusker.

    • *BaJ 33
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Bale, Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

  • Add. MS 25085

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to Northamptonshire.

    • BcF 444 f. 21r et seq.

      Copy.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • Add. MS 25245

    A folio volume of legal tracts, in several probably professional hands, 85 leaves, in half-calf.

    c.1630s.

    Purchased from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

    • BcF 236 ff. 5r-15r

      Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as made by the Lo: Chancelor...1618.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • Add. MS 25247

    A folio volume of tracts and papers relating principally to the Earl Marshall of England and the protocols of duelling, in two or more professional secretary hands, 318 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    c.1630s.

    Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

    • CmW 26 ff. 7r-11v

      Copy, headed The Etimologie Antiquitie & office of the Earle Marshall of England.

      A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes... and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
    • HoH 60 ff. 46r-58r

      Copy, in two professional secretary hands, as written by ye Lord Henry Howard Earle of Northampton.

      A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to my very good Lord, beginning Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter …, the tract beginning The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed …. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

    • CtR 207 ff. 84r-7r

      Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as written by Sr. Robert Cotton knight...1609.

      Tract beginning Where difference could not be determined.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609
    • DaJ 249 ff. 87v-91r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats..., dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.

      Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England
    • DaJ 254 ff. 91r-2v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and run on directly after DaJ 249.

      Sir John Davies, [Of the Antiquity, Use and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England] Of the Same

  • Add. MS 25250

    A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 194 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

    • CtR 344 ff. 172r-7r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robert Cotton the 27th of Aprill 1624, imperfect at the end.

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

  • Add. MS 25277

    A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, c.132 leaves.

    • ClE 58.5 ff. 95r-8v

      Copy.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

  • Add. MS 25286

    MS of a translation into English of Camden's history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1558 to 1568, closely written in a single minute cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning, a title, and probably the ending, 36 quarto leaves, in modern brown calf gilt.

    Mid-17th century?.
    • CmW 7
      No description or publication history available.

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

  • Add. MS 25303

    A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

    This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

    c.1620s.

    Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

    • CwT 615 ff. 68v-9v

      Copy.

      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. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. 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. 265-6).

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
    • HoJ 323 f. 70v

      Copy, headed John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob, followed (f. 71r) by The Lady Jacobs Answer beginning Yor letter I receiu'd bedeckt wth florishinge quarters.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • RaW 443 ff. 71v-2r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

      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')
    • KiH 438 f. 73r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
    • BrW 87 f. 73v

      Copy.

      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')
    • BcF 16 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy headed Vppon the miserie of Man, subscribed Ld Bacon, this ascription deleted and by Henry Harrington substituted in another hand.

      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'
    • JnB 163 f. 75v

      Copy, headed The Body.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • JnB 201 ff. 76r-7r

      Copy, headed The Mynde, subscribed B: J:.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • CwT 955 f. 77r

      Copy, headed Song. To one yt desired to knowe his Mrs.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
    • CwT 120 f. 78r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 53 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • BeJ 45 ff. 79v-81r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 156-8.

      Sir John Beaumont, Upon the death of the most noble Lord Henry, Earle of Southampton, 1624 ('When now the life of great Southampton ends')
    • HeR 11 f. 81r

      Copy, headed Vpon a Ladies dresse of Hayre stucke with Jewells.

      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 325 f. 81r

      Copy.

      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')
    • HrE 15 ff. 81v-2v

      Copy, headed Sr Ed. H. his Elegy on Prince Harry, subscribed 9ber 9th 1612.

      This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

      First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')
    • BeJ 6 f. 86v-8r

      Copy, headed Againste the desire of greatnesse thoughte Mr John Beamonts.

      Edited from this MS in Sell.

      First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.

      Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte Mr John Beaumonts ('Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise')
    • RaW 461 f. 90r

      Copy, headed A ladye to hyr Louer.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • BeJ 54 ff. 90v-1r

      Copy, headed To my Lorde Marques of Buckhinha, subscribed John Beamont.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.

      Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham ('To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine')
    • CoR 538 f. 91r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
    • AlW 153 f. 91v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Allablaster.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • AlW 154 f. 92r

      Copy.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • AlW 173 f. 92r

      Copy, subscribed Hughe Holland.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
    • HrE 66 f. 92v

      Copy, the first two words centred as a heading.

      This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')
    • JnB 236 ff. 94r-8r

      Copy, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • HrG 292 ff. 98v-9r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.

      First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.

      George Herbert, A Paradox. That the Sicke are in better State then the Whole ('You whoe admire yourselues because')
    • CoR 143 ff. 100v-2r

      Copy, headed An Elegy on ye Lady Haddington, subscribed Ric: Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • BmF 4 ff. 102v-3v

      Copy, subscribed ffra: Be:.

      First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
    • BmF 89 ff. 104r-5r

      Copy of lines 1-38, headed An Elegie on ye death of Penelope ye faire & virtuous Lady Clifton, subscribed fra: Beaumont.

      First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

      Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ('Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see')
    • CwT 768 f. 105v

      Copy, headed Peregrine and here beginning In yor fayre cheekes two pitts there lye.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • BeJ 48 ff. 106r

      Copy, subscribed J B.

      Edited from this MS in Sell.

      First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

      Sir John Beaumont, Epitaphe ('Tis not a safe conjecture more or lesse')
    • BeJ 50 f. 106r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed JB.

      Edited from this MS in Sell.

      First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

      Sir John Beaumont, 'Gazer reade and take to harte'
    • CoR 331 ff. 107v-8v

      Copy, headed To my Lorde Admiralls Mr Alisbury vppon the Comett. R. Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • CoR 465 f. 109r

      Copy, headed Vppon Mr Henery Bowlinge an Epitaph by R C.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

      Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
    • BrW 195 f. 111v

      Copy, headed Vpon the late Countesse of Pembrooke 1622.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • StW 397 f. 117v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • RaW 328 f. 118r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (RaW 513) which is subscribed Sr WR.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

      First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

      For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
    • RaW 513 f. 118r-v

      Copy, untitled, prefixed by Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams (RaW 328) and subscribed Sr WR.

      This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • RaW 245 f. 118v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • CwT 995 f. 119r

      Copy of lines 1-26, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • ShW 10 f. 119v

      Copy, headed Spes altera.

      This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

      Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
    • CoR 415.5 f. 120r

      Copy, headed On Mr Beaumonts death and here beginning Hee that hath such acutenesse & such witt.

      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')
    • CwT 430 f. 120v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

      Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship ('Kisse lovely Celia and be kind')
    • WoH 18 f. 121r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.

      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')
    • CwT 26 f. 126v

      Copy, headed Vppon occation of his Mrs beinge lett bloude.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • ToA 54 f. 129r

      Copy, subscribed Earle of Pe:.

      This MS collated in Brown. Recorded in Krueger, Pembroke.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • GrJ 49 ff. 129v-30r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
    • PeW 19 f. 130v

      Copy, superscribed E: P:.

      This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

      Krueger, pp. 53-4, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Edited, as a Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Had I loved but at that rate'
    • RnT 35 f. 132r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 92-3.

      Thomas Randolph, Ausonii Epigram 38 ('Shee which would not I would choose')
    • DrW 117.21 ff. 133r-4r

      Copy, headed The fiue Sences.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • HoJ 206 f. 138v

      Copy, with an additional stanza.

      This MS recorded in Osborn and the additional stanza printed, p. 284.

      Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

      John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('You nimble dreames wth cob webb winges')
    • CwT 147 f. 139v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
    • CwT 369 f. 140r

      Copy, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • CwT 1226 ff. 140v-1r

      Copy, subscribed TC.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
    • CwT 1191 f. 141r

      Copy, subscribed T C.

      This MS recorded in Powell, p. 293.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • HeR 169 ff. 141v-5r

      Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed Epithalamie, subscribed RHer:.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

      Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
    • KiH 335 ff. 145v-7r

      Copy, subscribed H: K:.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • CwT 1217 f. 148r

      Copy, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France ('Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide')
    • CwT 631 ff. 148v-9v

      Copy, subscribed T: C:, incomplete.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • CwT 805 f. 150r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • CwT 245 f. 150v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • CwT 1087 ff. 150v-1r

      Copy, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • HoJ 165 f. 151r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning If any do aske where here doth lye.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph On Sr Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')
    • CwT 1044 f. 151v

      Copy, headed Another in absence A Shipp, subscribed TC.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

      Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
    • CwT 399 f. 151v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed TC.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
    • CwT 464 ff. 152r-3r

      Copy, headed His Mrs comandinge to returne hyr Letters, subscribed TC.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

      Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
    • CwT 679 f. 153r

      Copy, subscribed TC.

      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')
    • CwT 555 f. 153v

      Copy, subscribed TC.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • StW 1202 ff. 154r-5r

      Copy, headed E ffam: Stra: Trans:.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • ToA 30 ff. 155v-6v

      Copy, subscribed in a different ink Aurelian Tounsend.

      First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
    • HeR 194 ff. 157r-9r

      Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed Exp: R: H.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace ('Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red')
    • CwT 996 ff. 159v-60v

      Copy, subscribed T C..

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • CwT 877 f. 160v

      Copy, headed A charminge Beauty.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • CwT 493 f. 161r

      Copy, subscribed TC.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

      Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
    • CwT 1136 f. 161v

      Copy, headed To a Lady that had a resemblance of his Mrs, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

      Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
    • HoJ 104 ff. 162r-3r

      Copy, headed Mr John Hoskins bewailinge his owne his wifes his Mothers & his childrens wofull case the one borne the-other yet vnborne 1616.

      Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

      A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • HoJ 240 f. 163r

      Copy of the Latin version, headed Ad filiolum suum Beniamin, followed by the English version which is untitled.

      This MS cited in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • BrW 119 f. 163r

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman dyinge younge.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • CwT 1285 ff. 163v-4r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Hayle thou moddle of a cursed Hoare, subscribed TC.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

      Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett ('Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore')
    • DnJ 3264 f. 164v-5r

      Copy.

      This MS 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 Mr R.W. ('If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be')
    • DnJ 1707 f. 165r

      Copy.

      This MS 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')
    • KiH 715 ff. 166r-7r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

      Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
    • KiH 675 ff. 167v-8r

      Copy, headed A ffarwell to his beloued Mistris.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • KiH 616 f. 168r

      Copy.

      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')
    • MoG 84 ff. 168v-9r

      Copy, headed On his Mistris beinge maskt and here beginning Read sweete Maid, and know the heate, subscribed George Morly.

      George Morley, To his Mrs ('Read fayre Mayd, & know ye heate')
    • CwT 1240 f. 170r

      Copy, headed A Healthe to my Mistrisse, subscribed R C.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
    • StW 887 f. 171v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed WS.

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

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • PeW 165 f. 171v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (1639), p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 49. Poems (1660), p. 78, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Richard Cleark.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Lover to his Mistris ('The purest piece of Nature is my choice')
    • HeR 346 ff. 172r-3r

      Copy, headed The Fayres Reuellinge.

      This MS collated in Farmer.

      First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

      Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
    • KiH 676 ff. 173v-4r

      Copy, headed The mournefull partinge of tow Louers beinge caused by ye disproportion of estates, a subscription Dr HK deleted.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • CwT 970 f. 174r

      Copy, headed On a Lady of exquisite beauty but most inexcrable of disposition and here beginning Now is the winter gone & thearth hath loste.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • CwT 632 ff. 174v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • KiH 639 f. 179r

      Copy, headed To A discouraged Sutor, subscribed partly as a monogram D: HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
    • CwT 1272 f. 179v

      Copy, headed On a ffayre ladye yt wore in hyr Breste a wounded harte carued in a pretious stone and subscribed Hen: Blount.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 284.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

      Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
    • CwT 99 f. 180r-v

      Copy, headed Loues Complement.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

      Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
    • StW 790 f. 181r

      Copy, headed On Cloris, subscribed W. S.

      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')
    • EaJ 73 ff. 181v-3r

      Copy of two characters, here entitled The comon Viccars or Singingmen in Cathederall Churches and A character of A Childe, together with (ff. 183v-4) an (anonymous) A charector of a London Scriuenor (beginning A London Scrivenor is the deerest childe of his Mother Mony...).

      First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

    • HoJ 343 ff. 184v-5v

      Copy, headed Refused to answer at extempore beinge importuned by ye Prince & Sr Walter Raleigh began, subscribed Jo: Has: his Tuffe:.

      This MS cited in Hudson.

      Hoskyns's Fustian Speech, or Tuftaffeta Speech, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (London, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.

      John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech

  • Add. MS 25304

    Transcript principally of Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum, in a single hand, 44 quarto leaves, in modern leather gilt.

    Mid-17th century.

    Among the papers of Lord Robert Montagu, MP, and probably descended from Oliver St John (1598?-1673). Purchased 27 June 1863.

    • DaJ 73 ff. 1r-44r

      Copy, complete with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth dated 11 July 1592 and Introduction, the main text entitled Of the Originall, Nature, and Immortallity of the Soul.

      This MS recorded in G.A. Wilkes, The Poetry of Sir John Davies, HLQ, 25 (1961-2), 283-98 (p. 291). Described in Krueger, p. 322, as an 18th century transcript of Nahum Tate's edition (first published 1697), but see J.R. Brink's review in RES, NS 28 (1977), 337-40 (p. 339).

      A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning To that clear Majesty, which in the North. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.

      Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum ('Why did my parents send me to the schooles')
    • SpE 38 f. 44v

      Copy.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 186-8.

      Edmund Spenser, The Visions of Petrarch ('Being one day at my window all alone')

  • Add. MS 25464

    A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf.

    Mid-17th century.

    Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.

    • EsR 273 ff. 1r-5r

      Copy, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand From a Contemporary Manuscript in the Collection of Mr Wilson.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • EsR 208 ff. 8r-15r

      Copy of an account of the speeches on 8 February 1600/1, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand Another Account from another contemporary MS. in the same collection.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

  • Add. MS 25707

    A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

    Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

    c.1620-50.

    Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

    This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

    • JnB 327 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
    • CwT 27 f. 5r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • DnJ 374 ff. 5v-6v

      Copy, headed Elegia i, subscribed J. D.

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

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • CwT 997 f. 6v

      Copy of lines 37-48, untitled, beginning Those curious locks so aptly twind.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • CwT 806 f. 7r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • RaW 246 f. 7v

      Copy of an untitled adapted version beginning What is mans life but 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')
    • DnJ 691 f. 8r

      Copy, headed Elegya 2.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2556 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy, headed Elegya. 3.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1684 ff. 9r, 10r

      Copy, headed Elegya. 4.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2450 f. 10r

      Copy, headed Elegya. 5.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2337 f. 10v

      Copy, headed Elegya. 6.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2203 ff. 10v-11r

      Copy, headed Elegya. 7.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 3173 f. 11r-v

      Copy, headed Elegya. 8.

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

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 626 f. 12r

      Copy, headed Elegya. 9.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 50 f. 12r-v

      Copy, headed Elegya. 10.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2504 f. 13r-v

      Copy, headed Elegya. 11.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1532 f. 13v

      Copy, headed Elegya. 12.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1012 f. 14r-v

      Copy, headed Funerall elegy for mrs Bolstrid.

      This MS collated in Grierson; 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 Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • DnJ 491 f. 15r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1359 f. 15v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2239 f. 16r

      Copy, headed Mon Tout, subscribed J. D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 2646.64 ff. 16v-17r

      Copy, subscribed I. D.

      Edited from this MS in Crowley, pp. 634-5, with a facsimile of f. 16v on p. 618. Collated in Grierson.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

      John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
    • DnJ 3000 f. 17v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1133 f. 17v

      Copy of the six-line epistle only, untitled, subscribed J. D.

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

      First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

      John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford ('That I might make your Cabinet my tombe')
    • DnJ 930 f. 18r

      Copy of lines 1-20, untitled, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1198 f. 18r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning So so, leaue of thy last lamentinge kisse, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2367 f. 18v

      Copy, headed The nothinge, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 433 f. 18v

      Copy, headed A songe, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross. See also DnJ 2946.

      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 2946 f. 18v

      Copy of a version beginning Lie still my deare, why dost thou rise?, written in the margin against Breake of day (see DnJ 433).

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

      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 3729 f. 19r

      Copy, headed Valediction agaynst mourninge.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 3903 f. 19v

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed A will.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 3105 f. 20r

      Copy, headed Ad solem. A songe, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2041 f. 20v

      Copy, headed The Dyet, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2004 f. 21r

      Copy, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 3383 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: D.

      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 Mrs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
    • DnJ 259 f. 22v

      Copy, untitled.

      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 3435 f. 23r-v

      Copy, subscribed J. D.

      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 Sr Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
    • FeO 9 f. 23v

      Copy of the three-stanza version, untitled.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

      Owen Felltham, The Appeal ('Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale')
    • DnJ 2420 ff. 24r-6v, 64v

      Copy, subscribed J. D., Donne's dedicatory prose epistle to the Countess of Bedford copied separately on f. 64v with a sidenote This was sent wth ye Elegie of the Lorde Harrington.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

      John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
    • CwT 370 f. 26v

      Copy, headed Vpon Caelia growne proud.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • DnJ 2137 ff. 27r-8r

      Copy, headed Elegye of loues progresse.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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')
    • KiH 788 f. 28r

      Copy, headed To an inconstant mris:, subscribed in monogram form HK.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

      Henry King, The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')
    • DnJ 824 f. 28v

      Copy, headed A Curse, subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1068 f. 29r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegye vpon the death of the Ladye Markham, subscribed J. D.

      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')
    • GrJ 11 f. 29v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man are superscribed P. and those by Woman superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim'
    • BmF 62 f. 30r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegye vppon the death of the Ladie Markham, subscribed F B.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • BmF 5 f. 31r-v

      Copy, headed A Letter to the Countesse of Rutland, subscribed F B.

      Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 176-7.

      First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
    • DnJ 3657 f. 32r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1451 f. 32v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1802 f. 33r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 183 f. 33r

      Copy, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1965 f. 33v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1835 f. 33v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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')
    • WoH 19 f. 34v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed H W.

      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')
    • DnJ 1172 ff. 35r-6r

      Copy, headed Epithalamion at the Mariage of the Princess Elyzabeth, and the Palzgraue celebrated on St: Valentines daye, subscribed J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

      John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
    • DnJ 1422 f. 36r-v

      Copy, headed Mr. J. Dun goeinge from Sr. H. G: on good fryday sent him back this Meditacon, on the Waye and subscribed J D.

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

      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 2692 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 349 f. 38v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1878 f. 39r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. E.K. Chambers (London, 1896). Grierson, I, 433-4. Milgate Satires, pp. 76-8. Shawcross, No. 135.

      John Donne, A Letter written by Sr H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus ('Since ev'ry Tree beginns to blossome now')
    • CwT 1273 f. 42r-v

      Copy, headed On a harte wch a Gentlewoman wore on her brest.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

      Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
    • BrW 73 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy, headed on a powdred hayre.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 19-20.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On a Fair Lady's Yellow Hair, powdered with White ('Say, why on your hair yet stays')
    • KiH 648 f. 43r

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
    • StW 1104 f. 45v

      Copy of lines 15-20, untitled and here beginning Oft when I looke I may descry.

      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')
    • DnJ 2830 ff. 48r-50r

      Copy, headed Mr Dunns first Satire, subscribed J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2738 ff. 50v-1v

      Copy, headed Satire the second, subscribed finis secund: J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2768 ff. 51v-2v

      Copy, headed Satire 3d, subscribed J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2800 ff. 52v-3v

      Copy, headed Satyre the 4th, subscribed J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2863 ff. 54r-v

      Copy, subscribed Finis. J D.

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

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 3063 f. 55r-v

      Copy, headed A Storme, subscribed Finis. J. D.

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

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 549 ff. 55v-6r

      Copy, subscribed J D.

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

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 2716 ff. 56v-7r

      Copy of lines 1-30, 55-64, untitled, subscribed J: D:.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 1259 ff. 57r-v

      Copy, subscribed J: D:.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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')
    • BeJ 7 f. 59r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: B:.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.

      Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte Mr John Beaumonts ('Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise')
    • StW 425 f. 59v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that had the small Pox.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • DnJ 3490 f. 60r-v

      Copy, headed Letters, subscribed Dunne.

      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 Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • BmF 146 f. 60v

      Copy, subscribed J D.

      Edited partly from this MS in Wardroper.

      First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

      Francis Beaumont, 'Why should not pilgrims to thy body come'
    • DnJ 2916 f. 61r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 2290 f. 61r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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 789 ff. 61v-2r

      Copy, subscribed J D.

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

      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')
    • BmF 34 ff. 62r-3r

      Copy, subscribed F B.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
    • JnB 38 f. 63r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe')
    • BeJ 41 ff. 63v-4r

      Copy, subscribed ffinis J B.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 154-6.

      Sir John Beaumont, To the immortall memory of the fairest and most vertuous Lady, the Lady Clifton ('Her tongue hath ceast to speake, which might make dumbe')
    • DnJ 1493 f. 65r

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed At hir departure, subscribed J: D:.

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

      First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night')
    • FlJ 11 ff. 66r-7r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J F. and indexed (f. 3v) as verses by Jack: Flecher.

      First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

      John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars')
    • JnB 719 f. 67r

      Copy, headed A comparison twixt loue & death.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • KiH 543 f. 67v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
    • JnB 454 f. 69v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Drinke to mee Celia wth thine eye.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • BeJ 24 f. 70v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. B.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 139-40.

      Sir John Beaumont, My Lord of Buckinghams welcome to the King at Burley ('Sir, you have ever shin'd upon me bright')
    • BeJ 32 f. 71r-v

      Copy, subscribed J. B.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 140-2.

      Sir John Beaumont, Of true Greatnesse: to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham ('Sir, you are truely great, and every eye')
    • BeJ 18 f. 72r

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 138-9.

      Sir John Beaumont, An Epithalamium to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham, and to his faire and vertuous Lady ('Severe and serious Muse')
    • CwT 54 f. 76v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • CwT 450 f. 76v

      Copy, headed of an Indiferent affection.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song ('Give me more love, or more disdaine')
    • BrW 196 f. 78r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • KiH 533 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

      Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
    • MoG 12 f. 79r

      Copy, headed On Kinge James.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • CwT 1169 f. 81r

      Copy, headed On ye recouery from ye tooth ache by a Kisse from a fair Lady.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

      Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse ('Fate's now growne mercifull to men')
    • PeW 288 f. 81v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')
    • BeJ 12 ff. 82r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field: with a taste of the variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beaumont, ed. Sir John Beaumont the Younger (London, 1629). Grosart, pp. 23-63. Sell, pp. 66-83.

      Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field ('The Winters storme of Civill Warre I sing')
    • PoW 20 f. 90r

      Copy, headed In the prayse of a blacke woeman.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Krueger.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • CoR 102 ff. 91v-2r

      Copy, headed On the Queene.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
    • CwT 121 f. 92r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning I reade of kings, and Gods that kindly tooke.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • RaW 299 f. 92v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

      First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')
    • CwT 1241 f. 93v

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
    • PeW 157 f. 94r-v

      Copy, headed Dr. Brookes of teares.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Benj. Rudier of Tears ('Who would have thought there could have been')
    • CwT 400 f. 94v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
    • DrM 58 f. 95v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning I prithee leave, love me no more.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • KiH 230 ff. 96r-7v

      Copy, subscribed D: Hen: Kinge.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
    • KiH 326 ff. 98r-9v

      Copy, subscribed D: H: Kinge.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • CwT 933 f. 100r

      Copy, headed To her inconstant servant.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
    • KiH 607 f. 100v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • WoH 185 f. 100v

      Copy, headed An epitaph of two louers, here beginning She first deceas'd: hee for a little try'd.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see 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')
    • CwT 158 f. 101r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T. C.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

      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')
    • KiH 776 ff. 101v-2r

      Copy, subscribed D: H: Kinge and with the date 1633.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

      Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
    • KiH 591 f. 102v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed H: K:.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • CwT 656 f. 102v

      Copy, headed On a white Rose & a Red.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

      Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
    • CwT 336 f. 103r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Th: Cary.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • FeO 61 f. 103v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning When deare I doe but thinke on thee.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      Fitst published in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

      Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee')
    • GrJ 85 f. 104r

      Copy.

      A poem based on Ben Jonson's song If I freely may discouer in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.

      John Grange, 'To the world Ile nowe discouer'
    • CwT 1055 f. 109r-v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

      Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
    • HeR 384 f. 110v

      Copy, headed on his periur'd Mris.

      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 71 f. 110v

      Copy, headed On hir periur'd sirvant.

      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')
    • FeO 27 f. 110v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

      Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')
    • BeJ 23 ff. 111r-17r

      Copy, headed Juuenal, slightly cropped at top and bottom.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 159-70.

      Sir John Beaumont, Juvenal's Tenth Satire ('In all the Countries, which from Gades extend')
    • DnJ 4088 f. 119r

      Copy of Problem II (Why do Puritans make longest Sermons?)

      This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 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
    • HrJ 23 ff. 120r-32v

      Fair copy of 65 Epigrams, with no general heading.

      Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

      Sir John Harington, Epigrams
    • CwT 318 f. 133r

      Copy, headed Good counsell to a Mayd.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • RaW 865 ff. 138r, 147r-v

      Copy of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • HeR 294 f. 149r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Martin.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

      Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
    • HeR 326 f. 149r-v

      Copy of the six stanzas version, untitled.

      Edited in part from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.

      First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

      Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
    • PeW 295 ff. 151v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed P. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd ('Till now I never did believe')
    • JnB 164 ff. 152v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • JnB 202 ff. 153-4r

      Copy, headed The Minde.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • CwT 878 f. 155r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • HrE 47 f. 156r-v

      This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')
    • CwT 680 f. 156v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • BmF 85 f. 157r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 495-6.

      Francis Beaumont, The Examination of his Mistress's Perfections ('Stand still, my happiness. and swelling heart')
    • KiH 670 ff. 157v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • DaW 63 f. 158r-v

      Copy, headed Mr Davenants Newyeares gvifte to kinge Charles: 1631.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

      Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode ('The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth')
    • CoR 571 f. 158v

      Copy, headed vpon the birth of my Sonne vincent Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • CaE 13 ff. 160v-1r

      Copy of a 50-line version, headed Another.

      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')
    • ToA 31 ff. 162r-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS text recorded in Brown.

      First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
    • KiH 777 f. 167r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

      Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
    • KiH 213 f. 168r

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
    • KiH 564 f. 169r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
    • KiH 574 f. 169v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • WiG 2 f. 170r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
    • KiH 649 f. 170v

      Second copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
    • KiH 502 f. 170v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

      Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
    • CwT 595 f. 171r

      Copy, headed Ciacono.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 268.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 109. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, The protestation, a Sonnet ('No more shall meads be deckt with flowers')
    • KiH 389 ff. 171v-2r

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

      Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
    • ToA 55 f. 172v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Brown.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • CwT 633 ff. 183v-5r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • WoH 204 f. 185v

      Copy, headed Vpon the sudden restraint of a Fauorite, subscribed Hen: Wotten.

      This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')

  • Add. MS 25901

    Autograph MS of an early version, written from both ends, including copies of Colonel Hutchinson's correspondence at Newark in 1642-3, imperfect, 96 small pages, in modern brown morocco gilt.

    c.1645.

    Scribbling (ff. 1r-2r) sincluding Fenner a bookseller at Canterbury. Acquired from Mr Proctor, 12 November 1864.

    • *HuL 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, edited by Julius Hutchinson, London, 1806. Edited by James Sutherland (London, New York & Toronto, 1973). See also David Norbrook, But a Copie: Textual Authority and Gender in Editions of The Life of John Hutchinson, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 109-30.

      Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

  • Add. MS 25959

    MS of an adaptation, alter'd from Sir John Vanbrugh and with different dramatis personae, in a single cursive hand, entitled The Country House a Farce, 60 quarto leaves, written almost entirely on rectos only, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Mid-18th century.

    Presented in November 1864 by Coventry Patmore (1823-96), poet and essayist.

    • VaJ 13
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (translated from Florent-Carton Dancourt) in London, 1715. Works, II, 205-31.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, The Country House

  • Add. MS 26607

    A grant of arms, to Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris, Devon, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, also with lines on the verso from Chaucer's Nun's Tale relating to the Wakeman crest, 1616.

    1616.
    • *CmW 176
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 26634

    A tall folio volume of papers on parliamentary proceedings, in several professional hands, 109 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    c.1630.

    Purchased from Lord R. Montagu in 1865.

    • CtR 37 ff. 45r-8v

      Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, inscribed in the margin By Sr R C. and subscribed R. C: B:.

      Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
    • RuB 110 f. 84v

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed Sr Ben Rudgers.

      A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

  • Add. MS 26705

    A large folio volume of chiefly coats of arms and heraldic matters, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, 141 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    Probably compiled by Thomas Dutton, whose name and dates 1603 and 1634 are inscribed on ff. 134v and 138r.

    c.1603-34.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) Robt. Wever his booke 1658, Robert Wever i66i, and Joseph Edmondson his Book June ye 13. 1759. Wellesley sale, lot 147. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 24 June 1865.

    • HlJ 8 f. 130r

      Copy of Book IV, Satire 3, lines 1-27, here beginning What botes it (Pontice, tho thou couldst discours.

      Books IV-VI first published as Virgidemiarvm. The three last Bookes (London, 1598). Wynter, IX, 563-680. Davenport, pp. 5-99. Comprising six books of satires following a Defence to Enuie and Prologue.

      Joseph Hall, Virgidemiae ('I First aduenture, with fool-hardie might')

  • Add. MS 26787

    An octavo MS of Speculum principis, in a formal hand, in black and red ink with some engrossed lettering and decoration, 30 vellum leaves, in contemporary leather on boards stamped with the Tudor royal arms and initials H A.

    Dedicated to Prince Henry (Henry VIII), dated from Eltham, 28 August 1501, and probably Skelton's presentation MS to Henry.

    c.1509-10.

    Possibly once in Lincoln Cathedral Library. Inscribed (f. 1r on an affixed slip) Mr Bramley, late of Acton, Jemima Sewall[?], Geo Murray...Mar 1854. Purchased from Puttick & Simpson's, 15 July 1865, lot 838.

    Facsimile of ff. 21v-2r in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 30.

    • SkJ 29 The MS as a whole

      Fair copy on vellum, followed by Latin verses (SkJ 4 and SkJ 8) and Skelton's complaint to the King (headed, Skeltonis Laureatus, didasculus quondam Regius, etc., tacitus secum in soliloquio ceu vir totus obliuioni datus aut tanquam mortuus a corde, etc.), imperfect and lacking title.

      Edited from this MS in Salter. Portions edited from this MS, with a translation, in Carlson, pp. 34-45. Facsimiles of parts of ff. 2r and 29r in Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 14, 15 (where it is suggested that the MS is autograph, but see P.J. Croft's review in TLS (24 February 1978), p. 241).

      Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, Skelton's Speculum Principis, Speculum 9 (1934), 25-37.

      John Skelton, Speculum principis
    • SkJ 4 ff. 24v-6v

      Fair copy on vellum, headed Ad tanti principis maiestatem in sua pericia, quando erat insignitus Dux Eboraci, etc., Skeltonis Laureatus hoc Epigramma et., appended to the MS.

      Edited from this MS in Salter. Facsimile of ff. 24v-5r in Carlson, pp. 2-3.

      Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, Skelton's Speculum Principis, Speculum, 9 (1934), 25-37 (pp. 36-7). Carlson, pp. 42-3 (with a translation).

      John Skelton, Epigramma ad tanti principis maiestatem in sua peuricia ('Si quid habes, mea musa, dei resonantis amenam')
    • SkJ 8 ff. 27r-8v

      Fair copy on vellum, headed Ad serenissimam iam nunc suam maiestatem regiam, Skeltonidis Laureati non ignobile palinodium, etc., appended to the MS.

      Edited from this MS in Salter.

      Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, Skelton's Speculum Principis, Speculum, 9 (1934), 25-37 (p. 37).

      John Skelton, Palinodium ('Iam nunc pierios cantus et carmina laudis')

  • Add. MS 27278

    A quarto autograph memorandum book of Francis Bacon, 40 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern green morocco.

    c.1608-9.

    Later owned by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 11, to John Forster (1812-76), writer. Donated January 1866.

    • *BcF 153 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph notebook, entitled Comentarius solutus siue Pandecta siue Ancilla Memoriæ, containing memoranda in English and Latin transferred from earlier notebooks; originally the first of two such books, with various dates 25-31 July, 6 August 1608, and 28 October 1609.

      Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXVII(b); in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 185; and in EMS, 16 (2011), p. 202.

      Extracts edited in Spedding, XI, 39-95 (discussed pp. 18-37).

      Francis Bacon, Commentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriae
    • *BcF 303 ff. 17v-22v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Spedding, III, 625-31.

      A sketch of this enquiry first published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter] (Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 621-40.

      Francis Bacon, Inquisitio legitima de motu

  • Add. MS 27320

    Formal copy in a professional secretary and roman hand, headed Observations Politicall and Ciuile, with (f. 12r) a dedicatory epistle To my very honorable good Lord the Lord Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Housholde and of her preuie Counsell subscribed T: B:, with a few shorthand annotations in another hand and the date 1640, 124 tall folio leaves, with a table of contents (f. 124r-v), in modern half-calf marbled boards.

    Early 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. 124v inverted) Christopher P. Acquired from W. G. Bohn, 12 May 1866.

    • RaW 1044
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

      Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

  • Add. MS 27402

    A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 197 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    Including some papers written or endorsed by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, and by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale).

    • KiT 14 ff. 70r-2v

      Copy, in a rugged secretary hand, headed The coppie of a letter from Mr Thomas Killigrew to my lorde Goringe concerninge what he sawe at a monestarie in France where diuers nuns were posessed and the manner vsed in exorsisinge them, on three folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      This MS collated in Lough and Crane.

      Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning Being thus far from London.... Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

      Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
    • ClE 132 ff. 140r-3r

      Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, in a non-professional rounded hand, on four quarto leaves.

      Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

      These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

  • Add. MS 27406

    A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

    c.mid 17th century.

    Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.

    • ShW 2 f. 74r

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, comprising lines 365-71, 386-99, 419-20, untitled, here beginning Into ye chamber wickedly he stalkes.

      First published in London, 1594.

      William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece ('From the besieged Ardea all in post')
    • JnB 388 f. 74v

      Copy of lines 5-8, in a mixed hand, untitled and here beginning This world deathes region is, ye other lifes.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 53-4.

      Ben Jonson, Of Life, and Death ('The ports of death are sinnes. of life, good deeds')
    • DkT 11 f. 74v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Vpon Queene Elisabeths death.

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

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • SeC 94.8 f. 99v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as An Ode By Mr. R. D of Cambridge, in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 137-8. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 4-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, An Ode ('Oh Ye blest Pow'rs, propitious be')
    • RaW 428 f. 107v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Canto.

      Edited from this MS in Latham.

      First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Like to a Ring without a finger'
    • JnB 46 f. 110r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed A Lady's Choyce.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 142.

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 10. Another Ladyes exception present at the hearing ('For his Mind, I doe not care')
    • BmF 150.93 f. 110v

      Copy.

      Unpublished?

      Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack ('Listen all I you pray')
    • SiP 159 f. 117r

      Copy of lines 1-4, in a mixed hand, untitled. c.1630s.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.

      Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 ('What toong can her perfections tell')
    • RnT 425 ff. 121r-7v

      Copy, headed All Sts: 1627. Tho: Randolphs Pedlar, in a mixed hand.

      This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, Thomas Randolph's The Conceited Pedlar, TLS (9 April 1931), p. 288, and in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 974-6.

      First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.

      Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar

  • Add. MS 27407

    A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco.

    Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

    • DnJ 2646.65 f. 65r

      Copy, unascribed.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

      John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
    • ToA 48 f. 5r

      Copy, in a professional italic hand, subscribed ATounshend.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 167).

      First published in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007).

      Aurelian Townshend, To my Lord North, vpon his Pöems ('When I suruey theis lynes, and see')
    • DoC 41 ff. 22r-3v

      Copy, headed A Satyre, with annotations in another hand, on two conjugate long ledger leaves.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • WaE 687 f. 40r-v

      Copy on a single folio leaf.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • DaJ 80 f. 51r-v

      Copy of poems 1-6, in a predominantly italic hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')
    • DnJ 3927 f. 125r-v

      Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • MoG 13 f. 126r

      Copy, headed On the late Kinge.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • JnB 575.5 ff. 127r-8v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607
    • RaW 514 f. 129r

      Copy, in a Scottish hand, untitled, subscribed finis quod sumbodie.

      This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • RaW 295 ff. 130r-1v

      Copy of an intermediate 51-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia (see RaW 9), subscribed Sir Walter Raleigh.

      This version first published, from this MS, in Agnes M.C. Latham, Sir Walter Ralegh's Cynthia, RES, 4, No. 14 (April 1928), 129-34 (pp. 133-4). Edited from this MS in Latham (1951), pp. 68-9, as Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne, and, untitled, in Rudick, No. 33, pp. 76-7.

      In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen ('My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun')
    • DnJ 1123 ff. 154r-5r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as Elegie on Prince Henry). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

      John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry ('Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God')

  • Add. MS 27408

    A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

    Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

    • RoJ 425 f. 9v

      Copy, headed To Phillis, with other poems on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 154 ff. 10v, 8v

      Copy of lines 75-163, here beginning Who had prevaild on her through her own skill, on two folio pages.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 457 f. 11r

      Copy, headed A Songe of MLR, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
    • RoJ 100 f. 11r

      Copy, headed The ffall of Man, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
    • RoJ 180 f. 11v

      Copy, headed An Other, with other verses, on the reverse side of a single folio leaf.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • CgW 63 f. 16v

      Copy of the song, in a non-professional hand, headed Song mr Congreve, with other verses, on one side of a single long folio leaf.

      Summers, II, 130. Davis, pp. 258-9. McKenzie, I, 311.

      William Congreve, Love for Love, III, iii, lines 165-173. Song ('A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd')
    • DrJ 128 ff. 17r-18r

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Epilogue to the Play of the Duke of Guise, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Danchin.

      First published (with two Epilogues) in London, 1682. The Duke of Guise (London, 1683). Kinsley, I, 326-7. POAS, III (1968), 274-7. Danchin, IV, 432-6. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 135-9.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Duke of Guise. Spoken by Mr. Smith ('Our Play's a Parallel: The Holy League')
    • DoC 361.4 f. 41r-9r

      Copy, once folded as a letter or packet.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')
    • BcF 228.3 ff. 47r-8r

      Copy of an early report.

      Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Objections against the Change of the Name of England into the Name of Britain
    • DrJ 139 f. 65r-v

      Copy, in a professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • DrJ 188 f. 94r-v

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed as by Dryden.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.

      John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ('From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony')
    • ToA 24 ff. 112r, 113r

      Copy, in a neat roman hand, subscribed ATounshend, once folded as a letter.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 168).

      First published in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007).

      Aurelian Townshend, An Ode Vpon the happy Birth of our sweete yonge Prince ('How wysely did our Moderne Pöets Kinge')
    • DoC 366 ff. 142v-3v

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed The Vision, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger leaves.

      This MS recorded in Harris (who erroneously records two copies present).

      First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Vision in King James's Reign ('Twas at an hour when busy nature lay')
    • MrJ 34 ff. 146r-7r

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, with emendations and annotations in another hand, headed In reditum Ducis, subscribed These verses came forthe, as I did heare, soon after the returne from Rees; in which, whether any more be sette down then vulgar rumor, which is often lying, I knowe not.... [c.26 June 1628], on three pages of two probably once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Satire of bucks.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • MrJ 34.5 f. 148r

      Copy, in a small mixed hand, in double columns, headed In reditum Ducis, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • KiH 316 ff. 160r-1r

      Copy in the hand of Thomas Manne (in a variant style), on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

      Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
    • CoR 72 f. 162r-v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, on a single folio leaf.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 115.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')
    • CoR 144 ff. 167r-8r

      Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed An Elegie Upon the Lady Haddington, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • KiH 336 ff. 170r-1r

      Copy, in the hand of Thomas Manne, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

  • Add. MS 27419

    A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by Henry Calverley of Ergholme, Durham.

    c.1658.
    • FuT 4.6 [unspecified page numbers]

      An epitome of the work.

      First published in London, 1655.

      Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain

  • Add. MS 27467

    An apparently autograph MS of Jocelin's unfinished legacy, in a neat roman hand, with her occasional deletions and revisions in different inks, including a dedicatory epistle to her husband Taurell Jocelin, 44 duodecimo leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in 19th-century dark blue velvet.

    1622.

    Acquired in 1866.

    This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 1r, 3v, 8v, and 44r-v, in Sylvia Brown, The Approbation of Elizabeth Jocelin, EMS, 9 (2000), pp. 129-64, and the MS is edited by her in her Women's Writing in Stuart England (Stroud, 1999), pp. 106-31 (notes pp. 131-9), with a facsimile of ff. 5v-6r, on pp. 94-5. The MS is also transcribed diplomatically, with a facsimile example, in parallel to the 1624 printed text, in the edition by Jean LeDrew Metcalfe (Toronto, Buffalo and London, 2000). A facsimile of the first page, with transcription, also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 112-13. A full list of contents of the MS is in the online Perdita Project.

    • *JoE 1
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, edited by Thomas Goad, London, 1624.

      Elizabeth Jocelin, The mother's legacie, to her unborne childe

  • Add. MS 27632

    A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

    Late 16th century-1612.

    Inscribed (f. 41r) I ffrancis Harington of Compton Dando in the countie of Somset dated 7 February 1609; (f. 57r) John Brock his Bok; and (f. 121r) John Harington his Book 1689. Acquired from the Rev. J. C. Jackson, 25 May 1867.

    • *HrJ 338 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Assembled by Sir John Harington, a large part in the hand of one of his amanuenses, comprising miscellaneous tracts, notes, drafts of letters, and memoranda; including (ff. 11v, 30r, 43r-v, 47r) lists of books (my masters bookes carryed wth him to Eaton) and plays owned by Harington and (f. 30r) A note of things sent to London the 29th of Jan: 1609; (ff. 54r-60v, 116v-21r) two copies of an anonymous tract entitled The Order of a Christian Common wealth; and (ff. 61r-8v) anonymous tracts entitled Of the Trinitie, (ff. 72r-93r)A question of the Trynytye, Dialogue wyse, (ff. 94v-103r) Whether usurye be Lawfull among Christians, (ff. 105r-9v)Of the Sabbothe, (ff. 110r-15v)A Dialogue betwene Neshama, the Sowle, Nephes, the Bodye, and Orthodoxus, and (ff. 122r-5v)Whether it be dampnation for a man to kill hymself, Harington's handwriting occurring chiefly on ff. 30r-2r (including a book list of 1609, notes, and letters), 33r-v (Psalms), 34r (notes), and 41r-6r (notes and letters, including Names of Comedies).

      Sir John Harington, Miscellany
    • *HrJ 405 ff. 31r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10].

      McClure, No. 57, p. 140. For the letter actually sent, see HrJ 406.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 407 f. 31v
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [5 February 1610].

      McClure, No. 58, pp. 140-1.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 3 f. 33r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with revisions, of Harington's translation of Psalms 1, 3, and 4.

      Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.

      Sir John Harington, Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms ('Right happie hee that neither walked hath')
    • HrJ 316 ff. 35r-40r

      Unfinished draft, in the secretary hands of several amanuenses, of an epistle to Joseph Hall, probably intended for publication.

      Edited from this MS in MacKinnon.

      First published in M. H. M. MacKinnon, Sir John Harington and Bishop Hall, PQ, 37 (1958), 80-6.

      Sir John Harington, Letter to the Rev. Joseph Hall, on the Marriage of the Clergy
    • *HrJ 411 f. 37r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person. [1612?].

      McClure, No. 61, pp. 142-3.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 408 ff. 42r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Lord Compton, [1610?].

      McClure, No. 59, pp. 141-2.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 409 f. 42v
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Cosen Sheldon, [1610?].

      McClure, No. 60, p. 142.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 412 f. 45r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to King James I, [1612?].

      McClure, No. 62, pp. 143-4.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • *HrJ 410 f. 46r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unspecified lord, [1611 or 1612].

      Recorded in a review in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697. Craig, pp. 55-7 with a facsimile.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 27879

    A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

    Mid-17th century.

    Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

    This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

    • JnB 635 ff. 91r-2r

      Copy, with five extra stanzas.

      The additional stanzas edited in Herford & Simpson, X, 633-4.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
    • LoR 33 ff. 95v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      Reprinted from Hales & Furnivall in Wilkinson, I, 52-3. Collated in Clayton.

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • WaE 431 f. 96r

      Copy, originally headed Cloris and beginning Cloris farewell I needs must goe but now imperfect at the beginning.

      Hales & Furnivall, II, 22-3.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
    • HeR 150 ff. 97v-8r

      Copy, here beginning Amongst the Mirtles....

      Hales & Furnivall, II, 35-6.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')
    • SoR 144 f. 144r

      Copy of lines 25-30, headed I live where I love and here beginning With my hart my love was nesled, followed by five new stanzas.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • CmT 187 f. 220v

      Copy, headed Aeneas & Dido.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

      First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

      Thomas Campion, A Ballad ('Dido was the Carthage Queene')
    • CoR 62 f. 222v

      Copy, here beginning O noble ffestus.

      Hales &Furnivall, III, 272-4. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 133.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')
    • RaW 5 f. 251r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, et al., 4 vols (London, 1867-8). This publication mentioned in Latham, p. 120.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'As you came from the holy land'

  • Add. MS 27927

    Autograph calligraphic MS, ii + 14 leaves (185 x 130mm.), in contemporary brown velvet embroidered (incorporated in rebinding).

    A presentation MS to the diplomatist Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with figures and decoration, including a self-portrait.

    14 April 1599.

    Later owned by one Francis Slade (1861).

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 10 (pp. 39-40), with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 6v, and 9v as Plates 12-14 (between pp. 42 and 43).

    • *InE 4
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A French translation of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon in the Bible, with Latin verses to Anthony Bacon by Robert Rollock and John Johnston and to Esther Inglis by Andrew Melville and Johnston.

      Esther Inglis, [Ecclesiastes] Le Livre de l'Ecclesiaste, ensemble le Cantique de Salomon. Escrites en diverses sortes de Lettres par Esther Anglois Françoise a Lislebourg en Escosse, 1599

  • Add. MS 27987

    A folio volume comprising two works by Sir Robert Cotton, in a single cursive predominantly secretary hand, 56 leaves, in half-calf.

    c.1620s.

    Purchased from Mrs Simmons, 27 February 1869.

    • CtR 277 ff. 2r-50r

      Copy, entitled Records Collected by Sr Robert Cotton Kt. & Barrontt:.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • CtR 106 ff. 51r-6r

      Copy, as written by Sr Robert Cotten to Sr. Edward Mountague Anno Dni: 1621. and subscribed R. B.

      Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

  • Add. MS 28000

    A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 411 leaves, in half red morocco.

    Volume II of the correspondence of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, from 1589 to 1710.

    • DnJ 1240 f. 368r

      Copy of lines 39-52, untitled and here beginning Curst may she bee that tryd my Charge to staine, deleted, in a draft letter by Henry Oxinden (1609-70), to his cousin Elizabeth Dallison, 7 December1641.

      Edited from this MS in The Oxinden Letters 1607-1642, ed. Dorothy Gardiner (London, 1933), p. 245.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • MrC 1 f. 369r

      Copy of four lines of the Second Sestyad (lines 131-4, here beginning Oh none have power but Gods their love to hide), in a draft letter by Henry Oxinden (1609-70), to his cousin Elizabeth Dallison. December 1641.

      Edited from this MS in The Oxinden Letters 1607-1642, ed. Dorothy Gardiner (London, 1933), pp. 252-3.

      First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

      Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander ('On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood')

  • Add. MS 28009

    A volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, chiefly relating to the Oxenden family of Kent.

    • ClE 100 ff. 159r-69v

      Copy.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • Add. MS 28011

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 124 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half red morocco.

    Collected by members of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, including Henry Oxinden (1609-70) and his brother Richard (b.1613).

    • BcF 445 f. 2r-6r

      Copy of Bacon's submissions on 22 and 30 April 1621, in a secretary hand.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • CtR 107 f. 58r-v

      Copy of a shortened version, as supposedly written by a learned Antiquarie at the request of a Peere of his Realme. 1640.

      Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
    • RuB 145 ff. 79r-80v

      Copy, in the italic hand of Richard Oxinden, headed Sr. Ben. Rud.

      Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

  • Add. MS 28021

    Copy, in a single formal secretary hand, 98 duodecimo leaves, in modern green morocco gilt.

    A 581-stanza version, in a single professional secretary hand, headed The Legend of Edward ye second of Carnaruan king of England.

    c.1620s.

    Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) Robti: ffrmy and Ro: fformy (i.e. Robert Fermy). Purchased from Boone, 13 March 1869.

    This MS collated in Mellor.

    • HuF 5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

      Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

      Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')

  • Add. MS 28045

    A folio copy of the impeachment proceedings for Clarendon and for Arlington, partly in the hand of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Duke of Leeds, politician.

    • ClE 101
      No description or publication history available.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • Add. MS 28095

    A tall folio composite volume of chiefly verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 91 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

    At least some individual items here were later owned by Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Earl of Danby, Marquess of Carmarthen and Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6-10 April 1869 (Leeds sale), including lot 725, item 10.

    • HaG 30 ff. 5r-6v

      Copy of 33 maxims, in a stylish professional hand, headed The following Maximes were found by a Jew amongst Papers of the Great Almanzor and tho they must loose a good Deale of their Originall Spiritt by ye Translation Yet they seem to be applicable to all times That it is thought no diservice to Mankind to make them Publique, superscribed By the Marq. of Halifax, on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, docketed (f. 9v) Lot 725/10. c.1700.

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

      First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
    • MkM 3 f. 19r

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
    • SeC 37 f. 36r

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed The Knotting Song, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

      Bought at Sotheby's, 6-10 April 1869 (Duke of Leeds sale).

      First published, as Phillis Knotting, in The Gentleman's Journal (August-September 1694), p. 233. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 34-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus…the third book (London, 1695).

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Hears not my Phyllis, how the Birds')
    • CgW 35 ff. 50r-1r

      Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, on the rectos of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 72-3. Dobrée, pp. 275-6. McKenzie, II, 359-60.

      William Congreve, Prologue to the Court, On the Queens' Birth-Day, 1704 ('The happy Muse, to this high Scene preferr'd')

  • Add. MS 28098

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 56 leaves, mounted on guards in modern half dark red morocco.

    • *GoT 7 ff. 45r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph MS, signed Thomas Goffe, once folded as a letter and probably delivered to Huyghens.

      C. A. Van Sypesteyn sale, May 1825, lot 144.

      Thomas Goffe, To Sir Constantine Huyghens, Knight, & Secretarie to the Lords the Ambassadors from the States of ye united Provinces of the Netherlands to his Matie. of G. Brittaine ('I dare not wth the same nor tongue nor art')

  • Add. MS 28101

    A folio miscellany of chiefly verse, in a single hand, entitled The Famous Miscellany, 248 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

    Compiled by Ashley Cowper, Clerk of the Parliaments (signed, f. 1v, Ashley Cowper 1747).

    c.1747.
    • MkM 4 f. 74r

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
    • PsK 578.5 f. 114r-v

      Copy, headed A Song -- In the tragedy of Pompey -- By Mrs. Cat. Phillips / pompey's Ghost sings to Cornelia asleep.

      Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, p. 48.

      A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')
    • FrG 10 ff. 186r-7r

      Copy, headed The Trifle By Mr Farquhuar.

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')

  • Add. MS 28253

    A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

    Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.

    Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).

    Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

    • SiP 55 f. 3r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter, endorsed by Edward Bannister A Dyttye mad by Sr phillpe sydnye gevene me Att pvttenye In svrrye Decembris xo Anno 1584, with the name (of the donor) Sr phillyppe Sydnye.

      This MS collated in Ringler.

      Ringler, pp. 159-61.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 30 ('Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread')
    • CmT 43 f. 5r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of Edward Bannister, untitled, on a folio leaf, endorsed A fantasye of Sr Phillyp Sydnys write owt of his Astrophell & stella and owte of mr waterers Booke. c.1587-91.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.

      First published among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, pp. 5-6 (also pp. 44-5).

      Thomas Campion, 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'
    • DaJ 81 f. 7r-v

      Copy of poems 1-6, in two secretary hands, the first that of Edward Bannister, untitled, the leaf torn.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')
    • DrJ 75 f. 65v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Dryden, with other verse, on a folio leaf.

      First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 247-8.

      John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')
    • MaA 401 ff. 71r-2v

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed New Instructions to a Painter, on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • EtG 3 ff. 158r-9r

      Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • DoC 248 f. 189r

      Copy, untitled and with the second stanza appearing first (here beginning Compell'd thrô Want this Wretched maid) on one side of a single octavo leaf.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song ('Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes')

  • Add. MS 28504

    Copy, being an attempted MS facsimile in a single hand of a 16th century printed edition of Skelton's poem, on ff. 1r-11v of 24 octavo leaves, the reverse end (ff. 12v-24 rev.) with rules of a society of bellringers in another hand dated 1662-3, in black leather gilt, with stamped royal cipher of Charles II.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscribed (heavily deleted) on a flyleaf William Daniel 1693. Sotheby's, 15 June 1870.

    • SkJ 11
      No description or publication history available.

      Canon, C42, p. 12. First published [c.1520]. Dyce, I, 95-115.

      John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng ('Tell you I chyll')

  • Add. MS 28558

    A folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco.

    Acquired from C. Hamilton 21 December 1870.

    • DrJ 140 ff. 21r-2r

      Copy, untitled, on two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed Mr Drydons prolouge to the Prophetess.

      This item acquired on 11 February 1871 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

      This MS collated in California. Recorded in Kinsley.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')

  • Add. MS 28571

    A folio composite volume of papers relating to the Reformation in England, in various hands, 220 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern morocco.

    Bookplate of John Fuller Russell.

    • AndL 14 ff. 201r-4r

      Extracts in Latin from the works of Tertullian, Cyprian, and Origen, in a roman hand, with annotations in another italic hand, an inscription in yet another hand at the foot of f. 201v Dr Androwes collections out of some fathers concerning the signe of the Crosse. 1605, on six pages of four folio leaves.

      Unpublished (as a collection of extracts). Recorded in Welsby, p. 82.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Collections concerning the Sign of the Cross

  • Add. MS 28607

    A folio volume of legal tracts, in several secretary and court hands, 172 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edm Umfrevile Junr's Interioris Templi Studtie 1724: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Presented by the Earl of Derby, 11 February 1871.

    • BcF 237 ff. 112r-19r

      Copy of 100 Ordinances, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as by Francis Lord Verulam...23o Januarij 1618.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • Add. MS 28618

    A folio volume comprising copies by John Caryll, of Ladyholt, Sussex, of letters sent to him by various correspondents, c.120 leaves.

    c.1710-35.

    Donated by Sir Charles W. Dilke, MP.

    • DrJ 342 f. 84v

      Copy, in John Caryll's hand, of a letter by Dryden to him, 21 July 1698.

      Ward, Letter 51.

      John Dryden, Letter(s)
    • WyW 21 f. 85r

      Copy, in John Caryll's hand, of a letter by Wycherley to him, from London, 17 May 1704.

      Edited in Summers, II, 242, and in Connely, p. 280.

      William Wycherley, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 28622

    An octavo volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), with later household recipes from f. 41 onwards, in several hands, 65 leaves.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. 2v) Mrs. Margaret and M. Presented by the Rev. C. Rogers, 4 March 1871.

    • RaW 515 f. 18r-v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      This MS collated in Gullens. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'

  • Add. MS 28635

    A tall folio volume, comprising a transcript of Dr Harington's Manuscript No. 2: i.e. of The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. (the Arundel-Harington MS).

    c.1810.

    Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.

    Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

    • SiP 25.5 f. 20r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed qd Ph. S.

      Ringler, pp. 136-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 ('The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth')
    • HrJ 84.5 f. 36v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis. Jo. Har.

      First published in 1618, Book II, No. 90. McClure No. 186, pp. 222-3. Kilroy, Book III, No. 30, pp. 179-80.

      Sir John Harington, In defence of Lent ('Our belly-gods dispraise the Lenton fast')
    • DyE 80 f. 85v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Sargent.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'

  • Add. MS 28644

    An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards.

    Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.

    Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.

    • HeR 347 ff. 72v-3r

      Copy, headed Oberon King of the fairies by Sr Simon Stewart.

      This MS collated in Farmer.

      First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

      Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
    • PoW 21 f. 74r

      Copy, headed Upon a black Maid.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • B&F 126 f. 74v

      Copy, headed Melancholy.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • ShW 31.3 f. 75r

      Copy of lines 799-804.

      First published in London, 1593.

      William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')
    • CwT 1051 f. 76r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs in his absence.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

      Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
    • CwT 271 f. 76v

      Copy, headed A fly flew into his Mrs Eye.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')

  • Add. MS 28656

    A quarto volume of Gleanings from Rare Books compiled by Dawson Turner, FSA (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary.

    Early 19th century.
    • DaW 59.5 f. 186r

      Copy, by Dawson Turner.

      First published, as A Panegyrick To His Excellency, The Lord General Monck (London, 1660). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 81-2.

      Sir William Davenant, To his Excellency the Lord General Monck ('Our fiery Scots scorn'd your triumphant night')

  • Add. MS 28692

    A folio volume containing two works by the Earl of Rochester, in one accomplished professional hand, 75 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco.

    c.1680s.

    Possibly this MS or RoJ 646 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or Folger MS V.b.233 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

    • RoJ 645 ff. 3r-69r

      Copy of an early version, with a title-page Lucina's Rape, Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, a list of dramatis personae (ff. 3r, 4r) including actors' names.

      This MS discussed in Allardyce Nicoll, Dryden, Howard and Rochester, TLS (13 January 1921), p. 27. Facsimiles of the title-page in Prinz, before p. 389, and in Greene, p. 186. Extracts edited from this MS in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 70-2; collated in Hayward, pp. 340-8.

      The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape
    • RoJ 634 ff. 70r-5v

      Copy of a Scaen as written by the Earl of Rochester.

      This MS apparently that mentioned by one J. Mt as being in his library in N&Q, Ser. I, No. 5 (6 March 1852), 225. Discussed in Nicoll. Edited in Sola Pinto, loc. cit. Facsimile of f. 70 in Prinz, after p. 390.

      A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, Dryden, Howard and Rochester, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play

  • Add. MS 28693

    Copy, in an accomplished hand, with (f. 3r) a title-page Loves Martyr / or / Witt above Crowns / A Tragedy, by Mrs Anne Wharton... added in a later hand, 51 quarto leaves, in contemporary red morocco gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1v) Mary Howe, to whom the play is dedicated, the MS therefore evidently the author's presentation copy to her.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1842, item 576. Afterwards owned by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), antiquary and collector. Purchased from W.H. Logan, 15 April 1871.

    Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

    • WhA 68
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), pp. 193-282.

      Anne Wharton, Love's Martyr or Witt above Crowns A Tragedy

  • Add. MS 28715

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 36 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1630s.

    Sotheby's, 8 May 1871.

    This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

    • NaR 4
      No description or publication history available.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

  • Add. MS 28758

    A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

    Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

    c.1651-66.

    Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

    • WaE 149.5 ff. 99v-101v

      Copy, headed Upon ye warr with Spain, and ye victory obtain'd at sea, 1656.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
    • WaE 713.5 f. 102r-v

      Copy, headed Upon ye storm ye 30 of Aug. 1658, and Oliver's death ensuing ye same.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • DaW 29.6 ff. 119v-20r

      Extract from Book 2, Canto 1, line 63 et seq., headed The Description of a Great City, beginning From wider gates oppressors sally there.

      First published in London, 1651 [i.e. December 1650]. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book published in London, 1685. Gladish (1971).

      Sir William Davenant, Gondibert ('Of all the Lombards, by their Trophies knowne')
    • PsK 274.5 f. 121r

      Copy, headed On ye Numerous Accesse of ye English to waite upon ye King in Flanders.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

      Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland ('Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles')
    • PsK 165.2 f. 121r

      Copy of the first four lines, a false start, the rest of the page left blank.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 266.5 f. 122r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

      Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')
    • PsK 481.8 f. 123r-v

      Copy of 28 lines, headed To ye Queens Majesty on her arrival at Portsmouth, May. 14. 1662.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

      Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, The false printed Broadside of Katherine Philips's To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 ('Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne')
    • PsK 165.3 f. 123v

      Copy of lines 1-15, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 455.5 f. 124r

      Copy, headed To a Lady upon ye short injoyment of her company

      First published, with the date Septemb. 25. 1652, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

      Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 ('As men that are with visions grac'd')
    • PsK 165.5 f. 125r-v

      Copy of lines 1-24, headed To a Mrs whom I had long ador'd upon her favouring my rival in my presence.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 488.5 f. 126r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery ('The publick Gladness that's to us restor'd')

  • Add. MS 28839

    A quarto volume of Divine and Morall Observations, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather.

    Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

    c.1672 [-1714].

    Inscribed (top of f. 1r) This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

    • SiP 113.5 f. 32r

      Copy, untitled.

      Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 ('What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show')
    • StW 753.5 f. 33v

      Copy, headed Vpon a flake of snow fallinge into a fayre Ladies bosome and here beginning I saw fayre Cloris walking all alone.

      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')
    • BcF 16.5 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, headed of the world.

      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'
    • WoH 19.5 ff. 37r, 38r

      Copy, headed The Character of a Happy Life.

      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')
    • DkT 11.5 f. 42r

      Copy, following a note about the Queen's death.

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

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • BrW 119.5 f. 43r

      Copy, headed Vpon a young Gentlewoman.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • WoH 185.5 f. 46r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')

  • Add. MS 28842

    A quarto volume comprising two antiquarian works, in a single prdominantly secretary hand, 116 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within 19th-century half green morocco.

    c.1630.
    • CtR 278 ff. 85r-116r

      Copy, headed Extractes out of the Records, wherein may be collected by what meanes the Kings of England have and may rayse moneyes, unascribed, the last leaf imperfect.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

  • Add. MS 28852

    A quarto letterbook comprising letters written to Sir Edward Stradling (c.1529-1609), antiquary, of St Donat's, Glamorganshire, in at least two secretary hands, 88 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Early 17th century.

    Booklabel of Sir Charles George Young, FSA (1795-1869), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 18 December 1871.

    • RaW 866 f. 63v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Stradling, from the Court, 26 September 1584.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 28927

    A quarto composite volume of letters, in various hands, addressed chiefly to John Ellis (1642/6-1738), secretary of state.

    • HbT 164 ff. 4r-5r

      Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, including as an enclosure To find a straight line equall to halfe a quarter of a Circle, to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, from Chatsworth, 14[/24] August 1677.

      Edited in George A. Aitken, An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes, The Academy, 27 (1885), 46 (and see also p. 80). Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 756-8, Letter 200.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 28955

    A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    Late 17th century.
    • RoJ 253 f. 39r

      Copy, in a professional hand, inscribed as by Ld Rochester, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

      On the verso The Answer Sir Carr Scroope (Raile on poore feeble Scribler speak of me)

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • DoC 326.991 f. 43r

      Copy, headed On the immature Death of the D of Gloucester.

      First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')
    • MaA 222.3 f. 152r-v

      Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
    • RoJ 580 f. 179r-v

      Copy, with alterations, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally.

      This MS collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

  • Add. MS 29241

    An octavo verse miscellany, inclusing Latin translations.

    Late 17th century.
    • CoA 270 passim

      A Latin version of verses from The Mistresse.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts

  • Add. MS 29280

    Copy, in a single professional hand, a list of contents (f. 3v) added in another hand, 55 small folio leaves, in contemporary brown morocco gilt.

    c.1660s.

    Inscribed name of J. Stuart deleted. Purchased on 5 October 1872 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

    This MS collated in Clark.

    • OrR 27
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

  • Add. MS 29304

    Copy, being an expanded and rearranged version of the tract, headed A breefe treatise of the question for Precedencye betwixt England and Spayne, disputed of in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth; and deuided into seuerall Chapters, on eight quarto leaves, in modern half red leather.

    In the mixed hand of the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Bookplate of Anthony Keck. Purchased on 3 March 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

    • CtR 77
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

  • Add. MS 29409

    A folio volume of ballads, comprising two MSS bound together, in possibly a single hand, 281 leaves, in half red morocco on marbled boards.

    Volume II of the compilations of Peter Buchan (1790-1854), the foundation of his Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1828).

    c.1820s.
    • CmT 10 ff. 265v-6r

      Copy, headed Iames Heruie, in a group of ballads copied from an unprinted MS. written by Lady Robertson of Lude in 1630.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 503.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')

  • Add. MS 29492

    A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

    c.1623-30.

    Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

    • HeR 136.5 f. 5r

      Copy of lines 9-22, here beginning Might I make choise long life should be wthstood, subscribed Hericke Cat[?] Hall Cambridge.

      First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.

      Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death ('Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend')
    • RaW 246.5 f. 5v

      Copy, untitled. subscribed Sr Walter Rawliue.

      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')
    • RuB 4 ff. 13v-16r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudiers speech taken as he spake it; being ye first in ye greate busines concerning ye Treaties.

      Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Mats favour towards vs....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
    • BcF 16.8 f. 35r-v

      Copy, untitled and unascribed.

      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'
    • JnB 128.5 f. 38v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
    • PeW 274 f. 41r-v

      Copy, untitled, written across the page with the spine of the volume turned upwards

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
    • SuJ 27 f. 42v

      Copy, headed A Barly-breake, subscribed dedit ffrancis Kneuett.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 18-19.

      John Suckling, A Barley-break ('Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak')
    • MiT 4 f. 43r

      Copy of an eight-line version, headed Verses sent to King James, subscribed T. M.

      Edited from this MS in Geoffrey Bullough, The Game at Chesse: How it Struck a Contemporary, MLR, 49 (1954), 156-63 (p. 163); in A Game at Chess, ed. J.W. Harper (London, 1966), p. xvii; and in Oxford Middleton, with a facsimile on p. 1895.

      First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

      Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James ('A harmless game raised merely for delight')
    • MrJ 34.6 ff. 49v-51v

      Copy, headed In Ducem reducem ab Insula RE, dated in the margin Ao. i627.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • CoR 649.5 ff. 69v-70r

      Copy, headed To the newe borne Prince Charles Maye 1630 uppon the apparrition of the starre and the following Eclipse of the Sunn and Moon, subscribed Ralphe Godwyn Secretary to the Earle of Northampton fecit hos versicolos.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.

      Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')

  • Add. MS 29497

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco.

    c.1700.

    Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

    • DoC 340 ff. 2r-3v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DoC 320 ff. 42r-3r

      Copy, headed The Priest Moderator.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons ('Religion's a politic law')
    • RoJ 581 ff. 48r-9r

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • RoJ 11.5 f. 63r et seq.

      Copy.

      First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
    • MaA 178 ff. 70v-1r

      Copy, headed A prophetic Lampoon made Anno 1659 by ye Duke of Buckingham relating to what would happen under King Charles ye second.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      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')
    • DrJ 141 ff. 78v-9r

      Copy, as by John Dryden.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • DoC 289 ff. 82v-3r

      Copy, headed Monmouth.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
    • DoC 249 f. 108v

      Copy, headed Philis by Lord Dorset.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song ('Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes')
    • DoC 326.992 f. 109v

      Copy.

      Recorded in harris.

      First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')

  • Add. MS 29581

    A large octavo volume comprising three letters by Jeremy Taylor.

    • *TaJ 35 ff. 1r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, Wensday morning, [c1643-5].

      Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XC(c).

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
    • *TaJ 34 ff. 3r-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, [c.1640s].

      Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 40.

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
    • TaJ 38 ff. 5r-19v

      Copy by Dr Meade of Taylor's letter to Richard Bayley, 24 December 1648.

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 29584

    A folio composite volume of letters by English and Irish prelates, chiefly addressed to Chistopher Hatton, first Viscount Hatton, in various hands, over 113 leaves.

    • *TaJ 82 f. 6r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, from Dublin, 23 November 1661.

      Edited in Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, ed. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 2 vols, Camden Society (London 1878), I, 26-7. Facsimile in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical & Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 96.

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
    • *TaJ 92 ff. 8r-9v
      Autograph

      Letter by Taylor, to William Hamond, from Dublin, 2 August 1662, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Taylor.

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 29587

    A large folio composite volume og miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 205 leaves, mounted on guards, in red morocco gilt.

    Papers of the Hatton and Finch families, including notably Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, and his son-in-law Daniel Finch (1647-1730), second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.

    • EsR 274 f. 4r-v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The manner & end of the Earle of Essex in the tower of london the 25th of ffe: 1600, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

  • Add. MS 29598

    A folio composite volume of largely original letters, in various hands, in half red morocco.

    • RaW 867 ff. 2r-4v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, imperfect. c.1620.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • *DnJ 4131 f. 13r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 1 September 1624.

      Edited in Gosse, II, 209. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLVIII(c).

      John Donne, Letter(s)
    • *DnJ 4132 f. 15r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 17 September [1624?].

      Edited in Gosse, II, 209-10. Facsimile in Keynes, Bibliography (1958), facing p. 123.

      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 29607

    A folio composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 25 leaves, in modern half red calf.

    • CoR 6.2 f. 1r

      Copy of the answer to Corbet's poem, in a professional secretary hand, headed Answere to ye Doctr. Corbetts verses and here beginning The warlicke kinge did wonder when he spide, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

      Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

      Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
    • MkM 5 f. 6r

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Add. MS 29729

    A folio volume of poems by John Lydgate and others, in several secretary hand with some rubrication, 288 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. compiled by or for John Stow (1525?-1605).

    Chiefly in the hand of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 15 July 1874.

    • SkJ 17 ff. 8r-9r

      Copy, with alterations, headed Here folowythe the Epitaphy of Kynge Edward ye fowrthe complyd by [John Lidgate monke of Burie deleted] Skelton.

      This MS collated in Kinsman.

      Canon, D53, pp. 16-17. First published (lacking lines 37-48) in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Complete in Dyce (1843), I, 1-5, and in Robert S. Kinsman, A Lamentable of Kyng Edward the IIII, Huntington Library Quarterly, 29 (1966), 95-108.

      John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth ('Miseremini mei, ye that be my frendis!')

  • Add. MS 29764

    A square-shaped folio composite volume of papers largely relating to the playwright R.B. Sheridan, in various hands and paper sizes, 78 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

    1803.
    • RaW 158 ff. 9r-10v

      Copy, headed The Souls Errand, transcribed from an unidentified source, sent with a letter by Nathaniel Ogle to Sheridan, from Southampton, 12 January in 1803, as a Copy of the vigorous verses written by the great Sir Walter Raleigh, after his condemnation.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')

  • Add. MS 29770

    Copy, in a single neat rounded hand, with corrections and underlining in black ink apparently in another hand, ff. 84v-91v in another, mixed hand, headed A Dialogue / Tutor. Pupil, 91 leaves, in half black morocco.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Acquired from R. E. Lonsdale, 10 April 1875.

    Griffin's A text.

    • HrE 113.6
      No description or publication history available.

      First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).

      Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil

  • Add. MS 29874

    A duodecimo commonplace book of anecdotes, epigrams, etc., including a brief treatise relating to Queen's College, Oxford.

    Mid-17th century.
    • RnT 481 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Kelliher.

      Cited in an anecdote about Randolph in William Winstanley, Poor Robin's Jests (London, 1667). Hazlitt, I, xi. W. Hilton Kelliher, Two Notes on Thomas Randolph, PQ, 51. ii (1972), 941-5.

      Thomas Randolph, 'I John Bo-peep'

  • Add. MS 29921

    An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

    Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

    c.1668-1713.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

    • RoJ 283 f. 3v

      Copy, ascribed to Rochester.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in A Choice Collection of Poetry (London, 1738). Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 122.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Rhyme to Lisbon ('A health to Kate!')
    • RoJ 131 f. 3v

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Here's Lauderdale ye pretty, with an anecdotal introduction: The same E. of Roch. coming in another time when ye K. & others were drinking Lisbon, They had bin trying to make a Rhime to Lisbon, Now saies ye K. here's One will do it. Rocheste takes a glass & saies, subscribed He drinks & ran away.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')
    • PsK 219.5 f. 36r

      Copy of lines 43-46, here beginning At length this secret I have learn'd, inscribed at the side Orinda fol: 123 / 'tis o Cowleys Retiremt, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

      First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

      Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')
    • BrW 197 f. 37r-v

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • ShJ 149 ff. 40r, 51v-2r

      Copy of the dirge, untitled, stanzas 2 and 3 separated from the first stanza, with cross-references, and all deleted.

      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')
    • WoH 20 f. 42r-v

      Copy, as by Sr H W.

      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')
    • DaJ 179 f. 53r

      Copy, headed On one that died young.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • PsK 592 ff. 67v, 115v-16r

      Extracts.

      Discussed in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 135-6).

      Katherine Philips, Extracts
    • SoR 39 ff. 69v-71r

      Copy, headed The contented man.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')
    • MaA 5 ff. 80r-1r

      Copy, transcribed from the printed text of 1681.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 21-6. Smith, pp. 63-4.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Soul and Body ('O who shall, from this Dungeon, raise')
    • MaA 58 f. 81r-v

      Copy, headed Translated by Mr Marvel ubi supa. pa. 64., transcribed from the printed text of 1681.

      This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 58. Lord, p. 51. Smith, p. 191, as The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes.

      Andrew Marvell, Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2 ('Climb at Court for me that will')
    • MaA 13 f. 108r

      Fragment of a copy, now comprising only the heading and first line, When death shall part us from these kids / Vide 120 / A Pastoral Dialogue, and and lines 44-8, with corrections in a different ink, the rest torn away.

      This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • ShJ 150 f. 114r-v

      Copy of the dirge, untitled and here beginning The Glories of our Birth & State.

      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')
    • PsK 199.5 f. 115v

      Copy of lines 97-100, untitled, here beginning Rightly to rule one's self must be, subscribed Orinda Fol. p. 201, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667 (p. 102).

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

      Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')
    • PsK 167.5 f. 115v

      Copy of lines 39-40, untitled, here beginning Kings may be Slaves by theire own Passions hurl'd, subscribed Orinda 104, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 341.5 f. 116r

      Copy of lines 77-8, untitled, here beginning He that comands himself is more a Prince, subscribed Orinda p. 117, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

      Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
    • MaA 14 f. 123r-v

      Copy, headed A Pastoral.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • CoA 200.5 f. 124r

      Copy.

      Of doubtful authorship.

      Abraham Cowley, The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles ('Greate King whose pen ye Angells guide, whose minde')
    • DrJ 64.5 f. 131r

      Extract, headed Dryden's Hind & Panther quoted in Sr Tho. Pope Blounts Essays, Edit. 3. p. 252. Ao. 1697, six lines here beginning Of all the Tyrannies on Humane Kind.

      First published in London, 1687. Kinsley, II, 467-537. California, III, 118-200.

      John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther ('A milk white Hind, immortal and unchang'd')
    • DrJ 173.4 f. 131v

      Extract, four lines, with alterations, beginning He that once sins, subscribed Drydens Juvenal.

      First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis ('Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score')
    • JnB 122.5 f. 134r

      Copy of lines 3-6, headed An Epitaph by Ben Johnson, here beginning Underneath this stone doth lie, subscribed Quoted in a Spectator saies N W.

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

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')

  • Add. MS 29975

    A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

    • ElQ 185 ff. 3r-5v

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Queenes most excellent Maiesties Oration in the Parliamt howse martij 1576, with an endorsement on the blank leaf f. 6v.

      This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

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

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

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

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
    • ElQ 245 f. 9r

      Copy, in a roman hand, untitled, endorsed in a cursive secretary hand (f. 9v) A speache of Q. Eliz to a Poland Ambassador.

      Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597
    • StW 1472 f. 108r-v

      Copy, in a small mixed hand, headed Stroad's Speech before ye K. at Woodstocke, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, with an address panel (f. 109v) To his much respected & kind friend Mr Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d.

      Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro ….

      William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635
    • StW 504 f. 109r

      Copy, in a small mixed hand, on the second of two conjugate folio leaves, oce folded as a letter and addressed (f. 109v) To his much respected & kind friend Mr Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d.

      This MS collated in Forey. See also StW 1472.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

      William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete ('Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare')

  • Add. MS 29981

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, with a title-page (f. 2r) A Collection of Loyal Poems. Made in the Years 1714 1715 and 1716, almost entirely in a single neat hand, 157 leaves, with (ff. 3r-6v) a table of contents, in modern half-green morocco.

    c.1720.

    Inscribed (f. 1*v) Elizabeth Susannah Hall July 22th 1778. Purchased from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, 5 April 1876.

    • DoC 216 f. 36v

      Copy, headed An Allusion.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden ('When Israel first provoked the living Lord')

  • Add. MS 29996

    A small folio volume of motets, with some later political verses, in various hands, c.220 leaves.

    Mid-16th to mid-17th century.
    • CaE 14 f. 70v

      Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Epitaph of the duke of Buckingham.

      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')

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