Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999

  • Harley MS 3142

    A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in Latin and English, in several probably professional predominantly italic hands, 78 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    c.1640.
    • BcF 705 ff. 50v-1r

      Copy.

      Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
    • CtR 41 ff. 64r-7r

      Copy, subscribed Robertus Cotton Bruceus.

      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
    • CtR 111 ff. 67v-9r

      Copy, headed To my worthy ffreind and Brother Sr Edward Mountague Knight, subscribed Ro: Cot: Bruc:.

      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

  • Harley MS 3196

    Autograph, with a dedicatory verse epistle to Prince Charles (ff. 4r-5r) after a preliminary largely prose epistle to the Prince's tutor, Thomas Murray (ff. 2r-3v), signed Phinees Fletcher, the text in a formal italic script throughout, on 32 octavo leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    c.1612-13.

    This MS discussed in Boas, I, x-xvi, and collated I, 279-87.

    Facsimile of part of the epistle to Murray in Boas, I, following p. 96, and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 140.

    • *FlP 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Cambridge, 1627. Boas, I, 97-123.

      Phineas Fletcher, Locustae, vel pietas Jesuitica ('Panditur Inferni limen, patet intima Ditis')

  • Harley MS 3357

    An octavo verse miscellany, comprising chiefly religious poems, in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum elaborately gilt.

    A formal presentation copy produced by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a title-page A Handfull of Celestiall Flowers...composed by diuers worthie & Learned Gentlemen: Manuscrib'd by R. Cr:, and with his dedication to the lawyer Sir Francis Ashley (1569-1635), for whom Crane served as a clerk or secretary for seven years, dated Decemb: 1632.

    1632.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Hennarletta Holles her book Giuen by her Father, with an addition in another hand John Hollis ye last Duke of that name [i.e. John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle] She married ye Late Edwd Harley Ld Oxford - son of Robert Harley first Ld of Oxford of that family.

    • DnJ 2646.54 ff. 59v-61v

      Copy in Ralph Crane's hand, headed Psal. 137 ( [sic], subscribed Fr: Da:.

      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')
    • RnT 77 ff. 88r-91r

      Copy, headed A diuine Pastorall Eglogue, subscribed T. Randolph gent.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

      Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination ('Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?')

  • Harley MS 3360

    Copy.

    Copy of a two-part treatise on optics, A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques, the first part On Illumination, the second part On Vision, complete with diagrams and a dedication to the Marquess of Newcastle, in the hand of an amanuensis, with some autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 193 quarto pages. Paris, 1646.

    NB. Hobbes is known to have used as his amanuensis for this treatise William Petty (1623-87): see Charles Cavendish's letter of 11 November 1645 to William Pell (British Library, Add. MS 4278, f. 207) and John Aubrey (Clark, I, 368).

    1646.

    Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 40. A Latin version of the second part of this work was incorporated in De Homine (see HbT 17). The dedication and closing passage of the treatise are printed from this MS in Molesworth, English, VII, 467-71. The treatise is discussed in Franco Alessio, De Homine e A Minute or First Draught of The Optiques di Thomas Hobbes, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 17 (Florence, 1962), 393-410.

    • *HbT 65
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished two-part treatise on optics, the first part On Illumination, the second part On Vision, dedicated to the Marquess of Newcastle.

      Thomas Hobbes, A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques

  • Harley MS 3499

    Copy, in probably a single professional small secretary hand, 387 quarto leaves, lacking a title but inscribed in a later hand (f. 1r) The argumts & obiections for the laws salick...wherby Englands right to fra is confirmed...42. Eliz.

    1st half 17th century.
    • WoH 296
      No description or publication history available.

      A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment.... First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom

  • Harley MS 3511

    A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

    Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

    Mid-17th century.

    Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

    • RaW 251 f. 1r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon Mans life.

      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')
    • CaW 48 f. 1v

      Copy of lines 7-15, headed Song and here beginning O now the certaine Cause I know.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published in Works (1651), p. 214. Evans, pp. 465-6.

      William Cartwright, The Teares ('If Souls consist of water, I')
    • SuJ 129 f. 2v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

      Probably written by Henry Hughes.

      John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
    • CoR 743 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) Noncense verses, here beginning Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches.

      First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
    • ClJ 43 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy, headed On a faire maid & a black a more.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

      John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
    • KiH 60 f. 12v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • RaW 517 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

      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'
    • StW 797 f. 14r

      Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) On his Mrs walking in ye snow.

      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')
    • KiH 618 f. 18r

      Copy, headed Song.

      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')
    • ClJ 190 f. 19r

      Copy, headed On Straford.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • DnJ 798 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy of lines 19-24, headed in the margin Crosses, here beginning Swime, & at every stroke, thou art thy crosse).

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 3077 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy of lines 25-74, here beginning Then like two mighty Kings which dwelling farre.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 387-8); 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 562 f. 20r-v

      Copy of lines 7-56, here beginning As steady as I could wish my thoughts were.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 388); 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 1180 ff. 20v-2v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 388); 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')
    • HaW 30 f. 23v

      Copy, headed Roses in her besom.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 164.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 12.

      William Habington, To Roses in the bosome of Castara ('Yee blushing Virgins happie are')
    • CwT 445 f. 24r

      Copy, headed On the death of a Lady.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

      Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit ('And here the previous dust is layd')
    • CwT 17 f. 25v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

      Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
    • ClJ 110.5 f. 26r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Recorded in Morris

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.

      John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony ('When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper')
    • CwT 1192 ff. 26v-7r

      Copy.

      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')
    • DrM 18 f. 28r-v

      Copy, subscribed M: D.

      This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

      Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
    • DrM 60 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: D:.

      This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.

      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')
    • ClJ 100 ff. 29r-30v

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

      John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
    • JnB 637 f. 30v-2r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

      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')
    • ClJ 148 ff. 32v-3v

      Copy, headed Elegy, subscribed J:C.

      First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

      John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas ('I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise')
    • PoW 87.5 ff. 35v-6v

      Copy, headed On the Death of Kg James.

      First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

      Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
    • DrM 3 f. 36v

      Copy, headed Ankor.

      First published as Amour 13 in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). Hebel, I, 104. II, 337 (sonnet 53 of Idea).

      Michael Drayton, 'Cleere Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore'
    • DnJ 3740 f. 37r-v

      Copy, headed Valediction to mourning.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • RnT 283 f. 37v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')
    • RnT 301 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, headed Discord.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

      Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute')
    • RnT 330 ff. 38r-9r

      Copy, headed On a deform'd Gentle woman wth a sweet voice.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
    • RnT 213 f. 39r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 93.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Death of a Nightingale ('Goe solitary wood, and henceforth be')
    • DnJ 443 ff. 39v-40r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 3667 f. 40r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • RnT 118 f. 40v

      Copy, headed On Mrs. J.T., who died in labour added in probably a different hand.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 53.

      Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph upon Mrs. I.T. ('Reader if thou hast a teare')
    • DnJ 1543 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 2459 f. 41r-v

      Copy, headed Elegy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389-90); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • RnT 268 ff. 42r-5r

      Copy, with four lines deleted and added later in a different hand.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
    • RnT 250 f. 45r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 135-6.

      Thomas Randolph, On the losse of his Finger ('How much more blest are trees then men')
    • DnJ 1693 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy.

      This MS collated (no variants) in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
    • RnT 292 f. 46r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

      Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')
    • RnT 404 ff. 46v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 140-1.

      Thomas Randolph, The wedding Morne ('Arise, come forth, but never to return')
    • DnJ 3850 f. 47r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 307 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
    • HeR 151 f. 48r-v

      Copy, headed The Enquiry and here beginning Amidst the mirtles as I walkt.

      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')
    • RnT 312 f. 48v

      Copy.

      First published in James Shirley, The Gratefull Servant (London, 1630). Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 143.

      Thomas Randolph, To Mr. J. S. on his Gratefull Servant ('I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words')
    • RnT 308 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, headed Orpheus Song.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 125.

      Thomas Randolph, The Song of Orpheus ('Haile sacred Deserts, whom kind nature made')
    • DnJ 1138 f. 49r

      Copy of a sixteen-line version, headed Elegy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); 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')
    • HaW 7 f. 49r-v

      Copy, headed Sacrifice.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 164.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 11.

      William Habington, To Castara. A Sacrifice ('Let the chaste Phoenix from the flowry East')
    • JnB 167 ff. 49v-50r

      Copy, headed [On Mrs Venetia Stanly deleted] 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 205 ff. 50r-1v

      Copy, headed The mind, 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')
    • HaW 16 f. 52v

      Copy, headed Of being in Love.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 165.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 13.

      William Habington, To Castara, Of his being in Love ('Where am I? not in Heaven: for oh I feele')
    • HaW 18 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy, headed Mrs. Singing.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 166.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 15.

      William Habington, To Castara, Softly singing to her selfe ('Sing forth sweete Cherubin (for we have choice)')
    • HaW 20 f. 53r

      Copy, headed On a trembling kisse at parting.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 172.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.

      William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure ('Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows')
    • HaW 42 f. 53r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 171.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 24-5.

      William Habington, Vpon Cupid's death and buriall in Castara's cheeke ('Cupids dead. Who would not dye')
    • DnJ 192 ff. 53v-4r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 390-1); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
    • HaW 39 f. 54r

      Copy of a garbled version, untitled.

      Printed from this MS in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 386); recorded in Allott, p. 169.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 20.

      William Habington, Vpon Castara's frowne or smile ('Learned shade of Tycho Brache, who to us')
    • HaW 9 f. 54r-v

      Copy, headed Intending a journey.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 172.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 27.

      William Habington, To Castara, Intending a journey into the Country ('Why haste you hence Castara? can the earth')
    • HaW 31 ff. 54v-5r

      Copy, headed To the dew.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 174.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 38.

      William Habington, To the Dew, In hope to see Castara walking ('Bright Dew which dost the field adorne')
    • HaW 38 f. 55r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Allott, p. 174.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 40.

      William Habington, Vpon Castara's departure ('Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath')
    • CwT 971 f. 55v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • CwT 403 ff. 55v-6r

      Copy.

      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 123 f. 56r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 56 f. 56v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 421 f. 57r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • RnT 493 f. 57r-v

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')
    • StW 1106 f. 57v

      Copy of lines 15-20, headed The dart.

      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')
    • HeR 211 f. 57v

      Copy.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640) and, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 208. Patrick, pp. 276-7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Robert Herrick, The Primrose ('Ask me why I send you here')
    • CwT 514 f. 58r

      Copy, headed Mrs face in ye Water.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • CwT 1170 f. 58r-v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 235 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 117.

      Thomas Carew, A Fancy ('Marke how this polisht Easterne sheet')
    • CwT 490 f. 60r

      Copy, headed Damaske rose in Mrs brest.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 108.

      Thomas Carew, On a Damaske rose sticking vpon a Ladies breast ('Let pride grow big my rose, and let the cleare')
    • JnB 437 ff. 60v-1r

      Copy, headed Women.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

      Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes ('Follow a shaddow, it still flies you')
    • JnB 455 f. 61r

      Copy.

      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')
    • ShJ 125 f. 61r-v

      Copy, headed Song.

      This MS recorded in Armstrong.

      First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
    • CwT 4 f. 61v

      Copy, headed Epitaph on a Lady.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

      Thomas Carew, An other ('The purest Soule that e're was sent')
    • CwT 1184 f. 62r

      Copy, headed Mole in Mrs Bosome.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, pp. 113-14.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Mole in Celias bosome ('That lovely spot which thou dost see')
    • DrM 67 ff. 63v-5r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 146.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 352-4.

      Michael Drayton, To His Valentine ('Muse, bid the Morne awake')
    • CwT 558 f. 65r-v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 1045 f. 65v

      Copy.

      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 28 ff. 65v-6r

      Copy, headed Bleeding, to ye Surgeon.

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

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • CwT 1138 f. 66r-v

      Copy, headed To one resembling his Mrs..

      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')
    • CwT 360 ff. 66v-7r

      Copy, headed To her vnconstant servant, a Lady.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
    • CwT 658 f. 67r-v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
    • CwT 1212 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy, headed Friend return'd from Travell.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 77-8.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon Master W. Mountague his returne from travell ('Leade the black Bull to slaughter, with the Bore')
    • CwT 1214 f. 68r-v

      Copy, headed Chief Justice Mrs..

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 83-4.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon my Lord Chiefe Iustice his election of my Lady A.W. for his Mistresse ('Heare this, and tremble all')
    • ShJ 48 ff. 68v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Armstrong.

      First published as Treedle's verses in The Witty Fair One, Act III, scene ii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (pp. 311-12). As The Hue and Cry in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.

      James Shirley, Loves Hue and Cry ('In Loves name you are charg'd, oh fly')
    • CwT 1275 f. 69r-v

      Copy.

      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 769 ff. 69v-70r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • CoR 613 f. 70r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 28 f. 70v

      Copy, headed The Ladies answer to Dr Corbet.

      An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
    • HoJ 309 f. 71v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, p. 299.

      John Hoskyns, Impossibilities ('Embrace a Sun-beame, and on it')
    • BrW 122 ff. 71v-2r

      Copy, headed On 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')
    • CwT 248 f. 72v

      Copy, headed On a fly.

      Printed from this MS in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 384-5).

      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')
    • DnJ 1761.3 f. 73r

      Copy, headed A Criple, here beginning Nor stand, no sit, nor goe ye criple cries.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • CwT 728 f. 73r-v

      Copy, headed Ode.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • BcF 19 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed F: B.

      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'
    • CwT 320 f. 74r

      Copy, headed A caveat to a young maid.

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

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • SiP 134 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 440.

      Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 ('Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes')
    • BrW 14 ff. 77v-80v

      Copy of versions of the epitaph in Book II, Song 1, and of most of the lyrics in Songs 2-5 (i.e. Song 1, lines 312-18; Song 2, lines 103-22, 193-222; Song 3, lines 645-96, 1029-58; Song 4, lines 551-62; Song 5, lines 229-64), with no general heading and here beginning In depth of waves long hath Alexis slept.

      This MS discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-92 (pp. 385-6).

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
    • RnT 172 f. 81r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.

      Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia ('Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud')
    • RnT 370 f. 82r-v

      Copy, headed Randolph on his finger cut off.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
    • KiH 156 ff. 83r-4v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
    • ClJ 123 ff. 85r-7v

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.

      John Cleveland, To P. Rupert ('O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!')
    • ClJ 70 ff. 88r-9r

      Copy, headed The Synod.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.

      John Cleveland, The Mixt Assembly ('Fleabitten Synod: an Assembly brew'd')
    • ClJ 151 ff. 89v-90r

      Copy.

      First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.

      John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland ('Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence')
    • StW 1278 f. 90r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
    • ClJ 86 ff. 91r-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

      John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')

  • Harley MS 3614

    A folio volume of monumental inscriptions, 1651-75, in a single neat hand, with an Index in double columns (ff. 84v-7r), 87 leaves (plus many blanks), in modern mottled calf gilt.

    Compiled by, and entirely in the hand of, John Le Neve (1679-1741), antiquary.

    Early 18th century.
    • MaA 43 f. 5v

      Copy in the hand of the antiquary John Le Neve (1679-1741), headed In Eton College Chapel was this Inscription upon a black Marble Stone near Luptons Chapel and subscribed MS. Woodward.

      Edited from this MS in John Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana, 5 vols (London, 1718), II, 18-19; recorded in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.

      First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one Taffy Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium ('Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum')

  • Harley MS 3638

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several hands, 189 leaves, in old calf gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) E libris Abr. Pry[son?] D. J. e. e. 1690.

    • SiP 180.7 ff. 100r-1v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Phillip Sydney his lre to Sr Robert Sydney touching his Travell.

      A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney

  • Harley MS 3783

    A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

    • *HlJ 85 f. 10r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Goring [or possibly Coring], 15 August [1608-16].

      Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)
    • *CoR 783 ff. 41r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Norwich, 27 February [1632/3-1634/5].

      Richard Corbett, Letter(s)
    • *HlJ 136 ff. 101r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, 19 February [c.1655?].

      Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • Harley MS 3787

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    • HkR 13 ff. 1r-32r

      Copy of a text deriving from HkR 12, in a professional secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Keble.

      First published (with Book VIII) in London, 1648. Keble, III, 1-107. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 1-103.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VI
    • HkR 16 ff. 33r-80v

      Copy, transcribed from HkR 19, in a professional secretary hand (different from HkR 13), headed Mr Hookers L .8. of Ecclical Politie.

      First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII
    • NaR 7 ff. 110r-31r

      Copy, in a mixed hand.

      This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

      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
    • EsR 280 f. 179r-v

      Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, headed The executinge of the Erle of Essex, on a single folio leaf with fold marks.

      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
    • RaW 737 f. 182r-v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed finis Walter Rawleigh, on a single leaf.

      A prayer, beginning I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me… and ending …I am willing help my vnwillingnes. Unpublished.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse ye night befores dea[th]
    • RaW 891 f. 183r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • SpE 44 f. 184r

      Copy of part of the third section, in a secretary hand, headed Certen poinctes to be considered in the recovering of of Ireland, docketed at the top Spensers discours breifly of Irelande, on one side of a long ledger-size leaf.

      This MS collated in Variorum. Facsimile in Jean R. Brink, Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136 (p. 133).

      First published in The Complete Works Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, ed. Alexander B. Grosart ([Manchester], 1882-4), I, 537-55. Spenser's authorship of this brief tract is now generally rejected: see Jean Brink's discussion of the MSS in Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136.

      Edmund Spenser, A Brief Note of Ireland
    • RaW 489 f. 214v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a leaf following (on f. 214r-v) A coppy of a lettre sent by the great lord to the Kinge of Nauarr. translated out of greekento ffrenche and soe into Englishe.

      Printed from this MS in Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808); collated in May; recorded in Latham.

      First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes'

  • Harley MS 3795

    A large folio composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 100 leaves, in half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    • AndL 26 ff. 20r-1r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed The order of Consecrateinge plate for the Altar, unascribed, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in LACT.

      First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Form for Consecrating Church Plate
    • AndL 27 ff. 22r-24r

      Copy, in a roman hand, headed Order of Consecrating Plate for the Altar, unascribed, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

      First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Form for Consecrating Church Plate
    • BcF 68 ff. 63r-72v

      Copy, in a professional roman hand, on ten quarto leaves (plus three blanks). Early 17th century.

      This MS collated in Spedding.

      A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

      Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

  • Harley MS 3821

    Copy, in a roman hand, on vellum throughout (c.13.5 x 11 cm), 54 pages, closely cropped at the head, in modern morocco gilt.

    Early-mid-16th century.

    A transcript of this MS made by William Reeves (1815-92), Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, is Trinity College Dublin MS 1090.

    • BaJ 30
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Rome, 1533. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany (London, 1745), VI, 402-28 (1810 edition, VI, 437-64).

      John Bale, The Vocacyon of Ioha Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie in Ireläde

  • Harley MS 3838

    A quarto formally prepared volume of three works by John Bale, 256 leaves, in modern green half morocco gilt.

    • *BaJ 2 ff. 3r-117r
      Autograph

      Copy, in a humanistic italic hand, with rubrication, with occasional neat autograph insertions by Bale, the work beginning with a dedicatory epistle to John Leland, ff. 3r-4v dated 1536, subscribed (f. 112v) Finis Autore Ioanne Bale, and with an index (ff. 113r-17r).

      Brief extracts from this MS printed in Monumenta historica Carmelitana, pp. 341-2, 365-6. Recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 237 (x); in Harris, p. 137; in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, pp. 161-2. Facsimile of ff. 11v-12v (Bale's account of himself) in Harris, pp. 131-4. A complete transcript made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740) is in the British Library (Harley MS 7031, ff. 144-98v).

      Unpublished (complete).

      John Bale, Anglorum Heliades
    • *BaJ 24 ff. 118r-55v
      Autograph

      Autograph throughout, with rubrication, beginning Presens cathalogus paucos admodu…, with an index on ff. 154r-5v.

      This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 236 (vii); in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, pp. 162-3.

      Unpublished. This work corresponds to the Scriptores ab Helia... recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.

      John Bale, Perpaucorum carmeli scriptorum ab helia thesbite, ad bertoldum primum ecrum magistrum generalem, Cathalogus
    • *BaJ 18 ff. 156r-256
      Autograph

      Autograph throughout, with rubrication, beginning Caeteraru militantis ecclte religionu…, with an index on ff. 250r-6v.

      This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 236 (viii); in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, p. 163.

      Unpublished. This work corresponds to the Scriptores a Bertoldo... recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.

      John Bale, De preclaris ordinis Carmeli scriptoribus ac theologis, cathalogus

  • Harley MS 3865

    A formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page (f. 1v) framed by coloured decorative borders, The morall fabilis of Esope compylit be Maister Robert Heusoun Scholmaister of Dufermling: 1571, engrossed, coloured and decorated initial letters (on ff. 2r, 3v, 12v, 18r, 23r, 31v, 36r, 43r, 51v, 58r, 63v, 67r, and 71r) and coloured vignettes (on ff. 3v, 43v, and 75r), 75 folio leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    1571.

    This MS collated in Wood and in Fox. Facsimiles of various pages in Wood, facing pp. xiv, 5; in Gregory Smith, II, facing pp. x, 7, 121; and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), pp. 42-3.

    A transcript of the MS made by John Dougald (1821) is in the National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19. 3. 5.

    • HnR 10
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Edinburgh, 1570. Wood, pp. Murdoch, IV, 855-66, 898-922, 946-88. Ritchie, IV, 116-28, 158-82, 206-451-102. Fox, pp. 3-110.

      Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian ('Thocht feinyeit fabils of ald poetre')

  • Harley MS 3889

    A quarto verse miscellany, probably in a single hand, written largely on rectos only and from both ends, 44 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in calf gilt (rebacked).

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed (f. [iir]) Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645, and (f. 44v rev.) Edwardus Jackson 1687.

    • DeJ 113 ff. 7r-12r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, and attributed to Denham, by C.H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

      Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 ('Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart')
    • DaW 47 f. 23r

      Copy of the first two stanzas, headed The Broken heart.

      First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

      Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover ('Dear Love let me this Evening dy!')
    • SuJ 130 f. 27r

      Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

      Probably written by Henry Hughes.

      John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
    • SuJ 161 ff. 28r-31v

      Copy of part of the play, containing the dramatis personae, the first prologue, Act I scene i and scene ii, lines 1-16.

      This MS collated in Beaurline.

      First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

      John Suckling, Aglaura

  • Harley MS 3910

    An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

    Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BrW 64 ff. 1r-3v

      Copy.

      First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey ('I oft have heard of Lydford law')
    • BrW 123 f. 4r

      Copy headed On mrs. E P.

      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')
    • DaJ 28 f. 11r-v

      Copy, headed In Hen Com. North.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

      Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio')
    • BmF 8 ff. 15v-16v

      Copy, subscribed ffr: B.

      This MS collated in Dyce.

      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 123 f. 17r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffr. B.

      First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

      Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
    • BmF 90 ff. 19r-20r

      Copy, subscribed Fr Beamont last.

      This MS collated in Dyce.

      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')
    • PeW 229 ff. 20v-1v

      Copy, with the first three lines and half of line 12 deleted, headed A Paradox on a painted face by my lo: of Cuntfolower Mr Baker.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • DnJ 3602 f. 22r-v

      Copy, headed An Eligie to the Lady Bedford.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

      John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')
    • PeW 38 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, headed Earle of Pembroke.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
    • PeW 107 f. 23r-v

      Copy, headed Answer by Ben: Rudyard.

      Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
    • CwT 780 f. 23v

      Copy, headed Peregrine and here beginning In your faire cheeks 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 49 f. 24r

      Copy, headed Epitath, subscribed J. B.

      This MS collated in Sell.

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

      Sir John Beaumont, Epitaphe ('Tis not a safe conjecture more or lesse')
    • BeJ 51 f. 24r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J. B.

      This MS collated in Sell.

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

      Sir John Beaumont, 'Gazer reade and take to harte'
    • KiH 198 f. 28r-v

      Copy, headed On Sr Walter Raleigh by W. R.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • CoR 146 ff. 33v-5r

      Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the Lady Haddington, subscribed A R C.

      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')
    • DaJ 300 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy, headed Satires.

      This MS collated in Krueger, pp. 308-9.

      Krueger, pp. 308-9. This complaint has sometimes been considered part of the Entertainment at Harefield but belongs to some other entertainment.

      Sir John Davies, Unidentified Entertainment. The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes ('Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you')
    • BeJ 8 ff. 46r-7r

      Copy.

      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')
    • BeJ 55 f. 49r-v

      Copy, here beginning To say to him good lord I might refraine, subscribed John Beaumont.

      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')
    • DnJ 1582 f. 50r

      Copy, headed Christo Saluatori.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
    • CoR 540 f. 50v

      Copy, headed Vpon the Lady Arabella.

      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')
    • DnJ 4065.6 f. 51r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Variorum.

      Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, miserrimum dictu: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

      John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne ('Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque')
    • AlW 155 f. 51v

      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 174 f. 52r

      Copy.

      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')
    • HrG 293 f. 53v-4r

      Copy, subscribed George Herbert.

      This MS collated 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')
    • HoJ 169 f. 54v

      Copy, in an uneven italic hand.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XLV (p. 213).

      John Hoskyns, Hoskins conualescens ad Giffordu medicinæ Doctorem et suum ('Docte Jacoboru decimas Gifforde meorum')
    • CoR 466 f. 55v

      Copy.

      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')
    • HoJ 277 f. 57r

      Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed In eundem Audoenum Joh. Hoskins.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXXVIII (p. 210).

      John Hoskyns, In eundem Audoenum ('Non expers salis ambulator audi')
    • CoR 334 ff. 58r-9r

      Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed To my Lord Admiralls mr Alesbury vppon the Comet R Corbet.

      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')
    • HrE 68 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy, in an uneven italic hand, untitled, subscribed Sr Ed: Harbert.

      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 237 ff. 60v-4v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, 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')
    • WoH 160.2 f. 65r-v

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed At the Tombe of Sr Albertus Morton the Teares of a friend.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')
    • BrW 203 f. 112r

      Copy, in a cursive italic hand.

      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')
    • ToA 57 ff. 112v-13r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed By the Earle of Pemb:.

      This MS text collated 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')
    • StW 1203 ff. 113v-17r

      Copy, with the original Latin on facing pages, in a formal italic and mixed hand respectively, headed Ex Libro secundo Famiani Stradæ prolu: sexta.

      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')
    • DnJ 1627.5 f. 118v

      Copy, in a formal italic hand, headed De Ignatij Loyolæ Apotheosi, and here beginning Qui fuit ante sacer, sanctus nunc incipit esse, unascribed.

      This MS cited in Beal & Kelliher.

      First published in P.G. Stanwood, A Donne Discovery, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as Dubium.

      This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, John Donne, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.

      John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis ('Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse')
    • HrE 16 ff. 119v-20v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed One Prince Henery an Elegy by Sr Ed: Her:.

      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')
    • HrG 297 ff. 121r-2r

      Copy, in an italic hand, complete with L'Envoy, docketed G. H..

      Edited from this MS in Hutchinson. Collated in Pebworth.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.

      George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia ('Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne')

  • Harley MS 3991

    A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

    Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

    • DeJ 114 ff. 13v-15r

      Copy, headed St Jame's prisoners 1655.

      First published, and attributed to Denham, by C.H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

      Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 ('Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart')
    • JnB 638 ff. 22r-3v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

      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')
    • HaW 48 f. 32v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Fine young folly if you are.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

      William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act ('Fine, young folly, though you were')
    • CmT 109 f. 34v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
    • SuJ 113 f. 35r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can')
    • ToA 88 f. 36r

      Copy.

      This MS cited in Chambers.

      Published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 4. Chambers, p. 53.

      Aurelian Townshend, Upon Kinde and True Love (''Tis not how witty, nor how free')
    • WaE 432 f. 38r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • ToA 79 f. 41r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 55. Chambers, p. 51.

      Aurelian Townshend, La Boivinette ('She's not the fairest of her name')
    • HeR 152 f. 43r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Within the mirtles as I walkt.

      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')
    • SuJ 235 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre ('Sir John got him on an ambling Nag')
    • CwT 710 f. 46r

      Copy, headed Song and here beginning Doubt not….

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

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • HeR 37 f. 48v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')
    • DeJ 44 ff. 49v-51r

      Copy, headed The Quaker and The Mare.

      First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

      Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
    • SuJ 200 f. 54r-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
    • SuJ 220 ff. 55r-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

      John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
    • CoR 65 ff. 60v-2v

      Copy.

      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')
    • DaW 90 f. 65r-v

      Copy, headed Song in Love and honour.

      First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.

      Sir William Davenant, Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song ('No morning red, and blushing faire')
    • DaW 84 f. 66v

      Copy, headed ffirst Song.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

      Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song ('Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!')
    • DaW 86 ff. 66v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 191-2). Gibbs, p. 261.

      Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, Act V, scene i. Song ('Our Ruler has got the vertigo of State')
    • CnC 116 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('Bring back my Comfort, and return')
    • ToA 18 f. 74r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Brown.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Let not thy beauty make thee proud'
    • SuJ 131 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Clayton.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

      Probably written by Henry Hughes.

      John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
    • PsK 334 f. 75r-v

      Copy, headed Song.

      This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Edited from this MS in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 202.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

      Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux ('How prodigious is my Fate')
    • DoC 285 f. 78r-v

      Copy, headed To ye Witches tune in Mackbeth.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Phyllis ('Phyllis, though your powerful charms')
    • DoC 26 ff. 78v-9v

      Copy, headed Shackley Hayes [? referring to the preceding poem].

      Edited from this MS in Harris.

      First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea ('To all you ladies now at land')
    • ShJ 153 f. 81r

      Copy of the dirge, headed (erroneously) Song in the Gratefull servant; late 17th-early 18th century.

      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')
    • BrN 69 f. 81v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 90-1.

      First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')
    • DrJ 283 f. 82r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California. Recorded in Day, p. 14.

      California, IX (1966), p. 177. Kinsley, I, 108. Day, pp. 6-9. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 105.

      John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen, Act IV, scene ii, lines 23-38. Song ('I feed a flame within which so torments me')
    • DaW 105 ff. 82v-3

      Copy, headed Song in the Rivalls.

      Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

      Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song ('My lodging it is on the Cold ground')
    • SuJ 111 f. 83r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in L.A. Beaurline, The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems, SP, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 517); collated in Clayton.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Clayton, p. 97.

      John Suckling, In Brennoralt ('Thy love is chaste, they tell thee so')
    • ShW 102 f. 83v

      Copy.

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')
    • ShW 62.8 ff. 83v-4r

      Copy of the song Tell me where is fancy bred in the casket scene (Act III, scene ii).

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    • B&F 109 f. 84r-v

      Copy of Florimel's song.

      Dyce, IX, 277. Bowers, IX, 640-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid in the Mill, V, ii, 20-7. Song ('How long shall I pine for love?')
    • B&F 103 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy of Stremon's song.

      Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, iv, 43-73. Song ('Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in')
    • B&F 170 f. 85r-v

      Copy.

      Dyce, VIII, 435-6. Bullen, II, 166-7. Bowers, X, 341-2.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, III, ii, 109-28. Song ('Let the bells ring, and let the boys sing')
    • DaW 99 f. 87r

      Copy.

      Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.

      Sir William Davenant, Macbeth, II, [v]. Song ('Let's have a dance upon the Heath')
    • DaW 118 f. 87r-v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1643. Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (p. 78). Gibbs, p. 145.

      Lawes's musical setting published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).

      Sir William Davenant, The Unfortunate Lovers, Act V, scene i. The Song to a horrid Tune ('You Fiends and Furies come along')
    • B&F 95 ff. 88v-9r

      Copy.

      Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 45-68. Song ('Charon, oh, Charon, Thou wafter of the souls to bliss or bane!')
    • DrJ 266 ff. 89r-90r

      Copy of Wildblood and Jacintha's song.

      This MS collated in part in California; recorded in Day, p. 150.

      California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 223-4.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song ('Celimena, of my heart')
    • DaW 103 f. 91r

      Copy of Celania's song, here beginning Strait my Green Gown into breeches i'l make, erroneously headed In the Tempest.

      First published in London, 1668. Dramatic Works, V, 213-93 (p. 262). Gibbs, p. 265.

      Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, Act III. Song ('For straight my green Gown into Breeches I'le make')
    • EtG 122 f. 91v

      Copy of Palmer's song.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      Brett-Smith, I, 28-9. Thorpe, p. 22.

      Sir George Etherege, The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act II, scene iii, lines 174-87. Song ('If she be not as kind as fair')
    • EtG 125 f. 91v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.

      Sir George Etherege, She wou'd if she cou'd, Act V, scene i, lines 312-23. Song ('To little or no purpose I spent many days')
    • DrJ 260 f. 92r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in part in California.

      First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act II, scene i, lines 499-514. Song ('After the pangs of a desperate Lover')
    • MiT 27 f. 92r-v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1652. Bullen, V, 117-235 (pp. 168-9). Edited by Robert T. Levine (Salzburg, 1975). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1078-1123 (pp. 1098-9).

      Thomas Middleton, The Widow, III, i, 22-37. Song ('I keep my horse, I keep my whore')
    • DnJ 3997 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 8-10.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
    • DnJ 3637 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 10-11.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 3679 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 23-5.

      This MS 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 3853 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 26-7.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 843 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 31-2.

      This MS 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 872 f. 113r

      Copy of lines 22-4.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
    • DnJ 2061 f. 113r

      Copy of line 18.

      This MS 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 1486 f. 113r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
    • DnJ 2661 f. 113r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
    • DnJ 531 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A burnt ship ('Out of a fired ship, which, by no way')
    • DnJ 1750 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 2885 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.

      John Donne, A selfe accuser ('Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you')
    • DnJ 1894 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • DnJ 165 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
    • DnJ 901 f. 113v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
    • DnJ 2598 f. 113v

      Copy, headed A Coquette.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
    • DnJ 2407 f. 113v

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
    • DnJ 1726 f. 114r

      Copy, headed Sharpe Equinoq:.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
    • DnJ 2677 f. 114r

      Copy, headed Witty Epigram.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Ralphius ('Compassion in the world againe is bred')
    • DnJ 2574 f. 114r

      Copy of lines 31-2.

      This MS 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 2468 f. 114r

      Copy of lines 37-8, headed Elegie 6xt

      This MS 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 2356 f. 114r

      Copy of lines 3-7, headed Elegie 7th.

      This MS 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 279 f. 114r

      Copy of lines 9-14.

      This MS recorded 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 971 f. 114r

      Copy of line 24.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 398 f. 114r-v

      Copy of lines 27-30, headed Vpon ye losse of his Mist: &c:.

      This MS 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')
    • DnJ 3129 f. 114v

      Copy of lines 15-18.

      First published, as Eleg. XVI, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 105-8 (as Elegie XIV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 101-3 (among her Dubia). Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 437-8, among Dubia. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife ('I sing no harme good sooth to any wight')
    • DnJ 1338 f. 114v

      Copy of lines 1-8, 75-6.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 245-8. Shawcross, No. 156. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 35-8.

      John Donne, The First Anniversary. A Funerall Elegie (''Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest')
    • DnJ 2877 f. 114v

      Copy of lines 463-4.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The second Anniversary. Of the Progresse of the Soule ('Nothing could make me sooner to confesse')
    • DnJ 1665 f. 114v

      Copy of lines 507-9.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
    • DnJ 1945 f. 115r

      Copy of lines 87-90.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • RnT 552 f. 115r-v

      Copy.

      Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
    • BmF 150.88 f. 115v

      Copy ascribed to Beaumont.

      Unpublished?

      Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack ('Listen all I you pray')
    • HoJ 115 ff. 120v-1v

      Copy, subscribed J. H.

      Osborn, No. XXIII (pp. 191-2).

      John Hoskyns, The Dying Louer ('Some powers Regard me or my hart will burne')
    • WaE 715 f. 124r-v

      Copy, the text followed (f. 125r-v) by Godolphin's answer.

      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')
    • BrW 204 f. 126r

      Copy, headed On the Arcadian Countess of Pembroke.

      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')
    • PsK 488 f. 127r-v

      Copy, headed To the Queen's Majesty, in her Late Sicknesse and here beginning The publiq joy wch is to vs restor'd.

      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')
    • EtG 94 f. 128r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 14-15.

      Sir George Etherege, To Her Excellence the Marchioness of Newcastle After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems ('With so much wonder we are struck')
    • EtG 15 ff. 129v-30

      Copy, headed third Song.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, pp. 3-4.

      Sir George Etherege, The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue between Phillis and Strephon ('Tell me, gentle Strephon, why')
    • CoA 19 f. 130r-v

      Copy, headed fourth Song.

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

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

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • BmF 98 f. 131v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 492.

      Francis Beaumont, The Indifferent ('Never more will I protest')
    • EtG 86 ff. 131v-2r

      Copy, headed seaventh Song.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667). Thorpe, p. 2.

      Sir George Etherege, To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her ('Cloris, it is not in our power')
    • EtG 123 f. 133v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      Brett-Smith, I, 76. Thorpe, p. 21.

      Sir George Etherege, The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act V, scene iii, lines 9-20. Song ('Ladies, though to your Conqu'ring eyes')
    • CwT 457 f. 134r-v

      Copy, headed 14 Song.

      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')
    • SeC 105 ff. 134v-5r

      Copy.

      First published, in a version beginning Tell me prethee faithless swain, in Windsor Drollery (London, 1671). Oxford Drollery (London, 1671). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 3. Sola Pinto, II, 153.

      Sir Charles Sedley, A Song ('Prithee tell me, faithless Swain')
    • EtG 71 f. 135r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Tell me no more you love. in vain')
    • BmF 150.8 f. 135v

      Copy.

      Rejected by Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.

      Francis Beaumont, Love's Freedom ('Why should man be only tied')
    • B&F 20 f. 136v

      Copy.

      Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
    • BmF 141 f. 138r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 491.

      Francis Beaumont, True Beauty ('May I find a woman fair')
    • StW 920 f. 138r-v

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
    • B&F 81 f. 138v

      Copy.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song ('Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie')
    • CwT 332 f. 139v

      Copy, headed 29 Song.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 13.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsel to a young Maid. Song ('Gaze not on thy beauties pride')
    • CoA 63 ff. 139v-40

      Copy, headed 30 Song.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 98. Collected Works, II, No. 29, pp. 57.8.

      Abraham Cowley, The Discovery ('By 'Heaven I'll tell her boldly that 'tis She')
    • ShJ 73 f. 141r

      Copy, headed Song in the Cardinal.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

      James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne ('Come my Daphne, come away')
    • B&F 5 f. 141v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

      Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')
    • HeR 234 ff. 145v-6r

      Copy, headed Loose No time.

      This MS recorded in Martin.

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

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • DrJ 263 ff. 149r-50

      Copy.

      This MS collated in part in California; recorded in Day, p. 150.

      California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 222-3.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act IV, scene i, lines 47-70. Song ('Calm was the Even, and cleer was the Skie')

  • Harley MS 3998

    A quarto composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 218 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Various contents inscribed by Wanley with dates of accession to the Harley Library from 16 October 1725 (including f. 154r) to 20 October 1725.

    • WoH 304 ff. 63r-7v

      A series of untitled notes, anecdotes and sayings, similar in nature to WoH 303 (including references to Venice and to Sr H: W.), also in the hand of William Parkhurst.

      Unpublished.

      First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).

      Sir Henry Wotton, Table Talk
    • DnJ 1666 ff. 154r-67r

      Copy, in three italic hands, headed Poema Satiricum Metempsychosis, subscribed Edward Smith.

      This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')

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