The British Library: Sloane Collection

Sloane MS 20

• SpE 76

  No description or publication history available.

  One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities.... First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

  Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

Sloane MS 23

• RaW 1109

  No description or publication history available.

  A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Sloane MS 24

• SiP 198

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

  This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Sloane MS 63

• RaW 661 ff. 58r-69r

  Copy, as written by Sir Walter Raleigh 1602.

  A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Sloane MS 70

• BcF 54.928 passim

  Extracts from Book V.

  First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

  Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

Sloane MS 93

• *HvG 8 ff. 1r-104r

  Autograph

  Autograph letterbook, comprising drafts in a largely cursive italic hand, including an account of the attempted seduction of his sister by a lascivious nobleman, headed (f. i) Gabrielis Harvæi epistolæ æc., bearing dates between 1573 and 1578.

  Edited by Edward John Long Scott, Camden Society, NS 33 (1884). Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243. Discussed in Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), chapter 1, and, with three facsimile examples, in James Nielson, Reading between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey's Drafts, SEL, 33 (1993), 43-82. Facsimile examples in Greg, Engliah Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (f, g).

  The account relating to his sister discussed, and its modelling on George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J. established, in Katherine Wilson, Revenge of the Angel Gabriel: Harvey's A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid, in The Anatomy of Tudor Literature, ed. Mike Pincombe (Aldershot, 2001), 79-89.

  Gabriel Harvey, Letterbook
• *HvG 4 ff. 65r-6r

  Autograph

  Autograph verses.

  Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Harman, pp. 27-8.

  Moore Smith, as Gabriel Harvey at Pembroke Hall, pp. xv-xvi. Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), pp. 27-8.

  Gabriel Harvey, 'Sumtyme my booke is vnto me A God'

Sloane MS 118

• *AndL 80 f. 29r

  Autograph

  Autograph letter signed by Andrewes, to Mr Fenton, from Waltham, 6 August 1624.

  Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Sloane MS 161

• JnB 559 ff. 22r-7r

  Copy of various speeches, including Syllas's Ghost's Dost thou not feel me Rome? and Catiline's It is decree'd, headed Catilines Conspiracy: by B. Johnson, transcribed from a printed source.

  First published in London, 1611. Herford & Simpson, V, 409-550.

  Ben Jonson, Catiline
• JnB 732 f. 28r

  Extracts, including part of Macro's speech beginning by y^u, that fooles call gods (V, 390-9).

  First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

  Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
• SiP 219 ff. 29r-30r

  Extracts, headed S^r. P. Sydnie. The speech of Rombus a School-master, beginning Now the thunder thumping Jove..., transcribed from a printed source.

  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

  First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.

  Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady of May

Sloane MS 203

• DrJ 35 f. 95r

  Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

  This MS collated in California and in Dearing. Recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1860.

  First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.

  John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode ('Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown')
• DrJ 43.76 f. 97r

  Copy of the last 36 lines.

  A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

  First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

  The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
• RaW 720.5 ff. 124r-5v

  Copy of S^r Walter Rawleighs great Cordiall After Sir Robert Killigrewes way, dated March 19^th: 1659.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Sloane MS 226

• ElQ 96 f. 5r-v

  Copy of the prayer, introduced by Marbeck ...there came to my handes a prayer in Englishe, touchinge this present action, and made by her Ma^tie: as it was voyced, followed (ff. 5v-6r) by My homelie translation (into Latin, beginning Summe prepotens Deus immens...).

  Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

  Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Sloane MS 235

• MoH 29 f. 14r-v

  Some Annotationes in Casp: Bartholimi Metaphysicam majorem entered as Tutoris Mori Camb.

  Henry More, Extracts

Sloane MS 243

• HbT 85 ff. 68r-72r

  Copy of HbT 82.

  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 78.

  Published in Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes, III (The Hague, 1890), 339-43.

  Thomas Hobbes, A Proposition To find two meane proportionalls betweene two straight lines
• EvJ 89 ff. 96r-8r

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

  John Evelyn, An Exact Account of the Making of Marbled Paper
• EvJ 56 ff. 127v-41v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), in Bell and in Keynes.

  John Evelyn, The Construction of y^e Rowling Press, & Manner how to worke off y^e Plates

Sloane MS 273

• DaS 41.3 ff. 2r-6v, 57r-v

  Extracts, headed Daniell's History of y^e King of England.

  First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

  Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
• HaW 44.5 ff. 7v-11r, 58r-63r

  Extracts, headed The Life of Edward y^e 4^th by Habinton.

  First published in London, 1641.

  William Habington, The Historie of Edward the Fourth, King of England
• BcF 215.5 ff. 12v-17v, 63v-5v

  Extracts, headed The Raigne of King Henry the 7^th. by y^e L^d Verulam.

  First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

  Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
• HrE 125.4 ff. 18r-34r, 65v-9r, 84r-v, 85v-8r

  Extracts, headed The Life of Henry y^e 8th by y^e L^d. Herbert of Cherbury, those beginning on f. 84r under the general heading Witty Sayinges.

  First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

Sloane MS 359

• *RaW 711

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Sloane MS 363

• BcF 159 ff. 81r-93v

  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by ffrancis Lord Viscount S^t: Albaⁿs at or before hee was Solicitor Generall. c.1620s-30s.

  First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

  Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Sloane MS 396

• RnT 510 f. 3r-v

  Copy, subscribed Ben Johnson.

  Collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')

Sloane MS 401

• ElQ 149 f. 38r-v

  Copy of the Latin oration, untitled.

  Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

  Beginning Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech..., in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564

Sloane MS 402

Sloane MS 414

• AndL 33 ff. 347r-50r

  Copy, headed Historia de articulis Lambethanis exhibitis per D. Whitakerum. Nov. 20, 1595.; imperfect.

  First published in Articuli Lambethani (London, 1651). LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 287-300.

  Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles

Sloane MS 444

• *FlP 4

  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')

Sloane MS 509

• *CoA 209

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Abraham Cowley, Herbal

Sloane MS 542

• DnJ 3204 f. 11r-v

  Copy, with alterations, headed D^r Dunne his verses to his Mistrisse.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
• DnJ 2964 ff. 11v-12r

  Copy of a three-stanza version, headed in the margin at her rising, here beginning Lie still my dear, why dost thou rise and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day, subscribed DD.

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

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

  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
• HrJ 142 f. 12r

  Copy, headed in the margin On a Lady.

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

  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
• PoW 29 ff. 12v-13r

  Copy, headed On a black wench.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
• PoW 106 f. 13r

  Copy, headed On a lady wearing diamonds.

  First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).

  Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses ('Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away')
• KiH 289 f. 13r-v

  Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorset his death.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
• CwT 781 ff. 13v-14r

  Copy, untitled and here beginning In youre faire cheekes two pitts doe lie

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

  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
• EaJ 50 f. 14r-v

  Copy, headed on the death of the Earle of Penbrocke L^d Chanceller of Oxford.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
• CoR 725 f. 16r

  Copy, headed A blazing starr and here beginning A starre of late appeerd' in Virgos traine.

  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
• CwT 277 f. 16v

  Copy, headed On a flie drownd in a Ladies eie D^r Corbet, subscribed D^r Corbet.

  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')
• CoR 671 f. 17r-v

  Copy, headed On M^rs Mallet: D^r Corbett.

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

  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
• DnJ 317 f. 17v

  Copy, headed An invitation to his m^rs. to come a fish.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
• StW 68 ff. 18v-19r

  Copy of a version headed Stroude on Deuon: Sonnett and beginning Ruddle Ruddle, nebour Jan.

  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

  William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
• KiH 62 f. 19v

  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')
• EaJ 24 ff. 26r-7r

  Copy of the first half of the poem, headed On the death of S^r John Buroughs, incomplete.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
• CoR 300 ff. 29v-36r

  Copy, headed D^r Corbets Iter Boreale.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
• PeW 231 f. 36r

  Copy of the shorter version, headed A Maides Denyall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, in faith, but will you fie.

  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')
• StW 20 ff. 41r-2v

  Copy, headed Answeare.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.

  William Strode, An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors ('If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath')
• B&F 129 f. 42v

  Copy, headed One Melancholy and here beginning Hence all yee vaine delights.

  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
• CoR 444 ff. 49v-50r

  Copy, headed On Tom of Christchurch.

  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
• DnJ 83 ff. 53v-4r

  Copy, headed A praise of a browne lasse, incomplete, lacking the last two lines.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
• WoH 187 f. 56r

  Copy, here beginning Shee first deceas'd hee after liv'd & tried.

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

  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
• RnT 349 ff. 56v-7v

  Copy, headed On a deformed Gentlewoman that had a good voice.

  This MS collated in Davis.

  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 387 f. 57v

  Copy, headed Tho: Randolph on the loss of one of his fingers.

  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')
• StW 499 ff. 58r-9r

  Copy, subscribed w. Stroode.

  This MS recorded (as S 1) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
• CoR 702 ff. 59v-60r

  Copy, headed On the same [i.e. Fairford Windows].

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
• StW 266 f. 60r-v

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 205-7.

  William Strode, A Newyeares-gift ('Others may give you presents out of Thrift')
• BrW 162 f. 60v

  Copy, headed On one drown'd in a great snow by W Browne.

  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• StW 289 f. 61r

  Copy, as by W Stroude.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')

Sloane MS 629

• BcF 198 ff. 246r-50r

  Copy, together with a copy of the covering letter to Sir Henry Savill (My L^d Verulams to M^r Savil), in a predominantly secretary hand, with corrections in another hand (? perhaps Archbishop Tenison's). c.1620s-30s.

  Printed from this MS in Spedding, VII, 97-103. A copy of the letter to Savill (but without the discourse) in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses is in the British Library, Add. MS 5503.

  First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VII, 97-103.

  Francis Bacon, A Discourse touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers

Sloane MS 655

• DoC 345 ff. 4r-7r

  Copy, in a professional hand, on four folio leaves.

  This MS collated in POAS.

  First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
• MaA 195 ff. 18r-21v

  Copy, with alterations, on four folio leaves, slightly imperfect.

  This MS collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile of f. 18r in Kelliher, p. 101.

  First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

  Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

  Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')
• MaA 112 ff. 22r-5r

  Copy, headed A Dialogue between Brittania & S^r W: Rawleigh and here ascribed to Andrew Marvell, on four folio leaves.

  This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

  First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

  Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
• WaE 387 ff. 30r-4v

  Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Panegerick by E—W, on three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

  First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

  Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
• MaA 240 f. 43v

  Copy, untitled, in double columns, following another poem on a single folio leaf.

  This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

  First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

  Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
• DoC 229 f. 48r

  Copy, untitled, on a small oblong quarto leaf.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

  First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
• RoJ 104.31 ff. 49r-50v

  Copy.

  See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
• RoJ 26 ff. 51r-2v

  Copy on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
• MaA 139.7 ff. 59r-60v.

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Mengel.

  First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

  First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

  Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')
• BeA 21 f. 64r-v

  Copy, in a professional hand, headed To Alexis on his verses against Fruition, on two conjugate quarto leaves, the text following (on f. 63r-v) Against Fruition. By Alexis (Ah wretched man whom neither Fate…).

  First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 348-9. Todd, Np. 74, pp. 272-3.

  Aphra Behn, To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. Ode ('Ah hapless sex! who bear no charms')

Sloane MS 713

• RaW 634

  No description or publication history available.

  A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Sloane MS 719

• BcF 283.4 f. 10r

  Extract, headed Bacon's Natural History, dated March 26 1673.

  First published in London, 1626. Spedding, II, 323-680.

  Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History
• TaJ 124 f. 13r et seq.

  Extracts, headed Taylor of Originall Sinne.

  Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
• RaW 677.8 f. 31v et seq.

  Extracts, headed S^r W. R. Pref.

  First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
• CvG 21 f. 56r

  Extracts, headed The Life of Tho. Wolsey. Arch bishop of York.

  First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

  George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
• FuT 6.9 f. 73r

  Extracts, relating to William Perkin, heading Holly State.

  First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).

  Thomas Fuller, The Holy State

Sloane MS 739

• CwT 770 f. 99r rev.

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
• CwT 1166 ff. 100r-99v rev.

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 91-2.

  Thomas Carew, To the New-yeare, for the Countesse of Carlile ('Give Lucinda Pearle, nor Stone')
• CwT 303 f. 100r rev.

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 81.

  Thomas Carew, For a Picture where a Queen Laments over the Tombe of a slaine Knight ('Brave Youth. to whom Fate in one hower')
• CwT 13 f. 100v rev.

  Copy, headed A Lady resolved….

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

  Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')
• CwT 438 f. 101r rev.

  Copy, headed A louer in disguise.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

  Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse ('Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne')
• CwT 6 f. 101v rev.

  Copy, headed An Epitaph on y^e L. Mary Villers.

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

  Thomas Carew, An other ('The purest Soule that e're was sent')
• CwT 538 f. 101v rev.

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

  Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('As Celia rested in the shade')
• CwT 809 f. 102v-r rev.

  Copy, headed Celia singing.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
• CwT 905 f. 103r rev.

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

  Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
• CwT 452 f. 103v-r rev.

  Copy, headed 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')
• CwT 881 f. 103v rev.

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')

Sloane MS 747

• SkJ 36 ff. 88v-9r

  Copy.

  Canon, R65, p. 21. Published in London, c.1562. Dyce, I, 148-54.

  John Skelton, The Manner of the World Now a Dayes ('So many poynted caps')

Sloane MS 755

• BcF 695

  No description or publication history available.

  Unpublished tract, beginning Lodwick Sforza holding by tyrannous usurpation the Dukedom of Milan....

  Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Low Countries, the King of Spain, the King of Scots, the French King, and Queen Elizabeth

Sloane MS 756

• EsR 220 ff. 4r-14r

  Copy.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
• EsR 284 f. 15r-v

  Copy, headed The man^r of the Earle of Essexe his deathe [etc.], on a single folio leaf.

  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

Sloane MS 757

• CtR 167

  No description or publication history available.

  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Sloane MS 760

• RaW 550

  No description or publication history available.

  A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

Sloane MS 799

• BrT 5.4

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

  Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

Sloane MS 826

• BcF 463 ff. 6r-7r

  Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

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

  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
• MrJ 35 ff. 32r-3v

  An anonymous copy.

  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
• CtR 168 ff. 34r-7v

  Copy, as by S^r. Robert Cotton, dated 1627. c.1630.

  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
• RuB 34 f. 47r-v

  Copy, headed S^r: Ben: Ruddiers first speech.

  Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
• RuB 46 ff. 100r-1r

  Copy, headed S^r Ben: Ruddiers 2 speech.

  Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
• CoR 10 f. 153r-v

  Copy, headed Verses supposed to bee made by D^r Corbet B^p of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament 1628. c.1630.

  Edited from this MS in Percy Society volume (1850); in Bennett & Trevor-Roper; and in online Early Stuart Libels.

  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
• MrJ 83 f. 161r

  Copy.

  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
• MrJ 36 ff. 161v-4r

  Copy.

  Text from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
• MrJ 64 f. 181v

  Copy.

  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')

Sloane MS 827

• AndL 37 ff. 19r-23r

  Copy, headed Notes found in Bishop Andrew Seruice Booke, written with his owne hand.

  First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.

  Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

Sloane MS 828

• MrT 82

  No description or publication history available.

  A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).

  Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More

Sloane MS 836

• BcF 213.5 ff. 42r-3v

  Extracts.

  Spedding, VI, 444-52. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 89-99.

  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
• BcF 205.3 ff. 51r-v, 54r-9v

  Extracts, headed Out of the L^d. Bacon's Essays.

  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
• DrJ 297.5 f. 83r

  Extract, headed M^r. Dryden in his Dedicatory Epistle to his Examen Poeticum speaking of Chapman his Homer.

  To the right honourable My Lord Radcliffe (beginning My Lord These Miscellany Poems are by many Titles yours...), first published in London, 1693. California, IV, 363-75.

  John Dryden, Epistle Dedicatory for Examen Poeticum
• DrJ 297.8 f. 83r

  Extract, headed Speaking of M^r: Cowley in his Dedication to Juvenals Satyres.

  John Dryden, Epistle Dedicatory for Juvenal's Satires
• DrJ 384 f. 83r-v

  Prose extracts.

  Recorded in California, IV, 781, 800.

  John Dryden, Extracts

Sloane MS 848

• MrJ 7 ff. 9r-10r

  Extracts from the preliminary description of the arrangements at the Park Gates and all of Merymna's first speech, in an italic hand, headed The Lady of Derbies entertaynm^t att Ashby 1707 August. Early 17th century.

  This MS collated in Davenport.

  First published in Poems of John Marston, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (Manchester, 1879). Bullen, III, 383-404 (reprinting Grosart). Davenport, pp. 189-207.

  John Marston, The Entertainment of the Dowager-Countess of Darby
• MrT 34.9 f. 12r-v

  Extracts, in an italic hand, headed The life of John Picus Erle of Mirandula out of S^r Tho: Moore.

  First published in London, [1510?]. Yale, Volume 1, pp. 51-123.

  Sir Thomas More, The Life of John Picus, Earl of Mirandula
• CvG 22 f. 14r-v

  Extracts, in an italic hand, headed Tho: Wolsey card: life & death by Cavendysh his gent: vsher:.

  Sylvester, No. 14.

  First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

  George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Sloane MS 856

• ClE 79 ff. 52r-4r

  Copy.

  Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Sloane MS 868

• NaR 13

  No description or publication history available.

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Sloane MS 874

• LeC 27 ff. 7r-12v

  Extracts, headed Obseruations out of Leisters comon=welth:.

  This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
• FuT 5.225 ff. 89r-114v

  Substantial extracts from Books 1 to 5, headed Extracts out of the Hist. of the Holy Warr.

  Recorded in Bailey, p. 181.

  First published in Cambridge, 1639.

  Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

Sloane MS 876

• NaR 14

  No description or publication history available.

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Sloane MS 885

• FuT 4.1 ff. 68r-9r

  Extract from the printed edition, pp. 509-10, comprising a list of works by John Bale.

  First published in London, 1651.

  Thomas Fuller, Abel Redivivus

Sloane MS 892

• BrT 65 f. 45r et seq.

  Extracts from Religio Medici and Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

  Sir Thomas Browne, Extracts

Sloane MS 901

• MaA 451 f. 2r-v

  Copy of lines 1-40 on a single quarto leaf.

  This MS recorded in Osborne.

  First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

  Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Sloane MS 904

• BrT 59 ff. 222r-39v

  Copy.

  Cited (erroneously) as Digby's manuscript in Keynes, Bibliography, p. 174.

  Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici

Sloane MS 922

• FxJ 1.8 ff. 3r-34r

  Extracts.

  First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

  John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
• HlJ 36 ff. 34v-5v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 158-9.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 1. To Sir Robert Darcy. The estate of a true but weak Christian
• HlJ 49 ff. 36r-7v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. III, Part 2 (London, 1610). Wynter, VI, 285-8.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade VI, Epistle 3. To Sir George Fleetwood. Of the remedies of sin, and motives to avoid it
• HlJ 38 ff. 38r-9v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 169-71.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 4. To my Sister Mrs. B. Brinsly. Of the sorrow not to be repented of
• HlJ 37 ff. 40r-1v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 160-2.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 2. To Sir Edmund Bacon. Of the benefit of retiredness and secresy
• HlJ 39 ff. 41v-2v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 178-89.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 8. To my Father-in-Law, Mr. George Wenyffe. Exciting to Christian cheerfulness
• HlJ 44 f. 43r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 208-10.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade III, Epistle 8. To Mr. Rob. Hay. A discourse of the continual exercise of a Christian. how he may keep his heart from hardness and his ways from error
• HlJ 45 f. 44r-v

  Copy, headed Epistle 6. To Mistris A. P. A discourse of the Signes and proofes of true Faith.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 231-4.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade IV, Epistle 6. A discourse of the signs and proofs of a true faith
• HlJ 41 f. 45r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 183-4.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 10. To Mr. I.A. Merchant. Against sorrow for worldly losses
• HlJ 47 ff. 46r-7v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. III (London, 1611). Wynter, VI, 260-3.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade V, Epistle 5. To Sir Richard Lea, since deceased. Discoursing of the comfortable remedies of all afflictions
• HlJ 40 ff. 48r-50r

  Copy, headed Epistle 9. To Master Thomas Burliz. Consolations of immodarate griefe For the death of Friends.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 180-3.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 9. To Mr. W.R. Dedicated to Mr. Thomas Burlz. Consolations of immoderate grief for the death of friends
• HlJ 34 ff. 50r-1v

  Copy.

  First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 156-8.

  Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 10. Written to Mr. J.B. and Dedicated to My Father, Mr. J. Hall. Against the fear of death

Sloane MS 972

• BcF 594 ff. 1r-5v

  Copies of letters by Bacon to the Lord Chancellor (Egerton), about his History of Britain, and to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1623).

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
• RuB 202 ff. 13r-14v

  Copy of most of the speech, imperfect, lacking the beginning, docketed (f. 14v) part of an ingenious speech in parliam^t ag^t monopolies &c about ano 164i.

  Speech beginning If we may do the Prince Elector good, by our good word, I hope we shall not stick to afford it him.... Manning, pp. 210-11.

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 July 1641

Sloane MS 987

• *InE 33

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Translations of Psalms 2 and 94 by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze (into French verse) and by Helius Eobanus Hessus (into Latin verse), also with some Latin verses by Esther's father, Nicholas Langlois.

  Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Livret contenant diverses sortes de lettres, Escrit a Lislebourg par Esther Langlois, françoise. 1586.

Sloane MS 1009

• SaG 26 ff. 376v-85r

  Copy, in a professional hand, on nine folio leaves (ff. 377r-85r), with dedicatory verses To the queen (beginning Chast Nimphe yo^w whoe extracted are) in another hand on a separate preliminary leaf (f. 376v). Mid-17th century.

  This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

  First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

  George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon ('Join thy life-breathing lips to mine')
• RoJ 371 f. 389v

  Copy of lines 1-8, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

  First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('As Chloris full of harmless thought')
• SeC 54 f. 395r

  Copy, untitled, with other verses closely written in three small secretary hands, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

  This MS collated in Pinto.

  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

  Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')

Sloane MS 1030

• MnJ 48.4 f. 90v

  Extracts, in French, untitled, subscribed Milton Cronicle of Engl.

  First published in London, 1670-71.

  John Milton, The History of Britain

Sloane MS 1132

• EsR 120 ff. 15r-25v

  Copy.

  First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Sloane MS 1133

• RaW 694

  No description or publication history available.

  A tract beginning Touching the voyage for Guiana, it is to be considered first, Whether it bee to be vndertaken.... First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848). Edited by V.T. Harlow in The Discoverie of...Guiana (London, 1928), pp. 138-49, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of that work (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 253-63.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Of the Voyage for Guiana

Sloane MS 1179

• CoR 10.5 f. 47r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')

Sloane MS 1189

• BrT 5.5

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

  Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

Sloane MS 1199

• MrJ 65 f. 74v

  Copy, following a Latin version.

  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
• CaE 20 ff. 78v-9r

  Copy of the 44-line elegy, here beginning Yet were Bidentalls sacred, and the place, headed in another hand An answere to y^e Verses of M^r [Zouche] Tounley to his friend M^r Felton.

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

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

  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')

Sloane MS 1200

• RuB 126 ff. 17r-18v

  Copy, in a probably professional small mixed hand, headed S^ir Beniamin Ruddiers Speech.

  Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

  Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Sloane MS 1303

• LeC 28 ff. 7r-59v

  Copy, with a title-page.

  This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
• BrN 56 ff. 60r-71r

  Copy, headed The Countesse of Penbrookes passion.

  Edited from this MS in A Poem on our Saviour's Passion. By Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. From an Unpublished MS in the British Museum, ed. R.G.B. (London, 1862). Collated in Grosart.

  First published London, 1599. Grosart, I (c), as The Countess of Pembroke's Passion.

  Nicholas Breton, The Passions of the Spirit ('Where shall I finde that melancholy muse')
• EsR 72 ff. 71r-2v

  Copy of the 15-stanza version, headed The Earle of Essex his Buzze w^ch he made vpon some discontentment he receiued, a litle before his iourney in to Ireland, Ano Dni 1598, here beginning There was a tyme when Bees Could speake, subscribed Robert Deuoreux.

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

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

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

Sloane MS 1427

• EsR 221 ff. 87r-99r

  Copy.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
• EsR 285 f. 100r-v

  Copy.

  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

Sloane MS 1432

• HoH 36

  No description or publication history available.

  An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

  Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

Sloane MS 1435

• BcF 128 ff. 125r-30r

  Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, subscribed Francis Bacon. Early 17th century.

  First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

  Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Sloane MS 1443

• *DaS 1

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).

  Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke

Sloane MS 1446

• CoR 301 ff. 2r-9v

  Copy, subscribed R: C:.

  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 47.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
• CoR 525 f. 9v

  Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

  Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
• KiH 103 ff. 10-11

  Copy, headed By occasion of the yong Prince Charles his happy birth, subscribed H: K:.

  This MS collated in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

  Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
• CoR 703 f. 11r-v

  Copy, subscribed R: C:.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
• CoR 66 ff. 11v-13r

  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')
• CoR 104 ff. 13r-14r

  Copy, headed An Elegie on Queene Anne, subscribed R: C:.

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

  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
• CoR 147 ff. 14r-15v

  Copy, headed On the death of the La: Haddington, subscribed 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')
• KiH 400 ff. 15v-16v

  Copy, subscribed H: K:.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

  Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')
• KiH 521 f. 17r

  Copy, subscribed H K:.

  This MS collated in Crum.

  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

  Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
• KiH 471 f. 17r-v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

  Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
• HeR 120 ff. 17v-18r

  Copy, subscribed R: H:.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

  Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
• HeR 273 ff. 18v-19v

  Copy, headed The welcome to Sacke, subscribed R: H:.

  This MS collated in Martin.

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

  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
• FeO 55 f. 20r-v

  Copy, headed To his Cruell M^rs. On a springe riseinge in the midst of a Rocke.

  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 23.

  Owen Felltham, The Spring in the Rock ('Harsh Maid! suppose not this clear Spring')
• StW 1116 f. 21r

  Copy, subscribed W: S.

  This MS recorded in Forey.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

  William Strode, To a Valentine ('Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand')
• StW 1143 ff. 21r-2r

  Copy, headed To M^r Riues uppon his recouery, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS recorded in Dobell; collated in Forey.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

  William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
• CoR 487 f. 22v

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

  First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

  Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
• StW 637 f. 22v

  Copy of lines 5-16, here beginning The pleated wrinckles on the face, subscribed W: S:.

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

  William Strode, On Westwell Downes ('When Westwell Downes I gan to treade')
• StW 614 f. 23r

  Copy, headed On a Fountaine, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.

  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

  William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')
• StW 1056 f. 23r

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

  William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
• StW 1045 f. 23v

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

  William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token ('Whatever in Philoclea the Faire')
• StW 1089 f. 23v

  Copy of lines 15-20, headed To his M^rs, here beginning Oft when I look, I may descry, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.

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

  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
• StW 8 f. 24r

  Copy, headed On the Register of a Bible, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

  William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
• StW 145 f. 24r

  Copy of the fourth couplet, headed On a Girdle, here beginning This Circle heer is drawne aboute, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
• CwT 659 f. 24r

  Copy, headed Sonnett.

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

  Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
• StW 253 f. 24v

  Copy, headed A Posey in a Necklace, subscribed W: S:.

  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
• StW 1219 f. 24v

  Copy, headed A Posey on a Watchstring, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
• StW 679 f. 24v

  Copy, headed A Posey on a Pursestringe, subscribed W: S:.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
• RaW 497 f. 24v

  Copy, subscribed S^r Walt: Raleighe.

  Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.

  First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 53. Rudick, No. 59, p. 137.

  Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 147, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Vertue the best monument ('Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue')
• StW 213 f. 27v

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

  William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
• StW 435 f. 28r

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

  William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key ('Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares')
• StW 647 f. 28v

  Copy, subscribed W: S:.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
• HoJ 207 ff. 28v-9r

  Copy.

  Edited from this MS in Osborn.

  Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

  John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges')
• CwT 1088 ff. 29v-30r

  Copy, headed To his absent M^rs, subscribed T: C:.

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

  Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
• CwT 730 f. 35r

  Copy, originally headed A Complement to his M^rs, this heading deleted and reheaded in a different hand To the Queene.

  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')
• CwT 190 ff. 35r-6v

  Copy, headed An Elegie on y^e death of the Lady Pemstone sent out of France.

  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

  Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
• StW 1255 ff. 36v-7r

  Copy, headed On the death of M^r Francis Lancaster stab'd, subscribed Peter Bradshawe.

  This MS recorded in Forey.

  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

  William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] ('To die is Natures debt. and when')
• DaJ 111 f. 37r

  Copy, headed A Riddle and subscribed A Coffin.

  This MS collated in Krueger.

  First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.

  Sir John Davies, Upon a Coffin by S.I.D. ('There was a man bespake a thing')
• GrJ 68 f. 37r

  Copy, headed On the death of a childe, subscribed Jo: Grange.

  Unpublished?

  John Grange, 'O bury not this dead child: lett him lie'
• MnJ 9 ff. 37v-8v

  Copy, headed On the Marchionesse of Winchester whoe died in Childbedd. Ap: 15. 1631 [the date here changed from 1633] and subscribed Jo Milton of Chr: Coll Cambr.

  This MS collated by editors; discussed in William R. Parker, Milton and the Marchioness of Winchester, MLR, 44 (1949), 547-50.

  First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 28-31. Darbishire, II, 133-5. Carey & Fowler, pp. 126-9.

  John Milton, An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester ('This rich Marble doth enterr')
• StW 119 ff. 38v-9r

  Copy, headed On the death of S^r Jo: Walter.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

  William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron ('Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell')
• StW 347 ff. 39v-40r

  Copy, with two lines added interlineally in a different hand.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
• CwT 1222 f. 40r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

  Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse ('Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay')
• HrJ 40 f. 41v

  Copy, headed Of Sweaeringe.

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

  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
• WoH 165 f. 41r-v

  Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleigh in the vnquiett rest of his last sickness.

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

  Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
• TiC 24 f. 42r-v

  Copy, untitled, here beginning My springe of youth is but a frost of care.

  First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
• SpE 5 f. 43r

  Copy, untitled.

  Printed from this MS in Cummings, pp. 128-9.

  Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 198.

  Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet VIII ('More then most faire, full of the liuing fire')
• WoH 89 ff. 43v-4r

  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On Ladie Eliz: Queene of Bohemia by S^r H: Wotton.

  This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

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

  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
• GrJ 3 ff. 46v-7r

  Copy, headed Sonnett, here beginning A restless louer I espy'd.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

  John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
• PeW 267 f. 47r-v

  Copy, headed A Pastoral betweene a Louer, and a Shepheard uppon hearing a faire Nimph singe in the woods.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  Poems (1660), pp. 88-9, the Lover's speech attributed to P., the Shepherd's to R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Pastoral ('Shepherd, gentle Shepherd hark')
• PeW 298 f. 49r-v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd ('Till now I never did believe')
• GrJ 37.1 ff. 50v-1r

  Copy, headed A Louer not haueinge y^e hart to speak to his M^rs would haue had her vnderstand his mynde by his Lookes.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

  John Grange, 'Blind beauty! If it be a loss'
• RaW 301 f. 51v

  Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, headed Sonnett.

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

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

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')
• StW 488 ff. 51v-2v

  Copy, subscribed R: C:.

  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Richard Corbet, ed. Octavius Gilchrist (London, 1807), pp. 239-42.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
• CoR 507 f. 53v

  Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
• CoR 178 f. 54r-v

  Copy, headed On D^r King Bishopp of London, subscribed R: C:.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
• JnB 456 f. 54v

  Copy, headed To his M^rs, an original subscription B J: deleted and replaced by another hand as M^r Cary.

  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')
• JnB 329 f. 55r

  Copy, headed Sonnett, subscribed B J:.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

  Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
• CwT 1027 ff. 55v-6r

  Copy, headed To Ben: Johnson vppon occasion of his Ode to himselfe come leause the Loathed Stage, subscribed T: C:.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

  Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
• FeO 3 ff. 56r-7r

  Copy, headed Vpon Ben Johnsons play call'd -- the newe Inne 1629, subscribed Owen Feltham.

  A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

  Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. ('Come leave this saucy way')
• CwT 494 f. 57v

  Copy, headed To his Mistress. Looking in a glasse.

  This MS collated in Dunlap.

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

  Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
• CwT 338 f. 58r

  Copy, headed To his Scornfull M^rs., subscribed T: C.

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

  Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
• KiH 789 f. 58r-v

  Copy, headed To an inconstant M^rs., subscribed H: K.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

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

  Henry King, The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')
• KiH 575 ff. 58v-9R

  Copy, subscribed H: K:.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
• KiH 592 f. 59r

  Copy, subscribed H: K.

  This MS collated in Crum.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
• KiH 566 f. 59v

  Copy, subscribed H: K.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
• KiH 17 ff. 59v-60r

  Copy, headed An Elegie, subscribed H: K:.

  This MS collated in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

  Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
• KiH 308 f. 60r

  Copy, subscribed H K.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

  Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')
• CwT 1171 f. 61v

  Copy, headed On the recouerie from the Tooth ache by a faire Ladies kisse, subscribed Ro: Ellice.

  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')
• StW 514 f. 62r

  Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), here beginning Happie graue that dost vnshrine, subscribed G Morley.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
• HeR 409 ff. 62v-3r

  Copy, headed On a cherry stone sent to weare in his M^rs eare, a deaths head on the one side & her face on the other, subscribed Rog: Hericke.

  Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
• RnT 350 ff. 63v-4v

  Copy, headed On a French woeman attendinge the Queene, vglie in shape, but incomparable in her voice and here beginning Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heere, suscribed Tho: Randolphe.

  This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

  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')
• BrW 102 f. 64v

  Copy.

  First published in Brydges (1815), p. 92.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. John Deane, of New College ('Let no man walk near this tomb')
• BrW 145 f. 65r

  Copy.

  First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead ('Who (but some one like thee) could ever say')
• BrW 105 f. 65r

  Copy.

  First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician ('Stay! this grave deserves a tear')
• BrW 125 f. 65r

  Copy.

  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')
• BrW 91 f. 65v

  Copy.

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

  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
• BrW 163 f. 66r

  Copy.

  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• BrW 48 f. 66r

  Copy.

  First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

  William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 ('Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd')
• GrJ 86 f. 68v

  Copy.

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

  John Grange, 'To the world Ile nowe discouer'
• CwT 374 f. 70r

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
• CwT 810 f. 70v

  Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
• CwT 160 ff. 70v-1r

  Copy, headed Another.

  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

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

  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
• KiH 31 f. 71r

  Copy, headed The Boyes answere.

  This MS collated 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')
• PoW 30 ff. 71v-2r

  Copy, headed In praise of black hare & eyes, subscribed in another hand M^r Walton Poole.

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

  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
• BmF 65 ff. 72v-3r

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
• BmF 12 ff. 73v-4r

  Copy, untitled.

  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')
• CwT 559 f. 74r-v

  Copy, headed On a Sigh and here beginning Go gentle whistling winde.

  This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.

  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')
• HeR 81 f. 74v

  Copy, headed A forsaken Lady that died for Loue.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
• HeR 14 f. 75v

  Copy, headed Vpon a Ladies dresse of hare stuck w^th Jewells.

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

  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
• WoH 208 f. 76r

  Copy, headed Of ffauorites.

  This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

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

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
• PeW 166 f. 76r

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  Poems (1660), p. 85, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Lover's Dedication of his Service to a vertuous Gentlewoman ('What I in Woman long have wisht to see')
• CwT 1248 f. 76v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Dunlap.

  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
• StW 756 f. 76v

  Copy.

  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')
• StW 841 f. 77r

  Copy, untitled.

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

  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
• CwT 124 f. 77v

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
• StW 449 f. 78r

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
• CwT 150 f. 78v

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
• CwT 321 ff. 78v-9r

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
• CwT 957 f. 79r-v

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
• MoG 63 f. 80v

  Copy.

  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
• CwT 515 ff. 80v-1r

  Copy, headed Vpon the seeing of his M^rs face in y^e Water and here beginning Stand still yee streames doe not deface.

  This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263.

  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 1228 ff. 81v-2r

  Copy, headed Vpon the sickness of his M^rs being ill of a Calenture.

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

  Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
• StW 39 f. 82r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

  William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
• CwT 465 ff. 82v-3r

  Copy, headed Vpon his inconstant M^rs comanding him to returne back her letters.

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

  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
• KiH 634 f. 84r

  Copy, headed The discouraged suito^r.

  This MS collated in Crum.

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

  Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
• KiH 608 f. 84r

  Copy, headed Loue ill Requited.

  This MS collated 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')
• CwT 882 f. 84v

  Copy, headed A Charming beauty.

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

  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
• CwT 1276 f. 87r-v

  Copy, headed On a faire ladie that wore in her breast a wounded harte Carved in pretious stone, subscribed Hen: Blunt.

  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 1139 ff. 87v-8r

  Copy, headed Of one like his M^rs.

  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')
• HeR 389 f. 88r

  Copy, headed On a false M^rs.

  This MS collated in Martin.

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

  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
• PeW 74 f. 88v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Krueger.

  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
• KiH 671 f. 89r

  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. B..

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

  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
• JnB 207 ff. 89v-90r

  Copy, headed Minde.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
• StW 163 f. 90v

  Copy, headed The comendation of Musick, subscribed W.S.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
• RnT 388 f. 91r

  Copy, headed Randolls verses on the Losse of his finger.

  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')
• JnB 168 f. 91r-v

  Copy, headed Of his M^rs sitting to be drawne, with a marginal note that this should have appeared with Mynde on p. 154 (i.e. JnB 207).

  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')

Sloane MS 1454

• StW 799 f. 26r

  Copy, untitled, here beginning I see Faire Cloris walke alone.

  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• StW 1184 f. 28r-v

  Copy, untitled and here beginning By face & fashion to be knowne.

  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

  William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')

Sloane MS 1455

• CtR 169 ff. 16r-19r

  Copy, in an italic hand, as by S^r Ro: Cotton. c.1630s.

  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Sloane MS 1458

• RoJ 311 ff. 16r-18r

  Copy of lines 1-173.

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

  First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

  The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
• DrJ 36 f. 23r-v

  Copy, headed The Epilogue written by M^r Dryden and spoken by Smith or S^r ffopling.

  This MS collated in California and in Dearing; recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1860-1.

  First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.

  John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode ('Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown')
• HbT 19.2 f. 35r

  Extracts.

  First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

  Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Sloane MS 1467

• ClJ 26 f. 1r-v

  Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed A Dialogue betweene two zelotts concerning &c. in the new Oath.

  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')

Sloane MS 1479

• CoR 11 f. 47r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 152.

  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')

Sloane MS 1487

• DrJ 251 f. 4r-v

  Copy of the song.

  This MS collated in part in California; recorded in Day, p. 151.

  California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

  John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')

Sloane MS 1489

• RaW 402 f. 9v

  Copy.

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

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
• HrJ 41 f. 10r

  Copy, untitled.

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

  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
• HrJ 242 f. 10r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 56. McClure No. 310, p. 272. Authorship uncertain.

  Sir John Harington, Of Fortune ('Fortune, men say, doth giue too much to many')
• HrJ 61 f. 10v

  Copy, untitled, here beginning Heiwood affirms & proves in some degrees.

  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 72. McClure No. 326, pp. 276-7. Kilroy, II, Book I, No. 1, p. 130.

  Sir John Harington, A comparison of a Booke, with Cheese ('Old Haywood writes, & proues in some degrees')
• HoJ 151 f. 11r

  Copy, here beginning Here lyes a man was borne, then cryed.

  This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

  John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')
• RaW 346 f. 16v

  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

  First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
• MrJ 66 f. 21v

  Copy.

  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
• RaW 256 f. 21v

  Copy, subscribed S^r: Wa: Raleigh.

  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')
• HoJ 65 ff. 25r-6r

  Copy, headed A fart let at y^e parlam^t, in K. James tyme and here beginning Downe came ancient S^r John Crooke.

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

  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
• JnB 396 f. 35v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

  Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione ('Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?')
• DkT 40 f. 57v

  Copy.

  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.

  Thomas Dekker, Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead ('The Queene's remou'de in solemne sort')

Sloane MS 1504

• RoJ 27 ff. 69r-70v

  Copy, subscribed Amsterdam. Oct: 8/79 Capt: Stead gave y^e Copy.

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

Sloane MS 1506

• MnJ 48.6

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1670-71.

  John Milton, The History of Britain

Sloane MS 1540

• RnT 436.5 ff. 74r-6v

  Copy.

  The Latin preface to Randolph's Salting (RnT 444), beginning Erga vos (viri gravissimi) filijs pietatem didici, sed quid demum sed ignotu hoc patris officium prorsus nescio…. Edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 75-9, with an English translation on pp. 97-101.

  Thomas Randolph, Oratio
• RnT 443.5 ff. 77r-82r

  Copy, subscribed This was M^r Randolphs salting speech.

  First published in Parry (1917), pp. 226-31. Edited by Georges Borias in Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76.

  Thomas Randolph, Praeludium

Sloane MS 1566

• LeC 29

  No description or publication history available.

  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Sloane MS 1675

• HrJ 331

  No description or publication history available.

  First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

  Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to y^e Yeare 1608

Sloane MS 1677

• BuR 1.9 ff. 72-107

  Extracts, invariably taken from printed sources.

  First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

  Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Sloane MS 1695

• SpE 51

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

  Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her 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. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

  Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

Sloane MS 1705

• MrT 96 ff. 1r-32r

  Copy, imperfect.

  Collated in Hitchcock and described, pp. xiv-xv.

  First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

  Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Sloane MS 1709

• BmF 151 ff. 12r-22r

  Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, subscribed Francis Beamount, following (ff. 2r-12r) an Arithmetique Lecture by S^r Hennage ffynch in the same hand. Early 17th century.

  Edited from this MS in Eccles. Recorded in Scott.

  A mock-lecture, beginning Gramaticæ quatuor sunt partes (sayth Lyly) orthographia, which is thus orthographia..., delivered at Christmas revels of the Inner Temple. First published in Mark Eccles, Francis Beaumont's Grammar Lecture, RES, 16 (1940), 402-16. Recorded in Edward Scott, An Unknown Work of Francis Beaumont, The Athenaeum (27 January 1894), p. 115.

  Francis Beaumont, The Grammar Lecture
• CtR 402 ff. 23r-34r

  Copy, in a secretary and italic hand, on rectos, with facing notes on versos in another hand or style, headed A Short view of K. Hen. y^e third his Raigne. c.1620s.

  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
• B&F 207 ff. 269r-70r

  Copy.

  Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, V, 219.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('It was a Ladies daughter, &c')

Sloane MS 1710

• RnT 458.5 356v-7r

  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A teribile true & troublesome Tragicall relation of a duell fought at wisbich: June 17^th: 1637, on two formerly conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

  Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

Sloane MS 1731

• DoC 326.995 A, f. 115r

  Copy.

  Recorded in Harris.

  First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')
• VaJ 7 A, f. 120r

  Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

  First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair ('Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse')
• RoJ 225 A., f. 171r

  Copy, headed To the Romanists on a single folio leaf.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

Sloane MS 1733

• BcF 684 f. 7r-v

  Extracts, headed Propositiones ponderum rerum ejusdem Magnitudinis, ex opusculis philosophicis Verulamis.

  Francis Bacon, Extracts

Sloane MS 1745

• *BrT 28

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Sloane MS 1768

• DnJ 1627.8 f. 87v.

  Autograph fair copy by Raphael Thorius, headed In Ignatij Loiolæ apotheosin and here beginning Qui fuit ante sacer, sanctus nunc incipit esse.

  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')

Sloane MS 1775

• BcF 183 ff. 47r-50r

  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

  First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

  Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
• BcF 135.5 ff. 75r-8r

  Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

  A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

  A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

  Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
• BcF 595 f. 78r et seq.

  Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
• BcF 596 ff. 83r-6r

  Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
• BcF 597 f. 86r

  Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Sloane MS 1779

• EsR 222 ff. 189v-206v

  Copy, imperfect.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
• EsR 286 ff. 207r-8r

  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Man[ner of] the death of the Earle of Essex...to his best Remembrance that hard it, imperfect.

  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
• BrN 52 ff. 208v-12v

  Copy, in a secretary hand, with the partly obliterated heading ...Essex made these verses..., heavily damaged and imperfect.

  This MS recorded in Edward Doughtie, Nicholas Breton and Two Songs by Dowland, RN, 17 (1964), 1-3, and in Lyrics from English Airs, p. 614.

  First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.

  Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde ('From silent night, true register of mones')

Sloane MS 1786

• HoH 11 ff. 80v-3r

  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

  A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?

  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt

Sloane MS 1792

• WoH 90 f. 2r-v

  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Sir H. Wotton. on the Lady Elizabeth when she was first crowned Que. of Bohemia and here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the East.

  This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

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

  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
• HrJ 91.6 f. 4r

  Copy, headed Erat quidam homo and here beginning It is not certain when a certain preacher.

  The text followed by an answer headed Erat quaedam Mulier and here beginning That noe man yett could in the scripture find.

  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

  Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
• MrJ 84 f. 5r

  An anonymous copy.

  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
• KiH 120 f. 5r-v

  Copy, headed A louer to one y^t misiudged of his Mistris.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
• DaJ 189 f. 6r

  Copy, headed On a young man.

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

  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
• CwT 29 f. 6r

  Copy, headed A louer on his Mistris, being lett bloud.

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

  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
• HoJ 208 ff. 6v-7r

  This MS recorded in Osborn.

  Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

  John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges')
• StW 757 f. 10v

  Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoman walking in the 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')
• DnJ 460 ff. 11v-12r

  Copy, headed A gentleman to his M^rs. being a bedd with him that she wold not rise.

  This MS recorded 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 2965 f. 12r

  Copy of a twelve-line version, headed Idem and here beginning Sweet stay a while, why doe you rise.

  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.

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

  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
• CoR 250 f. 12v

  Copy, headed Docter Corbet against Prices aniuersary on Prince Henery.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
• EaJ 25 ff. 13r-16r

  Copy.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
• HeR 410 ff. 20r-v

  Copy, headed A cherry stone sent to weare in his M^ris eare a deaths head on one side her owne face on y^e other.

  This MS collated in Martin.

  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
• CwT 1249 f. 21v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Dunlap.

  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
• HrJ 266 f. 22v

  Copy.

  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

  Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
• StW 1352 ff. 21v-2r

  Copy, headed A Kisse.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

  William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse ('What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene')
• StW 1342 f. 22r

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

  William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')
• PoW 31 f. 23r

  Copy.

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

  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
• CoR 203 ff. 25v-6r

  Copy, headed Epitaph: on Tho: Jone's Clarke.

  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

  Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce ('Here for the nonce')
• CoR 656 ff. 26r-7r

  Copy, headed On M^rs Mallet.

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

  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
• DnJ 3205 ff. 27r-8r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
• CoR 283 ff. 28r-38r

  Copy, with corrections in another hand.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
• DnJ 2579 ff. 38v-9v

  Copy.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
• DnJ 405 ff. 39v-41v

  Copy, headed To a Lady whos chaine was lost.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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')
• CoR 344 ff. 42-3v

  Copy, headed By M^r Do^ctor Corbet [To the Marquis vpon his iourney into Spain added in different ink].

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
• MoG 18 f. 44r

  Copy.

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

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

  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
• CoR 374 f. 44r

  Copy, headed To a Curtezan and here beginning My pretty lute when I am gone.

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

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

  Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
• CoR 459 f. 44v

  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')
• ShW 12 f. 45r

  Copy, headed To one that would die a Mayd.

  Printed from this MS in C. C. Stopes, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (26 July 1913), p. 89, and in Alden, pp. 21-2; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

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

  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
• StW 369 f. 46r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Forey.

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

  William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
• DnJ 204 f. 47r-v

  Copy.

  This MS 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')
• CoR 129 ff. 47v-9v, 54r

  Copy.

  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')
• CoR 394 ff. 49v-50r

  Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

  Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
• CoR 208 ff. 50r-2r

  Copy.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
• CoR 425 f. 52v

  Copy.

  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
• JnB 639 ff. 55r-6r

  Copy, headed M^r Johnson to the King.

  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')
• RaW 257 f. 56r

  Copy, headed 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')
• JnB 169 f. 56r-v

  Copy.

  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 208 ff. 56v-8r

  Copy.

  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')
• StW 842 f. 58r

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
• DnJ 3757 ff. 58v-9r

  Copy, headed To his loue upon his departure from her.

  This MS 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')
• BrW 206 f. 59r

  Copy.

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

  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
• StW 998 f. 59v

  Copy, headed Song.

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

  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
• StW 480 ff. 59v-60r

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 70-1. Forey, pp. 216-18.

  William Strode, On Dr Lanctons death ('Because of fleshly mould wee bee')
• KiH 290 f. 60r-v

  Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.

  This MS recorded in Crum.

  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
• CoR 230 ff. 60v-1r

  Copy, headed An answer to D^r Price.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
• JnB 138 ff. 61r-2r

  Copy of lines 1-36.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

  Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet ('I have my Pietie too, which could')
• CoR 82 ff. 62r-3r

  Copy, headed In Eundem [i.e. on Vincent Corbett]. R:C:.

  First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
• StW 710 f. 63r-v

  Copy, headed A song on a sigh.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

  William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
• JnB 659 ff. 64r-6r

  Copy, headed To the King.

  Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

  For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
• CoR 167 ff. 65r-6r

  Copy.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
• CoR 585 f. 66r

  Copy.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

  Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
• CoR 409 f. 66r-v

  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 140.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.

  Richard Corbett, On Christ-Church Play at Woodstock ('If wee, at Woodstock, haue not pleased those')
• CwT 1117 ff. 66v-7v

  Copy, headed A winters entertainment.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
• CoR 318 ff. 68r-9r

  Copy, headed D^r Corbet to M^r Aylsbury.

  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')
• StW 948 ff. 69r-70v

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
• CoR 531 f. 70v

  Copy.

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

  Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
• CoR 691 f. 73v

  Copy.

  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
• CoR 111 f. 74r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
• StW 931 ff. 75v-6

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
• RaW 463 f. 76r

  Copy, headed On 2 louers A dialogue.

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

  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
• StW 879 f. 76r

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
• CoR 633 ff. 76v-80v

  Copy.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

  Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
• CwT 1089 ff. 80v-1

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
• CwT 249 f. 81v

  Copy, headed Elegy on a fly.

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

  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
• CwT 1160 f. 82r-v

  Copy, headed To the King. T.C..

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

  Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')
• DnJ 84 ff. 83r-4r

  Copy headed J.D. to his freind.

  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
• BmF 104 ff. 84v-5v

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

  Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

  Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson ('The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring')
• StW 273 f. 86r

  Copy.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
• StW 414 f. 86r

  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman y^t had y^e smale pox.

  This MS collated in Forey.

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

  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
• StW 381 f. 86v

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

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

  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
• StW 615 f. 86v

  Copy, headed On a fountaine.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.

  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

  William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')
• StW 971 ff. 86v-7r

  Copy.

  First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

  MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

  William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
• StW 912 f. 87r-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')
• StW 515 ff. 87v-9v

  Copy of the sequence.

  This MS collated in Forey.

  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
• StW 1238 ff. 89v-91

  Copy, headed On A great hollow tree.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

  William Strode, Westwell Elme ('Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree')
• StW 164 f. 91r-v

  Copy, headed Laus Musices.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
• JnB 20 f. 92r

  Copy of lines 21-30.

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

  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
• StW 1294 f. 92r-v

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
• StW 129 ff. 92v-3

  Copy, headed On a Gentleman who Kissing a Gentlewoman left some bload on her lipp.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
• StW 9 f. 93r

  Copy, headed Idem.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

  William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
• StW 697 f. 93r

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

  William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
• StW 77 f. 93v

  Copy.

  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

  William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
• StW 146 f. 93v

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
• StW 247 f. 93v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

  First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.

  William Strode, A necklace ('Theis threades enjoy a double grace')
• StW 254 f. 93v

  Copy.

  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
• StW 1131 f. 94r

  Copy, headed A Gentleman to his sister.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.

  William Strode, To his Sister ('Lovinge Sister, every line')
• StW 1220 f. 94r

  Copy, here beginning This picture here invites your eyes.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
• StW 1057 f. 94r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

  William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
• RnT 511 f. 94v

  Copy.

  Collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
• HoJ 128 f. 95r

  Copy.

  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
• BrW 92 f. 95r-v

  Copy headed On one dying in child bed with her child.

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

  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
• StW 1071 ff. 95v-6

  Copy.

  This MS collated in Dunlap.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

  William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
• StW 348 f. 96r-v

  Copy.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
• StW 1090 ff. 96v-7v

  Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman.

  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')
• StW 731 ff. 97v-8r

  Copy.

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

  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
• StW 199 f. 98v

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

  William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
• StW 556 ff. 98v-9r

  Copy.

  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.

  William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux ('Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young')
• JnB 238 ff. 101r-4v

  Copy, headed Ben: Jonson upon the burning of his study and bookes.

  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')
• StW 1144 ff. 108r-9r

  Copy, headed To A Gentlewoman healed by a strange cure in Oxford.

  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.

  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

  William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
• DkT 18 f. 112v

  Copy, headed Vpon Queene Elizabeth death and here beginning The Queene was brought from Grinewich to white Hall.

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

  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
• RaW 258 f. 113r

  Second copy.

  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')
• DaJ 143 f. 113v

  Copy, headed Vpon a bellows maker and here beginning Here lyes Sim Simcocks a maker of bellowes.

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

  Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
• B&F 95.5 f. 115r-v

  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!')
• KiH 63 f. 116r

  Copy, headed The Reply.

  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')
• CwT 634 ff. 116r-19v

  Copy, headed M^r Cary^s loues Rapture.

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

  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
• JnB 347 ff. 119v-20r

  Copy, headed B.I. to the paynter.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
• CwT 375 f. 120v

  Copy, headed A louer to his Mistris y^t cared not for him.

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

  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
• StW 648 ff. 120v-1r

  Copy.

  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
• StW 255 f. 121r

  Second copy of the second stanza, here beginning Lo on my necke.

  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
• B&F 130 f. 123r

  Copy, headed Verses made of Maloncholy.

  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
• PeW 231.5 f. 125r-v

  Copy of the short version, headed A Maides Deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pray, nay faith.

  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')
• HeR 274 ff. 125v-7v

  Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to sacke.

  This MS collated in Martin.

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

  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
• CoR 563 ff. 127v-8R

  Copy.

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

  Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
• CwT 560 ff. 130r-1r

  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 684 f. 131r-v

  Copy.

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

  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
• CwT 858 ff. 131v-2

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
• DaW 18 ff. 132v-3

  Copy, headed To the wife of Endimion Porter.

  This MS collated in Gibbs.

  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
• CwT 404 f. 133r-v

  Copy, headed Whether the eies, or lipps of his Mistris where more comely.

  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 1193 f. 133v

  Copy, headed On a silken brastlett given him by his Mistris.

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

  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
• CwT 731 f. 134r

  Copy, untitled.

  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')