Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99

United States

  • MS V.a.70

    Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

    A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

    An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

    c.1670.

    Formerly MS Add. 167.

    This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

    Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

    • *TrT 236.5 pp. 1-2
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction.

      An Introduction, beginning Two thousand yeers before my Savior came, In Hieroglyphick Laws I see His Name....

      Thomas Traherne, The Introduction [to The Ceremonial Law] | Catalogue
    • *TrT 24.5 pp. 2-3
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Adams Fall ('The King of Glory, who on High') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 1.8 pp. 3-4
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Abels Lamb ('How early do I see a Sacrifice') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 174.2 pp. 7-8
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Moses Call ('Shall I not serv & lov ye Dietie') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 174.6 pp. 9-10
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Moses Rod (''Tis strange to see how fitly things conspire') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 184.5 pp. 11-13
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Thomas Traherne, Of Israels coming out of Egypt ('By Mighty seas Divided here I seem') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 171.8 pp. 13-14
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Thomas Traherne, Israel and Egypt ('One Lamb ye Shepherd out of many takes') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 188.5 pp. 14-17
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, The Paschal Lamb ('The Lamb each Famelie doth take alone') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 135.5 pp. 17-20
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Elim ('Hail Sacred Place! Thou fair & living Tower') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 135.8 pp. 21-2
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Elim II ('This Sacred Plot of Beauties & Delights') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 198.5 pp. 22-5
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, A Reflexion ('That we no fiction make, but see ye Thing') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 172.2 pp. 25-6
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Manna ('The Staff of Life is gone, & nothing here') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 172.4 pp. 27-9
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Manna II ('As in ye deepest Wells we better see') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 172.6 pp. 30-2
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Manna III ('The Ordinance about ye Manna is') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 203.5 pp. 33-7
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, 'The Rock was Christ: from whence yt Water flows' | Catalogue
    • *TrT 215.5 pp. 37-9
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, The Stone ('When Bloody Amalock an Inroad made') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 174.8 pp. 40-2
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Mount Sinai ('Long time ye World had been wthout a Law') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 216.5 pp. 42-5
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Unpublished?

      Thomas Traherne, The 10. Comandmts ('The moral Law a Gospel did implie') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 174.5 pp. 46-8
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Moses in ye Mount ('When God had thunderd these 10. Words aloud') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 174.4 pp. 48-50
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, Moses face ('Instructed after forty days he came') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 224.5 pp. 50-2
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Thomas Traherne, The Vail ('This vail of Moses yt conceald ye Light') | Catalogue
    • *TrT 169.5 p. 52
      Autograph

      Autograph, probably unfinished.

      An unfinished poem of eleven lines.

      Thomas Traherne, The Inside ('When God had spoke to ye ruder Croud') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.73

    Copy, in a small italic hand, chiefly in double columns, on 42 quarto pages, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

    Probably transcribed from a (?marked-up) exemplum of the Second Folio (1632), including Hugh Holland's poem on Shakespeare and a Dramatis Personae page.

    Mid-17th century.

    Later acquired by Thomas Rodd from a Mr Proctor and in Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 601. Owned in March 1842 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Subsequently sold by him to George Guy Greville, MP (1818-93), fourth Earl of Warwick, of Warwick Castle.

    This MS described in James Orchard Halliwell, An Account of the Only Known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays (London, 1843). Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Folger Manuscript, in Shakespeare Text, Language, Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack, ed. Bernhard Fabian and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (Hildesheim, 1987), pp. 57-79.

    • ShW 64
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1602.

      William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.75

    An oblong quarto booklet of four leaves, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, entitled Hesperides or The Muses Garden, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

    Comprising two pages of extracts under A subject headings, followed by six pages of A Catalogue of the Bookes from whence these Collections were extracted, including titles of works by Shakespeare, Bacon, and many others, this being a fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.79, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

    c.1655-6.

    Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

    This, Folger MS V.a.78, and Folger MS V.a.80 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

    Discussed in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, the full catalogue printed as Catalogue H on pp. 395-402.

  • MS V.a.79

    A quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, sixteen leaves, in modern half -morocco marbled boards.

    A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

    c.1655-6.

    Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

    • ShW 120 passim

      The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It, Loves Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

  • MS V.a.80

    A small quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, seventeen leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

    A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.79, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

    c.1655-6.

    Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

    This, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.78 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

    • ShW 121 passim

      The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, A Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and A Winter's Tale.

  • MS V.a.85

    An octavo miscellany of verse and drama, largely in a single small cursive hand, with later additions by one or two hands after p. 142, 185 pages (including blanks) plus a tipped-in leaf at the end, in brown calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.

    • CrR 135 pp. 15-20

      Copy, as English'd by Mr Crashaw.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

      Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell ('Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 12 pp. 22-40

      Copy (on versos only), as By Denham, a version beginning If they were poets who did never dream.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 19.4 pp. 23-41

      Copy of the Latin version by Moses Pengry, on rectos only.

      A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation) | Catalogue
    • CoA 171 p. 40

      Copy, headed Of Obscurity.

      First published, in the essay Of Obscurity, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.

      Abraham Cowley, Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act. 2.Chor. ('Upon the slippery tops of humane State') | Catalogue
    • CoA 153 pp. 50-1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 46-7.

      Abraham Cowley, Reason. The use of it in Divine Matters ('Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may') | Catalogue
    • CoA 50 pp. 51-6
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 435-40. Sparrow, pp. 169-74.

      Abraham Cowley, The Complaint ('In a deep Vision's intellectual scene') | Catalogue
    • WaE 151 pp. 56-8

      Copy, headed Vpon a Warr wth Spain, & a Seafight.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain') | Catalogue
    • WaE 264 pp. 59-63

      Copy, headed Of the danger Charles ye 2d (being Prince) escap'd in ye road at St Andiers.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain') | Catalogue
    • WaE 108 pp. 64-73
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.

      Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between') | Catalogue
    • ShW 52 pp. 74-140

      Copy of the play, transcribed from the Second Folio (London, 1632), possibly related to ShW 51; imperfect, lacking most of the last scene.

      This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar — A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, JEGP, 41 (1942), 401-17.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

    • BuS 1.1 pp. 165-80

      Extracts, headed Some of Hudibras's Verses.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.87

    An octavo miscellany of extracts chiefly from plays and religious works, closely written in a predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards.

    Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

    Mid-17th century.

    Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

    • MrJ 1.5 ff. 11r-12r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-93. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1965).

      John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, The First Part | Catalogue
    • ShJ 181 ff. 12v-13v bis

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, II, 457-541.

    • MrJ 8.5 ff. 14r-17r

      Extracts, headed Insatiate Countesse.

      First published in London, 1616. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori (Manchester, 1984). The play probably drafted by Marston and completed by William Barksted and perhaps Lewis Machin.

      John Marston, The Insatiate Countess | Catalogue
    • MsP 27 ff. 21v-2v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1636. Edwards & Gibson, III, 101-80.

      Philip Massinger, The Great Duke of Florence | Catalogue
    • ChG 9 f. 24r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1631. Edited by Thomas Marc Parrott in The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies (London, 1910), pp. 399-400.

      George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey | Catalogue
    • MsP 29 ff. 24r-33r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 117-97.

      Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.89

    An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt.

    c.1590-1600s.

    Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) Anne Cornwaleys her booke [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) Ed Philips his Book 1740; Robert Thomas not his Book 1740; (p. [xvi]); Sam: Lysons [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS John F. Russell on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

    Discussed in William H. Bond, The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

    • OxE 15 p. 7

      Copy, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Vere finis.

      This MS collated in May.

      First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content' | Catalogue
    • DyE 34 pp. 9-10

      Copy, untitled, subscribed dyer.

      First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'I woulde it were not as it is' | Catalogue
    • RaW 129 pp. 10-11

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

      First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

      The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's Farewell False Love, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love ('Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies') | Catalogue
    • ElQ 43 p. 12

      Copy, untitled, subscribed l: of oxforde.

      This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

      Collected Works, Poem 10, pp. 303-4 (Version 1), 304-5 (Version 2). Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 2, pp. 26-7. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'When I was fair and young, and favor graced me' | Catalogue
    • OxE 47 p. 13

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Vavaser.

      Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

      May, Poems, No. I (pp. 38-9). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 282-3. EV 20459.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Sittinge alone upon my thought in melancholye moode' | Catalogue
    • DyE 11 p. 17

      Copy.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 75. Sargent, No. IX, p. 191. May, Courtier Poets, p. 309. EV 2856.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'As rare to heare as seldome to be seene' | Catalogue
    • RaW 118 p. 19

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about') | Catalogue
    • DyE 71 p. 21

      Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Dier.

      First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.

      Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet ('Prometheus, when first from heuen hie') | Catalogue
    • DyE 98 p. 22

      Copy, subscribed finis Dier.

      Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

      First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. VIII, p. 190. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 296-7. EV 30272.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'Wher one woulde be ther not to be' | Catalogue
    • SiP 39 p. 23

      Copy, untitled, subscribed S p. Sydney.

      This MS collated in Ringler.

      Ringler, p. 145.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 16 ('A Satyre once did runne away for dread') | Catalogue
    • RaW 492 pp. 32-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.

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

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

  • MS V.a.91

    Autograph calligraphic MS, 51 leaves (113 x 161mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

    In various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures and with a later inserted self-portrait (1624).

    1 January 1600/1.

    Later owners include Mr Cripps, London surgeon; Barbara Ingram; John L. Clawson, of Buffalo, New York (whose library was sold at the Anderson Galleries, New York, 1926); A.S.W. Rosenbach (1937); and Lessing J. Rosenwald (until 1946).

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 12 (pp. 41-2). Facsimile of the portrait page in Jonathan Goldberg, Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (Stanford, 1990), p. 152. Facsimiles of the first page of text in in Anneke Tjan-Bakker, Dame Flora's Blossoms: Esther Inglis's Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts, EMS, 9 (2000), 49-72 (Plate 5, p. 59); of ff. 30v-1r in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), pp. 102-3; and of Octo III in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 476.

    • *InE 15
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The French text and facing English translation of verse Octonaires by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), the original French first published in Paris, 1586.

      Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World. Writin by Esther Inglis, the first of Ianuar 1600 | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.92

    Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 52 leaves (109 x 161 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

    A presentation MS to her loving Freinde and Landlord M. William Jefferai, with a prose Dedication to him in English dated from Mortlake, Surrey, in various styles of script and with colour and gold decoration. and figures.

    23 December 1607.

    Later owned by Rachel Kissack; by Dyson Perrins (sold at his sale at Sotheby's, 9 December 1958, lot 44); and by Lessing J. Rosenwald.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 33 (p. 62). Facsimiles of four pages in Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library, ed. Esther Ferington (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 86; of the title-page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 101.

    • *InE 20
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The French text and facing English translation of verse Octonaires by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), the original French first published in Paris, 1586. With two sonnets in English to Esther Inglis by G.D.

      Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaries upon the vanitie and inconstancie of the world, writin and limd be me, Esther Inglis the xxiii, Decemb: 1607 | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.93

    Autograph calligraphic MS, 6 + 189 + 3 leaves (94 x 62 mm.), in contemporary scarlet velvet embroidered. 2 April 1599.

    A presentation MS to Prince Maurice of Nassau (1567-1625), with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with decoration and figures. For the self-portrait detached from this MS, see InE 32.

    1599.

    Later owned by the French surgeon Dongines (1648) and by his nephew, the Protestant refugee surgeon Thomas Michel. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 542 [1930], item 223. Owned in 1946 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979), Pennsylvania businessman and collector.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 8 (pp. 35-7). Facsimiles of pp. 2-3 and ff. 190v-1r, including arms and Dedication, in Georgianna Ziegler, Hand-Ma[i]de Books: The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early-Modern Precursors of the Artists' Book, EMS, 9 (200), 73-87 (Plates 1, p. 78, and 2, p. 80).

    The portrait in this MS has now been separated as Folger MS X.d.533.

    • *InE 31
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Psalms in French, with Latin verses to Prince Maurice by Esther Inglis's husband Bartholomew Kello and to Esther Inglis by Andrew Melville, Robert Rollock, and John Johnston.

      Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Les Pseaumes de David Escrites en Diverses sortes de lettres par Esther Anglois Françoise. A Lislebourg en Escosse, 1599 | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.94

    Autograph calligraphic MS, iv + 155 leaves (46 x 72 mm.), in contemporary red velvet embroidered.

    A presentation MS to Prince Henry, with a Dedication to him, in roman and italic scripts, with colour and gold arms and decoration.

    1608.

    Later owners include Edward Quail (sold at Sotheby's, 10 May 1901, lot 95); Ellis; J.A. Brooke (sold at the Red Cross sale, 26 April 1916); Pearson (sale catalogue, 1916, item 7A); Mortimer L. Schiff (sold at Sotheby's, 24 March 1938, lot 245); and, until 1951, by Lessing J. Rosenwald.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 36 (pp. 64-5), with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate 25 (between pp. 42 and 43). The binding is illustrated in Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library, ed. Esther Ferington (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 49, and also on a postcard issued by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

    • *InE 36
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A summary of the Psalms in Latin verse.

      Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Argumenta Psalmoru Davidis per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata, strenae nomine Illus: Principi Henrico oblata, 1608. | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.96

    An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged.

    Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

    The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

    • AlW 157 f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed In fratres Reynoldos Carmen Henricium, subscribed Doctor Allablaster.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres') | Catalogue
    • AlW 176 ff. 3v-4r

      Copy of Hugh Holland's translation, headed Englished.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse') | Catalogue
    • BcF 29 f. 6r-v

      Copy, headed Humane life Charactered, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man' | Catalogue
    • RnT 160 f. 11r

      Copy, headed Englished, following the Latin version In Eandem Dystichon, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published, following a Latin version beginning Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat, in Day (1932), p. 35.

      Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished ('By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe') | Catalogue
    • CwT 1035.5 ff. 11r-12r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

      Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity ('As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death') | Catalogue
    • HeR 24 ff. 15r-16v

      Copy, headed His Mistris Shade.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 205-7. Patrick, pp. 273-5.

      Robert Herrick, The Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium ('Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings') | Catalogue
    • RnT 48 ff. 16v-21r

      Copy, headed His complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamor'd, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

      Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine') | Catalogue
    • RnT 307 f. 21r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

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

      Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute') | Catalogue
    • RnT 436 f. 21v

      Copy, headed The Masque of Vices, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

      Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go') | Catalogue
    • RnT 145 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.

      Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano ('Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse') | Catalogue
    • RnT 411 f. 22r

      Copy, subscribed Tho Randolph.

      First published in Day (1932), p. 35.

      Thomas Randolph, 'When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse' | Catalogue
    • ShJ 126 f. 22v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?' | Catalogue
    • RnT 577 ff. 23r-5v

      Copy.

      Recorded in Crum (S696) as being amongst Randolph's poems in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.

      Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of Sr Edward Burton being blind ('Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true') | Catalogue
    • RnT 581 ff. 25v-6v

      Copy.

      Recorded in Crum (S745) as being amongst poems by Randolph in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Newes of his Recoverie ('Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast') | Catalogue
    • CoR 150 ff. 28v-9v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the Lady Hayes her Death by Dr: Corbett.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • KiH 340 ff. 29v-32v

      Copy, subscribed Doctor Hen: Kinge.

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

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!') | Catalogue
    • RnT 247 ff. 33r-7r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch') | Catalogue
    • RnT 60 f. 37r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Day (1932), p. 36.

      Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna ('Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye') | Catalogue
    • JnB 616 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune ('Helpe me wonder, here's a booke') | Catalogue
    • JnB 49 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

      Ben Jonson, The Dreame ('Or Scorne, or pittie on me take') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 72 f. 39r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Since all men that I come among, subscribed John Grange.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Since every man I come among' | Catalogue
    • DnJ 318 ff. 39v-40v

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 173 ff. 41r-2r

      Copy, headed The Picture of the Body.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 212 ff. 42r-4r

      Copy, headed The Picture of the mynd.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 390 f. 44r

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 89 f. 45v

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 579 ff. 46v-7v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistling wynde

      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') | Catalogue
    • BmF 105 ff. 48r-49ar

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 226 ff. 49v-50r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2066 f. 50v

      Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse') | Catalogue
    • JnB 356 f. 51r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

      Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind') | Catalogue
    • JnB 39 ff. 51v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe') | Catalogue
    • JnB 721 f. 53r-v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell') | Catalogue
    • HeR 122 ff. 56r-7r

      Copy, headed Mr Rob: Herricks Farwell to Sacke.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 277 ff. 57v-9v

      Copy, headed Mr: Herricks welcome to Sacke.

      This MS collated in part 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') | Catalogue
    • RaW 524 ff. 62r-3r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr: Walter Raleigh.

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

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart' | Catalogue
    • GrJ 52 ff. 63r-4v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Jo: Grange.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris' | Catalogue
    • CoR 105 ff. 66r-7r

      Copy, headed On the Death of Queene Anne.

      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') | Catalogue
    • KiH 179 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy, headed On Prince Henries death.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 90 ff. 69v-70r

      Copy, headed On Deformitie in Man.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 64-5, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'What if rude nature hath less care exprest' | Catalogue
    • GrJ 83 f. 70r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Jo: Grange.

      Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'The world created, God made man' | Catalogue
    • BmF 138 ff. 70v-1v

      Copy, headed To Mr: Ben: Ionson, subscribed Mr Fran: Beamont.

      First published (complete) in Sir E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-5. Reprinted from Chambers in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 377-9.

      All recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 174-6), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

      Francis Beaumont, To Mr B.J: ('Neither to follow fashion nor to showe') | Catalogue
    • HeR 391 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 90 f. 72r-v

      Copy, headed The answere, subscribed Mr. Ro: Herrick.

      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') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 73 f. 74r

      Copy, headed Mr Iohn Grange his Ballet, subscribed Jo: Grange.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Since every man I come among' | Catalogue
    • JnB 114 f. 76r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such') | Catalogue
    • CoR 151 ff. 76v-9r

      Copy, headed On the Lady Harrington who dyed of the Small Pox. by Dr: Corbett.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • MnJ 19 ff. 79v-80r

      Copy, headed On Hobson who dyed in the vacany of his Carrage by reason of the Sicknes att Cambridge. 1630.

      This MS collated in Darbishire; also in G. Blakemore Evans, Two New Manuscript Versions of Milton's Hobson Poems, MLN, 57 (1942), 192-4; and The Complete English Poetry of John Milton, ed. John Shawcross (New York, 1963), p. 550. See also John T. Shawcross, A Note on Milton's Hobson Poems, RES, NS 18 (1967), 433-7; John J. Pollock, On the University Carrier: Comments on the early Drafts, AN & Q, 13 (1974), 36-7.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 32-3. Darbishire, II, 136-7. Carey & Fowler, p. 124.

      John Milton, On the University Carrier ('Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt') | Catalogue
    • RnT 86 ff. 80v-4v

      Copy, headed An Eglogue To his worthy Father Mr: Ben: Iohnson, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

      Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson ('Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad') | Catalogue
    • JnB 251 ff. 90v-3v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

      Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones ('Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann') | Catalogue
    • JnB 492 ff. 93v-4r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

      Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine') | Catalogue
    • JnB 478 f. 94r-v

      Copy, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

      Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.97

    An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

    Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

    c.late 1630s [-1789].

    Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

    • DaJ 193 p. 1

      Copy, headed On Dr Prideax his childe and here beginning As carefull mothers to their beds doe lay.

      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') | Catalogue
    • BrW 207 p. 1

      Copy, here beginning Under this same marble herse, imperfect at the foot of the page.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1297 p. 2

      Copy, headed Mr Baker.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 311 p. 2

      Copy, headed On a butchers sonne and a Tanners daughter.

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

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin') | Catalogue
    • PoW 36 pp. 3-4

      Copy, headed On A blacke Gentlewoman subscribed Posuit Walton Poole.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS U).

      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' | Catalogue
    • StW 806.5 p. 5

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman walking in the snow a Dr courting her.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RaW 260 p. 7

      Copy, headed On Man.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DkT 20 p. 9

      Copy, headed On the Q: carried to her buriall.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 657 pp. 11-12

      Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet Bp. Corbet.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 558 pp. 12-13
      No description or publication history available.

      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') | Catalogue
    • BrW 164 pp. 13-14

      Copy, headed Vpon one dead in the snow.

      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') | Catalogue
    • BrW 93 pp. 14-15

      Copy, headed On a Woman dying in trauell the child vnborne.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PoW 110 pp. 15-16

      Copy, subscribed Posuit: Wal: Poole.

      Unpublished.

      Walton Poole, Vpon a young Gentleman dying of a Plurisie in the Warres ('Twas fatall vnto thee that in the race') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 106 pp. 16-17

      Copy, headed On his first Loue, subscribed Posuit Wal: Poole.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

      Probably written by Walton Poole.

      John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant ('My first Love whom all beauty did adorn') | Catalogue
    • PoW 107 p. 18

      Copy, headed To a lady which desired him to make her a copy of verses, subscribed Posuit Wal: Poole.

      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') | Catalogue
    • KiH 450 pp. 18-19

      Copy, headed On Man.

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

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care') | Catalogue
    • CoR 692 p. 19

      Copy, headed On Fairefoord Windowes, subscribed Dr Corbet.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 384 pp. 19-20

      Copy, headed A Gentlewoman playing on the Lute.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 112 p. 20

      Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.

      Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 843 p. 21

      Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 489 pp. 23-5

      Copy, subscribed Mr Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1506 p. 27

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed Dr Corbet on his wiues departure.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night') | Catalogue
    • CoR 426 pp. 27-9

      Copy, headed On the Casting of great Tom of ch; ch:, subscribed Dr Corbet.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 711 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed A Song on a sigh.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 167 p. 31

      Copy, headed A Song on Musicke.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 84 p. 33

      Copy, headed On his Mistresse.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold') | Catalogue
    • CwT 783 pp. 33-4

      Copy, headed To his Mistresse and here beginning In your faire cheeks two pitts doe lie.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 283 pp. 34-5

      Copy, headed On an aged Gentlewoman.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace') | Catalogue
    • RnT 514 pp. 38-9

      Copy, ascribed to Ben Jonson.

      First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. 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') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 87 pp. 42-3

      Copy, headed On the prais of a brown Lasse.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RaW 330 p. 43

      Copy, headed A Louer and here beginning Passions are likned best to flouds of streames.

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

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames') | Catalogue
    • DyE 85 p. 43

      Copy, headed A Louer.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall' | Catalogue
    • CoR 284 pp. 45-51

      Copy, headed A iourney into the North.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 240 pp. 52-3

      Copy of the short version, headed A gentlewoman a gentleman courting her and here beginning Nay pish, nay pew, 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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 146 p. 53

      Copy, headed On Maidens.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 223 p. 54

      Copy, headed On A Vicar and here beginning An honest Viccar riding by the way.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
    • DaJ 146 p. 56

      Copy, headed A Bellows mender and here beginning Here lies John Wills, a mender of bellow.

      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') | Catalogue
    • BrW 128 p. 58

      Copy, headed On Dr Prideaux his daughter 6 years old.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PoW 89 pp. 58-9

      Copy, headed K: James and here beginning Can Christendoms great Monarch sink away, subscribed Posuit W: Poole.

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

      Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away') | Catalogue
    • KiH 70 p. 60

      Copy, headed His Answere.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 580 p. 61

      Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Goe you gentle whistling wind.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1901 p. 63

      Copy, headed Of a bald man and here beginning Thy haires and sinnes noe man can equall call.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross. The text followed by an answer, beginning Yes, if thy haires fall as thy sinns increas.

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

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call') | Catalogue
    • StW 416 p. 64

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman iniured [by ye pox added].

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 1250.2 p. 64

      Copy, headed On his faire Mistres.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 283 p. 65

      Copy, headed On a ffly drown'd in his Mistress eie.

      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') | Catalogue
    • WoH 239 pp. 66-7

      Copy headed Dr Dunn's farewell to ye world.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!') | Catalogue
    • RnT 8 p. 67

      Copy, headed To his young Mistress and here beginning Deare doe not yor faire beautie wrong.

      First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 3207 pp. 68-70

      Copy, headed Dr Dunne to his Mistres.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2967 p. 70

      Copy, headed 2 Louers loath to depart and here beginning Lie still my loue, why wilt thou rise.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 461.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 461 p. 70

      Copy of lines 1-6, immediately following Lie still my loue, why wilt thou rise (DnJ 2967).

      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?') | Catalogue
    • MyJ 7 p. 71

      Copy.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.

      Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse') | Catalogue
    • CoR 189 pp. 73-4

      Copy, headed His Epitaph.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

      Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee') | Catalogue
    • CwT 284 p. 86

      Copy, headed The ffly.

      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') | Catalogue
    • EaJ 27 pp. 87-90

      Copy, headed On Sr John Burrows.

      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') | Catalogue
    • MoG 64 p. 90

      Copy, headed The Nitingale.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed') | Catalogue
    • MoG 94 p. 91

      Copy, headed Vpon the Crown of hatt.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth') | Catalogue
    • CoR 130 pp. 94-6

      Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On ye Lady Haddington who died of the small pox and here beginning Oh thou deformed vnwomanlike disease, subscribed Dr Corbet.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 501 p. 96

      Copy, subscribed Dr Corbet.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 251 pp. 96-7

      Copy, headed Against Dr Prices Anniuersaries vpon Prince Henrie, subscribed Dr Corbet.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 762 p. 101

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.

      Richard Corbett, To the Bell-Founder of Great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Thou that by ruine doest repaire') | Catalogue
    • StW 130 p. 102

      Copy, headed A Gent: kissing his Ms left blood vpon her.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 278 pp. 103-4

      Copy, headed Mr Herricks welcome to sack.

      This MS collated in part 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') | Catalogue
    • StW 476 p. 104

      Copy, here beginning A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part.

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

      William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith ('Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part') | Catalogue
    • StW 1093 pp. 106-7

      Copy, headed To his Mrs.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 91 p. 107

      Copy, headed To a periurd louer.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 209 pp. 107-10

      Copy, headed To Mr Hammon parson of Bewdly for pulling down the maypole, subscribed R: Corbet.

      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 Dr 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') | Catalogue
    • MoG 24 pp. 110-11

      Copy, headed On King James, subscribed G: Morley.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1145 pp. 111-13

      Copy, headed To Dr Griffith heald by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgeon in Oxon, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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!') | Catalogue
    • CoR 476 pp. 113-14

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 830 p. 114

      Copy, headed On his mris. singing in York hous gallery, subscribed T: C:.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce') | Catalogue
    • StW 581 pp. 115-16

      Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Peltham, subscribed W: Stroud.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne') | Catalogue
    • StW 1074 p. 116

      Copy, here beginning Like to the hand wch hath been vsd to play, subscribed W: S:.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1132 pp. 116-17

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.

      William Strode, To his Sister ('Lovinge Sister, every line') | Catalogue
    • StW 667 p. 117

      Copy, headed Bracelets, under a general heading Posies by W: Stroud.

      Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

      William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande') | Catalogue
    • StW 78 p. 117

      Copy.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr 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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1223 p. 117

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes') | Catalogue
    • StW 256 p. 118

      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] Sr 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') | Catalogue
    • StW 147 p. 118

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast') | Catalogue
    • StW 680 p. 118

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save') | Catalogue
    • StW 350 pp. 118-19

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 168 p. 126

      Copy, headed On Dr Rauis Bp of London.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 349 p. 127

      Copy, headed Ben: J: to Burlace, following Burlace the painter to Ben: J.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 132 p. 128

      Copy, headed A fart in ye Parlimt house.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried') | Catalogue
    • StW 481 pp. 128-9

      Copy, headed On Dr Lancton, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 278 pp. 135-41

      Copy, headed Tom Randolphs pastorall.

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

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet') | Catalogue
    • StW 1193 pp. 141-3

      Copy, headed Stradas Nightingale translated, subscribed W: Stroud.

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

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende') | Catalogue
    • RnT 559 pp. 149-50

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1765 p. 151

      Copy, headed The Cripple and here beginning I cannot goe sit, stand the cripple cries.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries') | Catalogue
    • DrW 177.93 p. 153

      Copy of a version headed The L: Treasurer and beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

      First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre') | Catalogue
    • StW 452 pp. 154-5
      No description or publication history available.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 241 pp. 156-61

      Copy, headed Ben Johnson against Vulcane.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 351 pp. 161-3

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman of the Queenes Chappell vggly in face but incomparable in voice.

      This MS recorded 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') | Catalogue
    • StW 650 p. 164

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1059 p. 164

      Copy, subscribed Stroud.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 241 pp. 165-7

      Copy, headed The praise of a paynted face, subscribed J: Sherly.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression') | Catalogue
    • EaJ 52 pp. 167-8

      Copy, headed On ye Earle of Pembrook, subscribed Maine.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 541.5 p. 169

      Copy, subscribed Stroud.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

      William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold') | Catalogue
    • StW 533 p. 170

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

      William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd') | Catalogue
    • RaW 214 pp. 202-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year') | Catalogue

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