The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199

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MS V.a.103

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.
c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.
- DaJ 194 Part I, f. 1r
  
  Copy, headed On a younge man and here beginning As carefull nurses in theire 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')
- HrJ 309 Part I, f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scotts and here beginning When doome of death by judgment foreappointed.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
  
  Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
- CoR 541 Part I, f. 3r
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to D^r Corbett.
  
  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 179 Part I, f. 4r
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Ravis Bishop of London and ascribed at the side to D^r Corbett.
  
  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 467 Part I, f. 4v
  
  Copy, headed On M^r Henry Boling his death, ascribed at the side to D^r Corbett.
  
  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')
- PoW 90 Part I, f. 10v
  
  Copy, headed On the death of King James.
  
  First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
  
  Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
- CoR 106 Part I, f. 11r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DrW 177.94 Part I, f. 20r
  
  Copy of a version headed On the same [i.e. Lord Buckhurst] and here beginning Imodest death that would 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')
- CoR 489 Part I, f. 23r
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to M^r Strowde.
  
  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')
- RaW 119 Part I, f. 29r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Lover to his Mistresse, ascribed at the side to S^r W. R:.
  
  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')
- RaW 302 Part I, f. 29v
  
  Copy, headed On his Mistresse Serena, concluding with the final couplet of Euen such is tyme (here beginning But from this Grave, and Earth, and dust) with a marginal note, This last staffe was saide to bee made by S^r Walter Raleigh a little before his death, w^th the additio of these two last verses.
  
  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')
- RaW 331 Part I, f. 30r
  
  Copy, headed To the sole Governesse of His Affections, here beginning Passions are likned best to flouds and streames and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 525), ascribed at the side to S^r Wa: Ral:.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115, and in Gullans.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- RaW 525 Part I, f. 30r
  
  Copy, prefixed by Passions are likned best to flouds and streames (see RaW 331).
  
  This MS recorded in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
  This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
- RaW 357 Part I, f. 30v
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to S^r W. Ra:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.
  
  First published in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, To his Love when hee had obtained Her ('Now Serena bee not coy')
- JnB 24 Part I, f. 31v
  
  Copy of lines 21-30, headed A Lover to his Mistrisse and here beginning Haue you seene the whyte lillye grow.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3116 Part I, f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed To the sunne that rise too early to call Him and his Love from bedd, ascribed at the side to M^r Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
  
  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
- DnJ 194 Part I, f. 32r
  
  Copy, headed To the same [i.e. his scornefull Mistresse], ascribed at the side to D^r Dunne.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3014 Part I, f. 32v
  
  Copy, headed To his loving Mistres When hee travailed, ascribed at the side to D^r Dunne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
- PeW 184 Part I, f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed One to his Fireinde who was a Lover and, impatient to stay till his spouse was of age.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- CwT 85 Part I, ff. 33v-4
  
  Copy, headed A Lover to 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')
- DrM 23 Part I, f. 34r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- StW 739 Part I, ff. 34v-5v
  
  Copy, headed A Lovers Epitaph, or rather a Complaint against Him for seeing and Loveing her knew not what, ascribed at the side to M^r Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
- StW 889 Part I, f. 35v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet, ascribed at the side to M^r Strowd.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- StW 291 Part I, f. 35v
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to M^r Strowd of C. Chu:.
  
  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 1126 Part I, f. 36r
  
  Copy, headed To his valentine M^ris Alice Hutton, ascribed at the side to M^r Strowd.
  
  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 1251 Part I, f. 36r
  
  Copy, headed to his M^ris With Penne, Inke, and Paper, these, ascribed at the side to ?JC:.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.
  
  William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. ('Here is paper, pen and Inke')
- CwT 1012 Part I, f. 36v
  
  Copy, headed A Lover to his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- DnJ 1462 Part I, ff. 36v-7r
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistresse, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 2016 Part I, f. 37r
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
  
  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
- DnJ 1546 Part I, f. 37r-v
  
  Copy, headed D^r. Donne On his Picture wh^ch hee left with his M^ris [S^r George Moores daughter added in the margin] when hee went to travaile.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
  
  John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
- DnJ 1501 Part I, ff. 37v-8r
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, headed At his mistresses departure, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1372 Part I, f. 38r
  
  Copy, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 2304 Part I, f. 38r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistresse, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DnJ 3672 Part I, ff. 39v-40r
  
  Copy, headed A Lover in a Garden, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 3186 Part I, ff. 40v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Going to bedd, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner.
  
  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')
- PlG 18 Part I, f. 52r
  
  Copy, headed S^r Henry Lea his Farewell to the Court, under a general heading Panegyricks.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton and in Hughey.
  
  First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
  
  George Peele, A Sonet ('His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd')
- B&F 134 Part I, f. 52r-v
  
  Copy, headed The praises of melancholy.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- PoW 37 Part I, ff. 52v-3r
  
  Copy, headed A comendation of blacke haire in a Gentlewoman.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS V).
  
  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'
- StW 400 Part I, f. 53r
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
- WoH 97 Part I, f. 53r-v
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia and here beginning Yee glorious trifles of y^e East. The text followed on ff. 53v-4 by a Latin version.
  
  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')
- DnJ 63 Part I, f. 54r-v
  
  Copy, headed The praise of an old Woman, ascribed at the side to D^r Dunne.
  
  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')
- DnJ 639 Part I, f. 55v
  
  Copy, headed A Paradoxe In the Praise of change in a Lover, ascribed at the side to D^r Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
  
  John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
- DnJ 270 Part I, f. 56r-v
  
  Copy, headed The elogy of an Autumnall Face, ascribed at the side to D^r. Donne.
  
  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')
- RaW 163 Part I, f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, headed Satyra Volans. A flying satyre made by D^r Lateware, S^t. Johns added in the margin.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham and Höltgen, p. 435.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
  This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
- EsR 46 Part I, pp. 67r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.
  
  May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest'
- RaW 348 Part I, f. 68r
  
  Copy, headed S^r: W.R. On D^r. Noel.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138. Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  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'
- DnJ 508 Part I, f. 68v
  
  Copy, headed Against Love.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 3632 Part I, f. 69r
  
  Copy, headed A Lover against himselfe.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
  
  John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
- WoH 170 Part I, f. 69r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Letter Against Solitarines.
  
  First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (''Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life')
- CoR 269 Part I, ff. 70v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem, sive adiversarijs in Henricum Prin:.
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  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')
- CoR 240 Part I, f. 71r-v
  
  Copy, headed Ad Poetam exeustoratum et emeritum.
  
  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')
- CoR 673 Part I, ff. 71v-2r
  
  Copy, headed D^r. Corbett. On M^ris Malett, an ill favour'd Creature, that would needs bee on love with the Author.
  
  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 2517 Part I, ff. 73v-4r
  
  Copy, headed A Deprecatory, To his Wife Who, would have accompanied him in the disguise of a Page, when hee went to travaile, inscribed at the side D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- DnJ 447 Part I, f. 74r
  
  Copy, headed To his love who was too hasty to rise from him in the morning, inscribed at the side D^r. Donne and (L. S.).
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 2928 Part I, f. 74r-v
  
  Copy, headed Against the inconstancy of woman.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 3296 Part I, f. 76r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Retyring of himselfe into himselfe, Or, An Eternall Farewell to Love & Poetry, inscribed at the side D^r. Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
  
  John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
- DnJ 2219 Part I, ff. 76v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Making of men, inscribed at the side D^r Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- WoH 32 Part I, f. 77r
  
  Copy, headed A Contented Life, inscribed at the side S^r. Henry Wotton.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- JnB 417.5 Part I, f. 77r
  
  Copy, headed On the Union of great Brittaine and here beginning Never was Union better driven by fate.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- MaA 338 Part II, ff. 79v-87v
  
  Copy, in a cursive hand, as by S^rJD, subscribed, possibly in another hand, J Smith Esq.
  
  First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
  The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
  
  Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
MS V.a.104

Autograph manuscript of poems by Lady Mary Wroth, in her stylish italic, iv + 65 quarto leaves, in modern black leather gilt.
Early 17th century.
Later owned by Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9283).
- *WrM 1 ff. 1r-63v passim
  Autograph
  
  Autograph fair copy of early versions of the sequence, with occasional revisions, comprising 102 of the 103 poems subsequently printed in 1621 (omitting Roberts's [P4], Forbeare darke night, my joyes now budd againe), together with six additional poems in the sequence not printed then; headed $ Pamphilia to Amphilanthus $.
  
  Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 85-142, with a facsimile of f. 43r on p. 78. Facsimile of f. 43r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 299. 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. 125. Discussed, with reference to the use of $-fermés, in Heather Dubrow, And Thus Leave Off: Reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript, V.a.104, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 22 (2003), 273-91; in Susan Lauffer O' Hara, Reading the Stage Rubrics of Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006), pp. 265-77; and, comparing the MS with the 1621 edition, in Ilona Bell, Mary Wroth's Revisions: Art or Cover-Up?, The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Newsletter, Spring 2008, pp. 13-16.
  
  A sonnet sequence of 103 poems and songs, first published in The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited (with additional poems in MS) in Roberts, Poems (1983), pp. 85-145. Pritchard, pp. 21-126.
  
  Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus ('When nights black mantle could most darknes prove')
- *WrM 8 ff. 31r, 33v, 34v, 42r, 49v, 55r, 57r, 64r-5r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph fair copy of early versions of nine of the poems subsequently printed in the 1621 Urania.
  
  Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems (U12-14, U17-18, U24, U32, U34, and U52, on pp. 154-9, 163-4, 170-2, 183-92).
  
  First published as The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited by Josephine A. Roberts, as The First Part of the Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (Binghamton, NY, 1995). Poems alone edited in Roberts, Poems, and in Pritchard, pp. 127-99.
  
  Lady Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania
MS V.a.110

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, with a title-page (f. 1v) A Shorte View of the Raigne of King Henrie the third. 3., unascribed, 56 octavo pages (plus some blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.
c.1620s.
Spedding MS 27. Bookplate of W.T. Smedley.

c. 1627.
- CtR 413
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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
MS V.a.121

A quarto volume of legal tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 309 leaves (plus 42 blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s.
Bookplates of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector; of Charles H. Hayley; and of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), of Armitage Bridge, Yorkshire antiquary and book collector.
- BcF 246 ff. 130r-7v
  
  Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a secretary hand, as made by the Lord Chancellor...25 January 1618.
  
  First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
  
  Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
MS V.a.124

A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.

Including 12 poems by Carew.
c.1650s.
Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of y^e lead 1657; Tho: Wise; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury; and Edward Watt. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.
- ClJ 7 ff. 3v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
  
  John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick ('For shame, thou everlasting Woer')
- LoR 39 f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Song.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
  
  Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
- HrJ 145 f. 5r
  
  Copy, headed On a Museing 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')
- HaW 13 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs looking on him.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 18-19.
  
  William Habington, To Castara, Looking upon him ('Transfix me with that flaming dart')
- HaW 16.5 f. 12v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs of the chastity of his love.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 50.
  
  William Habington, To Castara. Of the chastity of his Love ('Why would you blush Castara, when the name')
- HaW 9.5 ff. 12v-13r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs intending a journey into the country.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 27.
  
  William Habington, To Castara, Intending a journey into the Country ('Why haste you hence Castara? can the earth')
- HaW 20.5 f. 13r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a trembling kisse at departure.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.
  
  William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure ('Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows')
- HaW 38.5 f. 14r
  
  Copy, headed vpon his M^rs departure.
  
  First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 40.
  
  William Habington, Vpon Castara's departure ('Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath')
- CwT 688 f. 14v
  
  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 455 ff. 14v-15r
  
  Copy, headed Song: Mediocrity in loue rejected.
  
  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 795 f. 14r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris ('If when the Sun at noone displayes')
- CwT 937 f. 15r
  
  Copy, headed Song. To his inconstant M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
- CwT 1196 f. 15v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 917.5 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 37.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. The willing Prisoner to his Mistris ('Let fooles great Cupids yoake disdaine')
- RnT 297 f. 17v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')
- RnT 316 f. 18r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 99-100.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To one admiring her selfe in a Looking-Glasse ('Faire Lady when you see the Grace')
- BrW 129 f. 18v
  
  Copy, headed The Epitaph on D^r Prideaux daughter.
  
  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')
- PeW 185 f. 19r
  
  Copy, headed On a faire young gent:woman not yet marriagable.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- StW 807 f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman going 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')
- B&F 135 f. 20r-v
  
  Copy, headed On Melancholy.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- StW 660 f. 20v
  
  Copy, headed An Answere.
  
  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')
- CwT 811 f. 21r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs singing in a gallery.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- PeW 147 ff. 21v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CwT 182 f. 22r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
- CwT 907 f. 23r
  
  Copy, headed An admonition to his Celia.
  
  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')
- StW 464 ff. 23v-4r
  
  Copy, headed On a leg and foot.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3208 ff. 24r-5r
  
  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')
- RnT 515 f. 26r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- KiH 123 f. 27v
  
  Copy, headed One to his freind disliking his loue being more vertuous then faire.
  
  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?')
- PoW 38 f. 28r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a blacke maide & her haire.
  
  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 108 f. 28v
  
  Copy, headed To his mistress.
  
  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 71 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed 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')
- CwT 18 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed A Song.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
  
  Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
- WiG 19.5 f. 32v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a woeman and her child buried in one grave.
  
  First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 915. Sidgwick, II, 177.
  
  George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue ('Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye')
- WiG 4 ff. 33r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Song.
  
  First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.
  For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.
  
  George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
- HoJ 328 ff. 36r-7r
  
  Copy, headed D^r. Dun to his m^rs y^t scorn'd him and here beginning O love whose force & might.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- PeW 269 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy, headed The Lovers Elegy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 102-3, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Song ('Come saddest thoughts possess my heart')
- SuJ 62 f. 39r
  
  Copy, headed A gent: having repulse from a gent=woeman, A freind gives him counsell. A song.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.
  
  John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
- CwT 1057 f. 40v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
  
  Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
- CwT 59 ff. 40v-1r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs and here beginning Fairest thy tresses are not threds of gold.
  
  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')
- HrJ 112 f. 41v
  
  Copy, headed To a Scornefull Ladye.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- CwT 1241.4 f. 42r
  
  Copy, headed A health.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
- KiH 552 f. 42r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^es weeping.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- HeR 392 f. 42v
  
  Copy, headed In Perjuram.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
- HeR 92 f. 42v
  
  Copy, headed Replye.
  
  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')
- JnB 40 f. 43v
  
  Copy of lines 1-6, headed To his M^rs.
  
  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')
- WeJ 10 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy, headed Lovers deluded by their M^rss.
  
  Cambridge edition, I, 541.
  
  John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, IV, ii, 61-72. Song ('O let us howle, some heavy note')
- StW 862 f. 45r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^es:
  
  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')
- GrJ 53 f. 46r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. 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'
- CwT 101 ff. 46v-7v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- SuJ 138 f. 48r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs beauty spotts and here beginning Madam your heart cannot soe guilty be.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.
  
  John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')
- SuJ 115 f. 53v
  
  Copy of lines 1-8, headed vpon A womans inconstancy.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.
  Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can')
MS V.a.125

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.
c.1630s.
Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.
- StW 721 Part I, f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh, subscribed W.S.
  
  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')
- KiH 553 Part I, f. 5r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- KiH 582 Part I, f. 5v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.
  
  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 640 Part I, ff. 5v-6r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
- KiH 620 Part I, f. 6r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.
  
  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')
- B&F 136 Part I, f. 7r
  
  Copy, headed Verses made of Melancholy.
  
  This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.
  
  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')
- StW 621 Part I, f. 7v
  
  Copy, headed On a fountaine, subscribed WS.
  
  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 16 Part I, f. 7v
  
  Copy, headed On a 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')
- MyJ 22 Part I, ff. 8r-9v
  
  Copy, headed Verses upon a faire layyes booke of pictures, subscribed J.M.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- WoH 189 Part I, f. 9v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning First she deceased / Hee a little tryd.
  
  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')
- CoR 303 Part I, ff. 10r-19v
  
  Copy, headed The Northeirne voyadge, subscribed R.C.
  
  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 447 Part I, f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed On greate Tom, subscribed R. W.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.
  
  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')
- CoR 674 Part I, ff. 20v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Verses on M^rs Mallet, subscribed R. C.
  
  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')
- JnB 660 Part I, ff. 21v-2r
  
  Copy, headed Ben. Jonson to King James.
  
  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 358 Part I, ff. 22v-3v
  
  Copy, headed By M^r. D^r. Corbet.
  
  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')
- PoW 39 Part I, f. 24r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoeman whose eyes & hayre were black.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS b).
  
  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'
- JnB 174 Part I, f. 26r
  
  Copy, headed On the Lady Digby.
  
  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')
- CwT 652 Part I, ff. 26v-9r
  
  Copy, headed A Louers Rapture.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- MoG 65 Part I, f. 29v
  
  Copy, headed The Nightingale. G M.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- MoG 95 Part I, f. 30r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e crowne of a hat drunken in for wante of a cup by. G. M.
  
  George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
- DnJ 3929 Part I, ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy of lines 1-18, 28-35, subscribed JD.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 3209 Part I, f. 31r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^is, subscribed JD.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2067 Part I, f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2580 Part I, ff. 32v-3v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner.
  
  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')
- CwT 1152 Part I, f. 42r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoeman like his M^rs, subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- JnB 459 Part I, f. 43r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs, here beginning Drinke to mee Cælia w^th thine eye, subscribed BJ.
  
  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')
- GrJ 74 Part I, ff. 47v-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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'
- PeW 42 Part I, f. 51r-v
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue betweene S^r Henry Wotton and M^r Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- DnJ 1507 Part I, ff. 51v-2r
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, headed ELEGIES XIIII His parting from her.
  
  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')
- DnJ 713 Part I, f. 52r
  
  Copy of lines 1-6.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- JnB 427 Part I, f. 54r
  
  Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning Aske not to know this woman She is worse.
  
  This MS collated in Beal.
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- FeO 48 Part II, ff. 1r-2v
  
  Copy, headed Verses made upon the death of the Ducke of Buckingham.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
  
  Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')
- CoR 542 Part II, f. 3r
  
  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')
- BrW 208 Part II, f. 3r
  
  Copy, headed On the Countess of Pembrocke.
  
  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')
- DaJ 195 Part II, f. 3v
  
  Copy, headed On A faire child that dyed suddenly and here beginning As carefull Nurses in 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')
- KiH 293 Part II, f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, headed On Richard Earle of Dorset.
  
  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 468 Part II, f. 4v
  
  Copy, headed On M^r. Henry Boling.
  
  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')
- KiH 180 Part II, f. 6r-v
  
  Copy, headed On the death of Prince Henry.
  
  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')
- CwT 201 Part II, f. 6v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Lady Mary Villiers.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers ('The Lady Mary Villers lyes')
- KiH 202 Part II, f. 7r-v
  
  Copy, headed On S^r. Walter Rawleigh.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
- CoR 508 Part II, f. 8v
  
  Copy, headed On the death of M^r. Rice Manciple, 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')
- BrW 130 Part II, f. 9v
  
  Copy, headed On a child.
  
  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 166 Part II, ff. 12v-13r
  
  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')
- CoR 180 Part II, f. 13r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on D^r. Rauis by D^r. Corbet.
  
  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 122 Part II, f. 14r-v
  
  Copy, headed M^r. D^r. Corbets Elegy on S^r. Thomas Ouerburie.
  
  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')
- KiH 341 Part II, ff. 14v-16v
  
  Copy, headed To his matchlesse neuer to bee forgotten friend, subscribed with a monogram HK.
  
  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!')
- EaJ 5 Part II, ff. 17r-18v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the death of Beaumont.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
- BmF 70.5 Part II, f. 19r
  
  Copy of lines 49-68, headed On the Lady Markham, here beginning You wormes my riuals while shee was aliue.
  
  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')
- ElQ 31 Part II, f. 20r
  
  Copy of a version headed On y^e Sacrament and here beginning He was the word that spake it.
  
  First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2^v of his sermon on Give us this day our daily bread. Bradner, p. 6, as Christ was the Word, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.
  A version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the Word that spake it published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among Poems attributed to John Donne.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, 'Twas Christ the Word that spake it'
MS V.a.128

Copy, in a single secretary hand, including dramatis personae, and a prologue and epilogue, on 38 quarto leaves, in a modern wrapper.
Early-mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Bowers's edition.
- RnT 427.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A play once considered a possible addition to the canon, but firmly rejected by both Moore Smith and Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1328-30. Edited by Fredson Bowers, Chapel Hill, 1941.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Fairy Knight, or, Oberon the Second
MS V.a.130

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, c.170 leaves (including many numbered blanks, plus many others), written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-260; Part II: ff. 1-82), with later 18th- and 19th-century additions, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas Medcalf His B; (f. 1v) James Calvert.
- DnJ 4053 Part I, f. 3r
  
  A seven-line passage ascribed to Dr Dunn, beginning As the hart, (the noblest part of man) is placed in the midest of the bodye….
  
  Unidentified.
  
  John Donne, Sermon?
- RaW 728.205 Part II, ff. 13r-20v
  
  Copy.
  
  Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
- RaW 935 Part II, ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
MS V.a.136

Copy of Lodge's medical handbook, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a dedicatory epistle To the Right Honorable my very good Ladie the ladie Ann Mother Countesse of Arundell, on 65 quarto leaves, ff. 65v-7v containing additional receipts in two other hands, a quarto, originally in contemporary calf gilt (now detached) and rebound in modern half-morocco on cloth boards.

Probably a presentation copy to the dedicatee, the original covers bearing the Norfolk arms in gilt.
c.1623.
Signed (f. [iii^r]) by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who notes (f. [ii^v]) This MS. I bought at the sale of the books of the late Duke of Norfolk. Bookplate of Henry Charles Howard, of Greystock, Cumberland.

Edited from this MS in Gosse, with a facsimile of the dedicatory epistle, which he mistakenly believed to be autograph.
- LoT 13
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A medical handbook, in twelve chapters, with a dedicatory epistle to Lady Anne, Countess of Arundel. First published in Gosse, Vol. IV (1883).
  
  Thomas Lodge, The Poore Mans Talentt
MS V.a.142

Copy of Version II, following the Speaker's oration, on three of four quarto leaves, in marbled boards.

In a formal roman hand, headed Her Ma^ties: most Excelent Speech vnto m^r Speaker & the rest of the lower House, being knights & Burgesses, to the full nember of Eight Scoore, on Munday the 30^th of Nouember: 1601.
Early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 28 October-5 November 1902, lot 957.
- ElQ 282
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
  Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
  Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
  Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
  Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
MS V.a.143

A quarto-shaped folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary speeches, in a single professional secretary hand, 117 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
Late 16th century.
A flyleaf inscribed W. Bayntun Grays Inn. Phillipps MS 4776.
- ElQ 141 p. 116
  
  Copy, headed A Speach vsed by her Maiestie vnto my Lo. Keeper in the Parliment house in the end of a session.
  
  First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.
  Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon
MS V.a.147

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, iv + 119 leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco.

A flyleaf inscribed Th: Ayle 6^o. Dec 1679^o.
c.1678-1718.
- WoH 190 f. 5r
  
  Copy, headed By Sir Henry Wotton, on a Lady who died p^rsently after her husband and here beginning The first deceas'd, she for a little tri'd.
  
  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
MS V.a.148

A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials E H in gilt.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.
c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
- CmT 156 f. 5v
  
  Copy, headed Sympathy and here beginning When to her lute Althea sings.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'When to her lute Corrina sings'
- StW 222 f. 6r
  
  Copy, headed To his Lady.
  
  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')
- CwT 731.5 f. 7r
  
  Copy, headed Answer Affirmative.
  
  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')
- KiH 72 f. 7v
  
  Copy, headed (as speaker) Boy.
  
  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')
- StW 808 f. 12r
  
  Copy, headed On a Lady walking in y^e 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')
- FuT 2 ff. 14r-15v, 24v-5r
  
  Copy of 65 Epigrams By M^r Tho Fuller.
  
  Six epigrams edited from this MS in Dobell, loc. cit. Variants in this MS, and also corrections of Dobell's transcripts, recorded by G. Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) in his exemplum of Grosart in University of Leeds Library (Stack English H-36).
  
  Fifty-nine epigrams first published in Grosart (1868), pp. 217-35. A further six epigrams published in Bertram Dobell, Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum, No. 3835 (27 April 1901), p. 532.
  
  Thomas Fuller, Epigrams
- RnT 460.5 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Terrible true troublesome tragicall Relation of A Duel fought at Wisbitch June 17 1637, subscribed R. Wilde.
  
  (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')
- ShW 6 ff. 22r-3r
  
  Three pages of miscellaneous quotations from the Sonnets (including items ShW 7, ShW 22, ShW 23, and ShW 27), headed Shakespeare.
  
  This MS analysed in Tucker Brooke, pp. 68-9. Facsimile of f. 22 in Bertram Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
  
  First published in London, 1609. Second edition in Poems Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640).
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnets
- ShW 27 f. 22r
  
  Copy, headed A Monument.
  
  This MS collated in Alden, p. 252, and in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 107 ('Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul')
- ShW 7 f. 22r
  
  Copy of a composite version made up of lines 5-14 of Sonnet 1, here beginning Thou Contracted to thine owne bright eys, together with lines 1-4 of Sonnet 2 and line 5 of Sonnet 54, headed Cruel.
  
  Printed from this MS in Alden, p. 23; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1 ('From fairest creatures we desire increase')
- ShW 23 f. 22v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Thus is thy cheeke the map of Days outworn.
  
  This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 68 ('Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn')
- ShW 22 f. 23r
  
  This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 33 ('Full many a glorious morning have I seen')
- CrR 132 ff. 25v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CrR 66 ff. 27v, 32v
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 69-96, 149-50, 143-5, headed Loves victim and here beginning Blest powers forbid thy tender life.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, in an early version as In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 131-6. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 315-21.
  
  Richard Crashaw, A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa ('Loue, thou art Absolute sole lord')
- CrR 177 f. 27v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves ('Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee')
- CrR 248 f. 27v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
  
  Richard Crashaw, To the Infant Martyrs ('Goe smiling soules, your new built Cages breake')
- CrR 4 f. 28r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Act. 8. On the baptized Aethiopian ('Let it no longer be a forlorne hope')
- CrR 95 f. 28r
  
  Copy, headed Magdalens Tears Luke 7.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Luc. 7. She began to wash his feet with teares and wipe them with the haires of her head ('Her eyes flood lickes his feets faire staine')
- CrR 167 f. 28r
  
  Copy of lines 37 onwards, headed Christs Wounds and here beginning This thy bloods deluge (a dire Chance).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 101-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the bleeding wounds of our crucified Lord ('Iesu, no more, it is full tide')
- CrR 170 f. 28r
  
  Copy of lines 5-8, rearranged, headed Christ Incarnate and here beginning at line 7, here This new guest to our eyes new laws hath giuen.
  
  This MS collated and lines 5-8 printed in Martin.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the Blessed Virgins bashfulnesse ('That on her lap she casts her humble Eye')
- CrR 273 f. 28r
  
  Copy, headed Christs Tombe.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid ('How life and Death in Thee Agree?')
- CrR 306 f. 28r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Infant Martyrs ('To see both blended in one flood')
- CrR 327 ff. 28v-30v
  
  Copy of the later version.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Weeper ('Haile Sister Springs')
- CrR 237 f. 30v
  
  Copy of a garbled 13-line version including stanza 1 and stanza 8 (lines 2-6).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Teare ('What bright soft thing is this?')
- CrR 23 f. 31r
  
  Copy, headed On Christs Nativity.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Easter day ('Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity')
- CrR 224 f. 31r
  
  Extracts from stanzas 2 and 5, beginning at line 11 (What kind of marble than) and rearranged.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 283-7.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Sancta Maria Dolorvm or The Mother of Sorrows ('In shade of death's sad Tree')
- CrR 137 f. 31v
  
  Brief extract (?3 lines).
  
  First published (in a compressed form) in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 263-75.
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Office of the Holy Crosse ('Lord, by thy Sweet & Saving Sign &c')
- CrR 254 f. 31v
  
  Extracts (? 39 lines, rearranged).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 239-45.
  
  Richard Crashaw, To the Name above Every Name, the Name of Iesus A Hymn ('I sing the Name which none can say')
- CrR 61 f. 32r
  
  Line 22.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 141-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Himne for the Circumcision day of our Lord ('Rise thou first and fairest morning')
- CrR 64 f. 32r
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 1-2, 31-4, 79-84.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 106-8.
  
  Richard Crashaw, A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards ('Come wee Shepheards who have seene')
- CrR 217 f. 32r
  
  Extract (lines 13-16).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 102-4.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Psalme 23 ('Happy me! ô happy sheepe!')
- CrR 77 f. 32r-v, 35r
  
  Extensive extracts, rearranged.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 253-61.
  
  Richard Crashaw, In the Glorious Epiphanie of our Lord God, A Hymn: Sung as by the Three Kings ('Bright Babe! Whose awfull beautyes make')
- CoA 5 f. 32v
  
  Extracts from the two poems, comprising lines 51-8, 72, 76, 3-4, here beginning Faire Hop's our earlyer heaven hereby.
  
  A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as Hope and M. Crashaws Answer For Hope in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.
  Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's On Hope, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Against Hope ('Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is')
- CrR 50 f. 32v
  
  Brief extracts, comprising lines 71-4, 81-2, 24, 78, amidst other poems.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 324-7.
  
  Richard Crashaw, The Flaming Heart upon the Book and Picture of the seraphicall saint Teresa ('Well meaning readers! you that come as freinds')
- CrR 145 f. 32v
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 48-50, 53.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 126-30 (and later version pp. 328-31).
  
  Richard Crashaw, On a prayer booke sent to Mrs. M. R. ('Loe here a little volume, but large booke')
- CrR 233 f. 32v
  
  Extracts (28 lines, rearranged).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 109-26.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode ('Mvse, now the servant of soft Loves no more')
- CrR 19 f. 33r
  
  Brief extract (lines 65, 66)
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 298-301.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Dies Irae Dies Illa. The Hymn. of the Chvrch, In Meditation of the Day of Ivdgment ('Hears't thou, my soul, what serious things')
- CrR 148 f. 33r
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 5-11, 43, 44.
  
  First published in Five Pious and Learned Discourses…by Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk Priest (Cambridge, 1635). Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 137-9.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On a Treatise of Charity ('Rise then, immortall maid! Religion rise')
- CrR 162 f. 33r
  
  Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 16, 17, 19, 20, 60-3.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption ('Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come')
- CrR 17 f. 33v
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 33-8, 41-6, 53-62, headed Condescension.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 280-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Charitas Nimia, or the Dear Bargain ('Lord, what is man? why should he coste thee')
- CrR 74 f. 34r
  
  Brief extracts (lines 25, 41, 42).
  
  First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).
  
  Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health ('Goe now with some dareing drugg')
- CrR 142 f. 34r
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 1, 2, 34, 4, 32, 30, 19, 20 rearranged.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey ('Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day')
- CrR 202 f. 34r
  
  Brief extract (lines 20, 21).
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer ('Love is lost, nor can his Mother')
- CrR 211 f. 34r
  
  Brief extracts (lines 13, 14, 16).
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 155-6.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Out of Virgil, In the praise of the Spring ('All Trees, all leavy Groves confesse the Spring')
- CrR 268 f. 34r
  
  Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 8-11, 25-8.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted as Death's Lectvre at the Fvneral of a Yovng Gentleman in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 175-6 (and 340-1).
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon Mr. Staninough's Death ('Deare reliques of a dislodg'd soule, whose lacke')
- CrR 281 f. 34r
  
  Brief extract (lines 27-30).
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of a Gentleman ('Faithlesse and fond Mortality')
- CrR 287 f. 34r
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 36, 37, 78, 47-54, rearranged.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 167-8.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys ('A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire')
- CrR 252 f. 34r-v
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 9, 19-29, 36, 37.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.
  
  Richard Crashaw, To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe ('What succour can I hope the Muse will send')
- CrR 90 f. 34v
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 33-40, 18, 23-32.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Loves Horoscope ('Love, brave vertues younger Brother')
- CrR 174 f. 34v
  
  Brief extract (lines 9, 10).
  
  First published in Henry Isaacson, Saturni ephemerides sive tabula historico-chronologica (London, 1633). Among The Delights of the Muses in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 191.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained ('Let hoary Time's vast Bowels be the Grave')
- CrR 296 ff. 34v-5r
  
  Extracts, comprising lines 11-14, 35-7, 68-76, 82, 83.
  
  First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke ('Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride')
- CrR 318 f. 35r
  
  Extract (lines 7-10).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 220-1.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon two greene Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw ('Take these, times tardy truants, sent by me')
- CrR 322 f. 35r
  
  Brief extract (lines 9, 10).
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 277-9.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vexilla Regis, The Hymn of the Holy Crosse ('Looke vp, languishing Soul! Lo where the fair')
- CrR 191 f. 35r
  
  Copy, headed On Christs Wounds, subscribed Crashaw.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 99.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On the wounds of our crucified Lord ('O these wakefull wounds of thine!')
- WoH 98 f. 48r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
MS V.a.150

The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco.
c.1620s-30s.
With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
- ShW 1 item 1
  
  Copy of part of lines 41-2, here beginning Of monarkes hands y^t letts not bounty fall, partly erased.
  
  First published in Sonnets (London, 1609). The poem is discussed and attributed to John Davies (1565?-1618) of Hereford in Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge, 2007). The attribution disputed and debated in various subsequent letters to TLS (July-October 2007) and book reviews.
  
  William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint ('From off a hill whose concave womb reworded')
- RaW 192 item 2
  
  Extract.
  
  One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
MS V.a.152

Four octavo leaves removed fom the verse miscellany Folger MS V.a.97, bound in the order pp. 77-8, 83-4, 79-80 and 81-2, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards.
c.late 1630s.
- JnB 376 pp. 77-8
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons ode to himself.
  
  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
- StW 1409 pp. 79-80
  
  Copy, headed The Ode in Latine by M^r Stroude.
  
  First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
  
  William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. ('Scenam defere Musa nauseatam')
- RnT 417 pp. 81-2
  
  Copy, headed The same by Thomas Randolph.
  
  First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated ('Eho jam satis & super Theatro')
- RnT 29 pp. 83-4
  
  Copy, headed Randolphs answer to B: J: Ode.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
MS V.a.153

Copy of a 579-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title, here beginning I Sing thy sad dissaster (fatall king), on 193 quarto pages, in calf.
c.1628.
Balcarres at top of first page. Phillipps MS 9186.
- HuF 10
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.
  Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).
  
  Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')
MS V.a.159

An oblong octavo miscellany of chiefly music and verse, in several secretary hands, 136 leaves (including blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.
c.1559-1610.
Scribbled name (f. 22r) Sarah Scalther[?]. Sotheby's, 14 July 1887, lot 481. Formerly Folger MS 448.16.
- WyT 52 f. 4v
  
  Copy of the incipit in a musical setting for the lute.
  
  Edited from this MS and discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22, and in John H. Long, Blame not Wyatt's Lute, RN, 7 (1954), 127-30 (and see also Vol. 8 (1955), 12-14).
  
  Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.
  
  Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Blame not my lute, for he must sownd'
- SuH 32 f. 13r
  
  Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.
  
  This MS discussed in Mumford.
  
  First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 24, pp. 75-7. Jones, pp. 12-14.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'In winters iust returne, when Boreas gan his raigne'
MS V.a.160

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.
c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
- RaW 420 p. 1
  
  Copy of a six-line version, headed To his loue and here beginning There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue. The text followed by Her answere, beginning You bended have the bow.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- B&F 137 p. 2
  
  Copy, headed A Melancholy meditation, with the second stanza placed first (here beginning Welcome folded armes, and fixed eyes).
  
  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 725.3 p. 2
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the comett and here beginning A Starre of late was seene in virgoe's trayne.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- DrM 24 pp. 3-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- BmF 71 pp. 10-11
  
  Copy of lines 49-68, headed Vpon a dead M^rs. and here beginning Yee wormes my Riualls, whilst she was aliue.
  
  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')
- CwT 753 p. 14
  
  Copy, headed Of a fayre and vertuous Mistris. A Sonett.
  
  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')
- StW 25 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy, headed An answere of a Contrary M^rs. A sonnett.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.
  
  William Strode, Answere or Mock-song ('Ile tell you true wheron doth light')
- KiH 653 p. 15
  
  Copy, headed A sonnet against a Mistris, subscribed D^r. H: King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
- KiH 780 pp. 16-17
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
  
  Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
- StW 427 p. 18
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman that had the small pox.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- KiH 554 p. 18
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a weeping Gentlewoeman.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
- HeR 221 p. 22
  
  Copy, headed An Anthem by M^r. Herricke.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 342. Patrick, p. 454.
  
  Robert Herrick, To God: an Anthem, sung in the Chappell at White-Hall, before the King ('My God, I'm wounded by my sin')
- RnT 389 pp. 22-3
  
  Copy, headed Randolph on the losse of his little finger that was cut of.
  
  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')
- RaW 215 p. 23
  
  Copy, headed S^r. Walter Ralegh's prophecie of Cardes & Dice.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
  
  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')
- HeR 123 pp. 23-5
  
  Copy, headed Herrick's farewell 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')
- RnT 560 pp. 25-6
  
  Copy, headed A Lamentation On the conflagration of the Muses habitation The burning of an Accidence.
  
  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')
- DkT 2 pp. 26-35
  
  Copy, preceded by a dedicatory epistle to The iudiciouslie Learned and Excellent Latine Poett...M^r Symon English Counsellor at Law, subscribed Tho: Dekker.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hoeniger.
  
  First published in F. David Hoeniger, Thomas Dekker, the Restoration of St. Paul's and J.P. Collier, the Forger, Renaissance News, 16 (1963), 181-200 (pp. 194-200).
  
  Thomas Dekker, Paul his Temple triumphant ('O Troynouant (my mother) whoe hast tolld')
- DkT 1 pp. 35-6
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Decker.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hoeniger.
  
  First published in F. David Hoeniger, Thomas Dekker, the Restoration of St. Paul's and J.P. Collier, the Forger, Rennaisance News, 16 (1963), 181-200 (pp. 193-4).
  
  Thomas Dekker, A new Ballad of y^e dauncing on y^e ropes to y^e tune of a rich Merchant man, &c ('I sing of a wonder strange')
- RnT 228 pp. 39-41
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the fall of the Miter tauerne in Cambridge.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- RnT 196 pp. 47-50
  
  Copy, headed Randolph's paying his creditours.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
- KiH 124 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, headed Vpon his choice.
  
  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?')
- ToA 58 pp. 51-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
- CaW 26 pp. 54-5
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.
  
  William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood ('Is there a Sanctity in Love begun')
- KiH 391 pp. 64-6
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
  
  Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
- RnT 461 pp. 66-70
  
  Copy, headed Vpon A Cock-fighting.
  
  (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')
- BmF 150.89 pp. 70-3
  
  Copy, headed Vpon Sack.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack ('Listen all I you pray')
- SuJ 205 pp. 76-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
  
  John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
- SuJ 224 pp. 77-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
  
  John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
- HoJ 72 pp. 79-85
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the fart that was let in the Parliament house.
  
  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')
- SuJ 153.8 pp. 89-90
  
  Copy, headed Written by one to his freind that woed a widow, to whome he had foermerly bin a Suitor when she was a maide.
  
  Collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 155-6.
  
  John Suckling, A Letter to a Friend to diswade him from marrying a Widow which he formerly had been in Love with, and quitted
- RnT 516 pp. 90-1
  
  Copy, ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay.
  
  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')
- DeJ 33 pp. 94-5
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on the Death of Judge Crooke. by M^r. Denham.
  
  This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 48.
  
  First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
  
  Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
- DeJ 13 pp. 95-107
  
  Copy of a 340-line version, beginning Sure we have Poetts that did never dreame, as written by M^r. Denham to M^r. Waller.
  
  Edited from this MS (as Draft II) in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 (and collated and described pp. 48-51).
  
  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')
MS V.a.161

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in a secretary hand, largely written in oblong format, 36 pages (including blanks), in vellum wrappers (a recycled medieval religious text).
Early 17th century.
Formerly among the manuscripts of the Isham family at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.
- TiC 31 pp. 12-13
  
  Copy, written in oblong format, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Richard Barnfield, The Complete Poems, ed. George Klawitter (London & Toronto, 1990), p. 189. Recorded in Hirsch.
  
  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')
- KyT 1 pp. 13-14
  
  Copy, written in oblong format, headed Answer.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1876), pp. 211-12.
  
  First published in Verses of Prayse and Ioye (London, 1586). Boas, pp. 340-1. Probably not by Kyd.
  
  Thomas Kyd, Hendecasyllabon T.K. in Cygneam Cantionam Chidiochi Tychborne ('Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults')
- BaR 8 pp. 16-17
  
  Copy, subscribed Richard Barnfield.
  
  Edited from this MS in Grosart (where it is mistakenly described as autograph), with a facsimile on p. 198. Edited in Klawitter. Discussed in Morris, pp. 142-3.
  
  First published as a dedicatory epistle to The Encomion of Lady Pecunia (London, 1605). Grosart, pp. 214-15. Arber, p. 84. Klawitter, p. 190.
  
  Richard Barnfield, To the right Wor Sir John Spenser Knighte Alderman of the honnorable Citty of London and lorde treasurer of Lady pecunia ('Led by the swifte reporte of winged fame')
- JnB 144 pp. 20-1
  
  Copy, headed Epitaphium.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, ed. A. B. Grosart (London, 1876), pp. 217-18.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel ('Weepe with me all you that read')
MS V.a.162

A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco.
Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.
- HrJ 67 f. 1v
  
  Copy, untitled, imperfect, half a page torn away.
  
  First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.
  
  Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
- BcF 30 ff. 5r-v
  
  Copy, headed Humaine life characted.
  
  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'
- HyT 1 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed Of Lucrece.
  
  First published in Pleasant Dialogves and Dramma's (London, 1637), p. 268.
  
  Thomas Heywood, Of Lucrece ('If to thy bed the adulterer welcome came')
- DnJ 1653 f. 11v
  
  Copy of lines 1-9.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
  
  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
- HrG 13 f. 12v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.
  
  George Herbert, The Altar ('A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares')
- ShW 24 f. 12v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet.
  
  This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (as his sonnet 75).
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71 ('No longer mourn for me when I am dead')
- B&F 23 f. 20r
  
  Copy of the song, untitled.
  
  Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
- RnT 8.3 f. 20r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Deere doe not your faire bewty wronge.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1234 ff. 20v-1r
  
  Copy of lines 1-54, headed A Expostulation.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
  
  John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
- SuJ 116 f. 23v
  
  Copy, headed S^r John Suckling verses. The text followed (ff. 23v-4) by The Answ[er]:.
  
  Edited from this MS in A. D[yce], Inedited Song by Sir John Suckling, N&Q, 1st Ser. 1 (December 1849), 72. Collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.
  Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can')
- DnJ 2929 f. 25v
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DrM 44 f. 26r
  
  Copy, headed Idea.
  
  First published, as sonnet 8, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313 (sonnet 5).
  
  Michael Drayton, 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'
- ShW 21 f. 26r
  
  Copy, headed A sonnet.
  
  This MS collated in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 32 ('If thou survive my well-contented day')
- TiC 32 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed Tichbornes Elegy in y^e tower befors execution.
  
  This MS text collated in Hirsch.
  
  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')
- RaW 261 f. 32r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- JnB 594 f. 32v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- HrJ 280 f. 32v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning You wish mee to a wife, rich, fare, & younge.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- DnJ 160 f. 33r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning If Hammon in his study hath such care.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.
  
  John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
- HrJ 224 f. 34r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning An honest Vicar ridinge 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')
- HrJ 62 f. 34r
  
  Copy, headed Vt caseus liber and here beginning Heywood affirmes & prooues 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')
- RaW 407 f. 35r
  
  Copy, headed On my Lord Carre.
  
  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'
- GrF 41 f. 35v
  
  Copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason is like the basiliscus eye.
  
  Bullough, II, 118.
  
  Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
- HrJ 267 f. 35v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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?')
- CoR 382 f. 36r
  
  Copy, headed One wrote in his loues absence on her lute.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1742 f. 37r
  
  Copy, headed On a Begger and here beginning The begger cannott goe, nor stand hee cryes.
  
  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')
- RaW 421 f. 37r
  
  Copy, headed On the lady Bendbow.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- DyE 86 f. 37r
  
  Copy, headed A Louers conceipt.
  
  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'
- CoR 756 f. 38r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift')
- RaW 318 f. 38v
  
  Copy of lines 1-12, headed S^r: Walter Rawley to his sonne.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 140.
  
  First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne ('Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace')
- HoJ 329 f. 39r
  
  Copy, headed M^r. Poulden's delight of N: Coll. in Oxon[i.e. ascribed to Robert Polden, who matriculated at New College, Oxford, 14 October 1597], here beginning O Loue whose force & might.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- GrJ 91 f. 45r-v
  
  Copy, headed On deformity.
  
  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'
- DnJ 2351 f. 49r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman whom the author taught to loue & complem^t.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- JnB 640 f. 51r-v
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson on the Peake.
  
  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')
- HoJ 243 f. 56r
  
  Copy, following the Latin version, which is headed M^r: Hoskins to his sonne.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- B&F 41 f. 56r
  
  Copy, headed The coniuringe of y^e witch.
  
  Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Society (London, 1842), p. 69; recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 150.
  
  First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 211-304 (pp. 296-8). Bullen, IV, 435-531, ed. E.K. Chambers (pp. 524-5). Bowers, IV, 550-629, ed. George Walton Williams (pp. 621-2).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Chances, V, iii, 92-119. Song ('Come away, thou lady gay!')
- JnB 262 f. 58r
  
  Copy of a version headed A grace said before y^e king by his Jester and beginning The Kinge and eke y^e Queene God blesse.
  
  First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
- HoJ 183 f. 59v
  
  Copy, headed Hoskins on M^r Permenter at the Chancery in L:.
  
  Osborn, p. 211.
  
  John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one M^r Permenter at the Chancerye in London ('M^r Permentor stands at y^e Cent^er')
- CoR 43 ff. 60r-2r
  
  Copy, headed March. 7. anno Dni. 1625. A Graue Poem as it was praesented by diuers sheepesheads before his Maiesty in Cambridge.
  
  A copy of An answere to this poem is on ff. 70r-1v.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
  Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- RaW 349 f. 64r
  
  Copy, headed Rawleys reply on Noel, directly following On S^r Walter Rawley, by one Noel.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 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'
- RaW 216 f. 65v
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
  
  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')
- HrJ 164.5 f. 65v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning A curate & a Cobler longe disputed.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat ('A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed')
- DnJ 310 f. 66r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DnJ 1979 f. 66v
  
  Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
  
  John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
- CoR 359 ff. 66v-8r
  
  Copy, headed D^r: Corbett: on the Princes & Duke of Buckingham goinge into Spayne.
  
  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')
- CoR 554.5 ff. 76v-7v
  
  Copy, headed The Fayries farwell.
  
  First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
  
  Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will ('Farewell, Rewards & Faeries')
- WoH 99 f. 79r-v
  
  Copy of a version headed On the Spanish Lady w^ch the prince should marry and beginning You meaner beauty to the sight.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1915 f. 79v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
  
  John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
- MrJ 70 f. 80r
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
- DrM 25 ff. 80v-1r
  
  Copy, headed On a man vppon himselfe that made this beeinge in loue.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
  
  Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
- StW 809 f. 81r
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Corbett, on a faire Gentlewoman walking by when it snow'd and here beginning As I saw Clora 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')
- BrW 167 f. 81v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- CoR 448 f. 82r-v
  
  Copy, headed Tom of Christchurch newly cast.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.
  
  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')
- DkT 21 f. 83r
  
  Copy, with partly cropped heading Uppon the remoove of Queene Elizabeth…Whitehall by Water.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1890 f. 83r
  
  Copy, headed De Caluo.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- DaJ 196 f. 83r
  
  Copy, headed one a child y^t died as soone as it was borne and here beginning As carefull nurses doe their infants 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')
- BrW 8.5 f. 83v
  
  Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed M^r. Browne on his mistresse and here beginning Nature hath wrought a gemme beyond compare.
  
  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
- PoW 91 f. 83v
  
  Copy, headed On King James his death.
  
  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')
- StW 329 f. 84r
  
  Copy, here beginning Noe fiter match could e're haue beene.
  
  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')
- EaJ 53 f. 85r-v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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 526 f. 85v
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett B^p. of Ox: on y^e Prince's birth.
  
  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')
- HoJ 133 f. 86r
  
  Copy, headed On a fart in y^e Parliam^t house.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- StW 500 f. 87r-v
  
  Copy, the heading cropped.
  
  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 725.5 f. 88v
  
  Copy, headed On a Blazing starre, subscribed R. C.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- HoJ 11 f. 88v
  
  Copy, headed On a Lockesmith.
  
  Whitlock, p. 108.
  
  John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
- StW 1029 f. 88v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- MoG 25 f. 89r
  
  Copy, the heading cropped by a binder.
  
  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')
- StW 690 f. 89r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- StW 1324 f. 89v
  
  Copy, the heading cropped.
  
  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')
- RaW 120 f. 89v
  
  Copy, headed A Fancy.
  
  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')
- CoR 509 f. 90r
  
  Copy, the heading cropped by a binder.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1109 f. 90r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Death of M^rs Boulsted, incomplete.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
  
  John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
- JnB 289 f. 90r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- BrW 146 f. 90v
  
  Copy, the heading largely cropped by a binder.
  
  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')
- StW 1381 f. 90v
  
  Copy, headed A Blush.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
- CwT 1250.3 ff. 91v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- SiP 158 ff. 95r-6v
  
  Copy, headed In prayse of bewty, transcribed from a printed source.
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560, and in Robertson, p. 459.
  
  Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 ('What toong can her perfections tell')
MS V.a.164

A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards.
Early 17th century.
- EsR 233 ff. 23r-33r
  
  Copy of the 8 February arraignment, headed The manner of the proceedings of Robert Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southampton, with their Arreignement...Written by Francis ap. Rice, and by him aproued of.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
- EsR 234 ff. 35r-78v
  
  Copy.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
- EsR 298 ff. 86v-9r
  
  Copy, headed The manner of Robert Ea: of Ess: his / The manner of Robert Earle of Essex his execution.
  
  Facsimile of ff. 86v-7r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 70.
  
  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 53.5 ff. 134r-44r
  
  Copy, headed A repentant Poem made by Robert Earle of Essex while he was Prisonner in the Tower. 1601.
  
  This MS partly collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Collated in May, pp. 125-7.
  
  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')
MS V.a.169

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf.
c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) M^r John Oldhams Booke [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
- MrC 12 Part II, f. 2r-v
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed The milkemaids song, apparently transcribed from Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1653).
  
  This MS collated in Bowers.
  
  First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.
  
  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
- RaW 193 Part II, f. 2v-3r
  
  Copy, headed The milke maids mothers answer.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112.
  
  One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
- DnJ 319 Part II, f. 3r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded 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')
- WoH 217 Part II, f. 4r-5r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations ('Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares')
- WoH 240 Part II, ff. 6r-7r
  
  Copy, here ascribed to D^r Don.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- CwT 912 Part II, f. 7r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- RaW 184 Part II, f. 10v
  
  Copy, here beginning Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure.
  
  This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
  
  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
- CwT 754 Part II, f. 11r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Aske me no more where Jove bestowes
  
  This MS collated in P.F. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18 (p. 516).
  
  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')
- CmT 111 Part II, f. 11v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
- HeR 155 Part II, f. 15r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Amidst the mirtles as I walk.
  
  First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')
- GrJ 54 Part II, ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. 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'
- WoH 100 Part II, f. 16r
  
  Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, deleted.
  
  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')
- HeR 218 Part II, f. 17r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 108-9. Patrick, pp. 149-50. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, To Anthea, who may command him any thing ('Bid me to live, and I will live')
- WaE 434 Part II, ff. 17v-18r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
  
  Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
- WoH 101 Part II, f. 19v
  
  Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.
  
  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')
- HaW 49 Part II, f. 20r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.
  
  William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act ('Fine, young folly, though you were')
- SuJ 132 Part II, f. 26r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Clayton.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.
  Probably written by Henry Hughes.
  
  John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
- HeR 38 Part II, ff. 27v-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')
- CwT 1180 Part II, f. 28v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning No more blind Boy for see my heart.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
- HeR 288 Part II, f. 29v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Willow Garland ('A Willow Garland thou did'st send')
- StW 810 Part II, f. 32r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- ClJ 169 Part II, f. 40r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J: Cleveland.
  
  Morris & Withington, pp. 71-2.
  
  John Cleveland, To his Mistress ('Fetch me an Occulist for the Sunne')
- BrW 168 Part II, f. 44v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Boy drowned 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')
MS V.a.170

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
- CoR 658 p. 13
  
  Copy of the last four lines, here beginning Not Tigresse like, shee feeds vpon a Man:, under a running head R: C: on M^ris. Mallet, imperfect, lacking the rest.
  
  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')
- CoR 252 pp. 13-14
  
  Copy, headed R:C: on D^r. Price his Aniversary on Prince Henry.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.
  
  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')
- CoR 231 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy, headed R: C: againe, 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')
- PoW 40 pp. 16-18
  
  Copy, headed W: P: on M^ris Poole.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS W).
  
  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'
- DnJ 1508 p. 20
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, headed R.C: on his wives 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')
- StW 558.5 p. 21
  
  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')
- StW 312 p. 21
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- StW 880 p. 22
  
  Copy, under a general heading W: S: Sonnets.
  
  Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- StW 732 pp. 22-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
- StW 712 pp. 23-5
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS 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')
- StW 1001 pp. 25-6
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet. W: S.
  
  Text from this MS in Forey.
  
  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 913 pp. 26-7
  
  Copy, headed A Song. W: S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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 1359 p. 27
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet. W: S:.
  
  Printed from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.
  
  First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('Sing aloud, harmonious sphears')
- B&F 181 p. 27
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet. W: S.
  
  Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
- StW 370 p. 28
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet. W: S..
  
  This MS collated and the text of lines 1-8 from this MS 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')
- B&F 138 p. 29
  
  Copy, headed Melancholly. WS.
  
  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')
- WeJ 9 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Come, lett vs howle some heavy Note.
  
  Cambridge edition, I, 541.
  
  John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, IV, ii, 61-72. Song ('O let us howle, some heavy note')
- JnB 25 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy of lines 21-30, headed A Sonnet and here beginning Have you seene the white Lilly grow.
  
  This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  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')
- PeW 279 pp. 31-2
  
  Copy, under a running head A Sonnet. W S.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
- StW 974 pp. 32-3
  
  Copy, headed A Song W: S..
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  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 724 p. 33
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping')
- StW 894 pp. 33-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
  
  William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')
- StW 168 pp. 34-5
  
  Copy, headed On Musicke. W: S. and here beginning When whispring streams with creeping wind.
  
  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')
- CwT 480 pp. 35-8
  
  Copy, under a running head T:C: on the Letters &c.
  
  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')
- DaJ 197 p. 38
  
  Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As carefull Mothers will to bedde soone 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')
- StW 617 p. 42
  
  Copy, headed On the picture, Of two Dolphins, in a Fount. and here beginning These dolphins twisting each on either side.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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 1119 p. 42
  
  Text in part from this MS 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 201 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy, headed On Justification. W: S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
  
  William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
- CwT 1265.5 p. 43
  
  Copy, headed M^r. Lewis, to his Love.
  
  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')
- WoH 102 p. 43
  
  Copy, headed On Q: Anne. By S^r. H: W..
  
  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')
- RaW 262 p. 44
  
  Copy of a variant version, headed On Man, here beginning What is our Life, but a play of derision and ascribed in a running head to W: S..
  
  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')
- StW 385 p. 45
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink T.C.
  
  Text from this MS in Forey.
  
  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 1298 pp. 45-6
  
  Copy, headed A Lover, to his M^ris. WS..
  
  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 1224 p. 46
  
  Copy of the second couplet, here beginning my stringes can doe, what no man could, inscribed in a different ink 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')
- KiH 73 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy, headed The faire Boyes 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')
- StW 844 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy, headed A song. W: S.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- StW 759 p. 48
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in the snow. W: S.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- BrW 131 pp. 48-9
  
  Copy, headed On a yong Gentlewoman, that dyed.
  
  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')
- RaW 466 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed A lady to D^r. Donne.
  
  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 1343 p. 49
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  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')
- StW 542 pp. 49-51
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- BrW 209 pp. 51-2
  
  Copy, headed On the Countess of Pembroke.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- CwT 284.5 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on a Flie. T: C:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- CoR 502 pp. 55-6
  
  Copy, headed On M^r. Rice Manciple of Ch: Ch:.
  
  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')
- StW 10 p. 56
  
  Copy, headed On a Register for a Bible.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
- StW 698 p. 56
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
- DnJ 88 pp. 57-9
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Donne: vpon Flavia.
  
  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')
- StW 453 pp. 59-60
  
  Copy, headed On a good Legge & foot. W: S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- StW 1075 pp. 60-1
  
  Copy, headed W: S: To a Friend and here beginning Like to the hande which hath bin usde to play.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- MoG 26 pp. 61-2
  
  Copy, headed On the death of K: James. G: M.
  
  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')
- StW 1249 pp. 62-3
  
  Copy, headed With Penne, Inke, and Paper: to a distressed Friend. W: S.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.
  
  William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. ('Here is paper, pen and Inke')
- StW 274 pp. 63-4
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewomans blistred Lip. W: S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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 1133 p. 64
  
  Copy, headed W: S: To his Sister.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.
  
  William Strode, To his Sister ('Lovinge Sister, every line')
- StW 582 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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')
- CoR 477 pp. 66-7
  
  Copy, inscribed 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')
- JnB 661 pp. 67-68bis
  
  Copy, headed To K: James B: J.
  
  Either this MS or JnB 662 probably the Dobell MS recorded in Greg, p. 10.
  
  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')
- HoJ 134 p. 68bis
  
  Copy, headed On a Farte lett in the Parlm^t house.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- MoG 96 pp. 70-1
  
  Copy, headed On the crowne of a Hatt dranke in. G: M.
  
  George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
- StW 1060 pp. 71-2
  
  Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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')
- CoR 210 pp. 72-6
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Hammond, Parson of Bewdly: for the beating down of the Maypole.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 130.
  
  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')
- JnB 290 p. 76
  
  Copy, headed On An Houreglasse.
  
  This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- StW 1094 pp. 76-8
  
  Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman, for a Friend. W:S..
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- MoG 66 pp. 78-9
  
  Copy, headed On a Nightingale. G: M.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- HoJ 12 p. 79
  
  Copy.
  
  Whitlock, p. 108.
  
  John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
- StW 559 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink W. S.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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')
- StW 518 pp. 81-5
  
  Copy of the sequence, headed On the same. M: M: P.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell and 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')
- CoR 169 pp. 85-6
  
  Copy, headed On D^r. Ravis Bish^pp of London. R:C., imperfect, lacking the ending on excised pp. 87-8.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3210 p. 89
  
  Copy of lines 39-48, under the running head D^r. Donne: to his M^ris, here beginning Like pictures, or like gay bookes Coverings, made, imperfect, lacking the beginning on excised pp. 87-8.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- StW 1353 p. 89
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  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 417 p. 90
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman, that had the small poxe, subscribed W: S:.
  
  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 627 p. 90
  
  Copy, headed On the death of a Twin: W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
  
  William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
- StW 601 pp. 91-2
  
  Copy, headed On the young Baronett Portman, dying of an Impostume in's head, subscribed W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.
  
  William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
- StW 681 pp. 92-3
  
  Copy, headed On a Purse-string. W: S.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- StW 1160 pp. 93-4
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers ('Gold is restorative. How can I then')
- StW 1177 pp. 94-6
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 90-2. Forey, pp. 202-4.
  
  William Strode, To the Same [Sir Jo. Ferrers] ('If empty Vessells can resounde')
- StW 1167 p. 97
  
  Copy, headed To S^r Jo: Ferrers. W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.
  
  William Strode, To Sir John Ferrers for a token ('It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne')
- StW 1156 pp. 97-8
  
  Copy, inscribed W. S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Edmund Ling ('Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare')
- StW 1174 pp. 98-100
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated, and the text of lines 1-20 taken from this MS, in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.
  
  William Strode, To the Lady Knighton ('Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast')
- WoH 103 pp. 100-1
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Vpon the La: Elizabeth: By S^r. H: Wootton and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.
  
  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')
- CoR 717 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett: on the blazing starre.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- RnT 517 pp. 101-2
  
  Copy, subscribed B. J.
  
  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')
- StW 131 pp. 103-4
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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 595 pp. 104-6
  
  Copy, inscribed W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar ('Though death to good men be the greatest boone')
- CoR 285 pp. 106-26
  
  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')
- EaJ 67 pp. 127-53
  
  Copy, inscribed Jo: Earls:.
  
  This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 118. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, Thorn-Drury e. 26 (end leaves).
  
  Unpublished.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Satyra Itineraria ('Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura')
- CoR 693 pp. 153-4
  
  Copy, headed On Farford windowes: D^r. Corbett.
  
  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 490 pp. 154-7
  
  Copy, headed On Farford windowes. W: S:.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  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 427 pp. 157-8
  
  Copy, headed On Tom of Christchurch. J: Warm. &c.
  
  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')
- CaW 65 pp. 158-9
  
  Copy, as by W:C.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 570-1.
  
  William Cartwright, On the Prince Charles death. W.C. ('Tis vayne to weepe; or in a riming spite')
- JnB 175 pp. 159-60
  
  Copy, headed The Body: Ben, Johnson.
  
  This MS probably the Dobell MS II 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 213 pp. 160-3
  
  Copy, under the running head The Minde. B: J.
  
  This MS probably the Dobell 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')
- ShW 13 pp. 163-4
  
  Copy, headed To one that would dye a Mayd.
  
  Printed from this MS in Bertram Dobell, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112, and in Alden, p. 22; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (e).
  
  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')
- HeR 279 pp. 164-7
  
  Copy, headed M^r 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')
- StW 932 pp. 170-1
  
  Copy, as by W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- StW 950 pp. 171-4
  
  Copy, headed The Capps: W: S..
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- RaW 467 p. 175
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue. J D.
  
  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 1120 p. 175
  
  Copy, as by W: S:.
  
  Text in part from this MS 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 668 p. 175
  
  Copy of the third stanza, headed A Posee vpon a sent Bracelet and here beginning Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee.
  
  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')
- StW 148 pp. 175-6
  
  Copy of the first two couplets, headed Vpon a Girdle.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
- StW 1047 p. 176
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- AlW 158 p. 177
  
  Copy, headed De Doctoribus Reynolds; qui contrariæ inter se opinionis, alter in alterius fecessit partem, inscribed at the side D^r. Alabasster.
  
  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')
- KiH 451 pp. 177-8
  
  Copy, untitled, under a running head D^r. Jo: King &c.
  
  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')
- CoR 515 p. 178
  
  Copy, headed On the Birth of Prince Charles. 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')
- RnT 168 pp. 178-9
  
  Copy, untitled, following the Latin version which is headed In Eundem &c: T: R:.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')
- MyJ 23 pp. 179-82
  
  Copy, headed On Pictures, in M^ris. An: Kings booke, inscribed at the side in another hand Jasp: Maine.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- StW 215 pp. 182-4
  
  Copy, headed A Letter: W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell.
  
  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 651 p. 184
  
  Copy, headed W: S: Opposite to Melancolly.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- JnB 377 pp. 184-7
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons ode to himselfe.
  
  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
- RnT 30 pp. 187-90
  
  Copy, headed An Answere to the Ode: T: R:.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
- CwT 1033 pp. 190-2
  
  Copy, headed T: C: to B. J: & his ode.
  
  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')
- RnT 418 pp. 192-4
  
  Copy, headed T: R: Translation of the Ode.
  
  First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated ('Eho jam satis & super Theatro')
- StW 1410 pp. 194-7
  
  Copy, headed W:S: translation of the ode.
  
  This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 270, and in Forey.
  
  First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
  
  William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. ('Scenam defere Musa nauseatam')
- BmF 106 pp. 197-200
  
  Copy, headed F: B. to B: J.
  
  This MS probably the Bertram Dobell 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')
- DnJ 407 pp. 200-3
  
  Copy, headed On the losse of a gold chaine: J: D:.
  
  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 753 pp. 203-4
  
  Copy, as by R: C.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift')
- CwT 1096 pp. 204-5
  
  Copy, headed To his absent M^ris. 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 1206 pp. 205-6
  
  Copy, headed On a Riband. T: C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- HrG 322 pp. 206-10
  
  Copy of a version headed Inventæ Bellica, here beginning O Martis longæva fames! venterque perennis!, subscribed T: May.
  
  First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.
  
  George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis ('O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!')
- DnJ 1877 pp. 210-13
  
  Copy, headed A Letter to the La: Carew, her Sister: J: D.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 3855 pp. 213-14
  
  Copy, headed A Valediction: J: D:.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
- DnJ 1378 pp. 214-15
  
  Copy, as by J: D:.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- BrW 94 pp. 215-16
  
  Copy, headed On a mother dying in child bedd.
  
  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')
- CoR 131 pp. 216-20
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the lady Haddington, dying of the small poxe. 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 294 pp. 220-1
  
  Copy, headed On the death of Rich: Earle of Dorsett: R:C:.
  
  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')
- StW 482 pp. 221-2
  
  Copy, as by W: S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell and 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')
- CoR 83 pp. 222-4
  
  Copy, headed D^r. C: Vpon his Father.
  
  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')
- JnB 139 pp. 224-6
  
  Copy, headed Vpon D^r. C: father: B: J: and here beginning I hope my piety too, which could.
  
  This MS probably the Dobell 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')
- StW 570 pp. 226-8
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side in different ink W S.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
- StW 351 pp. 228-9
  
  Copy, as by W:S:.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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 232 pp. 229-30
  
  Copy, headed For a Gentleman, under a running head For a Friend: W: S:.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
  
  William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')
- StW 1239 pp. 230-4
  
  Copy, headed On a great hollow Tree. W:S:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated, and text of lines 85-96 from this MS, in Forey.
  
  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 639 pp. 234-5
  
  Copy, as by W: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3760 pp. 241-2
  
  Copy, headed To his Love, at a departure, with The compass. J.D. added in a later hand, and here beginning As virtuous Man passe mild away.
  
  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')
- CoR 319 pp. 242-4
  
  Copy, headed A Letter of D^r. Corbett's, to Mr. Alisbury.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.
  
  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')
MS V.a.177

Copy, in a secretary hand, on twelve quarto leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1600.
- EsR 127
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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
MS V.a.180

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties.

Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January 1655 and 20^th. of Aug^t: 1663.
c.1655-63.
- MiG 6 ff. 7v-10v
  
  Copy of a letter of advice, beginning My deare child Mildmay Fane I y^r louinge & olde Grandmother Exhort you... and subscribed Your loving Grandmother Grace Mildmay.
  
  Text of this letter in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 42-4. Discussed in Susan E. Hrach, Heare Councill and Receiue Instructions: Situating the Mother's Legacy in Manuscript, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006). pp. 207-15.
  
  Grace, Lady Mildmay, Letter(s)
- EsR 170 ff. 18v-24v
  
  Copy, untitled., subscribed Jan: 4: H: S:.
  
  The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....
  First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
  Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
- SuJ 100 f. 78r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton and described p. 296.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton p. 93.
  
  John Suckling, Foreknowledge Englished thus ('If man might know')
- CoA 285 f. 96v
  
  Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
- JnB 393 f. 97r
  
  Copy of lines 7-8, headed Ben: Johnson seeing a Fantasticall man new come from beyond the sea said, here beginning Hee is French soe much.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.
  
  Ben Jonson, On English Mounsievr ('Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see')
MS V.a.192

A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound.
c.1640s.
- WaE 792 Part I, ff. 15r-22r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Wallar speech in Pliament 1640.
  
  Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
  
  A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.
  
  Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
- BcF 478 Part I, ff. 108r-11r
  
  Copy of Bacon's submission 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
- DaW 21 Part II, f. 2r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- HoJ 224 Part II, f. 7r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e Goute or goe out feelinge.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
  
  John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
- SuJ 20 ff. 15r-17r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
  
  John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
MS V.a.198

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose tracts, in several secretary and italic hands, 33 leaves, with early 19th-century interleaving throughout, in old calf.

Haslewood-Phillipps MS 9613.
- SoR 267.4 ff. 30r-44v
  
  Copy, in a possibly professional secretary hand, untitled.
  
  First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

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