Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299

  • MS V.a.206

    An octavo volume of speeches by Bacon, in at least three professionalsecretary hands, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, with ties.

    c.1640.

    Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Myers sale catalogue, undated, item 65 (illustrating a page of the speech of 7 May 1617). Formerly Folger MS 471027.

    • BcF 374
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS V.a.208

    MS, partly in a scribal hand, partly in the hand of William Lambarde, with his deletions and revisions, on 24 quarto leaves plus four tipped-in leaves at the end, in contemporary vellum.

    1590.
    • BcF 739
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

  • MS V.a.214

    An octavo volume of Catholic devotional meditations in Latin, in a single small secretary hand, 239 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of ties.

    Compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in Louvain.

    c.1614.

    Phillipps MS 2599.

    • SoR 341 ff. [1r-20r]

      Copy, with a title-page, the work here ascribed to B. P. Ca. Roberti Sotuuellj. mart.

      Unpublished.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes
    • SoR 333 ff. [157r-239v]

      Copy, with a title-page Exercitia & Deuotiones R. P. Roberti Sotwellj Soctis Iesu Martyris In Anglia.

      Formerly in the Phillipps collection; this MS recorded in de Buck, pp. 14-15 (but not seen by him). See also SoR 341.

      First published in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Exercitia et Devotiones

  • MS V.a.219

    A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum.

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed inside the front cover F. C. Wellstood / Oxford. Inscribed (f. 35r) W. C. 1789.

    • RnT 590 ff. 18r-25v

      Sixty-two numbered extracts, headed The Poems of Thom: Randolph Gentl: Master of Arts and Letters of Trinitie Coll. in Cambridge.

      Thomas Randolph, Extracts
    • FeO 43 f. 25v

      A six-line extract, No. 5 in a series of 45 extracts (on ff. 25v-9r) Out of the poems written vpon Thom: Rand:.

      Owen Felltham, On his beloved friend the Author, and his ingenious Poems ('What need these busy wits? who hath a Mine')
    • WaE 914 ff. 29r-32v

      Forty-five extracts from the Poems of Ed: Waller of Beckonsfeild Esquire.

      Edmund Waller, Extracts
    • JnB 499 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 13-16, untitled and here beginning They, though few / Bee of the best: and 'mongst those, best are you, as No. 1 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Epigrammes (xciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 60-1.

      Ben Jonson, To Lvcy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres ('Lvcy, you brightnesse of our spheare, who are')
    • JnB 510 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 25-36, untitled and here beginning Although to write bee lesser then to doe, as No. 2 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile ('If, my religion safe, I durst embrace')
    • JnB 506 f. 33r

      Copy, as No. 3 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems

      First published in Epigrammes (lxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 47.

      Ben Jonson, To Robert Earl of Salisbvrie ('Who can consider thy right courses run')
    • JnB 410 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 19-20, untitled and here beginning What is't soe swels each lim?, as No. 4 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Epigrammes (xcvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62-3.

      Ben Jonson, On the new Motion ('See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding')
    • JnB 516 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 3-6, 9-12, untitled and here beginning Hee that is round within himselfe, and streight, as No. 5 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems

      First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe ('Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too')
    • JnB 553 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 9-12, untitled and here beginning They follow vertue for reward to dayas No. 6 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

      Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke ('I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find')
    • JnB 518 f. 33r

      Copy of lines 1-8, as No. 7 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Epigrammes (ciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67.

      Ben Jonson, To Svsan Covntesse of Montgomery ('Were they that nam'd you, prophets? Did they see')
    • JnB 97 ff. 33v-4r

      Copy of lines 1-6, 26-32, 43-52, 121-4, 71-2, 77-80, untitled, as Nos 8-12 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in The Forrest (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 116-20.

      Ben Jonson, Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Avbigny (''Tis growne almost a danger to speake true')
    • JnB 147 f. 34r-v

      Copy of lines 1-4, 55-62, 65-74, 91-103, 115-16, untitled, as Nos13-17 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

      Ben Jonson, Epode ('Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state')
    • JnB 95 f. 34v

      Copy of lines 65-7, 35-6, untitled and here beginning You, and that other starre, that purest light, as Nos 18-19 in a series of extracts from Ben: Johnson his poems.

      First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.

      Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland ('Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold')
    • GrF 41.5 f. 52r

      Copy of the couplet, here beginning Mischeife is like the Cocatrices Eyes.

      Bullough, II, 118.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')

  • MS V.a.220

    A quarto miscellany of poems and plays, in probably three hands, written from both ends (Part I: paginated 1-15, 1-108, 1-72, 1-21; Part II: pp. 1-45), 261 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed Charles Crompton / Non magna / loquimur, / sed virimus / 1667, whose large rounded hand is probably responsible for a number of headings in the volume.

    c.1667.

    Owned c.1872, by Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Bookplate of Henry Edward Bunbury. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (October 1896), item 53. Item 348 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly MS Add. 650.

    This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 241. Recorded, as of unknown whereabouts, in Clark, II, 965.

    • OrR 3 Part I, p. 13 (first pagination)

      Copy, headed This Song was made by The Lord Broghill and here beginning Reproach mee not though heertofore.

      36 lines, unpublished.

      Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, 'Reproach me not how heretofore'
    • OrR 29 Part I, pp. 15, 1-108 (second pagination)

      Copy, in an italic hand, with a title-page in Compton's hand These Two Playes Mustapha And Henry ye Fifth were made by the Lord Broghill Earl of Orery in Ireland; the next page with the title Mustapha written sideways; followed by the text of the play separately paginated 1-108, with a running head Mustapha.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

    • OrR 14 Part I, pp. 1-72 (third pagination)

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Henry the Fifth.

      First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

    • MaA 339 Part II, pp. 7-17

      Copy, with a title-page in Crompton's hand, as the Last Worke of Sr John Denham...1666.

      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')
    • CoA 92 Part II, pp. 18-25

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed The Garden, subscribed Abraham Cowley.

      First published in Poems upon Divers Occasions (London, 1647). Waller, II, 422-8. Sparrow, pp. 180-8.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Happy art Thou, whom God does bless'
    • MaA 376 Part II, pp. 30-45

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, with a title-page in Compton's hand, as written by Denham in 1666.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')

  • MS V.a.221

    A quarto volume of two tracts, in a professional cursive mixed hand, viii + 18 leaves, with three octavo leaves in another hand loosely inserted, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Bookplate of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), bibliographer, with his notes dated November 1897 when at Trinity College, Cambridge. Item 288 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

    • OvT 50 ff. 2r-11r

      Copy.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes
    • CtR 414 ff. 11v-17r

      Copy, headed A short view of the life of Henry the third, unascribed, incomplete.

      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
    • ClJ 253 pages tipped-in at the end

      Copy.

      Published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1653). Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 153-60.

      John Cleveland, A letter to a Friend, disswading him from his attempt to marry a Nunn

  • MS V.a.224

    Transcript of The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]), without the prefatory matter, in a single neat hand, 364 quarto pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1700.

    Bookplates of Johannes Winckley, of Preston, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bought in Calcutta in 1843 by Alexander Gardyne (1801-85), author. Sotheby's, 1889 (Gardyne sale), lot 0000. Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

    • DrJ 174 pp. 1-11, 21-39, 56-8, 126-44, 203-7

      Copy of Dryden's translation of Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis ('Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score')
    • CgW 2.5 pp. 145-58

      Copy.

      First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

      William Congreve, The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal ('If Noble Atticus makes plenteous Feasts')
    • CgW 46.5 pp. 2-3

      Copy, subscribed Will: Congreve.

      First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

      William Congreve, To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius ('As when of Old Heroique Story tells')
    • DrJ 177.5 pp. 4-71 (second pagination)

      Copy of Dryden's complete translation.

      First published in London, 1693. California, IV, 253-361.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus ('I never did on cleft Parnassus dream')

  • MS V.a.225

    Copy, in a professional hand, varying slightly in style, headed The State of Innocence or the Fall of Man, on 43 quarto pages, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.

    c.1674-7.

    Once owned by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956).

    • DrJ 290
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

      John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

  • MS V.a.226

    An octavo compilation of extracts from plays and poems, in a single italic hand, written on rectos only from both ends (the two sections, 48 leaves each, virtually identical), 96 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, remains of clasps.

    Late 17th century.

    Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

    • OrR 30 Part I, pp. 8-16

      Extracts.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

    • DrJ 267.5 Part I, pp. 22-4

      Extracts.

      Recorded in California, IX, 383, 408.

      First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
    • DeJ 123.2 Part I, pp. 23-39

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • DrJ 247.97 Part I, pp. 25-6

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1672. California, XI, 1-100, 101-218.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts
    • DrJ 255.2 Part I, pp. 26-8

      Extracts.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II
    • DrJ 247.7 Part I, pp. 29-32

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
    • LeN 10.5 Part I, pp. 40-3

      Extracts.

      By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.

      Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus
    • SdT 40 Part I, pp. 44-7

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

      Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater
    • DrJ 281.6 Part I, p. 48

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1664. California, VIII (1962), pp. 93-179.

      John Dryden, The Rival Ladies
    • OrR 31 Part II, pp. 10-11

      Extracts.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

    • DrJ 267.6 Part II, pp. 26-8

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
    • DrJ 247.98 Part II, pp. 29-32

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1672. California, XI, 1-100, 101-218.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts
    • DrJ 255.4 Part II, pp. 32-8

      Extracts.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II
    • DrJ 247.8 Part II, pp. 39-43

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
    • DeJ 123.5 Part II, p. 44

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • SdT 41 Part II, pp. 45-7

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

      Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater
    • DrJ 281.8 Part II, p. 48

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1664. California, VIII (1962), pp. 93-179.

      John Dryden, The Rival Ladies

  • MS V.a.231

    Copy of an early version, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, on 93 small quarto pages (plus two blanks with 19th-century annotations), in addition to a title-page A Game att Chesse dated August 13o, Anno Dni, 1624, cropped by a binder, in modern boards.

    Including the Induction but without an epilogue, with one annotation (p. 32) in Middleton's hand and with a few corrections, deletions and stage directions added in black ink probably also by Crane.

    1624.

    Inscribed (on title-page) Mervyn Archdall [i.e. The Rev. Mervyn Archdall (1723-91), of Dublin.

    This MS discussed in R.C. Bald, An Early Version of Middleton's Game at Chesse, MLR, 38 (1943), 177-80, and in Susan Zimmerman, The Folger Manuscripts of Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chesse: A Study in the Genealogy of Texts, PBSA, 76 (1982), 159-95. Recorded in Harper.

    Facsimile examples in James G. McManaway, The Authorship of Shakespeare, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theater (New York, 1969), 175-210 (p. 203); Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 92.

    • *MiT 18
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An early form in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a later form on pp. 1830-85.

      Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

  • MS V.a.232

    A quarto miscellany principally of English and Latin verse, drama, and jests, perhaps largely in a single hand, written from both ends, iv + 181 pages, in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester.

    c.1669.

    A pencil note (f. [iv]) refers to Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall.

    • WoH 190.2 Part I, p. 36

      Copy, headed On one who died the next day after his wife, here beginning She first deceased, he after liv'd and tried.

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

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • CoA 23 Part I, pp. 37-8

      Copy, untitled.

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

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

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • StW 1284 Part I, p. 38

      Copy, untitled.

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

      William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
    • ShJ 158 Part I, p. 62

      Copy of the dirge, untitled, subscribed by James Shirley.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • MaA 72.8 Part I, pp. 98-100

      Copy, partly in double columns, headed The Chequer Inne.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')

  • MS V.a.234

    Copy of a 585-stanza version, here beginning I sing the sad disaster fatall king, in a probably professional cursive secretary hand, headed in a different secretary hand The history of the troublesome Raigne of King Edward the second...1626, subscribed Finis Infortunio, 72 quarto leaves, in modern boards.

    c.1626.

    Phillipps MS 23893. Inscribed (free front endpaper) Grenville C. Cunningham, 11th Nov. 1910. Formerly Folger MS 5519.

    • HuF 11
      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.239

    A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties.

    c.1630s.
    • LyJ 31 pp. 42-5

      Copy, headed A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth.

      Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

      John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • LyJ 53 pp. 45-8

      Copy, headed Another Letter to Quene Eliz: from John Lilly.

      Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

      John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • BcF 616 pp. 128-66, 315-16, 329-84, 953-5

      Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Northampton, Tobie Matthew, Davies, Northumberland, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 186 pp. 166-94

      Copy.

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

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • AndL 77 pp. 654-5

      Copy, headed The Bishopp of Winchesters letter to the Archdeacon, to the same effect., dated from ffarneham 15th of August 1622.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
    • RaW 936 pp. 670-703

      Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Robert Carr.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 59 p. 704

      Copy, headed Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • BcF 135.6 pp. 712-28

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

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

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

      Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
    • HlJ 29.2 pp. 893-4

      Copy, headed Doctor Josua Hall Bpp. of Exeter his letter to the lower howse of Parliament.

      Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
    • SpE 80 p. 895 et seq.

      Copy, headed Sr: Kenelme Digbies Letter to Sr: Edward Stradlinge...abord his shipp, on 26 pages.

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

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

  • MS V.a.240

    Copy of 22 Rules, lacking a title, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, as by ffrancis Bacon, dated 8 January 1596, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 115 quarto leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves at the beginning), in contemporary vellum.

    Early 17th century.
    • BcF 225
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

      Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them, of which only some few (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

      Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

  • MS V.a.241

    A quarto composite volume of verse and prose works, in probably four different hands, with a general title-page (f. 2r), 145 pages (foliated 1-13, then paginated 1-[113], plus some blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Liber Rogeri Bradon. Phillipps MS 18640. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

    • DnJ 1667 ff. 4r-16v

      Copy, in an accomplished predominantly italic hand.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

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

  • MS V.a.245

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

    Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

    c.1630s.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

    • DaW 7 ff. 4v-5v

      Copy, headed An Elogie on the Earle of Rutland, subscribed Wm Davenant.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

      Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland ('Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!')
    • PeW 242 ff. 7v-9r

      Copy, headed The Paradox.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • CwT 327 f. 11r

      Copy, headed Good counsell to a mayde, subscribed Tho: Carey.

      This MS recorded (as D4) in Dunlap, p. 224.

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

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • CmT 38.5 f. 11v

      Copy, headed Impatience in Love incurable.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

      Thomas Campion, 'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'
    • DnJ 2151 ff. 12r-13v

      Copy, subscribed Jo: Donne.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • CmT 169 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy, headed A Maydes deliberation, with four additional strophes.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

      First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
    • HeR 17 f. 18v

      Copy, headed Of a proud Ladie that had her hayre drest and stuck with Jewells.

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

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
    • CwT 1175.5 f. 18v

      Copy, headed A lover to Cupid.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

      Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
    • StW 1367 f. 19r

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroad.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.

      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')
    • CoR 619 f. 20v

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbet [against the Ladies / gentlewomens new fashion deleted] to the Ladies of the new dresse.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 34 f. 21r

      Copy, headed The Ladies & gentlewomens aunsweare to Doctor Corbett.

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

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
    • CoR 578 f. 21v

      Copy, headed To my sonne Vincent on his birth day the 10th of November 1630 being then three yeares of age / Doctor Corbet Bishop of Oxon.

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

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • StW 1389 f. 22r

      Copy, headed The same in Latin Phaleucians, by Mr. Stroad of Christchurch.

      This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 270.

      Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

      William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3to. 1630 ('Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam')
    • RnT 401 f. 25r-v

      Copy, headed Upon the rumor of the King of Sweedens death variously and uncertainely reported in November & December 1632.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death ('I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse')
    • PoW 92 f. 26r

      Copy of lines 1-18, headed An elegy upon the death of the most royal and victorious King of Sweden.

      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')
    • KiH 234 ff. 27r-9r

      Copy, headed An Elogie on the death of the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus. / by Doctor Hen: King.

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

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
    • CoR 559 f. 33v

      Copy, subscribed Rich: Corbett Bipp: Norwicen.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & trevor-Roper, p. 158.

      First published (from MSS (not in a public library)) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], Bishop Corbet's Poems, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.

      Richard Corbett, A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden ('What now! already are those wagers layd')
    • MyJ 2 f. 34r

      Copy, here ascribed to Jasper Mayne.

      Jasper Mayne, An Elegy upon the King of Sweden's Death ('Brave Prince! Although thy fate seem yet too strange')
    • KiH 125 f. 36r-v

      Copy, headed On a deformed Mrs.

      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 41 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy, headed On a black Mrs.

      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 845 f. 37r-v

      Copy, subscribed 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')
    • DaJ 198 f. 37v

      Copy, headed On the death of an Infant and here beginning As carefull mothers will to bedd 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 881 f. 37v

      Copy, subscribed W: St.

      This MS recorded in Dobell.

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

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • StW 914 f. 38r

      Copy, subscribed 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 169 f. 38v

      Copy, subscribed W: Strode.

      This MS collated in Forey.

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

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • BrW 210 f. 39r

      Copy.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • StW 371 f. 39r-v

      Copy, subscribed W: S:.

      This MS collated in Forey.

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

      William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
    • StW 760 f. 39v

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman walking in the snowe, subscribed W. St.

      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')
    • CoR 675 f. 40r-v

      Copy, headed On Mrs Mallett, subscribed R: Corbett.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • BrW 132 f. 41r

      Copy, headed On a gentlewoman.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • CoR 449 f. 41r

      Copy, headed On great Tom, subscribed Jer Wermistrie.

      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')
    • CwT 1250.5 f. 41v

      Copy, headed Mr Lewes of Oriall to his love.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
    • RaW 263 f. 41v

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • DnJ 1509 f. 42r

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed Doctor Corbett 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 1224.5 f. 42r

      Copy of the second couplet, headed On a watch string and here beginning My stringe can doe what no man could.

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

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • WoH 104 f. 42v

      Copy, headed Sr Henr: Wotton on Queene Anne.

      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')
    • StW 1048 f. 42v

      Copy, as by W: S:.

      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')
    • StW 1344 f. 43r

      Copy.

      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 1121 f. 43r

      Copy, subscribed W: S:.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.

      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')
    • RaW 468 f. 43r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • StW 386 f. 43v

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • StW 872 f. 43v

      Copy, headed An Antheme, subscribed W: S.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

      William Strode, Song ('O sing a new song to the Lord')
    • StW 975 f. 44r

      Copy, headed Of Death and the resurrection. Sonnet, subscribed 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 202 f. 44v

      Copy.

      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')
    • StW 699 f. 44v

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      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')
    • StW 11 f. 44v

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      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 543 f. 45r

      Copy, subscribed W: S:.

      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')
    • StW 669 f. 45v

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

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

      William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
    • StW 79 f. 45v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

      William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
    • StW 1225 f. 45v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • StW 682 f. 45v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

      William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
    • StW 248 f. 46r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Forey.

      First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A necklace ('Theis threades enjoy a double grace')
    • StW 149 f. 46r

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      This MS collated in Forey.

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

      William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
    • StW 1134 f. 46r

      Copy, subscribed W: S:.

      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 352 f. 46v

      Copy.

      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')
    • DnJ 89 f. 47r-v

      Copy, headed Upon an illfavor'd gentlewoman.

      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 618 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy, headed On the picture of twoe Dolphins in a fountayne, subscribed W: Stroud.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr 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 1194 ff. 48r-9r

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell.

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

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • MoG 67 f. 49v

      Copy, headed The Nightingale by G: Morley.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • KiH 452 f. 50r

      Copy, headed Of Mans misery. by Dr J: King.

      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')
    • AlW 159 f. 50r

      Copy, headed Deduobus Reynoldis S: T: D: Dribus: qui contrariæ inter se opinionis, alter in alterius Secessit partem, subscribed Dr Alablaster.

      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')
    • StW 454 ff. 50v-1r

      Copy, subscribed 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 1076 f. 51r

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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 27 f. 51v

      Copy, headed On the death of King James, subscribed G: Morley.

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

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

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • StW 640 f. 52r

      Copy, subscribed 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')
    • StW 733 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy, headed A strange gentlewoman passing by his windowe. Song, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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 583 f. 53r-v

      Copy, subscribed 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')
    • StW 275 f. 54r

      Copy, headed On a gentlewomans blisterd lipp, subscribed 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 1250 f. 54v

      Copy, headed To a distressed freind, with pen, Inck and paper, subscribed 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 1146 ff. 54v-5v

      Copy, headed To Doctor Griffith heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon., as by W: Stroud.

      Edited chiefly from this MS in Dobell. Collated, and the text of lines 1-12 and 67-8 taken from this MS, in Forey.

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

      William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
    • JnB 291 f. 55v

      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')
    • DaJ 51 f. 56r

      Copy, headed A rustick gallantes wooing and here beginning ffaire wench I cannot court thy spiritt like eyes.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

      Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
    • CwT 285 f. 56v

      Copy, headed On the flie An Elegie by Tho: Carey.

      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')
    • StW 1002 f. 56v

      Copy, subscribed W: S.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

      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')
    • CoR 220 ff. 57r-9v

      Copy, headed To Mr Hamond Parson for the beating downe of the Maypole.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • B&F 139 f. 58v

      Copy, headed 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')
    • StW 233 f. 59r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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 1095 f. 59r-v

      Copy, headed To a gentlewoman for a freind, subscribed 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')
    • StW 1061 f. 60v

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
    • HoJ 135 f. 61r

      Copy, headed An Epitaphe on a fart in the Parliament house.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • StW 713 f. 61r-v

      Copy, headed A song on a sigh.

      Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey, p. 329.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

      William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
    • JnB 662 f. 62r-v

      Copy, headed To the King, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

      See JnB 661.

      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 705 f. 63r

      Copy, headed On Faireford windowes, subscribed Rich: 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 491 ff. 63r-4r

      Copy, headed On the same, subscribed W: Stroud.

      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 490 f. 64v

      Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

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

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • MoG 97 ff. 64v-5r

      Copy, headed On the crowne of a hatt dranck in, subscribed George Morley.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • PeW 186 f. 68v

      Copy of a version headed On a mayde not mariageable and beginning Would you have mee lead thee blinde.

      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')
    • ToA 83 f. 70r

      Copy, headed An answer.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

      Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady ('It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he')
    • JnB 4 f. 70v

      Copy, headed Another answeare and here beginning Doth the prosperitie of a pardon still.

      This MS evidently the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

      Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil ('Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still')
    • DaW 65 f. 70v

      Copy, headed To the King. A newyeares guift, subscribed W: Davenant.

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

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

  • MS V.a.246

    A small octavo volume of Latin orations made at the University of Cambridge, in two or more small hands, 154 pages, written from both ends, in contemporary calf gilt (lacking front cover).

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed Ex dono Johannis Yate...anno domini 1651 and Ex dono Francisci Stringer.

    • RnT 229 pp. 3-4

      Copy, headed Mr Randolph upon the fall of the Miter.

      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')

  • MS V.a.249

    A quarto volume of Harington's epigrams, with related poems, in the accomplished italic hand of his servant Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions, written as a presentation copy to Prince Henry (via James I), vi + 268 pages (two numbered twice), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt.

    Including (pp. 256-63) a watercolour drawing of the lantern, with accompanying English and Latin verses, which Harington gave to King James as a New Year's gift in 1602/3; (p. 264) Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; (pp. 256-6) his verses Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores; and (p. 261) an engraving of the Mysteries of the Rosary, with (p. 1) an address To James the Sixt king of Scotland The dedication of the coppie sent by Captayn Hunter, and (pp. [iv-v]) a dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry, dated in Harington's hand (and probably presented to the Prince shortly after) 19 June 1605.

    1605.

    Inscribed R. Joyce Emmerson Sandwich. Item 14 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2405.

    Including (p. [iii]) a 19th-century copy of James I's letter of thanks for this gift, transcribed from the original letter in British Library Add. MS 46381, f. 145r.

    Edited from this MS in Kilroy, with colour facsimiles of the lantern, of page 122, of the binding, of the coloured title-page, and the engraving on p. 261 (Kilroy, Plates 5-9, after p. 178). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimile of the lantern in Scott-Warren, p. 194.

    • *HrJ 21 pp. 2-254
      Autograph

      Copy of 408 epigrams (including SuH 42), described by Harington as this Collection or rather confusion of all my ydle Epigrams, comprising four Bookes of (sometimes erratically numbered) 99, 100, 103 and 106 epigrams respectively (including SuH 41), all in the accomplished italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions.

      Edited from this MS in Kilroy. Seven previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. This MS recorded, and those epigrams which also occur in the Arundel Harington MS are collated, in Hughey. See also HrJ 20, HrJ 26, and HrJ 213.

      Facsimile example of p. 60 in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 104). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimiles of pp. 122, 256 (the lantern) and p. 261 (engraving of the Mystery of the Rosary) in Kilroy, Plates 5, 6 and 9, after p. 178.

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

      Sir John Harington, Epigrams
    • SuH 41 pp. 200-1

      Copy, headed A translation of the Earle of Surreys out of Martiall, directed by him to one Maister Warner, here beginning Warner the things for to attayne, incorporated as Harington's Epigram 24 in The Fourthe Booke.

      First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.

      The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life -- A Reply, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'Marshall, the thinges for to attayne'
    • HrJ 314.5 pp. 265

      Copy.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 70. McClure No. 324, p. 276. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 56, pp. 230-1.

      Sir John Harington, A witty choice of a Country fellow ('A rich Lord had a poore Lout to his ghest')

  • MS V.a.255

    A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

    Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family.

    c.1680-1710.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Mr Gideon Rutherford and Jean Rutherford, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on John Reutherfoord. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

    Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

    • WoH 241 f. 6r-v

      Copy, headed Upon Solitud & the vanity of other things, by Sir Kenelm Digby added in another hand.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • SiP 62 f. 7r

      Copy, a name deleted and then Sir ffrancis Bacon written as a heading.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561.

      Ringler, pp. 161-2.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 ('Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust')
    • ShJ 17 f. 15r

      Copy of an early version headed An Hyperbolick Description of a Leady which for ye sharpness of it I have here Insert and beginning Hir Hairs are Cupids nets which when she spreads.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.

      James Shirley, Dialogue ('I prethee tell me what prodigious fate')
    • WoH 210 f. 17v

      Copy, headed To the Lord Bacon then falling from favour.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
    • BuS 1.2 f. 23r

      Extracts, in double columns.

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

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

  • MS V.a.262

    A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum.

    Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

    c.1637-51.

    Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

    • ClJ 216 p. 7

      Copy.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • DnJ 408 pp. 12-15

      Copy, headed Upon Armillaby Dr Donne.

      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')
    • DnJ 2522 pp. 15-17

      Copy, headed Dr: Donne his wife would haue gone as his Page.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2152 pp. 17-20

      Copy of lines 1-64, headed Vpon Loues Progresse by Dr Donne.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • KiH 365 pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed A long farewell to Loue.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • KiH 679 pp. 23-4

      Copy, headed The mournful parting of Two Louers being caused by the disproportion of estates.

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

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • DnJ 1510 pp. 24-6

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed Att his mistris 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 1195 pp. 27-30

      Copy, headed A Storie of a ffidler and a Nightingale translated out of ffam — Strada.

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

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • KiH 342 pp. 30-4

      Copy, headed Dr Henry King vpon the death of his Wife. i623.

      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!')
    • KiH 18 pp. 34-5

      Copy, headed Dr Henry Kings Anniversarie vpon his Wife.

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

      Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
    • KiH 472 p. 36

      Copy, headed Dr Henry King Vpon two little children of his dying of one disease and buryed both in one graue.

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

      Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
    • KiH 295 pp. 36-7

      Copy, headed On the death of Richard Earle of Dorset. Dr H King.

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

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • CwT 286 p. 38

      Copy, headed A gentleman made these verses following vpon a little fly lighting in his Mris eye.

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

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • JnB 460 pp. 39-40

      Copy, headed A louers health.

      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')
    • CwT 1090.5 pp. 40-1

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • JnB 140 pp. 42-3

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet vpon the death of his ffather, that kept a Nurserie att Twickenham and here beginning I hope my pietie too, which could.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

      Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet ('I have my Pietie too, which could')
    • CoR 86 pp. 44-5

      Copy, headed Another vpon the same [i.e. on Vincent Corbett].

      First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
    • StW 628 pp. 45-6

      Copy, headed Vpon the death of a Twin.

      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')
    • CoR 152 pp. 46-9

      Copy, headed Vpon the Lady Haddington, who dyed of the small Pox.

      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')
    • CwT 1250.6 p. 50

      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')
    • CoR 491 pp. 52-3

      Copy, headed Vpon John Dawson Butler of Christchurch.

      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')
    • BrW 211 pp. 53-4

      Copy, headed Vpon the late 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')
    • RaW 60 pp. 54-5

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Ralegh of himself.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • RaW 217 p. 58

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Raleighs prophecie of the sports and Games of christmas.

      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')
    • CoR 450 p. 59

      Copy, headed Vpon Tom of Christchurch, the greate Bell newly cast.

      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')
    • MoG 68 pp. 59-60

      Copy, headed Vpon the Nightingale.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • CoR 360 pp. 61-4

      Copy, headed Dr. Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham being in 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')
    • StW 933 pp. 66-7
      No description or publication history available.

      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 313 p. 67
      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 1226 p. 67

      Copy of the second couplet, headed Vpon the string of a watch and here beginning My strings can doe what noe man could.

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

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • StW 170 pp. 67-8

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • StW 1003 p. 69

      Copy, headed A Louer to his Mistrise.

      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')
    • HrJ 281 p. 69

      Copy, headed Upon one that would not marry a Learned wife and here beginning You wisht mee to a wife that's fayre and young.

      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')
    • StW 714 pp. 70-1

      Copy, headed Vpon a Sigh.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

      William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
    • PoW 42 pp. 71-3

      Copy, headed Vppon a gentlewoman with black hayre, and eyes.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS S).

      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 3211 pp. 73-4

      Copy, headed A louer to his Mistris.

      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')
    • PeW 243 pp. 74-5

      Copy of the shorter version, headed A Maydes denyall and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay fayth, and will you? fye.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • StW 847 p. 76

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • StW 761 pp. 76-7

      Copy, headed Vpon a fayre Lady going forth in the snowe.

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • StW 455 pp. 77-8
      No description or publication history available.

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

      William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
    • HrJ 146 p. 80

      Copy, headed Vpon a Knight and his Lady and here beginning A gallant Lady sitting in a muse.

      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')
    • RaW 422 p. 81

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Ralegh to the Lady Bendbowe and here beginning In vayne I bend the Bow, wherein to shoote I sue.

      This MS recorded in Latham.

      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'
    • RaW 264 p. 82

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • DnJ 1766 p. 83

      Copy, headed Of a Cripple and here beginning I cannot goe, nor stand, the cripple cryes.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • HrJ 42 pp. 83-4

      Copy, headed Of Swaring.

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

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • HoJ 13 p. 86

      Copy, headed Vpon a Lock-Smith.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
    • WoH 105 pp. 88-9

      Copy, headed Sir Henry Wotton on the Lady Elizabeth Queene of Bohemia.

      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')
    • WoH 33 pp. 89-90

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • HoJ 244 p. 90

      Copy, headed Mr Hoskins in the Tower to his Son and here beginning My little Ben, while thou art young.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • HoJ 108 p. 90

      Copy of the short version, headed Mris Hoskins to the King in behafe of her Husband and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hid.

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

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

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • StW 882 p. 91

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • StW 276 pp. 92-3

      Copy, headed On a gentlewomans blistered Lip.

      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')
    • CoR 468.5 p. 97

      Copy, headed Vpon the death of Mr 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')
    • TiC 33 p. 98

      Copy, headed On Tichbourn in the Tower before his Execution.

      This MS text 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')
    • BcF 31 pp. 99-100

      Copy, headed Upon the Miserie of Man.

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

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • JnB 448 p. 101

      Copy, headed A Song.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.

      First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
    • DnJ 2968 p. 102

      Copy, headed Dr Donne at his Mistris rysing and here beginning Ly still my deere why dost thou rise.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
    • DnJ 461.5 p. 102

      Copy of lines 1-6, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2968).

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

      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?')
    • HrJ 113 p. 102

      Copy, headed To a paynted Lady and here beginning If for a grace, or if for some dislike.

      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')
    • HrJ 210 p. 103

      Copy, headed Of a Catour.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.

      Sir John Harington, Of a sawcy Cator ('A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought')
    • JnB 641 pp. 103-6

      Copy, headed The Deuils entertaynment at the Deuils arse a 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')
    • AlW 177 p. 124

      Copy, headed On two Brothers.

      English version: here: Betweene two brothers rivall teares and worse.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
    • StW 846 p. 125

      Copy, headed A Lourer to his Mris, deleted.

      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')
    • DaJ 199 p. 126

      Copy, headed On the death of an Infant and here beginning As carefull Mothers will to bed 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 915 p. 126

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • CoR 676 pp. 126-8

      Copy, headed On Mris Mallett.

      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 592 p. 128

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
    • BrW 133 p. 128

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • DaJ 146.5 p. 131

      Copy, headed A Epitaph on a bellowes maker and here beginning Here lyes will: Crooker maker of bellowes.

      A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

      Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
    • B&F 140 pp. 131-2

      Copy, headed A Melancholy Meditation, here omitting the first stanza and beginning Welcome foulded 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')
    • RaW 61 p. 136

      Copy, inscribed Sir Gualter Raleigh as a heading.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • DkT 22 p. 137

      Copy, headed On the buriall of Queene Elizabeth.

      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')
    • StW 1003.5 p. 146

      Copy, headed Vpon A Louer and his Mris playing for kisses.

      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')
    • HrJ 198 p. 147

      Copy of a ten-line version, headed Upon A Holy Sister and here beginning A Godly sister by one of her society.

      First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

      Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
    • CwT 86 pp. 152-3

      Copy, headed A Louer to his Mris.

      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')
    • PeW 187 p. 153

      Copy, headed A Lover on his Mris and here beginning Why should I think thee to bee blind.

      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')
    • CoR 383 p. 154

      Copy, headed Vpon A Lute and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gone.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • WiG 5 pp. 167-8

      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')
    • ElQ 44 p. 169

      Copy, headed Another and here beginning When I was fayre & young then beauty graced mee.

      This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

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

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'When I was fair and young, and favor graced me'

  • MS V.a.263

    An octavo notebook of proverbs, extracts, &c., in Latin and English, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 167 leaves, in old calf.

    Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    Mid-17th century.

    Identified and cited in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven & London, 2000), pp. 73-4 et passim.

    • JnB 730 ff. 15r-20r

      Extracts, headed Ex Sejano. Ben Jonson.

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

      Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
    • DnJ 4183 ff. 21r-4r

      Extracts (from letters?), headed Secunda pars Stratagem Dr. Donne (1789) and beginning It is not the first time that our Age hath seen that art practised....

      John Donne, Extracts
    • BcF 687 ff. 24v-5v

      Extracts from works by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts

  • MS V.a.275

    A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages.

    Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.

    c.1624-1645.

    Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): Anne Bancrofte, and Mary Bancrofte. Also, under 1624, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611, Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608, Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614, and John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.

    Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

    • KiH 158 pp. 91-4

      Copy.

      First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
    • HoJ 73 pp. 101-3

      Copy, headed The Parliamt ff, here beginning Downe came Graue Srieaunt Crooke.

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

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • ShJ 127 p. 110

      Copy, headed In praise of his mrs. absolute perfections.

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

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
    • PoW 43 p. 111

      Copy, headed One writing to his Mrs whose eyse and hare was Blacke.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS a).

      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'
    • CwT 713 p. 111

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • SuJ 173 p. 125

      Copy of a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley, undated.

      Edited in Clayton (pp. 161-2), as a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley.

      John Suckling, Letter(s)
    • JnB 389 p. 133

      Copy, headed Epitaph.

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

      Ben Jonson, Of Life, and Death ('The ports of death are sinnes. of life, good deeds')
    • JnB 461 p. 156

      Copy, headed (to the side) Epigram to Celia and here beginning Drink onely to mee with thine eyes.

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

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • JnB 132.8 p. 156

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
    • DrW 117.33 p. 175

      Copy, headed The Senses.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')

  • MS V.a.276

    A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

    Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.

    Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

    c.1674-84.

    The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

    • HeR 280 Part II, ff. 4r-6r

      This MS collated in part, and six additional lines printed, in Martin, pp. 469-73.

      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')
    • HeR 414 Part II, f. 6r

      Copy, subscribed Ro Herrick.

      This MS recorded in Martin.

      First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.

      Robert Herrick, Vpon parting ('Goe hence away, and in thy parting know')
    • GrJ 40 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy, headed An allegoricall Allusion of Melancholy thoughts to b-- [deleted], subscribed John Grange.

      First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees, subscribed I. G. Listed in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Come you swarms of thoughts and bring'
    • CoR 620 Part II, ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, headed By Corbett to the ladyes of the new dresse.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 35 Part II, f. 13r

      Copy, headed The Answer, subscribed John Grange.

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

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
    • WoH 149 Part II, ff. 15v-16r

      Copy, headed oPart II, f loues inconstance by: Sr: H: Wotton.

      First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
    • CwT 23 Part II, f. 16v

      Copy, headed The art of wooing.

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

      Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
    • CwT 840 Part II, ff. 16v-17r
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
    • CwT 186 Part II, f. 17r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

      Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
    • CwT 1241.6 Part II, f. 17r

      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')
    • DrM 64 Part II, f. 18r

      Copy, headed A Sonett.

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

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • KiH 555 Part II, f. 19r

      Copy, headed To a weeping gentlewoeman.

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

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
    • CwT 1117.5 Part II, f. 19r-v

      Copy, beginning at line 19, imperfect.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • JnB 316 Part II, ff. 20v-1v

      Copy, headed Ben Johnsons inuitation of a Gentleman to Supper.

      First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.

      Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper ('To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I')
    • JnB 722 Part II, f. 21v

      Copy, headed Loue and Death.

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

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • KiH 798 Part II, ff. 22r-4r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

      Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
    • PeW 158 Part II, ff. 25v-6r

      Copy, headed of teares by Dr Brookes.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Benj. Rudier of Tears ('Who would have thought there could have been')
    • WoH 242 Part II, f. 32r-v

      Copy, headed A Hermitt in an Arbor wth a prayer booke in his hand spurning the Globe.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • DnJ 3372 Part II, f. 36v

      Copy of lines 1-14, headed Dor Donne to Mr Tilman after his taking orders.

      This MS collated in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.

      John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders ('Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now')
    • RnT 132 Part II, ff. 39r-40r

      Copy, headed A gratulatory to Mr Ben Johnson on his uoluntary adoption of mr Thomas Randolph to be his sonne, subscribed Tho: Randolph:.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

      Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
    • RnT 518 Part II, f. 40r-v

      Copy, subscribed Sr Tho: Jay.

      First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

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

      Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
    • DrW 117.34 Part II, ff. 40v-2r

      Copy, headed The fiue sences.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • JnB 321 Part II, f. 42r-v

      Copy, headed Translated out of Martiall by Ben: Johnson ~ libr: 10: Epi: 49.

      First published in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 54. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 295.

      Ben Jonson, Martial. <Epigram XLVII, Book X.> ('The Things that make the happier life, are these')
    • JnB 87 Part II, f. 42v

      Copy, headed To the earle of newcastle: Seeing Him ride a greate horse.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle ('When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse')
    • JnB 76 Part II, f. 43r-v

      Copy, headed To my muse on Sr kenelme Digby An Epigram, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby ('Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well')
    • JnB 242 Part II, ff. 43v-4r

      Copy, headed Johnsons: Inuectiue against Vulcan.

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

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • JnB 541 Part II, f. 44v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 248.

      Ben Jonson, To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant ('Poore wretched states, prest by extremities')
    • HrJ 147 Part II, f. 50v

      Copy, headed On ye lady J: S. musinge, subscribed JL.

      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')

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