Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end

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  • MS V.a.306

    A quarto volume of biographical extracts, for the most part alphabetically arranged, largely in a single mixed hand, with a few pages of drafts in another cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1670.
    • RnT 494 f. 11r

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know') | Catalogue
    • JnB 550 f. 12r

      Copy of lines 1-6, headed Benjamin Johnson at first bred in a private school in St martins & yn in westminster School, witness his own Epigra.

      First published in Epigrammes (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.

      Ben Jonson, To William Camden ('Camden, most reuerend head, to whom I owe') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.307

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary and italic hands, with later additions, 99 pages, some entries dated 1583-88, in calf.

    Late 16th century.

    Inscribed (p. 1) Will Parkyns and (p. 61) Per Tho Parkins. Item 32 in an unidentified sale cataloue.

  • MS V.a.308

    A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1730.

    Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

    • DrJ 258 f. 1r

      Copy of the song, in double columns, undated.

      California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 244-5.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts ('How unhappy a Lover am I') | Catalogue
    • ShW 112.8 f. 3r

      Copy of Autolycus's song, undated.

      William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, iii, 120-3. Song ('Jog on, jog on, thy foot-path way') | Catalogue
    • B&F 111.5 f. 5r

      Copy of the song, headed Sonnets 20.

      The play first published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, X, 293-370 (pp. 335-6). Bullen, VII, 438-97, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 451). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1683-1713 (p. 1690). The play is now generally attributed to Thomas Middleton.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, II, i, 114-24. Song ('Thou diety swift-winged love') | Catalogue
    • CmT 170 f. 5v

      Copy, untitled.

      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' | Catalogue
    • JnB 572 f. 5v

      Copy of the song, undated.

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 242-53. Song ('O, That ioy so soone should waste!') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 63 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

      John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?') | Catalogue
    • B&F 7 f. 7r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

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

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!') | Catalogue
    • BrN 72 f. 8r-v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May') | Catalogue
    • MsP 24 f. 9r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 117 f. 9v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

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

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

      John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 5 f. 11r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy' | Catalogue
    • BeA 20.3 f. 14r

      Copy.

      First published in The Amorous Prince (London, 1671). Todd, p. 58, No. 22.

      Aphra Behn, The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse. To a New Tune ('In vain I have labour'd the victor to prove') | Catalogue
    • EtG 82 f. 15v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

      Sir George Etherege, Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind') | Catalogue
    • WiG 26.8 f. 22r

      Copy.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1619).

      George Wither, Sonnet ('Hence away you sirens') | Catalogue
    • WiG 6 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 199.5 f. 27r

      Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As careful Nurses on their beds doe lay.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay') | Catalogue
    • StW 810.5 f. 33v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone') | Catalogue
    • CwT 227 f. 33v

      Copy, headed Excuse for absence.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay') | Catalogue
    • BmF 142 ff. 33v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Francis Beaumont, True Beauty ('May I find a woman fair') | Catalogue
    • RaW 430 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Like to a Ring without a finger' | Catalogue
    • CoA 52.5 f. 35r

      Copy, headed Silence.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 119-20. Sparrow, pp. 118-19. Collected Works, II, No. 52, pp. 83-4.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 124-7.

      Abraham Cowley, The Concealment ('No. to what purpose should I speak?') | Catalogue
    • HeR 240 f. 37r-v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may') | Catalogue
    • CoR 746.5 f. 40r

      Copy, headed A Messe of Nonsence and here beginning Like to ye graceful tone of inspoke speeches.

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

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches') | Catalogue
    • WoH 243 ff. 41v-2v

      Copy, headed A ffarewell to folly.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!') | Catalogue
    • CoA 113.8 f. 47v

      Copy, headed Sonnets, 130. on man's life.

      First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Grosart, I, 31.

      Abraham Cowley, Ode VI. Vpon the shortness of Man's Life ('Marke that swift Arrow how it cuts the ayre') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 181 f. 48v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more') | Catalogue
    • BrW 4.3 f. 88r

      Copy, set out calligraphically in patterned formation, headed On the glorious Passion & Resurrection of our Lord, & Saviour Jesus Christ and beginning Behold O Lord IN RIvers of my Tears.

      Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears' | Catalogue
    • CwT 913 f. 106v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 120 f. 108v

      Copy of a version headed E. of Rochester's Character of K. Ch. 2nd and beginning Here lives a great & mighty King.

      This MS recorded in Vieth.

      First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 14 f. 126v

      Copy, in shorthand, headed On a zealous Lock=Smith.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late' | Catalogue
    • BrW 134 f. 127v

      Copy, headed On a young gentlewoman.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about') | Catalogue
    • BrW 169 f. 128v

      Copy, headed On a man drown'd in ye snow.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 290.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Extracts.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.315

    Copy, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with deletions and corrections, with a title-page Philosophsister [sic] Comædia noua scripta Ao domini 1606...Auctore Roberto Burton...Ædis Christi Oxon alumno 1617..., 85 quarto pages, subscribed on f. 83r (before the Epilogus) Finis...Feb: 16to. 16i7, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Presented by Burton to his brother, William, in 1618.

    1617.

    Inscribed (p. 1) Liber Wmi: Burton Lindliaci Leicestresis de Falde com: Staff: 1618: ex dono fratris mei Robte Burton Authoris. Inscribed (f. [ir]) fishers Alley New Street, 2 house in the Al: Mr Burrage. Afterwards Mostyn MS 197, from the Gloddaeth Library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90).

    Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 356. Discussed, with a facsimile example of f. 9r, in McQuillen's edition, p. 223, and in her Robert Burton's Philosophaster. Holograph Status of the Manuscripts, Manuscripta, 29 (1985), 148-53, where it is suggested that the corrections and additions are probably in Burton's own hand. A microfilm of the MS is at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-on-Avon (Mic S6).

    • BuR 3
      No description or publication history available.

      Probably written 1606; revised 1615; performed 16 February 1617/18 at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, edited by W.E. Buckley, Roxburghe Club (Hertford, 1862). Edited by Paul Jordan-Smith (Stanford, 1931). Edited and translated by Connie McQuillen (Binghamton, New York, 1993).

      Robert Burton, Philosophaster | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.319

    An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

    c.1640.

    Formerly MS 2073.3.

    • RaW 265 f. 2r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raughly on mans life.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29B, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion') | Catalogue
    • DkT 23 f. 3r

      Copy, headed On Queene Elizabeth carried to buriall by water.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall') | Catalogue
    • CoR 181 f. 5r-v

      Copy, headed On Dor. Rauis Bishop of London.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke') | Catalogue
    • BmF 42 ff. 7r-9r

      Copy, headed On ye death of ye Lady of Rutland by Beaumont.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 148 f. 9v

      Copy, headed On a musing Lady.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • BrW 212 f. 10r

      Copy, headed On ye Countesse of Pembrocke.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse') | Catalogue
    • RaW 350 f. 13v

      Copy, headed Rawley upon Noell.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty' | Catalogue
    • StW 401 f. 14r

      Copy, headed in a different hand upon a lady that sang lately, subscribed Wm Strowde.

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

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears') | Catalogue
    • PoW 44 ff. 15r-16r

      Copy, headed In ye comendation of Black Gentlewoeman, annotated in another hand Mrs Beata Poole.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS T).

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

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence' | Catalogue
    • PeW 188 f. 17r

      Copy, headed Vpon a wench vnder 14, here beginning Why should passion make thee blind.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind') | Catalogue
    • StW 1325 f. 17v

      Copy, headed One to his Mistresse.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde') | Catalogue
    • CoR 384 f. 17v

      Copy, headed One finding a Lute instead of his mistresse.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 148 f. 18r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love') | Catalogue
    • CwT 784 ff. 18v-19r

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

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 245 f. 20r

      Copy, headed Mr Hoskins to his sonne and here beginning My little sonne whilst thou art yong.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 310 f. 21r

      Copy, headed An elegie on ye queene of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • CoR 543 f. 21v

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power') | Catalogue
    • CoR 123 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth') | Catalogue
    • KiH 203 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, headed On Sr Walter Rawly.

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

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 3212 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading Dor Donne.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 200 f. 25v

      Copy, headed An Epitaph and here beginning As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay') | Catalogue
    • HrE 69 f. 27r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed By Sr. Ed: Harbert.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show') | Catalogue
    • CwT 1259.7 f. 28r

      Copy, headed a louers passion on a fayre Mayde.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see') | Catalogue
    • RaW 423 f. 31r

      Copy, headed A ridle proposed by Sr Walter Rawley to ye Lady Bendbow.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 37, p. 105. 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' | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2969 f. 31v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 462.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 462 f. 31v

      Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2969).

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?') | Catalogue
    • WoH 106 f. 32r

      Copy, headed Song, subscribed By Sr: Hen: Wotton.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 87 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy, headed To his Mistresse.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold') | Catalogue
    • CwT 581 f. 33v

      Copy, headed Vpon a sigh and here beginning Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind') | Catalogue
    • WoH 244 f. 34r-v

      Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading Dr. Dunn.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!') | Catalogue
    • B&F 141 f. 35r

      Copy, stanzas 2 and 3 placed first, headed Melancholy and here beginning Wellcome folded armes, & fixed eyes, then stanza 1, also headed Melancholy.

      This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

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

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

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights') | Catalogue
    • StW 811 f. 38r

      Copy, headed on a Gentlewoeman walkinge 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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 653 ff. 39v-42v

      Copy, inscribed in the margin in another hand by Carew.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come') | Catalogue
    • RaW 469 f. 42v

      Copy, headed A conference between two Louers.

      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' | Catalogue
    • CwT 287 f. 43r

      Copy, headed An Elegie vpon a flye. Tho. Carie.

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

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 90 ff. 44v-5v

      Copy, headed Upon an illfauored Gentlewoman by D. C.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee') | Catalogue
    • CoR 677 ff. 46r-7r

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbett to Madam 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') | Catalogue
    • KiH 126 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      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?') | Catalogue
    • PeW 244 f. 50r-v

      Copy of the shortened version, headed A Maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, nay faith, & will you fie.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 68 f. 51r

      Copy, headed a lady to a Lawyer.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • StW 51 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy, headed Of Grey eyes.

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

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night') | Catalogue
    • DaW 22 f. 58r

      Copy, headed A new yeares guift to Mrs. Porter from Wm. Dauenant, subscribed W. D.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

      Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present') | Catalogue
    • ToA 84 f. 60r

      Copy, headed To Ben Jonson, in answer to the railing verses written by Alex Gill (upon the Magnetic Lady).

      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') | Catalogue
    • B&F 182 f. 73r rev.

      Copy, headed songe sung to Prince Henry at his departinge.

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes') | Catalogue
    • KiH 74 f. 75r rev.

      Copy, headed His answere.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly') | Catalogue
    • CwT 755 f. 75v rev.

      Copy.

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

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray') | Catalogue
    • CwT 900 f. 76r rev.

      Copy, headed Songe.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face') | Catalogue
    • StW 901 f. 77r rev.

      Copy.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

      William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe') | Catalogue
    • RnT 8.5 f. 77v rev.

      Copy, headed Songe, here beginnining Deare doe not your fayre beauty wronge, inscribed in another hand T. May.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.321

    A quarto volume of transcripts of letters by various people, in several secretary and italic hands, 95 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

    c.1620s.

    Evidently the MS from which selected items are transcribed in Cardiff Central Library MS 1.172, pp. 1-162, which is inscribed (p. 162) Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esqr: i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire. Acquired in 1942.

    This volume discussed and various letters printed in Bertram Dobell, Newly Discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods, The Athenaeum (1901: 23 March, pp. 369-70; 30 March, pp. 403-4; 6 April, pp. 433-4; 13 April, pp. 465-7). A complete transcription and facsimile of the volume in A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Newark, London & Toronto, 1983).

    • TiC 50 f. 16r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

      Hirsch, pp. 311-12.

      Chidiock Tichborne, A letter written by Chidiock Tichborne to his wife, the night before he suffered | Catalogue
    • ElQ 252 f. 36r

      Copy of an English translation.

      Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

      Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597 | Catalogue
    • ChG 29 ff. 26v-7r, 30v-1r, 49r, 60r-2r, 83v-4r, 88r-v, 89v, 93r-5r

      Copy of fourteen letters and petitions by, or probably by, Chapman, to unidentified ladies and other correspondents (5); to George Buc; to King James I (2); to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; to ? Sir Edward Phelips; to Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk (2); to Mr Crane; and to Lord Ellesmere; and to the Privy Council; all undated, but probably ranging between 1600 and 1615.

      Braunmuller Nos 38, 49, 73, 86-9, 112, 124-6, 136, 138, 139.

      Various letters edited, some with discussions of authorship, in Eccles, p. 185; in Robert D. Parsons, Chapman's Letter to Mr. Sares: A Hamlet Parallel, N&Q, 214 (April 1969), 137; in Tucker Orbison, The Case for the Attribution of a Chapman Letter, SP, 72 (1975), 72-84; and elsewhere.

    • JnB 744 ff. 64v-5r, 94r, 90r-3r

      Copies of a series of nine letters and petitions by Jonson, to Mr Leech; Thomas Bond; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk [?]: Sir Robert Cecil; an unidentified lord; Lucy, Countess of Bedford [?]; Esmé Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny [?]; Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; undated but the first two probably 1613 and the rest probably 1613.

      Braunmuller, Nos 93-4, 127-33. Eight letters edited in Herford and Simpson, I, 193-4, 197-201.

      Ben Jonson, Letter(s) | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.322

    A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

    Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

    c.1630s-40s.

    Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

    A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

    • RaW 470 p. 1*

      Copy, headed two Louers.

      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' | Catalogue
    • CwT 689 p. 1

      Copy, headed On Two Louers.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 621 p. 2

      Copy, headed To you Ladyes & Yor. women that doe black Cyprus vayles.

      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') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 36 p. 2

      Copy, headed The Ladies answere.

      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' | Catalogue
    • StW 223 p. 3

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande') | Catalogue
    • StW 1127 p. 3

      Copy.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 88 p. 4

      Copy, subscribed B: J:.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 536 pp. 4-5

      Copy, subscribed B: J.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

      Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state') | Catalogue
    • RnT 125 pp. 5-7

      Copy, headed A Gratulatory to Mr Jonson for his voluntary adoption of mee to bee his sonne., subscribed T: R:.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 77 pp. 7-8

      Copy, headed An Epigram one Sr Kenelme Digby.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 176 pp. 8-9

      Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Venetia Stanley. The Body.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne') | Catalogue
    • JnB 214 pp. 9-11

      Copy, headed The Mind, subscribed B: J:.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone') | Catalogue
    • JnB 252 pp. 11-14

      Copy.

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

      Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones ('Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann') | Catalogue
    • JnB 493 pp. 14-15

      Copy.

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

      Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine') | Catalogue
    • JnB 479 p. 15

      Copy, subscribed B: J:.

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

      Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare') | Catalogue
    • JnB 523 pp. 16-19

      Copy, headed Ode Pindærick. On the death of Sr Hen: Morison, subscribed B: J.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

      Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison ('Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare') | Catalogue
    • DkT 24 p. 27

      Copy, headed On Q: Elizabeth caried to Buriall by water.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall') | Catalogue
    • CoR 182 p. 28

      Copy, headed On Doctor Ravis Bishop of London, by Dr Corbet added in another hand.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke') | Catalogue
    • BmF 43 pp. 29-31

      Copy, headed On the death of the Lady of Rutland, subscribed Fran: Beamont.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep') | Catalogue
    • PoW 45 pp. 31-2

      Copy, headed On the comendation of a black gentlewoman.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS Z).

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

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence' | Catalogue
    • PeW 189 p. 33

      Copy, headed Vppon a wench vnder : 14., here beginning Why should passion make thee blinde.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind') | Catalogue
    • StW 1326 p. 33

      Copy, headed One to his mystres.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde') | Catalogue
    • B&F 142 pp. 33, 37

      Copy, written as two separate poems, stanza 1 headed On Melancholly and stanzas 2-3 headed Melancholly.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 149 p. 34

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love') | Catalogue
    • CoR 544 p. 34

      Copy, headed The Lady Arabella, inscribed in a different hand Dr Corbet.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 311 p. 35

      Copy, headed An elegye on ye Queene of Scotts and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • WoH 245 pp. 36-7

      Copy, untitled, inscribed at the top Dr Dunn.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!') | Catalogue
    • MoG 70 pp. 37-8

      Copy, headed The Nightingale.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed') | Catalogue
    • CwT 251 p. 39

      Copy, headed An elegye vppon a flye: Carew.

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

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 91 pp. 39-41

      Copy, headed Upon an ilfauored 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') | Catalogue
    • CoR 678 pp. 41-2

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett to Madam 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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 245 p. 43

      Copy of the short version, headed A maydes deniall and here beginning Nay pish, nay peu, 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') | Catalogue
    • StW 52 pp. 43-4

      Copy, headed Of Grey eyes: W: Stroude.

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

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night') | Catalogue
    • DaW 23 p. 47

      Copy, headed A new-yeeres guift to Mrs Porter from W: Dauenant.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

      Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 69 p. 47

      Copy, headed A Lady to a Lawyer, inscribed in different ink Sr John Harrington.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • CoR 124 p. 49

      Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth') | Catalogue
    • KiH 204 p. 50

      Copy, headed On Sr Walter Rawley, by Bp. King added in a different hand.

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

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne') | Catalogue
    • StW 402 p. 51

      Copy, headed On a Lady singing, subscribed W. Stroude.

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

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears') | Catalogue
    • CwT 772 pp. 51-2

      Copy, headed A song on his mystres and here beginning In your fayre cheekes two pitts doe lye.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye') | Catalogue
    • HrE 70 p. 52

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr Edward Harbert.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show') | Catalogue
    • CwT 1250.9 pp. 53-4

      Copy, headed A louers passionate song on a fayre mayde.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2970 p. 55

      Copy of lines 1-6, headed Song. Dr Donne.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 463.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 463 p. 55

      Copy, untitled and immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2970).

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?') | Catalogue
    • WoH 107 p. 56

      Copy, headed Song, subscribed Sr Hen: Wotton.

      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') | Catalogue
    • StW 1030 p. 57

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played') | Catalogue
    • StW 902 p. 57

      Copy.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

      William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe') | Catalogue
    • RnT 1 p. 58

      Copy, headed Song and here beginning Deare, doe not your fayre beauty wrong.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong') | Catalogue
    • CwT 885 p. 58

      Copy, headed Song.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face') | Catalogue
    • KiH 74.5 p. 59

      Copy, headed His answere.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly') | Catalogue
    • CwT 732 pp. 59-61

      Copy, untitled.

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

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray') | Catalogue
    • B&F 183 p. 61

      Copy, headed A Song sung to Prince Henery at his departinge.

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes') | Catalogue
    • RnT 495 p. 63

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know') | Catalogue
    • KiH 654 p. 63

      Copy, headed A sonnet against his Mrs:.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n') | Catalogue
    • KiH 505 pp. 63-4

      Copy, headed Sonnet 2.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

      Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind') | Catalogue
    • KiH 408 p. 64

      Copy, headed Sonnet: 3:, subscribed Dr: H: King:.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

      Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue') | Catalogue
    • AlW 160 p. 66

      Copy, headed Carmina inter duos fratres Reynoldes Oxon:.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres') | Catalogue
    • AlW 178 p. 66

      Copy, headed Thus Englished, subscribed Dr Alablaster.

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

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse') | Catalogue
    • KiH 235 pp. 67-72

      Copy, headed An Elegy vpon ye K of Sueden, subscribed D: K:.

      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') | Catalogue
    • KiH 159 pp. 80-4

      Copy, subscribed Dr H. King.

      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?') | Catalogue
    • RnT 373 pp. 85-6

      Copy, headed Randall on ye losse of a finger.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more') | Catalogue
    • CaW 46 pp. 86-7

      Copy, headed A Sigh.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published in William Shakespeare, Poems (London, 1640). Evans, pp. 472-3.

      William Cartwright, A Sigh sent to his absent Love ('I sent a Sigh unto my Blest ones Eare') | Catalogue
    • CwT 561 p. 87

      Copy, headed On a sighe.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind') | Catalogue
    • CwT 30 p. 88

      Copy, headed Of Caelia's letting blood. To ye Chirurgian, and here beginning Foole that beleevst her clearer blood.

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

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood') | Catalogue
    • CaW 14 pp. 90-1

      Copy, headed To his mistris that prou'd false.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 215-16. Evans, pp. 468-70.

      William Cartwright, Falshood ('Still do the Stars impart their light') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 55 pp. 91-3

      Copy, headed Song, subscribed John: Grange.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris' | Catalogue
    • BcF 32 pp. 96-7

      Copy, headed Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount St Albanes, subscribed Lord: virulam.

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

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man' | Catalogue
    • CwT 495 pp. 97-8

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares') | Catalogue
    • RnT 332 pp. 98-101

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare') | Catalogue
    • RnT 161.5 p. 101

      Copy, headed Englished and subscribed Tho: Randolph, following the Latin version.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.

      Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem ('I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane') | Catalogue
    • RnT 42 pp. 101-9

      Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamoured, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

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

      Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine') | Catalogue
    • RnT 302 p. 109

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

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

      Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute') | Catalogue
    • RnT 431 pp. 109-10

      Copy, headed The Masq[ue] of Vices, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

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

      Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go') | Catalogue
    • ShJ 128 p. 110

      Copy, untitled.

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

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?' | Catalogue
    • RnT 241 pp. 110-17

      Copy, subscribed Tho Randolph.

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

      Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch') | Catalogue
    • RnT 56 pp. 117-18

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolphe.

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

      Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna ('Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye') | Catalogue
    • HyJ 18.5 p. 118v

      A forgery by J.P. Collier.

      See Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 4).

      First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

      John Heywood, 'What hart can thynk or toong expres' | Catalogue
    • RnT 82 pp. 118-25

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

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

      Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson ('Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad') | Catalogue
    • JnB 357 pp. 127-8

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind') | Catalogue
    • JnB 41 p. 128

      Copy, untitled.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe') | Catalogue
    • PeW 246 pp. 130-4

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 94 p. 143-5

      Copy.

      Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 32, among Pembroke's Poems. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('Dear leave thy home and come with me') | Catalogue
    • CwT 1001 pp. 145-8

      Copy, headed Perswations to Loue.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2153 pp. 149-53

      Copy, headed Loues Progresse or Instructions in wooing to begin at the right end, 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') | Catalogue
    • ToA 85 p. 164

      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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 256 p. 169

      Copy, headed Englished and preceded by the Latin version headed In Eclipsem Solis Christo Patienti Contingentem, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?') | Catalogue
    • JnB 378 pp. 170-81

      Copy, headed Mr Ionsons farewell to the stage, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with the answer by Randolph (RnT 23), subscribed Ben: Jonson.

      First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

      Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage') | Catalogue
    • RnT 23 pp. 170-80

      Copy, headed Mr Randolophs Parody, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

      Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage') | Catalogue
    • StW 1412 pp. 171-81

      Copy, headed Mr Strouds Translation, on rectos only, facing Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed Willm Stroade.

      First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

      William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. ('Scenam defere Musa nauseatam') | Catalogue
    • RnT 413 pp. 171-81

      Copy, on rectos only, headed Mr Randolphs Translation, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated ('Eho jam satis & super Theatro') | Catalogue
    • WoH 211 p. 182

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Thus dazelled with height of place, subscribed Sr: Hen: Wotton.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 519 pp. 183-4

      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') | Catalogue
    • HeR 349 pp. 184-7

      Copy, subscribed Ro: Herricke.

      Printed from this MS in Farmer.

      First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

      Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene') | Catalogue
    • CwT 31 p. 188

      Copy, headed A Gentleman too a Chirurgian Letting his Mistris Blood, subscribed Tho: Cary.

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

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood') | Catalogue
    • CoR 417.5 p. 189

      Copy, headed On Mr: Francis Beaumonts death, by Dr Corbet added in another hand.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit') | Catalogue
    • CwT 635 pp. 190, 197

      Copy of the beginning and end, deleted; imperfect, lacking all pp. 191-6.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come') | Catalogue
    • GrJ 87 pp. 197-8

      Copy, headed To his false Mistris, ascribed to John Grange.

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

      John Grange, 'To the world Ile nowe discouer' | Catalogue
    • CoA 149 p. 212

      Copy, headed The prologue to ye late play acted before the Prince Charles at cambridge. 1641.

      Facsimile in Jean F. Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 31, p. 99.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?') | Catalogue
    • CoA 78 p. 213

      Copy, subscribed Cowley. Author.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 34 pp. 213-14

      Copy, subscribed Mr Denham Author.

      This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 51.

      First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.

      Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 14 pp. 216-26

      Copy of a 340-line version, beginning Sure wee haue poetts that did neuer dreame, subscribed Mr Denham (originally Dodderidge which is deleted).

      This MS collated in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 et seq. (and described pp. 51-3).

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

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 74 pp. 226-7

      Copy, headed Verses on a fart lett by Sr Henery Ludlow at a Parliament held: 1628 and here beginning Downe came graue Serieant 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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 520 p. 229

      Copy, ascribed to Richard Wheeler.

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

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

      Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste') | Catalogue
    • SaG 2 pp. 235-8

      Copy, subscribed G.S..

      Edited from this MS in Davis, loc. cit.

      First published in Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys and Two Uncollected Poems, HLQ, 12 (1948-9), 105-11 (pp. 109-11).

      George Sandys, A Dream ('As I one night in Bed, revolving lay') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.339

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

    c.1640s.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

    Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

    • AndL 41.5 f. 19v

      Copy, headed Dr: Androes Paraphrase on the Lords prayer, beginning If any be distrest, & faine would gather some comfort, let him hast vnto -- our ffather.

      Unpublished.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Paraphrase on the Lords Prayer | Catalogue
    • RaW 266 f. 20r

      Copy, headed in the margin Life's description.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion') | Catalogue
    • MrT 8 f. 24r

      Copy of the Latin epigram, followed by an English translation beginning Knowest thow a moneth should end thy dayes, all ascribed at the side to Sr. Tho: Moore.

      Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 130-1, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 56. Alivd ('Fleres, si scires unum tua tempora mensem') | Catalogue
    • GrF 5 f. 45r

      Copy, untitled.

      This sonnet first published in Martin Peerson, Mottects (London, 1630). Bullough, I, 134-5. Wilkes, I, 154.

      Fulke Greville, Caelica, Sonnet lxxxiv ('Farewell sweet Boy, comlaine not of my truth') | Catalogue
    • DaS 11 f. 90v

      Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed S.D.

      Grosart, I, 72-3. Sprague, p. 33, as Sonnet XLV.

      Samuel Daniel, Delia. Sonnet LIIII ('Care-charmer Sleepe, sonne of the sable night') | Catalogue
    • HyJ 15.8 f. 107r

      Copy, headed A discription of a most noble Ladye.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

      John Heywood, A song in praise of a Ladie ('Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone') | Catalogue
    • SuH 70.8 ff. 127v-8r

      Copy, untitled, a forgery by J.P. Collier.

      See Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 9).

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1559). Padelford, No. 13, pp. 63-4. Jones, pp. 1-2.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'When ragyng love with extreme payne' | Catalogue
    • CwT 900.3 f. 186v

      Copy, headed A charminge Beuty.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face') | Catalogue
    • CwT 287.5 f. 187r

      Copy, headed The flie.

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

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play') | Catalogue
    • CwT 831 f. 187v

      Copy, headed on A lady singinge to her Lute.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce') | Catalogue
    • FlP 17 f. 188r

      Extract, untitled and beginning at Canto II, stanza 7 (Fond men, whose wretched care the life soone ending).

      First published, as Brittain's Ida, ascribed to Edmund Spenser, [London], 1628. Boas, II, 343-63. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 305-24.

      Phineas Fletcher, Venus and Anchises: Brittain's Ida ('In Ida Vale (who knowes not Ida Vale?)') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1511 f. 188r

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed The departure from his Mrs.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night') | Catalogue
    • PeW 247 f. 188v

      Copy of the short version, untitled but with a marginal note Against Mrs Joseph, here beginning Nay pish, nay pewe nay faghs & will you? fie.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression') | Catalogue
    • BrN 16 f. 189v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 500; recorded in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 114.

      First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

      Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon ('Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)') | Catalogue
    • BrN 86 f. 192r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published as Of the foure Elements in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 55>. Authorship unknown.

      Nicholas Breton, Quatuor elementa ('The Aire with swete my sences doe delight') | Catalogue
    • SiP 129 f. 193r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T.S[?].

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561, and in Robertson, p. 438.

      Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 197.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 17 ('My sheepe are thoughts, which I both guide and serve') | Catalogue
    • EsR 76 ff. 194v-5r

      Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.

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

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

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 29 f. 195r

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio') | Catalogue
    • CoR 67.5 f. 196r-v

      Copy, headed The distracted puritan to ye tune of Joviall tinker, partly in double columns.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus') | Catalogue
    • CmT 26 f. 197v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

      Thomas Campion, 'Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me' | Catalogue
    • JnB 449 f. 197v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed in a later hand B Jonson.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CmT 53 f. 198v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

      First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

      Thomas Campion, 'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love' | Catalogue
    • DyE 87 f. 198v

      Copy.

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

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall' | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2318 f. 201r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee') | Catalogue
    • ShW 30 f. 203v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Rollins, p. 354.

      Sonnet 138 first published as poem 1 in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599).

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 138 ('When my love swears that she is made of truth') | Catalogue
    • PeW 150 f. 204r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love') | Catalogue
    • RaW 359 f. 205r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 83-4.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Who list to heare ('Who list to heare the sum of sorrowes state') | Catalogue
    • RnT 9 f. 205v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Deare doe not yr faire beowty wronge.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong') | Catalogue
    • RaW 482 f. 207r

      Copy, ascribed in another hand to W. R.

      Edited from this MS in Latham.

      First published in Latham (1951), p. 169, as a doubtfully ascribed fragment.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'So lies my lovinge heart conceald' | Catalogue
    • OvT 19 ff. 208v-10v

      Copy, headed Sr Tho: Overbury's wife.

      First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind') | Catalogue
    • RaW 62 f. 210v

      Copy, headed in the margin Tyme and here beginning Whie this is time that takes in trust, subscribed Sr W: Ral:.

      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' | Catalogue
    • DaJ 30 f. 214r

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio') | Catalogue
    • HlJ 0.3 f. 218r

      Copy.

      First published in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree (London, 1660). Wynter, IX, 699-700. Davenport, p. 155.

      Joseph Hall, Antheme III ('Leave O my soul this baser World below') | Catalogue
    • RaW 938 f. 221v

      Copy of part of a letter by Ralegh to James I, headed The Remaindr of Sr Walter Ralies ler begunn 5 leaues before, the earler part now lacking.

    • GrJ 55.5 ff. 229v-30r

      Copy, headed Choyce of a Mistresse.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris' | Catalogue
    • RaW 431 ff. 230v-1r

      Copy of lines 1-64, headed Canto.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 167-9.

      First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Like to a Ring without a finger' | Catalogue
    • CoR 746.8 f. 231v

      Copy, headed in the margin a messe of nonsense and here beginning Like to the tone of unspoke speeches.

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

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches') | Catalogue
    • StW 1031 f. 233r

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 122 f. 233r

      Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

      First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

      Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while') | Catalogue
    • JnB 397 f. 237r

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione ('Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?') | Catalogue
    • CwT 212.5 f. 240v

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay') | Catalogue
    • DrM 26 ff. 240v-1r

      Copy, headed A heart lost.

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

      Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 75 ff. 255v-6r

      Copy, headed The ffart.

      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') | Catalogue
    • KiH 236 ff. 257r-8v

      Copy, subscribed in a different hand Hen Kinge.

      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') | Catalogue
    • MoG 98 f. 260r

      Copy, headed Vpon the Crowne of a hatt dranck't in for want of a Cupp.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth') | Catalogue
    • CoR 153 ff. 260v-1v

      Copy, as by Dr Corbett.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • RnT 390 f. 261r

      Copy, headed Epigram made by Thomas Randolphe on the losse of his Little ffinger.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more') | Catalogue
    • KiH 75 f. 262r

      Copy, headed His Answer.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly') | Catalogue
    • DrW 117.35 f. 263r

      Copy, untitled.

      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') | Catalogue
    • RnT 266 ff. 263v-4r

      Copy, headed Mr Randolphs vses vpon his empty purse.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.

      Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse ('Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 30 f. 264v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.

      John Suckling, The constant Lover ('Out upon it, I have lov'd') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 12 f. 264v

      Copy, headed responsus.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.

      John Suckling, The Answer ('Say, but did you love so long?') | Catalogue
    • RaW 370 f. 265r

      Copy, headed Upon Cicells Death and here beginning Here lies Hobbinall or Shepherd whileare.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 146.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 118 f. 265v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

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

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

      John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 104 f. 266r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.

      Sir John Denham, To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Petition of the Poets ('After so many Concurring Petitions') | Catalogue
    • CaW 59 ff. 269v-70v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published as Verses on the death of the Right Valiant Sr Bevill Grenvill, Knight (1643). Works (1651), pp. 303-6. Evans, pp. 555-8.

      William Cartwright, Vpon the death of the Right valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill Knight ('Not to be wrought by Malice, Gaine, or Pride') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 244 f. 281r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596): see HrJ 317-24. 1618, Book I, No. 47. McClure No. 48, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 89, p. 125.

      Sir John Harington, Of Garlick to my Lady Rogers ('If Leekes you like, and doe the smell disleeke')
    • RaW 218 f. 281v

      Copy, headed in the margin A prooesie and here beginning The first day of the nex new yere.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 149 f. 282r

      Copy, untitled, with four additional lines and the marginal note A couplet or two fastned to Sr Io: Harrington his Epigra, to doe his Townes knight yeomans seruice?.

      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')
    • EaJ 54 ff. 286v-7r

      Copy, headed Vpon the Hearse of Wlm Ea: of Pembrooke.

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

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.341

    An octavo printed volume, formerly bound with an exemplum of Poëmata Petri Lotichii II (see SpE 65 and SpE 64.5) in 18th-century sheepskin, now in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

    This volume bears on the title-page Spenser's motto Immerito and the last blank leaf (now separated as Folger, MS X.d.520) bears Spenser's autograph copies of a letter and two Latin poems.

    The title-page inscribed Donu amiciss. viri Johannis Capelli. Label of J. Fazakerley of Eton, 1773. Also label of Coxe (sale by King, July 1816). Formerly Folger MS 1752.1.

    Discussed in Lee Piepho, Spenser's Books, TLS, 5 January 2001, p. 15.

    • SpE 64.8
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Spenser, Sabinus, Georgius. Poemata (Leipzig, [1563?])

  • MS V.a.342

    Copy, 77 quarto pages, in two professional secretary hands, one on pp. 3-63, 68-72 (with some deterioration of script on p. 55), the other on pp. 63-7, with a title-page in Middleton's hand A Game at Chesse As it was Acted Nine Dayes together Compos'de by Tho: Middleton, including the Induction and an Epilogue, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    [1624].

    This MS discussed in R.C. Bald, A New Manuscript of Middleton's Game at Chesse, MLR, 25 (1930), 474-8, 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.

    Facsimiles of the title-page in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XCIV(d-e); Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 90.

    • *MiT 17
      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 | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.344

    A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, in a single largely italic hand, 142 pages, in contemporary mottled calf gilt.

    Compiled by Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702).

    Mid-17th century.
    • RnT 61.5 pp. 58-9

      Copy, untitled, inscribed Mr Thomas Randulph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.

      Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano ('Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent') | Catalogue
    • JnB 769 passim

      Extracts from Jonson's works, including an example on p. 69.

    • ChG 34 passim

      Extracts from Chapman's works, including examples on pp. 31-2, 66, 74, 76, and 84.

    • SaG 19.5 passim

      Extracts, including examples on pp. 49-50, 55-6, 64, and 79.

      First published in London, 1636. Hooper, I, 91-195; II, 195-310.

      Some of Henry Lawes's musical settings published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Musical settings by Henry and William Lawes also published in Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (London, 1648).

      George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David ('That man is truly bless'd who never strays') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.345

    A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

    Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

    c.1630s.

    Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

    • DaJ 201 p. 4

      Copy, headed In iuuenem morte pemptu and here beginning As careful nurses in their beds do lay.

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

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1743 p. 6

      Copy, headed Vppon a criple and here beginning I can neither go nor stand ye criple cryes.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries') | Catalogue
    • CoR 131.5 p. 6

      Copy of lines 59-82, headed On a woman deformed wth ye Pocks, here beginning O thou deformd unwoman like disease, docketed in the top margin see more of these verses page 88.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • PeW 248 pp. 7-8

      Copy of the short version, headed A Coy mistress and here beginning Nay pish, nay pu, In fayth but will you? fie.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression') | Catalogue
    • CoR 375 p. 8

      Copy, headed Verses written on a lute she yt. owed it being absent and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gon.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 582 p. 10

      Copy, headed A sighe.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 292 pp. 13-14

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. verse employing a double sense], with a prose preamble concerning King Edward at Berkeley Castle, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

      First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

      Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')
    • RaW 267 p. 14

      Copy, headed Of man.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion') | Catalogue
    • MoG 28 pp. 16-17

      Copy, headed On King James, incomplete, subscribed See the rest of these verses pag 80.

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

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

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep') | Catalogue
    • PeW 151 p. 19

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love') | Catalogue
    • CoR 428 pp. 20-2

      Copy, headed Do: Corbet on Tom ye great bell of C:C:.

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

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle') | Catalogue
    • CoR 754 p. 23

      Copy, headed To the intricate example of policy, euen in this vniversity. ye plot of vnion, ye delighte & defenders of factions, ye freind of ppetual Rage, The reuiuers of Mallavil & macro, The subtil & sublimed corporacon of plot... [etc.].

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

      Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1744 p. 25

      Second copy, headed A Criple and here beginning I can neither goe nor stand ye criple cryes.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries') | Catalogue
    • RaW 471 p. 27

      Copy, headed A conference betwixt 2 louers, deleted.

      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' | Catalogue
    • CwT 228 p. 28
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 150 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed Of a Lady musing, with four additional lines.

      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 63 p. 31

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawlighes verses the nighte before he was beheaded in London 1619.

      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' | Catalogue
    • DrW 176.95 p. 33

      Copy of a version headed In Docett. Comitem Thesaur: and beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 52 p. 34

      Copy, headed A Country suter to his loue and here beginning fayre wench I can not court thye sprightly 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') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 234 p. 43

      Copy, headed The conference of 6 puritanicall wenches, partly deleted.

      First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

      Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
    • DnJ 3760.5 pp. 44-5

      Copy of an imitation, untitled, beginning The man and wife that kinde and louing are.

      Recorded in Deborah Aldrich Larson, John Donne and the Astons, HLQ, 55 (1992), 635-41 (p. 640). Complete facsimile in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), pp. 156-7.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 199 p. 47

      Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A [ ] sister wth one of her society, partly deleted.

      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')
    • HrJ 161 p. 51

      Copy, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 8. McClure No. 206, pp. 232-3. Kilroy, Book I, II No. 99ter, pp. 207-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that sought remedy at the Bathe ('A Lady that none name, nor blame none hath')
    • CwT 1265.8 p. 59

      Copy, headed Mr Lewis of Oriel vppon his loue who dyed before she was married.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see') | Catalogue
    • DrW 117.36 pp. 59-61

      Copy, headed of ye fiue senses by James Johnson 1623.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PoW 46 p. 62

      Copy, headed Dr Co. vppon his love: Mrs Poole ye Ld Shandoys sister.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS X).

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

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence' | Catalogue
    • WoH 34 p. 63

      Copy, headed Sr Hen: wootton on a pvate life.

      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') | Catalogue
    • PeW 270 p. 70

      Copy, headed A louers ditty in Despaire.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 102-3, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Song ('Come saddest thoughts possess my heart') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1846 p. 74

      Copy, headed A Louer on his supposed death.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 509 p. 75

      Copy of lines 9-32, headed A Description of ye hart, or rather loue in it and here beginning Ah what a trifle is a hart.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes') | Catalogue
    • MoG 29 p. 80

      Copy of the last ten lines, headed Epitaph on King James and here beginning ffor two and twenty yeares long care, inscribed in the margin See more of this pa: 16.

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

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

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 3187 pp. 80-1

      Copy, Dr Dunne to his mrs going to bed.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2220 pp. 81-2

      Copy, headed Idem to his mrs.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men') | Catalogue
    • BrW 32 pp. 82-4

      Copy, headed Dr Dunne, on ye death of his mrs.

      First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws') | Catalogue
    • CoR 132 pp. 84-5

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet on the death of ye Lady Hay.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • CoR 132.5 p. 88

      Copy of lines 83-100, headed On a woman disfigured wth ye smal pocks, here beginning Thou shouldst haue wrought on som such Lady mould, superscribed Part of ye former verses sup pag 6.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 1502 pp. 88-9

      Copy of a 42-line version, headed At the Departure of his mistres.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night') | Catalogue
    • RaW 526 pp. 90-1

      Copy, headed A silent wooer.

      This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart' | Catalogue
    • CwT 88 p. 92

      Copy, headed To his mistres.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold') | Catalogue
    • CoR 170 p. 93

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet on Bp Ravis.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke') | Catalogue
    • CoR 586 p. 95

      Copy, headed An Invocation of ye Ghost of Robert wisdom.

      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') | Catalogue
    • HrG 290.8 p. 103

      Copy, headed On the death of Mr. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together, unascribed.

      This MS recorded in Doelman.

      A twelve-line epitaph. First published in Baird W. Whitlock, The Authorship of the Couplet on Sir Albertus Morton and His Wife, N&Q, 226 (December 1981), 523-4, where (through a misreading of G. H. in HrG 290.6 as J. H.) it is attributed to John Hoskyns. Edited and attributed to George Herbert in James Doelman, Herbert's couplet?, TLS, 19 February 2010, p. 15.

      For lines 5-6, beginning The first deceased. He for a little try'd, a couplet which in various forms circulated independently for many years and has traditionally, though uncertainly, been associated with Sir Henry Wotton, see WoH 175-198.

      George Herbert, On the death of Mr. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together ('Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 312 p. 103

      Copy, headed On ye Q. of Scots Execution and here beginning When doom of death by iudgment soe appointed, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • KiH 343 pp. 104-6

      Copy, subscribed in monogram form HK.

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

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!') | Catalogue
    • CoR 113 p. 106

      Copy, headed In obitum Domi Thomae Ouerbury. Dr Corbet.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth') | Catalogue
    • CoR 764.2 p. 107

      Copy, headed Antidotum Cæcilianam. Dr Corbet.

      Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

      Edited in online Early Stuart Libels.

      Richard Corbett, 'When that rich soil of thine (now Sainted) kept' | Catalogue
    • RaW 371 p. 110

      Copy, headed In obitum Ro: Ceciliij., here beginning Here lyes old Hobinol our shephard while heere, and ascribed to Sr wall. Rawleigh.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 47, pp. 120-1. Recorded in Latham, p. 146.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere') | Catalogue
    • DkT 25 p. 111

      Copy, headed The remoual of her body from Richmond to white hal by water.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall') | Catalogue
    • CoR 253 p. 111

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet agt Dr Price Aniversaryes on Prince Henry.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on') | Catalogue
    • CoR 232 p. 112

      Copy, headed A Reply to ye Defence.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory') | Catalogue
    • CoR 320 pp. 113-15

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet to Mr Alesbury on ye Comet ibid.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine') | Catalogue
    • CoR 659 pp. 123-4

      Copy, headed In Eandem [i.e. on Mrs Mallet] Dr. Corbet.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold') | Catalogue
    • CoR 395 p. 124

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet. A Newyeares gift to ye Duke of Buckingham 1621.

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

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 225 p. 127

      Copy, headed On ye Lord Chancelour and here beginning Great Verulam is very lame ye gout of goout feeling.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling') | Catalogue
    • StW 1327 p. 131

      Copy, headed To his mistresse.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 3015 pp. 131-2

      Copy of a version, headed Dr Dunne on his Departure from his Loue and here beginning Dearest Loue, I doe not goe.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe') | Catalogue
    • CoR 345 pp. 135-6

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet of ye Princes iorney into Spaine.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CmT 226 p. 137

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Curt F. BĂĽhler, Four Elizabethan Poems, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 705).

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare' | Catalogue
    • LoT 6 pp. 137-8

      Copy, headed A Song and here beginning Now I see thy lookes are fained.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained') | Catalogue
    • CoR 718 p. 139

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet, on Com:.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne') | Catalogue
    • BcF 33 pp. 143-4

      Copy, headed Of mans misery Sr fr: Bacon:.

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

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man' | Catalogue
    • BmF 150.2 p. 144

      Copy, headed A charme ffran: Beaumont.

      Rejected from the canon in Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.

      Francis Beaumont, A Charm ('Sleep, old man, let silence charm thee') | Catalogue
    • StW 812 p. 145

      Copy, headed On Dr Hut: daughter of C.C..

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone') | Catalogue
    • ShW 14 p. 145

      Copy, headed Spes Altera A song.

      This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Edited and discussed in Mary Hobbs, Shakespeare's Sonnet II: A Sugred Sonnet?, N&Q, 224 (1979), 112-13.

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

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2017 p. 146

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2056 pp. 146-7

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse') | Catalogue
    • CoR 478 p. 147

      Copy.

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

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke') | Catalogue
    • PeW 137 p. 147

      Copy, headed Amintas & Alexis.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept') | Catalogue
    • CoR 97 pp. 147-8

      Copy, headed An Elegy on Q: Anns Death.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you') | Catalogue
    • WoH 108 pp. 148-9

      Copy, headed On ye Queen of Bohemia Sr Hen: Wootton.

      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') | Catalogue
    • CwT 112 pp. 152-3

      Copy, headed Palinodia Loues folly.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

      Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee') | Catalogue
    • PoW 93 p. 155

      Copy, headed An elegy on the death of King James.

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

      Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away') | Catalogue
    • HrG 320 p. 156

      Copy, headed Anagramma Romæ. p G Herbert.

      An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.

      George Herbert, Lucus, XXV. Roma. Anagr. ('Roma, tuum nomen quam non pertransijt Oram') | Catalogue
    • BrW 6 pp. 159, 167, 169

      Extracts, comprising (p. 159) versions of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed On a Ring and here beginning Nature hath fram'd a Jem beyond compare; lines 479-80, headed On a Nose gay with a netle in it and here beginning Such is ye posy loue composes; (p. 167) Book I, Song 1, lines 241-2, headed of a fayr woman, here beginning The powers aboue deny, and followed by four other lines not found in the printed text; and (p. 169) the same six lines followed by a further six lines, headed Vppon a fayre woman and inscribed in the margin al this is taken out of brittanis pastorals; c.1630.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II | Catalogue
    • B&F 29 p. 160

      Copy of the first stanza, here beginning Dearest tel me what is loue, together with the second stanza of the version which appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle (III, 29-42).

      This MS collated in Beaurline and in Cyrus Hoy's edition of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Bowers, I, 93.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 217-328 (pp. 258-9). Bowers, I, 550-650, ed. L.A. Beaurline (pp. 583-4). A version of this song appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, III, 29-42 (London, 1613).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, II, ii, 160-80. Song ('Tell me dearest what is Love?') | Catalogue
    • HrJ 211 p. 171

      Copy.

      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')
    • HrJ 93 p. 171

      Copy.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • RaW 164 pp. 176-7

      Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading Sir Walter Rawley, subscribed See ye rest immediately before.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest') | Catalogue
    • JnB 642 pp. 178-9

      Copy, headed Ben John: The Divells feast.

      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') | Catalogue
    • EaJ 78 pp. 181-218

      Copy of 45 characters, with a title-page and list of charactes.

      First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

    • StW 960 pp. 228-31

      Copy.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 2950 p. 237

      Copy of an 18-line version, headed Dr Dunne of his mrs rising and here beginning Ly stil my deare why dost thou rise.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise') | Catalogue
    • CoR 418.8 p. 271

      Copy, headed On Mr Beaumont.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit') | Catalogue
    • HoJ 15 p. 273

      Copy, headed Vppon a Locksmith.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late' | Catalogue
    • RaW 351 p. 277

      Copy, headed On the Lord Noel.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty' | Catalogue
    • StW 403 p. 278

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that sung very wel.

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

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears') | Catalogue
    • JnB 398 p. 282

      Copy.

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

      Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione ('Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?') | Catalogue
    • BrW 49 p. 283

      Copy, headed On Smith of magdalens.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 ('Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd') | Catalogue
    • CmT 126 p. 284

      Copy, headed Old wooing.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though you are yoong and I am olde' | Catalogue
    • TiC 34 pp. 284-5

      Copy, headed Mr Tichbornes Elegy in the tower.

      This MS text collated in Hirsch.

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

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares') | Catalogue
    • JnB 462 p. 286

      Copy, headed A health to a louer.

      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') | Catalogue
    • JnB 547 pp. 286-7

      Copy, headed A Louer.

      Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.

      Ben Jonson, To the Same ('Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer') | Catalogue
    • CwT 785 pp. 293-4

      Copy, here beginning In yor faire cheekes 2 pits doe ly.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye') | Catalogue
    • StW 330 p. 297

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin') | Catalogue
    • StW 1031.5 p. 302

      Copy, headed 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') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 11 p. 305

      Copy, headed On Cate.

      Krueger, p. 132.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde') | Catalogue
    • PeW 280 pp. 307-8

      Copy.

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

    • PeW 309 p. 313

      Copy, headed Good Aduice to a Gentlewoman being at Court.

      Poems (1660), pp. 114-15, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Joshua Sylvester. It appears in Sylvester's Du Bartas his divine Weekes and Workes (1641), p. 651. The commonest version in MSS begins Beware fair maids of musky courtiers' oaths. There are numerous MS texts of this poem, not listed here, some of them recorded in Krueger.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To a Lady residing at the Court ('Each greedy hand doth catch and pluck the flowr') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.348

    An octavo volume of state tracts, papers speeches, relating particularly to Spain, closely written in possibly a single cursive mixed hand, v + 175 leaves, in modern half calf on marbled boards.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (f. iv) Ex Dono Egid: Clotterbooke [i.e. Giles Clutterbuck] and Robt: Hyde 1678. Phillipps MS 6902. Inscription on f. ir: This MS. was given by the Rev Mr Chapman (son to Dr Chapman of Holy=well) to J Price Sept. 7th., 1790. late of Trinity College State Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford lately deceased.

  • MS V.a.355

    Copy, in a secretary hand, with a title-page, The progresse to Parnassus as it was acted in St John's Colledge in Cambridge Ano 160i, 26 quarto leaves, in late 18th-century half calf.

    c.1606.

    Inscribed J. Symones Grays Inn 1795. Bookplate of John Towneley of Towneley, Lancashire. Sotheby's, 28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 122, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

    The third part of a trilogy, possibly partly written by Hall. This play was twice printed in Cambridge in 1606. For the first two parts see ShW 118. The whole trilogy is edited from the MS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).

  • MS V.a.361

    A quarto volume of chemical receipts, in several largely italic hands, 187 leaves (including a seven-page index and numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, silver clasps.

    Mid-17th century.

    Bookplate of Sr Edw: Littleton Bart, of Pileton Hall, Staffordshire. Probably the MS sold at Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

    • RaW 722 f. 38r

      Copy of a receipt for A Excellent Cordiall ielly a Comforter of the harte and helpe to digesture > of Sr water raleigh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.399

    A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscribed Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

    • RaW 423.5 f. 9v-10r

      Copy of three poems elaborating at greater length on the original version attributed to Ralegh, the first beginning Faine woulde I shoote in a bowe yt I knowe.

      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' | Catalogue
    • RaW 436 f. 10r-v

      Copy, headed Tam arte quam Marte:.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 503-10.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, Raleigh's disputed Authorship of A Description of Loue, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell' | Catalogue
    • CmT 227 f. 11v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning What if a day or a weeke or a year.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare' | Catalogue
    • DyE 54 f. 12r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is' | Catalogue
    • RaW 5.5 f. 16v

      Copy of a version beginning As you come fro Walsingham.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'As you came from the holy land' | Catalogue
    • CmT 126.5 f. 51r

      Copy, headed An oulde man to a yonge woman.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though you are yoong and I am olde' | Catalogue
    • NaT 4 ff. 53r-7r

      Copy, headed The matter beginnes heare: Nashes Dilldo, with the dedicatory To ye right Hobl. ye Lorde Strainge (Pardon sweete flowre of matchlesse poetrie).

      This MS discussed and collated in Robert C. Evans and Kurt R. Niland, The Folger Text of Thomas Nashe's Choise of Valentines, PBSA, 87 (1993), 363-74.

      Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

      Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie') | Catalogue
    • DaJ 8 ff. 59v-62v

      Copy of 26 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6, 8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 26-8, 31, 35-7, 39, 41-2, 61-2), here beginning Flee merrie Muse vnto yt merrie towne.

      This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 439.

      58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

    • CoR 68 ff. 64v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus') | Catalogue
    • EsR 77 f. 91r-v

      Copy of an adapted thirteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning There was a time when sylly Bees coulde speake.

      This MS text recorded (as very corrupt) in May, p. 111.

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

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

  • MS V.a.402

    A quarto volume of state letters and speeches, in a single professional italic hand, 69 leaves, in old half calf on marbled boards.

    c.1626.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf 1626: scriptu est Bri: Caue: forke, references to Brian Cave elsewhere also suggesting he was the compiler.

  • MS V.a.409

    An oblong quarto songbook, 38 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • SuJ 168 f. 3r-v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Beaurline.

      Beaurline, Plays, p. 143. The song published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).

      John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 53-7. Song ('A Round, A Round, A Round') | Catalogue
    • SuJ 172 f. 5r

      Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning Come let's away, to the Tavern I say, with two additional lines.

      This MS collated in Beaurline.

      First published, with a separate title-page, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 1-32 (p. 27). The song published in A Musicall Banquet (London, 1651).

      John Suckling, The Sad One, Act V, scene v, lines 31-4. Song ('Come, come away, to the Tavern I say') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.411

    An oblong octavo music part book, in a single hand, five leaves foliated 9-12 (plus blanks), in half morocco.

    Compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), being leaves detached from four of his MS autograph music part books, which are now at the University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

    c.1660.

    Bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.H. Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Owned (and detached) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Formerly Folger MS 747.

    This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 129, 131.

    • ShW 93 ff. 9v, 10r, 11r, 12v

      Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

      Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Henry V and Twelfth Night.

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I, ii, 400-9. Song ('Full fathom five thy father lies') | Catalogue
    • ShW 103 ff. 9v, 10v, 11v, 13v

      Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.412

    An oblong duodecimo musical part book (tenor), in a neat italic hand, 76 pages (including blanks).

    c.1600.
    • SoR 267.5 p. 53

      Copy of the opening lines only, untitled and here beginning O wretched man (why loust ye earthly life, in a musical setting by Jo: Wilby.

      First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.418

    A quarto volume of documents by or relating to Ralegh, 81 pages in all, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Comprising printed exempla of A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Returne (London, 1618) and The humble petition...of Sir Lewis Stucley (London, 1618), with ten MS leaves at the beginning and two at the end, in at least two secretary and italic hands.

    c.1620.

    Formerly Folger MS Add. 402.

    • RaW 781 ff. [1r-4v]

      Copy, in a small secretary hand.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618) | Catalogue
    • RaW 64 f. [4v]

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Verses made by himselfe.

      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' | Catalogue
    • RaW 710.238 ff. [8r-10r]

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh.

      Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana | Catalogue
    • RaW 940 ff. [11r-12r]

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, 1603, in a cursive secretary hand, on three pages of two leaves after the printed Declaration.

  • MS V.a.421

    A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum.

    c.1608-12.

    Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

    • SoR 303 ff. 1r-14r

      Copy, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

      Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589) | Catalogue
    • SoR 316 ff. 15r-53r

      Copy of a version, as written by Robarte Southewell, transcribed from the first edition, with changes made by an Anglican editor.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

      First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

    • SoR 312 ff. 54r-61v

      Copy, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

      Edited from this MS in Brown (1973), with a facsimile of f. 54r as the frontispiece.

      Southwell's letter to Cecil from the Tower, 6 April 1593, beginning Honorable Good Sir: The usual effect of a languishing and afflicted life is an unwillingness to live.... First published in Brown, Two Letters (1973), p. 75-85.

  • MS V.a.437

    Leaves extracted from three oblong quarto music part books, now interleaved, in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards.

    c.1675.

    Owned (and extracted) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.

    • ShW 110 ff. 1r-6r (rectos only)

      Copy in a musical setting (? by John Wilson), untitled.

      William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, iv, 218-30. Song ('Lawn as white as driven snow') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.479

    Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on 41 quarto leaves, subscribed Mensis Decembris, et Anni Domini 1591 Die vltimo, in half-calf marbled boards.

    c.1591-1600.

    Sotheby's, 16 September 1983, lot 00, to H. D. Lyons. Formerly Folger MS Add. 832.

    • SoR 307.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (by a secret English press) 1595 [for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.505

    A quarto-size guardbook of miscellaneous printed and MS leaves, 65 pages, in 19th-century half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

    Owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.

    • RnT 351.5 p. 27

      Copy, on a leaf (f. 9r-v) extracted from an octavo verse miscellany which is now Folger MS V.a.96.

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

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.511

    A quarto volume of Elizabeth Richardson's instructions for her children, 86 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt with initials E A.

    Acquired in 1969 from Hammond, bookseller.

    • *RiE 2 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      A quarto volume, entitled (f. 1v) Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, Directing to the performance of our duties, towardes God and Man drawne out of ye holy Scripture..., in two neat italic hands, predominantly Elizabeth Ashburnham's and with her copious autograph revisions throughout, inscribed by her (f. 2r) written at Ashbornham in Sussex anno. domin 1606. p. Elizabeth Ashbornham and the volume subscribed (f. 86v) Finis. Elizabeth Ashbornham, two other hands adding (f. 6r) a list of plate dated The 6th of Feby. 1699 and some even later scribbling (ff. 54r-57v passim) including a list of books.

      This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 2r, in Victoria E. Burke, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's motherlie endeauors in Manuscript, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113. A facsimile of f. 2r in Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), p. 253. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

      Unpublished.

      Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), Instructions for my children, or any other Christian | Catalogue
    • RiE 1 ff. 64v-85v

      Elizabeth Richardson's précis of, and meditation on, the Countess of Pembroke's translation, in an unidentified hand, with her autograph corrections, headed A discourse of ye teadiousnes of life and profitt of death and listed in her table of contents at the end (f. 86v) as a Treatise declaring the troble of life, and profit of death. Finis. Elizabeth: Ashborn ham.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 84r, in Margaret P. Hannay, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke's Discourse, EMS, 9 (2000), 114-28.

      Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), A discourse of ye teadiousnes of life and profitt of death | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.525

    A quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs and aphorisms, in a single secretary hand, 70 leaves, in vellum boards.

    c.1625.

    Inscribed (f. 69v) this was one of mr edmond day booke and Mrs day gaue it me when he die. Bookplates of John Leevsay and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector.

    • HlJ 76 passim

      Extracts from Joseph Hall 1st Vol, Books I -III, including examples in the MS ff. 1r-11, 30r-7.

  • MS V.a.532

    Extracts from Sidney, in a predominantly secretary hand, on the verso of the first rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Bernardo Tasso, Le lettere (Venice, 1585), an octavo in quarter calf on marbled boards.

    Early 17th century.

    Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

    Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

    • SiP 5.8 [extract 1]

      Copy of lines 11-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning Look at my h~ f n suc quintce but kno y I in, derived from an early quarto edition.

      Ringler, pp. 178-9.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 28 ('You that with allegorie's curious frame') | Catalogue
    • SiP 5.5 [extract 2]

      Copy of parts of lines 3-4, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning my ow wri lik bad sr shew my b~, derived from an early quarto edition.

      Ringler, p. 175.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 21 ('Your words my friend (right healthfull caustiks) blame') | Catalogue
    • SiP 7.5 [extract 3]

      Copy of lines 9-12, 21-9, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning hir tongu wak stil refu. giv frank nig no, derived from an early quarto edition.

      Ringler, pp. 202-3.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song ii ('Have I caught my heav'nly jewell') | Catalogue
    • SiP 12.5 [extract 4]

      Copy of lines 45-8, 53-66, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning grt o grt but spe (al) fail me fear on to pas, derived from an early quarto edition.

      Ringler, pp. 217-21.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song viii ('In a grove most rich of shade') | Catalogue
    • SiP 5.3 [extract 5]

      Copy of lines 13-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning And streight therewt like, derived from an early quarto edition.

      Ringler, p. 173.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 17 ('His mother deare Cupid offended late') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.537

    A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various secretary hands, x + 523 pages, in contemporary limp vellum inscribed Liber B.

    Some of the items copied from manuscripts of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, and of the Aske family. A list of books at the end, with dates 1642-54, includes references to Robert Cotton, Sir Hugh Cholmley, and Sir Gervase Clifton (who hath ye booke).

    c.1627-52.

    Owned by the Fairfax family of Yorkshire. Partly compiled by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) and with annotations by his brother Ferdinando (1584-1648), second Lord Fairfax. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11138. Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 406, sold to Downing. Bonham's, 18 March 2008, lot 250.

    • CtR 180.5 pp. 271-82

      Copy, in two cursive secretary hands, subscribed with a note about the tract's presentation to the King on 29 January and Council meeting on 17 March, inscribed in the margin By Sr Robt Cotton and i Car R 1625.

      Facsimile of p. 282 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy | Catalogue
    • CtR 415 pp. 283-310

      Copy, in a secretary hand, as written by Sr: Robert Cotton knight and Barronnett.

      Facsimile of p. 283 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

      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 | Catalogue
    • RaW 602 pp. 429-52

      Copy, in a competent secretary hand, with dedicatory epistle to James I, with an affixed slip of replacement text on p. 447, inscribed in the margin Sr Walt Rawley.

      A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.545

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts under headings, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 92 leaves, paginated 1-89 then foliated 3-49, in modern wrappers.

    Early 17th century.

    Formerly MS Add. 774.

    Discussed in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (p. 460 et seq.), with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 464.

    • SiP 109.5 passim

      A series of references to Arcadia under headings (Defensio, Expurgatio, Narratoria, Disputatoria, Gratulatoria, etc.), on pages including ff. 5v, 7r, 10r, 11r, 15v, 16r, 18r, 23r, 25r, 26r, and 31r-2r.

      Inserted in the 1693 edition of Arcadia, Book III, between OA 65 and OA 66. Ringler, Other Poems No. 5, pp. 256-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, New Arcadia, in Third Eclogues ('The ladd Philisides') | Catalogue

  • MS V.a.605

    Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 32 folio pages.

    c.1625-30s.

    Sold by B.A. Seaby Ltd at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 554, to Blackwell. Subsequently owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Books and Manuscripts (Winter 2008-9), item 61.

    This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 163. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 259 (No. 98). A photocopy example is in the British Library, RP 9403 (ii).

    • RaW 639
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

  • V.a.655

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on c.244 oblong octavo pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Early 17th century.

    Once owned by the Faunce-Delaune family of Sharsted Court, Sittingbourne, Kent. Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 17, to Quaritch.

    Facsimile example of the last page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

    • HyT 3.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, anonymously, as Loues Schoole [?1600]. Edited from an early printed text (British Library, C.39.a.37) by M.L. Stapleton, as Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Am atoria (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000).

      Thomas Heywood, Ovid's De Arte Amandi or, The Art of Love ('If there be any in this multitude')

  • V.a.654

    A semi-calligraphic fair copy of the verse translation, with accompanying original Latin text, 162 quarto pages (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt bearing the Royal Arms of James I.

    The presentation copy, made for the instruction of Prince Henry and presented for that purpose to his father James I, complete with a five-page signed autograph dedicatory epistle to the King; the text set out systematically, the left page of each opening bearing Harington's autograph verse translation, the facing right page bearing the original Latin text in the italic hand of his servant Thomas Combe surrounded on three sides by Harington's predominantly secretary autograph glosses and commentary, followed on 66 pages by a series of seven predominantly autograph prose appendices.

    [1604].

    Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add. MS 23, among the papers of the Trumbull family, Marquesses of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Possibly once owned by William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), British Resident at Brussels.

    Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 224 (unsold), and 13 December 1990, lot 10.

    Facsimiles of various pages in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XVII, pp. 126-7; in Sotheby's sale catalogues; in Cauchi, pp. lviii-lix; and in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 104). A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 5554.

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

      A verse translation in 134 eight-line stanzas, with seven supplementary prose essays on related topics: (1) Of Enchauntements, and prophecies. (2) Of funerals. (3) Of hel and the state of the ded. (4) Of Paradise and the state of the godly. (5) Of the sowl of man and the original thereof. (6) Of the Citty and Empyre of Room. And (7) Of reeding poetry.

      Edited, as The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid translated and commented on by Sir John Harington (1604), by Simon Cauchi (Oxford, 1991).

      Sir John Harington, Virgil's Aeneid. Book VI. ('While thus with tears hee spake, his Navy glydes')

  • V.a.659

    Autograph letter signed, sending a copy of a letter to Sir Dennis Gawden for Sir Robert Howard, 18 February 1672[/3].

    1673.

  • V.a.658

    Copy, in a secretary hand, 64 folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

    Headed A Justification of Queene Eliz: in relation to ye affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes.

    Owned and inscribed in 1867 by Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, Bt, MP (1811-72), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire.

    Edited from this MS (described as the original MS, but also as a copy of some other MS.) in Camden Society edition. Recorded (as Accounts relating to Mary Queen of Scots while prisoner in England) in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 53a, and in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii (n).

    • PtG 4.9
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

      George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

  • V.a.664

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 26 June 1675.

    1675.

    Sotheby's, 14 July 2011, lot 24, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

    • *MaA 555.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

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