The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239

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EL 1 .A2e, item 1

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached).
c.1572-80s.
Stern, p. 209.
- *HvG 63
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, [Dionysius Periegetes]. The surveye of the world, or situation of the earth, so much as is inhabited...First written in Greeke by Dionise Alexandrine, and now englished by Thomas Twine (London, 1572)
EL1 .A2e, item 2

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, signed and dated by Harvey 1580, incorporating (with separate title-page) The Post for diuers partes of the world, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached).
c.1580s.
Stern, p. 233.
- *HvG 147
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, [Rowlands, Richard]. The Post of the World. Wherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade & traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their Mynts: with al their Martes and Fayres. And the Raignes of all the kings of England (London, 1576)
EL1 .A2e, item 3

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached).
c.1576.
Stern, p. 216.
- *HvG 93
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, [Grafton, Richard]. A brief treatise conteinyng many proper Tables, and easie rules, verye necessarye and nedefull, for the use and commoditie of al people, collected out of certaine learned mens works (London, 1576)
EL1 .A2e, item 4

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached).
1578.
The title-page bears Harvey's inscription Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578.

Stern, p. 237.
- *HvG 162
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Turler, Jerome. The Traveiler...divided into two Bookes. The first conteyning a notable discourse of the maner and order of traveiling oversea, or into straunge and forein Countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious Realme of Naples in Italy (London, [1575])
EL1 .A2e, item 5

Autograph annotations and marginalia, an octavo bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached).
c.1573-80s.
Stern, pp. 224-5.
- *HvG 124
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Llwyd, Humphrey. The Breviary of Britayne...Contayning a learned discourse of the variable state, & alteration thereof; under divers, as wel natural; as forren princes, & conquerors...Writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh...and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne (London, 1573)
EL1 .W753a 567, item 1

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf.
c.1567-80s.
Stern, pp. 238-9.
- *HvG 169
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Art of Rhetorike, for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence (London, 1567)
EL1 .W753a 567, item 2

Autograph annotations and marginalia, including notes in apparently two other secretary hands on Syr Thomas Mores Jestes, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf.

Stern, p. 239.
- *HvG 170
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Gabriel Harvey, Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logike (London, 1567)
EL2 f.K48f

Thomas Killigrew's own exemplum of Four New Playes (London, 1666) bound with The Imperial Tragedy (London, 1669), all but one play (item 4, Pandora, 1666) with his autograph insertions.
c.1666-69.
Inscribed on the title-page Anglesey given me by the worthy author. Sept. 17. 1670. Sotheby's, 11 March 1884 (Baron Brown Mill Library sale). Afterwards owned by Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905), actor. Christie's, 21 February 1899.

Discussed in Joseph S. Johnston, Jr, Sir William Killigrew's Revised Copy of his Four New Plays: Confirmation of His Claim to The Imperial Tragedy, Modern Philology, 74 (1976-7), 72-4, and in John Horden and J.P. Vander Motten, Five New Playes: Sir William Killigrew's Two Annotated Copies, The Library, 6th Ser., 11/3 (September 1989), 253-71.
- *KiW 15 item 1
  Autograph
  
  Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), including a page of MS dialogue on the verso of the title-page, occasional new lines and stage directions in MS (including examples on pp. 2-5, 7, 12, 20 and probably 26), and a quarto-sized leaf of MS dialogue tipped-in before p. 5.
  
  First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).
  
  Sir William Killigrew, The Siege of Urbin
- *KiW 7 item 2
  Autograph
  
  Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning Ladyes, we have made choyce to shew this Daye) signed W: K:, on a quarto leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Epilogue (beginning Our Author, sent his Epelogue so late), also signed W: K:, on a quarto leaf tipped-in at the end.
  
  The verses edited from this MS in Joseph S. Johnston Jr and J.P. Vander Motten, Some Unpublished Restoration Prologues and Epilogues: New Light on the Stage History of Sir William Killigrew's Plays, Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 159-63.
  
  First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).
  
  Sir William Killigrew, Selindra
- *KiW 4 item 3
  Autograph
  
  Autograph additions, in a printed text of Love and Friendship (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning Though Most men Love, and some doe Frindship owne), signed W: K:, on an octavo-size leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Prologue (beginning Since Presidents, be as knowne Lawes alowd), also signed W: K:, on a tipped-in quarto leaf at the end.
  
  The verses edited from this MS in Joseph S. Johnston Jr and J.P. Vander Motten, Some Unpublished Restoration Prologues and Epilogues: New Light on the Stage History of Sir William Killigrew's Plays, Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 159-63.
  
  First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).
  
  Sir William Killigrew, Ormasdes or Love and Friendship
- *KiW 2 item 5
  Autograph
  
  Autograph additions, in a printed text (1669), lacking the original title-page, the title in Killigrew's hand facing the Dramatis Personæ, with some corrections or revisions by him (pp. 13, 21, 47), and signed by him at the end (p. 51) W^m: Killigrew.
  
  First published London, 1669.
  
  Sir William Killigrew, The Imperial Tragedy
MS 232/14

A duodecimo miscellany, closely written in a minute hand from both ends, 152 pages, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Compiled by T. E., a member of St John's College, Oxford
c.1655.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.
- ShJ 114 pp. 35-6
  
  Copy, headed A Song on Prince Charles his birth and here beginning Welfare y^e Muses w^ch in well chimed verse.
  
  This MS recorded (as M540) in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
  
  James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
- WoH 58.5 pp. 78-77 rev.
  
  Copy, headed An ode to the King, at his return, subscribed J R.
  
  First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')
- ShJ 219 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy, with full title and here beginning Now did heavens Charioter y^e day.
  
  The first line sometimes reading Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr.
  
  James Shirley, A breif expression of the delight apprehended by the Authour att the seeing of the Solemne triumphs of the gent of the Innes of Court riding with the Masque presented before his Ma^tie: Feb: 3, 1633 ('Now did Heavens Charioteer, the great daies Starr')
MS 239/4

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 517 leaves, in reversed calf.

No. 11 inscribed Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in y^e hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet.

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.
- BcF 173 No 1
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 40 leaves, the title-page inscribed in another hand By Francis Bacon.
  
  A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.
  
  Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain
- CtR 29 No. 3
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Propositions presented to Prince Henry...Answered and Confuted by S^r Ro: Cotton K^t & Baronet, on 43 leaves, docketed at the end Plegi Martij 9^no 1673/4. Jo: Witham.
  
  A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace
- RaW 669 No. 4
  
  Copy, headed Of Spaine & y^e Netherlands by S^r W. Raleigh 1^o Jac., in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 15 leaves, docketed at the end Plegi febr. 25. 1673/4 Jo: Witham.
  
  A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
- RaW 1116 No. 5
  
  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, on seven leaves, lacking a title-page, docketed at the end Plegi J. W:.
  
  Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 102).
  
  A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine
- CtR 514 No. 13
  
  Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page Sir Robert Cotton's Advise concerning y^e executing or imprisoning of Iesuites 1613, on twenty folio leaves, subscribed An^o Dni 1613. Aug 11. R. C., and docketed at the end pelegi. febr. 2. 1673 Jo: Witham.
  
  Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
- HoH 17 pp. 122-7
  
  Copy.
  
  A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
MS 239/16

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.
c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
- DrJ 247.2 p. 5
  
  Copy of the speech, untitled, subscribed M^r Driden.
  
  Kinsley, II, 561, and California, XV (1976), pp. 299-300, both as Mercury's Song to Phædra (Fair Iris I love, and hourly I dye). Hammond & Hopkins, III, 239.
  
  John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act IV, scene i, lines 482-93. Song ('For I'ris I Sigh, and hourly Dye')
- RaW 92 p. 6
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleigh the night before his death.
  
  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'
- BcF 43 pp. 6-7
  
  Copy, headed The World, subscribed Fran: L^d 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'
- RaW 314 p. 7
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Sir W. Raleigh.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 157.
  
  First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
- CoA 87.5 p. 8
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed A: Cowley.
  
  First published, at the end of the essay Of Liberty, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.
  
  Abraham Cowley, 'For the few Houres of Life allotted me'
- DaJ 207 p. 9
  
  Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As carefull Nurses on 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')
- DnJ 1586 p. 10
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r. Donne.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
- WoH 54 p. 11
  
  Copy, headed A Hymn made by S^r H: Wotton in y^e time of is sickness.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')
- WoH 166 pp. 11-13
  
  Copy, headed An other Hymn made by him on the same occasion.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
- WoH 44 p. 18
  
  Copy, subscribed H: Wotton.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- DrJ 294.8 p. 22
  
  Extract from a speech by St Catherine in Act IV, scene ii, eight lines here beginning Thus with short plummits heavens deep well we sound, untitled, subscribed M^r Driden.
  
  First published in London, 1670. California, X (1970), pp. 105-93.
  
  John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr
- PsK 594 pp. 22-3
  
  Extracts from poems.
  
  Katherine Philips, Extracts
- CoA 102.5 p. 23
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. ('Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say')
- PsK 131 pp. 24-6
  
  Copy, subscribed M^rs. P:.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.
  
  Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
- PsK 343 pp. 26-9
  
  Copy, subscribed M^rs. K: P.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.
  
  Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
- CoA 99.5 p. 29
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed A: C:.
  
  First published, in the essay Of Greatness, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 428.
  
  Abraham Cowley, 'If ever I more Riches did desire'
- CoA 108.5 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy, subscribed A: C:.
  
  First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 10. Ep. 47 ('Since dearest Friend, 'tis your desire to see')
- CoA 194.5 p. 31
  
  Copy of stanza 9, eight lines here beginning This only grant me.
  
  First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 48-50. Sparrow, pp. 9-12. Stanzas 9-11 (beginning This only grant me, that my means may lye) reprinted in the essay Of My self, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 456-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 70-1.
  
  Abraham Cowley, A Vote ('Lest the misconstring world should chance to say')
- CoA 294 pp. 31-2, 35
  
  Extracts from Cowley's works.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
- CoA 171.5 p. 33
  
  Copy, subscribed A: C:.
  
  First published, in the essay Of Obscurity, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act. 2.Chor. ('Upon the slippery tops of humane State')
- BrT 0.9 p. 36
  
  Copy, headed D^r Browns dormative to bedward.
  
  Cited in Religio Medici as Browne's Colloquy with God and the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. The poem was also published later, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693), in an anonymous musical setting. Edited in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Geoffrey Keynes [1st edition, 6 vols, London, 1928-31], 2nd edition, 4 vols (London, 1964), I, pp. 89-90.
  
  First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.
  
  Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God ('The night is come like to the day')
- PsK 184 pp. 37-40
  
  Copy, headed La grandeur d'esprit, subscribed M^rs. P:.
  
  First published, as La Grandeur d'esprit, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as A Resvery. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.
  
  Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')
- WoH 250 pp. 41-2
  
  Copy, headed Contempt of y^e World, subscribed By S^r Kenelme Digby.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- CoA 193.5 p. 43
  
  Copy, subscribed A: C:.
  
  First published in Poems, by Several Hands (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 448-53.
  
  Abraham Cowley, To the Royal Society ('Philosophy the great and only Heir')
- WaE 699 pp. 43-4
  
  Extract, headed On Poetry and beginning at line 17 (here Chast moral writing we may learn from hence), subscribed M^r Waller.
  
  First published in Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, Horace's Art of Poetry. Made English (London, 1680). Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 86-8.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica. and of the Use of Poetry ('Rome was not better by Horace taught')
- WaE 160 pp. 45-6
  
  Extract, headed On y^e Scriptures, beginning at line 15 (As late philosophy our globe has graced), subscribed m^r Waller.
  
  First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Divine Love. Six Cantos ('The Grecian muse has all their gods survived')
- KiH 204.9 p. 48
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy vpon S^r Water R:, subscribed B^p. King.
  
  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')
- KiH 382.5 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p. King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.
  
  Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')
- KiH 486.5 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p King.
  
  First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
  
  Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
- DrJ 102.3 pp. 54-5
  
  Copy.
  
  Kinsley, IV, 1740-1. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 28-9.
  
  John Dryden, The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at Bath, and is there Interr'd ('Below this Marble Monument, is laid')
- DrJ 43.5 p. 57
  
  Copy, as by M^r Dryden.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 845. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 243-4.
  
  John Dryden, An Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore ('Fair, Kind, and True, a Treasure each alone')
- WaE 288 p. 67
  
  Copy, headed M^r. Wallers last Verses.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')
- DrJ 102.8 p. 69
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a young Lady Inter'd at y^e Bath.
  
  First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 386-7.
  
  John Dryden, A New Song ('Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen')
- DrJ 9.5 pp. 70-3
  
  Copy, headed The Character of a good Parson imitated from Chaucer, and inlarged by M^r. Dryden.
  
  First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1736-40. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 559-66.
  
  John Dryden, The Character of a Good Parson. Imitated from Chaucer, And Inlarg'd ('A parish-priest, was of the Pilgrim-Train')
- WaE 350 pp. 74-7
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.
  
  Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos ('The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace')
- WaE 731 pp. 77-8
  
  Copy, headed M^r Waller on y^e death of y^e Lord Protector in y^e Year 1658, subscribed M^r. Waller.
  
  First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
- WaE 63 pp. 78-9
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.
  
  Edmund Waller, Epitaph on Sir George Speke ('Under this stone lies vertue, youth')
- WaE 69 p. 79
  
  Copy, as by y^e same hand [i.e. M^r. Waller].
  
  First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 116.
  
  Edmund Waller, Epitaph Unfinished ('Great soul! for whom Death will no longer stay')
- DoC 144.5 p. 83
  
  Copy, subscribed By y^e Earle of Dorcet.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Love ('Love is a dreame of mighty treasure')
- DrJ 247.5 p. 84
  
  Extract from Act I, untitled, lines 372-7 beginning Love is an airy good, subscrobed M^r Driden.
  
  First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.
  
  John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
- PsK 6 p. 84
  
  Copy, subscribed M^rs. K: P.
  
  First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.
  
  Katherine Philips, Against Love ('Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies')
- PsK 556 p. 85
  
  Copy, subscribed M^rs K. P.
  
  First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
  
  Katherine Philips, The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')
- KiH 599.3 p. 86
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
- KiH 662.5 p. 87
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p K:.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')
- KiH 566.5 p. 90
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r: King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
- KiH 609.5 p. 90
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r. K.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
- DrJ 395 pp. 91, 93
  
  Miscellaneous extracts from Dryden.
  
  John Dryden, Extracts
- KiH 576.5 p. 96
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r King.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
- DoC 238 p. 99
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
- HyT 0.5 p. 100
  
  Copy, headed M^r Thomas Haywood on Queen Elizabeth.
  
  Unpublished? Of uncertain authorship.
  
  Thomas Heywood, 'Chast Virgin, Royal Queen, Belov'd and fear'd'
- PsK 410 p. 101
  
  Copy, headed Orinda on her Sisters Nuptial.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.
  
  Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls ('We will not like those men our offerings pay')
- KiH 681.5 p. 102
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p. King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
  
  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
- KiH 391.5 pp. 103-5
  
  Copy, subscribed B^p. King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
  
  Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
- WaE 549 p. 108
  
  Copy of lines 17-28, headed M^r Waller to Henry Lawes y^t had set his song had this passage viz^t, here beginning As a Church Window thick with Paint.
  
  First published in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, I, 19-20.
  
  Edmund Waller, To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the year 1635 ('Verse makes heroic virtue live')
- SuJ 37 p. 115
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 62-3.
  
  John Suckling, Loves Clock ('That none beguiled be by times quick flowing')
- WaE 785 p. 134
  
  Copy, headed Written in a Ladys Book by M^r Waller.
  
  Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger. Its authorship is uncertain.
  
  Edmund Waller, Written before a Lady's Waller ('The lovely Owner of this book')
- SuJ 50 p. 139
  
  Copy, subscribed S^r J: Suckling.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 59-60.
  
  John Suckling, Song ('Honest Lover whosoever')
- SuJ 65 p. 141
  
  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?')
- SuJ 77 pp. 141-2
  
  Copy, subscribed S^r. J: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 48-9.
  
  John Suckling, Sonnet II ('Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white')
- SuJ 10 pp. 142-3
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.
  
  John Suckling, Against Fruition I ('Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise')
- SuJ 79 pp. 143-4
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r. J. S.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 41-2.
  
  John Suckling, To his Rival I ('My dearest Rival, least our Love')
- SuJ 44 pp. 144-5
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r J. Suckling.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 65-6.
  
  John Suckling, Loves Siege (''Tis now since I sate down before')
- SuJ 54 p. 146
  
  Copy, subscribed S^r. J: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.
  A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).
  
  John Suckling, Song ('No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee')
- ShW 2.5 p. 146
  
  Copy of lines 386-95, headed An imperfect coppy of Wil: Shackespeares, here beginning One of her hands one of her Cheeks lay vnder and followed by three other lines.
  
  This version appears in Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646), pp. 29-30.
  
  First published in London, 1594.
  
  William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece ('From the besieged Ardea all in post')
- EtG 67 p. 153
  
  Copy, headed A Song by S^r. George Etheridge.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 59-61. Thorpe, p. 34.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Song ('In some kind dream upon her slumbers steal')
- CgW 53 pp. 156-8
  
  Copy, headed On M^rs. Arabella Hunt singing a Pindarique Ode By M^r. Congrave.
  
  First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.
  
  William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')
- StW 171.5 p. 158
  
  Copy, headed A Song in praise of Musick.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- StW 848.8 p. 159
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- CwT 419 p. 159
  
  Copy, headed A Song.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- RoJ 429 p. 160
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
- BrW 220 p. 163
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph.
  
  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')
MS 239/18

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.
Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
- JnB 184 p. 3
  
  Copy of lines 13-28.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- JnB 2 pp. 3-4
  
  Copy, headed A song Apologetique: In defence of womens inconstancy.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.
  
  Ben Jonson, Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song ('Hang up those dull, and envious fooles')
- JnB 142 pp. 4-5
  
  Copy beginning at line 7 (Deare Vincent Corbet, who so long).
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet ('I have my Pietie too, which could')
- CoR 90 pp. 4-5
  
  Copy, here beginning Dear Vincent Corbett....
  
  First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
- JnB 317 p. 5
  
  Copy, headed Another by Ben:.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (xxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 172.
  
  Ben Jonson, A little Shrub growing by ('Aske not to know this Man. If fame should speake')
- JnB 430 p. 5
  
  Copy of lines 17-24, beginning Doe not you aske to know her, she is worse.
  
  This MS recorded in Beal.
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- CwT 8 p. 6
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph on the lady Villers: by T. Carew.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
  
  Thomas Carew, An other ('This little Vault, this narrow roome')
- ShJ 131 p. 6
  
  Copy, headed A Song by T. Carew.
  
  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?'
- CwT 671.5 pp. 7-8
  
  Copy, headed Another Rapture of Carew's.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
- EaJ 82 pp. 8, 23-6
  
  Extracts from several characters, headed Blounts Characters.
  
  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).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography
- RnT 355 pp. 19-20
  
  Copy, headed Vpon an Incomparable foule lady that had a very sweet voyce.
  
  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')
- PoW 60 pp. 20-1
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentw: w^th black eyes & haire.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS I).
  
  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'
- RnT 394 p. 21
  
  Copy, headed Th: Randall on y^e loss of his litle finger, incomplete.
  
  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')
- CwT 1252.5 p. 33
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- StW 333 p. 35
  
  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')
- RnT 466 pp. 35-8
  
  Copy, headed A duell fought at Wisbech betwene a Norfolk & a wisbech Cock, 1637, inscribed at the side Wild.
  
  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
- StW 1035 p. 42
  
  Copy, headed Vpon his M^rs. playing for a kiss.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- StW 824 pp. 43-4
  
  Copy, headed Chloris in the snow and here ascribed to D^r. Corbet.
  
  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')
- PoW 61 pp. 44-5
  
  Copy, headed In praise of a black wench.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS J).
  
  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'
- HrJ 155 p. 45
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Ladie, 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')
- HrJ 203 p. 46
  
  Copy of a ten-line version headed A Puritan maide and here beginning A Puritan maide by one of her society.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- ShJ 18 p. 46
  
  Copy of an early version headed In praise of his M^rs. Shirley and beginning Her haires are Cupids nets.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.
  
  James Shirley, Dialogue ('I prethee tell me what prodigious fate')
- CwT 655 pp. 47-9
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side Cowley.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- FoJ 9 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed Tobacco and here beginning He that would learn to drink a health in hell.
  
  Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).
  
  John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song ('They that will learn to drink a health in hell')
- JnB 441 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy, headed Women.
  
  First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.
  
  Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes ('Follow a shaddow, it still flies you')
- WoH 251 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, headed His last goodnight. D^r Don.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- RnT 367 p. 51
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side Randol.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture ('When age hath made me what I am not now')
- ShJ 133.5 pp. 51-2
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side Sherley.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  James Shirley, To his M^rs ('Noe matter though our age doe not agree')
- CoR 623 pp. 52-3
  
  Copy, headed Ag^st. Ladies wearing great bands.
  
  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')
- JnB 519 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed Upon K. James.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 38.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the Ghost of Martial ('Martial, thou gau'st farre nobler Epigrammes')
- CwT 693.5 pp. 54-5
  
  Copy of lines 9-16, headed Secrecy in loue and here beginning Ther's none shall know that we Can tell.
  
  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')
- DaJ 208 p. 56
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a young man and here beginning As Carefull nurses in their beds doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- PoW 95 pp. 57-8
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the King of Sweden, inscribed at the side By S^r. Th. North.
  
  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')
- DkT 32 p. 60-1
  
  Copy, headed Upon Qu: Eliz:; c. 1660.
  
  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')
- JnB 557 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy of Nightingale's song.
  
  Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, III, v, 69 et seq. Song ('My masters and friends, and good people draw neere')
- RnT 565 pp. 75-6
  
  Copy, headed Upon the burning of a gramar school, subscribed Th: Ran:, deleted.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- RnT 575 p. 76
  
  Copy.
  
  Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 66bis.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the fall of Wisbech bridge ('Help help you undertakers all')
- RnT 232 pp. 76-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- DnJ 2156 pp. 78-9
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and 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')
- SiP 126.5 p. 81
  
  Copy, headed An old man a suitor and here beginning Why should old age disgrace my high desire, inscribed An old paper of my Coz. Burrows.
  
  Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 15 ('Let not old age disgrace my high desire')
- ClJ 258 pp. 82-4
  
  Copy, headed Cleuelands petition for liberty being a prisoner / To his Highnesse the Lo: Protector, incomplete.
  
  A petition to Cromwell dated [February 1656]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Petition to the Protector
- ClJ 255 pp. 87-9
  
  Copy, headed Cleuelands letter to the Earle of Westmorland.
  
  Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 149-53.
  
  John Cleveland, Letter to the Earl of Westmorland
- RnT 566 pp. 98-9
  
  Copy, headed Th. Randall vpon y^e burning of a gramer schoole, subscribed Th. Randall.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- B&F 33 p. 104
  
  Copy.
  
  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?')
- CoA 26 p. 104
  
  Copy, headed A Song Apologetique for drinking and inscribed This I had from Jack Chaytor.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
  Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
- CwT 789 pp. 105-6
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a hand some lady y^t had y^e small pocks.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
- DnJ 2978 p. 106
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, here beginning Lye still my dear why dost thou rise?.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
MS 239/22

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.
c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
- PoW 62 ff. 3v-4r
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a faire gentlewoman haueinge Blacke haire, inscribed at the side in another hand Poole.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS E).
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- DnJ 95 ff. 4v-5
  
  Copy, headed Vppon an vnhansome woman.
  
  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')
- DaJ 149 f. 6r
  
  Copy, headed On a Bellowes-maker and here beginning Browne lyes here the maker of bellowes.
  
  A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
  
  Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
- HrJ 118 f. 7v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- DnJ 1770 f. 7v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- DnJ 1903 f. 8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- HrJ 204 f. 8r
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godly maide by one of her society.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- HrJ 60.5 f. 8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
  
  Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading ('For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince')
- DaJ 209 f. 8v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning As carefull Nurses to their bedds 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')
- CoR 644 ff. 14r-17v
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordaunt.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
- CoR 338 ff. 17v-18v
  
  Copy, headed ffrom Doctor Corbett to M^r Alesburye on y^e Comett.
  
  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')
- CoR 547 f. 19v
  
  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')
- EaJ 68 ff. 20r-5r
  
  Copy, headed _______ Iter Boreale and ascribed to J: Earle.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Satyra Itineraria ('Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura')
- JnB 401 f. 25r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed B. Johnson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.
  
  Ben Jonson, On Gut ('Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night')
- WoH 45 f. 25v
  
  Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton on a private 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')
- StW 1300 f. 26r
  
  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')
- RaW 223 f. 26r
  
  Copy, headed An old Prophecye.
  
  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')
- BmF 51 f. 27r-v
  
  Copy; imperfect, the ending on a leaf missing after f. 27.
  
  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')
- CoR 308 ff. 28r-35v
  
  Copy, beginning at line 23 (here Ther had wee venison such as Virgill slew).
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
  
  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
- CoR 365 ff. 36r-7r
  
  Copy, headed D.C. his verses to the Duke of Buckingham being in 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')
- CoR 158 ff. 37v-8v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Lady Haddington who dyed of y^e small poxe, inscribed at the side DC.
  
  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')
- JnB 244 ff. 39r-42v
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons Verses on the burning of his Studye.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
- HoJ 79 ff. 42v-4r
  
  Copy, headed The Parliament ffart, subscribed Hoskins.
  
  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')
- DnJ 412 ff. 44r-5v
  
  Copy, headed To a Lady whose chaine was lost by [?]D.D.J.D..
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- MoG 75 ff. 45v-6r
  
  Copy, headed The Nightingale by G: M.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- StW 519 ff. 46r-7v
  
  Copy of the sequence.
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- MoG 41 ff. 47v-8r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e late King.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- StW 1345 f. 49r
  
  Copy, headed Vppon Jealousy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')
- HoJ 305 f. 49v
  
  Copy, ascribed to Hoskins.
  
  Ascribed to Hoskyns in one MS source.
  
  John Hoskyns, An Anima sit ex traduce ('What is the soule of man? or where created')
- CoR 126 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy, headed D.C. on S^r Tho: 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')
- KiH 205 f. 50v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon the death of S^r Walter Rawleigh who was beheaded Anno Dⁱ 1619
  
  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')
- DnJ 2359 f. 51r
  
  Copy, headed Vppon one whom J.D. taught to loue and complement.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- DnJ 2582 ff. 51v-2v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 52v in McLeod, Obliterature, EMS 12 (2005), 84.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 3214.5 ff. 52v-3r
  
  Copy, untitled, heavily inked over.
  
  Facsimile of these two pages, and of a portion of f. 53r in infrared photography, in McLeod, Obliterature, EMS 12 (2005), 84-5, 96-7, with full transcription on pp. 98-100.
  
  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')
- HrG 323 ff. 53v-5r
  
  Copy of a version headed Inventa Bellica and beginning O mortis longaeua fames, verterque perennis, subscribed G: Herbert.
  
  First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.
  
  George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis ('O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!')
- StW 457 pp. 55v-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- StW 1240 pp. 56r-7r
  
  Copy, headed On a great hollow Tree, inscribed at the side W. S.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.
  
  William Strode, Westwell Elme ('Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree')
- StW 314 f. 57r
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side W.S.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- StW 701 f. 57r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
- StW 671 f. 57v
  
  Copy of the second stanza.
  
  Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
  
  William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
- StW 258 f. 57v
  
  Copy.
  
  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
  
  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
- StW 151 f. 57v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
- StW 1227 f. 57v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
- StW 684 f. 58r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- StW 1062 f. 58r
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.
  
  William Strode, Thankes for a welcome ('For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett')
- StW 1050 f. 58r-v
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token ('Whatever in Philoclea the Faire')
- StW 492 ff. 58v-9v
  
  Copy, inscribed at the side W. S.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
  
  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
- StW 1260 f. 61r
  
  Copy, headed A Roman Catholick demanding of his friend what he should report his Religion to be, he answereth thus, in double columns, the page turned to oblong format.
  
  First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
- ClJ 33 ff. 61v-3r
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue of Zealotts concerning the Oathe and here beginning S^r Roger fro in peice of Zealous Freeze, subscribed Cleveland of S^t Iohns in Cam s^d.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- ClJ 207 ff. 63v-4r
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Strafford and here beginning Here rests wise & valiant dust.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
  
  John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
- ClJ 91 f. 64r-6v
  
  Copy, subscribed P Iohn Cleueland Advocat G[?] Newack[?].
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
  
  John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')
- MrJ 72 f. 64v
  
  Copy of the Latin only.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
MS 239/23

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
- RnT 141 pp. 4-9
  
  Copy, headed Englished thus, subscribed Tho: Rand:, following (pp. 3-4) the Latin version.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ ('The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine')
- CwT 164 pp. 9-10
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning She that loves a Rosie cheek.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- HeR 216 p. 11
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) in Patrick.
  
  First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires ('Am I despis'd because you say')
- CwT 255 pp. 11-12
  
  Copy, headed Of a Flye flyeinge into his M^rs. Eye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- RnT 63 p. 13
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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')
- RnT 144 p. 14
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho. R.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano ('Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse')
- RnT 410 p. 14
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  First published in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, 'When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse'
- RnT 174 pp. 15-16
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia ('Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud')
- ShJ 26 pp. 16-17
  
  Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a M^r. and beginning I have no humour to adore y^e face, subscribed T.R..
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.
  
  James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris ('O how I blush, to have ador'd the face')
- ShJ 53 pp. 17-18
  
  Copy, headed Of one that lou'd a great Mistresse and durst not discouer it.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.
  
  James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris ('I can no longer hold, my body growes')
- RnT 54 pp. 18-21
  
  Copy, subscribed T: R.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 46-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, De Magnete. Ex Claudiano ('Who in the world with busy reason pryes')
- ShJ 7 p. 21
  
  Copy, headed The Curtizan.
  
  First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of Cupid's Call (Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.
  
  James Shirley, Another ('Harke, harke how in euery groue')
- MsP 13 pp. 24-9
  
  Copy, subscribed P: M:.
  
  First published in A.K. McIlwraith, The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.
  
  Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character ('Such as doe Trophies striue to raise')
- JnB 335 pp. 30-1
  
  Copy, headed Dialogue in Songe Betweene a Nymphe & a Shepheard.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
- JnB 727 p. 33
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
- JnB 360 pp. 34-5
  
  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')
- JnB 43 pp. 35-6
  
  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')
- HeR 395 pp. 37-8
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
- GrJ 75.5 pp. 38-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Since every man I come among'
- JnB 619 p. 40
  
  Copy of Lady Purbeck's fortune, untitled.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune ('Helpe me wonder, here's a booke')
- DnJ 208 p. 43
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- HeR 96 p. 44
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- CwT 215 pp. 44-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- FeO 35 p. 45
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.
  
  Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')
- HrE 50 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')
- HeR 135 pp. 48-55
  
  Copy, headed His old Age to M^r. Weekes.
  
  This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
  
  Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')
- RnT 285 p. 56
  
  Copy, headed A Madrigall.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')
- RnT 326 pp. 56-7
  
  Copy, headed Against Tyme.
  
  First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')
- ShJ 132 pp. 57-8
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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?'
- ShJ 46 pp. 59-60
  
  Copy of a version headed To his M^rs. whome hee lou'd to enioye and beginning Ladye what's your face to me.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.
  
  James Shirley, Love for Enjoying ('Fair Lady, what's your face to me?')
- RnT 163 pp. 60-2
  
  Copy, headed In Lesbiam.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem ('I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane')
- RnT 182 pp. 63-6
  
  Copy, headed An Ode, or an Incitation to the Countrie.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 79-82.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to hasten him into the Country ('Come spurre away')
- RnT 70 pp. 67-70
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage ('My Lalage when I behold')
- CwT 1253 p. 72
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- CwT 1036 pp. 72-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity ('As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death')
- FeO 42 pp. 74-5
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.
  
  Owen Felltham, On a Jewel given at parting ('When cruel time enforced me')
- CwT 355 pp. 78-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.
  
  Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris ('You, that will a wonder know')
- JnB 185 pp. 80-2
  
  Copy, headed The Picture of the Body.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- JnB 222 pp. 82-5
  
  Copy, headed The Picture of y^e Minde.
  
  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')
- FlJ 14 pp. 85-90
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.
  
  John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars')
- RnT 166 p. 90
  
  Copy, following the Latin version which is headed In Natalem Principis ad Mariam Reginam.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')
- HoJ 303 p. 91
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Dum Rex Paulinas..., subscribed S: H.
  
  The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
  
  John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')
- RnT 154 p. 91
  
  Copy, following (pp. 90-1) the Latin version.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum, in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished ('Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince')
- RnT 406 p. 91
  
  Copy, following a text of Hoskyns's Latin verses.
  
  First published in Day (1932), pp. 33-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, 'When gratefull Charles went to Paules hollowed shrine'
- HoJ 302 p. 91
  
  Copy.
  
  The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
  
  John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')
- HeR 206 pp. 93-6
  
  Copy, headed In Nat: Prin: &c..
  
  Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
- RnT 305 p. 96
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord ('Let Linus and Amphions lute')
- RnT 434 p. 97
  
  Copy, headed The Masque of Vices, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  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')
- RnT 374 pp. 97-8
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the losse of a Finger, with a Latin subscription (Quam miser est…) added in a different ink, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  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')
- RnT 45 pp. 98-106
  
  Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamoured, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  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')
- RnT 244 pp. 106-13
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: R:.
  
  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')
- RnT 59 pp. 113-14
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: R..
  
  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')
- GrJ 64 pp. 114-16
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
- RnT 151 pp. 118-19
  
  Copy, headed Paraphras'd, following (p. 118) the Latin version, both subscribed T. R.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd ('Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!')
- RnT 335 pp. 120-3
  
  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')
- RnT 159 p. 123
  
  Copy, subscribed T: R., following the Latin version.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat, in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished ('By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe')
- CmT 175 pp. 130-3
  
  Copy, headed A maydes Deliberation, with four additional strophes.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.
  
  First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
- HeR 20 pp. 133-4
  
  Copy, headed Of a proud Ladie that had her haire drest & stucke with Iewells.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- CwT 127 p. 134-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 406 pp. 135-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- KiH 419 pp. 151-3
  
  Copy, headed To his Freind that was enamour'd on a Deformed woeman.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
  
  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
- CwT 1003 p. 154
  
  Copy of lines 37-48, untitled and here beginning Those curious locks soe twin'd
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- CwT 62 p. 155
  
  Copy of an eight-line version, untitled and here beginning Ladie your tresses are not threads of gold.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- HeR 396 p. 156
  
  Second copy, headed To his false Mistresse.
  
  This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
- FeO 13 p. 165
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.
  
  Owen Felltham, The Appeal ('Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale')
- WoH 194 p. 166
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph and here beginning The man dy'd first, shee livd a while & try'd.
  
  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
- StW 84 p. 169
  
  Copy of the second couplet.
  
  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
  
  William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
- StW 155 p. 169
  
  Copy of the last four couplets, here beginning I here stand keeper.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
- StW 262 p. 169
  
  Copy of the seconde stanza, here beginning Loe on my necke.
  
  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
  
  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
- GrJ 89 pp. 171-3
  
  Copy.
  
  A poem based on Ben Jonson's song If I freely may discouer in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.
  
  John Grange, 'To the world Ile nowe discouer'
- CwT 888 p. 173
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- KiH 83 pp. 174-5
  
  Copy, headed His Answeare.
  
  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')
- RnT 522 pp. 175-7
  
  Copy, ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- StW 1333 p. 181
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- RaW 280 p. 182
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- FlJ 6 p. 183
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a Child.
  
  First published (anonymously) in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Ascribed to J. Fletcher in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). English Madrigal Verse, ed. E.H. Fellowes, et al., 3rd edition (Oxford, 1967), p. 644.
  
  John Fletcher, 'Hither we come into this world of woe'
- StW 1289.5 p. 184
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph, subscribed W. Strode.
  
  First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
- CoR 469 p. 185
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett on Henr Booling.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
- CoR 419 p. 186
  
  Copy, headed On M^r Francis Beaumonts death.
  
  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')
- StW 334 p. 187
  
  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')
- StW 663 p. 188
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
  
  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
- RnT 293 pp. 193-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')
- KiH 799 pp. 194-8
  
  Copy, headed Esaihs woes by D^r. Hen: Kinge.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.
  
  Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
- JnB 310 pp. 201-2
  
  Copy, headed Mr Ben: Johnsons Petition to the Kings most Excell^t Ma^tie the humble Petition of yo^r Poet to your Ma^tie doth shewe it and here beginning Whereas late your Royall Father.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.
  
  Ben Jonson, The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles ('That whereas your royall Father')
- WoH 214 pp. 202-3
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Thus dazelled with height of place, subscribed S^r Hen: Wootton.
  
  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')
- CwT 1242 p. 203
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
MS 239/27

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.
The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
- CoR 348 pp. 11-13
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- EaJ 40.5 pp. 14-17
  
  Copy of a version.
  
  Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  Unpublished. Discussed, and Earle's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, In Cladem Rhenensem ('Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move')
- JnB 245 pp. 17-24
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
- HoJ 140 p. 27
  
  Copy, headed On the Parliament fart.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- CwT 735 p. 28
  
  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')
- KiH 84 p. 29
  
  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')
- StW 1301 p. 31
  
  Copy, headed On womens beawtie.
  
  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')
- PoW 63 p. 32
  
  Copy, headed On M^ris Poole by D^r Corbett.
  
  This MS collated in Wolf (as MS B).
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- CwT 1004 p. 34
  
  Copy, headed To his coy mistresse.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- CwT 63 p. 35
  
  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')
- CwT 216 p. 39
  
  Copy, headed A gentleman constrainde from his m^ris and here beginning You will ask perhaps….
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- CmT 129 p. 39
  
  Copy, headed An old man to a maide.
  
  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'
- CwT 1267.2 p. 41
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- WoH 121 p. 42
  
  Copy, headed On the Lady Elizabeth.
  
  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')
- CwT 693 pp. 43-4
  
  Copy, headed The gentlemans reply vpon her consent and scruple of his secrecy and here beginning Think not….
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- CwT 256 p. 44
  
  Copy, headed On a fly.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- DnJ 3215 pp. 47-8
  
  Copy, headed Upon on goeinge to bed to his mistresse.
  
  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')
- PeW 152 p. 48
  
  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')
- StW 764 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoman walkinge in y^e 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')
- CwT 564 p. 49
  
  Copy, headed On a sigh and here beginning Go 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')
- DnJ 2157 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy of lines 41-74, 79-96, headed Loves Voyage into the Netherlands and here beginning The hair a forrest is of ambushes.
  
  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')
- RaW 336 p. 50
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawleigh to his M^rs, here beginning Passions are likened to floods & streams, and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 537).
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- RaW 537 pp. 50-1
  
  Copy, prefixed by Passions are likened to floods & streams (see RaW 336).
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
  
  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'
- HrJ 245 p. 51
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Lord who would haue inclosed a Common.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 68. McClure No. 322, p. 275. Authorship uncertain.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of inclosing a Common ('A Lord, that purpos'd for his more auaile')
- DnJ 2979 pp. 51-2
  
  Copy of a three-stanza version, headed On his mistresse risinge, here beginning Lye still my deare why dost thou rise, and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
- BaR 3.5 p. 52
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 194. Arber, p. 124.
  
  Richard Barnfield, A Comparison of the Life of Man ('Man's life is well compared to a feast')
- GrF 44 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason is like a Basiliske his eye.
  
  Bullough, II, 118.
  
  Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
- RnT 11 p. 52
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a maide which still replyed she was too yonge and here beginning Deare do not your faire beauty 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')
- CwT 407 p. 53
  
  Copy, headed On Caelia.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- StW 387 p. 54
  
  Copy, headed On a faire gentlewoman y^t sunge well.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
- StW 935 p. 55
  
  Copy, headed On praferment.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
  
  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
- MrJ 88 p. 57 bis
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
- DrW 117.45 pp. 58bis-60
  
  Copy, headed On the fiue senses.
  
  Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 198-200.
  
  Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
- JnB 666 pp. 60-2
  
  Copy, headed Another to K: James.
  
  Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 200-2.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
  For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
- StW 951 pp. 72-4
  
  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')
- JnB 647 pp. 84-6
  
  Copy.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- HoJ 334 pp. 93-4
  
  Copy, headed A flout for his mistresse.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- PeW 60 p. 100
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 29, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing'
- PeW 208 p. 111
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 99-100, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On Venus and Adonis ('Venus that fair loving Queen')
- StW 849 p. 112
  
  Copy, headed M^ris keepe one your maske.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- LoT 9 pp. 113-14
  
  Copy, headed A songe and here beginning Now I see thy lookes were 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')
- PeW 271 pp. 114-15
  
  Copy, headed A louers ditty in dispaire to the tune of Barlowe.
  
  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')
- PeW 195 p. 119
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman not marriageable.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- CwT 773 pp. 119-20
  
  Copy, here beginning In your faire 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')
- HeR 97 pp. 121-2
  
  Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line songe beginning Lowe in a vale and here sate a sheaperdesse.
  
  This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- B&F 26 p. 126
  
  Copy.
  
  Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
- CoR 636 pp. 136-42
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbetts verses on the guard to the Lord Mordant.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
- CoR 323 pp. 142-3
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CoR 430 pp. 145-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- CoR 211 pp. 148-51
  
  Copy, headed A godly exhortation....
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
- CwT 889 p. 152
  
  Copy, headed On murtheringe bewty.
  
  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')
- PeW 254 p. 157
  
  Copy of the short version, headed A maide denyall and here beginning nay pish, nay phue, nay faith but will you, fy.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- StW 315 p. 157
  
  Copy, headed On a butchers daughter marryed to a Tanner.
  
  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')
- HrJ 156 p. 159
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- B&F 148 p. 161
  
  Copy, headed On 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')
- RaW 476.3 p. 163
  
  Copy, headed A gentlewoman to her loue.
  
  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'
- HrJ 235 p. 165
  
  Copy, headed The conference of 6 Puritan wenches.
  
  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')
- ShW 34 p. 166
  
  Copy of lines 529-34, headed Another [i.e. on Night] and here beginning Now the worlds comforter with weary gate.
  
  These lines published as a separate poem in Englands Parnassus (London, 1600).
  
  First published in London, 1593.
  
  William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')
- StW 545 pp. 167-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
  
  William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
- BcF 44 pp. 168-9
  
  Copy, headed The Lord Verulams' verses and here beginning at line 8 (The rural parts are turned into a den).
  
  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'
- HrJ 71 p. 170
  
  Copy, headed The Hermophrodite translated.
  
  A version (a translation of a Latin poem by Pulix) first published in Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes (London, 1577). 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 37. McClure No. 238, pp. 246-7. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 32, p. 221.
  
  Sir John Harington, The Hermaphrodite ('When first my mother bore me in her wombe')
- HrJ 180 pp. 170-1
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
- CoR 755 p. 173
  
  Copy, headed To the intricate example of plotting...[etc].
  
  This MS (Rosenbach 189) recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift')
- RaW 171 p. 175-7
  
  Copy, ascribed to S^r W.R..
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 130-1.
  
  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')
- BrW 67 pp. 177-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey ('I oft have heard of Lydford law')
- DaJ 54 p. 182
  
  Copy, headed The rusticke gallants wooinge and here beginning ffare wench I cannot court thy spritelike eyes; c. 1634.
  
  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')
- CoR 134 pp. 183-4
  
  Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On the smallpox.
  
  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')
- StW 1006 p. 186
  
  Copy, headed On two louers playinge 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')
- StW 1122 p. 186
  
  Copy, headed On a knife giuen to his Valentine.
  
  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')
- HrJ 286 p. 187
  
  Copy, headed On a Learned wife and here beginning One proferd mee a wife, rich, faire & yonge.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- RaW 281 p. 187
  
  Copy, headed On the shortnesse of mans life.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- CwT 1231 pp. 187-8
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs sicke of a Calenture.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
- StW 235 pp. 188-9
  
  Copy, headed Cruell bewty.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
  
  William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')
- CwT 960 pp. 190-1
  
  Copy, headed Vpon one that desired to conceale his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
- StW 420 p. 191
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman mard with y^e small pox.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- StW 1097 pp. 191-2
  
  Copy, headed To a gentleman for a freind.
  
  Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
  
  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
- RnT 567 pp. 193-4
  
  Copy, headed On the burninge of a schoole att Battles.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- DaJ 13 p. 194
  
  Copy, headed On Kate.
  
  Krueger, p. 132.
  
  Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde')
- CwT 128 pp. 195
  
  Copy, headed On an vnkind Lady and here beginning We read of gods….
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 814 pp. 195-6
  
  Copy, headed On his mistresse singinge to y^e Lute in a Gallery.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- RnT 49 pp. 196-201
  
  Copy, headed A complaint ag^t Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured. by T. Randolfe.
  
  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')
- HrJ 119 p. 202
  
  Copy, headed On a painted Lady.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- HrJ 205 p. 206
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a Puritan and here beginning A holy made, by one of her society.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- DaJ 65 p. 206
  
  Copy, headed On a downright suitor and here beginning Faith wench I loue thee, but I cannot sue.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.
  
  Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier ('Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue')
- RnT 199 pp. 215-18
  
  Copy, headed Randolfes petitio to his Creditors.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
- StW 458 pp. 220-1
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- CoR 516 p. 225
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
- JnB 72 p. 225
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
- RnT 169 p. 225
  
  Copy, headed To the queene. T. R..
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe')
- CoR 288 pp. 226-39
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
  
  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
- CwT 506 p. 239
  
  Copy, headed On the Greene sickness.
  
  First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.
  
  Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse ('Stay coward blood, and doe not yield')
- CwT 1078.5 p. 240
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
  
  Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
- RnT 134 pp. 241-2
  
  Copy, headed A Gratulatory to my ffather Johnson for his voluntary adoptio of mee to bee his sonne.
  
  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')
- HeR 207 pp. 250-1
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue on Prince Charles his birth betwene 4 sheaphards....
  
  Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
- CwT 183 pp. 263-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
- CwT 565 p. 264
  
  Second copy, headed On a sigh.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 974 pp. 264-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
- CwT 796 p. 265
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris ('If when the Sun at noone displayes')
- CwT 470 pp. 265-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CwT 1100 p. 268
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side. An Eddy ('Marke how yond Eddy steales away')
- CwT 849 pp. 268-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
- CwT 938 p. 269
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
- CwT 909 pp. 269-70
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
- CwT 153 p. 270
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
- CwT 379 p. 271
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
- CwT 165 pp. 271-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- CwT 1092 p. 272
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
- CwT 862 p. 273
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
- CwT 1049 p. 273
  
  Copy, headed Another.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
  
  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
- CwT 323 p. 274
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
  
  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
- CwT 34 pp. 274-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
  
  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
- CwT 1142 p. 275
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 1119 pp. 276-7
  
  Copy, headed Of Saxham house.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
- CwT 1198 pp. 277-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 945 p. 278
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
- CwT 926 pp. 278-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
- CwT 815 p. 279
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- CwT 838 p. 279
  
  Copy, headed Another on y^e same.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
- CwT 363 p. 280
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
- CwT 19 p. 281
  
  Copy, headed To a bashfull Lover.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
  
  Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
- CwT 1109 p. 281
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
- CwT 1177 p. 281
  
  Copy, headed A distressed Lover.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
- CwT 539 pp. 281-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('As Celia rested in the shade')
- StW 279 p. 287
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
  
  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
- RnT 87 pp. 297-302
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue….
  
  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')
- StW 172 p. 304
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- CwT 103.5 pp. 304-5
  
  Copy of the last two stanzas, headed To his M^ris.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- StW 1368 pp. 305-6
  
  Copy, headed A blush and here beginning Stay hasty blood….
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
- DnJ 1514 pp. 308-9
  
  Copy of a 42-line version, headed Att his M^rs departure.
  
  This MS recorded 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')
- HeR 411 pp. 310-12
  
  Copy, headed One a cherry stone haueinge a deaths head one the one side, & a gentle woman on the other.
  
  This MS collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
- DaS 51 p. 315
  
  Copy, headed One Loue; c. 1634.
  
  Grosart, III, 349-50.
  
  Samuel Daniel, Hymens Triumph. I, v, 446-61. Song ('Loue is a sicknesse full of woes')
- KiH 318 pp. 316-18
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.
  
  Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
- CoR 99 pp. 321-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
- DkT 33 p. 325
  
  Copy, headed Another [i.e. on Queen Elizabeth].
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- KiH 182 pp. 325-6
  
  Copy, headed On Prince Henryes death.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
- BmF 52 pp. 328-30
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- StW 509 pp. 331-2
  
  Copy, headed On the death of M^r. James Van Otten an expert Chirurgion, who dyed att Oxford: March: 1. 1622.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 85-6. Forey, pp. 218-19.
  
  William Strode, On Mr James Van Otten's death. March 1° ('The first day of this month the last hath bin')
- StW 629 p. 333
  
  Copy, headed On the death of a twinne.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
  
  William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
- CoR 135 pp. 341-2
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on the Lady Hayes death by D^r 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')
- RnT 402 pp. 343-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death ('I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse')
- EaJ 55 pp. 344-5
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- StW 520 pp. 349-50, 189-90, 350-1
  
  Copy of the sequence.
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- MoG 42 pp. 351-2
  
  Copy, headed On the death of Kinge James.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- StW 571 pp. 352-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
- BrW 221 p. 353
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- StW 585 pp. 353-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
- DaJ 210 p. 355
  
  Copy, headed Another [i.e. on a young child] and here beginning As carefull mothers in there 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')
- BrW 50 p. 356
  
  Copy, headed Upon M^r Smith.
  
  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')
- CoR 480 p. 356
  
  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')
- JnB 133 p. 357
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
- KiH 459 p. 360
  
  Copy, headed On the shortness of mans life.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- StW 534 p. 361
  
  Copy, headed Vpon one dyinge of the pox.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.
  
  William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
- KiH 239 pp. 364-8
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy made by D^r Kinge on y^e k: of Sweden. a:d: 1637.
  
  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')
- BrW 174 pp. 368-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
- EaJ 30 pp. 381-4
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
- KiH 299 p. 387
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- CwT 486 pp. 388-9
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Carleles daughter.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay ('I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke')
- EaJ 7 pp. 396-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
- CwT 640 pp. 400-4
  
  Copy, headed A Louers rapture.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- KiH 131 pp. 404-5
  
  Copy, headed A Louer to one that misjudg'd his mistresse.
  
  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?')
- StW 133 pp. 405-6
  
  Copy, headed A Gentleman to his freind who kissinge her att his departure left a signe of blood vpon her.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- RnT 356 pp. 406-8
  
  Copy, headed On a very deformed Gentlewoman havinge a voyce incomparable sweet.
  
  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')
- StW 217 pp. 412-13
  
  Copy, headed A Letter sent to his M^ris in her praise.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
  
  William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
- StW 41 pp. 408-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
  
  William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
- HeR 125 pp. 413-15
  
  Copy, headed M^r Hericks farewell to sack.
  
  This MS collated in Patrick.
  
  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.
  
  Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
- HeR 282 pp. 415-17
  
  Copy, headed The time beinge expired Hericks wellcome to sacke.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
- StW 652 p. 421
  
  Copy, headed An answer to Melancholly.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
  
  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
- RnT 395 p. 422
  
  Copy, headed M^r Randolph one the losse of his little finger cutt off.
  
  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')
- DnJ 2222.5 passim
  
  Copy of lines 29-32, 33-46, on separated pages.
  
  This MS recorded 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')
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The original letters patent by Charles II, authorizing Davenant to form two companies of actors, on vellum, illuminated.
15 January 1661/2.
The charter is illustrated in Clive E. Driver, A Selection from our Shelves: Books, manuscripts and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia, 1973), No. 44; a highly reduced facsimile also appeared in The Sunday Times (5 December 1982).
- DaW 149
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Document(s)

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