Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end

  • 1003/28

    An exemplum. This work is bound in the middle of a composite volume of printed pamphlets.

    1575.

    Owned and annotated by Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey and the title-page bears Harvey's inscription, Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578.

    • HvG 163
      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])

  • 1007/17

    A printed exemplum, evidently a presentation volume from the author, although they do not bear any trace of his own hand. It bears the signature on the title-page of Bernard Hyde, who in fact was the truly Noble dedicatee of Shirley's edition.

    1646.
    • ShJ 214
      No description or publication history available.
      James Shirley, Shirley, James. Poems (London, 1646)

  • MS 1083/15

    A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

    c.1630.

    Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

    • PeW 255 p. 3

      Copy of the shorter version, untitled, here beginning Nay pish; nay pue, nay faith [but] will you fie.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • DaJ 9 pp. 4-17, 39, 44

      Copy of 47 epigrams (Nos. 1-19, 21-35, 37-46, 49, 61-2).

      Epigrams 61 and 62 first published (from this MS) in James L. Sanderson, Unpublished Epigrams of Sir John Davies, RES, NS 12 (1961), 281-2. This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 443-4, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 120.

      58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes
    • NaT 5 pp. 18-22

      Copy of an abbreviated and untitled 162-line version, beginning ffaire was the morne & brightsome was the day, with the dedicatory sonnet.

      This MS discussed in James L. Sanderson, An Unnoted Text of Nashe's The Choise of Valentines, ELN, 1 (1964), 252-3.

      Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

      Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')
    • DaJ 150 p. 23

      Copy, headed Vpon a bellowes maker, here beginning Here lies Iohn Godderd 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')
    • DaJ 78 p. 23

      Copy, headed Of on that makinge a play stole much out of Seneca his Tragedies, subscribed I D.

      Edied from this MS in Krueger. Recorded in Osborn, p. 300.

      First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or springes for woodcocks (London, 1613), No. 163. Krueger, p. 181.

      Sir John Davies, On Ben Jonson ('Put off thy Buskins, Sophocles the great')
    • DaJ 105 p. 24

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 182.

      Sir John Davies, To his Mistress ('Sweet, what doth he deserve that loves you soe?')
    • DaJ 151 p. 24

      Copy, headed An Epitaph vpon Iohn Craker and here beginning Heere lies the bones of gentle Iohn Craker.

      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')
    • DaJ 153 p. 26

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.

      Sir John Davies, In Hircum ('Hircus incountring with hott Mistres Franke')
    • DaJ 154 p. 26

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.

      Sir John Davies, In Macerum ('Macer doth hould that all our womenkind')
    • DaJ 155 p. 27

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.

      Sir John Davies, In Marcum ('Marcus, a student at the lawe')
    • HyJ 2 pp. 28, 40-3, 55, 100-1

      Copy of 34 epigrams (First Hundred, Nos 20, 21, 35, 53, 59, 62, 68, 72, 79, 83; Three Hundred, Nos 59, 169; Fifth Hundred, Nos 12, 21, 33, 36, 44, 49, 57, 60, 62, 68, 72, 74, 87, 99, 108, 114, 186, 192, 212, 226, 236, and 272), not in sequence.

      First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.

      John Heywood, Epigrams
    • RaW 172 pp. 32-4

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Wrayly his lye.

      Formerly Rosenbach 186, and once owned by John Payne Collier; printed from this MS in Tannenbaum, pp. 811-13; recorded in Latham, p. 129.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
    • EsR 42 p. 34

      Copy, headed in the margin Resp.

      Edited from this MS in Samuel L. Tannenbaum, PMLA, 45 (1930), 814. and in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

      As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge'
    • DaJ 157 p. 39

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.

      Sir John Davies, In Neream ('Sweet Mistress Nerea, let it not thee greive')
    • DaJ 156 p. 39

      Copy, headed Celia being angry.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.

      Sir John Davies, In Meieam ('Meiea being angry that I would not stay')
    • EsR 26 p. 40

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.

      First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England ('Change thy minde since she doth change')
    • MrC 8 p. 43

      Copy, untitled and here beginning In somers heat at midtyme of the day.

      Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published Middleburg [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).

      Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v ('In summers heate, and midtime of the day')
    • DaJ 38 p. 44

      Copy, untitled, here beginning A Lady faire two Suters had, subscribed J D.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.

      Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors ('A Lady faire two suiters had')
    • HoJ 335 p. 45

      Copy, headed Beast his Sonnet.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • RuB 1 pp. 48-55

      Copy of the 31 epigrams, headed Epigrames p B. R.

      A series of 31 epigrams, possibly by Rudyerd, attributed to him in James L. Sanderson, Epigrames p[er] B[enjamin] R[udyerd] and Some More Stolen Feathers of Henry Parrot, RES, NS 17 (1966), 241-55. Three of the epigrams first published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi, or Springes to Catch Woodcocks (London, 1613). Sixteen of the epigrams published in The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873). These and the rest published in Sanderson.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Epigrames p[er] B. R.
    • MrC 17 p. 57

      Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled and here beginning If thou wilt liue and by my loue.

      Printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 815-16); collated in Bowers.

      First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

      Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
    • RaW 198 pp. 57-8

      Copy, headed Her Answeare and here beginning If that the world & Loue weare young.

      Formerly Rosenbach 186, printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 816-17); recorded in Latham, p. 112.

      One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
    • CmT 16 p. 58

      Copy, untitled.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
    • HrJ 243 p. 58

      Copy of four-line version, untitled and here beginning The goodly heare Gella doth weare.

      First published in Orlando Furioso (London, 1591), in notes at the end of Book XXXII. 1618, Book II, No. 66. McClure No. 162, p. 211. Kilroy, Book III, No. 3, p. 168.

      Sir John Harington, Of Galla's goodly Periwigge ('You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares')
    • EsR 88 pp. 61-4

      Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed honi soit qui mal y pense, subscribed R Diuereux. Essex.

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

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

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
    • DaJ 86 pp. 76-7

      Copy of a series of five poems, headed Byshope Fletcher & my lady Baker.

      Edted from this MS in Tannenbaum and in Krueger.

      First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • HrJ 294 p. 77

      Copy of a four-line version beginning Weomen are godely wyse & excellent.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')
    • DaJ 84 pp. 79-80

      Copy of poems 1-6.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 443-4.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')
    • RaW 437 pp. 98-100

      Copy of a version in 15 stanzas, untitled.

      Extracts from this MS printed in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871), Part i, pp. 39-40. Formerly Rosenbach 186, this MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, Raleigh's disputed Authorship of A Description of Loue, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell'
    • RaW 426 p. 101

      Copy, headed A Rose to his mrs and here beginning ffaine would I bend ye bowe wherein to shoote I sue.

      First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
    • HrJ 236 p. 103

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Sixe of the weakest sort & purest sect.

      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')
    • HoJ 80 pp. 109-13

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • HoJ 141 p. 113

      Copy, headed Epitaph.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • OvT 24 pp. 128-37

      Copy, headed Sr Tho: Overbery wyfe.

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

      Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind')
    • DyE 92 p. 137

      Copy, untitled, here beginning The smallest trees haue topps ye Ant her gall.

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

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • DnJ 1771 p. 139

      Copy, untitled and here beginning I can nor stand nor sitt nor goe the beggr cryes.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • RaW 409 p. 140

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • FoJ 11 p. 141

      Copy, beginning He yt would learne to pledge 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 648 pp. 144-6

      Copy, subscribed B. J.

      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')
    • DaJ 32 p. 153

      Copy, headed Lo. H. Howard.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio')
    • CoR 50.5 pp. 154-9

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

      Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • B&F 34 p. 164

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Bowers.

      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?')
    • JnB 402 p. 172

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • HrJ 54 pp. 172-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as To his wife a rule for Church house and bed beginning Of late in pleasant company by chaunce.

      Sir John Harington, The Author to his wife ('Mall, once in pleasant company by chance')
    • MoG 44 pp. 177-8

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet Epitaph: vppon King Jeames and here beginning All who haue eyes awake & weepe.

      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')
    • MrJ 73 p. 180

      Copy of the Latin only.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')

  • MS 1083/16

    A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.

    c.1630.

    Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

    • RaW 283 p. 5

      Copy, headed On 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')
    • HoJ 81 pp. 9-11

      Copy, headed On a ffart lett in the Parliament house, here beginning Down came graue Ancient Sergeant Cooke.

      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')
    • HrJ 96 p. 16

      Copy, headed A Certaine Woman and here beginning It was not certaine when a certaine Preacher. The text followed by The reply (here beginning That noe man yet could in the Bible find).

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • HrJ 237 p. 17

      Copy, headed Six Puritane 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')
    • HrJ 158 p. 19

      Copy, headed A Lady.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • HrJ 287 p. 20

      Copy, headed Learned Wife.

      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')
    • CoR 387 p. 22

      Copy, headed Dr C. to Mrs. Os. Lute.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • SiP 162 p. 22

      Copy of lines 75-6, headed A Mayden and here beginning A pretty seale of Virgin wax.

      Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 ('What toong can her perfections tell')
    • PeW 256 pp. 24-7

      Copy, headed In praise of a Painted Woman, here beginning Not kisse? by Joue I must, & make impression.

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

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • CwT 92 pp. 27-8

      Copy, headed On his Mistresse.

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

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • PeW 197 p. 28

      Copy, headed A gentlewoman not marriadgable.

      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')
    • HrJ 208 p. 29

      Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A Godly maide with 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')
    • PoW 64 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed On Mrs Poole my L. Shandoyes sister who dispayred because of her black hayre and eyes.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS F).

      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'
    • HoJ 336 pp. 31-2

      Copy, headed Mr Poldens delight of New Coll: Oxon, here beginning O loue whose force & might, with a verse-for-verse reply in a second column on each page.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • RaW 476.8 p. 32

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Love or doe not say you doe.

      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 220 p. 33

      Copy, headed Bagg and baggage.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 42. McClure no. 296, p. 267. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 35, p. 223.

      Sir John Harington, Of bagge and baggage ('A man appointed, vpon losse of life')
    • PeW 163 p. 33

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 110-11, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, In praise of his Mistris Ironice ('My Mistris hath a precious Eye')
    • CwT 1208 p. 35

      Copy, headed On a Ribbon sent from his Mrs:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • PeW 139 p. 42

      Copy, headed Cloris.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')
    • DaJ 57 pp. 47-8

      Copy, headed A wooer and here beginning ffayre wench I can not court thy sprightly eyes.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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')
    • RaW 540 pp. 49-50

      Copy, headed Sonnett: to his Dearest.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; 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'
    • DnJ 3019 pp. 51-2

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. Sonnet].

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • JnB 711 p. 53

      Copy, untitled.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • JnB 548 pp. 53-4

      Copy, untitled.

      Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.

      Ben Jonson, To the Same ('Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer')
    • JnB 442 pp. 55-6

      Copy, headed Women mens shadowes.

      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')
    • JnB 465 p. 56

      Copy, headed A health to his M:ris.

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

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • HrJ 120 p. 59

      Copy, headed A painted creature Kist.

      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')
    • HyJ 4 p. 61

      Copy of one epigram (First Hundred, No. 79).

      First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.

      John Heywood, Epigrams
    • DrW 117.46 pp. 84-7

      Copy, headed The 5 sences prsented to K. James.

      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')
    • DaJ 19 p. 88

      Copy.

      Krueger, p. 143.

      Krueger, p. 143.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 35. In Septimum ('Septimus lives, and is like Garlicke seene')
    • BcF 54.112 p. 89

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

      Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
    • RaW 373 p. 90

      Copy of a version headed A Sarisbury Sheaphard and here beginning Heare lies our sheaphard a while, soe deare.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • DaJ 152 p. 91

      Copy, headed A bellowsmaker and here beginning Heere lies John Crinker a maker of bellows.

      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')
    • DaJ 211 p. 94

      Copy, headed On an infant and here beginning As caefull mothers 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')
    • CoR 497 p. 95

      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')
    • HrE 27 p. 105

      Copy, headed On a stinking breath and here beginning Haere lies one stinks I must confesse.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 29.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph of a stinking Poet ('Here stinks a Poet, I confess')
    • BrW 175 pp. 108-9

      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')
    • RaW 93 p. 109

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs epitaph: by himselfe made.

      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'
    • BmF 80 pp. 110-12

      Copy, headed An Elegy vppon ye Lady, M.B.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • DrW 177.98 p. 114

      Copy of a version headed On the late Lord Treasurer and beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
    • DnJ 1748 p. 117

      Copy, headed The Beggar and here beginning I cannot stand or goe the Beggar cries.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • HrJ 47 p. 119

      Copy, headed Swearing.

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

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • HeR 126 pp. 121-3

      Copy.

      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 283 pp. 123-6

      Copy, headed A Welcome to Sack.

      This MS collated in part in Patrick.

      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')
    • GrF 45 p. 146

      Copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason is like a Basiliscus eye.

      Bullough, II, 118.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
    • HrJ 269 p. 146

      Copy, headed Or thus:, following GrF 45.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • BcF 46 p. 149

      Copy, headed Mans life.

      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'
    • CoR 757 p. 157

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift')
    • CoR 50 pp. 162-7

      Copy, headed in the margin The K: entertainmt in Cam:.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

      Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • RaW 410 p. 172

      Copy, headed On the late Earle of Somersett.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • StW 962 pp. 172-5

      Copy, headed On the Capps.

      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')
    • ShW 35 p. 175

      Copy of lines 529-34, headed Goodnight to you and here beginning Now the worlds Comforter wt weary gate.

      First published in London, 1593.

      William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')
    • StW 156 p. 176

      Copy.

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

      William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
    • HrJ 212 p. 176

      Copy, headed A sawcy Catour.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a sawcy Cator ('A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought')
    • HrJ 246 p. 177

      Copy, headed On A Lord who would haue inclosed a Commons.

      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')
    • HrJ 250 pp. 178-9

      Copy.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 30. McClure No. 284, p. 264. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir John Harington, Of sixe sorts of Fasters ('Sixe sorts of folkes I find vse fasting dayes')
    • JnB 649 pp. 178-9

      Copy, headed The reason why it was called the Deuills Arse in the Peake.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
    • JnB 264 pp. 181-2

      Copy of a version headed An Extemporary Grace by Ben. Iohnson before the kings and beginning God blesse the King the Quene noe lesse.

      First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

      Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James ('Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse')
    • HrJ 181 pp. 186-7

      Copy, headed A Taylor, here beginning A Taylor, a man of vpright dealling.

      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')
    • HrJ 299 pp. 187-8

      Copy of a shortened version beginning I hard the Tale once of an arrant Baily.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.

      Sir John Harington, A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers ('I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington')
    • PeW 153 pp. 189-90

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')
    • StW 1152 pp. 192-4

      Copy, headed Vpon a Surgery done by Bernard Wright.

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

      William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
    • DyE 93 pp. 194-5

      Copy, headed Loue, here beginning The lowest shrubs haue tops, ye Ant her gall.

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

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • RaW 354 p. 195

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh of H. Noell Courtier, with His reply.

      This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
    • CmT 233 pp. 198-99

      Copy, headed A Sonnett.

      This MS collated in Bühler, p. 705.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • DnJ 2021 pp. 199-200

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 2059 pp. 200-1

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 1981 pp. 201-2

      Copy, headed Loves Mine.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 1466 pp. 202-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 2253 pp. 203-4

      Copy, headed Canzon:.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 1852 pp. 204-5

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. Canzon:].

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 513 pp. 205-6

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. Canzon].

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • CoR 310 pp. 210-26

      Copy, headed Dr Corbetts Iter Boreale.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 645 pp. 227-35

      Copy, headed Dr. Corbet on the Guard to my Lo: 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')
    • DnJ 2520 pp. 241-2

      Copy of lines 1-18, 25-6, 47-56, headed On Loue.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • HrJ 301 p. 245

      Copy, headed In Thom: Bastard Theolog: and here beginning Bastard had I knowne ere thou hadst bene married.

      First published in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926). McClure (1930), No. 358, p. 293. Kilroy, Book III, No. 10, p. 171.

      Sir John Harington, To Mr. Bastard, the minister that writes the pleasant Epigrams ('Had yow been known to me ear yow wear maryd')
    • ChG 4 pp. 251, 255

      Copy of three couplets, i.e. (i) Sestiad III, lines 231-2, headed Loue and here beginning Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames; (ii) Sestiad IV, lines 68-9, headed Loue and here beginning Trifling attempts, noe serious acts advance; and (iii) Sestiad III, lines 395-6, headed Beauty and here beginning Beauty is heauen & earth this grace doth win.

      Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

      George Chapman, Hero and Leander
    • PeW 29 p. 255

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 28, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain ('Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall')
    • ShW 26 p. 256

      Copy, headed On his Mris Beauty and here beginning When in the Annales of all-wasting time, with 18 additional lines.

      This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 106 ('When in the chronicle of wasted time')
    • PeW 127 pp. 256-7

      Copy, untitled, run on directly after ShW 26.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 54-5. Krueger, p. 48, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'When mine eyes, first admiring your rare beauty'
    • GrJ 13.9 p. 261

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man are superscribed P. and those by Woman superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim'
    • OxE 34 pp. 262-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in May.

      May, Poems, No. 12 (pp. 34-5). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 278-9. EV 31543.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Wing'de with desyre, I seeke to mount on hyghe'
    • MiT 5 p. 271

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Middleton.

      Edited from this MS in Collier, and in Oxford Middleton, with a facsimile, p. 1889.

      First published in John Payne Collier, New Facts regarding the Life of Shakespeare (London, 1835), p. 26. Bullen, VII, 413. Oxford Middleton, p. 1889.

      Thomas Middleton, On the death of that great master in his art and quality, painting and playing, R[ichard] Burbage ('Astronomers and star-gazers this year')
    • JnB 121 p. 274

      Copy, headed On the death of Mrs Boulstred.

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

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
    • JnB 134 p. 275

      Copy, headed Epitaph: on El: F: and here beginning Wilt thou heare what man can say?

      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')
    • BmF 129 pp. 275-6

      Copy, headed Madam Fowler.

      First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

      Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
    • ShW 31 p. 279

      Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses) in a four-line version headed Kessing: a song and beginning Come sweet sit heere where neuer serpent hisses.

      First published in London, 1593.

      William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')
    • HrE 37 pp. 279-80

      Copy of a version headed More deiuersity of kissing and beginning at line 5 (here The sweetly melting kisse that doth consume).

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 30-1.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Kissing ('Come hither Womankind, and all their worth')
    • PeW 67 p. 280

      Copy of lines 21-64.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed R.. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'No praise it is that him who Python slew'
    • JnB 487 p. 282

      Copy, untitled, here beginning ffooles praise or dispraise is to me alike, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.

      Ben Jonson, To Foole, or Knave ('Thy praise, or dispraise is to me alike')
    • PeW 125 p. 290

      Copy, headed To his Mris at his death.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 233. Poems (1660), p. 52, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 47, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To his Mistris on his Death ('Oh let me groan one word into thine ear')
    • JnB 301 p. 291

      Copy, headed On the sand running in an Houre glasse.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • GrJ 6 pp. 293-4

      Copy, headed Another sonnett and here beginning A restles louer I espide.

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

      John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
    • DnJ 2273 p. 303

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
    • DnJ 1287 p. 303

      Copy of lines 35-40, headed Beauty and here beginning And when I come where moouing beauties bee.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.

      John Donne, Farewell to love ('Whilst yet to prove')
    • DnJ 2572 pp. 303-4

      Copy of lines 53-62, headed One proving false: and here beginning Only, my bitter sweet whom I had layd.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      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 990 pp. 304-5

      Copy of lines 1-12, 116-26, 171-92.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

      John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')

  • MS 1083/17

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

    Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

    c.1638-42.

    Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

    • EaJ 8 pp. 1-3

      Copy.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1r-K2r. 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')
    • B&F 186 p. 4

      Copy, headed Vpon prince Henry being in a slumber a little before his death.

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

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
    • CoR 420 p. 5

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Fras: Beamont and here beginning He yt hath such acutenes & such witt.

      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')
    • DaJ 212 p. 5

      Copy, headed On a young man and here beginning As carefull Nurses in their bedds 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')
    • CoR 470 p. 5

      Copy.

      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 548 p. 6

      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')
    • HrJ 313.5 p. 6

      Copy, headed Vpon ye death of ye Queen of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by iudgmt. foreappointed.

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

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • CoR 750.5 p. 7

      Headed Epitaphiu. Mr. Bowlinge Dr. Corbett.

      Unpublished? Usually ascribed in MS sources to Brian Duppa.

      Richard Corbett, [On Henry Bowling] (''Tis so hee's dead, and if to speak't again')
    • CoR 159 pp. 8-11

      Copy, with the last 42 lines sub-headed Aliter.

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

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • CwT 1232 pp. 11-13

      Copy, headed On his beloued Mrs. being sick.

      Facsimile of p. 12 in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (p. 192).

      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')
    • CwT 975 p. 15

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • JnB 302 p. 15

      Copy, headed On a faire Ladie working by an hower glasse.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • CwT 1006 pp. 16-18

      Copy.

      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 408 p. 19

      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')
    • CwT 184 pp. 19-20

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
    • CwT 797 p. 20

      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 129 p. 21

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 890 p. 22

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 471 pp. 22-5

      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')
    • PeW 154 p. 23

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath ('When Phebus first did Daphne love')
    • CwT 695 p. 26

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • CwT 567 pp. 27-8
      No description or publication history available.

      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 456 p. 28
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song ('Give me more love, or more disdaine')
    • CwT 330 p. 29
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 13.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsel to a young Maid. Song ('Gaze not on thy beauties pride')
    • DrW 177.99 p. 29

      Copy of a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
    • CwT 1101 pp. 30-1

      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 850 p. 31

      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 939 p. 32

      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 910 pp. 32-3

      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 154 pp. 33-4

      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 380 pp. 34-5

      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 166 f. 35r-v

      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 425 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • CwT 324 f. 36r

      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 35 f. 36v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • CwT 966 f. 37r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind ('Wonder not though I am blind')
    • CwT 947 f. 37v

      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 928 f. 38r

      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 839 f. 38v

      Copy.

      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 1110 f. 39r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
    • CwT 1082 f. 39v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 47.

      Thomas Carew, To my Cousin (C.R.) marrying my Lady (A.) ('Happy Youth, that shalt possesse')
    • PeW 140 f. 39v

      Copy, headed A Song.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')
    • CwT 661 f. 40r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

      Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
    • CwT 533 f. 40v

      Copy.

      Facsimile in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (p. 191).

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes ('Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe')
    • CwT 1050 f. 41r

      Copy, headed To my Mrs. in absence, A Shipp.

      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 863 f. 41v

      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 1199 f. 42r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • CwT 483 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.

      Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda ('Those that can give, open their hands this day')
    • CwT 258 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 217 f. 43v

      Copy, headed Vpon absence and here beginning Perhaps you wonder….

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

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • CwT 816 f. 44r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • CwT 364 f. 44v

      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 961 f. 45r

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 1178 f. 45v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
    • CwT 20 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love ('Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine')
    • CwT 985 ff. 46r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty ('Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext')
    • CwT 509 ff. 48r-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.

      Thomas Carew, On the Mariage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormie ('Svch should this day be, so the Sun should hide')
    • CwT 304 f. 49r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 81.

      Thomas Carew, For a Picture where a Queen Laments over the Tombe of a slaine Knight ('Brave Youth. to whom Fate in one hower')
    • CwT 641 ff. 49v-53r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • CwT 341 f. 53v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • CwT 200 f. 54r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.

      Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers ('The Lady Mary Villers lyes')
    • CwT 7 f. 54r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

      Thomas Carew, An other ('The purest Soule that e're was sent')
    • CwT 10 ff. 54v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

      Thomas Carew, An other ('This little Vault, this narrow roome')
    • CwT 447 f. 55r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

      Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit ('And here the previous dust is layd')
    • CwT 487 ff. 55v-7r

      Copy.

      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')
    • CwT 195 ff. 57v-9v

      Copy.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne ('Can we not force from widdowed Poetry')
    • CwT 193 ff. 59v-61r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
    • CwT 922 f. 61r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.

      Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband ('Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine')
    • CwT 918 f. 62r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 37.

      Thomas Carew, Song. The willing Prisoner to his Mistris ('Let fooles great Cupids yoake disdaine')
    • CwT 443 f. 62v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

      Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason ('Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames')
    • CwT 1157 ff. 63r-4v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

      Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband ('Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes')
    • CwT 529 f. 65r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.

      Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham ('When in the brazen leaves of Fame')
    • CwT 3 ff. 65v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.

      Thomas Carew, An other ('Reader, when these dumbe stones have t')
    • CwT 1218 f. 66v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France ('Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide')
    • CwT 1029 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

      Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
    • CwT 1093 f. 68r-v

      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 1144 f. 69r-v

      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 1120 ff. 69v-70v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • CwT 1161 ff. 70v-1v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

      Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')
    • CwT 1223 f. 72r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse ('Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay')
    • BrW 139 f. 72v

      Copy, headed Epitaph on a Child.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • CwT 540 ff. 73r-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

      Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('As Celia rested in the shade')
    • CwT 543 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

      Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak')
    • CwT 1213 ff. 75v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 77-8.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon Master W. Mountague his returne from travell ('Leade the black Bull to slaughter, with the Bore')
    • CwT 1068 f. 76r-v

      Copy, headed Another.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 78-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Master W. Mountague ('Sir, I arest you at your Countreyes suit')
    • StW 430 f. 76v

      Copy, headed On a faire Lady yt had ye smal 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')
    • CwT 352 ff. 77r-8v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

      Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject ('Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian')
    • CwT 1022 f. 79r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 81-2.

      Thomas Carew, To a Lady that desired I would love her ('Now you have freely given me leave to love')
    • CwT 348 ff. 79v-80r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

      Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue ('Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de')
    • CwT 1215 f. 80r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 83-4.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon my Lord Chiefe Iustice his election of my Lady A.W. for his Mistresse ('Heare this, and tremble all')
    • RaW 284 f. 80v

      Copy, headed On mans life and here beginning Mans life is but a play of passion.

      This MS recorded in Latham, f. 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 307 ff. 81r-3r

      Copy of the four songs.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

      Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
    • CwT 439 f. 83v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

      Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse ('Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne')
    • CwT 14 f. 84r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

      Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')
    • WaE 303 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • KiH 87 f. 85r-v.

      Copy, headed His Answere.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • PoW 65 ff. 86r-7r

      Copy, headed On Mrs. Poole who dispair'd because of her blacke haire & Eyes.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS A).

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

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • MoG 100 f. 87r-v

      Copy, headed On a Crowne of a hatt yt was drunke in for want of a Cupp.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • BmF 150.5 ff. 90r-v

      Copy.

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

      Francis Beaumont, A Charm ('Sleep, old man, let silence charm thee')
    • CoR 582 ff. 90v-1r

      Copy, headed Dr. Corbett to Vincent on his birthday ye third yeare of his age.

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

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • JnB 450 ff. 91v-2r

      Copy, headed Another and here beginning Come sweet Mrs lett us proue.

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

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

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
    • PeW 209 f. 94v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 84, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Opportunity neglected ('Yet was her Beauty as the blushing Rose')
    • HeR 127 ff. 95r-6v

      Copy, headed Mr Herricks farewell to Sacke.

      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 284 ff. 96v-8v

      Copy, headed His Returne.

      This MS collated in part in Patrick.

      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')
    • DaJ 58 ff. 98v-9r

      Copy, headed The Rustick Gallants woinge and here beginning faire Wench I cannot court thy sprightly Eyes.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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')
    • DaJ 67 f. 99r

      Copy, headed Another [Rustick Gallants woinge] and here beginning faire wence 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')
    • DnJ 1241 ff. 103r-4r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • JnB 466 f. 108r

      Copy, headed A health to a Louer.

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

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • KiH 132 ff. 108v-9r

      Copy, headed An Answere to a diswasiue freind.

      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?')
    • CoR 624 f. 109r-v

      Copy.

      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 336 ff. 109v-10r

      Copy, headed Two sheapheards inuiting each other to singe.

      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')
    • CwT 774 f. 113r-v

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • CmT 116 f. 115v

      Copy, headed A scor'nd Bewty.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
    • HeR 397 ff. 115v-16r

      Copy, headed Of his periur'd Mrs.

      This MS 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')
    • CwT 1267.5 f. 116r

      Copy, headed Vpon his Mrs who dyed a little befor he should haue maryed her, here beginning Was shee not wondrous faire? oh but I see.

      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 64 f. 116r-v

      Copy, headed Bewtyes Character.

      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 667 ff. 118v-19r

      Copy, headed A Paradox Noe Pleasure but in Venery.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

      Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
    • CwT 167 f. 119v

      Second copy, headed A Songe, write befor. page 18.

      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 99 f. 120v

      Copy, headed A forsaken Lady yt dyed for loue.

      This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • JnB 712 f. 121r-v

      Copy, headed A sonnett.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • CwT 518 ff. 131v-2r

      Copy, headed To the fflouds.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • ShW 16 ff. 132v-3r

      Copy, headed The Benefitt of Mariage and here beginning When forty yeares shall beseig thy browe.

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

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
    • StW 825 f. 134r-v

      Copy, headed A Sonnet.

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

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • BrW 44 ff. 133v-4r

      Copy, headed An Epistle to his unconstant Mrs throwne into a Riuer where shee usually walked.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 93-4.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Thrown into a River in a Ball of Wax ('Go, gentle paper. happy, happier far')
    • KiH 583 f. 134v.

      Copy, headed A sad Louer to his Mrs.

      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')
    • DnJ 467 f. 135r

      Copy, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise (DnJ 2981).

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 2981 f. 135 r-v

      Copy, headed loath to part.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, ff. 610-11. See also DnJ 467.

      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')
    • WoH 124 f. 136r-v

      Copy, headed An Ode upon ye 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')
    • DnJ 2583 ff. 136v-8r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs..

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      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')
    • StW 1205 ff. 139r-40v

      Copy, headed A Translacon out of Catullus of the Nightingirle.

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

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • CmT 176 ff. 141v-2v

      Copy of a 48 line version headed A Maydes deliberate Resolucon and here beginning Although I'me younge, yet not so ignorant am I….

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, f. 565.

      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'
    • CwT 496 f. 150r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
    • StW 468 ff. 152v-3v

      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 57 ff. 153v-4r

      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')
    • StW 298 f. 154r-v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewomans blistred Lipe.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • StW 1384 f. 155v

      Copy, headed A Blush.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
    • KiH 622 ff. 155v-6r

      Copy, headed To the scornfull Mrs.

      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')
    • BrW 222 f. 164v

      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')
    • GrJ 43 ff. 168v-9r

      Copy, headed An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees.

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

      John Grange, 'Come you swarms of thoughts and bring'

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