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STC 7045

A copy of some 24 poems by Donne, with other material, in a single neat hand, transcribed and emended from the 1669 edition of the Poems, headed Additions to D^r. Donne in y^e Edition, 1669 8^vo, 80 quarto pages (pp. [407-86]), bound with a printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (1633), a number of which bear MS emendations and additions in the same hand.

Late 17th century.

The printed title-page inscribed H. Mapletoft: ?perhaps Hugh Mapletoft (d.1731), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon, who was related to the Ferrar family, George Herbert's friends. Later owned by Augustus Jessopp (1823-1914), schoolmaster and historical writer, who gave it on 25 August 1895 to Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Sotheby's, 30 July 1928, lot 36, to Edwards.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Mapletoft Volume: DnJ Δ 68 (before its present location was known). Briefly recorded in William E. McCarron and Jack M. Shuttleworth, A Newly Recovered Donne First Edition, Seventeenth Century News, 37 (1979), 72. Its MS Donne contents listed in Ernest W. Sullivan II, Updating the Donne Listings in Peter Beal's Index of English Literary Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6 (1987), 219-34.

DnJ 1666.5 pp. 5, 6, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 25, 27

MS emendations to the printed text.

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

John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
DnJ 774.5 p. 28

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
DnJ 1696.5 pp. 44-5

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
DnJ 642.3 p. 47

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
DnJ 2576.3 pp. 49-51

MS emendations to the printed text.

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 1547.3 p. 51

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
DnJ 1049.5 p. 52

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.

John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
DnJ 2356.3 pp. 55-6

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
DnJ 3086.2 p. 56

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
DnJ 1086.3 p. 67

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
DnJ 3299.5 p. 75

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
DnJ 3537.5 p. 79

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
DnJ 3358.5 pp. 79, 81

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure')
DnJ 3542.3 p. 85

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee')
DnJ 3565.5 p. 89

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day ('This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next')
DnJ 3349.8 p. 96

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

John Donne, To M^r T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
DnJ 3584.5 p. 115

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 ('Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see')
DnJ 1158.5 pp. 136-8

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
DnJ 2429.3 p. 140

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
DnJ 1594.5 pp. 162-3

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
DnJ 3708.3 p. 168 [198]

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
DnJ 2306.8 p. 186

MS emendations to the printed text.

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

John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
DnJ 312.7 p. 190

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
DnJ 605.5 p. 204

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
DnJ 679.5 p. 222

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
DnJ 756.5 p. 226

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
DnJ 2536.5 p. 302

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

John Donne, The Paradox ('No Lover saith, I love, nor any other')
DnJ 1782.5 pp. 321-2

MS emendations to the printed text.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius ('How sits this citie, late most populous')
DnJ 2394.5 p. [407]

MS copy.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. III). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 176. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 104 (in three sequences).

John Donne, 'O might those sighes and teares return againe'
DnJ 3150.5 p. [407]

MS copy, headed In the Holy Sonnets to be inserted pag: 32.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).

John Donne, 'Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?'
DnJ 1604.5 pp. [407-8]

MS copy.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. V). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 13. Shawcross, No. 175. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 105 (in three sequences).

John Donne, 'I am a little world made cunningly'
DnJ 1610.5 p. [408]

MS copy.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 14. Shawcross, No. 177.

John Donne, 'If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd'
CoH 109.5 pp. 408-9

MS copy.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')
DnJ 3709.5 pp. [409-10]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 348-50. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-5. Shawcross, No. 191.

John Donne, Upon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister ('Eternall God, for whom who ever dare')
DnJ 3371.5 pp. [411-13]

MS copy.

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

John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders ('Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now')
DnJ 1565.5 pp. [413-14]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.

John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse ('Since I am comming to that Holy roome')
DnJ 1503.5 pp. [419-22]

MS copy.

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

John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night')
DnJ 1713.5 pp. [422-3]

MS copy.

First published, as Eleg. XV, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 104-5 (as Elegie XIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 100-1 (among her Dubia). Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 435, among Dubia. Not in Shawcross.

John Donne, Julia ('Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd')
DnJ 3144.5 pp. [423-5]

MS copy.

First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

John Donne, 'This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint'
DnJ 2148.5 pp. [425-7]

MS copy.

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

John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
DnJ 3574.5 pp. [428-31]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington ('That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime')
DnJ 2521.5 pp. [436-7]

MS copy.

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

John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
DnJ 1141.5 pp. [437-8]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford ('That I might make your Cabinet my tombe')
DnJ 3708.5 pp. [440-1]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
DnJ 1287.5 pp. [442-3]

MS copy.

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 1815.7 pp. [444-5]

MS copy.

First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
DnJ 30.5 p. [460]

MS copy.

First published prefixed in Ben Jonson, Volpone (London, 1607). Grierson, I, 398. Variorum, 8 (1995), 217.

John Donne, Amicissimo, & meritissimo Ben Jonson. In Vulponem ('Qvod arte ausus es hic tuâ, Poeta')
DnJ 312.8 pp. [414-17]

MS copy.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
DnJ 4065.1 pp. [461-9]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1650). Edited, with an English translation, by Evelyn Mary Simposon (London, 1930).

John Donne, The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium
DnJ 3602.5 p. [469]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 400. Variorum, 8 (1995), 232.

John Donne, Translated out of Gazæus, Vota Amico facta. fol. 160 ('God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine')
DnJ 3237.5 p. [472]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 398-9.

John Donne, To M^r George Herbert, with one of my Seal(s), of the Anchor and Christ ('Qvi prius assuetus Serpentum fasce Tabellas')
DnJ 3237.8 p. [473]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 399-400.

John Donne, To M^r George Herbert, with one of my Seal(s), of the Anchor and Christ ('A Sheafe of Snakes used heretofore to be')
DnJ 3859.5 pp. [475-7]

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.
Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')

STC 7045

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