MS 690235f
A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages.
c.late 1690s.-
StW 1286 p. 15
Copy, untitled.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes') -
DrJ 145 pp. 27-8
Copy, as
spoken by Batterton May: 90 & forbid
.This MS collated in California.
First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.
John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess') -
RoJ 595 pp. 29-31
Copy, here in an arrangement beginning with lines 46-51, headed
On Nothing p Shepheard
(here beginningFrench truth, Dutch Prowess, Brittish policy
), then lines 37-45, headedOn Ditto p Buckingham
(here beginningBut nothing why does some thing still permit
). then lines 1-36 headedOn Ditto p E: Roch:
.First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (
Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade') -
SeC 58 p. 31
Copy, headed
On The Scorn full
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore') -
DoC 351 pp. 33-9
Copy.
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being
probably by the Ld Dorset
in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705),British Library, C.28.e.15 , p. 121.Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age') -
CoA 167 pp. 44-53
Copy, headed
A Satyr The Puritan Papist
, subscribedAbr: Cowley
.First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.
Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne') -
MaA 2 pp. 53-6
Copy.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 100-3. Lord, pp. 88-93. Smith, pp. 250-6.
Andrew Marvell, The Character of Holland ('Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land') -
MaA 67 p. 131
Copy of The Answer only, headed
Upon ye Representatives
and here beginningCurse on those Representatives
.First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene') -
ShJ 164 p. 176
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state') -
BuS 2.5 p. 177
Extracts.
Part I first published in London,
1663
[i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London,1664
[i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London1678
[i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth') -
RoJ 126.8 p. 190
Copy, headed
Eng-
, following the Latin version.First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy') -
DrJ 259.2 p. 269
Extracts.
First published in London, 1690. California, XV (1976), pp. 57-219.
John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal