University of Newcastle upon Tyne

MS Bell/White 25

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s.

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

BuR 1.268 f. a4

Extracts.

First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
ToA 40 ff. a4^r-a6^r

Copy, headed A Paradox that no lover can be false.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
CoR 306 ff. 1r-8r

Copy.

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

Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
CoA 168 ff. 8r-12v

Copy, headed A Satyr showing the difference yet coherence Betwixt the Tenents and actions of the Papists and Puritans.

This MS recorded in Perkin, p. 29.

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')
CoR 275 f. 12r

Copy, headed Docter Corbet against Prices Universary upon Prince Henry.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
CoR 243 f. 13r-v

Copy, headed An answere to Price.

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

Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
CoR 222 ff. 13v-15r

Copy, headed A goodly exhortation....

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
CoR 682 ff. 15r-16r

Copy, headed Of M^rs Mallet.

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

Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
RnT 570 f. 16r-v

Copy, headed The life and death of a Grammar scoole.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
CwT 639 ff. 16v-18v

Copy, headed An Elisium or Rapture.

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

Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
StW 296 f. 19r-v

Copy, headed On a Lady having a blistered Lip.

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')
DnJ 1214 f. 20r

Copy of the first stanza, headed On two lovers parting.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
StW 189 f. 20r

Copy, headed His Mistris playing on a lute and here beginning When whispering streines with creeping wind.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
CwT 432 f. 20v

Copy, headed He perswades his coy M^rs to yeild him.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship ('Kisse lovely Celia and be kind')
HeR 327.7 ff. 22r-3r

Copy, headed Upon a harmlesse payre of unskilfull lovers.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
PeW 262 f. 23v

Copy of the short version, headed On his M^rs Coynesse in the act of love and here beginning Nay pish, nay leave, 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')
KiH 458 f. 24v

Copy, headed Upon mans life.

First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
DaJ 53 f. 25v

Copy, headed The Country gentleman to his courtly Mistris and here beginning Faire sweat, I cannot court thy sprightly eyes.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
B&F 68 ff. 25v-6r

Copy, headed On his M^rs Eyes.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away')
CwT 1108 f. 26r-v

Copy, headed How to court his M^rs.

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

Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
HeR 300 ff. 26v-7r

Copy, headed To his yonger M^rs.

This MS collated in part in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (p. 265).

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
DrM 28 ff. 27r-8r

Copy, headed On a heart.

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

Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
GrJ 66 ff. 27v-8r

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
CwT 666 f. 29r-v

Copy, headed True happiness.

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

Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
PeW 83 ff. 29v-30r

Copy, headed All loves Lost.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.

William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
RnT 489 f. 30v

Copy, ascribed to M^r Randell.

First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).

Thomas Randolph, On Feild and Day standing for the Procteourshippe ('Fortune contended whether she should yeeld')
HeR 124 ff. 30v-1v

Copy.

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 281 ff. 31v-3

Copy, headed His Return and Welcome to Sacke.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
DaW 25 f. 33r

Copy, headed William Davenants verses upon M^r Endymion Porters Wife for w^ch and other by-respects M^r Porter gave him a hundred pound. 1631.

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

Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
DaW 58 f. 33r-v

Copy of lines 1-4, headed To M^r Porter.

First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.

Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising ('Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night')
PeW 299 f. 34r

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed P. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.

William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd ('Till now I never did believe')
GrJ 5.5 ff. 34v-5r

Copy.

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'
GrJ 37.7 f. 35r-v

Copy.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

John Grange, 'Blind beauty! If it be a loss'
PoW 71 ff. 37v-8r

Copy, headed Upon a vertuous beautifull gentlewoman on the defence of black hayr and eyes.

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'
RaW 476 f. 38r

Copy, headed Doctor Dunns Answer to a ladie.

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'
HoJ 111 f. 40r

Copy of the abbreviated version, headed A gentlewoman for her husband in y^e Tower to King James and here beginning The most is told, the best is hid.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
RnT 10 f. 40r

Copy, headed An exhortation to marrie and here beginning Dear do not thy fayr beauty wrong.

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

Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong')
StW 821 f. 40v

Copy, headed Upon a fair Gentlewoman walking in the feilds to meet her lover. The heavens snowing upon her. His verses upon her.

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')
HrJ 202 ff. 40v-1r

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Upon a Puritan mayde and here beginning A puritan mayde by one of her society.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
BrW 218 f. 41r

Copy, headed A Epitaph Vpon the Countesse of Pembrock, here beginning Intomb'd within this sable hearse.

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')
HoJ 18 f. 41r

Copy of a version headed Upon a lock-smith and beginning There was a lock-smith died of late.

Whitlock, p. 108.

John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
HrJ 88 f. 42v

Copy, headed Of Rome.

First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

Sir John Harington, In Romam ('Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread')
JnB 440 f. 42v

Copy, headed A Woman.

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')
CwT 692 ff. 42v-3r

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')
ClJ 139 ff. 43r-4r

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.

John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite ('Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether')
CwT 1252 f. 44r-v

Copy.

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

Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
HrJ 117 f. 44v

Copy, headed A woman giving her cheek to be Kissed.

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')
RnT 366 f. 45r

Copy, headed M^r Randolf vpon his picture.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.

Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture ('When age hath made me what I am not now')
HrJ 154 f. 45r-v

Copy, headed Upon a Vertuous 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')
RnT 39 ff. 45v-7r

Copy.

First published in Parry (1917), pp. 220-3. Thorn-Drury, pp. 165-7.

Thomas Randolph, The Character of a perfect Woman ('Apelles curious eye must gaze upon')
CwT 734 f. 47r-v

Copy, headed To his M^rs.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
RnT 468 f. 48r-9r

Copy, headed A terible true tragicall, troublesome relation of a duell fought at Wisbich. June the 17. i637.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
ClJ 143 ff. 49v-50v

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman walking betymes in y^e morning.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.

John Cleveland, Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising ('The sluggish morne, as yet undrest')
CwT 254 ff. 51v-2r

Copy, headed Upon a Fly.

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

Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
CwT 1048 f. 52v

Copy, headed To his M^rs in absence.

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 214 ff. 52v-3r

Copy.

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

Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
ClJ 47 f. 53r

Copy, headed The fair wench scorning y^e black boy that courts her.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
KiH 81 f. 53v

Copy, headed Boys 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')
DnJ 1512 ff. 54v-5r

Copy of a 42-line version, headed Upon the departure of his M^rs and here beginning Since thou art gone, & I must mourn, come night.

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')
CwT 469 ff. 55v-6r

Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman Commanding her Letters againe.

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')
SuJ 107 f. 56r

Copy, headed To a scornfull Mistresse.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
Probably written by Walton Poole.

John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant ('My first Love whom all beauty did adorn')
HeR 320 ff. 56v-7r

Copy.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 56v, in Cain.

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).

Robert Herrick, Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs ('Why what are lips but earth burnt read')
ClJ 157 ff. 57r-8r

Copy, headed A yong man to an old woman courting him.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.

John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him ('Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit')
ClJ 132 ff. 58r-60r

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.

John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe ('Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good')
LoT 1 f. 60v

Copy, headed A Sonet of Constant assurance to his M^rs.

First published in Rosalynde. Euphues golden legacie (London, 1590). Gosse, I (Rosalynde, p. 38).

Thomas Lodge, 'First shall the heauens want starrie light'

MS Bell/White 25

MS Bell/White 42

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