A collection of papers of the editor Richard Warwick Bond (1857-1943), including numerous notebooks, papers and collections relating to his edition of John Lyly.
1794-1953.Autograph letter signed by Beaumont, to Sir Gervase Clifton, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, from Grace Dieu, 18 November 1625.
1625.Recorded in HMC, Various Collections, Vol. VII (1914), p. 291.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase clifton, from Loughborough, 23 November/3 December 1632.
1632.Substantially edited in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 401. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 18, Letter 9.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from London, 27 March[/6 April] 1634.
1634.Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 21, Letter 11.
Five autograph letters signed by More, to Frances Finch (afterwards wife of Clifford Clifton), all undated but before 1650.
c.1640s?.Recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 428.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Geneva, 10/20 May 1630.
1630.Edited in de Beer, pp. 202-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 13, Letter 5.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, 19/29 April 1630.
1630.Edited in de Beer, pp. 200-1. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 10-11, Letter 4.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 30 June/10 July 1630.
1630.Edited in de Beer, pp. 203-4. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 15, Letter 6.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 25 July/4 August 1630.
1630.Edited in de Beer, pp. 204-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 16, Letter 7.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 20/30 January 1634/5.
1635.Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 25, Letter 13.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 21 April/1 May 1635.
1635.Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 26, Letter 14.
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Hardwick, 2/12 November 1630.
1630.Edited in de Beer, p. 205. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 17, Letter 8.
Autograph letter signed by Marston, to Sir Gervase Clifton, [1607].
1607.Edited and discussed in W.H. Grattan Flood, A John Marston Letter, RES, 4 (1928), 86-7; in Robert E. Brettle, The Poet Marston
Letter to Sir Gervase Clifton, 1607, RES, 4 (1928), 212-14; in Brettle, Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3; and in Albert H. Tricomi, Identifying Sir Gervase Clifton, the Addressee of Marston's Letter, 1607, N & Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 202-3. Facsimiles of the letter in Albert H. Tricomi, The Provenance of John Marston's Letter to Lord Kimbolton, PBSA, 72 (1978), 213-19 (Plate 2); in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVI (p. 331), and in James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (p. 179).
Copy of four Essays, namely Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Early 17th century.Among papers of the Clifton family, of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
Copy of four Essays, namely (Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a secretary hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Early 17th century.Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed Verses of the civill Vprores in Fraunc
, on a single leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in an expansive cursive style J Hoskins
, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses to k James by J Hoskins
, once folded as a letter or packet.
Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
Copy of two poems on Sir Robert Cecil, in a neat secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1612.Copy, headed The Earle of Penbrockes Memoriall for the earle of Salsebury deceased
.
Edited from this MS in John Pitcher, Samuel Daniel: The Brotherton Manuscript (Leeds, 1981), p. 173, and in online Early Stuart Libels.
Krueger, p. 57, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts
. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.
Copy, headed By another his freind
.
Edited from this MS in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.
First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed An elegie on the death of the late Lo: Howard Baron of Effingham deceased the .10. of Decemb:
, on the first two pages of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed The Parlament farte
, on two pages (the second inverted) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, in a small secretary hand, in double columns, on the first two pages (the third containing Latin verses) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620s.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
).
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620s.Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect.
c.1620s.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).
Copy of Psalm 137, in a neat italic hand, as translated by Mary Countesse of Pembrook
, here beginning Nigh-seated where the riuer floes
, on the first two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
A single half-folio leaf with verse on one side, in a predominantly italic hand.
The MS is accompanied by a transcript of the verse and a translation into English made by Rosslyn Bruce, 18 June 1905.
Mid 17th century.Copy, untitled.
First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.
Copy, headed In adulatorium Papæ titulam Nec deus est nec homo
, subscribed Mr Geo: Herbert
.
Hutchinson, p. 412. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 88-9.
Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny, to Lady Mary Wroth, in a neat secretary hand, 26 February 1621/2.
c.1622.This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 238.
Copy of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, in a neat secretary hand, 15 February [1621/2].
c.1622.This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 237.
Copy of Denny's poem attacking Wroth's Urania, chiefly in a mixed hand, the last two lines possibly squeezed in in another hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse.
c.1622.Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 533-4.
Twenty-six lines of verse by Lord Denny fiercely attacking Wroth's published romance and prompting her verse retaliation (
Copy of Wroth's verse response to Denny's poem, in a mixed hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse.
c.1622.Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 534.
Twenty-six lines of verse, answering line-for-line Lord Denny's verse attack (
Copy of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, in a mixed hand, here dated 21 February 1621/2.
c.1622.This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 240.
Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, in a mixed hand, [February-March 1621/2].
c.1622.This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.
Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, in a professional secretary hand, on the first page (the second a letter by Howard) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620s-30s.A folio booklet of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, eleven leaves, in a paper wrapper.
Early 17th century.Copy.
Copy, headed The manner and end of the Earle of Essex in the Tower of London the xxvth of ffebruarie 1600
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex to ye Earle of Rutlande before his travell...
, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
Copy of a letter, in a cursive secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, headed A lr forged by Sr F. B. to ye erle of E. in the name of his brothr Mr A. B and ye Earle his answer wch was likwise forged by him
.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sir Walter Raleigh his Apologie
, eleven + ii folio leaves, in a paper wrapper.
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Copy of part of the tract, in a professional secretary hand, headed Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace
, as by Sr: walter Rawley
, thirteen folio pages, in a paper wrapper.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...
, the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...
. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge
and Hamburg
[i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a professional cursive secretary hand, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves.
Early 17th century.Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a small neat secretary hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620.Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Octob: 28. 1618
, inscribed in the margin (p. 1) The ffirst sheete / His bringeinge to the Barre
and (p. 2) The execucon Octob: 29th: 1618
, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 269.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Copy of a nine-stanza version, in a cursive secretary hand, inscribed in another hand Sr Walter Rawley
, untitled, here beginning There was a tyme when sillie bees could speake
, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
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.
Copy of Bacon's submission of 22 April 1621, in an italic hand, on three pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1621-30.The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a small secretary hand, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
c.1621-30.The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancelor his speeche
, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves (the last one imperfect).
Copy of a speech by The lo: Chanc. Bacon
, in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Copy of The Lo: Keepers speech at the meetinge of the Lordes & other Comissioners for the Subsidies of London at Guyldhall. July 30th. 1621
, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Your Mts most locall and true harted Subiect John Keymer
, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves, endorsed (p. 16) A book concerning merchandizing to K: James
.
A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...
. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.
Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
Copy of an early version, in a small secretary hand, headed The Character of the late Erle of Salisbury
, subscribed Jerill Turner
, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
With two letters about the MS, one of them by Allardyce Nicoll to Mrs Clifton, 22 June 1929.
c.1612-20s.Among papers of the Clifton family, of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire.
This MS recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 361, and HMC 55, Various Collections, Vol. VII (1914), p. 265. Edited in Nicoll, pp. 297-8.
A character, beginning He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power...
, and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.
Copy, in two professional secretary hands (the second on ff. [18r-19v]), with two leaves (ff. [2r-v, 4r-v]) in a much later hand to supply missing text, 50 leaves, the first leaf imperfect, in old calf.
c.1630s.Bookplate of the Hon. James Brydges, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire. Among papers of the Galway family, Viscounts Galway, of Serlby Hall.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed, i + seventeen folio leaves, in a paper wrapper, the front one inscribed The case & proceedings against the Queen of Scotts / Phelips
.
Among papers of the Mellish family, of Hodsock, Nottinghamshire.
A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…
. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.
A folio volume of legal and antiquarian tracts, in several professional mixed hands, unfoliated, in contemporary vellum.
Early 17th century.Copy, headed of the Antiquitie of Parliaments
, on three pages, subscribed William Camden
.
A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...
. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Considerations for the repressing of the encrease of Preists Jesuits and Recusants wthout drawinge of blood written by Sr. Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett
, 27 + ii folio leaves, unbound, imperfect, two leaves gnawed by rodents.
Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...
, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
Copy, in a single neat hand, 347 pages (on rectos only, plus blanks), in a stiff paper wrapper, inscribed on the front Extracts from Leland's Collectanea
.
Entirely in the hand of Charles Mellish, MP (1737-97), politician and antiquary, of Badsworth Hall and Blyth, Yorkshire.
Mid-late 18th century.Volume I of Cassandra Willoughby's autograph family history, in her italic hand, including her copies of early family documents at Wollaton from the 12th century onwards, entitled An Account of the Willoughby's Of Wollaton taken out of the Pedigree, Old Letters & old Books of Accounts, in my Brother Sr Thomas Willoughby's Study Decr A: D: 1702 By Cass: Willoughby
, ii + 198 quarto pages (plus a number of blanks), in contemporary calf.
Among the papers of the Willoughby family, Barons Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, of Middleton, Warwickshire, and of Birdsall, Yorkshire. Inscribed (inside the front cover) Miss Kearney
and (p. i) H[?] Fn[?] Kearney 1785
and 43 Somerset Street. Portman Square
.
Edited from this MS in HMC, Lord Middleton (1911).
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
Volume II of Cassandra Willoughby's autograph family history, in her italic hand, including her copies of family documents at Wollaton up to 1690, entitled The Continuation of the Account of the Willoughby's of Willoughby & Eresby in Lincolnshire And of the Willughby's of Willughby & Wollaton in Nottinghamshire Taken out of the Pedigrees, old Letters, Books of Accounts, & other Manuscripts, wch still remain in the Library at Wollaton, by Cassandra Dutches of Chandos, & Sister to the Right Honble Thomas Willoughby Lord Middleton
, finished, 156 quarto pages (plus numerous blanks), in dark green morocco with the Chandos arms in gilt.
Originally among the papers of the Willoughby family, Barons Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, of Middleton, Warwickshire, and of Birdsall, Yorkshire, and restored to that collection in the 1920s. Bookplate of Augusta Anne Brydges 1766
. Later inscribed (on a flyleaf) Willoughby Gardner
. Item 3 in an unidentified sale catalogue, November 1922. A tipped-in letter by D. Webster, rare book dealer of Tunbridge Wells, to Willoughby Gardner, 9 March 1926, saying that this MS, which Gardner had purchased from Webster in Leeds, came from the Stowe Library: i.e. that of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham. Donated in 1956 by Mrs Isabel Gardner.
Edited from this MS by Wood.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).
Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.
Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a somewhat garbled version, headed Poem by Sir Kelham Digby, 1686
.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, in a professional hand, folded as a letter and addressed to the poet Thomas Shipman (1632-80).
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.
Copy, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet.
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.
Copy, in an unidentified hand.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy of lines 1-45, on one side of a folio leaf, lacking the rest, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet, headed An Epistolary Essay
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
A formal copy, with a frontispiece sketch, a title-page, an imprimatur, and a dedicatory epistle to Lady Ann Baynton, followed by Rochester's mock-advertisement, The Noble Mountebank's ingenious Bill, subscribed Transcribed at Mallets=Court in Shierhampton Decr. the 13th: 1687. by Me Thos. Alcock
, 53 octavo leaves (on rectos only), in black leather gilt.
Made by Thomas Alcock, a former servant of Rochester's, for presentation as a New Year's gift to Rochester's daughter Ann (1667-1703) and her husband Henry Baynton (1664-91).
13 December 1687.The MS later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 17730). Formerly Misc. MS 1489.
Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto's edition. See also [? Gerald P. Mander], Rochester and Dr Bendo, TLS (13 June 1942), p. 300. Facsimile examples in Sola Pinto and in Greene, p. 107.
An account of Rochester's prank in 1676 when he disguised himself as an Italian mountebank, Dr Alexander Bendo, and set up practice on Tower Hill. First published in this form, as a work by Rochester (Doctr. Alexandr. Bendo
) and Thomas Alcock, in an edition by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Nottingham, 1961). Rochester's mock-bill, Alexander Bendo's Bill, apparently printed and circulated by him as an advertisement in 1676 (no exemplum known). A version published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691), pp. 138-54. Reprinted in Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 153-60. Love, pp. 112-17.
MSS.
Editorial papers on the Memoirs, 1906-55.
First published, edited by Julius Hutchinson, London, 1806. Edited by James Sutherland (London, New York & Toronto, 1973). See also David Norbrook, But a Copie
: Textual Authority and Gender in Editions of The Life of John Hutchinson, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 109-30.
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, from London, 31 January 1687[/8].
Edited in Francis Needham, A Letter of Shadwell's, TLS, 23 October 1930, p. 866.
Autograph copy by Vanbrugh of an agreement by 29 subscribers to the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, [1703].
1703.Register, No. 1720.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Lord Wharton, 7 December 1714.
1714.Recorded in Downes, p. 521.
A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards.
Mid-17th century.Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.
Copy, headed The lybell of ye fart so supposed by Mr Ludlo in ye Parlem house
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, headed My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death. / Vppon the death of ye late noble Prince Henry
.
Copy, headed Verses of Mr Hoskins in the Tower
.
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.
Copy of a speech by Bacon in Parliament concerning the union.
Copy, headed Of my Lord of Northampton
.
First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 76-81. Krueger, pp. 161-7.
Copy, under a general heading Epitaphes and verses of my Lord Tresorer Cicill
, here beginning Heere Hobbinole lyeth or sheppard whyle eere
.
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.
A small quarto composite volume of miscellaneous works, in five hands, including Memorials of the Holles family in the hand of Gervase Holles (1607-75), leaves (a few excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.
Early-mid-17th century.Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Timothy Raylor, The Lost
Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered, EMS, 7 (1998), 86-130 (esp. pp. 95-110).
Copy, headed Satyr 1: The Humerist
.
Facsimile of f. 115r in Raylor, p. 108, and see pp. 101, 109.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
Copy, headed Satyr 2. the lawyer
.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
Copy of lines 1-54 only, headed Satyr: 3
, imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
Copy of lines 1-26, without the eight introductory lines, incomplete.
Facsimile of this MS in Raylor, p. 106.
First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see
, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.
Copy, in a cursive and somewhat flourished mixed hand, entitled on the front paper wrapper Hengist King of Kent or the Maior of Quinburrugh
, subscribed (f. 43r) Finis / Hengist King of Kent
, with (f. 1r) a Chorus
(Dramatis Personæ) and (f. 44v) an epilogue, 43 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper within modern quarter-morocco.
Among the collections of the Duke of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire.
c.1640s-50s.This MS collated in Bald (with two pages of facsimiles), where it is incorrectly stated that this MS and
First published in London, 1661. Bullen, II, 1-115. Oxford Middleton, pp. 1451-87. Generally known as Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Queenborough.
A folio composite volume, comprising principally (ff. 4r-12r) a formal copy of The Kings Entertainment, a masque by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, the main text in a stylish italic hand, that of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, with some autograph corrections by Newcastle, with three songs (two of them by and in the hand of the composer Matthew Locke) tipped-in at the beginning, 15 leaves, in later half-calf.
Bookplate of William J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.
The Kings Entertainment, without The Lotterie, discussed and edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Lynn Hulse, The King's Entertainment by the Duke of Newcastle, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405.
Copy, in John Rolleston's hand, on a separate stock of paper.
Edited from this MS in Fitzmaurice, The Lotterie.
First published, and discussed and attributed to Margaret Cavendish, in James Fitzmaurice, The Lotterie: A Transcription of a Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish, HLQ, 66 (2003), 155-67.
A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a Catalogus Librorum
at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Owned in 1671 by one J. H.
. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.
Copy of lines 15-34, here beginning As his last Legacy to Brittain Left
, imperfect, lines 1-14 excised.
The text followed (ff. 1v-2v) by The Construction of Mr Wallers Poem. By Mr Godolphin of Ch: Ch: Oxon
.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
Copy, headed A Panegyrick to ye Ld Protector by Mr Waller One that loves ye peace, vnion & prosperity of ye English Nation 1655
.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Copy, headed To a faire, but cruell Mistris M.K.
, subscribed Charles Sidley
.
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.
Copy, headed A Song
, subscribed Charles Sidley
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
Copy, headed A Poem written by Mr Dryden to my Lady Castlemaine, who got his play Edited
.
This MS collated in Hammond.
First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.
Copy, entitled King Henry ye Fifth written by ye Earle of Orrery
.
First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.
Copy, headed Upon ye Countess of Manchester suppos'd to be written by her Husband. Mr. Montagu. 94 - To Mrs D-P.
and here beginning Courage Dr. Doll & drive away despair
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
Copy.
First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church, among Impromptus.
Copy of line 3 et seq, headed Ben Johnson upon His Mistress
and here beginning Reader, under this stone does lye
.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.
Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd
) in an unidentified hand.
Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS
. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see
Autograph draft of an untitled 32-line version beginning How [happy deleted] perfect Cloris, & how free
, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS and discussed (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit. Edited in Walker, pp. 40-1, and in Love. Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8. Facsimile example in Greene, p. 71.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free
on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).
Autograph, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate octavo leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as [Love poem].
Autograph, with minor revisions, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published, as an additional stanza to the song While on those lovely looks I gaze, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning Too late, alas! I must confess published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.
Autograph, untitled, on one side of a single octavo leaf.
Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile in Greene, p. 128.
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 120. Vieth, pp. 85-6. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 32.
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 50. Vieth, pp. 34-5. Walker, p. 50. Love, p. 109, as [Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, i. 1-4].
Autograph draft, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 49. Vieth, p. 34. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 123.
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate sextodecimo leaves.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as [Draft of a love poem].
Autograph, untitled, on one side of part of a folio leaf, the verso with an address panel to the Earle
, once folded as a letter.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, p. 148. Walker, p. 123, untitled. Love, p. 91, as [Lines].
Autograph draft with revisions, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate octavo leaves.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, pp. 102-3. Walker, p. 90-1, as [Fragment of a Satire on Men]. Love, pp. 74-6, as [Satire].
Autograph draft, with revisions, of part of the first scene of an untitled prose comedy, beginning Scaene 1st. Mr. Daynty's chamber — Enter Daynty in his Night gown singing…
, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.
Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile IX.
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), pp. 125-6. The revised edition, Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (London, 1962), pp. 111-12. Love, pp. 123-4.
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with change of Governmt: from Monarchicall to Democraticall
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
Copy in two hands, headed Satyr
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-201), headed The Appology
, here beginning All this with Indignation have I hurld
.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
Copy, in a professional hand, as by Thomas Shadwell 1670
, with a few autograph revisions and additions, including a several-line insertion on p. 15, 87 folio pages, in modern half-morocco.
Edited in part from this MS in Perkin.
First published in London, 1671. Summers, I, 175-255. Edited by Richard Perkin (Dublin, 1975).
Copy, in a professional hand, with occasional autograph revisions and additions by Shadwell and inscribed by him on the title-page ffor His Grace the Duke of Newcastle
, including a Prologue (How popular are poets now adayes
) and Dramatis Personae, on 42 large folio leaves (83 pages), the last leaf imperfect and lacking the ending, in modern quarter-morocco.
This MS recorded in Summers, I, lviii (where it is erroneously described as a holograph script
). Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 42-4, in Richard Perkin, Shadwell's Poet Ninny: Additional Material in a Manuscript of The Sullen Lovers, The Library, 5th Ser. 27 (1972), 244-51.
First published in London, 1668. Summers, I, 1-92.
A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (Epitaphs
, Satyricall
, Love Sonnets
, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.
Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS
(
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS
:
Copy, headed On the remooveall of her body from Richmond to White-Hall
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
Copy, headed On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scots
and here beginning When doome of death by judgment 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
Copy, as by Dr Corb:
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
Copy, headed On a yong man
, and here beginning As carefull Nurses in their beds do lay
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, headed Dr. Corbett. / On Dr Ravis Bishop of London
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett / On Mr Henry Boling his Death
.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
Copy, headed Fr. Beaumont / On ye Death of ye L. M.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
Copy, headed Dr Donne, / Upon ye Lady Markham
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
Copy, headed Dr. Donne / On Mris Bulstrode
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
Copy, headed On ye Death of Q. Anne
.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
Copy, headed On K. James who died March 27. 1625.
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
Copy, headed In Obitum Jacobi Regis
.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
Copy, inscribed at the side Mr Henry King
.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
Copy, headed On the same
[i.e. the Lrd Treasurer Buckhurst], here 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.
Copy, headed C. R. / On John Croker a Bellows maker of Oxford
, here beginning Here lieth John Croker 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.
Copy, headed Mr Strowd / On John Dawson the Butler his death
.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
Copy, headed Sr W. R. / A Lover on his Mistresse
.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
Copy, headed Sr W. R. / On his Mistresse Serena
, concluding with the final couplet of Euen such is tyme (here beginning But from this Earth, and Grave, and Dust
), with the marginal note, This last staffe was said to bee made by Sr W.R. a little before his death, wth the addition of these two Verses
.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 119-20.
First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
Copy, headed Sr. W. R. / To the sole Governes of his affections
, here beginning Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames
, and prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see
First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see
For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
Copy, prefixed by Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames
(see
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see
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).
Copy, inscribed at the side Sr W. R.
Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood. Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 118-19.
First published in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her).
Copy of lines 21-30, headed A Lover on his Mistresse
and here beginning Have you seene the white Lilly grow
.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light
) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
Copy, headed To the Sunne that rise too earely to call Him and His love from bed
, subscribed Mr Dunne
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
Copy, headed Mr Dunne / To the Same
[i.e. his Scornefull Mistresse].
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
Copy, headed Mr Dunne / To his Loving Mistres when hee travaild
.
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.
Copy, headed W. S. / A Lover to his Mistres
.
Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood, p. 180.
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.
Copy, headed One to his Friend who was a Lover and impatient to stay till his spouse were of age
.
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.
Copy, headed A Lover to his Mistresse
.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
Copy.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
Copy, headed Dr Donne / A Lover in a Garden
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
Copy, headed Dr Donne / A Deprecatory, To his Mrs. (after Wife) who would have accompanied Him in ye disguise of a Page, when Hee went to travaile
.
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.
Copy, headed Dr Donne / To his Love, who was too hasty to rise from him in ye Morning
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
Copy, headed A Lover to his Mrs
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
Copy, headed A Sonnett
.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
Copy, headed Sr Henry Lea his Farewell to the Court
.
First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
Copy, headed The praise of melancholy
.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
Copy, headed Walton Poole. / A comendation of black haire in a Gentlewoman
.
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:
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently
.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Sr H. Wotton / On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia
, here beginning Yee glorious trifles of the East
.
The text followed on p. 111 by a Latin version.
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.
Copy, headed Dr Dunne / The praise of an old Woman
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed Dr Donne / A Paradox In ye Praise of Change in a Lover
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
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.
Copy, headed Dr Donne / The Elogy of an Autumnall Face
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
Copy, headed Mr Strowd / To Mr Paine of CC. upon ye strange cure of his thigh by Venotto, and Barnard Wright; Or, The chirurgians Elogie
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
Copy, headed Satyre volans. Or a flying Satyre made by Dr Latewarr of St Johns.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 129, and in Höltgen, p. 435.
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.
Copy, headed A Reply to the flying Satyr
.
May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.
Copy, headed Sr. W. R / On Dr Noell
, together with Dr Noel On Sr W. Rawley
.
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).
Copy, headed Ben: Johnson / Cooke Lawrell
.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
Copy, headed Dr Corbet Against Dr Price
.
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
Copy, headed Ad Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
Copy, headed That Authors Invocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdome
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett / On Mrs Mallett; an ill-favour'd Creature, yt would needs bee in love with the Author
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
Copy, headed On ye fall of Sr Francis Bacon L. Chancellour, and of his Followers
, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of Goe-out feeling
.
Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
Copy, headed Sr Henry Wotton / A contented life
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy of lines 1-8, headed On Man
subscribed Be: Stone
.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) 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.
Copy, headed Mr Hoskins in the Tower to his Sonne
, here beginning My little Ben whilst thou art yong
.
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
Copy, headed Sr W. R. / An old and true Prophesy
.
Edited from this MS in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (p. 182). Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 139.
First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
Copy, as by J. Hoskins
.
Unpublished.
Copy.
Unpublished.
Copy, headed Erat quidam Homo. Or An invective against Women
and here beginning It is not certaine when, a certaine Preacher
. The text followed by Erat quaedam Mulier. Or The Womans Reply
(here beginning That no man yet could in the scripture find
).
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
Copy, headed Upon England
and here beginning England men say of late is Bankrupt growne.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see
Copy, headed J. Hoskins incarceratus / Jacobo M. Britanniæ Regi Opt: Max:
.
Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
Copy, headed J. Hoskins incarceratus. Mro Chute et Dri Sharpe concarceratis
.
Osborn, No. XXX (pp. 202-3).
Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / On the casting of great Tom. 1621. To Brontes the Bell = Founder
.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.
Copy, headed On the Vnion of great Britaine
, here beginning Never was Vnion better driven by fate
.
First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that used to in a verse trick upp her selfe over-curiously
.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh his Pilgrimage; Or A Preparative made by Himselfe, the Night before hee was beheaded
.
First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
Copy, headed Mr Strowd. / Mortality and Resurrection
.
First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye
.
Copy, headed Mr Strowd / Preferment likened to a Game at Bowles
.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
Copy, headed On a Fly that gott into a Gentlewomans eie
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed Sr Fr: Bacon. / On ye Vanity of ye Life of Man
.
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.
Copy, headed B. Johnson / The five Senses
.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see
Copy, headed The five sences. Per incertum Authorem
.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy, headed Mr Gough of CC. Upon ye hoarsnes of his Voice when Hee was to act in a Tragedy un publique, wch Himselfe was ye author of
.
Unpublished.
Copy, the first stanza headed Of Inconstancy
, the second headed The Aunswere, in praise of itt
.
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.
Copy of poem 1, headed On Sr Edward Cooke his Marriage wth ye Lady Hatton
and here beginning Coquius the Lawyer hath a Lady wedd
.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.
Copy, headed Mr Waller / On his Mistres in a garden she refusing to loue to preserve her Beauty
.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed The Earle of Essex his Bee
, here beginning There was a Time when silly bees coulde speake
.
Edited from this MS in Wood article, pp. 188-90. Collated from that article 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.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in May, p. 125.
May, No. 9, p. 47.
Copy, headed Dr Dunne / To Mr Tilman after his taking of Orders
.
This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.
Copy, headed B. Johnson / A Poeme by the way of thankfull acknowledgment sent and dedicated to Sr Edward Sackvile
.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 153-8.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / Verses against the Guard; Or, A Satyricall Relation (by way of Letter to the Lord Mordant) concerning the ill entertainment the Guard gave him at his being att Winsore
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
Copy, as by Dr Corbett
.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / To the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
Copy of lines 1-46, headed Dr Corbett. / The description of a Northerne Journey
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
Copy, headed Dr Corbett against Cambridge
.
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
).
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an Index
, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.
Copy.
This MS collated (as MS Portland 109
) in California and in Vieth.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
Copy, here beginning Fill'd with the noisome folly of the Age
.
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),
Copy, headed Vpon Six holy Sisters that mett att a Conventicle to alter the Popish word of Preaching
, here beginning Six of the female Sex and 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.
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in a single rounded hand, 140 pages (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boards.
Late 17th century.Later used by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, with his loosely inserted index. Sold in April 1934 by Dobell.
Copy, headed The Chess
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table
of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.
c.1680s.Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.
Copy, lacking a title-page, a prologue and an epilogue, here ending after scene 5.
This MS discussed in Edwards, BC (1976) and PBSA (1977).
First published (?) at Antwerp
[i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.
Copy, headed From E:R: to E:M:
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
Copy, headed in the margin A Ramble in ye Parke
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
Copy, headed Nestor
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
Copy, under the general heading ffamiliar Lettrs
.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.
Copy, headed Answer
.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 113.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.
Copy, headed second Letter
.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.
Copy.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 114.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
Copy, headed Poet Ninny
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
Copy, headed in the margin Ld al Pride
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
Copy, headed Answar
and here beginning I ffuck no more then others do
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe
.
Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.
Copy, headed An Allusion to Horace
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
Copy, subscribed Rochester
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.
Copy, headed Nothing
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.
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.
Copy, headed Ovid...To Love
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.
Copy, headed Stocks Markett Statute
and here beginning As Cittisens that to theire first Conquerours yeald
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
Copy, headed To Thirsis
; the text followed (pp. 59-60) by Lady Rochester's answer
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms
) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.
Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire
), her autograph of which is in
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.
Copy, headed To Phillis
.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.
Copy, headed Love to a Woman
.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 339.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp
[i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.
Copy.
This MS collated (as MS Portland (unnumbered)
) in California and in Vieth.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
Copy, headed Satyr
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
Copy.
First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.
Copy, headed The storme
.
The text followed (ff. 80r-1r) by Godolphin's The Answer to ye Storme (anon)a
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
Copy, headed The Speech
.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
Copy, headed Hodg / A Country Clown call'd Hodg went up to view the Piramid
.
First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision
, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
Copy, headed On Mr E- H- upon his B- P-
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
Copy, headed Panegyrick by E:W
.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Copy of a version headed Nostradamus's Prophecy
and beginning Her faults and follys Londons doom shall fix
.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed Vpon the Statue at Charing Cross Charles the first
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
Copy, headed Advice to a Painter
.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
Copy, headed Advice to a Painter
.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy, headed The Chronicle
.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy, headed On the Death of O: C by JD
.
This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.
Copy, headed Song
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 323.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester
). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.
Copy, headed On Mr E: H- upon his New Vt-
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp
[i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.
Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.
Copy, headed Satyr
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, Text of Timon.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Copy, headed Satyr
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, untitled.
Of doubtful authorship.
Copy, untitled.
First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 365.
First published, in the essay Of Obscurity, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 298.
Copy, untitled.
First published, in the epistolary essay The danger of Procrastination, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 454.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.
Copy, headed Age
.
First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 53. Sparrow, pp. 52-3.
Copy, untitled.
First published, at the end of the essay Of Liberty, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.
Copy.
First published, as By the Earl of Rochester
, in Charles D'Avenant, Circe, a Tragedy (London, 1677). Vieth, p. 140. Walker, p. 58. Love, p. 122.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.
A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in Table
of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
Copy, as By Lord Dorset & Mr: [Fleetwood] Shepperd
, the poem dated in the margin 1673
.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.
The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.
Copy, headed the Earle of Rochesters Conference with the Post Boy
and the poem dated 1674
.
This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.; collated in Walker.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
Copy, without The Answer, headed 1673 The Chequer Inn. Tune I tell the Dick. By Mr: H Savel
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1682
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1687
.
This MS colated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in
Copy, headed To a Scornfull Beauty
.
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.
Copy.
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1685
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.
Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dameta's sharper Fight
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.
Copy, headed To Phillis
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
Copy, the poem here dated 1679
.
First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in
Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giving a True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine
, following (on pp. 21-7) a copy of that poem.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
Copy of 33 maxims, headed Almanzor's Maxims
, the text followed (on pp. 102-5) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu headed The Second Part
.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. By the Earl of Dorset
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
Copy, untitled, run on directly from
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (
Copy, headed Another By the same hand
, the poem dated in the margin 1694
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
Copy, as By Mr: Congreve
, the poem dated in the margin 1696/7
.
First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.
Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.
Copy, headed A Song By a Lady of Quality
, the poem dated in the margin 1699
.
First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.
Copy, as By Mr: Vanbrook
, the poem dated in the margin 1699
.
First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook
, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.
Copy, headed The Rivall. By Mr: Walsh
[ie. William Walsh (1662-1708), poet], the poem dated in the margin 1699
.
This MS text formerly recorded in IELM as Sir George Etherege EtG 113. Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 138-9.
First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.
Copy, headed The Deist
.
This MS recorded in Harris.
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.
c.1680s.Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
Copy.
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset
.
Copy.
First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.
Copy.
First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.
A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a Table
of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.
Copy, subscribed T. S.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying Letter…to Mr. Wicherley, see
Copy of lines 171-260, headed Satyr: On The Country Squire (by L Rochester)
and here beginning You smile to me (whom the world perchance
.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, headed Royall Resolutions
.
First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown
authorship, possibly Marvell's
, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.
Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall. The Duell
, By Mr. Hen: Savile
added in different ink.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
Copy, the poem dated 1687
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
Copy, as By Mr. Dryden
, the poem dated 1689
.
This MS collated in California.
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
Copy, headed Answer By Ld. Dors-t
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.
Copy, headed An Excellent new Ballad Giveing a true account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem call'd the Female Nine
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 49, pp. 78-80.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
Copy, as By Mr Dryden
.
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.
Copy, headed On the French K. By Ld. Dorset 1692
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
Copy, headed A Madame Madame. B. Beaute Sexagenaire. Lady Manchester. By Lord Dorset. 1693
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
Copy, headed By a Person of Quality of the Female Sex
.
First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.
A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Songs and Satyrs from the beginning of the Revolucon in 1688 to 1695, in a single professional hand, with (ff. 2r-4r) a Table
of contents, 183 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Philia Cotton
.
Copy, headed On Dundee (1689) (By Dryden)
.
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
Copy, headed Answer. By L: Dorset
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.
Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giveing. a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine
, following (on pp. 56v-9r) a copy of that poem which is dated 1690
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
Copy, headed Prologue By Sr Cha: Sidley. To the Strowlers. 1690
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Sola Pinto, I, 49.
Copy, inscribed By Mr: Dryden. Not Suffer'd to be Spoke
.
This MS colalted 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.
Copy, headed On the French King. by E. Dorset
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
Copy, headed A Madame Madame Ld Beaute Sexagenair. (by Ld Dorset) La: Manch-tr.
Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
Copy, untitled, run on directly from
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (
A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table
of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.
Copy.
Recorded in Harris.
First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.
Copy, headed On Dundee. 1689 By mr Dryden
.
This MS collated in California.
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
Copy, headed An Excellent new Ballad Giving a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine
, following (on ff 49r-51v) a copy of that poem.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorch-tr 1694
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
Copy, untitled, run on directly as stanzas 3 and 4 of
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (
Copy, headed Another on the same Lady. by E. Dors-t
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
Copy, as By the E. of Dorset
, the poem dated 1696
.
This MS recorded in Haris; transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 50, p. 75.
First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.
Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.
Copy, headed The Rival 1698 By mr: Vanbrook
.
This MS text formerly recorded in IELM as Sir George Etherege EtG 114. Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 138-9. A transcript of this MS by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1932) is in the
First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.
Copy, the poem dated 1698
.
A transcript of this MS by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1932) is in the
First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook
, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.
Copy, headed Song By a Lady. 1688
.
First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Desire / A Pindaric
, in a booklet of eight quarto leaves (on rectos only), plus blanks, in a paper wrapper.
First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 356-60. Todd, I, No. 77, pp. 281-4.
Autograph, headed To the Lords in Councill asembled the Pindarique Petition of Thomas Browne
, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, This is the handwriting of Charles, Earle of Dorset. Ja: Tonson
.
Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 98.
First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.
Copy, in a mixed hand, on all four sides of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1640s-50s.This MS discussed and collated with other MSS, with a stemma, in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed A Dialogue
, on pages 1 and 3 of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Endorsed in a different hand These Verses were given to me by my cosen John Bennett the 1th of Nouember. 1640
.
This MS discussed and collated in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
Copy, in a neat hand, on seven pages in a quarto booklet of six leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1703.First published in London, 1703. Summers, IV, 67-71. Dobrée, pp. 276-81. McKenzie, II, 361-6.
Copy, in a neat rounded hand, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Mid-17th century.First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Satyra
, on seven pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed The Satyre of the courte by Mr dune
and Satyre of the court by Dunn
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The 5 senses
, on both sides of a single long narrow ledger-size leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy, in a secretary hand, in double columns, the heading cropped, on one side (the verso containing prose) of a half-folio leaf.
Early 17th century.Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy, in probably a professional hand, on eleven pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
Late 17th century.A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, in a professional hand, on folio leaves.
Late 17th century.A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, in a professional hand, on folio leaves.
Late 17th century.A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, in a neat hand, on four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
c.1700.First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 3-18.
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Late 17th century.First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, Sr Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 301-3.
Copy, in a rounded hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
Late 17th century.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.
Copy of the last 36 lines (lines 287-322), untitled and here beginning Without a Vision Poets can fore shew
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 250-61. California, II, 37-52. Hammond & Hopkins, II. 8-32.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, the poem dated London. September the 4th 1667
, with printer's marks, in a quarto booklet of 22 leaves, in a marbled wrapper.
This MS identified as printer's copy for the 1689 edition by Hilton Kelliher. Discussed and collated by him, with facsimiles of ff. 7r and 9v, in Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343.
First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.
Copy, the poem dated 1673
, on all four sides of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq
. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Copy, in a cursive hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Late 17th century.First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
Copy, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
Late 17th century.First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, on the first two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves (the second partly excised).
Late 17th century.First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
A single folio leaf of verse, on both sides, in two hands.
Mid-17th century.Copy, untitled.
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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded by C.H. Wilkinson in TLS (14 August 1937), p. 592.
First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
Copy, headed Mrs Molesworth, to her Husband, Capt Molesworth
, on a single leaf.
Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London
, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
Copy.
Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London
, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
Copy, in double columns, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse.
Late 17th century.This MS collated in Thomas.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).
Copy, subscribed Kath: Philips
, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed On the Queens Recovery by Ms Philips
.
This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620s.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
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed Ecloga. Sacra
, subscribed ffinis Th: Ran:
, on pages 1-3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, the rest of pp. 3-4 used for autograph draft verse by William Cavendish (1593-1676), Duke of Newcastle.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed In Sphæram Archimedis…Excellently translated by T. Randolph
, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.
Autograph draft of the complete ten-line poem, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, Dorset on Tyburn
.
Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 58.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.
Autograph draft of a six-line version, headed Vnder the statue in the Privy Garden
, on a single oblong quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect.
This MS collated in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 59.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed A pastoral Dialogue
, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter or packet.
First published, in an abbreviated version, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 3-6.
Autograph fair copy, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1690.Edited from this MS in Needham and in Danchin.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 50. Danchin, Prologues and Epilogues, IV, 739-40.
Autograph, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1682.Edited from this MS in Needham.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 48-9.
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed A Madame, Madame Black-stair sexagenaire
and here beginning Courage Dear Doll, & drive away Dispaire
, on one page of the unbound remains of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
Copy of an intermediate 46-line version, in a neat roman hand, beginning Listen Gallants to my wordes
, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, among papers probably associated with William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.
An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, occupied by eight autograph poems by Strode, written in fair copy in his stylish italic hand, two poems to each page, some marginal scribbling on the second page in another hand.
c.1620s-30s.Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS
:
Autograph fair copy.
Edited from this MS in Needham.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.
Autograph fair copy, headed The Commendation of a good voyce
.
Edited from this MS in Needham.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.
Autograph fair copy.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
Autograph fair copy.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
Autograph fair copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
Autograph fair copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
Autograph fair copy, headed An Anthem
.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.
Autograph fair copy, headed The Commendation of Musick
.
Edited from this MS in Needham, p. 40.
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).
Copy, untitled, here beginning I saw far Cloe walk alone
, on a small slip of paper.
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).
A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single secretary hand.
c.1640.Copy, headed Verses made to Sr John Sucklin aboute the settinge forth his 100. horse for his Mats. seruice in Scottland
.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single hand, imperfect.
c.1640.Copy, untitled.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Cloris farwell I needs must goe
, on one side of a single quarto leaf of verse, once folded as a letter.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth
edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
Copy, in a mixed hand, as by Edmond Waller Esqr
, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Autograph fair copy, untitled, here beginning Me thinks hir bewty should reuiue his quill
, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet.
Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury Sale, 4th portion), lot 2419, to Dobell.
First recorded by George Thorn-Drury in N&Q, 11th Ser. 5 (20 April 1912), p. 305. Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark.
First published in G. Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark (London, 1921), p. 33.
Copy, in a cursive hand, subscribed Rochester
, on one side of a single folio leaf, inscribed ffor Hod: Cor: Robert H: Esqr.
, once folded as a letter.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, on pages 1 and 3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Late 17th century.Facsimile page in Greene, p. 84.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, untitled, here beginning Filld wth ye noysome ffolly of ye age
, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.
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),
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed On the supposed Author of the Defence of Satyre
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, imperfect.
Late 17th century.First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, pp. 102-3. Walker, p. 90-1, as [Fragment of a Satire on Men]. Love, pp. 74-6, as [Satire].
Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
Late 17th century.Edited from this MS in Love.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as [Draft of a love poem].
An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand.
Late 17th century.Copy, untitled and here beginning How perfect Cloris, and how free
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free
on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).
Copy, untitlrd.
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as [Love poem].
Copy.
First published, as an additional stanza to the song While on those lovely looks I gaze, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning Too late, alas! I must confess published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.
Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, on one side of a single folio leaf.
c.1700.This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
Copy of an untitled version.
Copy of an untitled version beginning now is come our merrie time
, in a secretary hand, in double columns, subscribed John foster
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
First published in A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.] appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 915-19. Sidgwick, II, 178-81.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and here beginning Dazled with the height of Place
, with an alternating version in Latin verse, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Six of the female sex & purest Sect
, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
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.
Copy.
Copy, without The Answer, headed The Checquer Inne
, written in double columns on a single folio leaf (now split in two); imperfect.
See Introduction.
Late 17th century.First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed The prophesy of Nostradam written in ffrench And now done into English
, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy of a version, in a roman hand, headed Nostredamus Prophesie by A.M
and beginning Her faults and follies Londons Doome shall fix
, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, in a rounded hand, headed Song / Translated out of French / Upon the French Kings returne out of Flandres to France
, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, here beginning Clarendon had some Lawe & sense
, in a single column, with other verse on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed The Jesuits Double-fac'd Creed
, on one side of a single oblong quarto-size leaf.
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.
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed Translated by ye famd Orinda
, following a copy of the original French Epigramme
beginning Tu me contestes vainement
, on the first of ten unbound quarto pages of French, English and Latin verse.
A translation of a French six-line epigram. Unpublished.
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of quarto conjugate leaves.
c.1700s.First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy of Book III of the Georgics, lines 375-450, headed The Force of Love / In Mr Dridens Virgil
and here beginning Thus euery Creature and of every kind
, followed by an extract from an anonymous translation of Virgil, on the first three pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.
This MS discussed in Scott C. Pope, A New Manuscript Transcription of John Dryden's Translation of Virgil's Third Georgic, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 7/2-3 (1993), 65-8.
First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).
Copy, in a neat roman hand, on one side of a single small quarto leaf.
Late 17th-early 18th century.First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
A quarto verse miscellany.
Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.
Mid-18th century.Copy, headed Upon Desire
.
First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 356-60. Todd, I, No. 77, pp. 281-4.
Copy, headed A song by Mr Dryden
.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 840. California, IV, 421-2.
Copy, untitled, here beginning Damon if you will believe me
.
First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.
Copy of an untitled version beginning Too late alas I must confess
.
First published, as an additional stanza to the song While on those lovely looks I gaze, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning Too late, alas! I must confess published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.
Copy, headed By my Ld Dorsett
, deleted.
This MS (or
First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.
Copy, headed By My Lord Rochester
.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 11. Walker, pp. 27-8. Love, pp. 33-4. See also David Vieth, Two Rochester Songs, N&Q, 201 (1956), 338-9.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed An excellent New Ballad giveing a true account of the birth & conception of a late famous Poem call'd The Female nine
, with some omitted lines added in a different hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
Copy, headed Upon Sr Robert Viner's setting up the King's Statue
, with glosses and subscribed By the Author of the second Advise to a painter
, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
A composite verse miscellany.
Early 18th century.Copy, headed On a Child
and here beginning As careful Nurses on their Beds do lay
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, headed in a different ink Of the World
, on a single quarto leaf.
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.
Copy, in a professional cursive hand, headed A Prophetick Lampoon, or Prince Prettyman's resolutions whenever he comes to England again. To the Tune of Which no body can deny
, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown
authorship, possibly Marvell's
, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.
Copy, in a largely italic hand, headed On Mr. Bayes. supposd by the E of Middx
, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
A single quarto leaf relating to The Story of ye two Reynolds
, in an italic hand, the leaf once folded as a letter or packet.
Copy of the Epigram
as by Dr. Alabaster
.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).
Copy, headed Which Excellent Epigram tho not wthout great disadvantage to ye. Latine Originall, may be thus translated
.
A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate long narrow ledger-size leaves.
c.1700.First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.
Copy, in the left column of double columns, the right column, and the left on the second page, bearing Godolphin's Answeare to Wallers Tempesteous Verses
, on the first of two unbound conjugate large folio leaves.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
An unbound pair of conjugate large folio leaves of verse, in a professional hand, once folded as a letter or packet.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed New Instructions to a Painter
.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy, headed New Instructions to a Painter
.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy, in a cursive hand, on twelve quarto leaves (ff. 17r-29r), part of a verse compilation foliated in pencil 17-31, the first sixteen leaves having been excised leaving only stubs, written across the width of each page with the spine uppermost, on rectos only, imperfect, financial accounts in a different hand on ff. 30v-31r dated 1661.
c.1660s.First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on three unbound folio leaves folded into nine narrow columns.
Late 17th century.First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Copy, in a stylish professional hand, untitled, on i + eight folio leaves, unbound.
Late 17th century.First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
An unbound folio booklet of verse, in two hands, i + eighteen folio leaves.
Late 17th century.Copy, in a rounded hand.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Copy, in a mixed hand.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
Copy, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
Late 17th century.First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound.
Mid-late 18th century.Copy, headed Upon two Lovers that died before they were married. 1600
and here beginning She first deceas'd, he for a little try'd
.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds
, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see
Copy, headed An Epistle in Answer of Ephelia
.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
Copy, headed Ephelia's letter to her Love
.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
A guardbook of verse and other manuscripts.
Formerly Box No. 8
.
Copy, headed My Ld Buckhurst's
and here beginning Though Phyllis yr prevailing charmes
, with other poems on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms
, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).
Copy, followed by an Answer.
36 lines, unpublished.
Copy.
1687.Published as Written by a Person of Quality
and as Spoken by Mr. Betterton
. Summers, III, 278-9.
A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand, mounted in a guardbook.
Mid-late 18th century.Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source, subscribed Ben Jonson
.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional italic hand (the same as that in
Edited from this MS in Brown.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional hand (the same as that in
This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
