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  • MS File/(Fairfax, E)/Works B

    Copy of a transcript of the complete work, with a title-page, as With many Curious Plates Transcribed from an Old manuscript by Ebenezer Sibly. M.D. 1793, 55 large quarto-size pages.in 19th-century black morocco.

    c.1825.
    • FaE 8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).

      Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

  • HRC 76

    A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches of 1628-9, in various professional secretary hands, 215 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

    c.1630.

    Probably Sotheby's, 28 April 1969, lot 50.

    • RuB 37.8 f. 56r

      Copy, headed Sr Benjamin Rudiere: his Speech in Parliament March the 22th 1628.

      Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8

  • HRC 79

    A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

    Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

    c.1612-24.

    Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend mr John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

    Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

    The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

    • HrJ 314 p. 63

      Copy, untitled and here beginning when peeres and judges had by doome appointed.

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

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • RaW 375 p. 73

      Copy in the Herrick hand, the first three words in another hand, here beginning Here lies Hobinall our Shepheard whileare.

      This MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-Century manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, TQ, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), (pp. 40-1), and see P.J. Croft, Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 160-73 (p. 162).

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • WoH 4 pp. 78-9

      Copy, headed Sir He: Wotton, of happinesse.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Pebworth.

      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).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • CoR 727 p. 102

      Copy, untitled and here beginning The starre yt rose in Virgo's traine.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

      Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
    • AlW 167.5 p. 103

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres')
    • AlW 179.5 p. 103

      Copy, untitled.

      A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

      William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse')
    • HeR 111 pp. 106-7

      Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed R: Herrick.

      First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
    • HeR 258 pp. 107-9

      Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed The Welcome againe.

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

      Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
    • RaW 287 p. 113

      Copy, untitled and subscribed g s.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • CoR 408 pp. 251-2

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
    • BrW 226 p. 252

      Copy, headed An Epitaph.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • DrW 117.54 pp. 325-7

      Copy, headed The Senses.

      Facsimile in TQ 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), pp. 136-41.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • CoR 368 pp. 348-50

      Copy, headed in the margin D C verses, on wch the former were made.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')

  • HRC 127

    Three neatly written early autograph works by Milton, composed while at St Paul's School, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

    c.1624-6.

    Once loosely inserted in Milton's commonplace book (MnJ 66) in the library of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Cumberland, descended from Sir Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (1648-95), and possibly acquired from Daniel Skinner. Sotheby's, 27 November 1967, lot 189, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Formerly Ms file (Milton J.) Works: Pre-1700 MS 127.

    First recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Hugh C.H. Candy, Milton's Prolusio Script, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 330-9. Photographic and autotype reproductions of it in the British Library (Add. MS 41063 I, ff. 84r-5r, and RP 211) and in the National Archives, Kew (Autotypes Milton &c/Fac. 6/Library/Shelf 156A).

    For the kind of exercise at St Paul's School represented in this MS, see the discussion in Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School (New York, 1948), esp. pp. 208-13.

    • *MnJ 50 [item 1]
      Autograph

      An early autograph academic exercise (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a Prolusio), in Latin prose, on the theme of early rising.

      Edited from this MS in Horwood and (from the British Library photograph of it) in Columbia and in Yale.

      First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 61-2. Columbia, XII, 287-91, with English translation. English translation only in Yale, I, 1034-9, as Theme on Early Rising.

      John Milton, Mane citus lectum fuge
    • *MnJ 7 [item 2]
      Autograph

      An early autograph academic exercise in Latin verse on the theme of early rising.

      Edited (from the early British Library photograph of the MS) in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Discussed with a facsimile example in Hugh C. Candy, Milton's Prolusio Script, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 330-9. A facsimile also in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IIIa.

      First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 62-3. Columbia, I, 326 (with translation p. 327). Darbishire, II, 288. Carey & Fowler, pp. 10-11.

      John Milton, Carmina Elegiaca [i] ('Surge, age surge, leves, iam convenit, excute somnos')
    • *MnJ 8 [item 3]
      Autograph

      An early autograph academic exercise in Latin verse, on the theme of early rising.

      Edited from this MS in Horwood and (from the early British Library photograph of it) in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile also in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile II.

      First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 62-3. Columbia, I, 326, 328 (with translation pp. 327, 329). Darbishire, II, 288. Carey & Fowler, pp. 11-12.

      John Milton, [Carmina Elegiaca [ii]] ('Ignavus satrapam dedecet inclytum')

  • HRC 133

    Copy of Sedley's speech in the House of Commons 17 November 1690, beginning We have provided you ye Navy, wee have Provided for ye Army, in a cursive hand, on a single folio leaf.

    c.1690.
    • SeC 125.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches

  • HRC 151

    A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

    Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

    c.1662-3.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

    • PsK 413 p. 1

      Copy, headed To Antenor parting.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

      Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting ('Though it be Just to grieve when I must part')
    • PsK 68 p. 2

      Copy, the name in the title here given as Beddington.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, with the place in the title given as Bedlington, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

      Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington ('Here what remaines of him does ly')
    • PsK 235 p. 2

      Copy, headed on little regina Collier.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

      Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone ('Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud')
    • PsK 143 p. 2

      Copy, headed In Memory of Mr Willm Cartwright.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, as To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mr Cartwright ('Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit')
    • PsK 207 p. 3

      Copy, headed April 1651 L'amitié. To Mrs Mary Awbrey.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

      Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6t Aprill 1651 ('Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!')
    • PsK 240 pp. 4-5

      Copy, headed On the excellent Paloemon.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

      Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) ('This is confest presumption. for had I')
    • PsK 385 p. 6

      Copy, headed 12. decbr. 1650 To Mrs Mary Awbrey. upon absence: set by Mr Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in Thomas. Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 29 June 1965, lot 223.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by Mr Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (''Tis now since I began to dy')
    • PsK 390 pp. 7-8

      Copy, headed To Mrs Mary Awbrey at parting.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting ('I have examin'd, and do find')
    • PsK 316 pp. 9-11

      Copy, headed 15 Sept. 1651 Rosania shadowed.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 ('If any could my dear Rosania hate')
    • PsK 323 p. 12

      Copy, headed Rosanias private marriage.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage ('It was a wise and kind design of fagte')
    • PsK 453 p. 13

      Copy, headed 25 Sept: 1662 To Rosania.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, with the date Septemb. 25. 1652, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

      Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 ('As men that are with visions grac'd')
    • PsK 87 p. 14

      Copy, headed For Regina.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published, as To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

      Katherine Philips, For Regina ('Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit')
    • PsK 369 p. 14

      Copy, headed To Philaster on his melancholy for Regina.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published, as To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

      Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina ('Give over now thy teares, thou vain')
    • PsK 163 pp. 15-16

      Copy, headed Iniuria amicitias.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 299 p. 16

      Copy, headed 25 Febr: 1660. Philoclea parting.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, with the date Feb. 25. 1650, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

      Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. Mrs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 ('Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve')
    • PsK 475 p. 17

      Copy, headed To the Queen of inconstancie Regina in Antwerp.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp ('Unworthy, since thou hast decreed')
    • PsK 356 p. 18

      Copy, headed To Antenor on a paper of mine yt I. Jones threatened to publish to his preiudice.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

      Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine wch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice ('Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?')
    • PsK 509 p. 19

      Copy, headed To the truly noble Lucasia: on my first approach.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) ('As in a triumph conquerours admit')
    • PsK 462 p. 20

      Copy, headed 29 December 1651 To the excellent Lucasia on her taking that name & adoption into our societie.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

      Katherine Philips, To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 ('We are compleat. and faith hath now')
    • PsK 420 p. 21

      Copy, headed 17 July 1652 To the excellent Lucasia on our Friendship.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem 1651).

      Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 ('I did not live untill this time')
    • PsK 504 pp. 22-3

      Copy, the name in the title here given as J. Jones.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, with J. Jones in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With J.J. in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

      Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones ('Honour, which differs man from man much more')
    • PsK 395 p. 24

      Copy, headed To Mrs M.C: courted by Philaster.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esqre courted her ('As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds')
    • PsK 374 p. 25

      Copy, headed To Mr Henry Vaughan Silurist.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems ('Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence')
    • PsK 309 p. 26

      Copy, headed A retired friendship to Ardelia, the poem here dated 23 Aug. 1651.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

      Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 ('Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre')
    • PsK 534 p. 27

      Copy, headed Vpon the double murther of K Charles in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P:.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

      Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. ('I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd')
    • PsK 519 pp. 28-9

      Copy, with the preamble, headed To the noble Silvander on his dreame and navy, personating Orinda preferring Rosania before Salomons traffique to Orphir in these verses.

      This MS collated (and the Dering quotation edited from it) in Thomas.

      First published, as To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy ('Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down')
    • PsK 493 p. 30

      Copy, headed To the right honourable Alice Countesse of Carbery, on her enriching wales at her presence.

      This MS collated and the third stanza edited in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

      Katherine Philips, To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence ('Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey')
    • PsK 379 p. 31

      Copy, headed To Cratander, upon a composicon of his he was not willing to owne publiquely.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely ('As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise')
    • PsK 212 pp. 32-3

      Copy, headed Lucasia.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

      Katherine Philips, Lucasia ('Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice')
    • PsK 112 p. 34

      Copy, headed Freindships mystery to my Dearest Lucasia: set by Mr. H Lawes.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) ('Come, my Lucasia, since we see')
    • PsK 59 p. 35

      Copy, headed Set by Mr H: Lawes / A Dialogue between Lucasia & Orinda.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

      First published, as A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

      Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')
    • PsK 30 pp. 36-7

      Copy, headed to Lucasia: of Content [Not to oblige Lucasia by my verses deleted].

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

      Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia ('Content, the false world's best disguise')
    • PsK 328 pp. 38-9

      Copy, headed A sea voyage from Tenby to Bristoll 5 of September 1652.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

      Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 ('Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand')
    • PsK 407 p. 40

      Copy, headed To Mrs C.P. on her nuptialls.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

      Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls ('We will not like those men our offerings pay')
    • PsK 514 p. 41

      Copy, headed To Mr Henry Lawes.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published, as To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As To Mr. Henry Lawes in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes ('Nature, which is the vast creation's soule')
    • PsK 470 p. 42

      Copy, headed To the incomparable Palaemon on his noble discourse of friendship.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

      Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship ('We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise')
    • PsK 559 p. 43

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

      Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault ('And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must')
    • PsK 107 pp. 44-5

      Copy, headed To my dearest Lucasia, friendship in emblem or the seale.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia ('The hearts thus intermixed speak')
    • PsK 441 p. 46

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia ('Let dull Philosophers enquire no more')
    • PsK 446 pp. 47-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship ('O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love')
    • PsK 72 pp. 50-1

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

      Katherine Philips, The Enquiry ('If we no old historian's name')
    • PsK 271 p. 52

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 197-8.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

      Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland ('Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles')
    • PsK 483 p. 53

      Copy, headed To the Queenes maiestie Jan 1. 1660/61.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a land which you')
    • PsK 23 pp. 54-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published, as Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

      Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England ('Whom doth this stately navy bring?')
    • PsK 303 p. 56

      Copy, headed The Prinesse [sic] royall's Returne into England.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published, as Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

      Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England ('Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers')
    • PsK 263 p. 57

      Copy, headed On the faire weather at the Coronacon.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

      Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')
    • PsK 253 pp. 58-9

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester ('Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must')
    • PsK 133 pp. 60-2

      Copy, headed In memory of F:P: who dyed at Acton 24 May. 1660 —— 13th of her age.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

      Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age ('If I could ever write a lasting verse')
    • PsK 361 p. 63

      Copy, headed To her royall highnesse the Dutchesse of York, on her com and to send her some things I had wrote.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 201-2.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

      Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote ('To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe')
    • PsK 257 pp. 64-5

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 198-9.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia ('Although the most do with officious heat')
    • PsK 123 pp. 66-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

      Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
    • PsK 51 p. 68

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

      Katherine Philips, Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')
    • PsK 565 pp. 69-71

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

      Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
    • PsK 338 pp. 72-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

      Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
    • PsK 200 pp. 75-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

      Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')
    • PsK 168 pp. 78-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 148 pp. 80-1

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering ('As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire')
    • PsK 277 p. 82

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

      Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 ('As when the Glorious Magazine of Light')
    • PsK 92 pp. 83-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

      Katherine Philips, A Friend ('Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule')
    • PsK 346 pp. 86-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

      Katherine Philips, Submission (''Tis so. and humbly I my will resign')
    • PsK 527 pp. 88-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

      Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 ('When God, contracted to humanity')
    • PsK 400 pp. 89-90

      Copy, headed To Mrs Wogan on ye death of her husband.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband ('Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you')
    • PsK 178 pp. 90-2

      Copy, headed La Grandeur d'esprit.

      This MS collated, and in part (lines 83-96) edited, in Thomas.

      First published, as La Grandeur d'esprit, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as A Resvery. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

      Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')
    • PsK 38 p. 93

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS 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).

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 158 pp. 94-5

      Copy, headed In memory of Mrs Own of Orielton.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

      Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton ('As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd')
    • PsK 100 pp. 96-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship ('Let the dull brutish world that know not love')
    • PsK 153 pp. 98-100

      Copy, headed In memory of the excellent Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Denbighshire. who dyed 13 Nouember 1656.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

      Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire ('I cannot hold, for though to write be rude')
    • PsK 291 p. 101

      Copy, headed Parting wt Lucasia. 13 January 1657./1658..

      This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

      First published, with the date Jan 13. 1657, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

      Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13th Janury 1657/8 A song ('Well! we will doe that rigid thing')
    • PsK 9 p. 102

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

      Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')
    • PsK 117 pp. 103-5

      Copy, headed God and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict), headed Extract of Mr Mores Cap: Conf:.

      This MS collated, and edited in part, in Thomas.

      First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as A Prayer. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

      Katherine Philips, God ('Eternal reason! glorious majestie!')
    • PsK 499 pp. 108-11

      Copy, headed on the right honble the Lady E.C..

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published, as To the Honoured Lady E.C., in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

      Katherine Philips, To the Rt Hono: the Lady E.C. ('Madam / I do not write to you that men may know')
    • PsK 479 pp. 112-13

      Copy, headed To the Queen on her arriuall at Portsmouth May. 1662.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

      Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, The false printed Broadside of Katherine Philips's To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 ('Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne')
    • PsK 174.5 p. 114

      The title only, the rest of the page left blank.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), p. 54 [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5]. Poems (1667), p. 125. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 195-6, poem 78.

      Katherine Philips, The Irish Greyhound ('Behold this Creature's Form and state')
    • PsK 334.5 p. 115

      Copy of the heading (Song) and first line only, the rest of the page left blank.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

      Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux ('How prodigious is my Fate')
    • PsK 467 pp. 116-17

      Copy, headed To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage wt ye Lord Cauendish octobr. 1662.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published, as To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary Butler, at Her Marriage to the Lord Cavendish and as by a Lady, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663) [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5], pp. 51-2. Thomas, I, 250-1, poem 125.

      Katherine Philips, To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage with the Lord Cavendish, Octobr. 1662 ('At such a time as this, when all conclude')
    • PsK 220 pp. 118-20

      Copy, headed An ode upon retirement made upon occasion of Mr Cowleys on that subject.

      Edited from this MS in Thomas.

      First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

      Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')

  • HRC 185

    A formal copy of an untitled French translation of the discourse, beginning Il ny a personne Qui persuade nostre prince de sallick a la Maison de Sauyoye..., in a neat hand, 32 small quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Early 17th century.
    • RaW 646.5
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

  • Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book

    A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

    Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

    Mid-17th century-c.1702.

    Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

    Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

    • SeC 39 p. [xvii]

      Copy, headed Song, here beginning Not Cloris that I juster am.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 6-7.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Not Celia that I juster am')
    • DrJ 247.3 p. [xx]

      Copy, headed In Amphitrion.

      Kinsley, II, 561, and California, XV (1976), pp. 299-300, both as Mercury's Song to Phædra (Fair Iris I love, and hourly I dye). Hammond & Hopkins, III, 239.

      John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act IV, scene i, lines 482-93. Song ('For I'ris I Sigh, and hourly Dye')
    • DoC 162.8 p. [xx]

      Copy, headed My Lord Dorsset on Ms Ann Roch and here beginning Like a true Irish Merlin yt Misses her flyht.

      First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris, pp. 101-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws ('Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight')
    • DrJ 259.5 p. [xxi]

      Copy, headed Song in the Duke of Guise.

      Written in collabotation with Nathaniel Lee. First published in London, 1683. California, XIV (1992), pp. 205-305 (pp. 290-1). Kinsley, I, 330. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 144-5.

      John Dryden, The Duke of Guise, Act V, scene i, lines 1-34. Song ('Tell me Thirsis, tell your Anguish')
    • FrG 12 p. [xxii]

      Copy of the song, headed in ye Iubilly and here beginning Poor Damon knockt at Celeias door.

      First published in London, 1699. Kenny, I, 149-233 (p. 203).

      George Farquhar, The Constant Couple, Act IV, scene ii. Song ('Thus Damon knock'd at Celia's Door')
    • CnC 117.5 p. [xxiii]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

      Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('Bring back my Comfort, and return')
    • LeN 8 p. [xxiv]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 65-145 (p. 117). Musical setting of the epithalamium by Thomas Farmer first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Third Book (London, 1681).

      Nathaniel Lee, Caesar Borgia. Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth, Act IV, scene i, lines 1-12. Song ('Blush not redder than the Morning')
    • DrJ 263.5 p. [xxiv]

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 222-3.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act IV, scene i, lines 47-70. Song ('Calm was the Even, and cleer was the Skie')
    • DaW 107.5 p. [xxvi]

      Copy of the first 32 lines, by the Admiral and Villerius, in the First Entry of Part I, untitled and here beginning Arme arme Valerious arme.

      Dramatic Works, III, 260-1.

      First published (First Part) in London, 1656. The expanded version in two parts published in London, 1663. Dramatic Works, III, 231-365. Edited by Ann-Mari Hedbäck (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 14, Uppsala, 1973).

      Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Parts I and II
    • KiT 10 pp. 1-2

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 48-80 (second series).

      Thomas Killigrew, The Prisoners, Act II. Song ('Fond Pursanus let not thy loue aspire')
    • KiW 12 pp. 2, 3

      Copy, untitled.

      Sir William Killigrew, Selindra, Act III. Song ('Come come thou glorious obiect of my sight')
    • CaW 5 pp. 4-7

      Copy, headed Aryadnee Deserted by Theseus.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.

      William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains ('Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain')
    • GrJ 8 pp. 7-8

      Copy, untitled.

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

      John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
    • ShJ 80 p. 8

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

      James Shirley, To his Mistris ('I would the God of Love would die')
    • KiH 368.8 p. 8

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • CaW 103 p. 9

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
    • ToA 69 f. 10r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • ShJ 75 f. 10v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

      James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne ('Come my Daphne, come away')
    • LoR 20 f. 13r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Why did'st thou sweare I am forsworne.

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song ('Why should you sweare I am forsworn')
    • SuJ 73 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning See See how vnregarded now.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.

      John Suckling, Sonnet I ('Do'st see how unregarded now')
    • RaW 540.8 f. 14v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • SuJ 55 f. 15v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.

      A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).

      John Suckling, Song ('No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee')
    • WaE 438 f. 17r

      Copy, untitled.

      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.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
    • B&F 60.5 f. 17v

      Copy, untitled. and here beginning Wee obay wee obay.

      Dyce, VI, 502. Bullen, II, 544-5. Bowers, V, 377.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant, IV, iii, 25-44. Song ('I obey, I obey. | And am come to view the day')
    • DaW 50.8 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

      Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover ('Dear Love let me this Evening dy!')
    • EaJ 38.5 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Epitaph on the Living Sr. Lorenza Carew ('Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother')
    • CaW 44 f. 21r-v

      Copy, headed Sadnese.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 220-1. Evans, pp. 473-4.

      William Cartwright, Sadness ('Whiles I this standing Lake')
    • HeR 207.5 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue vpon the Princes Birth song betweene Amintus, Myrtillo, Amarillis.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

      Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
    • MaA 23 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, here beginning When death doth snatch vs from these Kidds.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • SuJ 132.5 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

      Probably written by Henry Hughes.

      John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
    • DaW 91.5 ff. 25v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.

      Sir William Davenant, Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song ('No morning red, and blushing faire')
    • CmT 176.5 f. 27r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
    • RaW 185.5 f. 27v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Like hermit poore.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
    • KiH 88.5 f. 28v

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile of f. 28v in Culbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, p. 36.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • SuJ 66 f. 29r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

      John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
    • CmT 116.5 f. 29r

      Copy, untitled.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
    • B&F 26.8 f. 29v

      Copy, untitled.

      Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
    • JnB 620.5 f. 29v

      Copy, untitled.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('The faery beame vppon you')
    • LoR 45 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile example of this MS in Marlborough Rare Books, sale catalogue No. 45 (1961), item 21.

      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).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • JnB 727.8 f. 31v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • ToA 76 f. 33v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 19. Chambers, p. 12. Brown, p. 61.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'When we were parted'
    • PeW 200 f. 35r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
    • HeR 227.5 f. 39r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning O I am sick of Loue, heere Lett mee lye.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 158. Patrick, p. 214.

      Robert Herrick, To Sycamores ('I'm sick of Love. O let me lie')
    • DaW 75.5 ff. 39r, 40v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Gibbs, pp. 277, 309-10.

      Sir William Davenant, 'Why should great Beauties vertuous Fame desire'
    • WrM 3 f. 40v

      Copy of the shortened version of the song, untitled.

      A shortened version of this song appears in Wit's Recreations (London, 1645). Roberts, Poems, [P14] (pp. 93-4). Pritchard, p. 35.

      Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Song. 2. ('All night I weepe, all day I cry, Ay mee')
    • HeR 248.5 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • WaE 535 f. 41r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as To Chloris uppon a favour receaved, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 112. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To a Lady, more affable since the war began, in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, To Chloris ('Chloris! since first our calm of peace')
    • CmT 74.8 f. 41v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee'
    • DnJ 1214.5 f. 42r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning So so loue off this lost lamenting Kiss.

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

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • PeW 52 f. 43v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
    • PeW 119 f. 44r

      Copy, untitled.

      Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
    • PeW 90 f. 44v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 23. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 64. Poems (1660), p. 23, headed Sonnet. P.. Krueger, p. 25, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Sonnet ('Canst thou love me, and yet doubt')
    • KiH 583.8 f. 44v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • KiH 599.8 f. 45r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • KiH 133.8 f. 45r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Why slights thou her whom I approue.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • GrJ 76.5 f. 46r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Since every man I come among'
    • SuJ 99 ff. 49v-51v

      Copy, headed The Witts.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

      John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day')
    • JnB 622.5 f. 51v

      Copy, untitled.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 301-11. Greg, Burley version, lines 277-86. Windsor version, lines 271-80.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('To the old, longe life and treasure')
    • JnB 11.5 ff. 51v-2r

      Copy of lines 11-30, untitled and here beginning Doe butt look on her Eyes, they doe light.

      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).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • KiT 12 f. 52r

      Copy, untitled.

      Thomas Killigrew, Thomaso, or the Wanderer, Part I, Act V. Song ('Women women wine and health')
    • B&F 109.5 f. 54v

      Copy untitled.

      Dyce, IX, 277. Bowers, IX, 640-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid in the Mill, V, ii, 20-7. Song ('How long shall I pine for love?')
    • SuJ 33 f. 55v

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile of f. 55v in Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book? p. 34.

      First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.

      John Suckling, The constant Lover ('Out upon it, I have lov'd')
    • SuJ 121 f. 56r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can')
    • HaW 50 f. 57v

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

      William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act ('Fine, young folly, though you were')
    • JnB 674.8 ff. 59r-60r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).

      Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song ('Beauties, haue yee seene this toy')
    • B&F 175.8 f. 60r

      Copy, untitled.

      Dyce, V, 243-4. Bullen, IV, 248. Bowers, IV, 308.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 24-43. Song ('Hear, ye ladies that despise')
    • KiT 9 f. 61r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 1-67.

      Thomas Killigrew, The Princesse, Act V. Song ('To Bacchus vow to Bacchus sing')
    • JnB 600.5 f. 62r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

      Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
    • B&F 106.5 f. 62r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, iv, 43-73. Song ('Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in')
    • SuJ 171 f. 62v

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Beaurline, Plays, p. 144.

      John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 72-8. Song ('A health to the Nut browne Lasse')
    • SuJ 167 f. 62v

      Copy of Nashorat's catch, here beginning Some drinke boyes some drinke.

      First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 121-82 (pp. 142-3).

      Henry Lawes's musical setting published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).

      John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 28-34. Song ('Some drinke, what Boy, some drinke')
    • B&F 8.5 ff. 63v-4r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Cast yor Caps and care away.

      Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')
    • GrJ 67 f. 65r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Not that I wish my Mistris'
    • ShW 103.5 f. 65v

      Copy, untitled.

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')
    • CaW 92 f. 67r

      Copy, untitled.

      Evans, p. 200.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene i, lines 14-19. Song ('A pox on our Gaolor, and on his fat Jowle')
    • SuJ 164 f. 67v

      Copy of Grainevert's song, untitled.

      Beaurline, Plays, p. 100.

      John Suckling, Brennoralt, Act II, scene ii, lines 52-66. Song ('A hall, a hall')
    • B&F 170.5 f. 67v

      Copy, untitled.

      Dyce, VIII, 435-6. Bullen, II, 166-7. Bowers, X, 341-2.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, III, ii, 109-28. Song ('Let the bells ring, and let the boys sing')
    • CaW 104 f. 68r

      Copy of the song, untitled and here beginning Come from the Dung hill to ye. throne.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
    • ToA 79.5 ff' 71v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 55. Chambers, p. 51.

      Aurelian Townshend, La Boivinette ('She's not the fairest of her name')
    • ToA 88.5 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled.

      Published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 4. Chambers, p. 53.

      Aurelian Townshend, Upon Kinde and True Love (''Tis not how witty, nor how free')
    • SuJ 139.5 f. 78r

      Copy of an untitled version, here beginning I dare not thinke yow can so guilty bee.

      First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

      John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')
    • ToA 22.5 f. 79r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Let not thy beauty make thee proud'
    • DeJ 114.5 f. 106r-v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      First published, and attributed to Denham, by C.H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

      Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 ('Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart')
    • HeR 39.5 f. 107r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')
    • CwT 1063.5 f. 112r

      Copy, headed Bettie Howard.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

      Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
    • DeJ 45.5 f. 114r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

      Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
    • DaW 106.5 ff. 119v-20r

      Copy, untitled.

      Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

      Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song ('My lodging it is on the Cold ground')
    • DrJ 285.3 f. 123r

      Copy, untitled.

      California, IX (1966), pp. 257-68. Day, p. 9. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 204.

      John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence, Act IV, scene i, lines 257-68. Song ('Make ready fair Lady to night')
    • WaE 746 f. 124r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • DaW 116.5 f. 124v

      Copy, untitled.

      The play first published London, 1643. This song first published in Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (pp. 86-7). Gibbs, pp. 234-5 (music on pp. 331-6).

      Sir William Davenant, The Unfortunate Lovers, Act III. Song ('Run to Loves Lott'ry! Run, Maids, and rejoyce')
    • DaW 84.5 f. 125r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

      Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song ('Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!')
    • DrJ 267.2 ff. 126v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 223-4.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song ('Celimena, of my heart')
    • DrJ 261.3 f. 128v

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act II, scene i, lines 499-514. Song ('After the pangs of a desperate Lover')
    • PeW 97 f. 129r

      Copy, headed Song.

      Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 32, among Pembroke's Poems. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('Dear leave thy home and come with me')
    • OrR 24 ff. 129v-30r

      Copy, untitled.

      Performed on the London stage probably before 14 December 1669. First published in London 1690.

      Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mr Anthony, Act IV. Song ('Since you must needs my heart posses')
    • SeC 36 f. 131r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Goe get you gon you will undoe me.

      First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, II, 16-17.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Get you gone, you will undo me')
    • DrJ 179.5 ff. 131v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in New Court-Songs, and Poems. By R[obert] V[eel] Gent. (London, 1672). Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster-Drollery (London, 1672). Windsor-Drollery (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 136-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 255.

      John Dryden, A Song ('Farewell, fair Armeda, my Joy and my Grief')
    • SdT 27 f. 134r

      Copy of the song by Cheatly, untitled.

      First published in London, 1672. Summers, II, 7-93 (pp. 44-5).

      Thomas Shadwell, The Miser, Act II, scene i. Song ('As I walk'd in the woods one evening of late')
    • DrJ 281.5 f. 135r

      Copy, untitled.

      California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 251-3.

      John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song ('Whil'st Alexis lay prest')
    • SdT 31 f. 136v

      Copy of the song The delights of the bottle and the charms of good wine, untitled.

      First published in London, 1675. Summers, II, 271-340 (pp. 311, 318, 338).

      Thomas Shadwell, Psyche
    • SdT 28 f. 139r

      Copy of the Catch in four Parts, headed Song.

      Summers, II, 54.

      Thomas Shadwell, The Miser, Act III, scene i. Song ('Come lay by your cares, and hang up your Sorrow')
    • SuT 1 f. 143r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1694. Jordan & Love, II, 10-84 (p. 49).

      Thomas Southerne, The Fatal Marriage, or, the Innocent Adultery, Act III, scene ii, lines 46-61. Song ('The danger is over, the Battle is past')
    • CgW 63.5 f. 143r

      Copy, untitled.

      Summers, II, 130. Davis, pp. 258-9. McKenzie, I, 311.

      William Congreve, Love for Love, III, iii, lines 165-173. Song ('A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd')
    • SeC 117 f. 144r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      First published in London, 1687. Sola Pinto, II, 1-97 (p. 45).

      Sir Charles Sedley, Bellamira, or The Mistress, Act III, scene iii, lines 3-18. Song ('Thyrsis unjustly you Complain')
    • CgW 57.5 f. 144v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

      William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song ('Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her')
    • DrJ 296.5 f. 145r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1670. California, X, 105-93 (p. 151). Kinsley, I, 121-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 231-2.

      John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song ('Ah, how sweet it is to love')
    • SeC 98.8 f. 146v

      Copy.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Sr Charles Sidley, gave Kg William thes Versis, on his Berth day ('Hayl hapy Birth day, hadst thou neere bin known')
    • DrJ 247.1 f. 147r

      Copy, partly in double columns, untitled.

      First published in London, 1690. California, XV (1976), 221-318 (p. 283). Kinsley, II, 560-1. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 238.

      John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act III, scene i, lines 583-600. Song ('CeIia, that I once was blest')
    • CgW 69.5 f. 147v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in London, 1693. Summers, I, 155-255 (p. 186). Davis, pp. 28-113 (pp. 59-60). McKenzie, I, 47-48. Musical settings of the two songs by Henry Purcell published in [first song] Joyful Cuckoldom (London, [1690s]), and [second song] Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXI (London, 1917), pp. 33-4, 35-7.

      William Congreve, The Old Batchelour, II, ix, lines 5-17. Song ('Thus to a ripe, consenting Maid')
    • CgW 58.5 f. 148r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Summers, p. 82. McKenzie, II, 231.

      William Congreve, The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 49-62. Song ('Hither turn thee, gentle swain')
    • CgW 58.8 f. 148r
      No description or publication history available.

      Summers, p. 85. McKenzie, II, 234.

      William Congreve, The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 132-143. Song ('Happy Nymph who shall enfold thee')
    • CgW 32.5 f. 150r

      Copy, headed By Mr Congreve.

      First published in London, 1706. Summers, IV, 82-91. Dobrée, pp. 335-41. McKenzie, II, 419-23.

      William Congreve, A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the Queen On the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough ('Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse')
    • BeA 23.4 f. 151r

      Copy.

      First published, as The City Heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treat-all, in London 1682. Summers, II, 201-300 (p. 260). Todd, VII, 6-77 (p. 49).

      Aphra Behn, The City-Heiress, Act IV, scene i. Song ('In Phillis all vile jilltts are Meett')
    • DrJ 184.5 f. 151v

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

      John Dryden, Song ('Go tell Amynta gentle Swain')
    • ShJ 167 f. [11v]]

      Copy of the dirge, untitled, on the penultimate leaf in the volume.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')

  • Pforzheimer MS 10A

    Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 15 December 1710.

    1710.

    Hodges No. 43. McKenzie, III, 176 (Letter 52).

    • *CgW 96.8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Congreve, Letter(s)

  • Pforzheimer MS 35A

    Autograph translation by Evelyn of a letter from Samuel de Sorbière to Thomas Hobbes, from Paris 1 February 1658, being the Lxxix of his discourses printed at Paris 1660, made by Evelyn for the Royal Society, on two folio leaves, at p. 246 of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825).

    c.1661.

    Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

    This MS described and edited in full in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1205-8.

    • *EvJ 142
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Pforzheimer MS 35B

    Autograph drawing and caption, endorsed A Scheme of the Action at Chatham when the dutch burnt our Shipps: as it was taken by me on the place: 1667, signed and dated 29 June 1667, on two quarto leaves.

    1667.

    Once enclosed with a letter of 6 December 1681 to Samuel Pepys. Mentioned in Evelyn's list of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

    This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209, with a facsimile on the facing page, Plate LVI.

    • *EvJ 72
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War

  • Pforzheimer MS 35C

    Autograph ink and wash sketch on drawing paper, 18 x 29½ inches, with autograph caption: This designe of a Garden I made for the Duke of Norfolk [in Surry deleted] at his house in Albury in Surrey since sold to Mr solicitor Finch, at p. [554] of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825).

    [1667].

    Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

    This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W. A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209.

    • *EvJ 123
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms

  • Pforzheimer MS 35H

    Copy, in the hand of Richard Hoare, headed Aprill 13th: 1675. A copie of Mrs Evelyn's instructions to Mrs. Blague for setting up & keeping house, upon her marriage with my Ld. Godolphin, on two folio leaves, enclosed in an autograph letter signed by Evelyn, to Pepys, 3 October 1685.

    1675-85.

    This MS edited in Sampson (1939), Appendix B2, pp. 223-36. Discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1215-16. Recorded (as at the Houghton Library, Harvard) in Keynes, p. 247.

    • EvJ 149
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

      John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

  • Pforzheimer MS 40

    Autograph calligraphic MS, on vellum (flesh sides only), 21 leaves (79 x 104 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

    A presentation MS to Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Baron Sidney, afterwards (in 1618) Earl of Leicester, but without a separate dedication, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures.

    1 January 1605/6.

    Later owned by William Caldecott, of Andover. Sold by his grandson, J.B. Caldecott, at Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 61.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 21 (pp. 50-1). E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 524-5, with a facsimile of one page and the binding on the facing Plate XVIII.

    • *InE 27
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      English translation of the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, with Latin verses to Lord Sidney by Bartholomew Kello.

      Esther Inglis, [Proverbs] A New Yeers Guift for the Right Honorable and Vertuous Lord my Lord Sidnay of the hand writing and limming of mee Esther Inglis the first of Ianuar, 1606

  • Pforzheimer MS 40A

    Copy of a play possibly by Udall, in a formal secretary hand, headed A merye enterlude entitled Respublica made in the yeare of oure Lorde .1553. and the first yeare of the moost psperous Reigne of or moste gracious Soveraigne Quene Marye the first, 28 folio leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

    c.1553.

    Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary; by the Rev. Dr. Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary; and by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

    Edited by W.W. Greg, EETS 226 (London, 1952). Reproduced in facsimile in The Macro Plays, Tudor Facsimile Texts, Folio Series, No. 4 (1908). John Payne Collier's transcript of this MS is in the Folger, MS D. a. 40. E. V. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 531-2, with facsimiles of the cover and first page as Plate XIX.

    • UdN 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (from this MS) in John Payne Collier, Illustrations of Old English Literature (London, 1866), Vol, I.

      Nicholas Udall, Respublica

  • Pforzheimer MS 112

    A folio volume of accounts of Ralegh's arraignment and execution, in four professional predominantly secretary hands, 103 pages (an unnumbered blank leaf after p. 52), in 19th-century morocco.

    c.1620.

    Later owned, in 1821, by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, in 1863 by John Dillon, and afterwards by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Appendix, Part II (1884), p. 408. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 857-8.

    • RaW 728.285 pp. 1-92

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in three professional hands, including (pp. 47-65) that of the Feathery scribe.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 796 pp. 93-103

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh his speech att the time of his Execution, with the manner of his deportment.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 85 p. 103

      Copy, headed These ensueing verses are sayd to bee written, by Sr. Walter Raleigh, in the prison of the Gatehouse, the same morneing hee suffered.

      This MS partly collated in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 858.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • Pforzheimer MS 116

    MS of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus), in various hands, with later corrections, 42 quarto leaves (including numerous blanks), formerly bound with a printed exemplum of Spenser's work (1597 edition), in morocco.

    Early 17th century.

    The Nassau, II, 1824, lot 1141. Afterwards in the libraries of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, Part IV, 1834, lot 632), and of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire (Britwell sale, 1924, lot 721).

    • SpE 27.92
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1579. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

      Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

  • Pforzheimer MS 117

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Coke], Vice Chamberlain, [20 January 1707/8].

    1708.

    Edited in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1058-9; in Ronald Kern, Documents relating to Company Management, 1705-1711, Theatre Notebook, 14 (1959), 60-5 (where the letter is incorrectly dated 1711); in Arthur R. Huseboe, Vanbrugh: Additions to the Correspondence, PQ, 53 (1974), 135-40 (pp. 136-7); and in Coke Papers, pp. 73-4 (No. 47). Register, No. 1948. Also typed transcript in Westminster City Archives (A.M. Broadley, Annals of the Haymarket (1911), Vol. II, f. iii).

    • *VaJ 63
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Pforzheimer MS 118

    Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh on The Dayly Charge of an Opera, 7 April 1708.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1916, to Borrow.

    Edited in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1059-60, and in Coke Papers, pp. 97-8 (No. 62). A typed transcript is in Westminster City Archives (A.M. Broadley, Annals of the Haymarket (1911), Vol. II, f. iii). Register, No. 1972.

    • *VaJ 428
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Pforzheimer MS 130

    Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 23 July 1624.

    1624.

    Sotheby's, 27 February 1882, lot 24.

    Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1255-6.

    • *DnJ 4130
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • Pforzheimer MS 142

    Autograph letter signed by Hall, to Sir Henry Spelman, 21 September 1628.

    1628.

    Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 612. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Subsequently in the collection of Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

    Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1263-4.

    • *HlJ 99
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • Pforzheimer 714

    An exemplum of the first printed edition (London, 1637), containing nine contemporary manuscript corrections in an unidentified hand, possibly presented to the Earl of Bridgewater by or on behalf of Milton or Henry Lawes.

    The MS corrections could conceivably be in Milton's hand (granted an atypical large epsilon e in the word contemptu[ous] on p. 27), but are not substantial enough for certain identification.

    c.1637.

    Once belonging to the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. Formerly in the Pforzheimer Library, New York.

    This item discussed, with facsimile examples, in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 724-5. Recorded in Darbishire.

    • MnJ 63
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of Comus. The Poem, originally called A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c., ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

      John Milton, Comus

  • Pforzheimer 820

    Copy in the hand of one Humphrey Holden, headed Sr. Walter Rawleigh wrote these verses ye night before his Execution. Oct 28 1618, written on the first unsigned leaf in Holden's printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614), in modern morocco.

    c.1620.

    Edited from this MS in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 846. Facsimile in Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles, catalogue No. 177 (1927), Plate XII.

    • RaW 84
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • Pforzheimer 1101

    A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph presentation inscription to the Earl of Radnor (nephew of Wycherley's first wife, the Countess of Drogheda).

    c.1704.

    Later in the library of Sir Andrew Fontaine (1676-1753), of Narford Hall, Norfolk, antiquary and art collector.

    • WyW 36
      No description or publication history available.
      William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems (London, 1704)

  • Prompt Books Box 1, No, 200.

    A printed exemplum of the edition of 1696 marked up as a promptbook, including additional dialogue not in the printed text, by the prompter John Stede for Drury Lane productions c.1731-3, 10 April 1747 and 1 December 1759.

    1731-59.

    From the collection of promptbooks given by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps to the Morrab Library, Penzance. Sotheby's, 27 May 1964.

    • SuT 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1696. Jordan & Love, II, 102-80.

      Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko

  • Wh H224 596n WRE

    A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt.

    c.1596.

    Once owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller, and in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1954). Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

    • *HrJ 321 The volume as a whole
      Autograph

      Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph additions, including (facing the title-page) his dedication to his uncle, Thomas Markham, dated 3 August 1596.

      This item (the Markham-Wrenn copy) collated in Donno.

      First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

      Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax
    • *HrJ 302 sig. A1v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed An Epigram of the booke hanging in cheyns. to ye Ladyes and here beginning Fayr dames yf any tooke in skorn or spyte.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.

      Sir John Harington, To the ladies of the Queenes Priuy-Chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond, The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus: ('Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spite')
    • *HrJ 300 unnumbered rear flyleaf
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled and here beginning They that of dainty food make deer provision; imperfect, with part of lines 5-6, 7-8, and a title added in an 18th-century hand.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.

      Sir John Harington, To Master Cooke, the Queenes Atturney, that was incited to call Misacmos into the Starre-chamber, but refused it ('Those that of dainty fare make deare prouision')

  • Wh/H224 596nb WRE

    Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596, in 19th-century calf, containing a transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham in HrJ 322; the MS notes here on three front flyleaves in the hands of Richard Farmer (1735-97), James Bindley (1737-1818), and Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836).

    c.1800.

    Sotheby's, 29 January 1873, lot 748. Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

    • HrJ 324
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

      Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

  • Wj C179 662ca WRE

    A printed work by Pierre de Cardonnel.

    Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

    • *WaE 869 The volume as a whole
      Autograph

      An octavo printed exemplum, with an inlaid slip bearing the names of Robert Waller, Ro: Waller, and Edm waller, in modern calf gilt.

      Edmund Waller, Cardonnel, Pierre de. Complementum fortunatarum insularum, Part II (London, 1662)
    • *WaE 750 Unnumbered flyleaf
      Autograph

      Nine Latin hexameters, untitled, written in what is probably Waller's variant bold style of hand (as seen in his Latin notebook, WaE 789).

      Apparently unpublished.

      Edmund Waller, 'Hector consilio te flectere nemo salubri'

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