Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Clements Collection CLE E15

    Lady Anne Clifford's exemplum, with her wyvern crest and initials A. D. [ie. Anne, Countess of Dorset] in gilt on the calf covers.

    Early 17th century.
    • CdA 14
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Anne Clifford, Boemus, Johann, trans. Edward Aston. the Manners, Lawes, and Customes of all Nations (London, 1611)

  • Dyce MS 9 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.9)

    Copy in the hand of Jhon: i.e. Edward Knight, book-keeper and prompter of the King's Company, prepared for use as a prompt book, inscribed by Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, This Play, being an olde one and the Originall Lost was reallowed by mee, This 7 Febru. 1624[/5], 34 folio leaves.

    Early 17th century.

    Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

    Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Gerritsen and in Ioppolo. Collated in Dyce and in Bowers. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 288-93.

    • B&F 58
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 329-452. Edited by Johan Gerritsen (Groningen, 1952). Bowers, X, 16-111, ed. Cyrus Hoy. Edited by Grace Ioppolo, Malone Society, 2009 (Manchester, 2012). For Fletcher's poem on this play see FlJ 8-14.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune

  • Dyce MS 17 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.16)

    A quarto volume of seven poems by Donne, in a single hand, fifteen leaves.

    A later title-page inscribed Poems written about the Year 1616; and believed to be unprinted; viz Five Satires; A Storme; and A Calme. P Neve: i.e. ? Philip Neve, author of Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (1789).

    Early 17th century.

    Possibly the quarto MS of Dr. Donne's Satires and Poem of the Storm in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 599. Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Neve MS: DnJ Δ 33.

    • DnJ 2748 ff. 1r-2v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2778 ff. 3r-4v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2810 ff. 5r-6v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2839 ff. 6v-10r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2871 ff. 10r-11v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 3073 ff. 12r-13r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 559 ff. 13r-14r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')

  • Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17)

    A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages).

    Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625.

    c.1625.

    Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Nedham MS: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).

    • DnJ 2743 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2773 ff. 6v-7v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2805 ff. 8r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2835 ff. 9v-12r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2867 ff. 12v-13v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 1939 ff. 14r-16v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • DnJ 3069 ff. 16v-17r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 555 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 381 ff. 18v-19v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 697 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy, headed Elegia secunda. El: 2ia.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 2561 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, headed Elegia tertia.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 1689 f. 21r-v

      Copy, headed Elegia quarta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
    • DnJ 2455 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, headed Elegia quinta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • DnJ 2344 f. 22r-v

      Copy, headed Eligia sexta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 2210 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, headed Elegia septima.

      Edited from this MS in Waldron. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 3179 f. 23r-v

      Copy, headed Elegia octaua.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 632 f. 24r

      Copy, headed Elegia nona.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 55 ff. 24r-5r

      Copy, headed Elegia decima.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 2509 f. 25r-v

      Copy, headed Elegia undecima.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • DnJ 1538 f. 25v

      Copy, headed Elegia duodecima.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 1043 f. 26r

      Copy, headed Elegia decima tertia.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
    • DnJ 3735 f. 26v

      Copy, headed To his Loue upon his departure fro her.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 2696 ff. 26v-7r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

      John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
    • DnJ 831 f. 27r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 353 ff. 27v-8r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

      John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
    • DnJ 2142 ff. 28r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 2244 f. 29r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 497 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • DnJ 3705 f. 30r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 1203 f. 30v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      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')
    • DnJ 866 ff. 30v-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

      John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
    • DnJ 2297 f. 31r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 3006 f. 31v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • DnJ 189 f. 31r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
    • DnJ 439 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 2892 f. 32r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 73-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 107-8 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 80.

      John Donne, Selfe Love ('He that cannot chuse but love')
    • DnJ 1329 f. 32r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

      John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
    • DnJ 2922 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • DnJ 594 f. 33r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 3663 ff. 33v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 2113 f. 34v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

      John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
    • DnJ 966 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 122 f. 35r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

      John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
    • DnJ 1648 f. 35v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 304 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
    • DnJ 3910 f. 36r-v

      Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 3846 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 671 f. 37r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 2089 f. 37r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

      John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
    • DnJ 1176 ff. 37v-9r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

      John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
    • DnJ 1264 ff. 39r-40r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

      John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
    • DnJ 3961 f. 40r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

      John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
    • DnJ 264 f. 40r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 1972 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy, headed Mummie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 3787 ff. 41r-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
    • DnJ 3111 f. 42r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 2010 f. 42v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 1808 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 24 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 3627 f. 43v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 3817 ff. 43v-4v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 3293 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy, headed A Letter.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3466 f. 45r-v

      Copy, headed Another Letter.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • BrW 33 ff. 45v-6v

      Copy, headed Elegia.

      Edied from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 3-5, whence collated in Goodwin, II, 348.

      First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
    • DnJ 752 f. 46v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
    • DnJ 3496 ff. 46v-7v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 1456 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 2640 f. 48r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • DnJ 1072 ff. 48r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 2425 ff. 49r-52v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
    • DnJ 794 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 3859 ff. 53r-4r

      Copy, headed Elegia decima. 7a.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

      Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

      John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')
    • DnJ 2719 f. 54v

      Copy, headed Eleg: 18th

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

      John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
    • CoR 313 ff. 65r-71v

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northwarde from Oxforde, transcribed from CoR 304.

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

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 339 f. 72r-v

      Copy, transcribed from CoR 336.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • HeR 47 ff. 73r-4r

      Copy, here ascribed to Dr Corbett, transcribed from HeR 46.

      Edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 5-8.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

      Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')

  • Dyce MS 39 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.33)

    Copy, in a professional hand, made for use in the theatre, with corrections in the fourth and fifth acts in another hand, imperfect, probably the copy submitted to Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, for licensing in 1624.

    The scribe also responsible for the MS of Dekker's Welsh Embassador (DkT 46).

    c.1624.

    Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

    Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Edwards & Gibson. Literal transcript and facsimile pages in Malone Society edition, ed. K.M. Lea and W.W. Greg (Oxford, 1929). Facsimile example in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 177.

    • MsP 31
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. William Gifford (London, 1805). Edwards & Gibson, II, 107-76.

      Philip Massinger, The Parliament of Love

  • Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38)

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

    This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

    c.1690s-1700.

    Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

    • MaA 137 pp. 1-6

      Copy, headed A House Warming to Chancellour Hyde.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • SdT 6 pp. 16-20

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Summers.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.

      Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley ('Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale')
    • WyW 4 pp. 20-3

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying Letter…to Mr. Wicherley, see SdT 2-6.

      William Wycherley, The Answer [to Mr. Shadwell] ('That I have only answer'd Mum')
    • RoJ 40 p. 26

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS by all editors.

      First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')
    • DoC 239 pp. 34-5

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • MaA 248 pp. 43-5

      Copy, headed Upon Sr: Robert Vyners setting up the Kings Statue.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
    • RoJ 115 pp. 59-60

      Copy, headed One Tyme the King was a prayseing the Translation of the Psalmes, And my Lord Rocheter being by (Says he) 'an't please Your Maty Ile show you presently how they Run, And thus begun.

      Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; recorded in Walker.

      First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')
    • MaA 272 p. 60

      Copy, headed On Bloods stealing the Crowne.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • RoJ 147 pp. 61-4

      Copy of lines 171-264, headed Satyr and here beginning You smile to see me (whom the world perchance.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • WoH 196.5 p. 70

      Copy, headed On the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • RoJ 104.62 pp. 76-81

      Copy.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • MaA 163.97 pp. 82-96

      Copy.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • RoJ 390 pp. 105-6

      Copy, followed (pp. 106-7) by Lady Rochester's answer.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

      Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • RoJ 421 pp. 107-8

      Copy.

      Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 629 pp. 108-9

      Copy, headed Womans Honour a Song

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
    • RoJ 468 pp. 109-10

      Copy, headed Song.

      Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')
    • RoJ 344 pp. 110-12

      Copy, headed The Earle of Rochesters verses For which he was Banish'd.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • BuS 34 pp. 113-119

      Copy.

      Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

      Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
    • RoJ 361 pp. 119-24

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

      The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')
    • DoC 83 pp. 124-8

      Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Government from Monarchical to Democratical The Duell and here ascribed to Dorset & H Savile.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
    • RoJ 638 pp. 133-62

      Copy, entitled The Farce of Sodom.

      This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 148, in Edwards, BC (1976).

      First published (?) at Antwerp [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).

      Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.

      Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.

    • LeN 6 pp. 168-71

      Copy of the 85-line version, headed To the Prince and Princesse of Orange. By Mr Nat: Lee and beginning Hail happy Warriour! Hail! whose Armes have won.

      First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

      Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage ('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')
    • MaA 313 pp. 195-200

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')
    • RoJ 264 pp. 223-4

      Copy, headed Essay.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • RoJ 529 pp. 234-40

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 501 pp. 241-2

      Copy, headed Verses to the Post Boy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

      First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')
    • WaE 777 pp. 270-2

      Copy.

      First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

      Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 ('Welcome, great Prince, unto this land')
    • DoC 59 pp. 297-302

      Copy, headed A Satyr on severall Women. 1679.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • RoJ 11.91 p. 343

      Copy.

      First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
    • MaA 187 pp. 355-8

      Copy, headed Royal Resolutions.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • SdT 20 pp. 395-407

      Copy, here ascribed to Mr Sommers.

      First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.

      Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse ('Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife')
    • EtG 109 pp. 407-10

      Copy.

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

      Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')
    • CwT 312 pp. 441-5

      Copy of the four songs.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

      Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
    • MaA 230 pp. 484-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
    • MaA 82 pp. 525-32

      Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inn. Or a Pleasant New Ballad to the Tune of I tell thee Dick.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • SeC 64 p. 546

      Copy, headed To a Scornfull Beauty.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
    • DrM 39.4 p. 547

      Copy of the later version of lines 149-52, headed The Encouragement.

      First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

      Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

      Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda ('When these my Letters come into thy view')
    • DoC 326.96 p. 575

      Copy.

      Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')
    • DoC 138 pp. 575-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
    • EtG 79 pp. 620-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

      Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')
    • EtG 55 pp. 666-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • DrJ 209 pp. 669-72

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')
    • EtG 33 pp. 672-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
    • DoC 70 pp. 708-10

      Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametas.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')
    • EtG 120 pp. 729-31

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.

      Sir George Etherege, Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley ('Whether we mortals love or no')
    • DoC 361.95 p. 736 et seq.

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')
    • DoC 101 pp. 748-66

      Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')
    • BeA 33 p. 784

      Copy.

      Ascribed to Aphra Behn in BeA 32. Various other MS copies of this poem are anonymous.

      Aphra Behn, The last Nights Ramble. 1686 ('Warm'd with the pleasures wch: debauches yield')

  • Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39)

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

    c.1620.

    Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

    Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

    • NaT 6 ff. 2-4

      Copy of an abbreviated 161-line version, partly written in cryptography, headed Lector abj si to scelerjs contagio vexat | At tibi si mens sit sanctificata venj., with the dedicatory sonnet.

      This MS collated in McKerrow.

      Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

      Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')
    • CmT 237 f. 5r-v

      Copy of a four-strophe version.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • CoH 93 f. 12r

      Copy, the first of the sequence headed H. C. Sonets and followed by the prose summary The order of the booke.

      Edited from this MS in Park and in Grundy. Facsimiles of f. 12r in Grundy, facing p. 113, and in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 48.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 113.

      Henry Constable, To his Mistrisse ('Grace full of grace though in these verses heere')
    • CoH 15 f. 12v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonetto primo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.

      Henry Constable, The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne')
    • CoH 33 f. 13r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto quinto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 116.

      Henry Constable, Of the byrth of his loue. Sonet 2. ('Fly low (deare Loue) thy sun dost thow not see?')
    • CoH 35 f. 13v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto nono, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.

      Henry Constable, Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. ('Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte')
    • CoH 46 f. 14r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 118.

      Henry Constable, Of the suddeyne surprizing of his hearte, and how vnawares he was caught. Sonet 4. ('Delight in youre bright eyes my death did breede')
    • CoH 39 f. 14v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto decinoue, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 119.

      Henry Constable, Of the discouragement he had to proceed in loue through the multitude of his Ladies perfections and his owne lownesse. sonet 5. ('When youre perfections to my thoughts appeare')
    • CoH 17 f. 15r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto secundo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 120.

      Henry Constable, How he encouraged himselfe to proceede in loue and to hope for favoure in the ende at Loues hands. Sonet 6. ('It may be Loue doth not my death pretend')
    • CoH 11 f. 15v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto terzo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.

      Henry Constable, An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. ('Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high')
    • CoH 50 f. 16r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 122.

      Henry Constable, The second 7 of his Ladies prayse. An exhortation to the reader to come and see his Mistrisse beautie. Sonet 1. ('Eyes curiouse to behold what nature can create')
    • CoH 55 f. 16v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto decimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare')
    • CoH 41 f. 17r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 124.

      Henry Constable, Of the excellencye of his Ladies voyce. Sonet 3. ('Ladies of Ladies the delight alone')
    • CoH 23 f. 17v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 125.

      Henry Constable, Of her excellencye both in singing and instruments. Sonet 4. ('Not that thy hand is soft is sweete is white')
    • CoH 42 f. 18r

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 126.

      Henry Constable, Of the prowesse of his Ladie. Sonet 5. ('Sweete Soueraigne sith so many mynds remayne')
    • CoH 40 f. 18v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 127.

      Henry Constable, Of the envie others beare to his Ladie for the former perfections. Sonet 6. ('What beautie to the world vouchsafes this blisse')
    • CoH 45 f. 19r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto tredeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 128.

      Henry Constable, Of the slander enuye giues him for so highlye praysing his Mistrisse. Sonet 7. ('Falselye doth envie of youre prayses blame')
    • CoH 81 f. 19v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto decisette, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 130.

      Henry Constable, The thyrd 7 of seuerall occasions and accidents happening in the life tyme of his loue Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of her walking in a garden. Sonet 1. ('My Ladies presence makes the roses red')
    • CoH 92 f. 20r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto vinti, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 131.

      Henry Constable, To his Ladies hand vpon occasion of her gloue which in her absence he kissed. Sonet 2. ('Sweet hand the sweet (yet cruell) bowe thow art')
    • CoH 28 f. 20v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto deciotto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 132.

      Henry Constable, Of his Ladies vayle wherewith she covered her. Sonet: 3. ('The fouler hydes as closely as he may')
    • CoH 95 f. 21r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 133.

      Henry Constable, To his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a Petrarch he gaue her, shewing her the reason why the Italian Commenters dissent so much in the exposition thereof. Sonet 4. ('Miracle of the world I neuer will denye')
    • CoH 31 f. 21v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto settimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.

      Henry Constable, Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. ('A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue')
    • CoH 25 f. 22r

      Copy.

      First published, as Vltomo Sonnetto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 135.

      Henry Constable, Of his Ladies goeing over earlye to bed, so depriving him to soone of her sight. Sonet 6. ('Fayre sun if yow would haue me prayse youre light')
    • CoH 48 f. 22v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto quatro, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 136.

      Henry Constable, Of the thoughtes he nourished by night when he was retired to bed. Sonet 7. ('The sun his iourney ending in the west')
    • CoH 49 f. 23r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 137.

      Henry Constable, The second parte. The first 7 to oure Q: and the K. of Scots. To the Q: after his returne oute of Italye. Sonet 1. ('Not longe agoe in Poland traveiling')
    • CoH 162 f. 23v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 138.

      Henry Constable, To the Queene touching the cruell effects of her perfections. Sonet 2. ('Most sacred prince why should I thee thus prayse')
    • CoH 161 f. 24r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 139.

      Henry Constable, To the Q: vpon occasion of a booke he wrote in an answer to certayne obiections against her proceeding in the Low countryes. Sonet 3. ('The loue wherewith youre vertues chayne my sprite')
    • CoH 154 f. 24v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 140.

      Henry Constable, To the K. of Scots whome as yet he had not seene. Sonet ('Bloome of the rose I hope those hands to kisse')
    • CoH 149 f. 25r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 141.

      Henry Constable, To the K. of Scots touching the subiect of his poems dedicated wholie to heauenly matters. Sonet 5. ('When others hooded with blind loue doe flye')
    • CoH 151 f. 25v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 142.

      Henry Constable, To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of a sonet the K: wrote in complaint of a contrarie winde which hindred the arriuall of the Queene oute of Denmark. Sonet 6. ('If I durst sigh still as I had begun')
    • CoH 152 f. 26r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 143.

      Henry Constable, To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of his longe stay in Denmarke by reason of the coldnesse of the winter and freezing of the sea. Sonet 7. ('If I durst loue as heertofore I haue')
    • CoH 51 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 144.

      Henry Constable, The second 7. To particular Ladies whome he most honoured. to the princes of Orange. Sonet 1. ('If nature for her workes proud euer were')
    • CoH 147 f. 27r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 145.

      Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Shrewsburye. Sonet 2. ('Playnlie I write because I will write true')
    • CoH 144 f. 27v

      Copy.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.

      Henry Constable, To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. ('Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine')
    • CoH 97 f. 28r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 148.

      Henry Constable, To my Ladye Arbella. Sonet 4 ('That worthie Marquesse pride of Italie')
    • CoH 155 f. 28v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 149.

      Henry Constable, To the Ladye Arbella. Sonet 5. ('Only hope of oure age that vertues dead')
    • CoH 99 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 150.

      Henry Constable, To my Ladie Rich. Sonet 6. ('O that my songe like to a ship might be')
    • CoH 158 f. 29v

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.

      Henry Constable, To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote')
    • CoH 82 f. 30r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 152.

      Henry Constable, The thyrd 7 to seuerall persons vpon sundrye occasions. To the princesse of Orange vpon occasion of the murther of her father and husband Sonet 1. ('When murdring hands, to quench the thirst of tyrannie')
    • CoH 148 f. 30v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 153.

      Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Shrewsburye vpon occasion of his deare Mistrisse whoe liu'd vnder her gouer[n]ment. Sonet 2. ('True worthie dame if I thee chieftayne call')
    • CoH 146 f. 31r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 154.

      Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Pembroke. Sonet 3. ('Ladie whome by reporte, I only knowe')
    • CoH 145 f. 31v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 155.

      Henry Constable, To the Countesse of Essex vpon occasion of the death of her first husband Sir Philip Sydney Sonet 4. ('Sweetest of Ladies if thy pleasure be')
    • CoH 156 f. 32r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 156.

      Henry Constable, To the Ladie Clinton. Sonet 5. ('Once onlye I sweet Ladie ye beheld')
    • CoH 4 f. 32v

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.

      Henry Constable, A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. ('Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see')
    • CoH 96 f. 33r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 158.

      Henry Constable, To Mr. Hilliard vpon occasion of a picture he made of my Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('If Michael the archpainter now did liue')
    • CoH 77 f. 33v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 159.

      Henry Constable, The thyrd parte. The first 7 of seuerall complaynts of misfortune in loue onlye. Sonet 1. ('Now now I loue indeed and suffer more')
    • CoH 59 f. 34r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto quaterdeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 160.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Wonder it is and pitie tis that she')
    • CoH 65 f. 34v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto sedeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 3. ('Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed')
    • CoH 5 f. 35r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 162.

      Henry Constable, Complaint of his Ladies melancholynes. Sonet 4. ('If that one care had oure two hearts possest')
    • CoH 7 f. 35v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto sesto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 163.

      Henry Constable, Complaynt of his Ladies sicknesse. Sonet 5. ('Vnciuill Sicknesse hast thow no regard')
    • CoH 72 f. 36r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 164.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 6. ('Deare though from me youre gratiouse lookes depart')
    • CoH 76 f. 36v

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 165.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 7. ('If euer any iustlye might complayne')
    • CoH 159 f. 37r

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 166.

      Henry Constable, To the Marquesse of Piscats soule endued in her life tyme with infinite perfections as her diuine poems doe testefie. Sonet 3. ('Sweete soule which now with heauenly songs dost tell')
    • CoH 136 f. 37v

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 167.

      Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule. Sonet 4. ('Giue pardon blessed soule to my bold cryes')
    • CoH 137 f. 38r

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 168.

      Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sidneyes soule. Sonet 5. ('Great Alexander then did well declare')
    • CoH 138 f. 38v

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 169.

      Henry Constable, To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule Sonet 6. ('Euen as when great mens heyres cannot agree')
    • CoH 36 f. 39r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 170.

      Henry Constable, Of the death of my Ladie Riches daughter shewing the reason of her vntimelye death hindred her effecting those things which by the former calculation of her natiuitye he foretold. Sonet 7. ('He that by skill of stars doth fates foretell')
    • CoH 22 f. 39v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto quindeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.

      Henry Constable, The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move')
    • CoH 57 f. 40r

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 2. ('Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue')
    • CoH 62 f. 40v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto dodeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 173.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 3. ('My reason absent did myne eyes require')
    • CoH 67 f. 41r

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 4. ('Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find')
    • CoH 71 f. 41v

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto vndeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 5. ('Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught')
    • CoH 75 f. 42r

      Copy.

      First published, as Sonnetto ottauo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.

      Henry Constable, Sonet 6. ('If true loue might true loues reward obtayne')
    • CoH 8 f. 42v

      Copy.

      First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 178.

      Henry Constable, Conclusion of the whole. Sonet 7. ('Sometymes in verse I prays'd, sometymes I sigh'd')
    • CoH 150 f. 43r

      Copy.

      First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 179.

      Henry Constable, To the diuine protection of the Ladie Arbella the author commendeth both his Graces honoure and his Muses aeternitye ('My Mistrisse worth gaue wings vnto my Muse')
    • DaJ 228 f. 56v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 305-6.

      Sir John Davies, To a woman fallen from Horseback ('Madam, what needs this care to make it knowne')
    • DaJ 42 f. 57r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 174. Collated in Krueger.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 179.

      Sir John Davies, Love's All ('I love thee not for sacred chastitie')
    • DaJ 61 f. 57r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Fayth wench I cannot courte thy piercing eyes.

      Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 175. Collated in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
    • DaJ 69 f. 57v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.

      Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier ('Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue')
    • RaW 389.5 f. 60r

      Copy of an eight-line version, here beginning Heere lyeth yt noble Counselloure | That never kept his worde.

      First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
    • CmT 82.5 f. 62v

      Copy.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

      Thomas Campion, 'Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely'
    • HrJ 208.8 f. 64r

      Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godlie mayde wth one of her societie.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
    • HrJ 122.5 f. 64v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
    • HrJ 70 f. 65v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • RaW 288 f. 70v

      Copy, headed Epitaphium.

      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')
    • RaW 376 f. 71r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Heere Hobinol lyes oure shepheard while ere.

      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')
    • HrJ 98.5 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A tyme vncertayne when as a certayne preacher.

      The text followed (f. 72v) by an answer (here beginning That no man yet could in ye bible finde) and subscribed Sr. J.H..

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
    • DnJ 3122 f. 77r-v

      Copy, headed Ad Solem.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 468 f. 78r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 905 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
    • DnJ 1487 f. 78v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

      John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
    • DnJ 1728 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Clockius so deeplye vow'd ner more to come.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
    • DnJ 1773 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 1774 f. 78v

      Copy of a three-line version, untitled and here beginning Lord helpe lorde helpe ye beggar cries.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 1905 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • HrJ 48 f. 79v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

      Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
    • DaJ 99 f. 79r

      Copy of poems 4 and 5, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

      First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • HrJ 227 f. 79v

      Copy, here beginning A certayne priest once riding on ye way.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

      Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
    • DaJ 14 f. 80r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

      Krueger, p. 132.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde')
    • DaJ 15 f. 80r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

      Krueger, p. 133.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 9. In Librum ('Liber doth vaunt how chastely he hath livde')
    • DaJ 17 f. 80r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.

      Krueger, pp. 134-5.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 14. In Leucam ('Leuca in presence once a fart did let')
    • HrJ 159 f. 82r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • HrJ 183.5 f. 84r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A taylor ta'ne to be of vpright dealing.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
    • RaW 411.5 f. 97r

      Copy.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • NaT 17 f. 107v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

      Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')
    • OxE 41 f. 116v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in May.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde'

  • Dyce MS 46 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.41)

    Copy, in a neat cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, The Life and Death of Sir Tho: More Kt: somtyme Lo: Chauncellor of Eng: written by Wm Roper his Sonne in lawe: An: Do: 1535, 52 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in modern morocco gilt.

    c.1600.

    This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described pp. xvii-xviii.

    • MrT 104
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • Dyce MS 848 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.18)

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1619 with approximately 60 MS corrections, possibly derived from a MS of the play or from the recollection of a performance.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Edited from this exemplum in Dyce. Recorded in Williams, p. 176.

    • B&F 61
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1619. Dyce, II, 231-347. Bullen, I, 243-354, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 182-281, ed. George Walton Williams.

  • Dyce MS 2045 (Pressmark Dyce 26 Box. 5/5)

    An exemplum of the first printed edition with MS corrections.

    [1613?].

    This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60.

    • ChG 16
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1613]. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 557-94. Also in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 253-63.

      George Chapman, The Memorable Masque

  • Dyce 3199

    A printed exemplum with Drayton's autograph inscription to Sir Henry Willoughby.

    1627.

    Facsimiles of the inscription in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate VIII(c), and in Bernard H. Newdigate, Michael Drayton and his Circle (Oxford, 1961), facing p. 207.

    • *DrM 73
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Michael Drayton, Drayton, Michael. The Battaile of Agincourt (London, 1627)

  • Dyce MS 4719 (Pressmark Dyce 26 Box 18/5)

    An exemplum of the edition of 1609 with the text of the missing leaf sig. H1 supplied in MS.

    17th century?.
    • HyT 9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1608. Dramatic Works, V, 161-257. Edited by Allan Holaday (Urbana, 1950).

      Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece

  • Dyce 5363 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.97)

    A printed exemplum of The New Inn (London, 1631) with MS annotations made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, collating the text of the Ode to himselfe with a 17th-century MS once in his possession.

    Early 19th century.

    This item collated in Herford & Simpson.

    • JnB 381
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

      Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')

  • Dyce 6209 (Pressmark Dyce 25.D.40)

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1598 with the text of the missing first two leaves (title-page and 70 lines of text) supplied in MS in an italic hand, probably transcribed from the edition of 1594.

    1598-early 17th century.

    This item has been thought to demonstrate the existence of a 1593 edition: see Bowers, II, 3 et seq. Facsimiles in W.W. Greg's edition, Malone Society (Oxford, 1925), and in Bakeless, II, facing p. 24.

    • MrC 21
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1594. Bowers, II, 1-119. Tucker Brooke, pp. 307-85. Gill et al., vol. III.

      Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

  • Dyce 6323 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.106)

    A printed exemplum of The Duke of Milan (London, 1623) presented by Massinger to Sir Francis Foljambe.

    c.1623.
    • *MsP 9 flyleaf
      Autograph

      Autograph verses written on the flyleaf.

      Edited from this MS in Gifford and in Edwards & Gibson. Facsimiles in The Handbook of the Dyce and Forster Collections (London, 1880); in R. Garnett and E. Gosse, English Literature, II (London, 1903); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XIV(a); and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 175.

      A transcript made by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary, is in the British Library, Add. MS 28655, ff. 194v-5r.

      First published in The Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. William Gifford, 2nd edition (London, 1813). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 396.

      Philip Massinger, To my Honorable ffreinde Sr ffrancis ffoliambe knight and Baronet ('Sr. wth my service I praesent this booke')
    • *MsP 17
      Autograph

      An exemplum of the printed edition of 1623 with about 50 autograph textual corrections.

      This item collated in Edwards & Gibson. Discussed, with a facsimile of the first page of the text, in W.W. Greg, Massinger's Autograph Corrections in The Duke of Milan, 1623, The Library, 4th Ser. 4 (1923), 207-11. Reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 110-19.

      First published in London, 1623. Edwards & Gibson, I, 213-300.

      Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan

  • Dyce 6561 (No. 1) (Pressmark Dyce 25.D.42)

    Copy, here beginning A hormless game: royd only for delight and preceded by a note on the success and suppression of A Game at Chess, inscribed in an exemplum of the first printed edition of that play.

    c.1625?.

    Edited from this MS in Capell, and, with a facsimile, in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, A Middleton Forgery, PQ, 12 (1933), 33-6. Tannenbaum considered this MS a forgery (perhaps by George Steevens), but see Bernard M. Wagner, A Middleton Forgery, PQ, 14 (1935), 287-8.

    • MiT 1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

      Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James ('A harmless game raised merely for delight')

  • Dyce 8980

    An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1600, marked up with cuts and with dramatis personae.

    Mid-late 17th century?.

    Recorded in Shattuck, p. 333, No. 1.

    • ShW 68.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

  • Dyce 10,790 (Pressmark Dyce S 8vo 10790)

    An exemplum of the first printed edition with Wycherley's autograph presentation inscription on a flyleaf, For Anthony Henley Esqr from his most oblig'd and most humble servant W. Wycherley (subsequently heavily deleted).

    Most of the spaces left by the printer in the text of the poem filled in Wycherley's own hand: namely, his autograph insertions on pp. 26 (2 lines), 27 (2 lines), 28 (1 line), 29 (½ line), 30 (1 line and a one-word change), 32 (1½ lines), 34 (one word), 37 (five-word alteration), 39 (two words), 41 (4 lines and a three-word alteration), 46 (1 line), and 74 (one letter added to a word).

    [1669].

    Later owned by one F. J., whose notes on endpapers are dated 2 March 1789 and 9 March 1791. Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor. Formerly pressmark D.17.P.55.

    This volume briefly discussed, and some of the MS readings quoted (not always accurately), in McCarthy, pp. 37-9, 45 (where also the later notes are misattributed to Alexander Dyce).

    • *WyW 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (with lacunae) in London, 1699. Posthumous Works, Vol. II (London, 1729). Summers, IV, 73-102. The complete text unpublished.

      William Wycherley, Hero and Leander in Burlesque ('The Towns of Sestus and Abidus stood')

  • Forster MS 21 (Pressmark 48.D.3)

    A quarto volume containing two works by Francis Bacon.

    Early 17th century.

    Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 19, to Forster.

    • BcF 164 item 1

      Copy, eleven leaves.

      First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

      Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
    • BcF 524 item 2

      Copy.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • Forster 3077 (Pressmark F.26 Q. 5)

    An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton July 3°. 1682. giuen me, by the author.

    1682.

    Sotheby's, 20 March 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 1399.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 45.

    • *WtI 169
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Flatman, Thomas. Poems and Songs, 3rd edition (London, 1682)

  • Forster MS 8vo 4818

    A MS copy of Killigrew's epilogue, beginning Our Author, sent his Epelogue so late, written opposite the last page of Selindra (sig H8r) in a printed exemplum of Killigrew's Three Playes (London, 1664).

    c.1665.

    The verses edited, and discussed, in J.P. Vander Motten, An Unnoticed Restoration Epilogue, English Studies, 67 (1986), 308-10.

    • KiW 8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

  • Forster MS 5895 (Pressmark F. 48. D. 51)

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, 5 November 1674.

    1674.

    Later owned (before 1833) by J.L. Anderdon.

    Margoliouth, II, 331-2.

    • *MaA 549
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

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