Westminster Abbey

  • CA 32

    An exemplum of the edition of 1600 with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins.

    c.1600.

    Formerly in the library of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

    • CmW 16.7
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Camden, Reges, reginae, nobiles & alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum 1600
  • CA 49

    One of Camden's printed books, Jean du Tillet, Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8), with MS pages bound in at the front and end.

    • *CmW 121 [unnumbered pages]
      Autograph

      Nine pages of autograph pedigrees bound in at the front and end of the volume, including the dates 1598, 1605, and 1616.

      William Camden, Du Tillet, Jean. Recueil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)
    • *CmW 4 [last page]
      Autograph

      Autograph draft pedigree, on one page, corresponding to Volume II, pp. 140-1, of the 1627 edition of the Annales.

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
  • CB 2 (6)

    Autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 122
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. A Discourse of a Discouerie for a new Passage to Cataia (London, 1576)
  • CB 7 (14)

    Calligraphic MS copy of unpublished Latin verses on the cities of Great Britain (some afterwards quoted in Britannia); eleven leaves (plus one blank leaf); with Camden's autograph annotations and deletions.

    • *CmW 127
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Jonstonus, Joannes. Britannia urbes [c.1600]
  • CB 22 (2)

    Autograph note in Latin on Eadgina vxor Athelstani on the last page.

    • *CmW 116
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Blackwell, George. Mr. George Blackwel, (Made by Pope Clement 8. Archpriest of England) his Answeres upon sundry his Examinations (London, 1607)
  • CB 25 (3)

    Autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 125
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Hotman, François. Decretorum baccalaurei (n.p., 1575)
  • CB 28 (5)

    Autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 120
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Crato, Joannes. Oratio funebris de Diuo Maxaemiliano II (Frankfurt, 1577)
  • CB 49a(2)

    Autograph annotations in Latin and English and signature on the title-page Gul Camdenij.

    • *CmW 124
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Hayward, Sir John. The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England (London, 1613)
  • CB 67

    Exemplum of the Third printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1668) extensively annotated by Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, including his rewriting of many poems, a blank page at the beginning annotated in an unidentified hand; pages 49-51 with a note on the irregularities of Waller's verse; the last blank page with other notes on Waller by Atterbury (Waller commends no Poet of his times that was in any degree a Rival to him...) and by an unidentified hand (?Neve).

    c.1721.

    The volume briefly described in H.C. Beeching, Francis Atterbury (1909), pp. 227-31.

    • RoJ 18.5 blank page facing p. 1

      Quotation, lines 54-6 (here beginning Waller by nature for ye bays design'd), ascribed to Roch, in an unidentified hand.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • WaE 619.5 pp. 1-2

      MS annotations and deletions to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 263.5 pp. 3-12

      MS annotations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews ('Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain')
    • WaE 200.5 pp. 13-15

      Minor MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

      Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('So earnest with thy God! can no new care')
    • WaE 642.5 pp. 15-19

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.

      Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture ('Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight')
    • WaE 684.5 pp. 19-22

      Some MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

      Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore')
    • WaE 56.5 pp. 23-4

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.

      Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle ('Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired')
    • WaE 50.5 pp. 23-7

      MS alteration to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.

      Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning ('When from black clouds no part of sky is clear')
    • WaE 99.5 pp. 27-8

      MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published, in a four-stanza version headed In Answer to a libell against her, &c, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

      Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady ('What fury has provoked thy wit to dare')
    • WaE 335.5 pp. 29-30

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

      Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture ('Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!')
    • WaE 656.5 pp. 30-3

      MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.

      Edmund Waller, To Vandyck ('Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves')
    • WaE 274.5 pp. 33-4

      A few MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies')
    • WaE 298.5 pp. 34-6

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • WaE 193.5 pp. 36-7

      Minor MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 465.6 pp. 37-8

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

      Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train')
    • WaE 230.5 pp. 39-40

      A few MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 529.5 pp. 40-4

      A few MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know')
    • WaE 366.5 pp. 44-5

      MS alteration to the printed tex and deletions.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 499.5 pp. 45-6

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden ('Sees not my love how time resumes')
    • WaE 358.5 pp. 48-9

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!')
    • WaE 221.5 pp. 51-2

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, headed The Reply on the Contrary, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to Tho. Batt. in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.

      Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight ('Not caring to observe the wind')
    • WaE 423.5 pp. 52-3

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as The Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished ('It is not that I love you less')
    • WaE 90.5 pp. 53-5

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      Cited in Beeching.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 210.5 pp. 72-5

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 602.5 pp. 75-6

      MS alteration to the printed text.

      First published, as The cunning Curtezan, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
    • WaE 595.5 pp. 76-8

      A few MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.

      Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you')
    • WaE 741.5 pp. 78-9

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      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'
    • WaE 454.5 p. 79-80

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Stay, Phoebus! stay')
    • WaE 520.5 pp. 80-1

      MS comment.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 243.5 pp. 84-5

      A few MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • WaE 505.5 pp. 85-6

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
    • WaE 291.5 pp. 86-7

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')
    • WaE 321.5 pp. 90-1

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      Cited in Beeching.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

      Edmund Waller, On a Girdle ('That which her slender waist confined')
    • WaE 16.5 pp. 91-3

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep ('My charge it is those breaches to repair')
    • WaE 28.5 pp. 93-6

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('While in the park I sing, the listening deer')
    • WaE 18.8 pp. 96-7

      MS annotations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.

      Edmund Waller, At Penshurst ('Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made')
    • WaE 581.5 pp. 98-100

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester ('Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan')
    • WaE 515.5 pp. 100-1

      MS annotation to the printed text.

      First published, as To my young Lady Lucy Sidney, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

      Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady ('Why came I so untimely forth')
    • WaE 449.5 pp. 101-3

      Some MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
    • WaE 38.5 pp. 103-4

      Title added in MS to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.

      Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!')
    • WaE 343.5 pp. 104-5

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 485.5 pp. 106-7

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried')
    • WaE 318.5 pp. 107-8

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

      Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies ('Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine')
    • WaE 567.5 pp. 108-11

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady ('To this great loss a sea of tears is due')
    • WaE 6.5 pp. 114-16

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.

      Edmund Waller, À la Malade ('Ah, lovely Amoret! the care')
    • WaE 308.5 pp. 116-20

      MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Queen ('The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build')
    • WaE 629.5 pp. 127-31

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as The Reply, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.

      Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair ('Here Celia! for thy sake I part')
    • WaE 40.5 pp. 139-40

      MS alterations and deletions to the printed text.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 98. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, The Bud ('Lately on yonder swelling bush')
    • WaE 673.8 pp. 145-6

      MS annotations to the printed text.

      First published, in a six-line version headed To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture and beginning at line 3 (Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

      Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture ('Some ages hence, for it must not decay')
    • WaE 477.5 pp. 150-2

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

      Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves ('Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know')
    • WaE 10.5 pp. 152-4

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.

      Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before ('They that never had the use')
    • WaE 659.5 pp. 154-6

      Copious MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published, as The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6 in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.

      Edmund Waller, To Zelinda ('Fairest piece of well-formed earth!')
    • WaE 325.5 pp. 156-7

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.

      Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays ('Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe')
    • WaE 533.5 p. 158

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      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')
    • WaE 336.5 p. 158-66

      MS alterations to two lines of the printed text.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 40-5.

      Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park, as lately improved by His Majesty ('Of the first Paradise there's nothing found')
    • WaE 549.5 pp. 178-81

      MS annotations to the printed text.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.

      Edmund Waller, To My Lady Morton, on New-Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris ('Madam! new years may well expect to find')
    • WaE 154.5 pp. 192-8

      MS annotations to the printed text.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
    • WaE 105.5 pp. 202-21

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.

      Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between')
    • WaE 370.5 p. 228

      Annotations to the printed text.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.

      Edmund Waller, On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead ('As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new')
    • WaE 134.5 pp. 229-30

      MS alterations to the printed text and comments.

      First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')
    • WaE 488.5 pp. 230-1

      A MS alteration to the printed text in the last line.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes')
    • WaE 134.8 pp. 231-4

      Minor MS alnnotations to the printed text.

      First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')
    • WaE 171.5 pp. 234-5

      MS comments added to the printed text.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69-70.

      Edmund Waller, Of English Verse ('Poets may boast, as safely vain')
    • WaE 487.8 p. 233

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes')
    • WaE 124.5 pp. 234-6

      MS alterations to the printed text.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

      Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark ('Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms')
    • WaE 416.5 pp. 308-9

      Copy, preceded by the note (on p. 307) The following Poem is copied from a very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards — & many of Sir John Suckling & Thomas Carew — & in which each Piece is seperately & correctly distinguished by the name of its Author. This Poem has never yet been printed., and headed A Song of Mr Waller — presented to the Queen — in 1638, at the end of the volume.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.

      Edmund Waller, Puerperium ('You gods that have the power')
    • WaE 779.5 p. 310

      Copy, headed Mr Waller, when he was at Sea, evidently made from Philip Neve's antient MS, at the end of Atterbury-Neve Volume.

      First published in Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (London, 1789), pp. 70-1. Thorn-Drury, I, 75.

      Edmund Waller, When he was at Sea ('Whilst I was free I wrote with high conceit')
  • CB 95

    Two pages of autograph notes at the end (giving the reasons for this book's suppression).

    • *CmW 119
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Cowell, John. The Interpreter (Cambridge, 1607)
  • CC 30

    Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli 1537

    1537.

    Owned in 1527 by John Dobyns, scholar at Oxford.

    Juhász-Ormsby, No. 8.

    • *UdN 16
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Nicholas Udall, Maius, Junianus. De priscorum proprietate verborum (Venice, 1490)
  • Gal. G. 1. 20

    A few autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 134
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Sainte-Marthe, Scévole & Louis de. Histoire genealogique de la maison de France (Paris, 1619)
  • M. 3. 29

    A few autograph annotations.

    c.1616.
    • *CmW 136
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Twyne, Brian. Antiquitatis academiae Oxoniensis apologia (Oxford, 1608)
  • M. 3. 50

    Autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 130
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Masson, Jean Papire. Annalium (Paris, 1578)
  • M. 5. 1

    Two pages of autograph annotations at the front. Also, tipped in, a twelve-leaf booklet containing an autograph list in Latin of names and events relating to the years 1602-9 probably derived from Boutrays's book.

    • *CmW 118
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Boutrays, Raoul. De rebus in Gallia (Paris, 1610)
  • N. 6. 32

    A few autograph annotations.

    • *CmW 114
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Aemilius, Paulus, Veronensis. De rebus gestis Francorum (Paris, 1555)
  • MS 41

    An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

    c.1620-40s.

    Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

    Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

    • CoR 289 ff. 3r-9v

      Copy.

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

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 173 f. 10r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
    • CoR 255 f. 10v

      Copy, headed Dr Corb. against Prices Anniversary vpon Prince Henry.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 235 f. 11r-v

      Copy.

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

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
    • CoR 349 ff. 12v-13v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • DnJ 71 f. 14r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      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 3191 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • CoR 20 ff. 15v-17v

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

      Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • CoR 136 ff. 19r-20r, 25v

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • CoR 397 f. 20r

      Copy, headed To the Marquess.

      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')
    • PoW 73 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, headed In Pvella negram.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • DrW 117.55 ff. 21r-2r

      Copy, headed 5 Senses.

      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 212 ff. 22v-4r

      Copy, headed A godly Exhortation....

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

      An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • CoR 431 f. 24r

      Copy.

      First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • CoR 410 f. 24v

      Copy, headed In ye Person of Ch. Ch..

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.

      Richard Corbett, On Christ-Church Play at Woodstock ('If wee, at Woodstock, haue not pleased those')
    • HoJ 19 f. 26r

      Copy, headed on a locke smyth.

      Whitlock, p. 108.

      John Hoskyns, 'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'
    • CoR 376 f. 26r

      Copy, headed To a courtesan and here beginning My prety lute when I am gon.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

      Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
    • CoR 588 f. 26v

      Copy, headed Inuocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdom.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
    • MoG 102 f. 27r

      Copy, as By. G. M.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • JnB 669 ff. 27v-8v

      Copy, headed B. J. 5 senses.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

      For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
    • JnB 650 ff. 28v-9v

      Copy, headed Mr Johnson to the King.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
    • CoR 661 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Mallet.

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

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • DnJ 396 ff. 30v-2r

      Copy, headed To a Lady whose chaine was lost by X.

      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')
    • CwT 1269.2 f. 32r

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
    • RaW 289 f. 32r-v

      Copy, headed Mans Life.

      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')
    • DnJ 2573 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy, headed Perfumes.

      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 198 f. 33v

      Copy, headed Aeparition of a Louer.

      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')
    • MoG 77 ff. 33v-4r

      Copy, headed The Nitingale. G. M.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • JnB 190 f. 34r-v

      Copy, headed The Body.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • JnB 224 ff. 34v-5v

      Copy, headed The Minde.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • StW 906.5 ff. 43v-4r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Strode.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

      William Strode, Song ('When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay')
    • StW 766 f. 47r

      Copy, headed On a gentw. walking in the snow.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • WoH 129 f. 48r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis. i6i.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • MoG 48 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, headed On the death of King Janmes, subscribed G: M.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • CoR 461 f. 49r

      Copy.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

      Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
    • ShW 18 f. 49r

      Copy, headed To one yt would dye a Mayd.

      Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
    • HoJ 86 ff. 49v-50v

      Copy, headed The parliament fart.

      Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • DaJ 215 f. 50v

      Copy, headed On the death of a child and here beginning As carefull Mothers to their beds do lay.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • CoR 114 ff. 51v-2r

      Copy, ascribed to Corbet.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
    • StW 851 f. 52v

      Copy, headed A song. W. S.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • CoR 695 f. 53r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
    • StW 316 f. 53r

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
    • StW 373 f. 53v

      Copy, ascribed to W. S.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

      William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
    • StW 936 f. 54r

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

      William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
    • CoR 481 f. 54v

      Copy.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • StW 175 f. 55r

      Copy, headed Laus Musices.

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

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • StW 282 f. 55v

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • StW 1229 f. 55v

      Copy of the second couplet, here beginning My strings can doe what no man could.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • StW 716 f. 56r-v

      Copy, headed On a sigh.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

      William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
    • StW 1198 ff. 57r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
    • CwT 1132 ff. 58v-9v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • StW 31 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled and here beginning With a new white feather in his Cappe.

      Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

      William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes ('With a new beard but lately trimd')
    • CoR 533 f. 61r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
    • JnB 246 ff. 63r-5v

      Copy, in two hands, untitled.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • CoR 324 ff. 66v-7r

      Copy.

      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')
    • DnJ 709 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      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 2354 ff. 68v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      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 3747 f. 69r-v

      Copy, headed To his loue vpon his departure from her.

      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 2933 f. 70r

      Copy, untitled.

      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 1183 ff. 70v-2v

      Copy.

      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 3120 ff. 72v-3r

      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 755 f. 73v

      Copy, untitled.

      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 3504 ff. 74r-5r

      Copy.

      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 2429 ff. 75r-9v

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • BmF 116 ff. 85r-6r

      Copy, headed Fran: Beomont to Ben: Jonson.

      First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

      Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

      Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson ('The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring')
    • StW 953 ff. 86v-8r

      Copy, headed Capps.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
    • JnB 31 f. 88v

      Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning Have yu seene the white lilly grow; 1620s-30s.

      Edited from this MS, including the parody, in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 178.

      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')
    • CwT 871 ff. 91v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • HeR 398 f. 93r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

      Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
    • HeR 101 f. 93r

      Copy, headed Answer.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • EaJ 65 ff. 93v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Hortus Mertonensis ('Hortus delitiae domus politae')
    • StW 1303 f. 95v

      Copy, headed English.

      This text following a Latin version.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • WaE 216 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

      Edmund Waller, Of Love ('Anger in hasty words or blows')
    • WaE 576 f. 97r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

      Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland ('Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes')
  • W.A.M. 6640

    Copy of a letter by Earle to the Lord Mayor of London Elect, in a cursive secretary hand, endorsed The draught of a Lettr sent to my Lord Maior..., from Westminster, 1660.

    1660.

    Quoted in Darwin, p. 187.