Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Worcester College, Oxford

  • MS 58

    A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

    The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.

    c.1662[-1730s].

    Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

    • CoA 126 pp. 1-3

      Copy, headed To the most Exelently Accomplist Mrs Katherine Phillips vpon her Poems, subscribed Abraham Cowley, preceding a collection of poems by Katherine Philips.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.

      Abraham Cowley, On Orinda's Poems. Ode ('We allow'd You Beauty, and we did submit')
    • PsK 124 pp. 4-5

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
    • PsK 52 p. 5

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')
    • PsK 566 pp. 6-7

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
    • PsK 339 pp. 8-9

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
    • PsK 201 pp. 10-12

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')
    • PsK 169 pp. 12-13

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 149 pp. 13-14

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering ('As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire')
    • PsK 278 p. 15

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 ('As when the Glorious Magazine of Light')
    • PsK 93 pp. 15-17

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, A Friend ('Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule')
    • PsK 347 pp. 18-19

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Submission (''Tis so. and humbly I my will resign')
    • PsK 528 pp. 19-20

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 ('When God, contracted to humanity')
    • PsK 401 pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed To Mrs Wogan my hould freind on the death of her husband.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband ('Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you')
    • PsK 179 pp. 22-3

      Copy, headed La Grandeur d'esprit.

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

      Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')
    • PsK 39 pp. 24-5

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 159 pp. 26-7

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton ('As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd')
    • PsK 101 pp. 27-8

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Friendship ('Let the dull brutish world that know not love')
    • PsK 414 pp. 28-9

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting ('Though it be Just to grieve when I must part')
    • PsK 69 p. 29

      Copy, headed Engraven on Mr Jno Collires Tombestone at Bedington.

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

      Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington ('Here what remaines of him does ly')
    • PsK 236 p. 29

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone ('Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud')
    • PsK 144 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed In memory of Mr Cartwright.

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

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mr Cartwright ('Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit')
    • PsK 241 pp. 30-1

      Copy, headed On Mr ffrancis ffinch the Exelent Palaemon.

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

      Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) ('This is confest presumption. for had I')
    • PsK 208 p. 31

      Copy, headed L'Amitié To Mrs Mary Awbery.

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

      Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6t Aprill 1651 ('Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!')
    • PsK 386 p. 32

      Copy, headed To Mrs M: A: vpon absence Set by Mr Hen: Lawes.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by Mr Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (''Tis now since I began to dy')
    • PsK 391 pp. 32-3

      Copy, headed To Mrs M: A: at Parting.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting ('I have examin'd, and do find')
    • PsK 317 pp. 33-5

      Copy, headed Rosania shaddowed whilest Mrs M Awbery.

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

      Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 ('If any could my dear Rosania hate')
    • PsK 324 pp. 35-6

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage ('It was a wise and kind design of fagte')
    • PsK 454 pp. 36-7

      Copy, the poem here dated 25 Sept 1652.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 ('As men that are with visions grac'd')
    • PsK 164 pp. 37-8

      Copy, headed Injuria Amicitias.

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

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 88 pp. 38-9

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, For Regina ('Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit')
    • PsK 370 p. 39

      Copy, headed To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina.

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

      Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina ('Give over now thy teares, thou vain')
    • PsK 300 p. 39

      Copy, headed philocleas parting ffebr: 25 1650.

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

      Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. Mrs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 ('Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve')
    • PsK 476 pp. 39-40

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp ('Unworthy, since thou hast decreed')
    • PsK 357 pp. 40-1

      Copy, headed To Antenor on a paper of mine wch J: Jones threatens to publish to prjudice him.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine wch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice ('Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?')
    • PsK 510 p. 41

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) ('As in a triumph conquerours admit')
    • PsK 463 pp. 41-2

      Copy, the date in the title here given as 23 Decem: 1651.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 ('We are compleat. and faith hath now')
    • PsK 505 pp. 42-3

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

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

      Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones ('Honour, which differs man from man much more')
    • PsK 421 p. 44

      Copy, the poem here dated 17 July 1651.

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

      Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 ('I did not live untill this time')
    • PsK 396 pp. 44-5

      Copy, headed To Mrs Mary Carne when Phlaster Courted her.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esqre courted her ('As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds')
    • PsK 375 pp. 45-6

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems ('Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence')
    • PsK 310 pp. 46-7

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 ('Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre')
    • PsK 520 pp. 47-8

      Copy, with the preamble, headed To Sr Edwd Deering (ye Noble Silvandr) on his dreame of Navy personating Orindae's prserving Rosania before Solomons Trafique to Ophir.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy ('Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down')
    • PsK 535 pp. 48-9

      Copy, headed Vpon ye double Murther of K: Ch: in answeare to a libellous Coppy of Rhimes made by Vavasor Powell.

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

      Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. ('I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd')
    • PsK 494 p. 49

      Copy, headed To the Right Honorable Alice Countesse of Carbury on her enriching Wales with her prsence.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence ('Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey')
    • PsK 380 pp. 49-50

      Copy, headed To Mr John Berkenhead (the Noble Cratander) Vpon a Composicon of his wch he was not willing to own publiquely.

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

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely ('As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise')
    • PsK 213 pp. 50-2

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Lucasia ('Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice')
    • PsK 113 pp. 52-3

      Copy, headed Freindships Mistery To my dearest Lucasia (set my Mr Henry Laws).

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

      Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) ('Come, my Lucasia, since we see')
    • PsK 31 pp. 53-4

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia ('Content, the false world's best disguise')
    • PsK 60 p. 55

      Copy, headed A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia & Orinda set by Mr H: Lawes.

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

      Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')
    • PsK 329 pp. 55-6

      Copy, headed A Sea Voyage from Tenby to Bristoll begun ye 5th of Sept 1652 sent from Bristoll to Lucasia the 8th of Sept 1652.

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

      Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 ('Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand')
    • PsK 408 p. 57

      Copy, headed To my deare Sistr Mrs CP on her Nuptiall.

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

      Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls ('We will not like those men our offerings pay')
    • PsK 515 pp. 57-8

      Copy, headed To ye truly Noble Mr Hen: Lawes.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes ('Nature, which is the vast creation's soule')
    • PsK 471 pp. 58-9

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship ('We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise')
    • PsK 560 p. 59

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault ('And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must')
    • PsK 108 pp. 60-1

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia ('The hearts thus intermixed speak')
    • PsK 442 pp. 61-2

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia ('Let dull Philosophers enquire no more')
    • PsK 447 pp. 62-4

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship ('O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love')
    • PsK 73 pp. 64-5

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, The Enquiry ('If we no old historian's name')
    • PsK 272 p. 66

      Copy, headed On the Numerous Accesse of the English to wait upon the King in fflanders.

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

      Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland ('Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles')
    • PsK 484 pp. 66-7

      Copy, headed To the Queen mothrs Maty Jan: 1st. 1660/61.

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

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a land which you')
    • PsK 24 pp. 67-9

      Copy, headed Arion to a Dolphin to his Maty in his Passadge into England.

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

      Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England ('Whom doth this stately navy bring?')
    • PsK 304 pp. 69-70

      Copy, headed The Princesse Royall her Returne into Englande.

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

      Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England ('Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers')
    • PsK 254 pp. 70-1

      Copy, headed On ye death of ye Illustrious Duke of Gloucester.

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

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester ('Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must')
    • PsK 264 pp. 71-2

      Copy, headed On ye faire weather just at Coronation.

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

      Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')
    • PsK 362 p. 72

      Copy, headed To her Highnes the Dutches of Yorke on her Comanding me to send her some things that I had written.

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

      Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote ('To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe')
    • PsK 258 p. 73

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia ('Although the most do with officious heat')
    • PsK 480 pp. 74-5

      Copy, the date in the title given as May 1662.

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

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

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 ('Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne')
    • PsK 134 pp. 75-7

      Copy, headed In memory of FP who dyed at Acton ye 24 May 1660 at 12 & ½ of age.

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

      Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age ('If I could ever write a lasting verse')
    • PsK 154 pp. 77-9

      Copy, the place name in the title given as Bodidscist.

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

      Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire ('I cannot hold, for though to write be rude')
    • PsK 292 pp. 79-80

      Copy, headed Parting with Lucasia 13 January 1657 A Song.

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

      Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13th Janury 1657/8 A song ('Well! we will doe that rigid thing')
    • PsK 10 pp. 80-1

      Copy.

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

      Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')
    • PsK 118 pp. 81-3

      Copy, headed Out of Mr Mores cap: Const and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict).

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

      Katherine Philips, God ('Eternal reason! glorious majestie!')
    • PsK 228 pp. 83-4

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

      Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion ('Religion, which true policy befriends')
    • PsK 500 pp. 85-8

      Copy, headed On ye Honble Lady E:C:, followed (p. 88) by a poem Written vpon this last Copy by Mr Jff (beginning Madam ye praises of yor freind shall live).

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

      Katherine Philips, To the Rt Hono: the Lady E.C. ('Madam / I do not write to you that men may know')
    • DoC 357 pp. 90-3

      Copy, here beginning Filld wth the noisome folly of the age, subscribed Ld Dorset.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DoC 335 p. 95

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')
    • RoJ 563 p. 95

      Copy, headed My Ld Rochester to his mistresse, when he put her away.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
    • SeC 41 p. 96

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

      This MS recorded in The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York & London, 1979), p. 187.

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

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Not Celia that I juster am')
    • WaE 399 pp. 101-4

      Copy, headed A Panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell by Edmund Waller Esq., dated at the end Jan: 4 1682.

      First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

      Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
    • MaA 37 p. 112

      Copy, headed Effigies Cromwelli alloquiter Reginam Suvionem, subscribed Andreas Marvellus.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam ('Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum')
    • DeJ 18 pp. 229-37

      Copy of two versions, written out in parallel columns, headed respectively A Copy of Coopers Hill taken in the year 1643 and A Copy of Coopers Hill after the 3d. Impression in ye Year 1684.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')
    • GrF 33 p. 237

      Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotvm at the end, headed A Chorus of Turkish Priests in Mustapha. by Lord Brooks and here beginning O wearisome condition of humanity!.

      Bullough, II, 136-7.

      Wilkes, I, 297.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, Chorus Sacerdotum ('Oh wearisome condition of Humanity')
    • ToA 70 p. 237

      Copy, as by Aurelian Townsend.

      This MS recorded in Brown.

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

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • HeR 137 pp. 275-6

      Copy, headed Mr Herricks Age, dedicated to his peculiar friend Mr John Wicks, under the name of Posthumus. pag: 152.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.

      Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death ('Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend')
    • JnB 511 p. 5 rev.

      Copy, headed To Sr Hen: sau: 95.

      First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile ('If, my religion safe, I durst embrace')

  • MS 58 Adjunct

    A small unbound octavo booklet of verse, in English and Latin, in a secretary hand, written from both ends, 16 pages, formerly loosely inserted in Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • JnB 517 p. [9]

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe ('Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too')
    • JnB 400 p. [10]

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (cxvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 75.

      Ben Jonson, On Groyne ('Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand')
    • JnB 403 p. [10]

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.

      Ben Jonson, On Gut ('Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night')
    • JnB 515 p. [10]

      Copy of a version of lines 75-6, 79-80, here beginning An vniust Lawyer / Changes possessions oftner wth his breath and subscribed Ben: Johns: fforest. 3. med to Sr Rob: Wroth., followed by lines 85-90, headed wicked courtiers and subscribed Ib.

      First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Robert Wroth ('How blest art thou, canst loue the countrey, Wroth')
    • JnB 149 pp. [11-12]

      Copy of lines 37-51, here beginning The thing, they here call loue, is blind Desire and subscribed Ben: Jo: fforrest. Epod. II., followed by lines 72-4, 76-82, 87-90, 113-16, 17-18.

      First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

      Ben Jonson, Epode ('Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state')
    • JnB 96 p. [12.]

      Copy of lines 2-4, here beginning Allmighty gold and subscribed fforrest to Eliz. Coun: of Rutland, followed by lines 41-7, 72, 80-90.

      First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.

      Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland ('Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold')
    • JnB 98 p. [13]

      Copy of lines 49-50, untitled, here beginning Great title, birth, but virtue most and subscribed fforrest to Kath: La. Aubigny, followed by lines 68-70, 85-6.

      First published in The Forrest (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 116-20.

      Ben Jonson, Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Avbigny (''Tis growne almost a danger to speake true')
    • JnB 387 p. [13]

      Copy of lines 39-40, here beginning They yt swell and subscribed fforrest to S' Wil. Sydney.

      First published in The Forrest (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 120-1.

      Ben Jonson, Ode. To Sir William Sydney, on his Birth-Day ('Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire')
    • JnB 678 pp. [13-14]

      Extracts, untitled.

      First published in London, 1604. Herford & Simpson, VII, 81-109.

      Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation
    • JnB 772 p. [15]

      Extracts from The Alchemist.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts
    • MrT 33.5 p. [16]

      Extracts from the English version.

      An unfinished work. The English version first published in The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng (London, 1543). The Latin version first published in Thomae Mori...omnia...latina opera (Louvain, 1565). Three versions in Yale, Vol. 2, pp. 1-93, 94-149, and Vol. 15, pp. 313-485, with English translations.

      Sir Thomas More, Historia Richardi Tertii

  • MS 111

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, many items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician, 158 leaves.

    c.1640s.

    Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.16.

    • RuB 185 f. 71r-2v

      Copy, headed Sir Benjamin Rudyard his second speech in Parliament 29th December 1640.

      Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

  • MS 122

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, some items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician.

    c.1640s.

    Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.20.

    • RuB 135 ff. 18v-19r

      Copy, untitled.

      Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

      Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

  • MS 123 (II)

    A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed J: Malet, in modern cloth.

    c.1630s.

    Formerly MSS 4. 29.

    • BrW 141 ff. 1v, 7r

      Copy, headed On Dr Prideaus daughter dying very younge.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
    • KiH 91 f. 3v

      Copy, headed The boyes replye.

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

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • CoR 748 f. 4r

      Copy, headed Nonsence and here beginning Like to the silent tones of vnspoke speeches.

      First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
    • HrJ 124 f. 5r

      Copy, headed Another and here beginning I'st for a faur or for some dislike.

      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')
    • DaJ 216 f. 6v

      Copy, headed on the death of a child and here beginning as carefull mothers in their beds doe laye.

      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')
    • StW 1337 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Another.

      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')
    • CwT 790 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Another and here beginning In your fayre cheekes 2 pitts ther lyes.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • StW 832 f. 7r-v

      Copy, headed on Mrs: Allice Hutton.

      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')
    • DnJ 2982 f. 7v

      Copy of a two-stanza version, headed Another and here beginning Sweete stay a while, why will you rise.

      First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')

  • MS 216

    A small pocket book of jokes and anecdotes, in verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 92 leaves (plus eleven blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1667-70.

    Containing a note by Bertram Dobell. Formerly MSS 2. 23.

    • ShJ 168 f. [8r-v]

      Copy of the dirge, headed A Song.

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

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • MrT 13 ff. [83r]

      The epigram quoted in one of two brief anecdotes about More.

      More's verses punning on his own name. First published in Doctissima D. Thomæ Mori...Epistola (Louvain, 1568). Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 302-3, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 278. Tetrastichon ab ipso conscriptum triennio antequam mortem oppeteret ('Moraris, si sit spes hic tibi longa morandi')

  • MS 236

    A folio composite volume, comprising 76 items of printed and manuscript verse and some prose, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Probably assembled by Sir Francis Leycester, Bt, of Tabley House, Cheshire.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly MSS TC. 20. 11: shelfmark MSS 6.21.

    • MaA 355 item 5

      Copy, on all eight sides of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 467 item 6

      Copy, in a professional hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

  • MS 237

    A folio guard book of 51 miscellaneous MSS, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly MSS. 6. 16: shelfmark MSS 5.27.

    • ClJ 210 item 3

      Copy, headed Epitaph on ye Earl of Strafford Beheaded on Tower-Hill May. 12. 1641, here beginning Here rests wise & valiant Dust, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • DeJ 93 item 13

      Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Libell agat. the parl./amt..

      First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
    • MaA 122 item 17

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Dialogue between Brittania and Sr. W: Rawleigh on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • MaA 466 item 18

      Copy, in a professional hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • MaA 496 item 19

      Copy, in a professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • SeC 25 item 27

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed He Curses a Bawd for going about to debauch his Mrs Elegy the 8th. Ovids Amorum Lib: 1°, on all four sides of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 92-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book I, Elegy the Eighth. He Curses a Bawd, for going about to debauch his Mistress ('There is a Bawd renown'd in Venus Wars')
    • SeC 149 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts

  • MS 267/II

    A collection of songs and poems, unbound, in folders.

    Among papers of the Clarke family, of Littlecote.

    • DoC 239.5 Fasc. 2, Doc. No. 31 [f. 58r]

      Copy, headed The Game att Chesse, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      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')
    • BrW 228.5 Fasc. 3, Doc. No. 38 [f. 71r]

      Copy, headed An Epitaph, on the first page of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves of verse.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')

  • MS 268

    Document signed by Killigrew, concerning his tallies in the Exchequer.

    1675.

    Formerly MSS 7.16(4).

  • MS 346

    Copy, headed On sixe Cambridge lasses Bathinge themselfes by queenes colledge on the 25th of Iune at night and espied by a scholer, subscribed T: Randolph, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

    c.1629.

    Formerly MSS 3.19. Acquired in May 1964.

    Edited from this MS in Davis. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 43-4, where it is doubtfully argued that the MS is in Randolph's own hand; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 242-3. The second page also reproduced in Manuscripts, 26, No. 2 (Spring 1974), inside the cover.

    • RnT 211
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.

      Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River ('When bashfull day-light now was gone')

  • Plays 2.1 (1)

    An exemplum of the second printed edition (1622) with the text of the missing leaf (sig. K4) supplied in MS.

    17th century.
    • MiT 12
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as written by Middleton and William Rowley, in London, 1617. Bullen, IV, 153-276. Edited by R.V. Holdsworth (London, 1974). Edited by George R. Price (London, 1977). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1212-49.

      Thomas Middleton, A Fair Quarrel

  • Plays 2.1 (2)

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1608 with the text of the various missing leaves (title-page, address to the reader, prologue, parts of A3 and A4, I3 and the epilogue on I4) supplied in MS.

    17th century.
    • MiT 13
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1608. Bullen, III, 1-120. This play is not now generally attributed to Middleton.

      Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love

  • Plays 2.5

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1611 with the text of missing leaves supplied in MS.

    In the secretary hand of a professional scribe, associated with the playhouse, also responsible for HyT 5, MiT 6, and the verse miscellany British Library Add. MS 33998.

    c.1630s.

    This MS discussed, with a facsimile example of the MS pages, in Akihiro Yamada, The Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Leaves of Chapman's May Day, 1611, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 61-9.

    • ChG 12.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1611. Edited by Robert F. Welsh in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 311-96.

      George Chapman, May Day

  • Plays 9. 11

    Thomas Killigrew's own folio exemplum of his Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664) with his autograph annotations, in old calf.

    Including, on flyleaf, Killigrew's autograph instructions to Miss Hancock for the copying out of plays and parts.

    c.1664-8.

    Discussed in W. Van Lennep, Thomas Killigrew prepares his plays for production, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948). Facsimile of the autograph instructions in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(b).

    • *KiT 7 pp. 69-154
      Autograph

      Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, with Killigrew's notes on his cuts dated 2 May and 5 May 1664.

      Facsimile of the autograph notes in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(c).

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 69-154.

      Thomas Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding
    • *KiT 8 pp. 155-214
      Autograph

      Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, dated 25 May 1668.

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 155-214.

      Thomas Killigrew, The Pilgrim
    • *KiT 2 pp. 215-64
      Autograph

      Killigrew's autograph note giving Miss Hancock instructions on the writing of the partes of Cissillia and Clorinda, dated 14 February 1666/7, the printed text otherwise untouched.

      Facsimile of the autograph instructions in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(d).

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

      Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II
    • *KiT 11 pp. 311-464
      Autograph

      Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, chiefly in Part II, with Killigrew's note dated November 1664 and his additions to the dramatis personæ.

      First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 311-464.

      Thomas Killigrew, Thomaso, or the Wanderer, Parts I and II
    • *KiT 1 pp. 465-576
      Autograph

      Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, undated, with two notes by Killigrew about the cuts.

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 465-576.

      Thomas Killigrew, Bellamira her Dream, Parts I and II
    • *KiT 6 pp. 1-45 (second series)
      Autograph

      Autograph cuts to the printed text, with a note by Killigrew, undated.

      The play edited from this text in Reich's edition.

      First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 1-45 (second series). Edited as Claricilla by Thomas Killigrew: A Critical Edition, ed. William T. Reich (New York & London, 1980).

      Thomas Killigrew, Claracilla

  • Plays 9.19

    Copy of the play, entitled The Generall, A Tragi=Comedy, in probably two professional hands (adopting two alternating styles of script), 33 leaves (plus three blanks), in modern half-calf boards.

    c.1660s.

    Partly edited from this MS, with collations, in Clark.

    • OrR 10
      No description or publication history available.

      Probably privately performed (as Altamira) in Ireland, c.1662. Staged in London 14 September 1664. First published, and attributed to James Shirley, in J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth: To which are added, Some fragments of Early Literature Hitherto Unpublished (London, 1853), pp. 55-175. Clark, I, 101-64.

  • Plays 9. 21

    Copy of an early version, in a predominantly italic calligraphic hand, with later revisions and additions in Shirley's hand and (ff. 29r-30r) an Induction to ye Court Secret in a third hand with Shirley's autograph corrections and endorsement, the whole bearing further pencil markings and minor alterations, on thirty folio leaves.

    The main scribe is probably John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, Sir William Cavendish's secretary, who is also chiefly responsible, inter alia, for the Newcastle MS (British Library, Harley MS 4955). The later revisions were probably prepared for the production by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre on 18 August 1664.

    c.1642-64.

    This MS discussed in R.G. Howarth, A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret, RES, 7 (1931), 302-13, and 8 (1932), 203, and in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Commentary (Oxford, 1931), pp. 346-52. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1100-2. The Induction edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, I, 196-8.

    Facsimiles of f. 15r in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), frontispiece, and of part of f. 28r in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(d).

    • *ShJ 175
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Six New Playes (London, 1653). Gifford & Dyce, V, 425-514.

      James Shirley, The Court Secret

  • c.m.3(1)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 232.

    • *HvG 146
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Ramus, Petrus. P. Rami, Regii Eloquentiae, et Philosophiae Professoris, Ciceronianus; ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem (Paris, 1557)

  • c.m.3(2)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 214.

    • *HvG 83
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Ciceronianus. Joan. Thomae Freigii...Libri Decem (Basle, [1575])

  • c.m.3(3)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 225.

    • *HvG 122
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Livy, Titus. T. Livii Patavini Conciones cum argumentis et annotationibus Joachimi Perionii (Paris, 1532)

  • [no shelfmark]

    An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, W Ralegh (heavily deleted), at the foot of the title-page and his autograph motto, Amore et virtute, at the top.

    c.1583.

    Facsimile of the title-page in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), facing p. 150.

    • *RaW 1033
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Patrizi, Francesco. La Militia Romana (Ferrara, 1583)

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