Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149

  • Osborn MS b 104

    An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

    Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale.

    c.1650s-1725.
    • RnT 470 p. 6

      Copy.

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
    • ClJ 221 p. 10 (last series)

      Copy.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • StW 69 pp. [12-13] (last series)

      Copy, headed A Western humour and here beginning Ridlea, Ridlea neighbour John with atale ha' bea?

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

      William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
    • JnB 44.5 p. 115

      Copy, headed Clayminge another kiss on coullor of mending ye former, by Ben: J:.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe')
    • JnB 3 p. 116

      Copy, headed In Defence of weomens inconstancy by Ben: I:.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.

      Ben Jonson, Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song ('Hang up those dull, and envious fooles')
  • Osborn MS b 105

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

    Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

    c.1680.

    Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

    Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

    • RoJ 84 pp. 1-7

      Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay very delightfull and solid from ye Ld: R: to ye Ld: M: upon their mutuall Poems.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 296 pp. 8-22

      Copy, headed A Satyr Against Man, By ye E: of R:.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 281 p. 34

      Copy of lines 1-13, headed A Ramble in St James's Parke. By ye E: of R:, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
    • RoJ 148 pp. 45-61

      Copy, headed A Letter fancyd from Artemisa in ye Towne to Cloe in ye Countrey. By ye E: of R:.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 110 p. 62

      Copy, of lines 1-12, ascribed to ye E: of R:, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, with a facsimile as frontispiece; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')
    • RoJ 491 pp. 67-71

      Copy, ascribed to ye E: of R.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
    • RoJ 56 pp. 71-5

      Copy, headed Upon his lyeing in & cou'd not drinke By ye E: of R:.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 19 pp. 87-94

      Copy of lines 5-124, here beginning What e're you write; that wth a flowing Tyde, imperfect, lacking the opening.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      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')
    • RoJ 250 pp. 102-4

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 519 pp. 106-7

      Copy, headed Seneca Troas Act 2d Chor:.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • RoJ 573 pp. 108-12

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • RoJ 560 pp. 113-14

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

      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')
    • RoJ 382 pp. 133-5

      Copy, headed Song to Cloris.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')
    • RoJ 391 pp. 136-7

      The text followed (pp. 137-8) by followed (pp. 137-8) by Elizabeth Wilmot's The Answer (Nothing adds to your fond fire).

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • RoJ 422 pp. 139-40

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 445 pp. 140-1

      Copy, headed Song.

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

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
    • RoJ 630 pp. 142-3

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
    • RoJ 469 pp. 144-5

      Copy, headed Song.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')
    • RoJ 398 pp. 146-7

      Printed from this MS (as text A1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 149-50; edited in Walker, pp. 39-40.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('How happy, Chloris, were they free')
    • RoJ 176 pp. 148-9

      Copy, headed Love & Life a Song.

      Edited from this MS in Walker; recorded in Vieth.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • RoJ 98 pp. 149-50

      Copy, headed The Fall a Song.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')
    • RoJ 455 pp. 151-2

      Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')
    • RoJ 206 p. 152

      Copy of lines 1-4 only, headed Song, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')
    • RoJ 190 p. 160

      Copy of lines 1-4, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe.

      Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')
    • EtG 43 p. 185

      Copy of the last six lines, here beginning In whom there dwell Diviner Charmes, imperfect, lacking all the previous portion.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('So soft and amorously you write')
    • DoC 282 pp. 186-8

      Copy, headed On Mr Edw: Howard upon his Brittish Princesse By ye Ld B:.

      Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • DoC 156 pp. 189-91

      Copy, here ascribed to Mr Hen: Savill.

      Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • BeA 7 p. 213

      Copy of the last ten lines, here beginning The Nymphs Resentments, none but I, imperfect, lacking the rest.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.

      Aphra Behn, The Disappointment ('One day the Amorous Lysander')
    • BeA 8 pp. 214-20

      Copy, headed On a Giniper Tree now cut downe to make Busks. By Mrs Behn.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 148-51. Todd, I, No. 14, pp. 39-41.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 450-1.

      Aphra Behn, On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks ('Whilst happy I Triumphant stood')
    • BeA 15 pp. 221-6

      Copy, headed On ye Death of that most Excellent Painter, Mr Greenhill. By Mrs Behn.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.

      Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter ('What doleful crys are these that fright my sence')
    • RoJ 480 pp. 227-38

      Copy, headed Satyr. By Sr Char: Sidley.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • RoJ 530 pp. 251-63

      Copy, headed Tunbridge Wells A Satyr.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • DrJ 100 pp. 314-27

      Copy, headed Mac Flecknoe A Satyr. By Mr Dryden.

      This MS collated in Vieth.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • SdT 23.2 pp. 328-39

      Copy, as suppos'd to be Written by Mr Shadwell.

      This MS recorded in David Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963), p. 486, as otherwise unrecorded.

      Thomas Shadwell, Upon a late fall'n Poet ('A sad mischance I sing alas')
    • EtG 13 pp. 340-3

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, pp. 84-5.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 613 pp. 344-7

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • RoJ 212 pp. 348-9

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

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
    • RoJ 196 pp. 350-2

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
    • DoC 61 pp. 382-91

      Copy, headed Satyr.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • RoJ 41 p. 396

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')
  • Osborn MS b 107

    Copy, in a neat non-professional roman hand, comprising an address To the Reader and four chapers numbered VI-IX, 259 small folio pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1650.

    Variously owned or inscribed by Elizabeth Holt, of Warwickshire; John Bryars, rector of Diss, Norfolk; Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; Ann Bridge (1755); Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854); Captain Kenelm Somerville, R.N.; Noel Digby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, rector of Brinton; given by him to J. Wight, 22 March 1830; and Lady Biddulph. Sotheby's, 22 June 1953, to Dobell.

    • SiP 168.9
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished allegorical account of the Grand Rebellion begun 1640. By one of the Lord Digby's Family, the account covering English history from before the reign of Queen Elizabeth to 1649.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Historie of Arcadia: or an Addition to: and a Continuance Of Sir Phillip Sydney's Arcadia
  • Osborn MS b 108

    A quarto verse miscellany, entitled A True coppy of Severall Verses made by John Hobart Esq.; Who Died Anno 1683. Obtayned By ye favour of Madam Astley. August the11th 1683, written in the hand of Robert Doughty (d.1670).

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed this for my well beloved friend J. C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Shixton.

    • ClJ 222 f. 16r

      Copy.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
  • Osborn MS b 111

    A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons, in one or two small hands, 596 numbered pages (lacking pp. 367-8, plus Alphabeticall Table and blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary red morocco gilt stamped with the initial R.

    c.late 1690s.

    Once owned by Sir Thomas Strange, brother-in-law of Andrew Lumisden, Secretary to Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.

    • DrJ 78 p. 80

      Copy, headed May Day.

      A typescript of this MS made by Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), when the MS was owned by C. Fowkes, is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 13, f. 44.

      First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 247-8.

      John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')
    • DrJ 120 p. 483

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Dryden.

      First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 270-3.

      John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna ('As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands')
    • DrJ 19 p. 484

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Dryden.

      First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 273-4.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] ('A Poet once the Spartans led to fight')
    • DrJ 149 pp. 485-6

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Dryden.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • DoC 303 pp. 548-50

      Copy, headed An Account of the Female Nine.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
  • Osborn MS b 113

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet.

    c.1680s.

    Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3.

    • RoJ 542 pp. 17-28

      Copy, headed Observations on Tunbridge Wells.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 184 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed To Phillis.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • EtG 110 pp. 35-41

      Formerly Osborn Box 22, No. 3.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')
    • DrJ 43.997 pp. 59-77

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 359 pp. 79-93

      See DoC 358.

      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')
  • Osborn MS b 114

    A small oblong-octavo volume of 60 poems by Donne plus six of his Problems, together with a few poems by others, in a single hand, 336 pages (but numbering skipping pp. 49-51, 182-90, 241-9, 322, with 332 twice, and the last leaf missing), in contemporary vellum, remains of green silk ties.

    c.1620-33.

    Possibly associated with the Inns of Court (see use of Law French on p. 238). Hodgson's, 27 April 1950, lot 257. Raphael King, sale catalogue No. 51 (1950), item 73. Formerly Chest II/68.

    Cited in IELM, I as the King MS: DnJ Δ 29. Complete microfilm in the British Library (M/569).

    • DnJ 2744 pp. 1-9

      Copy, headed Satira prima.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2774 pp. 9-16

      Copy, headed Satyra Secunda.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2806 pp. 17-25

      Copy, headed Satira Tertia.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2836 pp. 25-42

      Copy, headed Satyra Quarta and here beginning Well now I may reciue & die my sinne.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2868 pp. 43-50

      Copy, headed Satyra quinta.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 3410 pp. 64-7

      Copy, headed Satira octava and subscribed E.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

      John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
    • DnJ 2269 p. 68

      Copy, headed Vpon Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
    • DnJ 3180 pp. 69-71

      Copy, headed Elegia prima under a general heading The Eligies.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 1690 pp. 72-4

      Copy, headed Elegia 2da.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
    • DnJ 633 pp. 75-8

      Copy, headed Elegia Tercia.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 2211 pp. 79-82

      Copy, headed Elegia 4ta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 1539 pp. 83-4

      Copy, headed Elegia quinta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 1044 pp. 85-6

      Copy, headed Elegia Sexta.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
    • DnJ 2456 pp. 87-90

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • DnJ 2345 pp. 90-3

      Copy, headed Elegia octaua.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 2510 pp. 93-7

      Copy, headed Elegia nona.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • DnJ 382 pp. 98-105

      Copy, headed Supra vna catena Elegia Decima.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 2143 pp. 106-13

      Copy, headed Elegia vndecima.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 698 pp. 113-17

      Copy, headed Elegia Duodecima and subscribed H.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 1073 pp. 129-34

      Copy, headed Elegia 17ta. A Funerall Elegie vpon ye Ladie Marcham.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 1016 pp. 134-9

      Copy, headed Elegia i8ua A funerall Elegie on Mris Boulstrede.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • DnJ 1105 pp. 140-4

      Copy, untitled, subscribed The End of ye Elegies.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

      John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
    • DnJ 143 pp. 149-52

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.

      John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
    • DnJ 773 pp. 152-61

      Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

      John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
    • CoH 110 p. 161

      Copy, headed A sonnet on the blessed Virgin Mary.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

      Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')
    • DnJ 1940 pp. 163-99

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • DnJ 3911 pp. 200-5

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed His last will & Testamt.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 4078 pp. 206-12

      Copy of five Problems.

      Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

      John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
    • DnJ 3324 pp. 213-15

      Copy, headed A Sonnett to mr F. W:.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 3467 pp. 215-17

      Copy, headed From ye Court.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 3294 pp. 217-20

      Copy, untitled, with running heading Dalla Corte.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3070 pp. 221-6

      Copy, headed A Storme. To Sr Basill Brooke.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 556 pp. 226-30

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 3497 pp. 233-8

      Copy, subscribed Donne.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 265 pp. 238-51

      Copy, untitled, under a general heading Canzoni. Amourenses p le mesne Author.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 727 pp. 251-2

      Copy, headed Cansonetts.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

      John Donne, The Computation ('For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday')
    • DnJ 1649 pp. 252-4

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 672 pp. 254-5

      Copy of lines 1-6, 13-24, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 3818 pp. 255-7, 290-3

      Copy of lines 1-27, untitled, the remainder (on pp. 290-3) headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 3664 pp. 258-9

      Copy, headed Of: Twicknam Garden.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 2177 pp. 259-61

      Copy, untitled, running straight on from Twicknam garden (DnJ 3664).

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

      John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
    • DnJ 2011 pp. 262-3

      Copy, headed Loues Dietie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 2047 p. 264

      Copy of lines 1-12, headed Loues Dietie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 1973 pp. 267-8

      Copy, headed Monie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 3706 pp. 269-73

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 25 pp. 273-5

      Copy, untitled, but with running head Angels & Aire.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 1457 pp. 276-7

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 832 pp. 277-9

      Copy, headed A Curse.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 2245 pp. 280-1

      Copy of lines 1-22, headed Canzone and here beginning Yet if I haue not all thy love.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 1364 pp. 282-4

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 1840 pp. 285-7

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 1809 pp. 287-90

      Copy, headed Shaddowe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 2114 pp. 293-5

      Copy, headed Spring.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
    • DnJ 3788 pp. 296-9

      Copy, headed Diamond in glass.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
    • DnJ 595 pp. 299-302

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 498 pp. 303-5

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • DnJ 3628 pp. 305-7

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 3007 pp. 307-9

      Copy, here beginning Sweete loue I dare not goe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • JnB 713 pp. 310-11

      Copy, headed Canzone.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • DnJ 1204 pp. 311-12

      Copy, headed Valedictio Amoris.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • DnJ 3112 pp. 312-14

      Copy, headed Ad Solem. A Song.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 2298 pp. 314-16

      Copy, headed A Song.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 2426 pp. 318-36

      Copy; with the prose letter to Lady Bedford (pp. 316-17), the poem incomplete, lacking the last ten lines.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
  • Osborn MS b 118

    An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

    Including 24 poems by Abraham Cowley (pp. 1-40) and 18 poems by Katherine Philips (pp. 41-81) transcribed from a printed source.

    Late-17th century.

    Arms of the Trevor family and the initials I D stamped on the cover. Inscribed names of Francis Stephens (Liber Donum Francisci Stephens) and, later, of E.H. Baker (on the front pastedown). Later owned by Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872) manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18637.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Trevor MS: PsK Δ 10.

    • CoA 54.4 p. 19

      Copy.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

      Abraham Cowley, The Country Life. Lib. 4. Plantarum ('Blest be the man (and blest he is) whome're')
    • CoA 100.6 p. 37

      Copy.

      First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).

      Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame ('Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!')
    • PsK 280 pp. 41-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      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 269 p. 42

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

      Katherine Philips, On the 1. January 1657 ('Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me')
    • PsK 56 pp. 43-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')
    • PsK 531 pp. 45-6

      Copy, headed 2 Cor: 5. 19.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 ('When God, contracted to humanity')
    • PsK 204 pp. 47-52

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')
    • PsK 284 pp. 53-4

      Copy, headed On ye British Language by K. Phil:ps.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

      Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language ('If honour to an ancient name be due')
    • PsK 548 p. 55

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

      Katherine Philips, The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')
    • PsK 286 p. 56

      Copy, headed On a Friend's Absence.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

      Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia ('Observe the weary birds e're night be done')
    • PsK 171 pp. 57-8

      Copy of a version of lines 11-50, here beginning A safe Retirement from ye noise of towns.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 351 pp. 59-61

      Copy, headed Out of Mrs Phillip's her Poems / On Submission and beginning at line 5 (here As in ye great Creation of this All).

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Submission (''Tis so. and humbly I my will resign')
    • PsK 34 pp. 62-7

      Copy, headed Content, written sideways up the length of the page.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia ('Content, the false world's best disguise')
    • PsK 129 pp. 68-70

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
    • PsK 183 pp. 70-3

      Copy, headed A Recovery.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')
    • PsK 15 pp. 73-4

      Copy, headed Against Pleasure.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')
    • PsK 43 pp. 75-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 172 pp. 78-80

      Copy, complete.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

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

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 5 pp. 80-1

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Thomas.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

      Katherine Philips, Against Love ('Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies')
    • PsK 436 p. 81

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Thomas.

      First published, as Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis ('Tis true, our life is but a long disease')
  • Osborn MS b 135

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, principally extracts from Sir Thomas Pope Blount's De re poetica (1694), in a non-professional cursive hand, 220 pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.late 1690s.
    • DrJ 297.2 f. 76r et seq.

      Extracts.

      First published as a preface to The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). California, IV, 3-90. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 310-450.

      John Dryden, A Discourse concerning Satire
    • CoA 112 f. 111r

      Copy.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 26. Sparrow, pp. 33-4.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 69-73.

      Abraham Cowley, Ode ('Here's to thee Dick. this whining Love despise')
    • CoA 201 ff. 111v-12r

      Copy.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 87-8. Sparrow, pp. 85-6. Collected Works, II, No. 19, pp. 44-6.

      Abraham Cowley, The Wish ('Well then. I now do plainly see')
    • CoA 97 ff. 112r-13v

      Copy.

      First published among Verses written on several occasions in Works (London, 1668). Waller, I, 444-7. Sparrow, pp. 174-8.

      Abraham Cowley, Hymn. To light ('First born of Chaos, who so fair didst come')
    • CoA 55 ff. 113v-15r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 414-16.

      Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse ('At the large foot of a fair hollow tree')
    • CoA 195 f. 115r

      Copy of stanzasa 9-11, headed Some Verses of his made at 13 yrs of Age and here beginning This only grant me, yt my meats may lie.

      First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 48-50. Sparrow, pp. 9-12. Stanzas 9-11 (beginning This only grant me, that my means may lye) reprinted in the essay Of My self, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 456-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 70-1.

      Abraham Cowley, A Vote ('Lest the misconstring world should chance to say')
    • CoA 109 f. 115v

      Copy.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.

      Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 10. Ep. 47 ('Since dearest Friend, 'tis your desire to see')
    • CoA 110 f. 116r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 461.

      Abraham Cowley, Martial Book 10. Epigram 96 ('Me who have liv'd so long among the great')
    • CoA 202 f. 116r-v

      Copy.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Poemata latina (London, 1668). Waller, II, 461-2.

      Abraham Cowley, Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris ('Hic, O Viator, sub Lare parvulo')
    • CoA 106 f. 116v

      Copy.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 454-5.

      Abraham Cowley, Mart. Lib. 5. Epigr. 59 ('To morrow you will Live, you always cry')
  • Osborn MS b 136

    A quarto volume of principally Advice to Painter poems, in a neat rounded hand up to p. 48, then in other hands, with a title-page, 59 pages, in contemporary marbled boards.

    Entitled Directions to a Painter for Describing our navall Businesse In imitation of Mr Waller. Being The Last works of Sr John Denham...Printed in the year 1667.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 357 pp. 2-16

      Copy, headed Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham.

      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 386 pp. 17-33

      Copy, headed Directions to a Painter. By Sr John Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 419 pp. 33-8

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 432 pp. 38-43

      Copy, headed Directions to a Painter by Sr John Denham.

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • MaA 139 pp. 43-7

      Copy.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • MaA 300 pp. 47-8

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
    • MaA 288.5 p. 48

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
    • MaA 469 p. 48

      Copy, headed Advice to a Painter Printed in a folio sheet, incomplete.

      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 536 pp. 57-9

      Copy of a letter by Marvell, to Sir John Trott, [1667].

      The original letter printed in Miscellany Poems (1681). Reprinted in Margoliouth, II, 311-13.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
  • Osborn MS b 137

    A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. i) Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695.

    • FuT 4 p. 2

      Copy, headed Mr ffuller on Dr Sparkes Booke, preceding a copy of Sparke's Learned and pious poems vpon the Holy ffeasts & ffasts off the Church.

      First published in Edward Sparke, Scintillula Altaris (London, 1652). Grosart, pp. 108-10.

      Thomas Fuller, On my Worthy Friend Dr Sparke, His Learned Book ('A Brood of legendary saints of old')
    • JnB 4.3 p. 46

      Copy, headed Ben Johnson's Answer to ye said verses [by Alexander Gill].

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

      Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil ('Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still')
    • HrG 56 pp. 76-84

      Copy, untitled, under a general heading The Quadraines of Pibracke, or Pious exortations ffor youth out of Du bartas & Herberts Poems.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 38 p. 84

      Copy, headed Divine & Charmes Knotts.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

      George Herbert, Charms and Knots ('Who reade a chapter when they rise')
    • RoJ 217.8 p. 176

      Extracts.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • HlJ 3.7 p. 198

      Copy, ascribed to J: Hall. Bp Norwich:.

      First published, as An Epitaph upon King Charles 1st, in Eikon Basilike (1649), p. 312.

      Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke ('Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood')
    • ClJ 211 p. 200

      Copy.

      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')
    • ClJ 79 pp. 200-1

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on DrLawd Arch-Bishopp of Canterbury.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 38-9.

      John Cleveland, On the Archbishop of Canterbury ('I need no Muse to give my passion vent')
    • HrG 15 p. 201

      Copy, headed An Anagram on the Blessed Virgin.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

      George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram ('How well her name an Army doth present')
  • Osborn MS b 139

    Copy, on 40 quarto pages.

    Late 17th century.
    • CnC 5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 657-729.

      Charles Cotton, The battail of Yvry ('High are his thoughts, whose Buskin'd Mistress sings')
  • Osborn MS b 145

    A folio volume of extracts from English historical works, in three hands, one secretary hand predominating, c.240 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1630.
    • BcF 215.135 f. [174r]

      Extracts, headed Collecons out of my l. of St Albans H. 7.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
    • DaS 42.5 ff. [180r-213r]

      Extracts, headed Collections out of the Historian Mr Samuel Daniel.

      First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

      Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
  • Osborn MS b 146

    A quarto miscellany of three works, 46 leaves, in modern wrappers.

    Mid-17th century.
    • FuT 5.24 ff. [1r-40r]

      A précis of the work, in an unidentified hand.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
  • Osborn MS b 148

    An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to J. D), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt.

    c.1622-33.

    Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

    • WoH 173 p. 1

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

      Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (''Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life')
    • DnJ 1560 p. 2

      Copy, headed When he went w:th ye Lord Doncaster.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

      John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
    • DnJ 867 pp. 2-3

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
    • HrJ 218 p. 3

      Copy, headed Nil refert loqui dum vbi liceat.

      Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English ('An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales')
    • JnB 714 p. 4

      Copy.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song ('If I freely may discouer')
    • DnJ 3347 pp. 4-5

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
    • DnJ 2948 p. 5

      Copy, untitled, subscribed J: D: finis.

      This MS recorded in Gardner.

      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')
    • JnB 91 pp. 5-6

      Copy, untitled, subscribed B: J: ffinis.

      Lines 12-26 (beginning Little knowe they that professe Amitye) first published as lines 19-33 of An Epistle to a friend in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, Studies in Ben Jonson. IV, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.

      Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend ('Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise')
    • HoJ 337 p. 6

      Copy, headed To his mistress, followed by an answer.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')
    • ToA 71 p. 7

      Copy, headed The Mar. B: to the La ffe: H:.

      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')
    • DnJ 3847 pp. 7-8

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 1265 pp. 8-10

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
    • DnJ 2745 pp. 10-12

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2807 pp. 12-15

      Copy, headed Satire the Seconde.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2869 pp. 15-17

      Copy, headed Satire the third.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 2837 pp. 17-22

      Copy, headed Satire the fourth.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DrM 34 p. 23

      Copy.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

      Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
    • DnJ 2656 p. 23

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

      John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
    • DnJ 1156 pp. 24-6

      Copy, headed Epithalamiu: One ye Marriage of ye La: Elizabeth.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

      John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
    • DnJ 1782 pp. 26-35

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

      John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius ('How sits this citie, late most populous')
    • DnJ 4079 pp. 35-50, 141-2

      Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 15 Problems, subscribed J: D: ffinis.

      This MS recorded in Gardner, Elegies, p. lxxv.

      Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

      John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
    • DnJ 1365 pp. 50-1

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 1403 p. 51

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

      John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
    • DnJ 3912 pp. 52-3

      Copy of a five-stanza version.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 190 p. 53

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
    • DnJ 2048 pp. 53-4

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 753 p. 54

      Copy, headed To ye worthiest of all my loue my vertuous M:rs

      This MS recorded in Gardner.

      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 3962 pp. 54-5

      Copy, headed The Picture.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
    • DnJ 3325 pp. 55-6

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 158 p. 56

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.

      John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
    • DnJ 897 p. 56

      Copy, untitled, immediately following on from Antiquary (DnJ 158).

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
    • DnJ 1914 p. 56

      Copy, untitled, immediately following on from Disinherited (DnJ 897).

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

      John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
    • DnJ 3665 p. 56

      Copy, headed Twittingham Garden.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 266 pp. 57-8

      Copy, headed Widdowe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 3736 p. 58

      Copy, headed An Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 3071 pp. 59-60

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 557 pp. 60-2

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 499 p. 62

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • DnJ 1974 pp. 62-3

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • HoJ 37 pp. 63-4

      Copy, headed A Poem.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

      John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
    • DnJ 383 pp. 64-6

      Copy, headed The Chaine.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 2923 pp. 66-7

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Goe catch a fallinge starre.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • DnJ 3032 p. 67

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 78.

      John Donne, Sonnet. The Token ('Send me some token, that my hope may live')
    • DnJ 2457 pp. 67-8

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • DnJ 1738 p. 68

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 2012 p. 69

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 1650 pp. 69-70

      Copy, headed Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 2299 p. 70

      Copy, headed Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 3468 p. 71

      Copy, headed ffrom Courte.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 3498 pp. 71-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 699 pp. 73-4

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 3597 pp. 75-6

      Copy, headed An Eligie to the Lad: Bedford.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

      John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')
    • DnJ 1106 pp. 77-8

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

      John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
    • DnJ 634 pp. 78-9

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 1841 p. 79

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 3181 pp. 79-81

      Copy, headed Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 936 p. 81

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
    • DnJ 3629 pp. 81-2

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 2115 p. 82

      Copy, headed The Springe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
    • DnJ 2641 p. 83

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • DnJ 1691 pp. 83-4

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
    • DnJ 2212 pp. 84-5

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 3113 pp. 85-6

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 795 pp. 86-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

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

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 1330 pp. 87-8

      Copy, headed The ffeauer.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
    • DnJ 3008 p. 89

      Copy, headed Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • DnJ 2178 pp. 89-90

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

      John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
    • DnJ 1230 pp. 90-1

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • DnJ 1875 pp. 91-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

      John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
    • DnJ 1540 p. 93

      Copy, headed Picture.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • HrE 91 pp. 93-4

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne ('Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till')
    • DnJ 3295 pp. 94-5

      Copy, untitled.

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

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 2562 pp. 95-6

      Copy, headed Eligie.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 596 pp. 97-8

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 2144 pp. 98-100

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 305 pp. 100-1

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
    • DnJ 3819 pp. 101-2

      Copy, headed The Booke.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 3789 pp. 102-4

      Copy, headed Valediction of Glass.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
    • DnJ 3847.5 p. 104

      Copy of lines 1-3, headed A valediction of Teares and subscribed Posted before in folio: 4:.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 123 pp. 104-5

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
    • DnJ 1458 p. 105

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 2090 pp. 105-6

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
    • DnJ 673 pp. 106-7

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 1810 pp. 107-8

      Copy, headed The Shadowe.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 26 p. 108

      Copy, headed ffire an Angells.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 3990 pp. 108-9

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Facsimile of p. 109 in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

      John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
    • DnJ 1205 p. 109

      Copy, headed Valedico and here beginning Soe soe leaue off this last lamentinge kisse.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Facsimile in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

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

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • DnJ 728 p. 109

      Copy, untitled, immediately following on from The Expiration (DnJ 1205) and here beginning ffor my first twentie yeares since yesterday.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Facsimile in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

      John Donne, The Computation ('For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday')
    • DnJ 3707 pp. 109-10

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of p. 109 in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

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

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 3411 pp. 110-11

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

      John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
    • DnJ 2246 pp. 111-12

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner, p. 208, and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DnJ 2720 pp. 112-13

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
    • DnJ 967 p. 113

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 3386 pp. 114-15

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

      John Donne, To Mrs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
    • DnJ 56 pp. 115-16

      Copy, headed In fflauiam.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 833 pp. 116-17

      Copy, headed Dirae.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 1017 pp. 117-19

      Copy, headed An Eligie ffunerall one ye Death of Mrs Boulstred.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • DnJ 1074 pp. 119-21

      Copy, headed An Eligie ffunerall vppon ye La: Marckham.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 2511 pp. 121-2

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • DnJ 1177 pp. 122-5

      Copy, headed Vppon ye Mariag of ye Prince Palatine and ye Princess one St: Valentines day:.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

      John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
    • DnJ 2346 p. 125

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 1941 pp. 126-32

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

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

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • PeW 53 p. 132

      Copy, headed Earle of Penbrooke.

      This presemably the Osborn MS recorded in Krueger.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
    • PeW 120 pp 132-3

      Copy, headed Ben Rudiar.

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

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
    • BmF 131 p. 133

      Copy, untitled and subscribed ff. B. ffinis.

      First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

      Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
    • DnJ 144 pp. 133-4

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.

      John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
    • DnJ 1045 pp. 135-6

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
    • BmF 54 pp. 136-8

      Copy, untitled and subscribed J: D: ffinis.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
    • DnJ 2775 pp. 138-41

      Copy, headed Lawe Satire.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • WoH 157 pp. 142-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
    • DnJ 3573 pp. 143-6

      Copy, headed Sr: Walter Aston to ye Countiss of Huntington.

      This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington ('That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime')
    • BmF 81 pp. 146-7

      Copy, headed An Eligie one ye Death of ye La: Markham.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • DnJ 1496 pp. 148-50

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night')
    • BmF 150 p. 150

      Copy, subscribed ffinis: ff: B:.

      First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

      Francis Beaumont, 'Why should not pilgrims to thy body come'
    • HrE 25 p. 150

      Copy of lines 1-2, headed One Mrs Boulstreed, imperfect, lacking the rest.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. ('Methinks Death like one laughing lyes')