Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end

Osborn MS b 200

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
- KiH 93 p. 7
  
  Copy, headed The fayre boyes aunswere and here beginning Black Gyrle, complayne not y^t I fly.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- StW 767 p. 12
  
  Copy, headed On A Gentle woman walking in y^e Snow.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- ToA 86 p. 15
  
  Copy, incomplete, headed Incertus author to Ben Jonson.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady ('It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he')
- JnB 4.5 p. 15
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons reply and here beginning Doeth y^e prosperity of A pardon, still.
  
  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')
- CoR 432 pp. 16-18
  
  Copy, headed On y^e casting of great Tom of x^t Church and subscribed Jer: Jerrent [i.e. Jeramiel Terrent].
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- HrJ 124.5 p. 18
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman, who paynted her face.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
- HrJ 50 pp. 23-4
  
  Copy, headed On Swearing.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- CoR 350 pp. 24-7
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet to Marques Buckingham 1618.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
- RnT 201 pp. 37-40
  
  Copy, headed Randolph of Cambridge to his Credito^rs: 1633.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
- B&F 151 p. 46
  
  Copy, headed On y^e prayse of Melancholly.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- CwT 1269.5 p. 47
  
  Copy, headed The Lovers passion.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- StW 654 p. 48
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
  
  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
- MrJ 53 p. 50
  
  Copy.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- CaE 31 p. 55
  
  Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place, headed In laude eiusdem [on Buckingham].
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- DaJ 33.8 p. 78
  
  Copy, headed Religion ensnared by Preferment.
  
  First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.
  
  Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio')
- RaW 542 pp. 78-9
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistresse.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
  This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
- DyE 94 p. 80
  
  Copy, headed The Generality of Love and here beginning The smallest Trees have tops y^e Ante her gall.
  
  First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
- LyJ 36 pp. 82-4
  
  Copy.
  
  Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
  
  John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
- LyJ 59 pp. 82-4
  
  Copy.
  
  Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
  
  John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
- DnJ 2941 p. 92
  
  Copy, headed Woman's Inconstancy.
  
  This MS (?) recorded 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')
- HoJ 114 p. 100
  
  Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins to his M^ty for her Husband and beginning The worst is tolde, y^e best is hidde.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- JnB 136.2 p. 100
  
  Copy, headed On y^e death of the Lady Eliz: Hobby and here beginning Wilt thou heare wt man can say?.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
- CwT 737 p. 110
  
  Copy, headed A Song on y^e prayse of his M^rs: and here beginning Aske me noe more whither doe stray.
  
  First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
  For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
- WoH 257 pp. 110-12
  
  Copy, headed On an Hermite in A grove w^th A prayer booke in his hand.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- RaW 291 pp. 112-13
  
  Copy, headed On mans life.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- CwT 977 p. 113
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
- CwT 411 pp. 113-14
  
  Copy, headed A contention betweene Lipps, & Eyes.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- CwT 131 p. 114
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 697 pp. 114-15
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs Secrecy protested.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- CwT 37 pp. 115-16
  
  Copy, headed To y^e Surgeon, on Cælia bleeding.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
  
  Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
- CwT 1200 p. 116
  
  Copy, headed On A Ribban sent as A favo^r fro his M^rs:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 1233 pp. 117-18
  
  Copy, headed On y^e sicknes of Ch: S:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
- CwT 819 pp. 118-19
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs singing to her Lute in A Gallery at Yorke howse.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- ShJ 220 pp. 119-20
  
  Copy, headed On y^e solemne triumphs of y^e Gentlemen of y^e Innes of Court, riding w^th y^e Maske p^rsented before his Ma^tie:.
  
  The first line sometimes reading Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr.
  
  James Shirley, A breif expression of the delight apprehended by the Authour att the seeing of the Solemne triumphs of the gent of the Innes of Court riding with the Masque presented before his Ma^tie: Feb: 3, 1633 ('Now did Heavens Charioteer, the great daies Starr')
- StW 686 p. 121
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- KiH 462 p. 122
  
  Copy, headed On Man's life and subscribed Dr. John: King.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- StW 852 pp. 122-3
  
  Copy, headed One being in despayre to his M^rs:.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- PeW 201 p. 123
  
  Copy of a version headed On A Mayd not mariageable and beginning Would you haue passion lead me blind.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- StW 1051 p. 123
  
  Copy, headed A subscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token ('Whatever in Philoclea the Faire')
- StW 1123 p. 124
  
  Copy, headed To his Valentine.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, To a Valentine ('Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand')
- MoG 51 p. 124
  
  Copy, headed On King James his death and subscribed vide finem: p: 128: A:.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- StW 218 pp. 125-6
  
  Copy, headed On A Letter to his M^rs:
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
  
  William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
- DaJ 62.5 p. 128
  
  Copy, headed A rustick Gallant's wooing and here beginning ffayre wench, I cannot court thy Sp'rit-like eyes.
  
  First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
- MoG 78 pp. 128-9
  
  Copy, headed The Nightingale by Geo: Morley and here beginning My limbes were weary, & my head opprest.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- HoJ 338 p. 129
  
  Copy.
  
  Osborn, p. 301.
  
  John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')
- CwT 67 pp. 131-2
  
  Copy, headed On a Virgin's Complection, & pfection, here beginning ffayrest thy Tresses… and subscribed John Grange.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- StW 19 pp. 132-6
  
  Copy, headed An aunswere to A coppy of verses on y^e striving of X^t Church &c: p:43.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.
  
  William Strode, An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors ('If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath')
- RnT 281 pp. 138-44
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
- KiH 717 pp. 144-6
  
  Copy, headed To A Gentlewoman who p^rmising him marriage marryed another.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
  
  Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
- CwT 775 pp. 147-8
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning In yo^r fayre cheekes two pitts doe ly.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
- CaW 120 pp. 150-1
  
  Copy, headed The Prologue to y^e king, & Queens Ma^ty on Cartwrights Royall Slave presented vnto them at X^t Church y^e 30 of August 1636.
  
  Evans, p. 195.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologve to The King and Qveene ('From my Devotions yonder am I come')
- CaW 122 pp. 151-2
  
  Copy, headed The Prologue to y^e Vniversity in y^e same manner as before, subscribed Will: Cartwright.
  
  Evans, p. 196.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologve to the Vniversity ('After our Rites done to the King, we doe')
- CaW 112 pp. 152-3
  
  Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e king, & Queene spoken by Cratander, y^e Royall Slave, here beginning These solemne Triumphs of y^e Persian Court, subscribed Will: Cartwright.
  
  Evans, p. 251.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the King & Qveene ('Those glorious Triumphs of the Persian Court')
- CaW 115 pp. 153-4
  
  Copy, headed The Epilogue to y^e Vniversity, spoken by Arsamnes y^e Persian King, subscribed Will: Cartwright.
  
  Evans, p. 252.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the Vniversity ('Thus cited to a second night, wee've here')
- CaW 124 pp. 154-5
  
  Copy, headed A Prologue to their Ma^ty when it was Acted by his Ma^tyes Players at Hampton Court.
  
  Evans, p. 198.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court ('The rites and Worship are both old, but you')
- CaW 117 pp. 155-6
  
  Copy, headed The Epilogue to their Ma^ty at Hampton Court.
  
  Evans, p. 253.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court ('The unfil'd Author, though he be assur'd')
- CaW 93 p. 156
  
  Copy, headed The slaves song in y^e dungeon; out of sight, y^e Gayler hearkening y^e while.
  
  Evans, p. 200.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene i, lines 14-19. Song ('A pox on our Gaolor, and on his fat Jowle')
- CaW 105 p. 156
  
  Copy, headed The Preists song, while y^e Royall Slave was putting on y^e robes.
  
  Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
- CaW 107 pp. 156-7
  
  Copy, headed A treacherous song by y^e Persian Nobles conspiracy sung vnto Cratander y^e Royall Slave to betray him fro his good resolutions vnto lust, they p^rsenting vnto him two beautifull whores.
  
  Evans, pp. 212-13.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. Act 2, scene iii. Song ('Come my sweet, whiles every strayne')
- CaW 109 pp. 157-8
  
  Copy, headed A song y^e Slaves calld for being merrily drinking together, themselves singing y^e Close w^th y^e ffidlers.
  
  Evans, p. 223.
  
  William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act 3, scene i. Song ('Now, now, the Sunne is fled')
- BrW 96 pp. 168-9
  
  Copy, headed Vppon an infant unborne whose Mother dyed in trauell and subscribed William Browne.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
- StW 1199 pp. 169-72
  
  Copy, subscribed Will. Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
  
  William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
- RnT 524 p. 172
  
  Copy, ascribed to Ben Jonson.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- CoR 662 pp. 173-5
  
  Copy, headed On M^ris Mallet and subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- StW 64 pp. 181-3
  
  Copy, subscribed Will. Stroud.
  
  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')
- MyJ 26 pp. 186-9
  
  Copy, headed On M^ris Anne King's table-booke, here beginning Mine eyes were once blest w^th the sight, and subscribed Jasper Maine.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- StW 1354 p. 190
  
  Copy, subscribed Will. Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse ('What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene')
- StW 745 pp. 193-5
  
  Copy, headed The chimney-sweepers song and subscribed Will Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys')
- RnT 471 p. 196
  
  Copy, here beginning Come you young gallants....
  
  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 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')
- StW 356 pp. 202-3
  
  Copy, subscribed Will Stroud.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
  
  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
- CoR 696 pp. 203-4
  
  Copy, headed On Faireford Windowes and subscribed R. Corbet.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
- StW 495 pp. 204-6
  
  Copy, headed On y^e same and subscribed W. Stroud.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
  
  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
- StW 135 pp. 206-7
  
  Copy, headed A Gent: to his ffreind, who kissing at his departure he left some signe of blood upon her.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- DnJ 3218 pp. 208-9
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs as she was goeing to bed and subscribed D^r: John Dunne.
  
  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')
- StW 284 pp. 210-11
  
  Copy, subscribed W. Stroud.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
  
  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
- CoR 503 p. 211
  
  Copy, headed On y^e death of M^r Rice, Manciple of Ch: Ch: and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
- CoR 256 pp. 211-12
  
  Copy, headed An Antianiversary and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- CoR 236 pp. 213-14
  
  Copy, headed The aunswere to D^r Price and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
- StW 937 p. 214
  
  Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
  
  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
- CoR 398 p. 215
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet to y^e Duke of Buckingham.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
  
  Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
- CoR 84 pp. 216-17
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Corbets ffather and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
- BmF 132 p. 218
  
  Copy, headed On Madame ffowler desyring to have Sonnet Written on her and subscribed ffrancis Beaumont.
  
  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')
- HoJ 145 p. 218
  
  Copy.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- BrW 178 p. 219
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph vpon one, drowned in y^e Snowe.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
- DaJ 218 p. 219
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Lady Marys daughter to King James and here beginning As carefull Nurses to their beds doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- KiH 301 pp. 220-1
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Earle of Dorcet and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- StW 978 p. 228
  
  Copy, headed On Mortality and here beginning Like to y^e rowling of an eye.
  
  First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
  MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.
  
  William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
- StW 978.5 p. 228
  
  Copy of a variant version headed On Resurrection and beginning Like to y^e eye w^th sleepe doth chayne.
  
  First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
  MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.
  
  William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
- StW 204 p. 229
  
  Copy, headed On iustification.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
  
  William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
- StW 1148 pp. 229-32
  
  Copy, headed To a Gentleman strangely cur'd by two Chirurgians.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
  
  William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
- CwT 1122 pp. 232-3
  
  Copy, headed A Gentlema on his entertaynment at Saxum in Kent and subscribed Tho. Cary.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
- CwT 472 pp. 234-6
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs desyring backe her letters and subscribed Tho: Carye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CoR 100 pp. 236-8
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Same [i.e. the death of Queen Anne].
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
- CoR 213 pp. 238-42
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Hammond of Bewdly for beating downe y^e Maypole and subscribed John Harris.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
- MoG 103 pp. 242-3
  
  Copy, headed On y^e drinking in y^e crowne of an Hatt and subscribed Geo: Morleye.
  
  George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
- CoR 174 pp. 243-4
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Ravis, Bpp of London and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
- StW 736 pp. 244-5
  
  Copy, headed On A starange Gentlewoman passing by his window and subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
- StW 389 p. 246
  
  Copy, headed On A Gentlewoman Singing, & playing on A Lute and subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
- CwT 382 pp. 246-7
  
  Copy, headed A Lover y^t had sent many verses to his M^rs y^t cared not for him and subscribed Tho: Carye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
- JnB 351 pp. 247-8
  
  Copy, here beginning Why W^t though I be of A pdigious wast?
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
- EaJ 37 pp. 248-52
  
  Copy, headed On y^e death of S^r John Burroughes at y^e Isle of Ree killed in y^e night by A Musket-bullet fro y^e ffort and subscribed John Earles.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
- HeR 285 pp. 252-3
  
  Copy, headed M^r Herricks wellcome to sacke.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
- ClJ 36 p. 268
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue betweene two zelotts concerning y^e new oath.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- DeJ 75.9 p. 279
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
  
  Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
- HrJ 209.3 pp. 342-3
  
  Copy of a version headed A Puritan his zeale for his Sister and beginning A Puritane of late / And eake an holy Sister.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- CoR 21 pp. 346-51
  
  Copy, headed On K: James his entertainment in Cambridge and subscribed R: Corbet.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
  Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- RnT 235 pp. 354-5
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- StW 954 pp. 355-8
  
  Copy, headed The Caps and subscribed Will: Stroud.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
  
  William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
- JnB 653 pp. 360-2
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson on y^e Peake.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- StW 1179 pp. 365-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
  
  William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')
- SuJ 25 pp. 373-9
  
  Copy, headed S^r John Suckling on y^e Lord Lovelace his Marriage.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
  
  John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
- StW 317 p. 408
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- DnJ 1907 p. 409
  
  Copy, headed In Calvum.
  
  This MS or DnJ 1906 recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- RnT 155 p. 410
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Princes Xning.
  
  First published, following a Latin version beginning Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum, in Day (1932), p. 35.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished ('Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince')
- CoR 728.5 p. 411
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Lapworth's Comett, while Prince Charles was w^th y^e Span: Lady and here beginning A Star of late was seene in Bergoes trayne.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- HoJ 250 p. 412
  
  Copy of a version headed Ben: Johnson to his Sonne Ben and beginning Sweet Beniamin, while thou art young.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- RaW 427 p. 412
  
  Copy, headed Rawleigh to y^e Lady Bendbow.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- PoW 76 p. 427
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman with black eyes.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- HrJ 159.5 p. 430
  
  Copy, headed On a Lady sitting stradling and here beginning A gallant Lady sitting in A muse.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- PeW 263 pp. 430-1
  
  Copy of a version headed A Maydes denyall and beginning Nay pish, nay peu, infayth but will you fly.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- StW 177 p. 434
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
Osborn MS b 201

An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30^th 1713.
c.1700-1714.
- CgW 34 pp. 127-30
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 25-7. Dobrée, pp. 225-8. McKenzie, II, 303-6.
  
  William Congreve, Priam's Lamentation and Petition to Achilles, for the Body of his Son Hector ('So spake the God, and Heav'nward took his Flight')
- CgW 23 pp. 131-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 28-32. Dobrée, pp. 228-33. McKenzie, II, 307-12.
  
  William Congreve, The Lamentations of Hecuba, Andromache, and Helen, over the dead Body of Hector ('Now did the Saffron Morn her beams display')
- DrJ 243 pp. 138-40
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 308-10.
  
  John Dryden, Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase ('Creator Spirit, by whose aid')
- WaE 785.5 pp. 141-2
  
  Copy, headed Written in a lady's Waller.
  
  Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger. Its authorship is uncertain.
  
  Edmund Waller, Written before a Lady's Waller ('The lovely Owner of this book')
- DoC 122 pp. 144-5
  
  Copy, headed A paraphrase on y^e French.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')
- DrJ 79 pp. 148-56
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 846-51. California, IV, 425-31. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 315-25.
  
  John Dryden, The Last parting Of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads ('Thus having said, brave Hector went to see')
- DrJ 10 pp. 172-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1736-40. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 559-66.
  
  John Dryden, The Character of a Good Parson. Imitated from Chaucer, And Inlarg'd ('A parish-priest, was of the Pilgrim-Train')
Osborn MS b 202

A miscellany of hymns and poems, 67 pages.

Inscribed at the end Miss Mary Webber: Her Book Anno Domini 1694, evidently the compiler. Inscribed on a flyleaf with the names Robert Britton and Miss Sopia Delight.
c.1694.
- HrG 149 p. 97
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.
  
  George Herbert, Jesu ('Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name')
Osborn MS b 204

A quarto verse miscellany in English, Latin and French, in two or more hands, 154 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum deed.
Early 18th century.
Formerly Box 12, No. 13.
- DoC 17 p. 82
  
  Copy, headed The Answer by L^d Dorset [i.e. to A Song by M^r Wolsly on pp. 81-2].
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')
- DrJ 240 p. 134
  
  Copy, headed Translated by Dryden; the text follows a Latin version [by D^r. Elliot].
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
  
  John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
Osborn MS b 205

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.
- PeW 202 f. 23v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Virgin not marriageable and here beginning Why doth thy passion leade thee blind.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- PoW 77 f. 24r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- DnJ 469 f. 25r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 992.5 ff. 25r-6r
  
  Copy of poems ix, x, and viii of the Epithalamion.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
  
  John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
- DnJ 520 f. 26r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  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 1658 f. 27r
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CwT 721 f. 27r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his m^ris and here beginning Thinke not deare loue y^t ile reveale.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- RaW 123 f. 27v
  
  Copy, headed A Fancie and here beginning Calling to minde mine eyes about.
  
  First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
- DaJ 62.8 f. 28r
  
  Copy, headed The Rustique gallants wooing.
  
  First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
- CwT 301 f. 28v
  
  Copy, headed On the Flie An Elegie.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- StW 1256 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed On M^r Lancaster run thorow by a captaine.
  
  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] ('To die is Natures debt. and when')
- PeW 264 ff. 30r-1r
  
  Copy, headed The paradox.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- RaW 338 f. 31r
  
  Copy, headed On a passionate lover and here beginning Passions best likned are to floods & streames.
  
  Formerly Rosenbach 195, this MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- MoG 52 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed On the death of king James.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- StW 82 f. 31v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
  
  William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme')
- StW 260 ff. 31v-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
  
  William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
- CoR 455 f. 32r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- DnJ 99 ff. 32v-3r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon an illfauourd gentlewoman.
  
  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')
- DaJ 219 f. 33v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e death of an infant and here beginning As carefull mothers will to bed soone lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- StW 1124 f. 33v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, To a Valentine ('Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand')
- StW 421 f 33v
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman that had the small pox.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- BrW 143 f. 33v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
- CwT 1269.8 f. 34r
  
  Copy, headed To his Loue.
  
  First published, as The Rapture, by J.D., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- StW 390 f. 34r
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman y^t playd on a lute.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
- HrJ 289.5 f. 40v
  
  Copy, headed In Amorosum Epig: and here beginning A wife you wisht me s^r rich, faire, & young.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- FlP 20 f. 42r
  
  Copy of the Epilogus, headed A Comedy and beginning As in a Feast, so in a Comedy.
  
  Performed at King's College, Cambridge, 13 March 1614/15. First published in London, 1631. Boas I, 187-264.
  
  Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides, A Piscatory
- HrJ 209.5 f. 43v
  
  Copy of a ten-line version, headed parturiens puritana and here beginning A godly sister by one of hir society.
  
  First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
- StW 1007 f. 44r
  
  Copy, headed Lusus amatorius.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- RaW 292 f. 44r
  
  Copy, headed Vita est tanquam fabula.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- CwT 234 f. 45v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- HrJ 160 f. 46v
  
  Copy, headed Vir ad Dominam.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- HrJ 314.8 f. 47r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a lord and a Countryman.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 70. McClure No. 324, p. 276. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 56, pp. 230-1.
  
  Sir John Harington, A witty choice of a Country fellow ('A rich Lord had a poore Lout to his ghest')
- HrJ 51 f. 47r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- HrJ 186 ff. 47v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
- HrJ 98.8 f. 48r
  
  Copy, headed Quidam homo and here beginning There was a time when that a certain techer. The text followed (f. 48r-v) by An answer by y^e Lady checke (here beginning That no man yet could in y^e bible find).
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
- KiH 94 f. 50r
  
  Copy, headed Responsio.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- RnT 236 ff. 50v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- RnT 572 f. 51r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- MoG 80 f. 52r
  
  Copy.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- StW 561 f. 52v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux ('Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young')
- DaJ 220 f. 52v
  
  Second copy, headed De infanta imaturâ morte perempta and here beginning As carefull mothers to their beds do lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- StW 1161 f. 53r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers ('Gold is restorative. How can I then')
- StW 1168 ff. 53v-4r
  
  Copy, headed To the same [i.e. Sir John Ferrers].
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.
  
  William Strode, To Sir John Ferrers for a token ('It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne')
- StW 1157 f. 54r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Edmund Ling ('Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare')
- ShW 19 f. 54v
  
  Copy, headed To one that would die a maide.
  
  Facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (after p. 392).
  
  Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
- CoR 712 ff. 54v-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  A facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (facing p. 392).
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
- StW 703 f. 55r
  
  Copy, here beginning I am y^t faithfull deputy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
- StW 14 f. 55r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
- StW 153 f. 55v
  
  Copy, headed A girdle.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast')
- StW 687 f. 55v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- StW 1231 f. 55v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
- StW 673 ff. 55v-6
  
  Copy.
  
  Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
  
  William Strode, Poses for Braceletts ('This keepes my hande')
- StW 357 f. 56r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
  
  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
- StW 43 ff. 58v-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
  
  William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
- StW 477 f. 59r
  
  Copy, here beginning A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.
  
  William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith ('Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part')
- StW 88 f. 59v
  
  Copy, here beginning Behind this brazen plate these ashes lie.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.
  
  William Strode, An Epitaph ('Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie')
- StW 245 f. 59v
  
  Copy, headed The diuines comendation of a good voice.
  
  First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.
  
  William Strode, A Musical Contemplation ('O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth')
- StW 27 f. 60r
  
  Copy, headed A replie to a freind.
  
  Unpublished. Forey p. 43.
  
  William Strode, An Answere to a frinde ('Have I a Corner in your memory')
- StW 110 f. 60r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on m^ris Eliz: Nedam.
  
  First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.
  
  William Strode, An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham ('As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it')
- StW 94 f. 60v
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.
  
  William Strode, An Epitaph ('Man newly borne is at full age to die')
- StW 285 ff. 60v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
  
  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
- StW 547 f. 61r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
  
  William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
- StW 603 ff. 61v-2v
  
  Copy, headed On one that died of an impostume in the head.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.
  
  William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head ('Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow')
- StW 630 f. 62v
  
  Copy, headed On the death of a twinne.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
  
  William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
- StW 596 f. 63r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar ('Though death to good men be the greatest boone')
- StW 572 ff. 63v-4v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
  
  William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh ('You that affright with lamentable Notes')
- StW 535 ff. 64v-5r
  
  Copy, headed On one that died of the small pox.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.
  
  William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
- StW 101 f. 65r
  
  Copy, headed Another.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.
  
  William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman ('One Pitt containes him now, who could not die')
- StW 1041 f. 65r
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.
  
  William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope ('Penelope the faire and chast')
- StW 441 ff. 65v-6r
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.
  
  William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking ('How can the Embleme of Mortality')
- StW 460 f. 66r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
  
  William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest')
- StW 853 ff. 67v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
- StW 938 f. 68r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
  
  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
- StW 375 ff. 68v-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
  
  William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
- StW 178 f. 69r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- StW 717 ff. 69v-70r
  
  Copy, headed Song on a sigh.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
  
  William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
- StW 655 f. 70v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
  
  William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
- StW 1101 ff. 70v-1v
  
  Copy, headed To a gentlewoman for a freind.
  
  Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
  
  William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
- StW 136 ff. 71v-2r
  
  Copy, headed For One who kissing his freind att his departure out of England left a signe of blood vpon her.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- RnT 524.5 f. 72v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- JnB 32 f. 73r
  
  Copy of lines 21-30, headed A song and here beginning Have you seene the white lilly grow.
  
  First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
- JnB 306 f. 73v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- HeR 400 f. 73v
  
  Copy, headed A complaint.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
  
  Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
- HeR 105 f. 74r
  
  Copy, headed The answere.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- HeR 23 f. 74r-v
  
  Copy, headed A fancy.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- StW 1372 f. 74v
  
  Copy, headed A Blush.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
- CwT 593 f. 75r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Sigh.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- StW 236 f. 75v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^ris and here beginning In thy sterne bewty I can see.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
  
  William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song ('In your sterne beauty I can see')
- B&F 152 f. 76r
  
  Copy, headed A Melancholy.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- HeR 412 ff. 76r-7v
  
  Copy, headed On a cherry stone haveing a deaths on the one side, and a gentlewoman on the other.
  
  First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')
- MyJ 27 ff. 78r-9v
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- CoR 498 f. 80r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
  
  Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
- CoR 185 ff. 80v-1r
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Dauis Bishop of London.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
- CwT 388 f. 81r-v
  
  Copy, headed A louer that made diuers copies of verses to his m^ris that card not for them.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
- StW 896 f. 81v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
  
  William Strode, A song ('Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe')
- DnJ 2226 f. 82r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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')
- DyE 95 f. 84v
  
  Copy, headed On few words and here beginning The lowest shrubs haue tops y^e ant her gall.
  
  First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
- KiH 350 ff. 84v-7r
  
  Copy, headed An Exequie.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
  
  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
- JnB 192 ff. 87r-8r
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman sitting in a chaire to haue her Picture drawne.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- DnJ 1516 f. 88r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  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')
- CwT 94 ff. 88v-9r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^ris.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- CwT 1020 ff. 89r-90v
  
  Copy, headed An admonition to a coy acquaintance.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- HrJ 70.5 f. 96r rev.
  
  Copy, headed On a lawyers absence.
  
  First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.
  
  Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
- DnJ 1487.5 f. 96r rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
- DnJ 1776.5 f. 96r rev.
  
  Copy, headed In Claudum.
  
  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')
- StW 1261 ff. 98r-97v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
- RaW 477.5 f. 98r rev.
  
  Copy, including the answer.
  
  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
Osborn MS b 206

A duodecimo commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single hand.
c.1680-90.
Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, James Rhodes, 1680. Later inscriptions by William Hamper (1776-1831), and Lydia Anna Dobson Hamper. 1838. The gift of her dear father.
- AlW 185 p. 118
  
  Copy of Peter Heylyn's translation.
  
  A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.
  
  William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant ('In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs')
- RnT 179.8 p. 150
  
  A version of the nineteenth precept.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations ('First worship God, he that forgets to pray')
Osborn MS b 207

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, 46 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1665.
Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
- MrT 9.8 pp. 13-14
  
  Copy, with lengthy heading An Epitaph Written by S^r Thomas More vpon y^edeath of Henry Abingdon one of y^e gentlemen of y^e chappel: wh^ch devise y^e authour was fayne to put in meeter...the suppliant was exceeding satisfyed as if y^e authour had hit y^e nail on y^e head, followed by a translation (The same though not verbatim Construed...) beginning Here lyeth old Henry, no friend to mischevos envy.
  
  Yale, Volume 3, Part II, pp. 202-3, with English translation.
  
  Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 160. Altervm de Eodem [Abyngdon, the Singer] ('Hic iacet Henricus, semper pietatis amicus')
- PsK 27 pp. 17-19
  
  Copy, headed Vppon his sacred Maiesties Charles the seconds happy passage to England May 29^th 1960: by M^rs Phillips.
  
  This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.
  
  First published, as Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.
  
  Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England ('Whom doth this stately navy bring?')
- WaE 493 p. 28
  
  Copy, headed A Song
  
  First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
  
  Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes')
- SeC 106.5 pp. 45-6
  
  Copy, here beginning Tell me prethee faithless swain.
  
  First published, in a version beginning Tell me prethee faithless swain, in Windsor Drollery (London, 1671). Oxford Drollery (London, 1671). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 3. Sola Pinto, II, 153.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, A Song ('Prithee tell me, faithless Swain')
Osborn MS b 208

A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s.
- CmW 102.13 pp. 37-56
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
  
  William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine
- DkT 36 p. 57
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
- RaW 293 p. 59
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- CoR 371 pp. 252-5
  
  Copy, headed D:C: To D of B.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
Osborn MS b 209

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in English and Latin, in various hands, 136 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1660.
Inscribed at front and back with the name Edw: Rawstorne.
- ClJ 129 p. 79
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 47-9.
  
  John Cleveland, To the State of Love, or, The Senses Festival ('I saw a Vision yesternight')
- CoA 6 pp. 85-6
  
  Copy of Cowley's poem only.
  
  A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as Hope and M. Crashaws Answer For Hope in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.
  Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's On Hope, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Against Hope ('Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is')
- CoA 85 pp. 87-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 110-11. Sparrow, pp. 108-10. Collected Works, II, No. 43, pp. 72-3.
  
  Abraham Cowley, For Hope ('Hope, of all Ills that men endure')
Osborn MS b 210

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, in contemporary vellum.

Apparently compiled by members of the English College at Douai.
Late 17th century.
- DeJ 19.8 pp. 285-99
  
  Copy of a Latin translation by Moses Pengry.
  
  A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.
  
  Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation)
Osborn MS b 213

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
- CwT 919 p. 1
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 37.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. The willing Prisoner to his Mistris ('Let fooles great Cupids yoake disdaine')
- CwT 852 pp. 1-2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
- CwT 841 p. 2
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('You that thinke Love can convey')
- ShJ 133 p. 2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
  
  James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
- CwT 176 p. 4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- SuJ 41 p. 5
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 52-3.
  
  John Suckling, Loves Offence ('If when Don Cupids dart')
- JnB 601 p. 7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- GrJ 10 p. 7
  
  Copy, here beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
- SuJ 67 p. 8
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.
  
  John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
- DrM 36 pp. 10-11
  
  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')
- WaE 438.8 pp. 12-13
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
  
  Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
- ToA 23 pp. 14-15
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, 'Let not thy beauty make thee proud'
- HeR 161 p. 16
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Amongst the mirtles as I walkt.
  
  First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')
- CmT 118 p. 17
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
- SuJ 74 pp. 18-19
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.
  
  John Suckling, Sonnet I ('Do'st see how unregarded now')
- CwT 1065 p. 21
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
  
  Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
- WoH 133 pp. 28-9
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
- RaW 7 pp. 34-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'As you came from the holy land'
- GrJ 37.9 pp. 46-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Blind beauty! If it be a loss'
- B&F 153 p. 49
  
  Copy.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- SuJ 34 p. 54
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.
  
  John Suckling, The constant Lover ('Out upon it, I have lov'd')
- SuJ 15 p. 55
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.
  
  John Suckling, The Answer ('Say, but did you love so long?')
- LoR 46 pp. 58-9
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning When Loue wth unconfined wrinkls.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
  
  Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
- KiH 525 p. 63
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
  
  Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
- CwT 1181 p. 63
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
- RaW 186.5 p. 65
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
- JnB 33 p. 65b [i.e. 65 bis]
  
  Copy of lines 21-30, here beginning Have you seen y^e white lilly grow.
  
  First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
- CwT 903 p. 66
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- KiH 600 p. 66
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
- StW 964 p. 67
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
  
  William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
- JnB 653.2 pp. 75a^r-6r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- StW 1188 pp. 89-91
  
  Copy, headed To y^e tune of y^e old Country and the queen.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
  
  William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')
- SuJ 133 p. 104
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Clayton.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.
  Probably written by Henry Hughes.
  
  John Suckling, Song ('I prethee send me back my heart')
- FeO 64 p. 105
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.
  
  Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee')
- HrE 6 pp. 106-7
  
  Copy, transcribed from The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (1659).
  
  This MS recorded in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), p. 98.
  
  Stanzas 1-3 first published (prefixed to verses by Sir Robert Ayton) in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659). First published complete in Occasional Verses (1666). Moore Smith, pp. 31-2.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ditty ('If you refuse me once, and think again')
- RnT 299 p. 125
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Song ('Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string')
- DaW 106.8 p. 128
  
  Copy.
  
  Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.
  
  Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song ('My lodging it is on the Cold ground')
- SeC 17.5 p. 138
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference ('Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn')
- SeC 72 pp. 141-2
  
  Copy of an untitled version, here beginning Chloris I dare not say yr eyes and with two additional stanzas.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris ('Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes')
- SeC 106.8 pp. 144-5
  
  Copy, headed A Pastorall dialogue and here beginning Tell me prithee faithles swain.
  
  First published, in a version beginning Tell me prethee faithless swain, in Windsor Drollery (London, 1671). Oxford Drollery (London, 1671). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 3. Sola Pinto, II, 153.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, A Song ('Prithee tell me, faithless Swain')
- ShJ 170 p. 148
  
  Copy of the dirge, untitled.
  
  Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
  
  James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
- DrJ 261.5 p. 152
  
  Copy of the song, untitled.
  
  First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).
  
  John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act II, scene i, lines 499-514. Song ('After the pangs of a desperate Lover')
- DrJ 264 pp. 153-4
  
  Copy.
  
  California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 222-3.
  
  John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act IV, scene i, lines 47-70. Song ('Calm was the Even, and cleer was the Skie')
- DrJ 267.3 pp. 154-5
  
  Copy, headed Dialoug.
  
  California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 223-4.
  
  John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song ('Celimena, of my heart')
Osborn MS b 218

A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound.
c.1690s.
Formerly Chest II, No. 36.
- SeC 9 p. 17
  
  Copy, with an additional four lines.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy ('Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye')
- EtG 88 p. 21
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 5.
  
  Sir George Etherege, To a Lady Who Fled the Sight of Him ('If I my Celia could persuade')
- EtG 91 p. 23
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.
  
  Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady ('Sweetest bud of beauty, may')
- EtG 20 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.
  
  Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('After a pretty amorous discourse')
- WhA 18 pp. 53-5
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.
  
  Anne Wharton, The Lamentations of Jeremiah ('How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?')
Osborn MS b 219

A quarto miscellany of familiar epistles and poems on affairs of state, in a professional hand, 36 pages, in light brown wrappers.
Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 51.
- DoC 71 pp. 33-6
  
  Copy, headed The Quarrell.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')
Osborn MS b 220

Copy in two hands, untitled, on 108 quarto pages (less excised leaves), in 19th-century brown calf gilt.

In two hands, partly in double columns, probably transcribed from the first edition (with some differences of arrangement) but conceivably a copy of an earlier MS version.
[After 1676].
Owned (before 1891) by Frederick Buckle, with his interleaved notes and cuttings throughout.

This MS recorded in Bailey, pp. 229-30 (however, it does not date from c.1642-8 or derive from the Little Gidding community, as Bailey implies). This MS probably that referred to (mistakenly) as a MS of Fuller's Worthies in a note by F.B. in Long Ago: A Monthly Journal of Popular Antiquities, No. 1 (January 1873), p. 19.
- FuT 6.8
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
  
  Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
Osborn MS b 225

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 192 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

Owned and probably compiled by Jonathan Rashleighe (d.1702) of Oxford.
c.1660.
- CwT 853 p. 130
  
  Copy, headed Conquest by flight. m^r Carew p: 23.
  
  First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
- CwT 1053 p. 130
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistris in Absence. pag. 37 A Ship.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
  
  Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
- CwT 1219 p. 131
  
  Copy, with a reference to pag: 39.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France ('Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide')
- CwT 1154 p. 131
  
  Copy, headed To A Lady resembling his mistris. pag: 43.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 1210 p. 132
  
  Copy, with a reference to pag: 48.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 428 p. 132
  
  Copy, with a reference to pa: 30.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
- CwT 302 p. 133
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- CwT 344 p. 133
  
  Copy, with a reference to pag: 76.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
  
  Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
- CwT 95 p. 134
  
  Copy, with a reference to pag: 168.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
Osborn MS b 229

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches for 1640-1, with related materials, in professional hands, 162 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1641.
Title-page inscribed Vni Amcotts and the motto Litera scripta manent.
- RuB 177 pp. [50-72]
  
  Copy.
  
  Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Osborn MS b 233

A folio volume of poems and a dramatic work by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish (chiefly the former), a formal anthology in the stylish italic hand of Sir William Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, with a few alterations, 77 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

With a dedication to her father, Sir William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, subscribed Your Lo^pps most obliged obedient Daughter Jane Cauendysshe and (p. 77) an anonymous ten-line commendatory poem, headed Vpon the right honourable the Lady Jane Cauendish her booke of uerses (beginning Madame at first I scarsely could beleiue) added later.
c.1640s.
Inscribed (p. 1) Tho Hogg. Emily Driscoll, sale catalogue No. 13 (1951).

Facsimile of p. 1 (Jane Cavendish's epistle to her father) and of p. 77 (the commendatory poem to Jane Cavendish) in Travitsky, Subordination, pp. 57 and 59.
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Greate Example / To my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle ('My Lord / You are the Academy of all truth')
- C&E 154 p. 3
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions L^re to my Lord my Father ('My Lord, it is your absence makes each see')
- C&E 122 p. 4
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Charles ('Brother / Your face the quintecence of modestie')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Henry ('Brother / your selfe the onely peece of natures pride')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle ('My Lord / Your face is a sweete molde for modestie')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Vncle S^r Charles Cauendish Knight ('Vncle / Your life's the true Example of a Saint')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation ('Ther's nothing more afflicts my greiued soule')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation ('The torments I receaue is thought of mind')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The trueth of Pensell ('My Lord your Picture speakes you this to bee')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe in answeare to yo^r Lo^ps: Sayter ('Sayter I thanke you for your declaration')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance ('When looke on you then each should truely name')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady ('Thy selfe a sacred Church, soe each should look')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Cure ('I'll tell thee what's the cure of Jealousy')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady ('Thou sent a message Late')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions delate ('Greife sadnes sounds what shall thee take')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his Highnes the Prince of Wales ('Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The reuiue ('Greifes passion Child, this night had dyed')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a false reporte of y^r Lo^ps: landinge ('Fye false Scout doe you growe madd')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his most sacred Mat^ie: ('Most sacred S^r and best of humane race')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir most sacred Ma^tie: ('When Mary's named, what life it giues')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his Highnes the Prince of Wales ('Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage')
- C&E 174 p. 12
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe ('Our Eyes fix'd lookeing on thee')
- C&E 126 p. 12
  
  Copy, here beginning Thou lookes sweet boy, as if thou wouldest bee.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Nephew Henry Harpur ('The lookes sweete boy as if thou wouldest bee')
- C&E 128 p. 13
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley ('Sister / Thour't quinticence of beauty, goodnes, truth')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Fraunces ('Sister / Among'st our Sex sweete Pursland pure you are')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Peart one, or otherwise, my Sister Brackley ('Sister / Thou art soe pritty, younge, and witty')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir sacred Ma^tie: ('Madam / Your lookes are courage mixt w^th such sweetnes')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Torture ('Ther's noe such Hell as is a torter'd mind')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The quinticence of Cordiall ('Sister/ Wer't not for you I knew not how to liue')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe ('Mayde, wife, or widow w^ch beares the graue stile')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to the verses M^r Carey made to the La: Carlile ('What doe your thoughts begin in loue to stray')
- C&E 140 p. 16
  
  Copy, here beginning On thy litle Finger looke.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the least finger of hir hand ('When on thy little Finger looke')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Thankes Lre ('My Lord / Your present to mee was soe iustly kind')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions inuitation ('For Gods sake come away & land')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to my Lady Alice Edgertons Songe Of I prithy send mee back my Hart ('I cannot send you back my hart')
- C&E 51 p. 18
  
  Copy, here beginning The louely Bess that art soe plumpe and young.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chamber=mayde ('Thou louely Bess, that art soe plumpe & young')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance ('You did appeare as if that Black')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance ('Each in your face this truely now doe see')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance ('Thou were the prittest thinge that e'r I saw')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance ('Thou art a free good soule of Innocence')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on a Noble Lady ('Madam, I pray 'giue leaue in this')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady ('Madam you are soe truely noble & soe good')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady ('Madam, and friend, for trueth must call you soe')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the Lord Viscount Brackley ('My Lord / You are a Husband iust as one would wishe')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley ('Sister / Thy natures onely fitt for Cæsars wife')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Vniuerse ('The vniuers mee thinkes I see')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The captiue Buriall ('My captiue soule, it selfe bemones')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe ('I doe desire to liue')
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  Copy, here beginning Thy Fareing showed thy selfe to bee.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Faireings Munckey ('The Faireinge shewed thy selfe to bee')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackleys Picture ('Looke on this Picture where you'l see')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Fraunces Picture ('Nature bids you on this Picture veiw')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a worthy freind ('Those that would chuse a patterne for a wife')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Carecter ('Your seruants now them selues to saue')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe ('I would loues language tell but soe')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'Your truely full of seruice this is true'
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Lifes weather Glass ('The Deuill take mee if I can tell what')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The cautious man, or wits wonder ('I wonder as those people that doe thinke')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackley ('May all new yeares and happines, bee soe')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Honourable Lady ('Madam giue leaue to prayse you though you are')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chambermayde ('Thy presence Mary, I with trueth confess')
- C&E 162 p. 29
  
  Copy, here beginning Thou happy Tuesday since that now I see.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A recruted ioj vpon a Lre from your Lo^pp: ('This happy Tuesday since that now I see')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Grandfather S^r Charles Cauendysh ('Sir / Your memory a Cronacle would make')
- C&E 138 p. 30
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the Lady Ogle my deare Grandmother ('My Grandmother the onely peece of good')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my deare mother the Countess of Newcastle ('I had a mother which to speake was such')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'Foure Brthers & a Sister such I had'
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister the Lady Harpur ('A sister once I had which alwayes saw')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandmother the Lady Corbett ('When looke on you your face did teach one wealth')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good & true freind M^r Henry Ogle ('Seruant, noe, freind thou wert & truely soe')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury ('Thou wert the onely peece of noble trueth')
- C&E 106 p. 33
  
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my hon^ble: Aunt Mary Countes of Shrewsbury ('Madam / Your Courage, witt, & judgment this is true')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good Aunt Jane Countes of Shrewsbury ('Madam / Your blessed selfe was euen pure vertues fame')
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  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandfather M^r Basset ('Sir / A gallant man you were & Courtier true')
- C&E 108 p. 35
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Hon^ble: Grandmother Elizabeth Countes of Shrewsbury ('Madam / You were the very Magazine of rich')
- C&E 181 p. 36
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, To Heauen or a confession to God ('I doe confess great God my sinns are great')
- C&E 81 p. 37
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On Christmas day to God ('This day a happy day for all on earth')
- C&E 85 p. 37
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On good Fryday ('The remembring of this day appeareth soe')
- C&E 144 p. 38
  
  Copy, here beginning This day I will my thankes sure now declare.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the .30^th. of June to God ('This day I will my thankes sure now decline')
- C&E 41 p. 39
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The minds Saluation ('This day I did in perspectiue one veiw')
- C&E 26 p. 39
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Hopes preparation ('Now I'm prepared against my Lord doth come')
- C&E 49 p. 40
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'Now Lord I begg of thee before I pray'
- C&E 185 p. 40
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'When I in prayer, pray God looke on mee'
- C&E 31 p. 41
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'I haue now receiu'd thy Sacrament, soe fynd'
- C&E 29 p. 41
  
  Copy.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'I cannot speake, nor looke, nor nothing say'
- C&E 43 p. 43
  
  Copy, subscribed Your Lo^pps: most affectionate, and obedient Daughter Jane Cauendyshe.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'My Lord / After the deuty of a Verse'
- C&E 46 p. 44
  
  Copy, subscribed Your Lo^pps: most affectionate & obliged Daughter Elizabeth Brackley.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, 'My Lord / This Pastorall could not owne weake'
- C&E 195 pp. 46-76
  
  Copy.
  
  A series of antemasques, songs and speaches. Unpublished.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Pastorall
- C&E 39 p. 76
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Vniuerse ('The vniuers mee thinkes I see')
Osborn MS b 245

An octavo volume of sermons by Stephen Machin, with some verses at the end, in a single small hand (Machin's?), 380 pages, in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover John Machin 1708. Son to the Revd. M^r Stephen Machin late Rector of Margate in Kent, Author of these sermons & of volums more: who dyed Novem: 12. 1708.
- HrG 228 last page
  
  Copy of a version of the second stanza, here beginning Sure there is no pleasure here, subscribed Herb^t Rose.
  
  This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 177-8.
  
  George Herbert, The Rose ('Presse me not to take more pleasure')
- HrG 251 inside back cover
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, 13-16, subscribed Herberts Submission.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 95.
  
  George Herbert, Submission ('But that thou art my wisdome, Lord')
- HrG 34 inside back cover
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, 9-12, subscribed Call.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 156.
  
  George Herbert, The Call ('Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life')
- HrG 72 inside back cover
  
  Copy of lines 19-24, here beginning Alas things sort not to my will, subscribed Cross.
  
  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 164-5.
  
  George Herbert, The Crosse ('What is this strange and uncouth thing?')
Osborne MS b 256

A small quarto commonplace book, of verse and prose, c.120 pages.
Late 17th-early 18th century.
- BcF 54.115 pp. [250-1]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
Osborn MS b 259

A quarto volume of devotional works, 145 pages.
c.1679.
- CrR 229 p. 82
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.
  
  Richard Crashaw, A Song ('Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace')
Osborn MS b 274

A MS abridgement, predominantly in a single hand, with additions in a subsequent hand, dated 23-30 March 1668, on 42 folio leaves (rectos only), in later boards.

Headed a Short epitomy of the first Booke of Martyrs, with references to Halsted in Kent and, on the last page, to an incident in Oxford.
March 1668.
- FxJ 1.17
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
  
  John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Osborn MS b 297

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.
Mid-17th century.
Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.
- SuJ 153.2 item 5
  
  Copy, subscribed A. C., on two pages.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
  
  John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
- CoR 768.5 item 7
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett B^p. of Norwich his speech for Paules and subscribed Deliuer'd att Norwich to the Clergye at a Synode theie held Apr: i9^th. 1634, on four pages.
  
  Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
  
  Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
- RuB 176 item 27
  
  Copy, on four pages.
  
  Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
- RuB 199 item 60
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyerds Speach concerning Bisho^ps Deanes & Chapters, att a Comittee of the whole House, undated, on three pages.
  
  Speech beginning We are now upon a very great business, so great indeed as it requires our soundest and saddest consideration.... Manning, pp. 188-92.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?June 1641
- WaE 796.5 item 94
  
  Copy, headed M^r Wallers Speech in the Comons house of Parl^t shewing that Parl^ts best aduance y^e kinges affaires, & property & freedome of y^e Subiect, support Religion, and obedience to the King.
  
  Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.
  
  A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.
  
  Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
- RuB 200 item 96
  
  Copy, headed S^r Ben: Rudyards first speech concerning the Palatinate, undated, on one page.
  
  Speech beginning This great affair of the Palatinate concerns this kingdom in nature, in honour, in reason of state, in religion.... Manning, pp. 208-10.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, July 1641
- RuB 201 item 97
  
  Copy, headed S^r Ben: Rudyards second Speech of the Palatinate at a Comittee of the whole house, undated, on one page.
  
  Speech beginning If we may do the Prince Elector good, by our good word, I hope we shall not stick to afford it him.... Manning, pp. 210-11.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 July 1641
- WaE 797.7 item 98
  
  Copy, headed M^r Wallers Speech in Parl^t at a conference of both Houses in the painted Chamber 6. Julj. i641.
  
  Speech beginning My Lords, I am commanded by the House of Commons to present you with these articles against Mr Justice Crawley …. First published in London.1641. The Works of Edmund Waller, Esqr (London, 1772), p. 208 et seq.
  
  Edmund Waller, Speech in Parliament, at a Conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber, July 6, 1641, upon delivering the Impeachment against Mr. Justice Crawley
Osborn MS b 302

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, [1691?].
1691.
Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 466, to Dobell.

Ward, Letter 17, edited from a text in The Poetical Works of John Dryden, ed. Robert Bell (London, 1854), I, 68. Also privately printed in Letter of John Dryden to William Walsh from the original at Canons Ashby; presented to the Rev. Sir Henry Dryden, by Samuel Butler, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry (1833), various exempla of which now accompany the original letter (see Osborn, p. 287) and are also in the Northamptonshire Record Office, ZA 488.
- *DrJ 316
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
Osborn MS b 308

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.
There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.
c.1660-5.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.
- TrT 155 p. 51 [f. 4]
  
  Century I, meditation 89.
  
  First published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20 (p. 18).
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'If after all Endeavors made'
- TrT 129 pp. 51-3 [ff. 4-5]
  
  Century I, meditation 90.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'Drie Barren Arguments whereby we strive'
- TrT 182 p. 54 [f. 5v]
  
  Century I, meditation 92.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'Nor haue I any leasure'
- TrT 230 p. 61 [f. 7]
  
  Copy of four lines at the end of the First Century [meditation 100], probably lacking the beginning on preceding leaves now excised from the MS.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'Words are but feeble Barren Things'
- TrT 222 pp. 64-6 [ff. 8v-9v]
  
  Century II, meditation 17.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, Thy Turtle Doues O Lord to Dragons turn!
- TrT 150 p. 101 [f. 27]
  
  Century III, meditation 6.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'He Apprehends it not with any Pleasure'
- TrT 181 p. 118 [f. 35v]
  
  Century III, meditation 27.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'No Tongue can Tell w^t Treasure[s] are in Store'
- TrT 53 pp. 145-6 [f. 47r-v]
  
  Century III, meditation 58.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'And now my Soul Enjoy thy Rest'
- TrT 175 pp. 174-5 [ff. 61v-2]
  
  Century III, meditation 99.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'My Growth is strange! at First, I onely knew'
- TrT 183 p. 187 [f. 68]
  
  Century IV, meditation 15.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'O Sing, o Soar, o faint, o pant & Breath!'
- TrT 38 p. 213 [f. 81]
  
  Century IV, meditation 60.
  
  First published in Christian Ethicks (London, 1675). Margoliouth II, 186.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'All Musick, Sawces, Feasts, Delights and Pleasures'
- TrT 144 p. 216 [f. 82v]
  
  Century IV, meditation 65.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'ffarewell ye Rarities!'
- TrT 216 pp. 219-20 [ff. 84r-v]
  
  Century IV, meditation 68.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, 'The Living waters y^t revive'
- TrT 57 p. 220 [f. 84v]
  
  Copy, imperfect, Century IV, meditation 68.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Traherne, Another ('Humility! O Radiant Queen')
Osborn MS b 327

An octavo verse miscellany, in a non-professional hand, with subsequent index, 34 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.
Late 17th century.
Bookplates of The Rt. Hon. John, Lord Brownlowe, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel and of Belton House, Lincolnshire (seat of the Earls Brownlow). and possibly once owned by Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet (1659-97). Myers sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344.

Set of photocopies in British Library, RP 5106.
- DrJ 43.998 ff. 5r-9r
  
  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')
- RoJ 604 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy, subscribed Rotchester.
  
  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 270 ff. 11v-13r
  
  Copy, headed A Satyr on women about Towne.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
- MaA 159.5 ff. 29r-31r
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue Betweene the 2 Statues.
  
  First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
  
  Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
Osborn MS b 331

A quarto volume of political material, including correspondence between Henry Bennett and the Duke of Ormonde in 1663, chiefly in one hand, notes dated 1677 in another hand, 344 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1677.
- ClE 40.8 pp. 1-304
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme
Osborn MS b 334

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.
c.mid-1680s.
Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound M^r. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).
A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.
- RoJ 644 pp. 15-146
  
  Copy of the complete play, entitled Lucinas Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian. A text of the masque introduced by Sir Francis Fane in Act III, headed A Masque Representing Lucina's dream in the third Act of the Tragedie of Valentinian (beginning Haile sacred Cynthia mutable and chast), is on pp. 219-31.
  
  This masque was published as A Mask. Made at the Request of the late Earl of Rochester, for the Tragedy of Valentinian, in Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions (London, 1685), pp. 17-32.
  
  The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape
- RoJ 632.5 pp. 147-52
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Love.
  
  Love (1999), pp. 54-7.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Reader
- RoJ 11.93 p. 148
  
  Copy of the 21-line version, cited in To the Reader.
  
  Edited from this MS in Love, p. 55.
  
  First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
- RoJ 297 pp. 153-62
  
  Copy, headed Satyr.
  
  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 85 pp. 163-7
  
  Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay Very delightfull and Sollid from M:G: to O:B: Vpon their mutuall Poems and here beginning Dear friend / It seemes this Towne does soe abound.
  
  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 251 pp. 167-9
  
  Copy, headed A Poet who writ in the praise of Satyr and here beginning To vex and torture thy Vnmeaning Braine.
  
  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 492 pp. 169-72
  
  Copy, headed Ovid: Amor: LiOsborn MS b =2^dus= Eleg: 9^m: O nunquam prome Satis indignate Cupido To Love.
  
  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 2 pp. 172-4
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Advice ('All things submit themselves to your command')
- RoJ 69 pp. 174-5
  
  Copy, here beginning Caelia that faithfull Servant you disowne
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 17-18. Walker, pp. 15-16. Love, pp. 10-11.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Discovery ('Celia, the faithful servant you disown')
- RoJ 404 pp. 176-7
  
  Copy, headed Dialogue / Nimph Sheppard.
  
  Edited in paer from this MS in Love.
  
  First published, in a truncated version headed The Expostulation, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart')
- RoJ 104 p. 177
  
  Copy, untitled but numbered (1).
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, p. 53. Walker, p. 19. Love, p. 17.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Grecian Kindness ('The utmost grace the Greeks could show')
- RoJ 45 pp. 178-82
  
  Copy, headed Song / Strephon. Daphny, set out as eighteen four-line stanzas and numbered in darker ink 1.
  
  Edited from this MS in Love.
  
  First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as [Epigram on Samuel Pordage], among Impromptus.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne ('Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er')
- RoJ 561 pp. 182-3
  
  Copy, headed To Caelia for Inconstancy / Song, numbered in a darker ink 2.
  
  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 392 p. 183
  
  Copy of the second stanza only, headed Song and here beginning Kindnesse has resistlesse charmes, numbered in a darker ink 3.
  
  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 423 p. 184
  
  Copy, numbered in darker ink 4.
  
  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 446 p. 185
  
  Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 5.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  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 631 pp. 186-7
  
  Copy, headed Womans Honour Song, numbered in darker ink 6.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  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 470 pp. 187-8
  
  Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 7.
  
  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 399 pp. 188-9
  
  Copy, numbered in a darker ink 8.
  
  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 177 pp. 189-90
  
  Copy, headed Song. Love and life, numbered in darker ink 9.
  
  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 99 pp. 190-1
  
  Copy, headed Song. The Fall, numbered in a darker ink 10.
  
  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 456 pp. 191-2
  
  Copy, here set out as four quatrains, numbered in a darker ink 11.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  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 186 pp. 192-4
  
  Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 12.
  
  First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 87-8. Walker, pp. 29-30. Love, pp. 27-9, as Song.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mistress ('An age in her embraces passed')
- RoJ 369 pp. 194-5
  
  Copy, numbered in darker ink 13.
  
  First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 88-9. Walker, pp. 38-9. Love, p. 29.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Song ('Absent from thee, I languish still')
- RoJ 458 pp. 195-6
  
  Copy, headed Song A Young Lady to her Antient Lover, here set out as four stanzas of 6, 8, 6 and 6 lines respectively, and numbered afterwards, in a darker ink, 14.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Love.
  
  First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 89-90. Walker, pp. 32-3. Love, p. 30.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover ('Ancient person, for whom I')
- RoJ 149 pp. 196-208
  
  Copy of a 254-line version.
  
  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 20 pp. 209-15
  
  Copy, headed Satyr, on the modern poets, An allusion to Horace, The 10^th. Satyr of the 1^st book. Nempe incomposito dixi pede &c..
  
  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 271 pp. 215-16
  
  Copy of a 35-line version, headed Dialogue / Alexis & Strephon and here beginning Strephon there sighs not on this plain.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Stephan ('There sighs not on the plain')
Osborn MS b 340

Copy, in an italic hand, ii + 40 quarto leaves, in 19th-century cloth.
c.1620s.
Owned in April 1799 by Thomas Crane, antiquary, of Chester, who on the verso of the title-page incorrectly describes the MS as being in Cotton's own hand. Later owned by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
- CtR 431
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Osborn MS b 356

A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.
c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
- HeR 352.5 pp. 1-3
  
  Copy, headed Oberon His Clothing.
  
  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
  
  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
- HeR 188.5 pp. 3-5
  
  Copy, headed Oberon his dyet.
  
  First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
  
  Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
- HeR 137.5 pp. 5-10
  
  Copy, headed M^r Herricke to M^r Weekes.
  
  First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.
  
  Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death ('Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend')
- DaW 10.5 pp. 10-13
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.
  
  Sir William Davenant, An Elegy on the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('No Poetts triviall rage, that must aspire')
- CoR 162.5 pp. 13-16
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- EaJ 37.5 pp. 17-21
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
- CoR 100.5 pp. 27-9
  
  Copy, headed On Queene Anne.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
- CoR 126.5 pp. 29-30
  
  Copy, headed On S^r Tho: Ouerbury.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
- RnT 480 p. 35
  
  Copy.
  
  Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Hobson and Charon ('Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou')
- CoR 686.5 pp. 40-2
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Corbett on m^rs Mallett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- HeR 331.5 pp. 42-3
  
  Copy, headed M^r Herricke to his M^rs going a iourney.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
  
  Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')
- CoR 314.5 pp. 49-65
  
  Copy, headed Corbetts Iter Boreale. with a side note D^r Hutton and d^r Corbett, imperfect, part of pp. 62-3 torn away.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
  
  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
- CrR 263.5 p. 69
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 181.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon Ford's two Tragedyes Loves Sacrifice and The Broken Heart ('Thou cheat'st us Ford, mak'st one seeme two by Art')
- RaW 223.5 p. 71
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawleighs prognostication.
  
  First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
- CwT 302.5 p. 74
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a flye.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- CwT 186.8 pp. 77-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
- CwT 1154.8 pp. 78-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.
  
  Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband ('Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes')
- DaW 29.5 pp. 79-80
  
  Copy, headed A poeticall Loue.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
  
  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
- CwT 144.3 pp. 80-1
  
  Copy, headed To his disdainefull M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- StW 140.5 pp. 81-2
  
  Copy, headed On a kisse leauing blood on his M^rs lipps.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- CwT 903.8 pp. 82-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
- PeW 203 p. 84
  
  Copy, headed To his louesicke friend and here beginning Why should passion strike thee blind.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- CwT 1020.5 pp. 85-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- PeW 122 pp. 90-2
  
  Copy.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 50-2, superscribed P.. Krueger, pp. 44-6, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To his Mistress, of his Friend's Opinion of her, and his answer to his Friend's Objections, with his constancy towards her ('One with admiration told me')
- JnB 121.5 p. 99
  
  Copy, headed Vpon one M^rs Boulstred.
  
  First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
- CaE 32 p. 99
  
  Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- CaW 6 pp. 122-6
  
  Copy, headed Ariadne deserted by Theseus in y^e Iland Nepos sitting vpon a rock thus complaines and here beginning O Theseus harke, but yet in vaine.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.
  
  William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains ('Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain')
- KiH 350.5 pp. 126-30
  
  Copy, headed D^r Henry King On his Wife.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
  
  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
- KiH 622.5 p. 132
  
  Copy, headed Upon his cruell M^rs.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
- RaW 123.5 pp. 132-3
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs.
  
  First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
- RaW 177.3 pp. 133-5
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawleigh to all y^e world.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
  This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
- WoH 48.5 pp. 135-6
  
  Copy, headed A Priuate contented Life.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- CoR 471.5 p. 142
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett vpon Henry Boline.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
- DnJ 2321.5 p. 156
  
  Copy, headed To his cruell M^rs.
  
  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')
- CwT 1034.4 pp. 200-2
  
  Copy, headed Carewes Answer to Ben Jhonsons ode.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
- HeR 207.9 pp. 202-4
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e birth of y^e Prince Eclogue.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
- CwT 114.8 pp. 221-4
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- JnB 450.5 p. 231
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
  
  Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
- MoG 53 pp. 231-3
  
  Copy, headed To y^e sacred Memory of y^e late deceased K. James.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- HlJ 0.5 pp. 233-4
  
  Copy, headed An anthem made by D^r. Hall.
  
  First published in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree (London, 1660). Wynter, IX, 699. Davenport, p. 153.
  
  Joseph Hall, Anthemes for the Cathedral of Exceter ('Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing!')
- CaE 33 p. 248
  
  Copy of a version beginning Reader here underneath this place I am.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- BrW 143.5 p. 250
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
- RaW 97.5 p. 250
  
  Copy, headed On y^e same W R.
  
  First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
  This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
- PoW 100 p. 251
  
  Copy of lines 1-18, headed Upon the King of Swedland.
  
  First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
  
  Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
- DaJ 221.5 p. 252
  
  Copy, headed On an Infant.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- BrW 229.2 p. 257
  
  Copy, headed On y^e countess of Pembroke.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- KiH 301.5 pp. 259-60
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Earle of Dorset.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- CoR 92.5 pp. 260-2
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett on his father.
  
  First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
- StW 431.5 p. 265
  
  Copy, headed On a gentlewoman dying on y^e Poxe.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
  
  William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
- ClJ 111 pp. 266-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.
  
  John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony ('When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper')
- CwT 763.5 p. 272
  
  Copy, followed (f. [220r-v], pp. [273-4]) by Y^e Answer (Aske mee noe more whither doth stray).
  
  First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
  For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
- ClJ 115 p. 276
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Character of a London-Diurnall, with severall select Poems by the same Author (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 43-5.
  
  John Cleveland, Square-Cap ('Come hither Apollo's bouncing Girle')
- JnB 653.5 pp. 278-81
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- ToA 94 pp. 281-3
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Bacchanall in a maske before their Majestys, 1636 ('Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our braines')
- BcF 51.5 pp. 283-4
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- HoJ 88 pp. 295-9
  
  Copy, headed On a fart let in Parliament and here beginning Quoth Sir Harry prole it was a bold tricke.
  
  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
  
  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
- HoJ 146 p. 299
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- ShJ 12.5 pp. 301-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.
  
  James Shirley, The Common-wealth of Birds ('Let other Poets write of dogs')
- RnT 525 pp. 302-4
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- CoR 388.5 p. 305
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Lute and here beginning I prethee Lute when I am gone, followed by Her Answer (with same first line).
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
  Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.
  
  Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')
- RaW 354.5 p. 307
  
  Copy, headed Rawleigh To Noell, followed by Noel to Rawleigh (The loath of y^e stomacke, & y^e word of disgrace).
  
  First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty'
- DnJ 1776.8 p. 308
  
  Copy, headed On a beggar.
  
  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')
- StW 338.5 p. 309
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- JnB 316.5 pp. 309-11
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons inuitation of a Gentleman to supper.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.
  
  Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper ('To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I')
- RnT 472 p. 311
  
  Copy.
  
  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 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')
- HeR 127.5 pp. 318-21
  
  Copy, headed Herricks farewell to sack.
  
  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.
  
  Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
- HeR 285.5 pp. 322-6
  
  Copy, headed M^r Herricks Wellcome to sacke.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
- MrC 19.5 pp. 329-30
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawleigh to Q. Elisabeth.
  
  First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.
  
  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
Osborn MS b 369

A quarto commonplace book, in three sections, each in a different non-professional hand, iii + 47 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf and marbled boards.
c.1687.
A 19th-century title-page (f. ii^r) claims this is the Manuscript Common-Place Book of Tho. Hunt. November 1687 (possibly author of the first item, on numeration, dated 30 November 1687). Owned in 1869 by Frederick William Cosens (1819-89), and in 1881 by J. Eliot Hodgkin. FSA (1829-1912), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, solicitor.
- RoJ 332.5 ff. 43r-6r
  
  Copy, headed Verses made by the Ld Rochester on Man: 1.
  
  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 604.5 f. 47r-v
  
  Copy, headed On Nothing: by L^d Rochester.
  
  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')
Osborn MS b 371

A quarto miscellany of poems, and some prose satires, upon affairs of state, in several hands, the predominant one probably professional, c.130 leaves (including 36 blanks), in contemporary mottled calf.
c.1680s.
Inscription (on f. 1^r) JH [or 14] Conduit St. Bonham's, 13 March 2002, lot 918 (with facsimile of an opening in the sale catalogue).
- DoC 359.5 ff. [54r-8v]
  
  Copy, here beginning Fild with y^e noysome folly of y^e Age.
  
  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 L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
- DoC 156.5 f. [64r-v]
  
  Copy, headed On Ned Howard upon his late Comedy.
  
  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!')
Osborn MS b 373

Copy of a 556-stanza version, on 61 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Largely in a single professional italic hand, the last stanza completed in a second hand and additional verses (f. 61v) in a third hand.
c.1620s.
Inscribed (front pastedown and flyleaf) Ja^s. Porter Jun^r his Book 1720 and (f. [iii^r]) This manuscript was given me by my Cozen Sarah Attwood own Sister to y^e Author W^m. Attwood Esq^r. late of Broomfield Parsonage in y^e County of Essex. Names on a flyleaf (f. [i^r]) include Thomas Garnett, James Garnet, William Lewis and John Johnsonne.
- HuF 20
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.
  Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).
  
  Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')
Osborn MS b 387

An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious texts under headings, in English and Latin, 91 leaves (including blanks), now disbound in folders.
c.1630.
Inscribed (p. 1) Ex do: p: G.C. By: 1630: i.e. George Coke, rector of Bygrave (in 1608-36). The name John Coke among scribbling on f. 91v, and Ex libris Gab: Barrevi [? or Barron ?]. July 1964 on front flyleaf.
- FxJ 1.175 ff. 75r-84v
  
  Extracts, headed Book of Martyrs. Henry y^e 8th: 1509.
  
  First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
  
  John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Osborn MS b 408

A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.
Late 17th-early 18th century.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.
- WhA 19 pp. 1-19
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.
  
  Anne Wharton, The Lamentations of Jeremiah ('How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?')
- WhA 24 pp. 21-3
  
  Copy.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 47^th Chapter of Isaiah ('Downe haughty Virgin down even to the earth')
- WhA 27 pp. 25-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah ('Who hath beleived on Earth what we report')
- WaE 167.8 pp. 27-30
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
  
  Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')
- WhA 58 pp. 31-2
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')
- WhA 30 pp. 33-5
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished. Referred to in Greer & Hastings (p. 120) as one known lost poem … which was imitated by Waller and possibly by Aphra Behn as well.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the Lords prayer ('Father of Men, and Angels, Heaven, and Earth')
- WhA 31 p. 36
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 4 Psalm ('To thee my prayers as heretofore ascend')
- WhA 32 pp. 37-8
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 36 Psalm ('My boding heart discouers to my sight')
- WhA 33 pp. 39-42
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 37 Psalm ('Wrach not thy peacfull heart with envious pain')
- WhA 34 pp. 43-5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 45^th Psalm ('With pregnant Thought my labouring breast is fyr'd')
- WhA 37 pp. 46-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.
  
  Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm ('Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline')
- WhA 39 p. 49
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, Part of y^e 4^th Chapter of Solomons Song ('My Sister, ah! my Spouse my hearts 'ore come')
- WhA 40 pp. 49-50
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, Part of the 5th Chapter of Solomon Song ('My sister and my Spouse, I'm in y^e grove')
- WhA 15 pp. 53-4
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, His Majesties Lamentation over King Charles y^e Second In Allusion To Davids over Jonathan 2 Sam: chap: 1^st: Verse y^e 19^th ('The beauty of the blessed land is fled')
- WhA 13 pp. 55-8
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.
  
  Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester ('Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine')
- WhA 9 p. 59
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Rochester son to y^e former.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.
  
  Anne Wharton, Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester ('Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure')
- WhA 20 p. 63
  
  Copy of the title only, altered from My Fall.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 251-2. Greer & Hastings, No. 4, p. 131.
  
  Anne Wharton, My Fate ('Raising my drooping Head, o'er charg'd with Thought')
- WhA 53 pp. 65-6
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 245-7. Greer & Hastings, No. 3, pp. 129-30.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Melpomene against Complaint ('In soft Complaints no longer ease I find')
- WhA 44 p. 67
  
  Copy of the title only.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, Thoughts Occasioned by Solitude
- WhA 7 pp. 71-3
  
  Copy, headed The Dispaire.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
  
  Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by M^rs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')
- WhA 23 p. 74
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.
  
  Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time ('When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar')
- WhA 1 p. 75
  
  Copy of the title only.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, The Complaint
- WhA 66 p. 76
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, Vnchangeable ('Preists preach & Poets teach us y^t all harmes')
- WhA 16 p. 77
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, The inconstancy of Woman kind ('Whilst on the shore Aminta Lay')
- WhA 64 p. 79
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, To the Earle of Danby att Winchinden After his coming out of the Tower ('So rose the morning drest with Joyfull light')
- WhA 62 p. 80
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 242-4. Greer & Hastings, No. 8, p. 143.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of The Earl of Rochester ('In pleasing Transport rap't, my Thoughts aspire')
- WhA 51 pp. 81-3
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement ('If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind')
- WhA 52 p. 84
  
  Copy of the title only.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Lady Anne Cooke
- WhA 61 p. 85
  
  Copy of the title only, here To M^r Woolsey on his Præface To Valentinian.
  
  First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.
  
  Anne Wharton, To Mr. Wolesly ('To you, this Generous Task belongs alone')
- WhA 63 p. 86
  
  Copy of the title only.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, To M^rs Frances Beaviunt
- WhA 29 pp. 89-91
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.
  
  Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas ('Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage')
- WhA 42 p. 92
  
  Copy.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Anne Wharton, Sapho to Phaon Englished out of Boileau ('Happy, who near you, sigh for you alone')
- WhA 41 pp. 93-100
  
  Copy, headed A Paraphrase on Ovids i^st Epistle Penelope to Ulises.
  
  First published in Ovid's Epistles translated by Several Hands (London, 1712), pp. 160-9. Greer & Hastings, No. 5, pp. 132-7.
  
  Anne Wharton, Penelope to Ulysses ('Penelope this slow Epistle sends')
Osborn MS b 421

An autograph volume of writings by Dorothy Calthorpe, in verse and prose, closely written in her large rounded hand, with amateurish decorative features, inscribed Dorothy Calthorpe in gold ink on the front pastedown, her drawing of a chapel in red ink on the first page dated Jun 20 1684, and the last page inscribed Dorothy Calthorpe I begane this booke Janewary the 20 in the yeare 1672, 88 octavo leaves, in contemporary speckled calf.
c.1672/3-84.
Inscribed on a flyleaf Anne L'Estrange: Sa Livre Mars. 27 1738. Later in the library of Lord de Saumarez, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. Sotheby's, 13 July 2006, lot 94, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.
- *CaD 4 ff. [3r-4r]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph.
  
  Forty lines in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, Philismena to Philander ('tis not Philander that I disallow')
- *CaD 2 ff. [4v-6r]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph
  
  Facsimile of ff. [5v-6r] in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 71.
  
  Sixty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, Philander to Philismena ('oh glorious conquest infenetly aboue')
- *CaD 1 ff. [6v-7v]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph.
  
  Thirty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent ('oh how I hate the tumults of a City')
- *CaD 7 ff. [7v-14r]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, A Description of the Garden of Edden
- *CaD 8 ff. [14v-62v]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, introduced or els a pleasant histtory of Jewlious: and Dorindathe trouth of it was so Lately represented that some of those worthy persons are still liueing and ownes what: is here repated, dated 1677, followed by three pages of explanation about the designe of this littel Memoise, which was only to giue a true relation of my owne famely...from my grandfather to my fathers death.
  
  Facsimile of ff. [14v-15r] in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, A Short History of the Life and Death of S^r Ceasor Dappefer
- *CaD 6 ff. [62v-86v]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, imperfect, lacking the ending (on two excised leaves).
  
  A religious meditation. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, A Castell in the aire or the pallace of the man in the moon
- *CaD 5 ff. [2r-3r rev.]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, heavily deleted.
  
  Forty lines in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, Philismena to Philander ('tis not Philander that I disallow')
- *CaD 3 f. [3r-v rev.]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph of the first part, heavily deleted, imperfect, lacking the last part.
  
  Sixty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, Philander to Philismena ('oh glorious conquest infenetly aboue')
Osborn MS b 421 adjunct

Dorothy Calthorpe's exemplum of the octavo Bible published by Henry Hills and John Field (London, 1660), inscribed in her characteristic rounded hand with what is presumably her married name Dorothy Harvey her Booke Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686, in contemporary black morocco gilt.
1686.
Later inscriptions including Katharine Tracy, Thomas Potter, Given to Anne the Hon^ble L^y. Middleton by M^rs. Caroline Acton, Dec^r. 1836, and Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon^ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860. Later in the library of Lord de Saumarez, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. Sotheby's, 13 July 2006, in lot 94, with a facsimile of the MS title-page in the sale catalogue, p. 71.

Facsimile of the MS title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 71.
- *CaD 9
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Dorothy Calthorpe, The Holy Bible

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end

Osborn MS b 200

Osborn MS b 201

Osborn MS b 202

Osborn MS b 204

Osborn MS b 205

Osborn MS b 206

Osborn MS b 207

Osborn MS b 208

Osborn MS b 209

Osborn MS b 210

Osborn MS b 213

Osborn MS b 218

Osborn MS b 219

Osborn MS b 220

Osborn MS b 225

Osborn MS b 229

Osborn MS b 233

Osborn MS b 245

Osborne MS b 256

Osborn MS b 259

Osborn MS b 274

Osborn MS b 297

Osborn MS b 302

Osborn MS b 308

Osborn MS b 327

Osborn MS b 331

Osborn MS b 334

Osborn MS b 340

Osborn MS b 356

Osborn MS b 369

Osborn MS b 371

Osborn MS b 373

Osborn MS b 387

Osborn MS b 408

Osborn MS b 421

Osborn MS b 421 adjunct

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