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Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99

  • Osborn MS b 50

    A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf with clasps.

    c.1630s.

    Grosvenor MS 36. Eaton Hall bookplate Case XXI no. 25.

    Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 266. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, 21 January 1968, item 1, vol. II.

    • FeO 100 ff. 1r-14v

      Copy.

      First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

      Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
    • BcF 75.9 ff. 17r-30v

      Copy.

      Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

      Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate

  • Osborn MS b 52/1

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.

    • BcF 164.5 p. 6

      A brief summary, headed Confession of ffayth by Sr Fr Bacon.

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

      Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
    • RaW 1119 pp. 8-11

      Copy.

      A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine
    • CtR 204 p. 12

      Copy, on one page, incomplete.

      A tract beginning by these precedent passages.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS and apparently unpublished.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A declaracon how the king by assent of Parliamt should publish himself against the two treatyes with the King of Spaine touching the Mariage & deliverye of ye Palatinate Written by Sr Robt. Cotton. March 27th. 1624
    • FuT 5.273 pp. 106-8

      Extracts, headed Choicest English Prouerbs collected out of Howell's Tetragl. & Fullers Worthies.

      First published in London, 1662.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
    • HrJ 90 p. 120

      Copy, headed of Rome and subscribed Colb. Claney. 30th. Augt. 63.

      First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir John Harington, In Romam ('Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread')
    • DoC 240 p. 135

      Copy, untitled, followed by the note Dr Stillingfleet his Sermon of ye Mischeif of Separation - 2 May. 1680..

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • MaA 188 p. 155

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • MaA 497 p. 161

      Copy, headed On ye parliament &c.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • MaA 249 pp. 174-6

      Copy, headed Vpon Sr Robt Vynar's setting vp ye Kings statue on horsback in Woolchurch Markett London.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
    • MaA 210 pp. 178, 177

      Copy of lines 1-34, headed An old Prophecye of Nostradamus written Originally in french, now turned into English by and here ascribed to Poet Bayes, incomplete.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')

  • Osborn MS b 52/2

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.

    • RaW 600 pp. 1-108

      Copy, complete with Dedication to the King, in a non-professional hand.

      A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
    • HeR 160 p. 122

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Amongst ye Myrtles as I walked.

      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')
    • MaA 468 pp. 123-5

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • MaA 163.98 pp. 145-59

      Copy, dated 25o ffebr. 75.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • MaA 97 p. 159

      Copy, headed Vpon Bloud's stealing ye Crowne out of ye Tower of London Anno 16, the poem (or subject) dated 25o. ffebr. 75.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
    • MaA 275 p. 159

      Copy, headed Englished.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • ClJ 220 p. 162

      Copy, headed Of Oliver Protector and here beginning A Protector: what's that? It is a stately thing.

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

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • RoJ 541 pp. 164-7

      Copy, headed A Satyr vpon Tunbridge Wells by ye E. of Rochester An°. 1673, largely written sideways the length of the page.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 104.63 pp. 170-3

      Copy, from Ra: Gregge iunr. 8o. March 77.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • RoJ 601 pp. 173-4

      Copy, headed vpon Nothing Composed by ye Earle of Roshester.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • MaA 83 pp. 175-7

      Copy, without The Answer, untitled, subscribed Had these from Cosen Ambrose Scudamor 2°. Decr. 1675.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Margoliouth.

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

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • DoC 358 pp. 180-7

      Copy, inscribed from Mr Ellesby Minr. of Chiswick. 18th. septbr. 80 /Returnd ye originale to him agen 22th Septbr. by ye boy sealed vp.

      Two unspecified Osborn MSS collated in POAS.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')

  • Osborn MS b 54

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf.

    In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.

    c.1681.

    Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

    • RoJ 134 p. 873

      Copy of a version headed A Lampoon upon the English Grandees. 1676 and beginning Monmouth ye wittiest.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')
    • MrJ 75 p. 876

      Copy.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
    • DrW 117.56 pp. 877-9

      Copy, headed A prayer for ye Kinges 5 senses. 1623.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • RaW 379 p. 880

      Copy, headed vpon sr Rob: Cecill Earl of Salisbury & Ld Treasurer and subscribed by sr Walter Raleigh.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • HrE 19 p. 882

      Copy, headed An Elegy upon ye princes death.

      First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')
    • MrJ 90 p. 881

      Copy, headed Upon ye Dukes voyage to ye Isle of Rheez 1627.

      John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
    • CaE 30 p. 884

      Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place, here ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.

      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')
    • DeJ 75.8 p. 887

      Copy, headed In obitu Thomæ wentworth comitis se Strafford; D. Locu tenent: Hiberniæ &sc. qui de collabus erat aput turro Londinensem. maii 12o. 1641.

      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')
    • MaA 507.5 pp. 895-9

      Copy, headed The Alarum written in Nov. 1669 & sent in a letter to a member of ye House of Commons.

      An unpublished tract, beginning Like the dumb man that found his tongue when he saw an arm lifted up to kill his father.... Discussed as a work of doubtful authorship in Legouis, pp. 470-1.

      Andrew Marvell, The Alarme
    • BrW 177 p. 930

      Copy.

      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')
    • HeR 104 p. 931

      Copy, headed To a false Lover.

      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')
    • RnT 110 pp. 931-2

      Copy, headed An Elegy on ye Incomparably Beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Stanly/Digby.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

      Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')
    • RnT 212 pp. 932-3

      Copy, headed Vpon 6 Cambridge Lasses bathing themselues in a riuer, and espied by a Schollar.

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

      Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River ('When bashfull day-light now was gone')
    • RnT 398 p. 933

      Copy, headed On ye Losse of a finger and subscribed T: Randoll.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
    • DrJ 259 p. 965

      Copy, headed A song.1674.

      California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 244-5.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts ('How unhappy a Lover am I')
    • ShJ 169 p. 965

      Copy of lines 1-13 of the dirge, headed A song made as some say By James Shirley and others say by Alexander Brome about 40 years agoe, with a new supplement by T. Fuller D.D. 1677, imperfect, the rest excised.

      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')
    • RoJ 36 pp. 974-7

      Copy, headed A Satyr against the present poetts Being an Allusion to Horrace Satyr: X: Booke: 1:...Written by the Earle of Rochester 1677.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • MaA 189 pp. 1015-16

      Copy, headed A Lampoon Writt by the Lord Buckhurst: 1667.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • RoJ 259 pp. 1021-2

      Copy, headed On the Supposed Author of the Defence off Satyr: vid: pag: 1012: 1677 and subscribed Writt by the Lord Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 201 p. 1094

      Copy, headed Upon Betty Frazer 1677 and subscribed Rochester.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Vieth, Attribution (1963), p. 237. Vieth (1968), p. 137. Walker, p. 123, as Upon Cary Frazer. Love, p. 294, in his Appendix Roffensis.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Cary Frazier ('Her father gave her dildoes six')
    • MaA 84 pp. 1113-19

      Copy without The Answer, headed The Exchequer Inn, or the Supper made by Thomas, Earl of Danby upon the Parliament's Clearing of Him A.D. 1675.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • LeN 20 p. 1137

      Copy of the song, headed A song. 1680 and with an additional stanza.

      Published separately, as The True Lovers' Tragedy, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).

      Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, V, i, 31-57. Song after the Fourth Act ('Ah Cruel bloody Fate')
    • DoC 60 pp. 1143-7

      Copy, headed A Satyre 1679.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • MaA 139.97 pp. 1147-51

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Mengel.

      First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

      First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')
    • MaA 276 p. 1158

      Copy, headed On Mr Blood who stole ye crown.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • EtG 12 pp. 1180-1

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 619 pp. 1181-2

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • RoJ 215 pp. 1182-3

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
    • RoJ 200 pp. 1183-4

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
    • RoJ 11.92 p. 1196 et seq.

      Copy.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
    • RoJ 284 p. 1200

      Copy, headed Rochester extempore 1670.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Vieth (1968), p. 22. Walker, p. 122.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Rochester Extempore ('And after singing Psalm the Twelfth')
    • CoA 172 p. 1214

      Copy, headed The paraphrase by Abraham Cowley.

      First published, in the essay Of Obscurity, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.

      Abraham Cowley, Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act. 2.Chor. ('Upon the slippery tops of humane State')
    • MaA 213 pp. 1225-6

      Copy.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xlviii. Margoliouth, I, 213-14. Smith, pp. 421-2, with English translation. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Scaevola Scoto-Brittanicus ('Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras')

  • Osborn MS b 59

    An indenture quadripartite, concerning land in Kent and elsewhere, signed by Sedley, William Savile, second Marquess of Halifax, William Sherrard, and John Brockett, 30 July 1697.

    1697.
    • *SeC 140
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Charles Sedley, Document(s)

  • Osborn MS b 60

    A vellum indenture signed by Suckling, on 1 May 1638, for the sale of the Manor of Roos Hall in Suffolk, to Theophilus Kent, George Cocke, and John Dusgate, one of eight largely vellum documents relating chiefly to Suffolk estates, one signed by the poet's father, Sir John Suckling (1569-1627).

    c.1638.

    Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 458.

    • *SuJ 188
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Suckling, Document(s)

  • Osborn MS b 62

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

    c.1640.
    • StW 338 p. 1

      Copy, headed On a tanners marieinge a butchers Daughter.

      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')
    • CwT 434.5 pp. 1-2

      Copy, headed A loue sonnet and here beginning Rise louely Celia, & be kinde.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

      Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship ('Kisse lovely Celia and be kind')
    • DnJ 1775 p. 3

      Copy, headed On a cripple and here beginning I cannot go nor stand the cripple cryes.

      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 225 pp. 4-5

      Copy, headed A leter to ones Mris.

      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')
    • RnT 359 pp. 6-9

      Copy, headed One a very deformed creature hauinge a voyce vncomparable sweet.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
    • RnT 249 pp. 9-14

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch')
    • RaW 477 p. 16

      Copy, headed A dialogue.

      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'
    • StW 867 pp. 19-20

      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')
    • WoH 256 pp. 20-2

      Copy, headed Dr Duns Goodnight to the world.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. 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!')
    • HrJ 49 p. 22

      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')
    • StW 833 p. 24

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet to his Mris.

      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')
    • HoJ 143 pp. 24-5

      Copy, headed On a fart let in the Parliament.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • KiH 92 pp. 25-6

      Copy, headed Answere.

      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')
    • CwT 1209 p. 26

      Copy, headed On a silken ribband.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • PeW 204 pp. 27-8

      Copy, headed Vpon one vnmariagable and here beginning Why should thy passions lead 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')
    • RnT 14 pp. 28-9

      Copy, headed To ones Mris thinking her selfe too younge and here beginning Dear doe not your fair beauty wronge.

      First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong')
    • MoG 79 pp. 29-30

      Copy, headed On a Nightingale and here beginning My limbs being wery & my head opprest.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • CwT 232 pp. 32-3

      Copy, headed To his Mris hauing stayed longe fro her.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • PoW 75 pp. 35-6

      Copy, headed On Mris Poole.

      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'
    • KiH 134 pp. 39-40

      Copy, headed A louer to one dispraising his Mris.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • HrJ 209 p. 41

      Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a puritan maide and here beginning A holy maid with one of her 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')
    • DkT 35 p. 42

      Copy, headed On the corps of Queene Elizabeth beinge brought by water from Greenewidge to Whitehall.

      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 290 pp. 46-7

      Copy, headed One 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')
    • RnT 200 pp. 47-51

      Copy, headed Randolps Dun or his petition to his Creditours.

      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')
    • CoR 749 p. 54

      Copy, headed Pure Nonsence Dr Corbet and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')
    • CoR 454 p. 55

      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')
    • EaJ 59 pp. 56-8

      Copy, headed In obitur Gulielmi Pembrocensis Cancellarij Oxonij. Erleso Merton.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
    • RnT 571 pp. 60-1

      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')
    • CwT 834 p. 70

      Copy of the first stanza, headed one the same Tom: Carewe.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • DaJ 40 p. 75

      Copy of an eight-line version, headed On A Lady.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.

      Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors ('A Lady faire two suiters had')
    • CoR 388 p. 79

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet on his Mris Lute and here beginning I prethee Lute when I am gone.

      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')
    • CwT 489 pp. 87-9

      Copy, headed On the death of ye Earle of Carlieles daughter.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

      Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay ('I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke')
    • StW 1338 p. 92

      Copy, headed on to his Mris.

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

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • HrJ 184 pp. 94-5

      Copy, headed Vpon a precise Taylor.

      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')
    • DnJ 1906 p. 95

      Copy.

      This MS or DnJ 1907 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')
    • HrJ 271 p. 96

      Copy, headed One Treason.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • GrF 46 p. 96

      Copy, headed alter [i.e. another on Treason] and here beginning Treason is like the basiliske his eye.

      Bullough, II, 118.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
    • PeW 265 p. 97

      Copy of a version headed A gentlewoman to a gentleman busy with her [ ] and beginning Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith, but will you, fie.

      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')
    • DnJ 3217 pp. 97-8

      Copy, headed Dr Dun. to his Mris.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and (this MS?) in Shawcross.

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

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

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • PoW 99 p. 99

      Copy, headed Upon K James elegy.

      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')
    • CoR 628 p. 101

      Copy, headed Vpon ye ladyes of ye newe dresses

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • CoR 161 pp. 106-7

      Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On ye Lady Harrington diing on ye smale pox and here beginning O ye deformed vnwomanlike disease.

      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')
    • HrJ 228 p. 114

      Copy, here beginning A certaine preist once riding on the way.

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

      Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
    • WoH 55 p. 115

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')
    • CwT 762 p. 126

      Copy.

      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')
    • JnB 651 pp. 127-31

      Copy, headed A Songe by Benn. Johnson.

      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')
    • DaJ 217 p. 132

      Copy, headed On the Death of an Infant and here beginning As carefull nurses doe to bedd 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')
    • BrW 142 p. 132

      Copy, headed On the Death of a Vertuous Lady.

      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 902 p. 132

      Copy, headed On A Mistresse.

      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')
    • BcF 51 pp. 134-5

      Copy, headed On the Worlds Vanity and subscribed Sir Fran: Bacon.

      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'
    • StW 834 p. 138

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • RnT 280 pp. 139-48

      Copy, subscribed Sic lucit Thom: Randalph.

      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')

  • Osborn MS b 63

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands suggesting communal use, paginated 5-309, in mottled calf.

    c.1697-1702.
    • WaE 623 pp. 5-9

      Copy, subscribed By ED: WALLER Esq. 1660., imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return ('The rising sun complies with our weak sight')
    • WaE 155 pp. 17-22

      Copy, headed On ye victory over ye Spaniards at St Lugar: 1656 and subscribed E.W.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')
    • CoA 298 pp. 109-10

      Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • MnJ 64 pp. 197-240

      Copy, transcribed from the text in Poems (1645), the title-page dated Anno Domi: 1658.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 261.

      First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of Comus. The Poem, originally called A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c., ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

      John Milton, Comus
    • FuT 5.245 p. 248 et seq.rev.

      Extracts.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

  • Osborn MS b 65

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, probably associated with Cambridge, densely written from both ends in a minute hand, paginated 11-264 (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Mid-17th century.

    Sotheby's, 15 February 1928, lot 500. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 550 (1931), item 310.

    • SpE 27 pp. 11-23

      Copy, beginning at stanza 24 (But me no man bewaileth, but in game); imperfect, lacking the first part and a title.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

      Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time ('It chaunced me on day beside the shore')
    • SpE 31 pp. 24-36

      Copy, headed Musarum Lachrymae Dominae Strange dedicatae.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.

      Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses ('Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine')
    • SpE 35 pp. 37-52

      Copy, headed Virgiliana Culex.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

      Edmund Spenser, Virgils Gnat ('We now haue playde (Augustus) wantonly')
    • SpE 20 pp. 53-63

      Copy, incomplete.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.

      Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale ('It was the month, in which the righteous Maide')
    • RnT 445 pp. 138-46

      Copy of the first 314 lines, here beginning No salting here these many yeares was seene, incomplete, on nine pages.

      Edited from this MS in Richek, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 102; discussed in Fredson Bowers, Thomas Randolph's Salting, MP, 39 (1941-2), 275-80, and in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V (1956), 991-3. Collated in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), II, 204-13.

      A humorous academic Lent graduation ceremony, beginning No salting heere these many yeares was seene.... First published (a short version) in Roslyn Richek, Thomas Randolph's Salting (1627), Its Text, and John Milton's Sixth Prolusion as Another Salting, ELR, 12 (1982), 102-31. The complete version edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 79-96.

      Thomas Randolph, Tom Randolf's Salting
    • SuJ 238 pp. 193-192 rev.

      Copy.

      First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre ('Sir John got him on an ambling Nag')
    • FuT 5.25 pp. 248-4 rev.

      Extracts.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

  • Osborn MS b 67

    Copy, in a professional hand, on 23 quarto pages, the work dated 1628, followed (pp. [25-7]) by Charles I's speech in parliament 17 March 1627, lacking covers.

    c.1630.
    • CtR 200
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

  • Osborn MS b 71

    An octavo miscellany, 25 pages, in contemporary vellum (cut from a deed).

    Late 17th century.
    • HeR 40 p. 25

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')

  • Osborn MS b 77

    MS of Cases & Discourses Controversial in Matters Divine, Volume I, 117 quarto pages (plus blanks), in 17th-century calf.

    Written by William Stanton (b.1673).

    1697.

    The name Sam: Rea: inscribed on the front pastedown.

    Formerly Chest I/45.

    • DrJ 267.8 pp. 15-20

      A Conference, between Montezuma Emperour of Mexico, an Indian Priest; & Cortez ye Spanish General, & a Jesuit, concerning some chief poynts, in Popery, in rhyming couplets, adapted from Dryden's play.

      First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
    • DrJ 294.3 pp. 74-8

      A Dialogue between ye Angel Gabriel, & Adam in Paradise; concerning freeWill, & Predestination, in rhyming couplets, adapted from Dryden's play.

      First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

      John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

  • Osborn MS b 86

    A quarto verse miscellany, written in a single professional hand on rectos only, 53 leaves, disbound.

    Late 17th century.
    • DeJ 19 ff. 26r-40r

      Copy of a version beginning Sure there are Poets which did never dreame.

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

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')
    • DrJ 214 ff. 45r-7r

      Copy, subscribed John Dryden.

      First published in Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 387-9. California, II, 172-4. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 218-22.

      John Dryden, To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse ('Whether the fruitful Nile, or Tyrian Shore')

  • Osborn MS b 93

    A pocket-book-size octavo volume of verse and prose works by John Cleveland, densely written in a small non-professional hand, 105 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1650s.

    Inscribed (p. 202 rev.) May Bowling... 1783. Hodgson's, 20 November 1959, lot 521, to Dobell.

    • ClJ 160 p. 1

      Copy, with a Latin version.

      Morris & Withington, p. 74.

      John Cleveland, <Greek> -- Anacreon ('The fruitfull earth carouses, and')
    • ClJ 50 pp. 3-4

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.

      John Cleveland, Fuscara; or the Bee Errant ('Natures Confectioner, the Bee')
    • ClJ 133 pp. 5-8

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.

      John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe ('Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good')
    • ClJ 158 pp. 9-11

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.

      John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him ('Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit')
    • ClJ 165 p. 12

      Copy, headed Juvenilia not entrd.

      This MS recorded in Morris.

      Morris & Withington, pp. 74-5.

      John Cleveland, News news News ('News news News is come from the North')
    • ClJ 60 p. 13

      Copy, headed Vpon the Commencement.

      This MS recorded in Morris.

      First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.

      John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new ('It is no Curranto-news I undertake')
    • ClJ 166 pp. 15-16

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.

      Morris & Withington, pp. 75-6.

      John Cleveland, 'No Hubbub surnamd Hue & cry'
    • ClJ 10 pp. 17-18

      Copy, headed Mark Antony.

      This MS recorded in Morris.

      First published in Character, the edition with additional material (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 42-3.

      John Cleveland, The Authours Mock-Song to Marke Anthony ('When as the Night-raven sung Pluto's Mattins')
    • ClJ 167 pp. 19-20

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.

      Morris & Withington, pp. 77-8.

      John Cleveland, On an Alderman who married a very young wife ('Let's charme some Poet from his grave')
    • ClJ 149 pp. 21-2

      Copy, headed Vpon ye Death of Mr King, docketed not entrd.

      First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

      John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas ('I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise')
    • ClJ 171 p. 23

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.

      Morris & Withington, p. 78.

      John Cleveland, Vpon Lee & Owens Fencing, a Dr Roan & a Jeffray ('The Tables spread & they begin')
    • ClJ 144 pp. 25-7

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.

      John Cleveland, Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising ('The sluggish morne, as yet undrest')
    • ClJ 48 p. 29

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

      John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
    • ClJ 140 pp. 31-3

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.

      John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite ('Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether')
    • ClJ 55 pp. 37-40

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.

      John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse ('Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade')
    • ClJ 117 pp. 41-2

      Copy, incomplete.

      First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions never before Printed (1653). Morris & Withington, pp. 60-2.

      John Cleveland, To Julia to expedite her promise ('Since 'tis my Doom, Love's under-Shreive')
    • ClJ 37 pp. 43-5

      Copy, incomplete.

      Copy.

      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')
    • ClJ 77 p. 47

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.

      John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day ('Astrologers say Venus, the same starr')
    • ClJ 14 pp. 49-51

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.

      John Cleveland, The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems ('Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee')
    • ClJ 83 pp. 53-4

      Copy.

      Morris & Withington, p. 63.

      John Cleveland, Parting with a Freind upon the Rode ('I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus')
    • ClJ 246 pp. 57-73

      Copy, untitled.

      Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 130-42,.

      John Cleveland, An Answer to a Pamphlet written against the Lord Digby's Speech concerning the Death of the Earl of Strafford
    • ClJ 260 p. 74

      Copy, subscribed John Cleveland.

      A petition to Cromwell dated [February 1656]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.

      John Cleveland, Petition to the Protector
    • ClJ 38 pp. 79-80

      Copy.

      First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, p. 64.

      John Cleveland, Epitaphium Thomae Spell Coll. Divi Johannis Præsidis ('Hic jacet Quantillum Quanti')
    • ClJ 121 pp. 83-5

      Copy.

      This MS discussed in Helen Duffy and Paul S. Wilson, A Note on John Cleveland's To Mistress K.T., N&Q, 220 (December 1975), 546-8.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.

      John Cleveland, To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb ('Stay, should I answer (Lady) then')
    • ClJ 93 pp. 87-92

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

      John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')
    • ClJ 247 pp. 95-9

      Copy, untitled.

      Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 169-72.

      John Cleveland, The Answer to the Newark Summons
    • ClJ 244 pp. 101-4

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 84-5.

      John Cleveland, The Answer [to a letter by W. E.]
    • ClJ 245 pp. 107-12

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 88-91.

      John Cleveland, The Answer [to another letter by W. E.]
    • ClJ 106 pp. 115-18

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

      John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
    • ClJ 80 pp. 121-3

      Copy.

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

      John Cleveland, On the Archbishop of Canterbury ('I need no Muse to give my passion vent')
    • ClJ 67 pp. 125-30

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 6-9.

      John Cleveland, The Kings Disguise ('And why so coffin'd in this vile disguise')
    • ClJ 152 pp. 131-2

      Copy.

      First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.

      John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland ('Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence')
    • ClJ 125 pp. 133-9

      Copy, headed Rupertismus.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.

      John Cleveland, To P. Rupert ('O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!')
    • ClJ 238 pp. 144-141 rev.

      Copy, dated martij 12 1641.

      Oration, beginning Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.

      John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
    • ClJ 228 pp. 148-146 rev.

      Copy, headed Oratio habita cora Academiæ Cant Cancellario et Legato Gallico.

      Oration, beginning Quam Augusta sit vestra præsentia, & quam sacro horrore.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 135-6.

      John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio ad Acad. Cantab. Cancellarium, & Legatum Gallicum, publice habita
    • ClJ 251 pp. 152-150 rev.

      Copy, headed Ad Episcopu cu factus erat Archb: Eboracensis.

      J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem).

      John Cleveland, Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cum factus essex Archiepiscopus Eboracensis
    • ClJ 265 pp. 160-159 rev.

      Copy, headed To the Ld of Holland then Chancellr of C.

      Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.

      John Cleveland, To the Earl of Holland
    • ClJ 267 pp. 164-163 rev.

      Copy.

      Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 146-7.

      John Cleveland, To the Earl of Newcastle
    • ClJ 248 pp. 168-167 rev.

      Copy, headed Ad Episc Ebor.

      Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 229-30.

      John Cleveland, Domino Edvardo Littleton, Sigilli Custodi
    • ClJ 269 p. 170 rev.

      Copy.

      Letter, beginning Madam / We should altogether excuse our presumption in writing....

      John Cleveland, To the Lady Bowes
    • ClJ 229 pp. 172-171 rev.

      Copy.

      Oration, beginning Quos nè videre possum citrà Oculorum Hyperbolen.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 139-40. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 173-4.

      John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis habita cum Junior Baccalaureus in Tripodem deputaret. Cantab
    • ClJ 242 pp. 182-181 rev.

      Copy.

      Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 234-5.

      John Cleveland, Ad Magistrum Wandesforth
    • ClJ 241 p. 184 rev.

      Copy.

      Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), p. 233.

      John Cleveland, Ad Doctorem Newall
    • ClJ 256 pp. 186-185 rev.

      Copy.

      Untitled letter, beginning Ubi aurita satisst filii pietas.... Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 236-7.

      John Cleveland, [Untitled letter]
    • ClJ 252 p. 188 rev.

      Copy, headed Ad Archiepiscopu Cantuariensem.

      J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem).

      John Cleveland, Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cum factus essex Archiepiscopus Eboracensis
    • ClJ 240 pp. 198-197 rev.

      Copy.

      Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 238-9.

      John Cleveland, Vinum est Poetarum Equus
    • ClJ 230 pp. 212-217 rev.

      Copy.

      Latin oration beginning Quam equivocum sit nomen Patris.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 146-50. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 185-8.

      John Cleveland, Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis Publicis habita cum Patris Officio fungeretur. Cantab

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