Folger Shakespeare Library
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Yale, Osborn, others

  • Osborn MS a 5

    Copy, in a neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-6v) an Introduction beginning From worldly cares and wanton loues conceipt, with a patterned title-page partly in gold, The Pathe to Paradise, iv + 27 quarto leaves, in 19th-century paper boards.

    c.1600.

    Inscribed on the title-page Mary Yeate. A pasted-in slip The Rev. Charles Churchill [fl.1845, Wesleyan missionary], Halifax, Nov Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda.

    • SoR 267.92
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

  • Osborn MS a 6

    A quarto miscellany of Catholic verse and prose, in the hand of Peter Mowle (b.1554), entitled Sartain Most Holsome Meditations Verey Meete to Bee Dulie Considered, iv + 38 pages; once bound with a commonplace book of Nicolas Hanslopp, of Attleborough, dated 1 January 1595 but with dates between 1618 and 1622, now disbound.

    c.1595.

    Inscribed names Robert Worral, John Radford, and William Sutton, His Booke.

    Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Earle Havens, Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 525 et seq.).

    • SoR 267.93 pp. 1-22

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis P M, preceded by an epistle To ye right honorable, ye Ladie vicount Hereford...this first of ianuarie, Anno 1595.

      First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

  • Osborn MS a 25

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on 133 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Once owned by William Say (d.1529), a family friend of the Mores. Christie's, June 1972.

    • MrT 106
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • Osborn MS a 41

    A quarto copy of (?) Richard Verstegan's Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the realm of England (1592), in several secretary hands, untitled, 40 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    c.1590s.

    Inscribed on f. iv Lib. Edwi. Mangin. This volume was inspected by the Revd. and learned Joseph Hunter [(1783-1861), scholar and antiquary], who said it did not contain anything of moment - sufficient to make amends for the trouble of reading it.

    • RaW 378.5 f. 37v

      Copy, here beginning Here lyes ye worthy warrier / thar neuer blouded sword.

      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')

  • Osborn MS c 102

    Commonplace book of Lady Christian Kerr (b.1679), 205 folio pages.

    c.1716-30.
    • HoJ 38 p. 26

      Copy of the last stanza, beginning By absence this good mean I gain.

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

      John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')

  • Osborn MS c 111

    A verse miscellany, in a single hand, in calf.

    c.1700s.
    • DoC 326.999 p. 60

      Copy.

      Recorded in Harris.

      First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')

  • Osborn MS c 125/4

    A composite volume of MSS.

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed and possibly once owned by the Scottish advocate John Spotiswood (1666-1728). Pickering & Chatto, sale catalogue No. 353 (1953), item 655.

    • HaG 19 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy, in a professional hand, on 133 quarto pages.

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • Osborn MS c 139

    A verse miscellany, comprising Volume I of A Collection of Poems by Thomas Binns of Liverpool, paginated 4 to 625, including an index.

    1789.
    • HrG 220.5 pp. 124-5

      Copy, subscribed From Herberts Poems 5th. Edition printed in the year 1638.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 110-11.

      George Herbert, The Quip ('The merrie world did on a day')
    • HrG 82.5 pp. 126-7

      Copy, subscribed From the same.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 114-15.

      George Herbert, Dialogue ('Sweetest Saviour, if my soul')
    • HrG 18.5 pp. 128-9

      Copy, subscribed From the same.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 92-3.

      George Herbert, Antiphon (II) ('Praised be the God of love')
    • HrG 32.6 pp. 130-2

      Copy, subscribed From the same.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 113-14.

      George Herbert, Businesse ('Canst be idle? canst thou play')
    • HrG 181.8 pp. 133-4

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 133-4.

      George Herbert, The Method ('Poore heart, lament')
    • HrG 58.5 pp. 135-6

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 157.

      George Herbert, Clasping of hands ('Lord, thou art mine, and I am thine')
    • HrG 34.5 p. 137

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 156.

      George Herbert, The Call ('Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life')
    • HrG 85.5 pp. 138-9

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 178-9.

      George Herbert, Discipline ('Throw away thy rod')
    • HrG 95.5 pp. 140-1

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 184-5.

      George Herbert, The Elixir ('Teach me, my God and King')
    • HrG 102.8 p. 142

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 199.

      George Herbert, L'Envoy ('King of Glorie, King of Peace')
    • WiG 21.9 pp. 143-83 passim

      Extracts, comprising six hymns and religious meditations.

      First published in London, 1641. Spenser Society, Nos 26-27 (1879; reprinted in New York, 1967).

      George Wither, Haleluiah, or, Britains Second Remembrancer ('Come, oh come in pious Laies')

  • Osborn MS c 142

    A miscellany compiled by Thomas Binns.

    1799.
    • DrW 227.5 p. 401

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (Edinburgh, 1616). Kastner, I, 4.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Sonnet ('I Know that all beneath the Moone decayes')

  • Osborn MS c 144

    A quarto commonplace book of verse extracts, 340 pages (including blanks), in a small neat hand.

    Mid-18th century.
    • CgW 1 p. 110

      Copy of lines 49-64, headed Character of a Jilt and beginning Peculiar therefore is her Way.

      First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 142-3. Dobrée, pp. 285-7. McKenzie, II, 370-1.

      William Congreve, Doris ('Doris, a Nymph of ripe Age')
    • MnJ 145 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts

  • Osborn MS c 152

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat probably female hand, 76 pages (including blanks) plus twelve tipped-in letters etc., in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1732-47.

    Inscribed on f. [iv] This Book was given me by Dear Mrs Ogle January ye 15 1747, to which is added in another hand Widow of the late George Ogle Esqr. and Daughter of Sir Thomas Twisden. Inscribed on the same page inverted My Brother Wilm & Family came to My Mother April ye 26 1808. Richd From May ye 26 1808 left July ye 10th, and on the front paste-down Mary Dyott 10 Febry 1782 . Dated on page 1 1732.

    • DkT 36.5 p. 43

      Copy, headed Upon the Removal of Queen Elizabeth's Body from Richmond where She died to White-Hall, by Water where she lay in State.

      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')

  • Osborn MS c 158

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, ix + 484 pages, in contemporary vellum.

    Entitled (p. iv) A Miscellany of various things Being A Collection of rarities / In two Books / the First Book is cheifly Composed of Ænigma's Dialogue Epigrams Epitaphs Fragments of Dr. Latimers Sermons Poems Satyra, songs, Love verces & other accations &c...Collected from ye year 1697 to ye year 1728 per: Jer: Cliff Apoth; at Tenterden In Kent.

    c.1728.

    Inscribed (p. 484) Sarah Cliff Her Book July ye 18 1741 Given her By her father.

    • RoJ 238 p. ix

      Copy.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • DaJ 152.3 p. 105

      Copy of a version, headed Epitaph ye 20th upon a Bellows Maker of Oxford and beginning Here lies John Crucker a maker of Bellows.

      A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

      Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')

  • Osborn MS c 160

    Verse miscellany.

    Early 18th century.

    Previously owned by John Wilson (1719-83) of Broomhead Hall. Later Phillipps MS 17695. Later owned by C.K. Ogden (1887-1957) and sold at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 619, to Dobell.

    • MaA 358 ff. 1r-8r

      Copy.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 387 ff. 8r-9v, 16r-v

      Copy, the envoy here ascribed to Denham.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 420 ff. 16v-19r

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 433 ff. 19v-22r

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • RoJ 602 ff. 95r-94v rev.

      Copy.

      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')

  • Osborn MS c 166

    A miscellany of anecdotes and verse, in a single hand.

    c.1730.
    • RnT 473 p. 293

      Copy.

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

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')

  • Osborn MS c 176

    An octavo verse miscellany, 186 pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1728.
    • CgW 32.9 p. 38

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in London, 1706. Summers, IV, 82-91. Dobrée, pp. 335-41. McKenzie, II, 419-23.

      William Congreve, A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the Queen On the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough ('Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse')
    • WaE 132.5 p. 124

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira ('While she pretends to make the graces known')
    • RoJ 121 p. 180

      Copy of a version headed King Charles's Epitaph. By the E: of Roch: and beginning Here Lyes our Sovereign the King.

      First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')

  • Osborn MS c 186

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 154 pages.

    c.1760.
    • SeC 14 pp. 49-50

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 45-6.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Doctor and his Patients ('There was a prudent grave Physician')

  • Osborn MS c 188

    A folio verse miscellany, 91 pages, in vellum.

    c.1760.

    Formerly Osborn MS. Box III, Number 27.

    • RoJ 239 p. 68

      Copy, headed On ye E of Ro—r and endorsed On ye Church of Rome by ye E of Ro:.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

  • Osborn MS c 189

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

    c.1705.
    • DoC 184 p. 1

      Copy, headed On a Lady who fancy'd her self a beauty by Tho: Brown.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • RoJ 122 p. 1

      Copy of a version headed Posted on Whitehall gate pr: my Ld. Rochester and here beginning Here lives a great & mighty Monarch.

      First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')
    • CgW 42 p. 2

      Copy.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 78. Dobrée, p. 245. McKenzie, II, 326.

      William Congreve, Song ('Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs')
    • DrM 39.6 p. 3

      Copy of the later version of lines 149-52.

      First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

      Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

      Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda ('When these my Letters come into thy view')
    • DrJ 178 pp. 9-10

      Copy.

      First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1775. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 622.

      John Dryden, A Song ('Fair sweet and young, receive a Prize')
    • RoJ 524 pp. 10-11

      Copy, headed On Death by my Lord Rochester.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')
    • PsK 577.2 pp. 18-19, 24-5

      Extracts.

      Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy
    • PsK 48 p. 27

      Copy of lines 1-4, 29-32, headed In Praise of ye: Country.

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

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 84 p. 27

      Copy, here beginning My dear Rosania sometimes to be kind.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.

      Katherine Philips, A Farwell to Rosania ('My Dear Rosania, sometimes be so kind')
    • PsK 354 p. 29

      Copy, headed A Lover.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.

      Katherine Philips, Tendres desers out of a French prose ('Go soft desires, Love's gentle Progeny')
    • PsK 543 p. 29

      Copy, headed Upon graving a Name on a Tree.

      First published, as Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks, in Poems (1667), p. 137. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 208, poem 91. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII, ed. W. Barclay Squire and J.A. Fuller-Maitland (London, 1922), pp. 153-4.

      Katherine Philips, Upon the engraving. K:P: on a Tree in the short walke at Barn=Elms ('Alass! how barbarous are we')
    • SdT 23.6 p. 63

      Copy of Oldwit's jocular verses, in a version beginning In a dish came fish.

      First published in London, 1689. Jocular lines by Oldwit. Versions published in Ben Jonson, ed. Herford and Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), pp. 424-5.

      Thomas Shadwell, Bury-Fair. Song: I sent a fish
    • DoC 253 p. 112

      Copy, headed A Song to Cloris from ye: blind Archer, by my Ld: Buckhurst.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, p. 76.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song to Chloris, from the blind Archer ('Ah! Chloris, 'tis time to disarm your bright eyes')
    • CgW 25.5 p. 126

      Copy, headed Song by Mr. Congreve.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 79. Dobrée, pp. 284-5. McKenzie, II, 369.

      William Congreve, Lesbia ('When Lesbia first I saw so heavn'ly Fair')
    • OtT 13 p. 158

      Copy of the song.

      A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).

      Thomas Otway, 'Would you know how we meet'

  • Osborn MS c 193

    A small quarto verse miscellany, 149 pages (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1791.
    • DrM 65.5 p. 36

      Copy, headed From Drayton's Works. To His Coy Love, a Canzonet, followed (p. 37) by a Latin version Puellæ fastidiosæ; ode (Parce, precor, parce; inque alium jam transfer).

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')

  • Osborn MS c 229/1

    The first of a set of two folio verse miscellanies, in several hands, compiled in part by Maurice Johnson (1668-1755), in contemporary calf.

    Early 18th century.
    • DrM 39.8 f. 40r

      Copy of the later version of lines 149-52.

      First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

      Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

      Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda ('When these my Letters come into thy view')

  • Osborn MS c 244

    A folio verse miscellany, in a single hand, compiled by Nathaniel Hamby, of Wymondham, Norfolk, 648 pages, in morocco gilt.

    c.1729.
    • BrW 229.4 p. 107

      Copy of lines 1-6.

      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')
    • MkM 18 p. 108

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')
    • CoA 100.8 p. 230

      Copy.

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

      Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame ('Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!')
    • RoJ 11.94 pp. 290-1

      Copy, headed The Charrecter of the English by Mr Wolseley.

      This MS recorded in Nicholas Fisher, Rochester's An Allusion to Tacitus, N&Q, 255, No. 4 (December 2010), 503-6.

      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')

  • Osborn MS c 358

    An octavo volume of Psalms of David by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 115 pages, in calf.

    1729.
    • EtG 82.3 p. 2

      Copy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

      Sir George Etherege, Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind')

  • Osborn MS c 360

    Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum.

    Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre.

    c.1753.
    • WoH 197.6 Vol. I, p. 33, No. XXXIII

      Copy, headed on a Gentleman who died ye next Day after his Lady and here beginning She first Departed: He for one Day try'd.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • JnB 136.4 Vol. I, p. 185, No. CLXIV

      Copy, headed Epitaph on a Lady - written by Ben Johnson and here beginning Underneath this Stone doth Lye.

      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')
    • CgW 46.9 Vol. I, p. 319

      Copy.

      First published in Works (1710). Summers, IV, 144-5. McKenzie, II, 372-3.

      William Congreve, To Sleep Elegy ('O Sleep! thou Flatterer of happy Minds')
    • MnJ 146 Vol. I, [unspecified page numbers]
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts
    • ShJ 21.5 Vol. II, f. [18r], No. 53

      Copy, headed Epitaph on George Villiers Duke of Buckingham -- by Shirley.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.

      James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham ('Here lies the best and worst of Fate')
    • BrW 229.5 Vol. II, f. [19r], No. 54

      Copy of lines 1-6, headed an Epitaph by an uncertain hand on Mary Countess Dowager of Pembroke and here beginning Underneath this Marble Hearse.

      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')

  • Osborn MS c 362

    A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by Ralph Tinley (1739-89), 92 pages.

    Late 18th century.
    • MrC 19.8 p. 6

      Copy.

      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 c 481

    A quarto verse miscellany, compiled by John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854), 309 pages.

    Early 19th century.
    • BrW 229.7 p. 53

      Copy of lines 1-6.

      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')
    • MkM 19 p. 271

      Copy, incomplete.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Osborn MS c 547

    A quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Elizabeth Elliotson, 330 pages.

    1729.
    • BrW 229.8 p. 230

      Copy of lines 1-6.

      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')
    • RaW 98.5 p. 332

      Copy, as an epitaph used for a monument to Wilfred Lawson.

      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'

  • Osborn MS c 549

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, 150 pages.

    1720.
    • EtG 82.8 p. 94

      Copy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

      Sir George Etherege, Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind')
    • SeC 17.8 p. 114

      Copy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference ('Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn')

  • Osborn MS fa 3

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, densely written on 53 folio pages, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending, disbound.

    Late 16th century.

    Sold at Sotheby's to Dobell.

    This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

    • LeC 87
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • Osborn MS fa 12

    Copy in six or seven cursive secretary hands, on 76 folio pages (pp. 23-6, 59-68 of slightly smaller size), possibly a rapidly produced piecemeal production, disbound.

    1597-early 17th century.

    Once owned by Sir Henry St George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms. Bought in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of Phillipps MS 13761). Hofmann & Freeman, sale catalogue 21, item 80. A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 207.

    • SpE 63
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • Osborn MS fa 27

    Copy.

    Copy, in a professional anglicana and secretary hand, some majuscules engrossed, with corrections and interlinear additions possibly in another hand, 118 folio leaves, in modern limp vellum with green ties.

    Mid-16th century.

    Once owned bt Sir Geoffrey Pole (d.1558). Later owned by N.H. Tattersfield. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 9, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

    Facsimile in the British Library, RP 3529.

    • MrT 30.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.

      Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort

  • Osborn MS fb 7

    Copy, 81 folio leaves, bound with eight leaves of later poems at the beginning and a score of lute music at the end (ff. 81-9).

    Headed The appearance of the ghost of Kinge Edward the Second, Kinge of England, incomplete at the end.

    • HuF 21
      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 fb 9

    A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.

    c.1610.

    Names inscribed on f. [ir]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

    • TiC 46 f. 30r

      Copy, here beginning My prince of youth...

      First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
    • KyT 2 f. 30v

      Copy, headed The Aunsweare to the same [i.e. Tichborne's poem] and here beginning Thy theyme of youthe, is frozen with the faults.

      First published in Verses of Prayse and Ioye (London, 1586). Boas, pp. 340-1. Probably not by Kyd.

      Thomas Kyd, Hendecasyllabon T.K. in Cygneam Cantionam Chidiochi Tychborne ('Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults')
    • ElQ 101 f. 33r

      Copy, headed Queene Eliz: lre: or prayer for the prosperous successe of Thear[le] of Essex at Cales.

      The text is subscribed This lre being written by her matie: & lieing in her closett vnsent one of her maides of honor priuately tooke the same lre and showed to Sr. Robert Cicill who tooke a Copie therof & laide yt where it was found and then wrott that ler: to gather wth his owne here vnder written to The Earles at Oates. This is subscribed (f. 33r) with the text of Cecil's letter.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
    • ElQ 243 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy of the English version, headed The Queenes speech in pliment and introduced by the original scribe's explanation The ffirst words I heard not all tell yt came to this sayeinge.

      First published (Version II) in John Stow, Annales; or a General Chronicle of England (London, 1601), pp. 1272-3.

      Version I. Beginning This kingdom hath had many noble and victorious princes.... Hartley, III, 173-5. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 328-30 (Version 1)

      Version II. Beginning My Lords and you, my Commons of the Lower House, were it not that I know no speeches presented by any other.... Hartley, III, 28-9. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 330-2.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, April 10, 1593
    • RaW 496.5 f. 38v

      Copy.

      First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes'
    • DaJ 295 ff. 40r-1v

      Copy of the dialogue between Place and Time.

      The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

      Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield

  • Osborn MS fb 12

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven large folio leaves, disbound.

    c.1620.
    • OvT 57
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • Osborn MS fb 13

    A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous entries under headings, in Latin, 694 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Inscribed on the first page F Welles.

    • ElQ 238 p. 407

      Copy of the speech in Latin, in a secretary hand.

      Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592

  • Osborn MS fb 23

    A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Includes arms and genealogy of Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lestr and of The Lords of Hatton Co. Lestr. Inscribed Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855.

    • NaR 38 ff. 1r-48r

      Copy.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
    • LeC 88 ff. 49r-137v

      Copy.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • RaW 700 ff. 196-9v

      Copy.

      The articles propounded by Essex beginning Besides many advertisements of the great preparation of Spain, of their forwardness or rather full readiness to set sail... and Ralegh's opinion beginning First, if we consider without further circumstance that the fleet which was at Lisbon is already gone.... First published in Opinions delivered by the Earl of Essex, [&c.]...on the Alarm of an Invasion from Spain in the Year 1596 (London, n.d.) [the exemplum in the National Archives, Kew, SP 9/52/25, bears the MS date 1803]. Works (1829), VIII, 675-81.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Opinion upon the Articles propounded by the Earl of Essex upon the Alarum given by the Spaniards in 1596
    • ElQ 305 ff. 203r-4r

      Copy of Version 3, headed Her Maiesties most Princely answere deliuered by herselfe at the Court att Whitehall on the last day of November 1601 when the Speaker of the lower house of Parliamt assisted wth the greatest part of knights and Burgesses had presented their humble thankes for her free and gracious fauour in preventing and reforming of sundry greiuances by abuse of many graunts called monopolies, in a professional hand.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
    • BcF 530 ff. 267r-8r

      Copy.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • RaW 647 ff. 287-98

      Copy, headed A politicke dispute about the happiest Match for the noble Prince Charles.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

  • Osborn MS fb 27

    Copy, on 124 folio pages.

    Complete with fourteen-page The Epistle To the Queen, but without a title, in a single professional scribal hand.

    c.1630.

    Phillipps MS 13128.

    • HoH 51
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

      Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

  • Osborn MS fb 37

    A folio volume of transcripts of Bacon's correspondence, in a single professional hand, vi + 62 leaves, disbound.

    c.1630.

    A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, (M/488(2)).

    • BcF 652 passim

      Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to various recipients.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 75.11 [unspecified page numbers]

      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
    • BcF 194 ff. 20v-7v

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

  • Osborn MS fb 38

    A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in two or more professional hands, 150 leaves, in modern boards.

    • EsR 150 ff. [7r-19v]

      Copy, the work dated 1598.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

  • Osborn MS fb 39

    A folio volume of state tracts, in two or more professional hands, 150 leaves, in modern boards.

    c.1630.
    • RaW 1077 ff. 27r-[63r]

      Copy.

      A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse

  • Osborn MS fb 40

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 605 pages (including blanks), in 17th-century calf.

    c.late 1620s-30s.

    Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (bookplate, XXI no. 20). MS 25. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 265, sold to Dobell.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 83).

    • NaR 39 pp. 21-114

      Copy, the title-page (p. 21), pp. 23 to the top of p. 51, most of p. 65 to p. 66 in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the rest of p. 51 to the top of p. 65 in a second professional hand, and pp. 67-114 in a third scribal hand.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
    • RaW 389.6 p. 224

      Copy, in a professional copy (on pp. 185-246) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is here entitled Cicell's Common Wealth.

      First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
    • RaW 568 pp. 513-444

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleighes Apologie.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

  • Osborn MS fb 41

    A folio volume of state tracts, sermons and other texts, in at least four hands, 89 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1640.

    Probably associated with Oxford. Armorial stamp on the cover of a Duke (?of Devonshire). Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 952.

    • NaR 40 ff. 63r-80r

      Copy in a secretary hand.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
    • WoH 290 ff. 84r-9r

      Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • Osborn MS fb 43

    A folio volume of two works, each in a different professional hand, bound with two printed tracts, in modern red half-morocco.

    A flyleaf inscribed John Rose Christmas 1895.

    • NaR 41 ff. 1r-60v

      Copy, with a title-page added (f. i) in a non-professional hand and other late-17th-century minor additions.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

  • Osborn MS fb 53

    A folio volume of parliamentary tracts, debates and proceedings in Parliament, in two professional hands, 439 pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1690.

    Bookplate of James Brydges (1642-1714), eighth Baron Chandos, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.

    • ClE 70 second pagination, pp. 1-38

      Copy.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663
    • ClE 123 pp. 160-359

      Copy, headed Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons about impeaching the Earle of Clarendon late Lord Chancellour, with the debates and speeches concerning that matter.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • Osborn MS fb 57

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches, etc., in various professional hands, 375 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

    c.1620s-30s.

    Scribbling on several pages including the names Mrs Anne WM Quinney, Oner Ormen, Ormeson, and Rumney.

    • CtR 201 pp. 219-24
      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 fb 60

    A folio composite volume of 23 state tracts and papers, 476 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    In several professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

    Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645), and Liber 4 (=MS 20) in his list of MS volumes, 18 February 1634/5. Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Eaton Hall booklabel Case XXI no 12. Hofmann and Freeman sale catalogue No. 21 (January 1968), item 1 (vols i and ii)i.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 212-14. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 252-3 (No. 82). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 217.

    • BcF 96 ff. 206r-32v

      Copy.

      Spedding, VII, 567-611.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches
    • BcF 195 ff. 344v-51v

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • BcF 428 ff. 448r-56r

      Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 82.7 (p. 253).

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Osborn MS fb 64

    A largely autograph copy, on five pages of three unbound folio leaves.

    The title and first stanza in Cotton's hand, the remainder in the hand of Amanuensis C (i.e. William Fitzherbert), with a revision in stanza 29. This MS once formied part of the Derby MS (Derby Central Library, fmss 8470).

    c.1660s.

    Later owned by Mrs D.C. Scratchley. Sotheby's, 31 October 1961, lot 218 (when the hands were misidentified). Formerly in Yale Files/Cotton.

    Discussed, and the hands correctly identified, in Parks, with facsimiles (on pp. 7 and 9) of the first page and stanza 27. Facsimile of stanza 27 and Cotton's signature also in Nicolas (1836), I, after p. clxiv, reproduced in Parks, p. 9. The MS edited in full, with a facsimile of the first page (but with hands then still misidentified) in Stephen Parks, A Contentation of Anglers, Yale University Library Gazette, 43 (1969), 157-64, and further discussed (confusedly) in Alvin I. Dust, The Manuscript of Cotton's Contentation, The Library, 5th Ser. 30 (1975), 315-22.

    • *CnC 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 252-60. Beresford, pp. 89-95. Buxton, pp. 251-7.

      Charles Cotton, Contentation. Directed to my Dear Father, and most Worthy Friend, Mr. Isaac Walton ('Heav'n, what an Age is this! what Race')

  • Osborn MS fb 66

    A composite collection of separate copies of English verse, 64 folio and quarto pages.

    Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712).

    Late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

    • ShJ 171 No. 11

      Copy of the dirge in the hand of one Thomas Style, subscribed Sr This is the Song I Promised you if you Please To turne over Leafe... and headed A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      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')
    • DeJ 7.8 No. 26

      Extracts.

      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')
    • WaE 511 No. 27

      Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

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

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
    • WaE 747 No. 27

      Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, 'While I listen to thy voice'
    • BuS 35 No. 32

      Extracts.

      Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

      Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
    • DaW 33 Nos 35v and 36r-v

      Copy, preceded by a deleted copy of lines 6-14, on two of three folio leaves containing extracts from Davenant.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 134-6.

      Sir William Davenant, A New-years-Gift to the Queen, in the Year 1643 ('Madam, 'tis fit I now make even')
    • DnJ 1381 No. 38

      Copy on a single leaf.

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

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • CoA 299 No. 39

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

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • DrJ 267.9 No. 40

      Extracts.

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

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
    • RoJ 333 No. 42

      Copy of lines 1-173, untitled, inscribed Satira del Conte di Rochester, on five pages of four folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Walker.

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

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

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

  • Osborn MS fb 68

    A composite volume of separate verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 142 pages, disbound.

    Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8302. Sotheby's, 25 June 1935, lot 342, to Maggs. Formerly Chest II, 2.

    • SeC 15 p. 45

      Copy on a single folio leaf. The text is followed on p. 47 by a poem headed The doctor and the Cooke (Going down staires he met a scullion).

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 45-6.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Doctor and his Patients ('There was a prudent grave Physician')
    • SeC 113 p. 49

      Abridgement, here untitled, amounting to some 43 lines, beginning Marcus Varro in a treatise Written of the Number of Guests..., on a single folio leaf, endorsed Symposiack of SC. Sidley.

      c.1700s.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Essay on Entertainments
    • MaA 163.99 p. 71

      Copy.

      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')
    • SeC 93.5 p. 75

      Copy, ascribed to Sidley.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Character of Ld Leicester ('Learned thy selfe, and having such for frinds')
    • EtG 56 pp. 99-101

      Copy, addressed on the back (p. 102) For Mrs. Weatherly att the Countesse of mnchesters house in Downing Street in Westminster, dated 10 May 1686, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • DoC 89 p. 123

      Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris pp. 93-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy ('Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more')

  • Osborn MS fb 69

    A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks).

    c.1620s-30s.

    The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sepr 11th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esqr. Gayton.

    • SiP 244 pp. 57-73

      Extracts, headed Deuine & morall sentences taken out of Sr. Phillip Sedneys Arcadia, dated at the end 16. finis. 2i. / Aug. 24.

      Facsimile of f. p. 57 in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 187).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
    • HoJ 178 p. 200

      Copy, headed Mr. Hoskins a lawyer in the Middle Temple made these two verses of four gentlemem of the Temple (Mr. Martin Mr. Farwell Mr. Musket Mr. Warre).

      A single couplet.

      John Hoskyns, 'Martin is fled, Farewell my friend'
    • RaW 98 p. 208

      Copy, headed 1616. [sic] Sr Walter Rawley, nox ante obitum and subscribed These verses were made the night before he lost his hed.

      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'
    • SiP 245 p. 211

      Further extracts, headed respectively A description of an excellent woman, for mind & body. Out of Arcadia and The excellency of marriage taken out of Arcadia; which I cannot now so well aproue of, when as I do look on my [wife deleted].

      Facsimile of f. p. 211 in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 190).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
    • RaW 186.8 p. 236

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • ElQ 229 [unspecified page numbers]

      Castillion's account of Elizabeth's visit to the army at Tilbury, I myselfe beinge there a Captayne and an eye Witnesse. F. C.

      Beginning My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes.... Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeths Armada speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August 9, 1588

  • Osborn MS fb 70

    A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52.

    • RoJ 358 p. 28

      Copy, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, Rochester's Scepter Lampoon on Charles II, PQ, 37 (1958), 424-32 (p. 424); recorded in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • DoC 62 pp. 31-3

      Copy, headed A Bathe Lampoon and dated 1698, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      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')
    • BuS 36 ff. 49r-50v

      Copy.

      Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

      Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
    • EtG 57 pp. 53-5

      Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
    • EtG 121 pp. 67-8

      Copy of the song sung by Aurelia and Letitia, headed Song 134. The Carefull Shepherdesse.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in London, 1664. Brett-Smith, I, 1-88 (pp. 21-2). The song in Thorpe, p. 20.

      Sir George Etherege, The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act II, scene ii, lines 153-69. Song ('When Phillis watch'd her harmless Sheep')
    • EtG 117 pp. 89-90

      Copy, headed Song, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

      First published in Examen Miscellaneum (London, 1702). Thorpe, pp. 59-60.

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Since Death on all lays his impartial hand')
    • DoC 304 pp. 105-7

      Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
    • MaA 470 pp. 143-4

      Copy, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

      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')
    • DoC 326 pp. 147-9 (bis)

      Copy, headed The Deist, on five pages of two conjugate pairs of folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons ('Religion's a politic law')
    • MaA 498 p. 155

      Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

      This volume formerly Phillipps MS 8301.

      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')
    • DoC 102 pp. 173-6

      Copy, including corrections and notes in a second hand supplying calculations and markings for copyists and evidently used as a scriptorium master copy or exemplar from which further transcripts were made, on two folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris. Facsimile of first page in POAS, IV, after p. 190, and discussed pp. 351-2.

      First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')
    • MaA 421 pp. 203-5

      Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • DrJ 150 ff. 271-3

      Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1997.

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

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')

  • Osborn MS fb 88

    A folio letterbook of Sir Richard Bulstrode (1610-1711) chiefly when he was British envoy at Brussels, in several hands, 226 pages, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1678-82 [and later additions].
    • DoC 209 p. 119v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
    • DnJ 470 f. 120r

      Copy, immediately following on from Stay sweet and do not rise (see DnJ 2983).

      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 1382 f. 120r

      Copy.

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

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 2983 f. 120r

      Copy.

      See also DnJ 470.

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

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

  • Osborn MS fb 95

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 112 folio leaves, lacking title, disbound.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Sotheby's, 24 March 1970, lot 438.

    • DaJ 280
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • Osborn MS fb 100

    Copy, in two or three hands, including revisions, untitled, beginning Genesis Chap. 1st Canto 1s, 318 folio pages, in 17th-century calf gilt.

    c.1664-79.

    Endpapers inscribed Anne Rochester her book and Rochester 1664 [i.e. by Anne (1614-96), Countess of Rochester, mother of the poet].

    This MS discussed, with facsimile examples, and the first five cantos collated against the 1679 edition, in Norbrook, EMS, 9 (2000). Cantos 6-20 edited from this MS in Norbrook's edition (2001), with facsimile examples on pp. 10, 88 and 145.

    A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 547.

    • HuL 3
      No description or publication history available.

      An unfinished epic poem in twenty cantos. The first five cantos first published anonymously as Order and Disorder: or, the World Made and Undone. Being Meditations upon the Creation and the Fall (London, 1679). Attributed to Lucy Hutchinson in David Norbrook, Lucy Hutchinson and Order and Disorder: The Manuscript Evidence, EMS, 9 (2000), 257-91. The full twenty cantos first published in the edition by David Norbrook (Oxford, 2001). The attribution supported in John Burrows and Hugh Craig, Lucy Hutchinson and the Authorship of Two Seventeenth-Century Poems: A Computational Approach, The Seventeenth Century, 16/2 (Autumn 2001), 259-82.

      Lucy Hutchinson, Order and Disorder ('My Ravisht soule, A pious Ardour fires')

  • Osborn MS fb 106

    A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes.

    Chiefly late 17th century.

    Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

    a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

    • CoA 152 No. 1, pp. [1-2]

      Copy, headed The Prologue and Epilogue to ye Game at Chesse by Pooley, on both pages of a single quarto leaf.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
    • CoA 81 No. 1, p. [2]

      Copy on the second page of a single quarto leaf.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')
    • DeJ 94 No. 8

      Copy, headed Mr Hamdens speech occasioned upo ye Londoners petition for peace, on a single broadsheet.

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

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
    • DeJ 76 No. 9, f. 2

      Copy, headed Wentworth Triumphe over all, on two folio leaves. The text accompanied by a parody.

      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')
    • WaE 266 No. 15

      Copy, here beginning As Sampsons Lyon honey gave, on a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 80-1.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady Mary, &c. ('As once the lion honey gave')
    • DeJ 36 No. 16

      Copy on a single folio leaf.

      First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.

      Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
    • MaA 197 No. 17

      Copy on eight folio pages.

      First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

      Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

      Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')
    • MaA 231 No. 18

      Copy, headed Vpon the Statue of brass of King Charles ye first on horsback to be sett up at Chairing cross, on the first of two unbound conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
    • MaA 160 No. 19

      Copy on two folio leaves.

      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')
    • DoC 139 No. 21

      Copy, headed My Opinion on ye nine pinn's, on a sikngle quarto leaf.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
    • MaA 84.91 No. 24

      Copy.

      Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty')
    • DoC 63 No. 27

      Copy, headed A Satyr.

      This MS collated 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')
    • DoC 360 No. 31

      Copy, here beginning Filld with the noysome folly of the age, on three of four folio leaves.

      See DoC 358.

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

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

  • Osborn MS fb 107

    A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages.

    c.1670s.

    The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

    • DrJ 250.6 p. 12

      Copy of the song.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')
    • EtG 83 p. 15

      Copy of lines 1-8, headed The pleasant Death.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

      Sir George Etherege, Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind')
    • DrJ 267.4 p. 18

      Copy.

      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')
    • EtG 16 p. 29

      Copy, headed Song 56. Loue Trick's.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, pp. 3-4.

      Sir George Etherege, The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue between Phillis and Strephon ('Tell me, gentle Strephon, why')
    • DrJ 261.8 p. 27

      Copy.

      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')
    • EtG 126 pp. 30-1

      Copy, headed Song 60. The Rambling Lady.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.

      Sir George Etherege, She wou'd if she cou'd, Act V, scene i, lines 312-23. Song ('To little or no purpose I spent many days')
    • EtG 84 p. 31

      Second copy of lines 1-8, headed The Beauty.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

      Sir George Etherege, Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind')
    • DrJ 265 p. 41

      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')
    • MsP 21.5 p. 42

      Copy.

      First published, as by P. M. and N[athan] F[ield], in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song ('Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue')
    • MsP 26 pp. 42-3

      Copy.

      Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be')
    • ShJ 178 p. 44

      Copy of the second song, headed Song. 91. Death, and his Emissaries.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 355. Harris, pp. 388-9. Armstrong, p. 53.

      James Shirley, Cupid and Death, lines 265-80. Song ('Victorious Men of Earth, no more')
    • HeR 41 pp. 58-9

      Copy, headed Song. 117. Philomel, and charon.

      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')
    • ShJ 172 pp. 79-80

      Copy of the dirge, headed The Glittering Shade.

      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')

  • Osborn MS fb 108

    A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound.

    Late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale Box 89, No. 3.

    Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.

    • CoA 160 pp. 5-9

      Copy, headed A Puritan Lecture discribed by Mr. Abraham Cowley and here beginning Ive ben where So many Puritans dwell, on three folio leaves.

      First published, as by A. C. Generosus, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.

      Abraham Cowley, A Satyre against Seperatists ('I have beene where so many Round-heads dwell')
    • MaA 161 pp. 13-19

      Copy, on four folio leaves.

      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')
    • DoC 363 p. 83

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      First published in J. J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502 (p. 495). Edited in Harris (1940), p. 118. Discussed in Harris (1979), pp. 183-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Under the King's Picture ('First Heaven resolv'd William should reign, and then')
    • DoC 103 pp. 207-36

      Copy, headed A Satyr on The Most Eminent Court Ninnys, on fifteen folio leaves.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')
    • DrJ 43.999 pp. 327-34

      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 11.95 p. 367

      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')

  • Osborn MS fb 117

    A portion of a folio volume of state letters, in a secretary hand, 22 pages, disbound.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Bought in the Fenn sale 1866 (243). Formerly part of Phillipps MS 29759. Sotheby's, 14 June 1971, lot 1492, to Dobell.

    • SiP 180.98 pp. 4-8

      Copy of the letter to his brother beinge beyond the Seas.

      A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
    • GrF 23.5 pp. 16-18

      Copy, headed A letter written by Sr ffulke Grevill to a Cosen of his residinge in ffrance wherein he setts downe what observacons he thinks fitt for him to make vse of his travells.

      An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance..., dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

      Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels

  • Osborn MS fb 140

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

    Late 17th century.

    Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

    • ClJ 223 p. 9

      Copy.

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

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • MaA 190 pp. 18-19

      Copy, headed King Charles the Second's vow.

      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')
    • WaE 111 pp. 42-52

      Copy.

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

      Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between')
    • MaA 359 pp. 53-64

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 388 pp. 65-79

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 422 pp. 79-84

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 250 pp. 89-92

      Copy, headed On the statute erected by Sr. Robert Viner.

      Edited from this MS 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')
    • RoJ 434 p. 110 (pinned to 108)

      Copy of lines 1-3 only, headed A Dialogue between Mall: Knight and the Dutchess of Cleaveland, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight')
    • RoJ 543 p. 123

      Copy of lines 146-75, here beginning And on her halfe dead wom bestow new Life, imperfect, lacking the previous portion.

      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 334 pp. 124-9

      Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr against Mankind by the Ld R:.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 104.65 pp. 130-5

      Copy.

      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')
    • MaA 277 p. 136

      Copy, headed Vpon Blood's stealing the Crowne.

      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')
    • MaA 499 pp. 143-4

      Copy, headed Advice to a Painter.

      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')
    • RoJ 269 p. 167

      Copy, headed A Satyr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; erroneously cited as Osborn MS fb 54 and collated in Walker.

      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 471 pp. 168-71

      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')
    • RoJ 67 p. 178

      Copy, headed Lo: R:s Ghost, imperfect, lacking the last six stanzas.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

  • Osborn MS fb 142

    A folio verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, chiefly in double columns, 92 pages, lacking covers.

    Early 18th century.

    Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4.

    • RoJ 240 p. 25

      Copy, headed On ye Popes Indulgencies by ye Earle of Rochester Ld: Willmote.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • RoJ 603 pp. 25-6

      Copy, headed Upon Nothing, by ye Earl of Rochester.

      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')
    • RnT 573 p. 26

      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')
    • HeR 106 p. 33

      Copy, headed On womans Beauty.

      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')
    • CoA 300 pp. 38-41

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

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • BuR 1.95 pp. 42-3

      Extracts.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
    • MaA 24 pp. 44-5

      Copy, headed A Sonnet Sett by Matt: Lock.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')

  • Osborn MS fb 143

    A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages.

    c.1695.
    • RnT 497 p. 9

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')
    • RaW 99 p. 14

      Copy, headed Sr W. Rawleigh's Epitaph on Himself.

      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'
    • DaJ 152.5 p. 15

      Copy, headed On a Bellows maker and here beginning Here lies John Cruker a maker of Bellows.

      A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

      Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
    • DaJ 227.5 p. 19

      Copy, headed On one yt was Bald and here beginning Here lies John Baker inrolled in Mould.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.

      Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons ('Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde')
    • PsK 139 p. 24

      Copy of a six-line version of the first ten lines, headed On Mary Morris 1695 aged 3 Quarrs of a Year & nine days.

      This MS recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, p. 45.

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

      Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age ('If I could ever write a lasting verse')
    • ShJ 119 p. 28

      Copy, here beginning The image....

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a Doubtful Poem.

      James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban ('This image of our frailty, painted Glass')
    • DaJ 221 p. 28

      Copy, headed On ye untimely death of a Child and here beginning As Carefull Nurses to their Bed 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')
    • HrJ 55 pp. 32-3

      Copy, Taken out of Burton's Abstract upon Malincholy.

      This epigram is quoted in Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1621), Part 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, subs. 4.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as To his wife a rule for Church house and bed beginning Of late in pleasant company by chaunce.

      Sir John Harington, The Author to his wife ('Mall, once in pleasant company by chance')
    • JnB 136.6 p. 34

      Copy, headed On a Genlewoman and here beginning Wilt thou hear 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')
    • HlJ 3.8 p. 37

      Copy, unascribed.

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

      Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke ('Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood')
    • BrW 230 p. 41

      Copy.

      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')
    • WoH 197.8 p. 43

      Copy, headed On two Louers who di'd before they were Married, here beginning She ffirst deceas'd, he for a Little tryed.

      First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

      This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

  • Osborn MS fb 150

    A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 131 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf Capton Roydome: i.e. owned and possibly compiled in part by Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, and one of his servants, perhaps Richard Swinarton, whose name appears elsewhere.

    c.1629-32.

    Sotheby's, 16 May 1972, lot 448.

    • MhM 1 item 6

      Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, superscribed Nouember the 10th 1632, on three pages.

      Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Evans and Wiedemann (1993). Also edited (and extensively discussed by various contributors), with a complete facsimile, in the collection of essays on the poem The Muses Females Are: Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little (West Cornwall, CT, 1995) (esp. pp. 203-20). Facsimile of the first page, with transcription, also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 258-9.

      An autobiographical poem, comprising 55 couplets (corresponding to the author's age), dated 10 November 1632. First published in My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem by Martha Moulsworth, ed. Robert C. Evans and Barbara Wiedemann (West Cornwall, CT, 1993).

      Martha Moulsworth, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widowe ('The tenth day of the winter month Nouember')

  • Osborn MS fb 155

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 108.

    Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), Appendix, Part VI, p. 122. A complete set of photocopies is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/96.

    • RaW 997 pp. 379-80

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 732.8 pp. 381-2

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleighs Protestacon at his Death.

      Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
    • RoJ 661 p. 492

      Copy of A letter to Dr. Burney from the Earle of Rochester, as he lay on his death Bed wrote wth his own Hand. 25 June 1680 at 12. at night.

  • Osborn MS fb 158

    A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands and paper sizes, c.440 pages.

    17th century.

    Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 111.

    Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix VI. A complete photocopy is in the Parliamentary Archives, Braye MS/51.

    • CtR 134 pp. 120-5

      Copy of the treatise, as by Sir Robert Cotton kt and Barronett and delivered to his Majesty at the Bord, incomplete, [1626].

      Unpublished?

      Sir Robert Cotton, Certaine generall rules Collected concerning money and bullion out of the late Consultacion at Court
    • BcF 531 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, on six pages.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • Osborn MS fb 164

    A Composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons, in various professional hands, 170 pages, of various sizes.

    Mid-17th century.

    Once owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker.

    • HlJ 29.5 ff. 199v-200

      Copy.

      Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

  • Osborn MS fb 165

    A folio volume principally of proceedings in Parliament from 17 March to 26 June 1628, in various professional hands, 476 pages (plus blanks), in 17th-century reversed calf.

    17th century.

    The name Thomas Cole inscribed on front pastedown. Later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary, and subsequently by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker.

    • CtR 202 pp. 15-24

      Copy.

      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
    • HlJ 29.6 pp. 348-9
      No description or publication history available.

      Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

  • Osborn MS fb 166

    Copy, on 25 folio leaves, bound with a parliamentary journal for 1628.

    c.1630.
    • CtR 203
      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 fb 175

    A folio composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons in 1628, c.225 pages, in modern calf.

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed on f. iiv madam Kelsey. Owned in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Afterwards by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 10819).

    • HlJ 29.8 f. 33r

      Copy.

      Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

  • Osborn MS fb 178

    A folio volume of state tracts, in various hands, 273 pages.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Formerly owned by the Marquis of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (Liber 5 = MS 8). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 485, to Dobell.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 45.

    • RaW 672 ff. 1r-16v

      Copy.

      A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
    • CtR 522 ff. 210-31
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

  • Osborn MS fb 190/1

    Copy of a letter by Davenant to William Legge, from London, 1 January 1641[/2].

    c.1642.

  • Osborn MS fb 206

    A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to the Earl of Leicester (the second The Earle of Lecisters Ghoast), probably in a single mixed hand with variations, 292 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Early 17th century.
    • LeC 89 pp. 1-204

      Copy.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • Osborn MS fb 207

    A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1701.

    The name Edward H. Finch-Hatton inscribed on a flyleaf. Bookplate of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, May 1919 (Morrison sale Part IV), lot 2942, sold to George D. Smith for Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

    • HrJ 239.5 1st Book, p. 8

      Copy, headed The Holy Sisters and here beginning Six Holy Sisters of ye purest Sect.

      First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

      Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
    • DoC 209.8 1st Book, p. 38

      Copy, headed A Satyr Dorset on Dorchester.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
    • DoC 184.5 3rd Book, p. 37

      Copy, headed A Satyr or Dorset on Dorchester.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • DrJ 78.5 3rd Book, p. 38

      Copy, headed A Song Made agt May Day 1691 by Mr Dryden.

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

      John Dryden, The Lady's Song ('A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear')

  • Osborn MS fb 217

    Autograph MS of ten books of epigrams.

    Containing over 1000 epigrams, on 266 large folio leaves (measuring c.35 x 24 cm and irregularly paginated 1-542), with a dedication to James, Marquess of Hamilton (pp. 1-6), an epistle lectural to the Reader (pp. 7-10), a title-page (p. 19: Ten Books of Epigrams, the Curiositie whereof, for Conception, stile, instruction, and other mixtures of show, and substance, being no lesse fruitfull, then pleasing to the diligent peruser, are intituled Apollo, and the Muses: Written by the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Urchard knight), an Introduction (pp. 20-8), a prolog (pp. 29-30), and an invocation To Apollo and the Muses (p. 30); the various books also ushered in with separate title-pages, dedications (to the Marquess of Huntley, Earls of Arundel, Northumberland, Pembroke, Dorset, Holland, Newcastle, Strafford, and Lords Craven and Gowran), epistles to the judicious or gracious Reader, and invocations (to the Muses: Apollo, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Urania, Terpsichore, Erato, Poly[hi]mnia, and Calliope); concluding with an epilog (pp. 361-2), fareweil to the Patrons (pp. 362-3), adiew to Apollo and the Muses (p. 364), and a Corollarie including prose introduction, verse dialogue, prose Animadversion, draft notes and more verses (pp. 367-95), A Consertarie from the Printer (p. 396), A Table under alphabetical headings (pp. 397-449), a list of words (pp. 450-2), a prose advertisement (p. 452), An explicatarie index of the harshest and most difficult words contained in the preceeding epigrams (pp. 453-77), a prose conclusion (pp. 478-9), the aftershot (p. 480), another catalogue of words (pp. 481-94), and a prose essay Of Lust, and anger followed by further draft epigrams (pp. 485-542); the text including a chronogram of this present year 1640.

    c.1640-1.

    Owned in 1683 by George Ogilvie, Master of Banff. Sotheby's, 17 November 1920 (John Ferguson sale), lot 949, to Bain.

    This MS discussed in Charles Whibley, Studies in Frankness (London, 1898), p. 245; Willcock (1899), pp. 5, 40-1, 109, 116-17, with quotations and (after p. 116) a facsimile example; Kelsie B. Harder, Sir Thomas Urquhart's Definition of Wit, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 154-5; and Jack & Lyall, pp. 6, 38. Complete microfilm in the Bodleian (MS Film 86). Facsimile example also in Laurence Witten, Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (after p. 392); and see Facsimile XVII in IELM, II/2.

    • *UrT 1
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      An edition of Epigrams: Divine and Moral, comprising three books of 132 epigrams in all, published in London, 1641. Reprinted in London, 1646. Most of Urquhart's epigrams unpublished.

      Thomas Urquhart, Epigrams ('Great Monarch, since the Worlds Nativitie')

  • Osborn MS fb 219

    Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to [Edward, second Viscount Conway], from Newcastle, 24 [August 1640].

    1640.

    Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 91. Sotheby's, 27 February, 1882, lot 20. Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 358, to Dobell.

    Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 187-8.

    • *DaW 121
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

  • Osborn MS fb 220/1

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, in 19th-century calf.

    The spine labelled Monson Mss. CCXII.

    • HrE 142.5 item 10

      Copy, headed The felicitie of Queene Elizabeth written by Sr. ffran: Bacon, on eight folio pages.

      Unpublished.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Translation of Bacon's Elogium Elizabethae

  • Osborn MS fb 220/2

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, in 19th-century calf.

    The spine labelled Monson Mss. CCXIII.

    • WoH 262.8 item 1

      Copy, in a professional hand, on 21 folio leaves, numbered 5.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • Osborn MS fb 228

    A folio composite volume of MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, c.120 pages, of various sizes, in 19th-century calf.

    Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.

    Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.

    • DeJ 103 pp. 1-2

      Copy on a single folio leaf.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.

      Sir John Denham, To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Petition of the Poets ('After so many Concurring Petitions')
    • ClJ 224 p. 28

      Copy.

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

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')
    • DeJ 21 pp. 56-7

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Pooly. Deare Tom, to thee my selfe addressing on two conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in Banks.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 103-6.

      Sir John Denham, A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley and Mr. Thomas Killigrew ('To thee, Dear Thom. my self addressing')
    • WaE 142 p. 58

      Copy with corrections, headed Of a fayre Lady that cut Trees in paper, on a single folio leaf.

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

      Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')
    • WaE 541 p. 133

      Copy, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in Ormonde's hand Mr Wallers verses to ye King.

      First published as a separate leaf inserted in some exempla of Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 106-7.

      Edmund Waller, To His Majesty, upon his Motto, Beati Pacifici, occasioned by the taking of Buda, 1686 ('Buda and Rhodes proud Solyman had torn')
    • DoC 228 p. 157

      Copy of lines 1-10, in a non-professional hand, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • DeJ 58 p. 195

      Copy, in a neat professional hand, on a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 111-12.

      Sir John Denham, On Mr. Tho. Killigrew's Return from his Embassie from Venice, and Mr. William Murray's from Scotland ('Our Resident Tom, From Venice is come')

  • Osborn MS fb 230

    Calligraphic funerary placard for Vincent Corbett, on a membrane of vellum, c.58.5 x 54.5cm, with pin holes.

    Comprising three English and Latin elegies on Vincent Corbett (He Dyed the xxvith: of Aprill in the Yeare of our Lord 1619), by his son Richard Corbett, John Selden, and Ben Jonson, arranged in columns under the engrossed title Sacred to the Memory of Vincent Corbet, with an unattributed four-line epitaph at the foot To the Reader (Reader whose life and name did ere become), in the form of a memorial tablet, with borders decorated in colours. This is evidently the original funerary placard for Vincent Corbett hung up in St Mary's Church, Twickenham, after 26 April 1619.

    1619.

    This MS once owned by John Evelyn. Thomas Rodd, Catalogue of a Collection of Manuscripts (1838), item 317. Afterwards owned by William Upcott and sold at the Duke of Berwick sale 1843. Christie's 29 May 1986, lot 199 (with facsimile example in the sale catalogue). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1066 (Winter 1986), item 99 (with colour facsimile).

    A photograph is in the British Library, RP 3523.

    • CoR 93 First verses

      Copy, the first two words in engrossed and decorated lettering, subscribed Rich: Corbet, in the left column.

      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')
    • JnB 142.5 Third verses

      Copy, headed On the same, in the right column beneath John Selden's 19-line epitaph Ad ejusdem Manes (Æternâ requie jaces beatas).

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

      Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet ('I have my Pietie too, which could')

  • Osborn MS fb 236

    A folio volume of state and religious tracts and letters, chiefly relating to Ireland, in various predominantly secretary hands, c.240 pages, in contemporary vellum, worn.

    c.early 1600s.

    Inscribed on p. 1 Anne Holland Booke [possibly the daughter of Richard Holland (c.1598-1661), lawyer and MP in Lancashire, and wife of Edward Kenyon (c.1630-68), rector of Prestwich near Manchester]. Later owned by Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon (1917-93), fifth Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, Shropshire, President of the National Portrait Gallery, and then by Martin Schoyen, of Oslo and London, manuscript collector (his MS 2198). Quaritch's sale catalogue (Summer 1996), item 24.

    A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 6317.

    • SpE 63.5 pp. 40-[120]

      In a single secretary hand, but for the heading in italic: This booke here followinge (called A veiwe of the present state of Ireland) was made by mr Spencer, in the time that Sr Willm Russell knight was lord deputie of Irelande [i.e. Sir William Russell (c.1558-1613), Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1594-7]. Anno domini [no date]/ A veiwe of the prsente state of Ireland discoursed by waye of A Dialogue betweene Eudoxus & Irenivs.

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • Osborn MS fb 243

    A folio volume of Jacobean political tracts and verse, 103 leaves.

    Mid-17th century.

    Once owned by John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller.

    • RaW 739.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

  • fb 249

    Copy, headed Observations Political and Civil.

    • RaW 1057.5
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

      Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

  • Osborn MS fc 51

    A folio verse miscellany, 317 pages.

    Owned and possibly compiled by Frances Boscawen (née Glanville, d.1805).

    Mid-18th century.
    • MkM 20 p. 22

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Osborn MS fc 60

    A folio verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, with some rubrication, 122 pages, with an index, in contemporary marbled boards.

    With a title-page: Poems on Various Subjects Extracted cheifly from the Works of Some of the Most Celebrated Poets Scribendo Disces MDCCXLVII.

    1747.
    • WaE 113.5 p. 47

      Copy, headed On Long and Short Life. By Mr Waller.

      First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

      Edmund Waller, Long and Short Life ('Circles are praised, not that abound')
    • OtT 5 pp. 48-9

      Copy, headed Horace Ode 16 Liber 2 oluem Dives rogat &ca. By Mr Otway.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Ghosh, II, 447-8.

      Thomas Otway, The sixteenth Ode Of the second Book of Horace ('In Storms when Clouds the Moon do hide')
    • WaE 663.5 pp. 52-3

      Copy, headed From the French By Mr Waller.

      First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, Seventh edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

      Edmund Waller, Translated out of French ('Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so')
    • DrJ 102.4 pp. 57-8

      Copy, headed The Monument Of a fair Maiden Lady Who dyed at Bath and was there interr'd. By Mr Dryden.

      Kinsley, IV, 1740-1. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 28-9.

      John Dryden, The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at Bath, and is there Interr'd ('Below this Marble Monument, is laid')
    • OrR 1 pp. 73-6

      Copy, ascribed to The Earl of Orrery.

      Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, On the Death of Mr Abraham Cowley and his Burial in Westminster Abbey. By the Earl of Orrery ('Our Wit till Cowley did its Lustre raise')
    • CoA 55.5 pp. 77-80

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Cowley.

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

      Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse ('At the large foot of a fair hollow tree')
    • CoA 103.5 pp. 80-1

      Copy, ascribed to Mr Cowley.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.

      Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. ('Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say')
    • JnB 136.8 p. 119

      Copy of line 3 et seq., headed Another [Epitaph] on the Lady Elizabeth LH and here beginning Underneath this Stone doth lye.

      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')

  • Osborn MS fc 61

    A folio composite volume of verse, 145 pages, in Middle Hill boards.

    Late 17th century.

    Previously owned by John Wilson (1719-83) of Broomhead Hall. Later Phillipps MS 17696. Later owned by C.K. Ogden (1889-1957) and sold at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 620, to Dobell.

    • MaA 360 pp. 1-8

      Copy on five folio leaves.

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

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

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

  • Osborn MS fc 132/1

    One of a set of two commonplace books compiled by James Forbes (1749-1819), c.500 pages in all.

    1766-1800.
    • MkM 21 p. 165

      Copy.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Osb MSS File 44.24

    A slip of paper inscribed by Cotton present this To the honored Mr Byron. from the humblest of his servants Charles Cotton.

    Late 17th century.
    • *CnC 161
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Inscription(s)

  • Osb MSS File 3276

    Copy, on six folio pages.

    Late 17th century.
    • ClE 89
      No description or publication history available.

      Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

  • Osb MSS File 3609

    Autograph letter signed, to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge], 12 August 1693.

    1693.

    Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 153, to Sotheran.

    Hodges, No. 57. McKenzie, III, 137 (Letter 2).

    • *CgW 75
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Congreve, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MSS File 3743

    A frontispiece engraving of the Duc d'Espernon, evidently extracted from an exemplum of Cotton's The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon (London, 1670), inscribed on the verso by Cotton to Thomas Orme.

    c.1670.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 16.

    • *CnC 162
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Inscription(s)

  • Osb MSS File 3744

    Copy of a 62-line version, headed Upon my Lady Mary Fitz-Herbert by Charles Cotton esqr. and here beginning How blest was I when I was free, on both sides of a single (extracted) folio leaf.

    This MS once formed part of the Derby MS (Derby Central Library, fmss 8470) and is in in Hand H. Later owned by Mrs D.C. Scratchley. Sotheby's, 31 October 1961, lot 219. Formerly in Files/Cotton.

    This MS discussed in Parks.

    • CnC 17
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 382-5. Beresford, pp. 238-9.

      Charles Cotton, Elegy ('How was I blest when I was free')

  • Osborn MSS File 3784

    Autograph letter signed, [to Dr. Richard Busby], [1662?]

    Sotheby's, 18 November 1929, lot 146, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

    Edited in Gentleman's Magazine, 57.ii (October 1787), 847. Reprinted in Grosart, I, xxxiv, and in Nethercot, p. 224.

    • *CoA 244
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MSS File 3785 [item i]

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 21 December 1649.

    1649.
    • *CoA 223
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MSS File 3785, [item ii]

    Autograph letter signed, [to Sir Robert Long], from Paris, 12 February 1650.

    1650/1.

    Maggs's sale catalogue No. 451 (1924), item 726, with a facsimile (Plate IV).

    Edited from a facsimile in H.P. Vincent, Three Unpublished Letters of Abraham Cowley, MLN, 54 (1939), 454-8 (pp. 456-7).

    • *CoA 235
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 4171

    Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Amsterdam, 19 October 1643.

    1643.

    Formerly in Files/Davenant.

    • *DaW 124
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

  • Osb MSS File 4185

    Copy; 50 pages.

    c.1619-26.
    • DaJ 238
      No description or publication history available.

      Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you.... First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

      Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

  • Osborn MSS File 4299

    A quarto booklet of Advice to Painter poems.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 356 pp. [1-14]

      Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 385 pp. [14-32]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 418 pp. [33-8]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 138 pp. [46-50]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • MaA 299 pp. [50-1]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
    • MaA 289 p. [51]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')

  • Osb MSS File 4629

    Copy on a single folio leaf formerly among the papers of the Townshend family.

    c.1690s.
    • DrJ 151
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')

  • Osb MSS File 4794

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Browne, [from Paris], 9 July [1654].

    1654.

    Formerly Osborn Files /Earle.

  • Osb MSS File 5095

    Autograph historical notes on the Leagues of the Grisons on a single quarto leaf.

    c.May 1646?.

    Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Edwards.

    • *EvJ 110
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, History

  • Osb MSS File 6327

    A warrant authorizing payment to Edward Basse, the assignee of William Cotton, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 October 1651.

    1651.
    • *WiG 77
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      George Wither, Warrant(s)

  • Osb MSS File 6478

    Copy, in a professional hand, on 82 folio pages.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly in Files/Halifax.

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

    • HaG 20
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • Osb MSS File 6496

    Copy of part of the epistle, headed Ex J: Hall: Epist ad: Com: Essex: in Gall...Observations profitable, and necessarye for those that intent to travell forraine countries and here beginning Thinke it not enough that you see..., in a non-professional italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed with the date February ye 25t 1633.

    c.1634.
    • HlJ 32.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 151-5.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 8. To my Lord, the Earle of Essex. Aduice for his Trauels

  • Osb MSS File 9940

    Copy in a musical setting, endorsed NB. This Tune was found in an old MS. as old as Shakespears Time by Sr J. Hawkins.

    18th century.
    • MrC 19
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osb MSS File 9987, [item i]

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, [24 October 1674].

    Dated in pencil 1671.

    1674.

    Formerly MS Files/Marvell.

    Caroline Robbins, Six Letters by Andrew Marvell, Études Anglaises, 17 (1964), 47-55 (pp. 51-3). Margoliouth, II, 329-31.

    • *MaA 548
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 9987, [item ii]

    Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 4 February 1674/5.

    1675.

    Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 288a. Formerly MS Files/Marvell.

    Caroline Robbins, Six Letters by Andrew Marvell, Études Anglaises, 17 (1964), 47-55 (pp. 54-5). Margoliouth, II, 339-40.

    • *MaA 555
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 11212

    Otway's signed receipt and promissory note for the sum of £11 to Jacob Tonson, in the cursive hand possibly of a clerk, 30 June 1683.

    1683.

    Sotheby's, 1 July 1925, lot 779, to Spenser. Formerly MS Files/Otway.

    • *OtT 22
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Otway, Document(s)

  • Osb MSS File 11383

    An octavo booklet of poems by Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), in an unidentified hand, entitled Some Additional Peices of Dean Parnell's not Publish'd with his Works, 25 pages, disbound.

    c.1720s.
    • DnJ 2814.9 pp. 1-12

      Copy of Donne's satire on each left page with Parnell's adaptation or answer (beginning Compassion checks my spleen, yet scorn denies) on each facing page.

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

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')

  • Osb MSS File 12756

    Power of Attorney signed by Rochester, appointing Richard Blancourt to receive £1,000 from the Treasury, 9 December 1674.

    1674.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 4 June 1878, lot 312, to Waller. Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 321, to Barnard. Formerly Osborn Files/Rochester.

    Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix Part II (1897), p. 315.

  • Osb MSS File 12757

    Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-84, 187-221), headed An Addition to ye Satyr agt Man and here beginning All this wth indignation I have hurld, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of Phillipps MS 17818). Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 154.

    Photocopy in the British Library, RP 686 (4). Mentioned in YULG, 52 (1978), 108-9; collated in Walker.

    • RoJ 335
      No description or publication history available.

      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)')

  • Osb MSS File 13412

    Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to the Earl of Craven, 21 December [1676?].

    1676.

    Edited in William J. Burling, A New Shadwell Letter, Modern Philology, 83 (1985), 168-71. Facsimile in an unspecified sale catalogue, item 37.

    • *SdT 45
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 14243

    A series of notes on sermons by Jeremy Taylor, chiefly in the hand of Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, on c.13 unbound folio pages.

    Including three sermons on Matthew 10.16 (Christian Simplicity) and, in an unidentified hand, a sermon on 1 Samuel 15. 22-23, at the opening of the parliament of Ireland, 8 May 1661, endorsed Dr. Jeremy Taylor (Bishop of Down & Connor) his Arguinges against Comprehension & Toleration.

    Late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, 23 June 1966, lot 551. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, March 1967.

    • TaJ 132
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

  • Osb MSS File 14856

    Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, S. Andrew, [30 November] 1661.

    1661.

    Sotheby's, 21 May 1890, lot 114.

    Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 185-6 (Letter III).

    • *TaJ 83
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 14857

    Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Dublin, 6 May 1662.

    1662.

    Sotheby's, 10 December 1918, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2309.

    Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 186-8 (Letter IV).

    • *TaJ 87
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 14858

    Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Portmore, 9 July 1662.

    1662.

    Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2307.

    Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 188-9 (Letter V).

    • *TaJ 90
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 14859

    Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Portmore, 31 December 1662.

    1662.

    Sotheby's, 10 December 1918, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2308. Formerly Osborn Files/Taylor.

    Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 190-1 (Letter VI).

    • *TaJ 94
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MSS File 15624

    Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his cousin Walter Waller, [after 1644].

    c.1645 or later.

    Sotheby's, 17 December 1956, lot 155, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.

    • *WaE 803
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 16328

    Copy, including the prefatory poem and postscript, on 18 octavo pages.

    c.1667.
    • WiG 34
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.

      George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum ('Renowned patriots, open your eyes')

  • Osb MSS File 16686

    A document signed, giving power of attorney to Michael Wolrich to receive Killigrew's payment from the Royal Exchequer of his £500 annuity, 15 August 1687.

    1687.

  • Osb MSS File 16934

    Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

    In a neat hand, untitled, subscribed Dr. Hen. King, and endorsed The kinge of Sweden his Lamentale by Dor Kinge.

    c.1630s.

    Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 26.

    • KiH 242
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')

  • Osb MSS File 17581

    Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to an unnamed correspondent, [c.1682].

    Later owned by Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 29 June 1995, lot 331, to Quaritch., with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Also numbered MS 95.6.3.

    c.1682.

    Ward, Letter 7.

    • *DrJ 308
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • Osb MSS File 19488

    Autograph letter signed by Killigrew, to Samuel Pepys, 8 January 1667/8.

    1668.

    A photocopy of this MS is in the British Library, RP 8613.

    • *KiT 27
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)

  • Osborn Gordonstoun Papers Box I, Folder 4

    Copy on fourteen quarto leaves (plus partly unopened blanks), badly stained.

    Headed (later) Sr Thomas Wrquhart his Letter to the Laird of Cromartie.

    c.1658.

    This MS extensively quoted in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 686-7, and in Tayler, pp. 55-8. Edited from this MS in Luttrell, with a facsimile example after p. 12.

    • UrT 2
      No description or publication history available.

      Urquhart's letter to Sir Robert Farquhar, Laird of Cromarty, 1 July 1658, first published in Luttrell (1948).

      Thomas Urquhart, A Challenge

  • Osborn Gordonstoun Papers Box 1, Folder 6, [unnumbered item]

    Letter by Urquhart, to Robert Farquhar of Mounie, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Urquhart (in partly elaborate monogram form), from Cromarty, 18 December 1648.

    1648.

    Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 42.

    • *UrT 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)

  • Osborn Gordonstoun Papers Box 1, Folder 6, [unnumbered item]

    Copy, headed Sr John Sucklens Letter, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse.

    c.1641.
    • SuJ 152.8
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • Osborn Gordonstoun Papers Box 1, Folder 7, No. 798A

    Autograph letter siigned by Urquhart, to Robert Farquhar of Mounie, from London, 30 July 1653.

    Recorded and briefly quoted in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 687, and in Tayler, pp. 53-4. Facsimile in Luttrell (1948), facing p. xvii. Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 44.

    • *UrT 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS Hey 6

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, on 283 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    1620.

    Inscriptions on a flyleaf include Robt. hesketh oweth this book. Later in the collection of Laurence Heyworth.

    • LeC 90
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • Osborn MS Hey 7

    An octavo commonplace book of prose extracts, many under subject headings, written from both ends on rectos only, in contemporary calf.

    Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674.

    c.1675.
    • HkR 78 ff. [14r-16r]

      Extracts, headed Time. Hooker.

      Richard Hooker, Extracts
    • TaJ 131 ff. [17r-40r, 48r], [15r rev.]

      Numerous extracts, under a series of subject headings (Voluptuousness, Adultery, Death, etc.).

      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
    • RaW 1041 ff. [41r-7v]

      Extracts, ascribed to Sr Walter Rawley, under various subject headings (Prayer its efects, Of Providence, A Description of Man, etc.).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Extracts
    • FeO 106 f. [48r]

      Extracts, headed Fellthams Resolves.

      Owen Felltham, Resolves
    • MoH 33 f. [ir-3r rev.]

      Extracts, headed Dr More's Immortality of ye Soule An: Do: 1675.

      Henry More, Extracts

  • Osborn MS Hey 17

    A quarto miscellany, in more than one hand, 68 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1666.

    Inscribed A Present from Dr Storer to Henry Cole, Peterborough. Later donated by Laurence Heyworth.

    • HlJ 3.9 f. 56v

      Copy, headed An epitaph upon King Charles, subscribed J. H.

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

      Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke ('Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood')
    • WiG 43 ff. [61r-8r]

      A series of 200 mottos, headed Withers Emblemes & Mottoe's, on leaves vertically trimmed to a single narrow column.

      First published, in four books, with preliminary material including a dedication to Charles I, in London, 1634-5. Facsimile edition of it edited by Rosemary Freeman and Charles S. Hensley (Columbia, SC, 1975).

      George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne ('How Fond are they, who spend their pretious Time')

  • Osborn MSS 1, Series I, Box 2, unnumbered items in folders 63, 66 and 75

    Three autograph letters signed, to Edmund Poley (Etherege's predecessor at Ratisbon), from Ratisbon, dated respectively 28 July/7 August 1687; 12 September 1687; and 2/12 January 1687/8.

    Among a collection of Poley's papers.

    1687-8.

    Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 184. Formerly Osborn Collection, Shelves, Poley Papers.

    • *EtG 150
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MSS 4, Series VIII, Derby Anecdotes, Box 8, Folder 278

    A document signed by Congreve, to John Warner, 23 November 1716.

    In an extra-illustrated exemplum of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, edited by Samuel Weller Singer (London, 1820), tipped in after page 10.

    1716.
    • *CgW 123
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Congreve, Document(s)

  • Osborn MSS 22

    A folio composite volume of state and historical papers, once in marbled boards, now disbound.

    Inscribed on front paste-down Sr George Ness. Once owned by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13964. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 16.

    • WoH 291 Folder 7

      Copy, on 18 folio pages, incomplete, inscribed on the final blank Fragment of a Comparison between the Earle of Essex, and Duke of Buckingham, which I judge to be writ about the reign of king Charles the first.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 2, lxxvii

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London, 25 December 1699.

    1699.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence), with a facsimile of the last page in the sale catalogue, p. 257.

    Edited in Works, IV, 3-5 (No. 1). Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XVIII, after p. xxi.

    • *VaJ 22
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 10, xli.

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London 18 July 1707.

    1707.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 13-14 (No. 7).

    • *VaJ 47
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 11, iv

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London, 9 September 1707.

    1707.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 15-16 (No. 8).

    • *VaJ 52
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 13, xxviii.

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London, 24 February 1707/8.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 16-17 (No. 9). Register, No. 1958.

    • *VaJ 66
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 13, xlviii

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London, 16 March 1707/8.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 17-19 (No. 10). Register, No. 1970.

    • *VaJ 67
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 13, lii

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from Stevenage, 22 March 1707/8.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 19-20 (No. 11).

    • *VaJ 60
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 14, x

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from London, 11 May 1708.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 20-3 (No. 12). Register, No. 1979.

    • *VaJ 95
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 14, lvi

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], 17 July 1708.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 24-5 (No. 14). Register, No. 1988.

    • *VaJ 81
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn MS 87.7.1, Vol. 14, lxxi

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester], from Biggleswade, 17 August 1708.

    1708.

    Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, in lot 257 (The Manchester Correspondence).

    Edited in Works, IV, 25-6 (No. 15). Register, No. 1991.

    • *VaJ 82
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn Music MS 13

    An oblong quarto miscellany of verse, receipts, and lute music, in possibly several secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern red morocco.

    c.1570.

    The Braye LuteBook, formerly among the Cave family papers of Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Rugby.

    • SuH 24 ff. 22r-3r

      Copy, in double columns.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?'
    • SuH 32.5 f. 41v

      Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 24, pp. 75-7. Jones, pp. 12-14.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'In winters iust returne, when Boreas gan his raigne'
    • DuW 67.5 ff. 50v-1v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Bawcutt. Edited in Priscilla Bawcutt, New Texts of William Dunbar, Alexander Scott and Other Scottish Poets, Scottish Studies Review, 1 (Winter 2000), 9-25 (pp. 17-19).

      Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

      William Dunbar, 'In secreit place this hyndir nycht'
    • ShW 69.6 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy of Benedick's song.

      This MS discussed in James M. Osborn, Benedick's Song in Much Ado, The Times, 17 November 1958, p. 11.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, V, iii, 25-28. Song ('The god of love')

  • Osborn pb 52

    A quarto composite volume of largely printed tracts, in old calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed on the first page Cuthbert Constable.

    • DoC 361 Item 12

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, here beginning Fill'd with the noysome folly of the age, on six quarto pages.

      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 pb 53

    A printed exemplum of Denham's octavo Poems and Translations with The Sophy (London, 1668) with his autograph additional verses on fourteen tipped-in leaves and autograph alterations in the printed text.

    1668-9.

    Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

    This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

    • *DeJ 51 p. 2
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed One Gondibert Vpon the Preface.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

      Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface ('Room Room for the best of Poets heroick')
    • *DeJ 110 p. 3
      Autograph

      Autograph, crossed out.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published in Certain Verses (1653), p. 4. Banks, p. 320.

      Sir John Denham, Upon the Preface of Gondibert. Mars. Epig. Lasciva est nobis pagina vita proba est ('As Martials Life was grave and sad')
    • *DeJ 1 pp. 3-7
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published, as To Sir W. Davenant, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

      Sir John Denham, 'After so many sad mishaps'
    • *DeJ 123 The Sophy, pp. 6, 12, 35, 39, 43-4, 49, 81, 95
      Autograph

      Autograph alterations on nine pages in the printed text.

      These MS alterations recorded in Banks, p. xviii. See also DeJ 126.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • *DeJ 78 pp. 7-11
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 15-19. Banks, pp. 316-18.

      Sir John Denham, 'Raised by a Prince of Lambard blood'
    • *DeJ 37 p. 11
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed Ld Crofts.

      First published, as Vpon the Author, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 14. Banks, p. 321.

      Sir John Denham, Lord Crofts ('Denham come helpe to laugh')
    • *DeJ 8 p. 12
      Autograph

      An autograph correction in line 97 and six autograph lines inserted between lines 188 and 189 in the printed text.

      These MS insertions printed in Banks, p. xvii, and in O Hehir (in his B Text, Draft IV), p. 150.

      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')
    • *DeJ 85 pp. 12-13
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed Song to ye tune of Walsi[n]gham.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Banks.

      First published complete in Banks (1969), pp. 321-2. Extracts in James M. Osborn, New Poems by Sir John Denham, TLS (1 September 1966), p. 788.

      Sir John Denham, Song To the Tune of Walsingham ('As I came from Lombardy')
    • *DeJ 95 p. 13
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published, as A Letter sent to the good Knight, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 10. Banks, pp. 318-19.

      Sir John Denham, 'Thou hadst not been so long neglected'
    • *DeJ 83 p. 14
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed Song.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published, as The Author upon himself, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 9. Banks, p. 319.

      Sir John Denham, Song ('I am old Davenant')
    • *DeJ 108 pp. 16-17
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Banks.

      First published, as An Essay in Explanation of Mr. Hobbs…, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 21-2. Banks, p. 320.

      Sir John Denham, To the Tune of Fortunes might ('Of all ill Poets by their Lumber known')
    • *DeJ 25 pp. 25-8
      Autograph

      Autograph draft with revisions, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Osborn and in Banks. Facsimiles of the first two pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 50, and in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W. C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [270-3]. James M. Osborn, New Poems by Sir John Denham, TLS (1 September 1966), p. 788. Banks, pp. 323-5.

      Sir John Denham, Elegy on Sir William D'avenant ('Though hee is dead th'Imortall name')
    • *DeJ 20 p. 63
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

      First published in London, 1656. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 159-78.

      Sir John Denham, The Destruction of Troy ('While all with silence & attention wait')
    • *DeJ 59 p. 68
      Autograph

      Autograph deletion of one line in the printed text.

      This MS alteration recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 107-10.

      Sir John Denham, On My Lord Croft's and My Journey into Poland ('Tole, tole Gentle Bell, for the Soul')
    • *DeJ 97 p. 73
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

      This MS alteration recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 100-2.

      Sir John Denham, To Sir John Mennis being Invited from Calice to Bologne to Eat a Pig ('All on a weeping Monday')
    • *DeJ 40 p. 76
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 106-7.

      Sir John Denham, Natura Naturata ('What gives us that Fantastick Fit')
    • *DeJ 80 pp. 78-9
      Autograph

      Autograph alterations in two lines in the printed text.

      These MS alterations recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 179-80.

      Sir John Denham, Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the 12th of Homer ('Thus to Glaucus spake')
    • *DeJ 86 p. 95
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

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

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
    • *DeJ 117 p. 106
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.

      Sir John Denham, A Western Wonder ('Do you not know, not a fortnight ago')
    • *DeJ 81 pp. 107-9
      Autograph

      Autograph altertions in three lines in the printed text.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 133-4.

      Sir John Denham, A Second Western Wonder ('You heard of that wonder, of the Lightning and Thunder')
    • *DeJ 41 p. 112
      Autograph

      Autograph deletion of one word in the printed text.

      First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

      Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
    • *DeJ 126 p. 115
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration of the first word of the song (changing Somnus to Morpheus) in the printed text.

      Banks, pp. 296-7.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy, V, iii, Song ('Somnus, the humble God that dwells')
    • *DeJ 107 pp. 115-17
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Banks.

      First published complete in Banks (1969), pp. 322-3. Extracts in James M. Osborn, New Poems by Sir John Denham, TLS (1 September 1966), p. 788.

      Sir John Denham, To the Tune of Arthur of Bradley ('Sir William's no more a Poet')
    • *DeJ 98 p. 121
      Autograph

      Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

      First published in Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido (London, 1648). Banks, pp. 143-4.

      Sir John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw Upon His Translation of Pastor Fido ('Such is our Pride, our Folly, or our Fate')
    • *DeJ 49 pp. 159, 170
      Autograph

      Two autograph lines inserted between lines 198 and 199 and six autograph lines inserted between lines 202 and 203 in the printed text.

      These MS additions edited in Banks, pp. xvii-xviii.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 189-98.

      Sir John Denham, Of Prudence ('Wisdoms first Progress is to take a View')

  • Osborn pb 87

    An exemplum inscribed by Cotton This booke was given mee by Mr Izack Walton, August ye 22th 1668. Charles Cotton.

    c.1668.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 19.

    • *CnC 185
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Malherbe, François de. Recueil des plus beaux vers (Paris, 1638)

  • Osborn pb 90

    Copy of a version comprising an introductory Argument and first stanza (beginning The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, preceded by a lengthy explanation The following Poem I found not altogether, but gleand it vp, out of severall papers, Among my Ld Mordaunts pspers I found this...[&c.], on the first 20 of 23 quarto pages bound-in at the end of a printed exemplum of Gondibert (quarto, 1651); dated December 1678.

    c.1678.

    See also DaW 2.

    • DaW 42
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

      Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian ('Before by death you newer knowledge gain')

  • Osborn pb 91

    Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Astragon Dying, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, on the last three of 23 quarto pages bound-in at the end of a printed exemplum of Gondibert (first edition, 1651), dated December 1678.

    c.1678.
    • DaW 2
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 196-8.

      Sir William Davenant, The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher ('The Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown')

  • Osborn pb 99

    A leaf inscribed by Cotton to his honored Cosen Port, glued down on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Cotton's Poems (1689).

    Late 17th century.

    Later owned by Major C.H. Simpson. Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 86. Bookplates of Louis H. Silver and Hugh Perkins. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 23.

    Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 14.

    • *CnC 163
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Inscription(s)

  • Osborn pb 107

    An exemplum with Cotton's autograph marginalia on seventeen pages in Books I and II between pp. 1 and 94, given by him to his youngest daughter Olive (Olivia).

    Inscribed Mary Stanhopes book given me by my father Dr Stanhope dean of Canterbury In the year 1704 January ye 24th: given him by my mother given her by her father Charles Cotton of Beresford in the County of Stafford Esqr. Bookplate of John Glymn Childs. Sotheby's, 7 April 1981, lot 373, to P. J. Croft. Sotheby's, 18 December 1985, lot 8, to Theodore Hofmann.

    A facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

    • *CnC 195
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen…with the other Works (London, 1617)

  • Osborn pb 110, Vol. 1

    Exemplum of the Fourth printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1682), accompanying The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), 2 vols.

    With a collection of 21 poems, including nine by Waller, copied in MS on 47 blank pages at the end of the first volume in the hand of Elizabeth Moyle (afterwards Mrs Gregor), another poem at the very end added in a different hand; the printed text of the poems also containing a number of MS emendations, and some of the poems numbered in MS from 1 to 38.

    c.1686-90s.

    The first volume inscribed as being a gift in 1684 by Sir Walter Moyle (d. 1701), M.P., of Bake, St Germans, Cornwall, to his daughter Elizabeth (afterwards Mrs Gregor), brother of the essayist and politician Walter Moyle (1672-1721).

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Moyle Volume: WaE Δ 17.

    • WaE 705 pp. 1-2

      Copy, headed Upon ye storm & of ye Death of Oliuer Cromwell ensuing y same by Mr Waller left out of all his Books, on two pages. The text followed (p. 3) by an Answer ascribed to Godolphin, but see Introduction above.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • WaE 379 pp. 7-[16]

      Copy, apparently transcribed from the folio edition of 1655, on ten pages.

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

      Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
    • SeC 42 p. [21]

      Copy, headed A Song 1685 and here beginning Not Celia yt I truer am, on a blank page among twenty-one MS poems added at the end of a printed exemplum of Waller's Poems, fourth edition.

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

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Not Celia that I juster am')
    • WaE 197 pp. [23-4]

      Copy, headed A Poem made by Mrr Waller left out of all his Bookes, Made one the Princes of orang & ofe ye portraite wch mrs Hide, while she liued wt her made one he Highnes, on one page.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 74.

      Edmund Waller, Of Her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange. and of her portrait, written by the late Duchess of York while she lived with her ('Heroic nymph! in tempests the support')
    • StW 1288 p. [28]

      Copy on a blank page among twenty-one MS poems added at the end of a printed exemplum of Edmund Waller's Poems, fourth edition (London, 1682), in the hand of Elizabeth Moyle (afterwards Mrs Gregor), daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, M.P. (d.1701).

      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')
    • WaE 168 pp. [34-40]

      Copy, the heading including the reference aded in ye last Edistion 1682 [i.e. 1686], on seven pages.

      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')
    • WaE 427 pp. [42-4]

      Copy on two pages.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 137-9.

      Edmund Waller, Some reflections of his upon the several Petitions in the same Prayer ('His sacred name with reverence profound')
    • WaE 62 pp. [44-5]

      Copy on two pages.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.

      Edmund Waller, Epitaph on Sir George Speke ('Under this stone lies vertue, youth')
    • WaE 185 p. [46]

      Copy in two pages.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

      Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 ('What revolutions in the world have been')
    • WaE 406 pp. [47-9]

      Copy on three pages.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 103-5.

      Edmund Waller, A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire. Presented to His Majesty on his Birthday ('Since James the Second graced the British Throne')
    • WaE 282 p. [50]

      Copy on one page.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

      Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')

  • Osborn pd 118

    An interleaved and annotated exemplum of Volume I, Part i, of Edmond Malone's printed edition of The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden (London, 1800), xix + 570 printed pages.

    The annotations, partly by James M. Osborn, copied from those made by Malone himself, in preparation for a second edition, in his own exemplum of his book, now in the Bodleian (Mal. E. 61-63: 3 vols, lacking Vol. I, part ii).

    c.1800.

    Malone's annotations are extensively discussed in Osborn, pp. 133-59.

    • DrJ 341.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of a letter by Dryden to Jacob Tonson, [December 1697].

      Edited from this MS in Ward, Letter 49.

      John Dryden, Letter(s)
    • DrJ 350.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, Candlemass-Day [2 February] 1698/9.

      Edited from this MS in Ward, Letter 57.

      John Dryden, Letter(s)
    • DrJ 354.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, 23 February 1698/9.

      Edited from this MS in Ward, Letter 73. NB. Ward dates this letter 23 February [1699/1700], but see W.J. Cameron, John Dryden and Henry Heveningham, N&Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203 (p. 203).

      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • Osborn Poetry Box IV/9

    A three-line extract, subscribed Rochester, as preliminary to a long poem headed Rome's Pardon -- a Tale (It happen'd on a certain Time), occupying three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    Early 18th century.
    • RoJ 240.5
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

  • Osborn Poetry Box IV/53

    A small verse miscellany.

    Early 18th century.
    • EtG 92 p. 6

      Copy.

      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 97 p. 7

      Copy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

      Sir George Etherege, Voiture's Urania ('Hopeless I languish out my days')
    • SeC 10 pp. 10-11

      Copy, headed The Constancy and ascribed to Etherege.

      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')
    • SeC 18 pp. 13-16

      Copy, headed Indifference xcuse'd by Sr George Etheredge.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference ('Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn')

  • Osborn Poetry Box IV/54

    Quarto booklet of verse by Dryden.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly Box XII, No. 14.

    • DrJ 101 ff. [1-9]

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Vieth.

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

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

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • DrJ 242 f. [9]

      Copy.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1775. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 620-1.

      John Dryden, Upon Young Mr. Rogers of Glocestershire ('Of gentle Blood, his Parents only Treasure')
    • DrJ 241 f. [10]

      Copy.

      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 Poetry Box IV/77

    Copy of eleven-stanza version, on two separate quarto leaves of verse paginated 45-48.

    Headed A sweet & pleasant Sonnet, entituled, My Mind to me a Kingdom is. -- The Tune is, In Crete &c., subscribed in another hand Harmony By Dr. Sartin.

    Mid-18th century.
    • DyE 62
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'

  • Osborn Poetry Box IV/1126, [unnumbered item]

    Copy.

    Phillipps MS 8302.

    • MaA 163.235
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box V/3

    Copy of the speech, untitled, each line interpersed with a Latin translation, probably produced as an academic exercise, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

    Mid-18th century.
    • DrJ 247.55
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

  • Osborn Poetry Box V/8

    Copy.

    • MkM 22
      No description or publication history available.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Osborn Poetry Box V/9

    Copy, headed A song by [Ld. Dorset deleted] (Sr: Charles Hanbury Williams added in another hand), on a single quarto leaf.

    Early 18th century.

    This MS collated in Harris.

    • DoC 7
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice ('Phyllis, for shame let us improve')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/18

    Copy of a version.

    • ClJ 225
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/28

    Small group of poems on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • ShJ 22 p. [2]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.

      James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham ('Here lies the best and worst of Fate')
    • CaE 34 [unspecified pages]

      Copy of the 50-line version, headed On the Duke of Buckingham.

      Edited from this MS in Donald W. Foster, Resurrecting the Author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England, ed. Jean R. Brink (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal, 1993), 141-73, and in Akermann, pp. 195-6. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/31

    Copy.

    • EsR 14
      No description or publication history available.

      May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/41

    A formal copy, in an italic hand, drawn up in a column facing a Latin version, headed on a banderole Poema Pium Or A Holy Hymne, the poem headed The Twenty Third Psalme By the Pious -- Herbert Much Meliorated, subscribed in a device W: F:, on on one side of a decorative broadsheet.

    Mid-17th century.
    • HrG 274
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 172-3.

      George Herbert, The 23d Psalme ('The God of love my shepherd is')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/47

    A folio leaf, with verses on the recto only, in a single hand.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • CoA 63.2 f. 1r

      Copy.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 98. Collected Works, II, No. 29, pp. 57.8.

      Abraham Cowley, The Discovery ('By 'Heaven I'll tell her boldly that 'tis She')
    • CoA 101.5 f. 1r

      Copy, beginning at line 7, here Men without love have often so cunning grown.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 123. Collected Works, II, No.56, p. 88.

      Abraham Cowley, Loves Visibility ('With much of pain, and all the Art I knew')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/58

    Copy, headed A Letter from My Lord Rochester to the Earl of M., on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II. Number 28.

    This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

    • RoJ 90
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/63

    Copy.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 84.92
      No description or publication history available.

      Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/68

    Two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 28.

    • RoJ 336 pp. [1-3]

      Copy of lines 1-173, headed A satyr, on two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 525 p. [3]

      Copy, headed Seneca: Tros: Act 2: Chorus.

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

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/84

    Copy on a single leaf.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • RaW 380
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/88

    Copy, untitled, lacking the last three stanzas, on a single folded leaf.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 32.

    This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

    • RoJ 383
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/107

    A group of five different sized folio leaves, paginated 412-416, now disbound.

    Comprising verse and prose texts by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh. and the Duke of Buckingham.

    c.1625-30s.

    Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

    Recorded in HMC, 12th Report. IX (1891), p. 161.

    • RaW 100 p. 414

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr. Walter Rawleighs Epitaph in his Bible by him made.

      Formerly part of Gurney MS XXXIII at Keswick Hall, Norfolk, this MS recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161. See also RaW 811.

      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'
    • RaW 998 p. 415

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/108

    Copy on a single folio leaf.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • CoR 55
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VI/121

    Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed In obitum venerabilis generosae Mae Margaretae Kay nunquam satis deploratae carmen lugubre, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed To his much honred: and most worthy ffreind Mr. John Kay Junior: at Denbye grange these prsent

    Mid-17th century.

    Formerly part of Phillipps MS 17696.

    • KiH 351
      No description or publication history available.

      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!')

  • Osborn poetry Box VII/4

    Copy, on five pages of four disbound quarto leaves.

    Headed A Satyr and here beginning As Colen drove his hogs along.

    Late 17th century.
    • DoC 63.5
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/15

    Copy, headed September: 1667 in a disbound booklet of 38 quarto pages.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS collated in POAS, I. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 11v, in Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343 (pp. 332-6).

    • MaA 504
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

      Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/27

    Copy of lines 1-36, in a cursive hand, as by Mr Waller, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

    Late 17th century.
    • WaE 556
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/31

    Copy, headed Sonnetto, on the last page of a pair of conjugate oblong octavo leaves.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • CmT 238
      No description or publication history available.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/37

    Copy, in a professional hand, headed The 4th part of Instructions to a Painter, on two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 422.5
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/38

    Copy.

    Early 17th century.
    • HoJ 89
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/42

    A booklet of extracts Out of Maruels Poems, taken from some eighteen poems.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 576
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Extract(s)

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/56

    Copy, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect.

    Inscribed as the end The Advice to a Painter A Vile Lampoone.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 423
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/73

    Copy.

    Late 17th century.
    • DoC 326.9991
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VII/74

    Copy, headed A Song, on a small slip of paper.

    Late 17th century.
    • CoA 67
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55-6. Sparrow, p. 55.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris (London, 1687). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (1922), pp. 55-8.

      Abraham Cowley, The Epicure ('Fill the Bowl with rosie Wine')

  • Osborn Poetry Box VIII/1

    Copy on a single folio leaf among papers of the Gordon family of Gordonstoun and Cumming family of Allyr.

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 472
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box X/1

    Single quarto leaf.

    Late 17th century.
    • CoA 128 [no item number]

      Copy, beginning at line 17 (here Still ye old heathen gods in numbers dwell),

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 48-9. Sparrow, pp. 46-8.

      Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ('Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given')
    • CoA 154 [no item number]

      Copy of lines 23-48, here beginning Yet when ye Divill comes up disguisd she cries, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 46-7.

      Abraham Cowley, Reason. The use of it in Divine Matters ('Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may')
    • CoA 156 [no item number]

      Copy of lines 1-24, imperfect, lacking the rest.

      First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 182-3. Sparrow, pp. 157-9.

      Abraham Cowley, The Resurrection ('Not Winds to Voyagers at Sea')

  • Osborn Poetry Box X/38

    Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

    Late 17th century.
    • DoC 140
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/32

    Extract, comprising book VI, lines 988-1005, 1007-12, in the hand of William Trumbull, on a long strip of paper.

    c.1700.
    • DrJ 246.9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

      John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/39a-b

    Copy, headed The Colchester Quaker, in the hand of William Trumbull, on both sides of a single octavo-size strip of paper.

    c.1700.

    From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

    Microfilm of this MS in the British Library, M/690.

    • DeJ 46
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

      Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/41

    Copy on a single folded folio leaf.

    Copy, the first line in the hand of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), the rest in an unidentified cursive hand, untitled, on a single folded folio leaf containing on the verso some accounts in Trumbull's hand for the years 1659-60.

    1659-60.

    From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

    Edited from this MS and briefly discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 200-2.

    • PsK 335
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

      Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux ('How prodigious is my Fate')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/50

    Copy.

    • DrJ 43.993
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/63

    Copy, untitled, on a single oblong octavo leaf, endorsed Ld Dorset on my Lady Dorchester. 94/5.

    c.1700.

    From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

    Microfilm of this MS in the British Library, M/690.

    • DoC 185
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/91

    Extracts.

    c.1700.

    From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

    • WaE 919
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Waller, Extracts

  • Osborn Poetry Box XIII/92

    Copy, untitled, on the first of two unbound conjugate quarto leaves.

    c.1700.

    From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

    Microfilm of this MS in the British Library (M/690).

    • WaE 289
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

      Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')

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