TN/Corr. 5/82
Earles's signature on a statement of the exceptions to the articles of marriage of Henry Ingram, first Viscount Irwin, with Essex, daughter of Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, dated 19 February 1662/3. Among the archives of the Ingram family, of Temple Newsam. 1663.
*EaJ 111: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Document(s)
WYL100/F7
Unbound verses.
Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.
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• ClJ 29: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betweene two Zelots concerning &c. in the new oath’, on both sides of a large folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
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• ClJ 202: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy, in a rough cursive hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant Dust’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
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• DoC 261: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays (‘Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave’)
Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
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• MrJ 46: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)
Copy, in a professional hand, with various alterations, headed ‘In Ducem re-ducem’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1627.
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• MrJ 47: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)
Another copy, with some alterations, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘In praise of ye Duke’. c.1627.
WYL119/B3
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in two or more hands, c.350 pages (including blanks), in vellum boards. c.1752.
Formerly BF. B. 3. From the Bacon Frank papers, of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 448.
pp. 104-26
• LeJ 86: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
Extracts relating to Pontefract, transcribed by Richard Frank (1698-1762), Yorkshire antiquary, from the papers of Nathaniel Johnston (1629?-1705), political theorist and antiquary, of Pontefract, and dated 1752.
WYL156/237
A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
f. 2v
• CoR 545: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Arbella, by Dr Corbet’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
f. 2v
• BcF 54.108: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Duke of Richmond, dead sodainely’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
f. 5r-v
• CmT 173: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’
Copy, headed ‘A maides delibertion and resolucion’.
First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
f. 5v
• CwT 322: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
f. 6r
• PeW 251: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, headed ‘A maides deniall’ and here beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pue, nay faith and will you? fy’.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
f. 6r
• DnJ 410: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy of lines 27-8, headed ‘of French Crownes’ and here beginning ‘Although the French king most Christian bee’.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
f. 6v
• KiH 367: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
f. 7r
• CwT 33: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)
Copy, headed ‘Of his mrs letting Blood’ and here beginning ‘Foole that belleues her clearer blood’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
f. 7r-v
• CwT 813: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy, headed ‘Cælia singing to her Lute’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
f. 7v
• CwT 213: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon absence’ and here beginning ‘Perhapes you'le wonder why I stay’.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
f. 7v
• RaW 273: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink ‘Tho: Harding’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
f. 8r-v
• BmF 75: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
f. 8v
• RaW 475: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sr say not that you loue unlesse you doe’.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
f. 9r-v
• BmF 21: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
f. 10r
• HeR 18: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Ladyes dress of heayre stuck wth Jewells’, subscribed in different ink ‘R Hericke’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
f. 10r-v
• FeO 12: Owen Felltham, The Appeal (‘Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.
f. 10v
• CwT 517: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the seeing his mrs face in the water’ and here beginning ‘Stand still you streames, doe not deface’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
ff. 10v-11
• DnJ 3761: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, with a correction in another hand, headed ‘Vpon partinge’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 11v-12
• KiH 641: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)
Copy, headed ‘The discoraged Sutor’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
f. 12r
• KiH 621: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)
Copy, headed ‘Loue ill requited’.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
f. 13r
• DnJ 2319: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘To a dissembling Lady’, here beginning ‘Send home my straying eyes to mee’, and subscribed ‘Jo: Donne’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
f. 13v
• CwT 163: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)
Copy, headed ‘Disdaine Returnd’.
First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
f. 15v
• CwT 1002: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
f. 16v
• CwT 563: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling winde’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
f. 16v
• HeR 95: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken lady yt dyed for loue’, with an emendation in a different ink.
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).
f. 17r-v
• CwT 102: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues complement’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
f. 18v
• HrJ 178: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘A storie of a Taylor by Sr. John Harrington’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
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• CwT 638: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
Copy, headed ‘Caries Rapture’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
f. 21r-v
• MoG 72: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Nightingale’, subscribed in different ink ‘Geo: Morley’.
f. 21v
• StW 1330: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Shall I tell you how the Rose did first growe redd’.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
ff. 21v-2r
• CwT 152: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 22v
• StW 294: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blistred lipp’ and here beginning ‘Hide not thy sprowting lipp, nor kill’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
f. 23r
• JnB 334: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)
Copy, headed ‘Too Ladyes enuiting each other to sing’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
f. 24r
• CwT 468: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)
Copy, headed ‘Uppon his inconstant mrs comanding him to returne back his letters’, subscribed ‘Jo: Donne’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
f. 24r
• DnJ 1902: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy, headed ‘To a whoremaster’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
f. 24v
• CwT 848: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight (‘Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Ladyes flee from loues sweete tale’
First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 25v
• DaJ 203: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘An other’ [i.e. Epitaph] and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers use there children lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
f. 29r
• BrW 216: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Countesse of Penbroke’.
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.
ff. 29v-30r
• CoR 452: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)
Copy, headed ‘On Tom of Christ-Church the great Bell newly cast’.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).
f. 30r
• RnT 392: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)
Copy, headed ‘Randolls verses of the losse of his finger’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
f. 30v
• WoH 191: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
Copy, headed ‘Of a gentlewoman yt dyed within a few dayes after her Husband’.
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.
f. 33r
• CaE 25: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham’.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
f. 34r
• JnB 299: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Consider but this dust heere in this glasse’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
f. 35r-v
• BrW 107: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician (‘Stay! this grave deserves a tear’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of Mr Vaux A famous Phisition’.
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.
f. 35v
• DkT 28: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the dead body of Queene Elizabeth brought from Richmond to White Hall’ and here beginning ‘The Queen is come from Richmond to White Hall’.
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.
f. 37r-v
• FeO 19: Owen Felltham, Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford (‘When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vpon the Earle of Oxforde’.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.
f. 38v
• CoR 580: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
Copy, headed ‘The Bp of Oxon his wishes to his little sonne Vincent’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
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• PoW 54: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘In prayes of black eyes’.
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
f. 40r-v
• StW 55: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
ff. 40v-1r
• StW 466: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)
Copy.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
f. 41v
• CwT 378: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
f. 41v
• StW 818: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
f. 42r
• StW 864: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘On a gentlewoeman Masked’.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
f. 42v
• CwT 1251: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
f. 42v
• CwT 61: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresses features’ and here beginning ‘ffayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gold’.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
f. 43r
• CwT 1278: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)
Copy, headed ‘On a fayre Lady that wore in her brest a wounded hart kerved in pretious Stone’, subscribed ‘Hen: Blount:’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.
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• GrJ 59: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’
Copy, headed ‘A Discription of a wisht Mrs’, here beginning ‘Not that I could wish my Mistrisse’, and subscribed ‘Jo Grange’.
First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.
f. 44r-v
• CwT 1230: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the sicknes of his Mrs beeing sick of a Calenture’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
f. 45r
• JnB 181: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘Of his mrs sitting to haue her picture drawne / Body’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
ff. 45v-6r
• JnB 219: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Copy, headed ‘Minde’.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
f. 48r
• CwT 959: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)
Copy, headed ‘To one that desired to know my Mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 49r
• CwT 126: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
f. 49r
• CwT 691: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
f. 49v
• ToA 61: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘The reuolt of a gentleman from his first Choyce at the sight of fayrer face / To his mistris’.
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
ff. 49v-50
• CwT 665: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)
Copy, headed ‘The Epicures Paradox That there is no pleasure but in Venery’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
f. 50r-v
• CwT 1197: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy, headed ‘On a sikken bracelet giuen to a gentelman by his Mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
f. 51r
• CwT 1141: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)
Copy, headed ‘Of one like his Mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
f. 52r
• HeR 394: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)
Copy, headed ‘On a falce mrs’.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
f. 52v
• JnB 428: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to know this woman: shee is worse’.
edited from this ms in Beal? check
First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
f. 53r
• JnB 596: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)
Copy, headed ‘To a spruse Lady’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
f. 54r
• CwT 1176: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer to Cupid’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
f. 54v
• JnB 53: Ben Jonson, The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Virgin fallen in loue in her sleepe not knowing with whome’.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.
f. 55r-v
• PeW 77: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)
Copy, headed ‘Of frendship’.
Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.
f. 55v
• StW 187: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
Copy, headed ‘The comendation of musick’, here beginning ‘When Whispering straynes wth creeping wynd’, and subscribed in a different hand ‘WS’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
f. 56r
• CwT 887: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy, headed ‘A charmge beauty’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
f. 56v
• StW 1033: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
f. 56v
• WoH 212: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)
Copy, headed ‘Of Fauorites’, subscribed in different ink ‘Sr Water Ralegh’.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 49, p. 122.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
ff. 57r-8r
• PeW 252: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, headed ‘The Parradox’.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
f. 59v
• CwT 1059: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
ff. 59v-60v
• DnJ 3214: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his mrs’, subscribed in a different hand ‘John Donne’.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
ff. 60v-1r
• DnJ 519.5: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘That no man can Loue aboue halfe an hower’ and here beginning ‘I cannot think that any man’.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
f. 61r-v
• StW 722: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’, subscribed ‘John Dunne’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
f. 62v
• JnB 610: Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)
Copy, headed ‘Some Ladyes richly adorn'd and refusing to Dance at a Masque, wer woo'd to it after this manner’.
First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).
f. 64r
• JnB 350: Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter (‘Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast’)
Copy, following (on f. 64v) William Burlase's ‘The painter to the poett’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
ff. 64r-5r
• ToA 35: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)
Copy, headed ‘A paradox prouing no louer can bee falce’ and subscribed ‘Jo: Grange’.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
f. 65r
• CwT 861: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)
Copy, headed ‘Eternity of Loue pourtrayd’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
f. 65v
• PeW 291: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘So glides a long the wanton Brook’)
Copy.
Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by Henry Reynolds.
f. 66v
• DnJ 2973: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
See also DnJ 428.
f. 66v
• DnJ 465: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled and immediately following on from ‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’ (see DnJ 2973), subscribed ‘John Dun’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
ff. 66v-7r
• DnJ 3684: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, headed ‘On Twitnam garden’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 68r-v.
• KiH 681: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)
Copy, with corrections in a different ink, headed ‘A departing betweene two Louars’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
f. 70v
• KiH 79: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘The boyes answer’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
f. 73v
• HrJ 225: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)
Copy, headed ‘A Vicar and a blind man’ and here beginning ‘An honest vicar riding on the way’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.
ff. 79v-80r
• StW 961: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)
Copy, headed ‘Of Capps’, subscribed in a different hand ‘W Strode’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
f. 80v
• KiH 457: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘A midnights Meditation’.
First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
f. 82r
• HoJ 332: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A Clownes Loue letter’.
Osborn, p. 301.
ff. 82v-3r
• FeO 49: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Duke of Buckinggame’.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
f. [82dv]
• JnB 418: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)
Copy, headed ‘King James his coming to the croune’.
First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
f. [82fr]
• PeW 191: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)
Copy, headed ‘On Lidea’.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.
f. [82fv]
• JnB 537: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)
Copy, headed ‘A new yeares giuft sent to the Right Honorable’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
f. [82hr]
• CoR 200: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)
Copy. headed ‘An Epitaphe made uppon Doctor Donne Deane of Paules by Doctor Corbet Bishoppe of Oxforde’.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
ff. [82hv-82iv]
• RnT 354: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the French Woman with the hard face that singes in Masques at Court’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
f. 85r
• KiH 655: Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock (‘Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonet 1’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
f. 85r
• KiH 506: Henry King, The Retreit (‘Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonet 2’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
f. 87r
• CoR 651: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Princes birth 29 May 1630 A starre appearing the next day at noone: And an Ecclipse of the Sunn ye next day following’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
f. 88v
• KiH 181: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
Copy, headed ‘An other’ [i.e. on Prince Henry].
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
f. 89r
• CoR 272: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)
Copy, headed ‘Against Dr Price his Aniuersarys vppon Prince Henry 1613: 1614’ and subscribed ‘R. C’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.
ff. 89v-90r
• CoR 242: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)
Copy, headed ‘The reply’ and subscribed ‘R C’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
For related poems see CoR 247-78.
ff. 91r-2v
• BmF 47: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)
Copy, headed ‘An: Elogie On the Countesse of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Fra: Beaumont’.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
f. 92v
• JnB 132: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say?’, and subscribed ‘B J’.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
WYL156/239
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, as by ‘Sr Robert Cotton’, on eleven large folio leaves (plus two blanks), frayed and stained, unbound. c.1630s.
CtR 418: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
WYL156/269
A folio booklet of state letters and tracts, in a secretary hand, 15 leaves (lacking a leaf torn out after f. 4), in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 269.
ff. [11r-13r]
• RaW 710.248: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
Copy.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
f. [13v]
• RaW 732: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
Copy, headed ‘An answere made by Sr: walter Rawleigh at his death to the false accusations, yt a repriued and infamous fellow called Lewds stukleye charged him wthall, & therby caused & brought him to his vntimely end: as it is suspected induced thervnto by ye youthfull vertue of certaine spanish pistols. wch were shot at his treatcherouse soule’.
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.