University of Texas at Austin

MS File/(Fairfax, E)/Works B

Copy of a transcript of the complete work, with a title-page, as ‘With many Curious Plates Transcribed from an Old manuscript by Ebenezer Sibly. M.D. 1793’, 55 large quarto-size pages.in 19th-century black morocco. c.1825.

FaE 8: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).

HRC 76

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches of 1628-9, in various professional secretary hands, 215 leaves, in modern reversed calf. c.1630.

Probably Sotheby's, 28 April 1969, lot 50.

f. 56r

RuB 37.8: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘Sr Benjamin Rudiere: his Speech in Parliament March the 22th 1628’.

Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.

HRC 79

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.

p. 63

HrJ 314: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘when peeres and judges had by doome appointed’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

p. 73

RaW 375: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Copy in the ‘Herrick’ hand, the first three words in another hand, here beginning ‘Here lies Hobinall our Shepheard whileare’.

This MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-Century manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, TQ, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), (pp. 40-1), and see P.J. Croft, ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 160-73 (p. 162).

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.

pp. 78-9

WoH 4: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘Sir He: Wotton, of happinesse’.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Pebworth.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

p. 102

CoR 727: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The starre yt rose in Virgo's traine’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

p. 103

AlW 167.5: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

p. 103

AlW 179.5: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy, untitled.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

pp. 106-7

HeR 111: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

pp. 107-9

HeR 258: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘The Welcome againe’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

p. 113

RaW 287: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘g s’.

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.

pp. 251-2

CoR 408: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

p. 252

BrW 226: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.

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.

pp. 325-7

DrW 117.54: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘The Senses’.

Facsimile in TQ 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), pp. 136-41.

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

pp. 348-50

CoR 368: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘D C verses, on wch the former were made’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

HRC 127

Three neatly written early autograph works by Milton, composed while at St Paul's School, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1624-6.

Once loosely inserted in Milton's commonplace book (MnJ 66) in the library of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Cumberland, descended from Sir Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (1648-95), and possibly acquired from Daniel Skinner. Sotheby's, 27 November 1967, lot 189, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Formerly Ms file (Milton J.) Works: Pre-1700 MS 127.

First recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Hugh C.H. Candy, ‘Milton's Prolusio Script’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 330-9. Photographic and autotype reproductions of it in the British Library (Add. MS 41063 I, ff. 84r-5r, and RP 211) and in the National Archives, Kew (Autotypes Milton &c/Fac. 6/Library/Shelf 156A).

For the kind of exercise at St Paul's School represented in this MS, see the discussion in Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School (New York, 1948), esp. pp. 208-13.

[item 1]

*MnJ 50: John Milton, ‘Mane citus lectum fuge’

An early autograph academic exercise (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a Prolusio), in Latin prose, on the theme of early rising.

Edited from this MS in Horwood and (from the British Library photograph of it) in Columbia and in Yale.

First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 61-2. Columbia, XII, 287-91, with English translation. English translation only in Yale, I, 1034-9, as ‘Theme on Early Rising’.

[item 2]

*MnJ 7: John Milton, Carmina Elegiaca [i] (‘Surge, age surge, leves, iam convenit, excute somnos’)

An early autograph academic exercise in Latin verse on the theme of early rising.

Edited (from the early British Library photograph of the MS) in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Discussed with a facsimile example in Hugh C. Candy, ‘Milton's Prolusio Script’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 330-9. A facsimile also in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IIIa.

First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 62-3. Columbia, I, 326 (with translation p. 327). Darbishire, II, 288. Carey & Fowler, pp. 10-11.

[item 3]

*MnJ 8: John Milton, [Carmina Elegiaca [ii]] (‘Ignavus satrapam dedecet inclytum’)

An early autograph academic exercise in Latin verse, on the theme of early rising.

Edited from this MS in Horwood and (from the early British Library photograph of it) in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile also in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile II.

First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), pp. 62-3. Columbia, I, 326, 328 (with translation pp. 327, 329). Darbishire, II, 288. Carey & Fowler, pp. 11-12.

HRC 133

Copy of Sedley's speech in the House of Commons 17 November 1690, beginning ‘We have provided you ye Navy, wee have Provided for ye Army’, in a cursive hand, on a single folio leaf. c.1690.

SeC 125.5: Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches

Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.

HRC 151

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the ‘noble Silvander’) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum. Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland. c.1662-3.

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dering MS’: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

p. 1

PsK 413: Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting (‘Though it be Just to grieve when I must part’)

Copy, headed ‘To Antenor parting’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

p. 2

PsK 68: Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington (‘Here what remaines of him does ly’)

Copy, the name in the title here given as ‘Beddington’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, with the place in the title given as ‘Bedlington’, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

p. 2

PsK 235: Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone (‘Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud’)

Copy. headed ‘on little regina Collier’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

p. 2

PsK 143: Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mr Cartwright (‘Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit’)

Copy, headed ‘In Memory of Mr Willm Cartwright’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend’, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

p. 3

PsK 207: Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6t Aprill 1651 (‘Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!’)

Copy, headed ‘April 1651 L'amitié. To Mrs Mary Awbrey’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

pp. 4-5

PsK 240: Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) (‘This is confest presumption. for had I’)

Copy, headed ‘On the excellent Paloemon’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

p. 6

PsK 385: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by Mr Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (‘'Tis now since I began to dy’)

Copy, headed ‘12. decbr. 1650 To Mrs Mary Awbrey. upon absence: set by Mr Henry Lawes’.

This MS collated in Thomas. Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 29 June 1965, lot 223.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

pp. 7-8

PsK 390: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting (‘I have examin'd, and do find’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mrs Mary Awbrey at parting’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

pp. 9-11

PsK 316: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)

Copy, headed ‘15 Sept. 1651 Rosania shadowed’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

p. 12

PsK 323: Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage (‘It was a wise and kind design of fagte’)

Copy, headed ‘Rosanias private marriage’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

p. 13

PsK 453: Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 (‘As men that are with visions grac'd’)

Copy, headed ‘25 Sept: 1662 To Rosania’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, with the date ‘Septemb. 25. 1652’, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

p. 14

PsK 87: Katherine Philips, For Regina (‘Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit’)

Copy, headed ‘For Regina’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published, as ‘To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster’, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

p. 14

PsK 369: Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina (‘Give over now thy teares, thou vain’)

Copy, headed ‘To Philaster on his melancholy for Regina’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published, as ‘To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina’, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

pp. 15-16

PsK 163: Katherine Philips, Injuria amici (‘Lovely apostate! what was my offence?’)

Copy, headed ‘Iniuria amicitias’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

p. 16

PsK 299: Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. Mrs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 (‘Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve’)

Copy, headed ‘25 Febr: 1660. Philoclea parting’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, with the date ‘Feb. 25. 1650’, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

p. 17

PsK 475: Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp (‘Unworthy, since thou hast decreed’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queen of inconstancie Regina in Antwerp’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

p. 18

PsK 356: Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine wch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice (‘Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?’)

Copy, headed ‘To Antenor on a paper of mine yt I. Jones threatened to publish to his preiudice’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

p. 19

PsK 509: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) (‘As in a triumph conquerours admit’)

Copy, headed ‘To the truly noble Lucasia: on my first approach’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

p. 20

PsK 462: Katherine Philips, To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 (‘We are compleat. and faith hath now’)

Copy, headed ‘29 December 1651 To the excellent Lucasia on her taking that name & adoption into our societie’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

p. 21

PsK 420: Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 (‘I did not live untill this time’)

Copy, headed ‘17 July 1652 To the excellent Lucasia on our Friendship’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem ‘1651’).

pp. 22-3

PsK 504: Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones (‘Honour, which differs man from man much more’)

Copy, the name in the title here given as ‘J. Jones’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, with ‘J. Jones’ in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With ‘J.J.’ in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

p. 24

PsK 395: Katherine Philips, To Mrs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esqre courted her (‘As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mrs M.C: courted by Philaster’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

p. 25

PsK 374: Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems (‘Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mr Henry Vaughan Silurist’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

p. 26

PsK 309: Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 (‘Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre’)

Copy, headed ‘A retired friendship to Ardelia’, the poem here dated ‘23 Aug. 1651’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

p. 27

PsK 534: Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. (‘I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the double murther of K Charles in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P:’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

pp. 28-9

PsK 519: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy (‘Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down’)

Copy, with the preamble, headed ‘To the noble Silvander on his dreame and navy, personating Orinda preferring Rosania before Salomons traffique to Orphir in these verses’.

This MS collated (and the Dering quotation edited from it) in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir’, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

p. 30

PsK 493: Katherine Philips, To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence (‘Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey’)

Copy, headed ‘To the right honourable Alice Countesse of Carbery, on her enriching wales at her presence’.

This MS collated and the third stanza edited in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

p. 31

PsK 379: Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely (‘As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘To Cratander, upon a composicon of his he was not willing to owne publiquely’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

pp. 32-3

PsK 212: Katherine Philips, Lucasia (‘Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice’)

Copy. headed ‘Lucasia’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

p. 34

PsK 112: Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) (‘Come, my Lucasia, since we see’)

Copy, headed ‘Freindships mystery to my Dearest Lucasia: set by Mr. H Lawes’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

p. 35

PsK 59: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (‘Say, my Orinda, why so sad?’)

Copy, headed ‘Set by Mr H: Lawes / A Dialogue between Lucasia & Orinda’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published, as ‘A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes’, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

pp. 36-7

PsK 30: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘to Lucasia: of Content [Not to oblige Lucasia by my verses deleted]’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 38-9

PsK 328: Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 (‘Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand’)

Copy, headed ‘A sea voyage from Tenby to Bristoll 5 of September 1652’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

p. 40

PsK 407: Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls (‘We will not like those men our offerings pay’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mrs C.P. on her nuptialls’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

p. 41

PsK 514: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes (‘Nature, which is the vast creation's soule’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mr Henry Lawes’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published, as ‘To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick’, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As ‘To Mr. Henry Lawes’ in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

p. 42

PsK 470: Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship (‘We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘To the incomparable Palaemon on his noble discourse of friendship’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

p. 43

PsK 559: Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault (‘And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

pp. 44-5

PsK 107: Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia (‘The hearts thus intermixed speak’)

Copy, headed ‘To my dearest Lucasia, friendship in emblem or the seale’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

p. 46

PsK 441: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia (‘Let dull Philosophers enquire no more’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

pp. 47-9

PsK 446: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship (‘O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

pp. 50-1

PsK 72: Katherine Philips, The Enquiry (‘If we no old historian's name’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

p. 52

PsK 271: Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland (‘Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 197-8.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

p. 53

PsK 483: Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 (‘You justly may forsake a land which you’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queenes maiestie Jan 1. 1660/61’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

pp. 54-5

PsK 23: Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England (‘Whom doth this stately navy bring?’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

p. 56

PsK 303: Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England (‘Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prinesse [sic] royall's Returne into England’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

p. 57

PsK 263: Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon (‘So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms’)

Copy, headed ‘On the faire weather at the Coronacon’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

pp. 58-9

PsK 253: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

pp. 60-2

PsK 133: 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’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of F:P: who dyed at Acton 24 May. 1660 —— 13th of her age’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

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

p. 63

PsK 361: Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote (‘To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe’)

Copy, headed ‘To her royall highnesse the Dutchesse of York, on her com and to send her some things I had wrote’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 201-2.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

pp. 64-5

PsK 257: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia (‘Although the most do with officious heat’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 198-9.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

pp. 66-7

PsK 123: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

p. 68

PsK 51: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 69-71

PsK 565: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

pp. 72-4

PsK 338: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

pp. 75-7

PsK 200: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 78-9

PsK 168: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 80-1

PsK 148: Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering (‘As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

p. 82

PsK 277: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

pp. 83-5

PsK 92: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

pp. 86-7

PsK 346: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 88-9

PsK 527: Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 (‘When God, contracted to humanity’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 89-90

PsK 400: Katherine Philips, To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband (‘Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mrs Wogan on ye death of her husband’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

pp. 90-2

PsK 178: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy, headed ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’.

This MS collated, and in part (lines 83-96) edited, in Thomas.

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

p. 93

PsK 38: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

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

pp. 94-5

PsK 158: Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton (‘As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of Mrs Own of Orielton’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

pp. 96-7

PsK 100: Katherine Philips, Friendship (‘Let the dull brutish world that know not love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

pp. 98-100

PsK 153: Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire (‘I cannot hold, for though to write be rude’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of the excellent Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Denbighshire. who dyed 13 Nouember 1656’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

p. 101

PsK 291: Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13th Janury 1657/8 A song (‘Well! we will doe that rigid thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Parting wt Lucasia. 13 January 1657./1658.’.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published, with the date ‘Jan 13. 1657’, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

p. 102

PsK 9: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 103-5

PsK 117: Katherine Philips, God (‘Eternal reason! glorious majestie!’)

Copy, headed ‘God’ and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict), headed ‘Extract of Mr Mores Cap: Conf:’.

This MS collated, and edited in part, in Thomas.

First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as ‘A Prayer’. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

pp. 108-11

PsK 499: Katherine Philips, To the Rt Hono: the Lady E.C. (‘Madam / I do not write to you that men may know’)

Copy, headed ‘on the right honble the Lady E.C.’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To the Honoured Lady E.C.’, in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

pp. 112-13

PsK 479: Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 (‘Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queen on her arriuall at Portsmouth May. 1662’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘The “false printed” Broadside of Katherine Philips's “To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival”’, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

p. 114

PsK 174.5: Katherine Philips, The Irish Greyhound (‘Behold this Creature's Form and state’)

The title only, the rest of the page left blank.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), p. 54 [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5]. Poems (1667), p. 125. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 195-6, poem 78.

p. 115

PsK 334.5: Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux (‘How prodigious is my Fate’)

Copy of the heading (‘Song’) and first line only, the rest of the page left blank.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

pp. 116-17

PsK 467: Katherine Philips, To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage with the Lord Cavendish, Octobr. 1662 (‘At such a time as this, when all conclude’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage wt ye Lord Cauendish octobr. 1662’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary Butler, at Her Marriage to the Lord Cavendish’ and as by ‘a Lady’, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663) [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5], pp. 51-2. Thomas, I, 250-1, poem 125.

pp. 118-20

PsK 220: Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (‘No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast’)

Copy, headed ‘An ode upon retirement made upon occasion of Mr Cowleys on that subject’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Ode. On Retirement’, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as ‘Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode’ in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

HRC 185

A formal copy of an untitled French translation of the discourse, beginning ‘Il ny a personne Qui persuade nostre prince de sallick a la Maison de Sauyoye...’, in a neat hand, 32 small quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

RaW 646.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

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.

Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book

A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

p. [xvii]

SeC 39: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘Not Celia that I juster am’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’, here beginning ‘Not Cloris that I juster am’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 6-7.

p. [xx]

DrJ 247.3: John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act IV, scene i, lines 482-93. Song (‘For I'ris I Sigh, and hourly Dye’)

Copy, headed ‘In Amphitrion’.

Kinsley, II, 561, and California, XV (1976), pp. 299-300, both as ‘Mercury's Song to Phædra’ (‘Fair Iris I love, and hourly I dye’). Hammond, III, 239.

p. [xx]

DoC 162.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws (‘Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight’)

Copy, headed ‘My Lord Dorsset on Ms Ann Roch’ and here beginning ‘Like a true Irish Merlin yt Misses her flyht’.

First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris, pp. 101-2.

p. [xxi]

DrJ 259.5: John Dryden, The Duke of Guise, Act V, scene i, lines 1-34. Song (‘Tell me Thirsis, tell your Anguish’)

Copy, headed ‘Song in the Duke of Guise’.

Written in collabotation with Nathaniel Lee. First published in London, 1683. California, XIV (1992), pp. 205-305 (pp. 290-1). Kinsley, I, 330. Hammond, II, 144-5.

p. [xxii]

FrG 12: George Farquhar, The Constant Couple, Act IV, scene ii. Song (‘Thus Damon knock'd at Celia's Door’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘in ye Iubilly’ and here beginning ‘Poor Damon knockt at Celeias door’.

First published in London, 1699. Kenny, I, 149-233 (p. 203).

p. [xxiii]

CnC 117.5: Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman (‘Bring back my Comfort, and return’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

p. [xxiv]

LeN 8: Nathaniel Lee, Caesar Borgia. Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth, Act IV, scene i, lines 1-12. Song (‘Blush not redder than the Morning’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 65-145 (p. 117). Musical setting of the epithalamium by Thomas Farmer first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Third Book (London, 1681).

p. [xxiv]

DrJ 263.5: 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’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond, I, 222-3.

p. [xxvi]

DaW 107.5: Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Parts I and II

Copy of the first 32 lines, by the Admiral and Villerius, in the ‘First Entry’ of Part I, untitled and here beginning ‘Arme arme Valerious arme’.

Dramatic Works, III, 260-1.

First published (First Part) in London, 1656. The expanded version in two parts published in London, 1663. Dramatic Works, III, 231-365. Edited by Ann-Mari Hedbäck (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 14, Uppsala, 1973).

pp. 1-2

KiT 10: Thomas Killigrew, The Prisoners, Act II. Song (‘Fond Pursanus let not thy loue aspire’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 48-80 (second series).

pp. 2, 3

KiW 12: Sir William Killigrew, Selindra, Act III. Song (‘Come come thou glorious obiect of my sight’)

Copy, untitled.

pp. 4-7

CaW 5: William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains (‘Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain’)

Copy, headed ‘Aryadnee Deserted by Theseus’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.

pp. 7-8

GrJ 8: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

p. 8

ShJ 80: James Shirley, To his Mistris (‘I would the God of Love would die’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

p. 8

KiH 368.8: 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.

p. 9

CaW 103: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

f. 10r

ToA 69: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 10v

ShJ 75: James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne (‘Come my Daphne, come away’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E. M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

f. 13r

LoR 20: Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song (‘Why should you sweare I am forsworn’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Why did'st thou sweare I am forsworne’.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

ff. 13v-14r

SuJ 73: John Suckling, Sonnet I (‘Do'st see how unregarded now’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘See See how vnregarded now’.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.

f. 14v

RaW 540.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

f. 15v

SuJ 55: John Suckling, Song (‘No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.

A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).

f. 17r

WaE 438: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

f. 17v

B&F 60.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant, IV, iii, 25-44. Song (‘I obey, I obey. | And am come to view the day’)

Copy, untitled. and here beginning ‘Wee obay wee obay’.

Dyce, VI, 502. Bullen, II, 544-5. Bowers, V, 377.

f. 17v

B&F 59.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant, IV, iii, 12-23. Song (‘Rise from the shades below’)

Copy.

Bowers, 376-7.

ff. 17v-18r

DaW 50.8: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover (‘Dear Love let me this Evening dy!’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

ff. 20v-1r

EaJ 38.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Epitaph on the Living Sr. Lorenza Carew (‘Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.

f. 21r-v

CaW 44: William Cartwright, Sadness (‘Whiles I this standing Lake’)

Copy, headed ‘Sadnese’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 220-1. Evans, pp. 473-4.

ff. 21v-2r

HeR 207.5: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue vpon the Princes Birth song betweene Amintus, Myrtillo, Amarillis’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

ff. 22v-3r

MaA 23: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy, here beginning ‘When death doth snatch vs from these Kidds’.

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.

ff. 24v-5r

SuJ 132.5: John Suckling, Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

Probably written by Henry Hughes.

ff. 25v-6r

DaW 91.5: Sir William Davenant, Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song (‘No morning red, and blushing faire’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.

f. 27r-v

CmT 176.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy, untitled.

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. 27v

RaW 185.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like hermit poore’.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

f. 28v

KiH 88.5: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of f. 28v in Culbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, p. 36.

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. 29r

SuJ 66: John Suckling, Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

f. 29r

CmT 116.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

f. 29v

B&F 26.8: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)

Copy, untitled.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

f. 29v

JnB 620.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘The faery beame vppon you’)

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.

ff. 29v-30r

LoR 45: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile example of this MS in Marlborough Rare Books, sale catalogue No. 45 (1961), item 21.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

f. 31v

JnB 727.8: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

f. 33v

ToA 76: Aurelian Townshend, ‘When we were parted’

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 19. Chambers, p. 12. Brown, p. 61.

f. 35r

PeW 200: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 39r

HeR 227.5: Robert Herrick, To Sycamores (‘I'm sick of Love. O let me lie’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘O I am sick of Loue, heere Lett mee lye’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 158. Patrick, p. 214.

ff. 39r, 40v

DaW 75.5: Sir William Davenant, ‘Why should great Beauties vertuous Fame desire’

Copy, untitled.

First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Gibbs, pp. 277, 309-10.

f. 40v

WrM 3: Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Song. 2. (‘All night I weepe, all day I cry, Ay mee’)

Copy of the shortened version of the song, untitled.

A shortened version of this song appears in Wit's Recreations (London, 1645). Roberts, Poems, [P14] (pp. 93-4). Pritchard, p. 35.

ff. 40v-1r

HeR 248.5: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 41r

WaE 535: Edmund Waller, To Chloris (‘Chloris! since first our calm of peace’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘To Chloris uppon a favour receaved’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 112. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To a Lady, more affable since the war began’, in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

f. 41v

CmT 74.8: Thomas Campion, ‘Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee’

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

f. 42r-v

DnJ 1214.5: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘So so loue off this lost lamenting Kiss’.

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

f. 43v

PeW 52: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 44r

PeW 119: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 44v

PeW 90: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Sonnet (‘Canst thou love me, and yet doubt’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 23. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 64. Poems (1660), p. 23, headed ‘Sonnet. P.’. Krueger, p. 25, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

f. 44v

KiH 583.8: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

f. 45r

KiH 599.8: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

f. 45r-v

KiH 133.8: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Why slights thou her whom I approue’.

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

f. 46r-v

GrJ 76.5: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

ff. 49v-51v

SuJ 99: John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)

Copy, headed ‘The Witts’.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, ‘An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets’, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

f. 51v

JnB 622.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘To the old, longe life and treasure’)

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 301-11. Greg, Burley version, lines 277-86. Windsor version, lines 271-80.

ff. 51v-2r

JnB 11.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 11-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Doe butt look on her Eyes, they doe light’.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

f. 52r

KiT 12: Thomas Killigrew, Thomaso, or the Wanderer, Part I, Act V. Song (‘Women women wine and health’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 54v

B&F 109.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid in the Mill, V, ii, 20-7. Song (‘How long shall I pine for love?’)

Copy untitled.

Dyce, IX, 277. Bowers, IX, 640-1.

f. 55v

SuJ 33: John Suckling, The constant Lover (‘Out upon it, I have lov'd’)

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of f. 55v in Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’ p. 34.

First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.

f. 56r-v

SuJ 121: John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman (‘I am confirm'd a woman can’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 57v

HaW 50: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

ff. 59r-60r

JnB 674.8: Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song (‘Beauties, haue yee seene this toy’)

Copy, untitled.

First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).

f. 60r

B&F 175.8: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 24-43. Song (‘Hear, ye ladies that despise’)

Copy, untitled.

Dyce, V, 243-4. Bullen, IV, 248. Bowers, IV, 308.

f. 61r-v

KiT 9: Thomas Killigrew, The Princesse, Act V. Song (‘To Bacchus vow to Bacchus sing’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 1-67.

f. 62r

JnB 600.5: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

f. 62r-v

B&F 106.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, iv, 43-73. Song (‘Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in’)

Copy, untitled.

Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.

f. 62v

SuJ 171: John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 72-8. Song (‘A health to the Nut browne Lasse’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Beaurline, Plays, p. 144.

f. 62v

SuJ 167: John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 28-34. Song (‘Some drinke, what Boy, some drinke’)

Copy of Nashorat's catch, here beginning ‘Some drinke boyes some drinke’.

First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 121-82 (pp. 142-3).

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).

ff. 63v-4r

B&F 8.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song (‘Cast our Caps and cares away!’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Cast yor Caps and care away’.

Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

f. 65r-v

GrJ 67: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

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. 65v

ShW 103.5: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song (‘Where the bee sucks, there suck I’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 67r

CaW 92: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene i, lines 14-19. Song (‘A pox on our Gaolor, and on his fat Jowle’)

Copy, untitled.

Evans, p. 200.

f. 67v

SuJ 164: John Suckling, Brennoralt, Act II, scene ii, lines 52-66. Song (‘A hall, a hall’)

Copy of Grainevert's song, untitled.

Beaurline, Plays, p. 100.

f. 67v

B&F 170.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, III, ii, 109-28. Song (‘Let the bells ring, and let the boys sing’)

Copy, untitled.

Dyce, VIII, 435-6. Bullen, II, 166-7. Bowers, X, 341-2.

f. 68r

CaW 104: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)

Copy of the song, untitled and here beginning ‘Come from the Dung hill to ye. throne’.

Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

ff' 71v-2r

ToA 79.5: Aurelian Townshend, La Boivinette (‘She's not the fairest of her name’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 55. Chambers, p. 51.

f. 72r

ToA 88.5: Aurelian Townshend, Upon Kinde and True Love (‘'Tis not how witty, nor how free’)

Copy, untitled.

Published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 4. Chambers, p. 53.

f. 78r

SuJ 139.5: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)

Copy of an untitled version, here beginning ‘I dare not thinke yow can so guilty bee’.

First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

f. 79r

ToA 22.5: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Let not thy beauty make thee proud’

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.

f. 106r-v

DeJ 114.5: Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 (‘Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published, and attributed to Denham, by C. H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

f. 107r

HeR 39.5: Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung (‘Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 112r

CwT 1063.5: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy, headed ‘Bettie Howard’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

f. 114r-v

DeJ 45.5: Sir John Denham, News from Colchester (‘All in the Land of Essex’)

Copy, untitled.

First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

ff. 119v-20r

DaW 106.5: Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song (‘My lodging it is on the Cold ground’)

Copy, untitled.

Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

f. 123r

DrJ 285.3: John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence, Act IV, scene i, lines 257-68. Song (‘Make ready fair Lady to night’)

Copy, untitled.

California, IX (1966), pp. 257-68. Day, p. 9. Hammond, I, 204.

f. 124r

WaE 746: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 124v

DaW 116.5: Sir William Davenant, The Unfortunate Lovers, Act III. Song (‘Run to Loves Lott'ry! Run, Maids, and rejoyce’)

Copy, untitled.

The play first published London, 1643. This song first published in Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (pp. 86-7). Gibbs, pp. 234-5 (music on pp. 331-6).

f. 125r

DaW 84.5: Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song (‘Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

ff. 126v-7r

DrJ 267.2: John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song (‘Celimena, of my heart’)

Copy, untitled.

California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond, I, 223-4.

f. 128v

DrJ 261.3: 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’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).

f. 129r

PeW 97: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘Dear leave thy home and come with me’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 32, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Thomas Randolph’ (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

ff. 129v-30r

OrR 24: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mr Anthony, Act IV. Song (‘Since you must needs my heart posses’)

Copy, untitled.

Performed on the London stage probably before 14 December 1669. First published in London 1690.

f. 131r-v

SeC 36: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘Get you gone, you will undo me’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe get you gon you will undoe me’.

First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, II, 16-17.

ff. 131v-2r

DrJ 179.5: John Dryden, A Song (‘Farewell, fair Armeda, my Joy and my Grief’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in New Court-Songs, and Poems. By R[obert] V[eel] Gent. (London, 1672). Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster-Drollery (London, 1672). Windsor-Drollery (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 136-7. Hammond, I, 255.

f. 134r

SdT 27: Thomas Shadwell, The Miser, Act II, scene i. Song (‘As I walk'd in the woods one evening of late’)

Copy of the song by Cheatly, untitled.

First published in London, 1672. Summers, II, 7-93 (pp. 44-5).

f. 135r

DrJ 281.5: John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song (‘Whil'st Alexis lay prest’)

Copy, untitled.

California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond, I, 251-3.

f. 136v

SdT 31: Thomas Shadwell, Psyche

Copy of the song ‘The delights of the bottle and the charms of good wine’, untitled.

First published in London, 1675. Summers, II, 271-340 (pp. 311, 318, 338).

f. 139r

SdT 28: Thomas Shadwell, The Miser, Act III, scene i. Song (‘Come lay by your cares, and hang up your Sorrow’)

Copy of the ‘Catch in four Parts’, headed ‘Song’.

Summers, II, 54.

f. 143r

SuT 1: Thomas Southerne, The Fatal Marriage, or, the Innocent Adultery, Act III, scene ii, lines 46-61. Song (‘The danger is over, the Battle is past’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1694. Jordan & Love, II, 10-84 (p. 49).

f. 143r

CgW 63.5: William Congreve, Love for Love, III, iii, lines 165-173. Song (‘A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd’)

Copy, untitled.

Summers, II, 130. Davis, pp. 258-9. McKenzie, I, 311.

f. 144r

SeC 117: Sir Charles Sedley, Bellamira, or The Mistress, Act III, scene iii, lines 3-18. Song (‘Thyrsis unjustly you Complain’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published in London, 1687. Sola Pinto, II, 1-97 (p. 45).

f. 144v

CgW 57.5: William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song (‘Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

f. 145r

DrJ 296.5: John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song (‘Ah, how sweet it is to love’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1670. California, X, 105-93 (p. 151). Kinsley, I, 121-2. Hammond, I, 231-2.

f. 146v

SeC 98.8: Sir Charles Sedley, Sr Charles Sidley, gave Kg William thes Versis, on his Berth day (‘Hayl hapy Birth day, hadst thou neere bin known’)

Copy.

f. 147r

DrJ 247.1: John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act III, scene i, lines 583-600. Song (‘CeIia, that I once was blest’)

Copy, partly in double columns, untitled.

First published in London, ‘1690’. California, XV (1976), 221-318 (p. 283). Kinsley, II, 560-1. Hammond, III, 238.

f. 147v

CgW 69.5: William Congreve, The Old Batchelour, II, ix, lines 5-17. Song (‘Thus to a ripe, consenting Maid’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1693. Summers, I, 155-255 (p. 186). Davis, pp. 28-113 (pp. 59-60). McKenzie, I, 47-48. Musical settings of the two songs by Henry Purcell published in [first song] Joyful Cuckoldom (London, [1690s]), and [second song] Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXI (London, 1917), pp. 33-4, 35-7.

f. 148r

CgW 58.5: William Congreve, The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 49-62. Song (‘Hither turn thee, gentle swain’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Summers, p. 82. McKenzie, II, 231.

song by Venus

f. 148r

CgW 58.8: William Congreve, The Judgement of Paris: A Masque, lines 132-143. Song (‘Happy Nymph who shall enfold thee’)

Summers, p. 85. McKenzie, II, 234.

f. 150r

CgW 32.5: 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’)

Copy, headed ‘By Mr Congreve’.

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

f. 151r

BeA 23.4: Aphra Behn, The City-Heiress, Act IV, scene i. Song (‘In Phillis all vile jilltts are Meett’)

Copy.

First published, as The City Heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treat-all, in London 1682. Summers, II, 201-300 (p. 260). Todd, VII, 6-77 (p. 49).

f. 151v

DrJ 184.5: John Dryden, Song (‘Go tell Amynta gentle Swain’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

f. [11v]]

ShJ 167: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled, on the penultimate leaf in the volume.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

Pforzheimer MS 10A

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Joseph Keally, from London, 15 December 1710. 1710.

*CgW 96.8: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Hodges No. 43. McKenzie, III, 176 (Letter 52).

Pforzheimer MS 35A

Autograph translation by Evelyn of a letter from Samuel de Sorbière to Thomas Hobbes, from Paris 1 February ‘1658’, ‘being the Lxxix of his discourses printed at Paris 1660’, made by Evelyn for the Royal Society, on two folio leaves, at p. 246 of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825). c.1661.

*EvJ 142: John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS described and edited in full in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1205-8.

Pforzheimer MS 35B

Autograph drawing and caption, endorsed ‘A Scheme of the Action at Chatham when the dutch burnt our Shipps: as it was taken by me on the place: 1667’, signed and dated 29 June 1667, on two quarto leaves. 1667.

*EvJ 72: John Evelyn, The Dutch War

Once enclosed with a letter of 6 December 1681 to Samuel Pepys. Mentioned in Evelyn's list of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209, with a facsimile on the facing page, Plate LVI.

Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

Pforzheimer MS 35C

Autograph ink and wash sketch on drawing paper, 18 x 29½ inches, with autograph caption: ‘This designe of a Garden I made for the Duke of Norfolk [in Surry deleted] at his house in Albury in Surrey since sold to Mr solicitor Finch’, at p. [554] of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825). [1667].

*EvJ 123: John Evelyn, Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W. A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209.

Pforzheimer MS 35H

Copy, in the hand of Richard Hoare, headed ‘Aprill 13th: 1675. A copie of Mrs Evelyn's instructions to Mrs. Blague for setting up & keeping house, upon her marriage with my Ld. Godolphin’, on two folio leaves, enclosed in an autograph letter signed by Evelyn, to Pepys, 3 October 1685. 1675-85.

EvJ 149: John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

This MS edited in Sampson (1939), Appendix B2, pp. 223-36. Discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1215-16. Recorded (as at the Houghton Library, Harvard) in Keynes, p. 247.

First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

Pforzheimer MS 40

Autograph calligraphic MS, on vellum (flesh sides only), 21 leaves (79 x 104 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Baron Sidney, afterwards (in 1618) Earl of Leicester, but without a separate dedication, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures. 1 January 1605/6.

*InE 27: Esther Inglis, [Proverbs] A New Yeers Guift for the Right Honorable and Vertuous Lord my Lord Sidnay of the hand writing and limming of mee Esther Inglis the first of Ianuar, 1606

Later owned by William Caldecott, of Andover. Sold by his grandson, J.B. Caldecott, at Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 61.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 21 (pp. 50-1). E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 524-5, with a facsimile of one page and the binding on the facing Plate XVIII.

English translation of the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, with Latin verses to Lord Sidney by Bartholomew Kello.

Pforzheimer MS 40A

Copy of a play possibly by Udall, in a formal secretary hand, headed ‘A merye enterlude entitled Respublica made in the yeare of oure Lorde .1553. and the first yeare of the moost psperous Reigne of or moste gracious Soveraigne Quene Marye the first’, 28 folio leaves, in 19th-century morocco. c.1553.

UdN 3: Nicholas Udall, Respublica

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary; by the Rev. Dr. Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary; and by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

Edited by W.W. Greg, EETS 226 (London, 1952). Reproduced in facsimile in The Macro Plays, Tudor Facsimile Texts, Folio Series, No. 4 (1908). John Payne Collier's transcript of this MS is in the Folger, MS D. a. 40. E. V. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 531-2, with facsimiles of the cover and first page as Plate XIX.

First published (from this MS) in John Payne Collier, Illustrations of Old English Literature (London, 1866), Vol, I.

Pforzheimer MS 112

A folio volume of accounts of Ralegh's arraignment and execution, in four professional predominantly secretary hands, 103 pages (an unnumbered blank leaf after p. 52), in 19th-century morocco. c.1620.

Later owned, in 1821, by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, in 1863 by John Dillon, and afterwards by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Appendix, Part II (1884), p. 408. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 857-8.

pp. 1-92

RaW 728.285: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in three professional hands, including (pp. 47-65) that of the ‘Feathery scribe’.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

pp. 93-103

RaW 796: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech att the time of his Execution, with the manner of his deportment’.

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 a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

p. 103

RaW 85: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘These ensueing verses are sayd to bee written, by Sr. Walter Raleigh, in the prison of the Gatehouse, the same morneing hee suffered’.

This MS partly collated in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 858.

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).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

Pforzheimer MS 116

MS of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning ‘Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus’), in various hands, with later corrections, 42 quarto leaves (including numerous blanks), formerly bound with a printed exemplum of Spenser's work (1597 edition), in morocco. Early 17th century.

SpE 27.92: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

The Nassau, II, 1824, lot 1141. Afterwards in the libraries of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, Part IV, 1834, lot 632), and of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire (Britwell sale, 1924, lot 721).

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

Pforzheimer MS 117

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Coke], Vice Chamberlain, [20 January 1707/8]. 1708.

*VaJ 63: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1058-9; in Ronald Kern, ‘Documents relating to Company Management, 1705-1711’, Theatre Notebook, 14 (1959), 60-5 (where the letter is incorrectly dated 1711); in Arthur R. Huseboe, ‘Vanbrugh: Additions to the Correspondence’, PQ, 53 (1974), 135-40 (pp. 136-7); and in Coke Papers, pp. 73-4 (No. 47). Register, No. 1948. Also typed transcript in Westminster City Archives (A.M. Broadley, ‘Annals of the Haymarket’ (1911), Vol. II, f. iii).

Pforzheimer MS 118

Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh on ‘The Dayly Charge of an Opera’, 7 April 1708. 1708.

*VaJ 428: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 24 July 1916, to Borrow.

Edited in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1059-60, and in Coke Papers, pp. 97-8 (No. 62). A typed transcript is in Westminster City Archives (A.M. Broadley, ‘Annals of the Haymarket’ (1911), Vol. II, f. iii). Register, No. 1972.

Pforzheimer MS 130

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 23 July 1624. 1624.

*DnJ 4130: John Donne, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 27 February 1882, lot 24.

Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1255-6.

Pforzheimer MS 142

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to Sir Henry Spelman, 21 September 1628. 1628.

*HlJ 99: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 612. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Subsequently in the collection of Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1263-4.

Pforzheimer 714

An exemplum of the first printed edition (London, 1637), containing nine contemporary manuscript corrections in an unidentified hand, possibly presented to the Earl of Bridgewater by or on behalf of Milton or Henry Lawes. The MS corrections could conceivably be in Milton's hand (granted an atypical large epsilon e in the word ‘contemptu[ous]’ on p. 27), but are not substantial enough for certain identification. c.1637.

MnJ 63: John Milton, Comus

Once belonging to the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. Formerly in the Pforzheimer Library, New York.

This item discussed, with facsimile examples, in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), II, 724-5. Recorded in Darbishire.

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

Pforzheimer 820

Copy in the hand of one Humphrey Holden, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleigh wrote these verses ye night before his Execution. Oct 28 1618’, written on the first unsigned leaf in Holden's printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614), in modern morocco. c.1620.

RaW 84: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Edited from this MS in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 846. Facsimile in Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles, catalogue No. 177 (1927), Plate XII.

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).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

Pforzheimer 1101

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph presentation inscription to the Earl of Radnor (nephew of Wycherley's first wife, the Countess of Drogheda). c.1704.

WyW 36: William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems (London, 1704)

Later in the library of Sir Andrew Fontaine (1676-1753), of Narford Hall, Norfolk, antiquary and art collector.

Prompt Books Box 1, No, 200.

A printed exemplum of the edition of 1696 marked up as a promptbook, including additional dialogue not in the printed text, by the prompter John Stede for Drury Lane productions c.1731-3, 10 April 1747 and 1 December 1759. 1731-59.

SuT 3: Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko

From the collection of promptbooks given by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps to the Morrab Library, Penzance. Sotheby's, 27 May 1964.

First published in London, 1696. Jordan & Love, II, 102-80.

Wh H224 596n WRE

A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt. c.1596.

Once owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller, and in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1954). Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

The volume as a whole

HrJ 321: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph additions, including (facing the title-page) his dedication to his uncle, Thomas Markham, dated 3 August 1596.

This item (the ‘Markham-Wrenn’ copy) collated in Donno.

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

sig. A1v

*HrJ 302: Sir John Harington, To the ladies of the Queenes Priuy-Chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond, The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus: (‘Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spite’)

Autograph, headed ‘An Epigram of the booke hanging in cheyns. to ye Ladyes’ and here beginning ‘Fayr dames yf any tooke in skorn or spyte’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.

unnumbered rear flyleaf

*HrJ 300: Sir John Harington, To Master Cooke, the Queenes Atturney, that was incited to call Misacmos into the Starre-chamber, but refused it (‘Those that of dainty fare make deare prouision’)

Autograph, untitled and here beginning ‘They that of dainty food make deer provision’; imperfect, with part of lines 5-6, 7-8, and a title added in an 18th-century hand.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.

Wh/H224 596nb WRE

Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596, in 19th-century calf, containing a transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham in HrJ 322; the MS notes here on three front flyleaves in the hands of Richard Farmer (1735-97), James Bindley (1737-1818), and Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836). c.1800.

HrJ 324: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Sotheby's, 29 January 1873, lot 748. Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

Wj C179 662ca WRE

A printed work by Pierre de Cardonnel.

Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

The volume as a whole

*WaE 869: Edmund Waller, Cardonnel, Pierre de. Complementum fortunatarum insularum, Part II (London, 1662)

An octavo printed exemplum, with an inlaid slip bearing the names of ‘Robert Waller’, ‘Ro: Waller’, and ‘Edm waller’, in modern calf gilt. Late 17th century.

Unnumbered flyleaf

*WaE 750: Edmund Waller, ‘Hector consilio te flectere nemo salubri’

Nine Latin hexameters, untitled, written in what is probably Waller's variant bold style of hand (as seen in his Latin notebook, WaE 789).

Apparently unpublished.