Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149

Osborn MS b 104

An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.

p. 6

RnT 470: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy.

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

p. 10 (last series)

ClJ 221: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

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

pp. [12-13] (last series)

StW 69: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Copy, headed ‘A Western humour’ and here beginning ‘Ridlea, Ridlea neighbour John with atale ha' bea?’

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

p. 115

JnB 44.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, headed ‘Clayminge another kiss on coullor of mending ye former, by Ben: J:’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

p. 116

JnB 3: Ben Jonson, Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song (‘Hang up those dull, and envious fooles’)

Copy, headed ‘In Defence of weomens inconstancy by Ben: I:’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.

Osborn MS b 105

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised). Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTCO1 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand. c.1680.

Inscribed on the title-page ‘Hansen’: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and ‘The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680’, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, ‘Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105’, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

pp. 1-7

RoJ 84: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay very delightfull and solid from ye Ld: R: to ye Ld: M: upon their mutuall Poems’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

pp. 8-22

RoJ 296: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr Against Man, By ye E: of R:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

p. 34

RoJ 281: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy of lines 1-13, headed ‘A Ramble in St James's Parke. By ye E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

pp. 45-61

RoJ 148: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter fancyd from Artemisa in ye Towne to Cloe in ye Countrey. By ye E: of R:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

p. 62

RoJ 110: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

Copy, of lines 1-12, ascribed to ‘ye E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, with a facsimile as frontispiece; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

pp. 67-71

RoJ 491: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘ye E: of R.’

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

pp. 71-5

RoJ 56: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon his lyeing in & cou'd not drinke By ye E: of R:’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 87-94

RoJ 19: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy of lines 5-124, here beginning ‘What e're you write; that wth a flowing Tyde’, imperfect, lacking the opening.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

pp. 102-4

RoJ 250: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 106-7

RoJ 519: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas Act 2d Chor:’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

pp. 108-12

RoJ 573: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

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

pp. 113-14

RoJ 560: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

pp. 133-5

RoJ 382: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)

Copy, headed ‘Song to Cloris’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

pp. 136-7

RoJ 391: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)

The text followed (pp. 137-8) by followed (pp. 137-8) by Elizabeth Wilmot's ‘The Answer’ (‘Nothing adds to your fond fire’).

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning ‘Kindness has resistless Charms’) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's ‘Answer’ to the poem (beginning ‘Nothing adds to love's fond fire’), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

pp. 139-40

RoJ 422: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

pp. 140-1

RoJ 445: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

pp. 142-3

RoJ 630: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

pp. 144-5

RoJ 469: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

pp. 146-7

RoJ 398: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Printed from this MS (as text A1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 149-50; edited in Walker, pp. 39-40.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’ on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.

pp. 148-9

RoJ 176: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Love & Life a Song’.

Edited from this MS in Walker; recorded in Vieth.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 149-50

RoJ 98: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fall a Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

pp. 151-2

RoJ 455: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

p. 152

RoJ 206: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)

Copy of lines 1-4 only, headed ‘Song’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

p. 160

RoJ 190: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)

Copy of lines 1-4, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as ‘Answer’ beginning ‘I Fuck no more then others doe’.

Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song ‘I cannot change as others do’ (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

p. 185

EtG 43: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy of the last six lines, here beginning ‘In whom there dwell Diviner Charmes’, imperfect, lacking all the previous portion.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 186-8

DoC 282: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edw: Howard upon his Brittish Princesse By ye Ld B:’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. 189-91

DoC 156: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Mr Hen: Savill’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

p. 213

BeA 7: Aphra Behn, The Disappointment (‘One day the Amorous Lysander’)

Copy of the last ten lines, here beginning ‘The Nymphs Resentments, none but I’, imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.

pp. 214-20

BeA 8: Aphra Behn, On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks (‘Whilst happy I Triumphant stood’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Giniper Tree now cut downe to make Busks. By Mrs Behn’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 148-51. Todd, I, No. 14, pp. 39-41.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 450-1.

pp. 221-6

BeA 15: Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter (‘What doleful crys are these that fright my sence’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of that most Excellent Painter, Mr Greenhill. By Mrs Behn’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.

pp. 227-38

RoJ 480: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr. By Sr Char: Sidley’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

pp. 251-63

RoJ 530: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Tunbridge Wells A Satyr’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

pp. 314-27

DrJ 100: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy, headed ‘Mac Flecknoe A Satyr. By Mr Dryden’.

This MS collated in Vieth.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 328-39

SdT 23.2: Thomas Shadwell, Upon a late fall'n Poet (‘A sad mischance I sing alas’)

Copy, as ‘suppos'd to be Written by Mr Shadwell’.

This MS recorded in David Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963), p. 486, as ‘otherwise unrecorded’.

pp. 340-3

EtG 13: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, pp. 84-5.

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

pp. 344-7

RoJ 613: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

pp. 348-9

RoJ 212: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)

Edited from this MS in Walker and in part in Love, Recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

pp. 350-2

RoJ 196: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

pp. 382-91

DoC 61: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

p. 396

RoJ 41: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue (‘When to the King I bid good morrow’)

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

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as ‘Dialogue L: R.’

Osborn MS b 107

Copy, in a neat non-professional roman hand, comprising an address ‘To the Reader’ and four chapers numbered VI-IX, 259 small folio pages, in contemporary calf. c.1650.

SiP 168.9: Sir Philip Sidney, The Historie of Arcadia: or an Addition to: and a Continuance Of Sir Phillip Sydney's Arcadia

Variously owned or inscribed by Elizabeth Holt, of Warwickshire; John Bryars, rector of Diss, Norfolk; Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; Ann Bridge (1755); Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854); Captain Kenelm Somerville, R.N.; Noel Digby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, rector of Brinton; given by him to J. Wight, 22 March 1830; and Lady Biddulph. Sotheby's, 22 June 1953, to Dobell.

An unpublished ‘allegorical account of the Grand Rebellion begun 1640. By one of the Lord Digby's Family’, the ‘account’ covering English history from before the reign of Queen Elizabeth to 1649.

Osborn MS b 108

A quarto verse miscellany, entitled ‘A True coppy of Severall Verses made by John Hobart Esq.; Who Died Anno 1683. Obtayned By ye favour of Madam Astley. August the11th 1683’, written in the hand of Robert Doughty (d.1670). Late 17th century.

Inscribed this for my well beloved friend J. C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Shixton.

f. 16r

ClJ 222: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

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

Osborn MS b 111

A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons, in one or two small hands, 596 numbered pages (lacking pp. 367-8, plus ‘Alphabeticall Table’ and blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary red morocco gilt stamped with the initial ‘R.’ c.late 1690s.

Once owned by Sir Thomas Strange, brother-in-law of Andrew Lumisden, Secretary to Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.

p. 80

DrJ 78: John Dryden, The Lady's Song (‘A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear’)

Copy, headed ‘May Day’.

A typescript of this MS made by Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), when the MS was owned by C. Fowkes, is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 13, f. 44.

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

p. 483

DrJ 120: John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna (‘As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Mr Dryden’.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond, I, 270-3.

p. 484

DrJ 19: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] (‘A Poet once the Spartans led to fight’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Mr Dryden’.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond, I, 273-4.

pp. 485-6

DrJ 149: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Mr Dryden’.

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

pp. 548-50

DoC 303: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Account of the Female Nine’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

Osborn MS b 113

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet. c.1680s.

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and ‘Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3’.

pp. 17-28

RoJ 542: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Observations on Tunbridge Wells’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, collated in Walker.

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

pp. 29-30

RoJ 184: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.

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

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 35-41

EtG 110: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Formerly ‘Osborn Box 22, No. 3’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

pp. 59-77

DrJ 43.997: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

pp. 79-93

DoC 359: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

See DoC 358.

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

Osborn MS b 114

A small oblong-octavo volume of 60 poems by Donne plus six of his Problems, together with a few poems by others, in a single hand, 336 pages (but numbering skipping pp. 49-51, 182-90, 241-9, 322, with 332 twice, and the last leaf missing), in contemporary vellum, remains of green silk ties. c.1620-33.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court (see use of Law French on p. 238). Hodgson's, 27 April 1950, lot 257. Raphael King, sale catalogue No. 51 (1950), item 73. Formerly Chest II/68.

Cited in IELM, I as the ‘King MS’: DnJ Δ 29. Complete microfilm in the British Library (M/569).

pp. 1-9

DnJ 2744: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira prima’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

pp. 9-16

DnJ 2774: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Secunda’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

pp. 17-25

DnJ 2806: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira Tertia’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 25-42

DnJ 2836: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Quarta’ and here beginning ‘Well now I may reciue & die my sinne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

pp. 43-50

DnJ 2868: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra quinta’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

pp. 64-7

DnJ 3410: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira octava’ and subscribed ‘E’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

p. 68

DnJ 2269: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

pp. 69-71

DnJ 3180: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia prima’ under a general heading ‘The Eligies’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

pp. 72-4

DnJ 1690: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 2da’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 75-8

DnJ 633: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Tercia’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

pp. 79-82

DnJ 2211: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 4ta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 83-4

DnJ 1539: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia quinta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 85-6

DnJ 1044: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Sexta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.

pp. 87-90

DnJ 2456: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

pp. 90-3

DnJ 2345: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegia octaua’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

pp. 93-7

DnJ 2510: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia nona’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

pp. 98-105

DnJ 382: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Supra vna catena Elegia Decima’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

pp. 106-13

DnJ 2143: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia vndecima’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

pp. 113-17

DnJ 698: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Duodecima’ and subscribed ‘H’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

pp. 129-34

DnJ 1073: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed Elegia 17ta. A Funerall Elegie vpon ye Ladie Marcham.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 134-9

DnJ 1016: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia i8ua A funerall Elegie on Mris Boulstrede’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 140-4

DnJ 1105: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘The End of ye Elegies’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 149-52

DnJ 143: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

pp. 152-61

DnJ 773: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

p. 161

CoH 110: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet on the blessed Virgin Mary’.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

pp. 163-99

DnJ 1940: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

pp. 200-5

DnJ 3911: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘His last will & Testamt’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

pp. 206-12

DnJ 4078: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of five Problems.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

pp. 213-15

DnJ 3324: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett to mr F. W:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

pp. 215-17

DnJ 3467: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘From ye Court’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 217-20

DnJ 3294: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled, with running heading ‘Dalla Corte’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 221-6

DnJ 3070: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Storme. To Sr Basill Brooke’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 226-30

DnJ 556: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

pp. 233-8

DnJ 3497: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Donne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 238-51

DnJ 265: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Canzoni. Amourenses p le mesne Author’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

pp. 251-2

DnJ 727: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy, headed ‘Cansonetts’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 252-4

DnJ 1649: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

pp. 254-5

DnJ 672: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy of lines 1-6, 13-24, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

pp. 255-7, 290-3

DnJ 3818: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy of lines 1-27, untitled, the remainder (on pp. 290-3) headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 258-9

DnJ 3664: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Of: Twicknam Garden’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 259-61

DnJ 2177: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled, running straight on from Twicknam garden (DnJ 3664).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

pp. 262-3

DnJ 2011: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Dietie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

p. 264

DnJ 2047: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘Loues Dietie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

pp. 267-8

DnJ 1973: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Monie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 269-73

DnJ 3706: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

pp. 273-5

DnJ 25: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy, untitled, but with running head ‘Angels & Aire’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

pp. 276-7

DnJ 1457: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 277-9

DnJ 832: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy. headed ‘A Curse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 280-1

DnJ 2245: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy of lines 1-22, headed ‘Canzone’ and here beginning ‘Yet if I haue not all thy love’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

pp. 282-4

DnJ 1364: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 285-7

DnJ 1840: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 287-90

DnJ 1809: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Shaddowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

pp. 293-5

DnJ 2114: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Spring’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

pp. 296-9

DnJ 3788: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘Diamond in glass’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

pp. 299-302

DnJ 595: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 303-5

DnJ 498: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

pp. 305-7

DnJ 3628: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

pp. 307-9

DnJ 3007: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sweete loue I dare not goe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

pp. 310-11

JnB 713: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

pp. 311-12

DnJ 1204: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedictio Amoris’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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.

pp. 312-14

DnJ 3112: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem. A Song’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

pp. 314-16

DnJ 2298: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

pp. 318-36

DnJ 2426: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy; with the prose letter to Lady Bedford (pp. 316-17), the poem incomplete, lacking the last ten lines.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

Osborn MS b 118

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt. Including 24 poems by Abraham Cowley (pp. 1-40) and 18 poems by Katherine Philips (pp. 41-81) transcribed from a printed source. Late-17th century.

Arms of the Trevor family and the initials ‘I D’ stamped on the cover. Inscribed names of Francis Stephens (‘Liber Donum Francisci Stephens’) and, later, of E.H. Baker (on the front pastedown). Later owned by Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872) manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18637.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Trevor MS’: PsK Δ 10.

p. 19

CoA 54.4: Abraham Cowley, The Country Life. Lib. 4. Plantarum (‘Blest be the man (and blest he is) whome're’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

p. 37

CoA 100.6: Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame (‘Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!’)

Copy.

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

pp. 41-2

PsK 280: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

p. 42

PsK 269: Katherine Philips, On the 1. January 1657 (‘Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

pp. 43-4

PsK 56: 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. 45-6

PsK 531: 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, headed ‘2 Cor: 5. 19’.

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. 47-52

PsK 204: 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. 53-4

PsK 284: Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language (‘If honour to an ancient name be due’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye British Language by K. Phil:ps’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

p. 55

PsK 548: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

p. 56

PsK 286: Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia (‘Observe the weary birds e're night be done’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Friend's Absence’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

pp. 57-8

PsK 171: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy of a version of lines 11-50, here beginning ‘A safe Retirement from ye noise of towns’.

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. 59-61

PsK 351: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Out of Mrs Phillip's her Poems / On Submission’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘As in ye great Creation of this All’).

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. 62-7

PsK 34: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘Content’, written sideways up the length of the page.

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. 68-70

PsK 129: 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.

pp. 70-3

PsK 183: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy, headed ‘A Recovery’.

This MS collated 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.

pp. 73-4

PsK 15: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Pleasure’.

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. 75-8

PsK 43: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

This MS collated 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. 78-80

PsK 172: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy, complete.

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 5: Katherine Philips, Against Love (‘Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

p. 81

PsK 436: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis (‘Tis true, our life is but a long disease’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis’, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

Osborn MS b 135

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, principally extracts from Sir Thomas Pope Blount's De re poetica (1694), in a non-professional cursive hand, 220 pages, in contemporary calf. c.late 1690s.

f. 76r et seq.

DrJ 297.2: John Dryden, A Discourse concerning Satire

Extracts.

First published as a preface to The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692]). California, IV, 3-90. Hammond, III, 310-450.

See also DrJ 173.

f. 111r

CoA 112: Abraham Cowley, Ode (‘Here's to thee Dick. this whining Love despise’)

Copy.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 26. Sparrow, pp. 33-4.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 69-73.

ff. 111v-12r

CoA 201: Abraham Cowley, The Wish (‘Well then. I now do plainly see’)

Copy.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 87-8. Sparrow, pp. 85-6. Collected Works, II, No. 19, pp. 44-6.

ff. 112r-13v

CoA 97: Abraham Cowley, Hymn. To light (‘First born of Chaos, who so fair didst come’)

Copy.

First published among Verses written on several occasions in Works (London, 1668). Waller, I, 444-7. Sparrow, pp. 174-8.

ff. 113v-15r

CoA 55: Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse (‘At the large foot of a fair hollow tree’)

Copy.

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

f. 115r

CoA 195: Abraham Cowley, A Vote (‘Lest the misconstring world should chance to say’)

Copy of stanzasa 9-11, headed ‘Some Verses of his made at 13 yrs of Age’ and here beginning ‘This only grant me, yt my meats may lie’.

First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 48-50. Sparrow, pp. 9-12. Stanzas 9-11 (beginning ‘This only grant me, that my means may lye’) reprinted in the essay ‘Of My self’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 456-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 70-1.

f. 115v

CoA 109: Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 10. Ep. 47 (‘Since dearest Friend, 'tis your desire to see’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.

f. 116r

CoA 110: Abraham Cowley, Martial Book 10. Epigram 96 (‘Me who have liv'd so long among the great’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 461.

f. 116r-v

CoA 202: Abraham Cowley, Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris (‘Hic, O Viator, sub Lare parvulo’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Poemata latina (London, 1668). Waller, II, 461-2.

f. 116v

CoA 106: Abraham Cowley, Mart. Lib. 5. Epigr. 59 (‘To morrow you will Live, you always cry’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 454-5.

Osborn MS b 136

A quarto volume of principally Advice to Painter poems, in a neat rounded hand up to p. 48, then in other hands, with a title-page, 59 pages, in contemporary marbled boards. Entitled ‘Directions to a Painter for Describing our navall Businesse In imitation of Mr Waller. Being The Last works of Sr John Denham...Printed in the year 1667’. Late 17th century.

pp. 2-16

MaA 357: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham’.

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

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

pp. 17-33

MaA 386: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter. By Sr John Denham’.

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

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

pp. 33-8

MaA 419: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 38-43

MaA 432: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter by Sr John Denham’.

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

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

pp. 43-7

MaA 139: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy.

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

pp. 47-8

MaA 300: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy.

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

p. 48

MaA 288.5: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy.

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

p. 48

MaA 469: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter Printed in a folio sheet’, incomplete.

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

pp. 57-9

MaA 536: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Marvell, to Sir John Trott, [1667].

The original letter printed in Miscellany Poems (1681). Reprinted in Margoliouth, II, 311-13.

Osborn MS b 137

A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. i) ‘Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695’.

p. 2

FuT 4: Thomas Fuller, On my Worthy Friend Dr Sparke, His Learned Book (‘A Brood of legendary saints of old’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr ffuller on Dr Sparkes Booke’, preceding a copy of Sparke's ‘Learned and pious poems vpon the Holy ffeasts & ffasts off the Church’.

First published in Edward Sparke, Scintillula Altaris (London, 1652). Grosart, pp. 108-10.

p. 46

JnB 4.3: Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson's Answer to ye said verses [by Alexander Gill]’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

pp. 76-84

HrG 56: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘The Quadraines of Pibracke, or Pious exortations ffor youth out of Du bartas & Herberts Poems’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

p. 84

HrG 38: George Herbert, Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)

Copy, headed ‘Divine & Charmes Knotts’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

p. 176

RoJ 217.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Extracts.

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

p. 198

HlJ 3.7: Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke (‘Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J: Hall. Bp Norwich:’.

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

p. 200

ClJ 211: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

pp. 200-1

ClJ 79: John Cleveland, On the Archbishop of Canterbury (‘I need no Muse to give my passion vent’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on DrLawd Arch-Bishopp of Canterbury’.

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

p. 201

HrG 15: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, headed ‘An Anagram on the Blessed Virgin’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

Osborn MS b 139

Copy, on 40 quarto pages. Late 17th century.

CnC 5: Charles Cotton, The battail of Yvry (‘High are his thoughts, whose Buskin'd Mistress sings’)

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 657-729.

Osborn MS b 145

A folio volume of extracts from English historical works, in three hands, one secretary hand predominating, c.240 pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630.

f. [174r]

BcF 215.135: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

Extracts, headed ‘Collecons out of my l. of St Albans H. 7’.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

ff. [180r-213r]

DaS 42.5: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Extracts, headed ‘Collections out of the Historian Mr Samuel Daniel’.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

Osborn MS b 146

A quarto miscellany of three works, 46 leaves, in modern wrappers. Mid-17th century.

ff. [1r-40r]

FuT 5.24: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

A précis of the work, in an unidentified hand.

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

Osborn MS b 148

An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

p. 1

WoH 173: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

p. 2

DnJ 1560: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘When he went w:th ye Lord Doncaster’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

pp. 2-3

DnJ 867: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

p. 3

HrJ 218: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)

Copy, headed ‘Nil refert loqui dum vbi liceat’.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

p. 4

JnB 714: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy.

pp. 4-5

DnJ 3347: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

p. 5

DnJ 2948: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: D: finis’.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

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

See also DnJ 428.

pp. 5-6

JnB 91: Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘B: J: ffinis’.

Lines 12-26 (beginning ‘Little knowe they that professe Amitye’) first published as lines 19-33 of ‘An Epistle to a friend’ in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.

p. 6

HoJ 337: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistress’, followed by an answer.

Osborn, p. 301.

p. 7

ToA 71: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘The Mar. B: to the La ffe: H:’.

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.

pp. 7-8

DnJ 3847: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 8-10

DnJ 1265: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

pp. 10-12

DnJ 2745: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

pp. 12-15

DnJ 2807: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire the Seconde’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 15-17

DnJ 2869: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire the third’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

pp. 17-22

DnJ 2837: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire the fourth’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

p. 23

DrM 34: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

p. 23

DnJ 2656: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

pp. 24-6

DnJ 1156: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamiu: One ye Marriage of ye La: Elizabeth’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

pp. 26-35

DnJ 1782: John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius (‘How sits this citie, late most populous’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

pp. 35-50, 141-2

DnJ 4079: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 15 Problems, subscribed ‘J: D: ffinis’.

This MS recorded in Gardner, Elegies, p. lxxv.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

pp. 50-1

DnJ 1365: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 51

DnJ 1403: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

pp. 52-3

DnJ 3912: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

p. 53

DnJ 190: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

pp. 53-4

DnJ 2048: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

p. 54

DnJ 753: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye worthiest of all my loue my vertuous M:rs

This MS recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

pp. 54-5

DnJ 3962: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy, headed ‘The Picture’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

pp. 55-6

DnJ 3325: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

p. 56

DnJ 158: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

p. 56

DnJ 897: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from Antiquary (DnJ 158).

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

p. 56

DnJ 1914: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from Disinherited (DnJ 897).

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

p. 56

DnJ 3665: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Twittingham Garden’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 57-8

DnJ 266: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Widdowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

p. 58

DnJ 3736: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

pp. 59-60

DnJ 3071: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 60-2

DnJ 557: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

p. 62

DnJ 499: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

pp. 62-3

DnJ 1974: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 63-4

HoJ 37: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, headed ‘A Poem’.

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

pp. 64-6

DnJ 383: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chaine’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

pp. 66-7

DnJ 2923: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe catch a fallinge starre’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 67

DnJ 3032: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

pp. 67-8

DnJ 2457: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

p. 68

DnJ 1738: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

p. 69

DnJ 2012: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

pp. 69-70

DnJ 1650: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

p. 70

DnJ 2299: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

p. 71

DnJ 3468: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘ffrom Courte’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 71-3

DnJ 3498: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 73-4

DnJ 699: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

pp. 75-6

DnJ 3597: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie to the Lad: Bedford’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

pp. 77-8

DnJ 1106: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 78-9

DnJ 634: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

p. 79

DnJ 1841: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 79-81

DnJ 3181: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

p. 81

DnJ 936: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

pp. 81-2

DnJ 3629: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

p. 82

DnJ 2115: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘The Springe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

p. 83

DnJ 2641: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

pp. 83-4

DnJ 1691: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 84-5

DnJ 2212: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 85-6

DnJ 3113: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

pp. 86-7

DnJ 795: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

pp. 87-8

DnJ 1330: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘The ffeauer’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

p. 89

DnJ 3008: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

pp. 89-90

DnJ 2178: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

pp. 90-1

DnJ 1230: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

pp. 91-3

DnJ 1875: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

p. 93

DnJ 1540: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Picture’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 93-4

HrE 91: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

pp. 94-5

DnJ 3295: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 95-6

DnJ 2562: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

pp. 97-8

DnJ 596: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 98-100

DnJ 2144: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

pp. 100-1

DnJ 305: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

pp. 101-2

DnJ 3819: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy, headed ‘The Booke’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 102-4

DnJ 3789: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction of Glass’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

p. 104

DnJ 3847.5: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy of lines 1-3, headed ‘A valediction of Teares’ and subscribed ‘Posted before in folio: 4:’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 104-5

DnJ 123: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

p. 105

DnJ 1458: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 105-6

DnJ 2090: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

pp. 106-7

DnJ 673: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

pp. 107-8

DnJ 1810: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘The Shadowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

p. 108

DnJ 26: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy, headed ‘ffire an Angells’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

pp. 108-9

DnJ 3990: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Facsimile of p. 109 in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

p. 109

DnJ 1205: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedico’ and here beginning ‘Soe soe leaue off this last lamentinge kisse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Facsimile in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

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.

p. 109

DnJ 728: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from The Expiration (DnJ 1205) and here beginning ‘ffor my first twentie yeares since yesterday’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Facsimile in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 109-10

DnJ 3707: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of p. 109 in Hodgson's sale catalogue, 20-21 November 1958, frontispiece.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

pp. 110-11

DnJ 3411: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

pp. 111-12

DnJ 2246: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner, p. 208, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

pp. 112-13

DnJ 2720: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

p. 113

DnJ 967: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

pp. 114-15

DnJ 3386: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

pp. 115-16

DnJ 56: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘In fflauiam’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

pp. 116-17

DnJ 833: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Dirae’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 117-19

DnJ 1017: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie ffunerall one ye Death of Mrs Boulstred’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 119-21

DnJ 1074: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie ffunerall vppon ye La: Marckham’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 121-2

DnJ 2511: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

pp. 122-5

DnJ 1177: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon ye Mariag of ye Prince Palatine and ye Princess one St: Valentines day:’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

p. 125

DnJ 2346: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

pp. 126-32

DnJ 1941: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

p. 132

PeW 53: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘Earle of Penbrooke’.

This presemably the Osborn MS recorded in Krueger.

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

pp 132-3

PeW 120: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘Ben Rudiar’.

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

p. 133

BmF 131: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘ff. B. ffinis’.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

pp. 133-4

DnJ 144: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

pp. 135-6

DnJ 1045: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.

pp. 136-8

BmF 54: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J: D: ffinis’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

pp. 138-41

DnJ 2775: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Lawe Satire’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

pp. 142-3

WoH 157: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

pp. 143-6

DnJ 3573: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington (‘That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime’)

Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Aston to ye Countiss of Huntington’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

pp. 146-7

BmF 81: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie one ye Death of ye La: Markham’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 148-50

DnJ 1496: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

p. 150

BmF 150: Francis Beaumont, ‘Why should not pilgrims to thy body come’

Copy, subscribed ‘ffinis: ff: B:’.

First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

p. 150

HrE 25: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)

Copy of lines 1-2, headed ‘One Mrs Boulstreed’, imperfect, lacking the rest.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.