Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection

MS La. II. 69

An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.

f. 24r

TiC 30: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis qd Chidiok Ticburne’, on the recto side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

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

f. 24r

TiC 1: Chidiock Tichborne, The Housedove (‘A silly housedove happed to fall’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Chidiock Ticburne’, on the recto side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, p. 308.

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TiC 47: Chidiock Tichborne, To his Friend (‘Good sorrow cease, false hope be gone, misfortune once farewell’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Chidiok Tichburne’, on the verso side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, p. 307.

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DrW 16: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (‘Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea’)

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

This MS not recorded in Kastner.

See DrW 15-18.

MS La. II. 89

An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.

Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.

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RoJ 433: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)

Copy, untitled, among other verse on the second leaf of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

f. 248r

RoJ 227: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Rotchester against the Popish Indulgences’, subscribed ‘For My Lord ffountan hall These’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso inscribed in another hand with a message to ‘My Lord’ signed ‘Ja. Nicolson’ and dated from Edinburgh 28 April 1694. c.1694.

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.

MS La. II. 320

Autograph, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

*DrW 95: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Dum tua melliflui specto pigmenta Libelli’

Unpublished.

MS La. II. 333/2

Copy of ‘Sonnettes &c.’, in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves. Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed ‘Jo. Hiltoun’ (fl.c.1627-30) which in 1800 was ‘in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College’ [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian]. 26 February 1800.

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CmT 185.5: Thomas Campion, ‘As on a day Sabina fell asleepe’

Copy, transcribed from fol. 20 of the original songbook.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

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CmT 189: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 22 of the original songbook.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

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CmT 51: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 19 of the original songbook.

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

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CmT 240: Thomas Campion, ‘What is a day, what is a yeere’

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 6 of the original songbook.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

See also CmT 207-38.

MS La. II. 358

Unbound folder of MS verse. Collected by David Laing (1793-1878), Scottish antiquary, collector and librarian.

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SpE 66: Edmund Spenser, Commendatory verses on Spenser

MS of a fourteen-line commendatory poem on The Faerie Queene, headed ‘Will: Justice:’, beginning ‘I thought no lesse but that some power divine’, and subscribed ‘Upon the Author At his bookes of the ffayery Queenes first comeinge to the presse, written by a prissoner’.

Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Joseph Black, ‘“Pan is Hee”: Commending The Faerie Queene’, Spenser Studies, 15 (2001), 121-34, where it is suggested that the author might be the poet Thomas Watson (1555/6-92). This attribution is supported in D. Allen Carroll, ‘Thomas Watson and the 1588 MS Commendation of The Faerie Queene: Reading the Rebuses’, Spenser Studies, 16 (2002), 104-24, with another facsimile on p. 118.

MS La. II. 411

Copy, in a single hand, transcribed from a printed source, eleven quarto leaves (plus five blanks), disbound. Late 17th century.

HaG 2: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Anatomy of an Equivalent

This MS recorded in Brown, I, 398; also in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 149, and in Brown, HLQ (1974), p. 334.

First published, anonymously, [in London, 1688]. Foxcroft, II, 425-6. Brown, I, 265-90.

MS La. II. 655

Fragment of a copy, in a formal secretary hand, with rubrication, comprising three unbound quarto leaves containing Book I, Chapter II, lines 13-68 (here beginning ‘With cesptoure in hand...’); Chapter III, lines 1-19, 76-100; Chapter IV, lines 1-35; and Chapter VIII, lines 7-70. c.1530.

DoG 8: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)

This MS recorded in Coldwell, I, 100-1.

First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

MS La. III. 75

Autograph calligraphic MS, 35 quarto leaves (180 x 142 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound). A presentation New Year's Gift to Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), poet and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince Henry, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in italic and Roman scripts, without decoration. 1 January ‘1608’.

*InE 57: Esther Inglis, A Treatise of preparation to the Holy Supper of our only Saviour and redeemer Jes' Christ...Translated out of French in Inglishe...By Bartholomew Kello...[1608]

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Mr Robt Wonram his book’.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 34 (p. 63).

An English translation of Yves Rouspeau, Traitté de la préparation à la saincte Cène de Nostre seul Sauveur et Rédempteur Jésus Christ.

MS La. III. 249

Autograph calligraphic MS, in a principally italic script, the title-page with colour decoration, with Hume's Dedication to King James VI and Prince Henry, 38 quarto leaves (200 x 160 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). 12 October [i.e. 20 September] 1605.

*InE 59: Esther Inglis, Vincula Unionis sive scita Britannicae id est De Unione insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus. Per Davidem Humium Theagrium. [1605]

Owned in 1867 by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 20 (pp. 49-50).

The second (unpublished) part of a treatise by the Latin poet and historian David Hume (1560?-1630?), the first part of which was published in 1605.

MS La. III. 256

A quarto composite volume of tracts and papers on state and ecclesiastical matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, unpaginated, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

Owned in September 1836 by David Laing.

item 13

MnJ 51: John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy

Copy, in a single mixed hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1641, on eleven quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 405.

First published in London, 1641. Columbia, III, Part 1, 81-104. Yale, I, 618-52.

MS La. III. 347

A quarto composite volume, comprising eleven autograph letters signed by Elizabeth Melville, in her small italic hand, on pages of various size, with address panels and traces of red wax seals, iii + 19 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Written to the Presbyterian minister John Livingstone (8), to her son James (2) and to the Countess of Wigton (1). c.1625-31.

*MeE 4: Elizabeth Melville, Letter(s)

Inscribed (f. [iv]) ‘Chas: Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, with a title-page by him (f. [iir]) dated 1826, and inscribed by Laing (f. [iv]) ‘David Laing Novr 1851 / This Volume presented to me by Mrs Bedford, Sister to the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Esqr’.

MS La. III. 348

A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

pp. 1-31

BcF 368: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech, 7 May 1617.

pp. 33-73

BcF 369: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of the Earl of Somerset.

pp. 77-99

BcF 161: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy.

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

pp. 101-72, 192-220

BcF 610: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Robert Cecil, Ellesmere, James I, Essex, Davies, Northumberland, Edward Coke, Toby Mathew, and others.

pp. 173-92

BcF 185: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

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

pp. 221-9

BcF 473: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

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

MS La. III. 365

A folio volume of transcripts made by William Drummond of letters from Queen Elizabeth to James VI of Scotland, 23 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. Early-mid-17th century.

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*DrW 74: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Circuit aboue the circle of our thoughts’

Autograph poetical jottings, beginning ‘aboue the circuit/circle of our thoughts’.

Hitherto unpublished, but see DrW 000.

MS La. III. 398

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 70 tall folio pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

DaJ 271: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

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

MS La. III. 432

A sextodecimo pocket notebook, for the most part in a single small mixed hand, largely written across the page with the spine to the top, including 31 poems by George Herbert transcribed from the sixth edition of The Temple (Cambridge, 1641), 103 leaves, in 19th-century diced brown calf. Compiled by Andrew Symson (1639-1712), usher of the Grammar School of Stirling, afterwards parson of Kerkinner in Wigton. Including (ff. 21r-53v) 31 poems transcribed by him in 1671 from the sixth edition of George Herbert's The Temple (Cambridge, 1641). c.1664-91.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘William Stirling’. Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet, and (f. 102v) his signature. Inscribed (f. [iv]) as bought at ‘Pinkerton's sale in 1812’ (Sotheby's, April 1812). Bookplate of George Chalmers, FRSSA (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer. Inscribed by Laing ‘Bought at the Sale of Mr Chalmers's Library Novr 1842. No. 1643.’

f. 18v

JnB 592: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 21r

HrG 55.2: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy of the first two stanzas, a false start, incomplete.

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

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HrG 55.5: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy of the complete poem, subscribed ‘Transcripsi April. 4. 1671. Die Martis. A.’

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

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HrG 210.5: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herberts. Temple pag. 43’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

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HrG 134.8: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures (‘Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Templ. pag. 50’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

f. 32v

HrG 136.5: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures. II. (‘Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine’)

Copy, headed ‘2’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

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HrG 69.5: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 60’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

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HrG 145.8: George Herbert, Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp. p. 61’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

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HrG 66.5: George Herbert, Constancie (‘Who is the honest man?’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: temp. p. 63’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.

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HrG 253.8: George Herbert, Sunday (‘O day most calm, most bright’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp: page. 66’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.

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HrG 24.5: George Herbert, Avarice (‘Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 69’.

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

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HrG 14.7: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 69’.

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

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HrG 265.5: George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints (‘Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands’)

Copy, inscribed ‘H. T. p. 69’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.

f. 38r

HrG 100.8: George Herbert, Employment (II) (‘He that is weary, let him sit’)

Extract, beginning at line 21 (‘Oh that I were an Orenge-tree’), subscribed ‘Transc: Kr. April. 18. 1671’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.

f. 38v

HrG 61.8: George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Templ. p. 77’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

f. 38v

HrG 212.8: George Herbert, Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 95’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

f. 39r-v

HrG 64.8: George Herbert, Conscience (‘Peace pratler, do not lowre’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Templ. p. 98’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.

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HrG 30.8: George Herbert, The British Church (‘I joy, deare Mother, when I view’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Tem. p. 102’, subscribed ‘Tranc: Kr. Apr. 18. 1671.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.

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HrG 216.5: George Herbert, Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 109’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

f. 44r-v

HrG 116.8: George Herbert, Giddinesse (‘Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp. p. 119’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.

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HrG 181.5: George Herbert, The Method (‘Poore heart, lament’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 126’.

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

ff. 45v-6r

HrG 105.5: George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c (‘And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 128’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

f. 46v

HrG 244.8: George Herbert, The Size (‘Content thee, greedie heart’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 131.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.

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HrG 159.8: George Herbert, Justice (II) (‘O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 135’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.

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HrG 214.5: George Herbert, The Priesthood (‘Blest Order, which in power dost so excell’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 154’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.

f. 48r-v

HrG 124.8: George Herbert, Grief (‘O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb. Temp. p. 158’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.

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HrG 89.8: George Herbert, Dotage (‘False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 161’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.

f. 49r-v

HrG 273.5: George Herbert, The 23d Psalme (‘The God of love my shepherd is’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 167’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 172-3.

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HrG 191.5: George Herbert, The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 (‘How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb. Temp. p. 169.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.

ff. 50r-1r

HrG 146.2: George Herbert, The Invitation (‘Come ye hither All, whose taste’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p 174’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.

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HrG 27.8: George Herbert, The Banquet (‘Welcome sweet and sacred cheer’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp: pag. 175’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.

f. 52r-v

HrG 76.8: George Herbert, Death (‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb: Temp. pag. 180’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.

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HrG 83.8: George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme (‘Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?’)

Copy, inscribed ‘H. Temp. p. 164,’ subscribed ‘Kr: Maij. 12o. 1671. transc. 6. fol. postere A. S.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

MS La. III. 436

A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

pp. 5-6

CwT 141: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet. 2’, here beginning ‘We read of Godes, and kinges that kyndlie tooke’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 6

DnJ 993: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of poem ix of the ‘Epithalamion’, headed ‘Bryds goeing to bed’ and here beginning ‘What meanest thow bryde this companie to keepe’.

This MS recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

p. 7

JnB 593: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sonnet 4’.

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

pp. 8-9

JnB 172: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘The Bodie’.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

pp. 9-11

JnB 211: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Joh:’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

p. 15

CwT 782: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘A graue, to bury those killed by the eye’ and here beginning ‘In your fair cheeckes two pitts there bee’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

p. 18

CwT 83: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 20

SuJ 82: John Suckling, Upon A.M. (‘Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

pp. 20-1

RaW 523: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

This MS collated in Gullans.

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

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

pp. 24-5

WoH 94: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a version headed in another hand ‘Alterations of Sir Henry Wotton's Verses,Bal. 2. 312’, here beginning ‘Yow minor beautyes of the night’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

pp. 25-6

MoG 23: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the lait king James of blissed memorie’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

p. 58

HrJ 144: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

pp. 72-3

LoT 4: Thomas Lodge, An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Now I see thy Loue is fained’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

pp. 75-6

CmT 190: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Dido’, here beginning ‘Dido was a Carthage queene’.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

pp. 76-7

CmT 52: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

p. 78

FeO 30: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Absence’.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

p. 79

HeR 86: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘A Curse’, here beginning ‘O periured man, and if ye ere returne’

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

pp. 79-80

CwT 356: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)

Copy, headed ‘A worlds Wonder’.

First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

pp. 82-3

DaW 20: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘A New years Gift’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

pp. 83-4

CwT 282: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fflie’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 99

RaW 386: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Epitaph E. Lester’ and here beginning ‘Heir Lyes ane waliant Wariour | Who never drew his sworde’.

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

p. 100

StW 806: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

pp. 103-4

CmT 223: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy, untitled.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

See also CmT 239-41.

pp. 111-13

WiG 3: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy, headed in a later hand ‘The Shepherd's Resolution. Bal. 111. 190’, here beginning ‘Shall I wrastle in despair’.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

pp. 114-15

RaW 183: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, headed in a later hand ‘The despairing Lover’, here beginning ‘Lyke hermit pure in pensiue place obscure’.

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

pp. 115-16

WoH 238: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘D: Dun's fairrweell’.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

p. 117-18

CmT 155: Thomas Campion, ‘When to her lute Corrina sings’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When to her lute my Mistres singes’.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

p. 118

CmT 180: Thomas Campion, ‘And would you see my Mistris face?’

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.

p. 119

DrM 49: Michael Drayton, ‘Some misbeleeving, and prophane in Love’

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

First published as Amour 12 in a version beginning ‘Some Atheist or vile Infidel in love’ in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). A version beginning ‘Some misbeleeving, and prophane in Love’ first published, as sonnet 35 of Idea, in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, I, 103. II, 328 (sonnet 35).

pp. 119-20

CwT 525: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, headed ‘Pastoral Song’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

p. 121-2

KiH 68: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

p. 126

DrM 43: Michael Drayton, ‘Nothing but No and I, and I and No’

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet No and I’.

First published, as sonnet 8, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313 (sonnet 5).

MS La. III. 439

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 52 leaves (96 x 128 mm.). A presentation MS to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, but without a Dedication, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures, very imperfect. 1607.

*InE 42: Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac dediez a tresillustre et tresnoble Seigneur, monseigneur le Conte de Salisberrie, pour ses estrennes, de l'an 1607 Escrit et illuminé par moi Esther Inglis

Owned in 1865 by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 30 (pp. 59-60).

Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

MS La. III. 440

Autograph calligraphic MS, ii + 84 leaves (90 x 130 mm.), in contemporary vellum gilt. In various styles of script. 1592.

*InE 13: Esther Inglis, Livret traittant de la Grandeur de Dieu, et de la Cognoissance qu'on peut avoir de luy par ses oevres. Escrit par Esther Langlois, fille Françoise, de Dieppe. M.D.XCII.

Bought from a Leipzig bookdealer by David Laing in 1865.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 4 (pp. 30-1), with facsimiles of ff. 78r and 83r as Plates 3 and 4 (between pp. 42 and 43).

A French treatise by Pierre du Val (d.1564), Bishop of Sées, first published in 1555, with Latin verses by Nicholas Langlois.

MS La. III. 444

A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf. Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r. c.1625-30.

ff. 1r-25v, 29r-30v

DaJ 102: Sir John Davies, The Psalmes

Copy of Davies's translation of Psalms 1-50, in a neat cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Psalmes translated into verse Ano. 1624’, and of Psalms 67, 91, 95, 100, 103 and 150 in another cursive secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in yet another hand.

Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 245-96.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 363-443. Krueger, pp. 245-96.

f. 27r

DaJ 75: Sir John Davies, Of Faith the First Theologicall Vertue (‘Faith is a sunbeame of th' Aeternall light’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 447. Krueger, p. 238.

f. 27r-v

DaJ 103: Sir John Davies, A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids Concerninge that which Addeth Most Perfection to that Sexe (‘Our fairest Garland, made of beautyes flowers’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 448-9. Krueger, pp. 239-40.

f. 31r

DaJ 63: Sir John Davies, A Maids Hymne in Praise of Virginity (‘Sacred virginity, unconquered Queene’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 449-50. Krueger, p. 240.

f. 31v

DaJ 101: Sir John Davies, Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage (‘When the first man from Paradice was driven’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand, incomplete.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 451-2. Krueger, pp. 241-2.

ff. 33v-4r

DaJ 107: Sir John Davies, To the Queen (‘What Musicke shall we make to you’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘To the Q:’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 457-9. Krueger, pp. 242-3.

f. 34r

DaJ 108: Sir John Davies, To the Ladyes of Founthill (‘Ladyes of Founthill, I am come to seeke’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 459. Krueger, p. 233.

f. 34r-v

DaJ 112: Sir John Davies, Upon a Paire of Garters (‘Go loveinge woode-bynd, clip with lowly grace’)

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460. Krueger, pp. 233-4.

f. 34v

DaJ 104: Sir John Davies, A Sonnet sent with a Booke (‘In this sweete booke, the treasury of witt’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460-1. Krueger, p. 234.

f. 34v

DaJ 20: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 36. Of Tobacco (‘Homer of Moly, and Nepenthe sings’)

Copy of lines 1-12, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, pp. 144-5.

ff. 35r, 32r-3v

DaJ 2: Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love (‘Like as the divers fretchled Butter flye’)

Copy of four elegies in an irregular sequence, in two hands, incomplete.

Edited from this MS inGrosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 462-3, 453-7. Krueger, pp. 192-7.

ff. 39v-40r

DaJ 36: Sir John Davies, The Kinges Welcome (‘O nowe or never gentle muse, be gaye’)

Copy of an early, 60-line version, headed ‘To the kinge. Vpon his Maties first coming into England’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I, (1869), 463-6. Krueger, pp. 228-30.

f. 40r-v

DaJ 109: Sir John Davies, To the Queene at the Same Time (‘If wee in peace had not received the Kings’)

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 466-7. Krueger, p. 231.

f. 40v

DaJ 1: Sir John Davies, Charles his Waine (‘Brittaine doth under those bright starres remaine’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, pp. 231-2.

f. 40v

DaJ 64: Sir John Davies, Mira Loquor Sol Occubuit Nox Nulla Secuta Est (‘By that Eclipse which darned our Apollo’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, p. 231.

f. 40v

DaJ 76: Sir John Davies, Of the Name of Charolus, Being the Diminative of Charus (‘The name of Charles, darlinge signifies’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 232.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468. Krueger, p. 232.

f. 41r

DaJ 123: Sir John Davies, Verses Sent to the Kinge with Figges By Sir John Davis (‘To add unto the first mans happiness’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468-9. Krueger, pp. 232-3.

f. 43v

KiH 69: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1869), p. 470.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

MS La. III. 468

An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked). Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1694-1740.

Inscribed (inside the front cver) ‘Tho: Jesson His Book 1694’; (ff. ir, 5v) ‘S Harriott 1740’, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed ‘Sarah Harriott’.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Jesson MS’: CwT Δ 23.

f. iv

CwT 972: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

f. 1r

CwT 884: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

f. 2v

DrJ 276: John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act V, scene ii, lines 150-65. Song (‘Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling’)

Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand.

California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond, III, 266-7.

f. 3r

DrJ 272: John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act IV, scene ii, lines 57-74. Song (‘How happy the Lover’)

Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand, untitled.

First published in London, 1691. California, XVI (1996), pp. 1-69 (pp. 57-74). Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 123-301 (pp. 184-5). Kinsley, II, 574. Hammond, III, 263.

f. 4r

StW 1108: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The Dart’ and here beginning ‘Oft when I look I may descry’.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

f. 9r

CwT 454: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 39r

BeA 22: Aphra Behn, Verses design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent herself to cure her Love. Left unfinishd (‘In vain to Woods and Deserts I retire’)

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI, 389. Todd, I, No. 92, p. 356.

ff. 42r, 43r

CgW 51: William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve (‘Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon A Lady's singing Pindarick Ode; By Mr Congreve’.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as ‘on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode’). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

ff. 49r, 50r, 51r

CwT 1000: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

f. 52r

CwT 405: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

f. 57r

CwT 181: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

f. 58r

CwT 794: Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris (‘If when the Sun at noone displayes’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 59r

CwT 687: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

See also Introduction.

ff. 59r, 60r

CwT 936: Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris (‘When thou, poore excommunicate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 60r

CwT 906: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

ff. 61r, 62r

CwT 1090: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

f. 62r

CwT 1172: Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse (‘Fate's now growne mercifull to men’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

f. 63r

CwT 1056: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy.

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

f. 63r

StW 1109: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The Dart’ and here beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descry’, deleted.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

f. 64r

CwT 1277: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

f. 65r

CwT 860: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

f. 65rbis

CwT 1195: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy.

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

f. 66r

CwT 965: Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind (‘Wonder not though I am blind’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

ff. 66r, 67r

CwT 944: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

f. 67r

CwT 958: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 68r

CwT 362: Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant (‘When on the Altar of my hand’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

ff. 68r, 69r

CwT 1175: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

f. 69r

CwT 1106: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

f. 70r

CwT 339: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

ff. 70r, 71r

CwT 347: Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue (‘Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

f. 72r

CwT 442: Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason (‘Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

ff. 73r, 74r

CwT 1021: Thomas Carew, To a Lady that desired I would love her (‘Now you have freely given me leave to love’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 81-2.

ff. 96r, 97r

CwT 58: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

f. 98r

WaE 590: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

MS La. III. 483

Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.

For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.

(i) pp. 189-90; (ii) pp. 178-9; (iii) pp. 183-5

CmT 224: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copies, in a musical setting, the lyrics in secretary script, untitled.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

See also CmT 239-41.

(ii) p. 179; (ii) p. 194

CmT 11: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)

Copies of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.

First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

(ii) p. 184; (iii) p. 200

NaT 13: Thomas Nashe, Verses from ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (‘If flouds of teares could clense my follies past’)

Copies of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Doughtie (p. 481).

First published in ‘Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

(ii) p. 185; (i) pp. 192-3; (iii) pp. 194, 202

WoH 95: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copies of the incipit only, here ‘You meaner beauties: &c.’, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

(i) p. 191; (iii) p. 190

CmT 193: Thomas Campion, ‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.

These MSS recorded in Davis, p. 508.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

(iii) p. 187

CmT 41: Thomas Campion, ‘Good men, shew, if you can tell’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. ix. Davis, p. 95.

(iii) p. 187

CmT 148: Thomas Campion, ‘Were my hart as some mens are, thy errours would not move me’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. iii. Davis, p. 137.

(iii) p. 188

SoR 146: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)

Copy of line 25 only, here ‘With my love my lyf was nestled’, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

(iii) p. 188

CmT 119: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. iii. Davis, p. 170.

(iii) p. 188

CmT 158: Thomas Campion, ‘Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 49

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

Bassus, p. 189

BrN 18: Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon (‘Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)’)

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’ (‘S. Phil. Sidney’ cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

Bassus, p. 190

CmT 64: Thomas Campion, ‘Never love unlesse you can’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvii. Davis, p. 163.

(iii) p. 190

CmT 135: Thomas Campion, ‘Though your strangenesse frets my hart’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 495.

First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

(iii) p. 191

CmT 55: Thomas Campion, ‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

(iii) p. 191

CmT 5: Thomas Campion, ‘Breake now my heart and dye! Oh no, she may relent’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. x. Davis, p. 144-5.

(iii) p. 191

CmT 141: Thomas Campion, ‘Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.

(iii) p. 192

CmT 3: Thomas Campion, ‘Beauty, since you so much desire’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxii. Davis, pp. 190-2.

(iii) p. 192

CmT 143: Thomas Campion, ‘Turne all thy thoughts to eyes’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xx. Davis, p. 188.

(iii) p. 192

CmT 146: Thomas Campion, ‘Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.

(iii) p. 192

CmT 69: Thomas Campion, ‘Respect my faith, regard my service past’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ii. Davis, p. 169.

(iii) p. 193

CmT 83: Thomas Campion, ‘Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxv. Davis, p. 161.

(iii) p. 193

CmT 150: Thomas Campion, ‘What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

(iii) p. 193

CmT 75: Thomas Campion, ‘Shall I then hope when faith is fled’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxix. Davis, p. 165.

(iii) p. 193

CmT 79: Thomas Campion, ‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

(ii) p. 194

CmT 168: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

(iii) pp. 200-1

B&F 89: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song (‘Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below’)

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 60-1 (collated pp. 154-6).

Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

(iii) p. 201

JnB 35: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of line 21 only, here ‘Heav you seen but a bright lillie grow’, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-3.

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

MS La. III. 488

An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf. Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, ‘Sr William Maur’: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) ‘Robert Muire ist my hand’; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, ‘Thomas Lyle Surgeon’. c.1600s-20.

f. 12r

CmT 194: Thomas Campion, ‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’

Copy of the incipit with a musical setting.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

f. 12v

CmT 241: Thomas Campion, ‘What is a day, what is a yeere’

Copy of the incipit only, here ‘What is a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

See also CmT 207-38.

f. 24v

HnR 34: Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis (‘O sinfull man, in to this mortall se’)

Copy of the incipit only, here ‘O mortill man’, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Wood, p. xxx.

Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.

f. 26r

CmT 101: Thomas Campion, ‘There is a Garden in her face’

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.

f. 26v

GrF 4.8: Fulke Greville, Caelica, Sonnet lii (‘Away with these self-louing lads’)

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland, untitled.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 469.

This sonnet first published in John Dowland, First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Bullough, I, 104. Wilkes, II, 114-15.

MS La. III. 490

An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

pp. 18-21

CmT 225: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

See also CmT 239-41.

p. 31

CmT 195: Thomas Campion, ‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

p. 33

HeR 239: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

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

pp. 63-4

WoH 96: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of an untitled version in eight three-line stanzas, here beginning ‘Yow minor beawties of the night’, in a musical setting, subscribed ‘finis Coronet opus Joannes Squyer’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

p. 73

LoT 5: Thomas Lodge, An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were fained’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

p. 75

CmT 12: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

p. 77

CmT 246: Thomas Campion, ‘Whether men doe laugh or weepe’

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 507.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.

pp. 80-1

CmT 24: Thomas Campion, ‘Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me’

Copy of a parodied version of Campion's song, in his musical setting.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 500.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

MS La. III. 493

A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.

ff. 29r, 32r

RaW 728.185: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

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

f. 32r

RaW 54: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620s.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

ff. 32r-3v

RaW 776: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

ff. 49r-55r

RnT 426: Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Pedler’ and subscribed ‘Randall’, on seven folio leaves of text, ff. 49r and the blank 56v inscribed ‘7 August 1629 the Pedlar’. c.1629.

This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘Manuscript Plays of the Seventeenth Century’, TLS (4 October 1934), p. 675, and in Bentley, V, 974-6.

First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.

f. 77r

ShJ 21: James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham (‘Here lies the best and worst of Fate’)

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on the Duke of Buckingham.

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

f. 88r

DnJ 3671: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 88v-9r

DnJ 3013: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

f. 89v

DnJ 1845: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When last I dyed, & Deare I dye’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 90r

DnJ 2303: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 90v

DnJ 309: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

f. 91r-v

DnJ 3743: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

f. 92r

DnJ 1814: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 92v-4r

DnJ 391: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

f. 94r

JnB 113: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, subscribed ‘BJ’.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

ff. 94v-5v

DnJ 1078: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye on ye death of ye La: Markam’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 95v-6v

DnJ 1020: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie on ye death of Mrs. S: Bulstred’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 97r-8r

BmF 70: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye on ye La: Mas: death’, subscribed ‘fra: B:’.

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

ff. 98r-9r

BmF 15: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye Couns. of Rutlande’, subscribed ‘F. B.’

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

ff. 99v-100r

DnJ 601: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 100v-1r

DnJ 145: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye passion & Annunciacon falling bothe on one day. 1618’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 101v-2r

DnJ 3534: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed ‘The Countesse of Bedforde’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

ff. 102r-3r

DnJ 3500: 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.

ff. 103v-4r

DnJ 3420: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sr. He: Wotton’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

ff. 104v-5v

DnJ 800: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS recorded in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.

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

ff. 105v-6r

DnJ 3919: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 106v-7r

DnJ 2055: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘The dyett’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

f. 107r-v

DnJ 507: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 108r-9r

DnJ 3080: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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.

ff. 109v-11r

BmF 41: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegye vpon the deathe of the Countesse of Rutlande’, subscribed ‘F B’.

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

f. 116r

BcF 26: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

ff. 116v-17r

ShJ 113: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)

Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

MS La. III. 501

A folio volume principally of scullery and kitchen accounts, largely in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern calf (repaired). Probably connected with the Royal Establishment and kept by David Young, servant of the Scullery, who was presumably related to Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), royal tutor and diplomat, who is cited in the volume at least twice. c.1628-38.

ff. 65r-6v

RaW 777: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir walter Rauleighes speech at his execution who was beheaded at The old palleice at westminster the 28. of october 1618. betuin the hower of 8 & 9. in the morning theis Lords being prt...’.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

ff. 66v-7v

RaW 921: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to James I.

f. 67v

RaW 55: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘his Epith.’

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

MS La. III. 522

An oblong quarto composite autograph volume, in various styles of script, with decoration and pen-and-ink figures, 36 leaves (paper sizes varying from 110 x 150mm. to 290 x 365mm.). Late 16th-early 17th century.

*InE 55: Esther Inglis, Specimens of various styles of writing [II]

Later owned by the advocate David Constable and bought at the D. Speare sale of Constable's library, 13 December 1828, lot 2973, by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 6 (pp. 32-3), with facsimiles of ff. 8r and 28r as Plates 7 and 8 (between pp. 42 and 43).

Letters, elaborate drawings, decoration, and moral sentences in English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek, including texts by William Gedde, Cicero (translated into Greek by Jacobus Dorsannus), and other material.

MS La. III. 525

The octavo album amicorum of George Craig, of Edinburgh, with inscriptions in numerous hands, 182 leaves, in contemporary vellum. 1602-5.

f. 8r

*InE 60: Esther Inglis, Inscription

Autograph inscription by Esther Inglis, in italic scripts, in French and English, addressed to her ‘intime amy et tres-aimé frere M. G. C.’, dated from London, 8 August 1604, facing one of the same date (f. 7v) by her husband Bartholomew Kello.

Edited in Laing, ‘Notes’, p. 289. Recorded in Scott-Elliot & Yeo, p. 84.

Two extracts from Psalms 145 and Ecclesiastes in French.

MS La. III. 532

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram ‘TSB’, within modern half-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten wth his owne bloode 1634’ and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635’, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him. c.1634-43.

p. 63

CoR 618: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbet to the Ladies of new dress’.

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

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

p. 64

GrJ 33: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The ladies answer’.

An ‘Answer’ to Corbett's ‘To the Ladyes of the New Dresse’ (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

p. [114]

ClJ 196: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye Earle of Strafford’.

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. [141-6]

RuB 164: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Rudiards speech’.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

MS La. III. 651

Bale's copious and often extensive autograph additions in his exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1548, xi + 255 leaves now in modern calf, prepared for the enlarged edition published in 1566. [1548-58].

*BaJ 21: John Bale, Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium

Bought by David Laing in London in 1819.

This volume recorded in Davies, p. 258 (16); in McCusker (1942), p. 49; and in McCusker, The Library (1936), 164-5.

First published in ‘Wesel’ [i.e. Ipswich], 1548.

MS La. III. 787

A folio volume comprising two state tracts, the first relating to France, in a single professional secretary hand, 50 unfoliated leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf, with metal clasps. Early 17th century.

Bookplate of John Ludford Esq.

ff. [41r-50r]

BcF 131: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Copy, headed ‘A discourse of Policye in Church gouernment written to his Matye by Sr. Francis Bacon Knight’

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

MS La. III. 798

A quarto verse miscellany, comprising principally translations or imitations of classical authors, chiefly in a single cursive hand, a later hand writing over a number of pages, entitled ‘A Choice Collection of Miscellany Poems Upon severall Subjects. Gathered out of severall Authors, by Wm. Gordon…In the Year, M.DCC,XI’, c.260 pages (plus blanks), all independently paginated in separate sections, in half-morocco. 1711-12.

p. 10

DrJ 194: John Dryden, The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song (‘On a bank, beside a Willow’)

Copy, as ‘By Mr Dryden’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond, II, 201-2.

p. 12

WaE 433: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses’.

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

pp. 22-3

DrJ 257: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts (‘How unhappy a Lover am I’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song, in two parts’.

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

pp. 23-4

DrJ 254: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song (‘Wherever I am, and whatever I doe’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

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

p. 34

CoA 30.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. VII. Gold (‘A Mighty pain to Love it is’)

Copy, headed ‘Gold’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55. Sparrow, pp. 54-5.

Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

pp. 35-8

CoA 54.5: Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse (‘At the large foot of a fair hollow tree’)

Copy, headed ‘The Country Mouse A Paraphrase upon Horace, 2d Book: Sat: 6’.

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

pp. 34-8

CoA 281: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

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

pp. 35-6

DrJ 390: John Dryden, Extracts

Extracts from Dryden's plays.

pp. 38-9

DrJ 296: John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song (‘Ah, how sweet it is to love’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in part in California.

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

pp. 39-41

DrJ 249: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song (‘Beneath a Myrtle shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

p. 79

BeA 35: Aphra Behn, Song (‘Ye Virgin Pow'rs, defend my Heart’)

Copy.

Written by Mrs Taylor.

pp. 81-2

DeJ 127: Sir John Denham, The Sophy, V, iii, Song (‘Somnus, the humble God that dwells’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Morpheus ye humble God yt dwells’.

Banks, pp. 296-7.

pp. 109 -15

BeA 29: Aphra Behn, The Lamentation for Adonis (‘I mourn Adonis, fair Adonis dead’)

Copy, with full title.

pp. 115-18

BeA 16.5: Aphra Behn, Ovid to Julia. A Letter (‘Fair Royal Maid, permit a Youth undone’)

First published in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Summers, VI, 363. Todd, No. 63, pp. 182-4.

pp. 118-19

BeA 34: Aphra Behn, Song (‘Yee happy Swains, whose Hearts are free’)

Copy.

pp. 119-21

BeA 26: Aphra Behn, The Complaint, A Song (‘I Love, I dote, I rave with pain’)

pp. 121-8

BeA 28: Aphra Behn, The History of Leander and Hero: From the Greek of Musæus (‘Come, sing, my Muse, ytLamp, ytonce did prove’)

Copy, imperfect at the end.

MS La. III. 800

A copy of ‘Hudibras’, in a single cursive hand, 100 octavo pages, in modern boards. Late 17th century.

pp. 1-99

BuS 1: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Copy of Part II.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

p. [101]

BuS 3: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Copy of twelve untitled lines beginning ‘No Jesuit e'er took in hand’, subscribed ‘S Butler’, followed by Latin versions of three brief passages subscribed ‘Translated by Dr [John] Hanmar [1594?-1670] Greek profess: Oxon’.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).