Hayward Collection, H. 10. 81
Copy. Late 17th century.
RoJ 104.36: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Hayward Collection, H. 10. 82
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr agst man — by Ld Rochester’, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
RoJ 320: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
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).
Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10
A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves. 1689.
ff. [1r-6r]
• RoJ 321: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyr agt. reason and mankind by ye Earle of Rochester Copied for and by ye desire of ye Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689....’.
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).
f. [1r rev.]
• RoJ 322: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of lines 1-10, written with the page turned sideways.
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).
ff. [7r-9r]
• WaE 349: Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos (‘The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace’)
Copy, made ‘for and by ye desire of ye. Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689 whereunto is annexed a Copy of Verses writ by that famous poet Mr Waller about two months before his Exit. viz. 1684’.
First published in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.
Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13
A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
f. [7r]
• ShJ 133.8: James Shirley, To the Reader
Copy. Late 17th century.
The prose preface that Shirley wrote for the Folio edition of the Comedies and Tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher (London, 1647).
ff. [7v-9v]
• RoJ 323: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr: & Com: Roffens’. June 1674.
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).
ff. [14v-15r]
• MaA 20: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)
Copy, headed ‘A Poeticall Dialogue set by mr Mathew Locke’.
First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.
f. [20v]
• WaE 723: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye storm just before Cromwells Death’.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
f. [22r]
• CoA 177: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana (‘By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest’)
Copy.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].
Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.
f. [25r-v]
• DeJ 7.7: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)
Extracts.
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.
f. [26r]
• WaE 328: Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays (‘Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe’)
Copy, headed ‘on Fl——cher’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.
f. [26v]
• HaW 2: William Habington, On Master John Fletchers Dramaticall Poems (‘Great tutelary Spirit of the Stage!’)
Copy, headed ‘On Fletcher’.
First published in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Allott, pp. 158-9.
f. [27r]
• LoR 49: Richard Lovelace, To Fletcher reviv'd (‘How have I bin Religious? What strange good’)
First published in Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Lucasta (London 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 53-5. (1930), pp. 59-61.
ff. [28v-9r]
• EaJ 6: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)
Copy, ascribed to ‘John Earle’.
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Klr-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
f. [30r]
• CoR 418: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)
Copy, here beginning ‘He yt hath such acuteness, & such wit’.
First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.
f. [30r]
• JnB 487.5: Ben Jonson, To Francis Beaumont (‘How I doe loue thee Beaumont, and thy Muse’)
Copy, headed ‘To Beamt: yn living’.
First published in Epigrammes (lv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 44.
f. [30r]
• HeR 451: Robert Herrick, Extracts
Extract, a couplet by ‘Rob Herrick’.
f. [35r]
• ShJ 117: James Shirley, Upon the Printing of Mr Iohn Fletchers workes (‘What means this numerous Guard? or do we come’)
Copy, headed ‘On H: works’.
First published in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Armstrong, p. 40.
Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14
An octavo verse miscellany. End of 17th century.
Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.
pp. 1-7
• RoJ 324: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sater against Man’.
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).
pp. 7-11
• RoJ 88: 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, untitled.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
pp. 11-20, 29
• RoJ 163: 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 fancyed from Artemise in Town to Cloe in ye Country’, lines 197-200 added in the margins of p. 29.
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.
pp. 21-2
• DoC 277: 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 E- H- upon his B- P-’.
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. 23-4
• DoC 152: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same Author upon his New Ut-’.
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. 29
• RoJ 182: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
p. 29
• RoJ 428: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
p. 29
• RoJ 562: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
Keynes C.3. 11
Autograph inscription and autograph annotations by Fletcher on two pages in the printed text of The Purple Island: a marginal note on page 147 and a textual correction on page 177. 1633.
*FlP 23: Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island...together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies (Cambridge, 1633)
Keynes MS 90
A folio volume comprising 60 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single probably non-professional hand, showing variations of style, 46 leaves (plus c.30 blanks) imperfect at the beginning, in calf. c.1640s.
Inscriptions on flyleaves including ‘Gyfford’; ‘we went to london the 13 of Aprill and came home the 23 of June 1687’; ‘Mary Stane Anno Dom: 1747: December 8th’; and, on f. 3r, ‘Suf folk’. Offered for sale in Percy Dobell's Catalogue of an Important Collection of Poetical Manuscripts (1927), p. 10. At some time lot 2124 in a [?]Sotheby's sale. Later owned by John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883-1946), economist.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Keynes MS’: WaE Δ 3.
f. 3r-v
• WaE 260: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews (‘Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain’)
Copy of lines 118-70, here beginning ‘But halfe reueale and halfe their beauties hide’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.
f. 5r
• WaE 613: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)
Copy of lines 17-32 (here beginning ‘'Tis not so hard for greedy foes to spoyle’), imperfect, lacking the first part.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.
See also WaE 765.
ff. 5r-6r
• WaE 681: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.
ff. 6v-7r
• WaE 249: Edmund Waller, Of Salle (‘Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.
ff. 7r-8r
• WaE 639: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture (‘Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.
f. 8v
• WaE 414: Edmund Waller, Puerperium (‘You gods that have the power’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.
f. 9r-v
• WaE 14: Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep (‘My charge it is those breaches to repair’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.
ff. 9v-11r
• WaE 306: Edmund Waller, Of the Queen (‘The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.
f. 11r-v
• WaE 633: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing (‘Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.
f. 12r-v
• WaE 47: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning (‘When from black clouds no part of sky is clear’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.
f. 13r
• WaE 54: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle (‘Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.
f. 13v
• WaE 174: Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber (‘They taste of death that do at heaven arrive’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.
f. 14r
• WaE 97: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)
Copy, headed ‘In answeare to Etc:’.
First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
ff. 14v-15r
• WaE 25: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘While in the park I sing, the listening deer’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.
f. 15r-v
• WaE 20: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.
f. 16r
• WaE 331: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.
f. 16v
• WaE 269: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
f. 17r
• WaE 295: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
f. 17v
• WaE 188: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.
f. 18r
• WaE 579: Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester (‘Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.
f. 18v
• WaE 514: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady (‘Why came I so untimely forth’)
Copy, headed ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’.
First published, as ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.
ff. 18v-19v
• WaE 647: Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady (‘Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mrs Braughton’.
First published, as ‘To Mistris Braughton’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.
ff. 19v-20v
• WaE 565: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady (‘To this great loss a sea of tears is due’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.
ff. 20v-1v
• WaE 559: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery (‘With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades’)
Copy.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.
ff. 22r-3r
• WaE 525: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.
f. 23r
• WaE 519: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Amoret! the Milky Way’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.
f. 23v
• WaE 353: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Freindshipp betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’.
First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.
f. 24r
• WaE 3: Edmund Waller, À la Malade (‘Ah, lovely Amoret! the care’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.
ff. 24v-5r
• WaE 571: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.
See also WaE 765.
ff. 25v-6r
• WaE 470: Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea (‘As lately I on silver Thames did ride’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.
f. 26v
• WaE 599: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.
f. 27
• WaE 593: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.
ff. 27v-8r
• WaE 653: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck (‘Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.
f. 28v
• WaE 71: Edmund Waller, Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes (‘Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53.
f. 29r
• WaE 460: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.
f. 29v
• WaE 225: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
See also WaE 759.
f. 30r
• WaE 340: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting (‘Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘On a patch'd up Madam’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.
f. 30v
• WaE 481: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen (‘Madam! intending to have tried’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.
f. 31r
• WaE 314: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)
Copy.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.
f. 31r-v
• WaE 361: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.
ff. 31v-2r
• WaE 496: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden (‘Sees not my love how time resumes’)
Copy, headed ‘To a lady in retirement’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.
f. 32r
• WaE 118: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque (‘Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.
f. 32v
• WaE 219: Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight (‘Not caring to observe the wind’)
Copy.
First published, headed ‘The Reply on the Contrary’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to ‘Tho. Batt.’ in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.
f. 33r
• WaE 420: Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished (‘It is not that I love you less’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
ff. 33r-7r
• WaE 31: Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands (‘Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.
ff. 37v-8v
• WaE 692: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.
f. 39r-v
• WaE 207: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
ff. 40r-1r
• WaE 626: Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair (‘Here Celia! for thy sake I part’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.
f. 41r
• WaE 128: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira (‘While she pretends to make the graces known’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.
f. 41r
• WaE 585: 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.
f. 41v
• WaE 78: Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths (‘And is antiquity of no more force!’)
Copy of the 18-line version.
First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, ‘Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think’, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.
f. 42r-v
• WaE 446: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.
f. 42v
• WaE 37: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song (‘Behold the brand of beauty tossed!’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.
f. 43r
• WaE 85: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
f. 43v
• WaE 441: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Peace, babbling Muse!’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.
f. 43v
• WaE 737: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
f. 44r
• WaE 452: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Stay, Phoebus! stay’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.
f. 44r-v
• WaE 539: Edmund Waller, To Flavia. A Song (‘'Tis not your beauty can engage’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 125.
f. 45r
• WaE 237: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.
ff. 45v-6r
• WaE 74: Edmund Waller, The Fall (‘See! how the willing earth gave way’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.
Keynes MS 215
Copy, in a professional hand, 235 folio pages. Late 17th century.
HaG 13: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 629 (1945), item 259.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96. Recorded in C.N. Greenough and J.M. French, A Bibliography of the Theophrastan Character in England (Cambridge, Mass., 1947), p. 149.
First published, ascribed to ‘the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry]’, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.
Rowe MS 1
MS music book. 17th century.
No. 32
• B&F 205: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song (‘I am three merry men, and three merry men’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Dowland.
Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and also in The Bloody Brother, III, iii. Bowers, II, 429.
Rowe MS 2
A lute book. c.1610.
Owned by one Francis Turpyn.
ff. 4v-5r
• BrN 48.5: Nicholas Breton, ‘Oh eies, leave of your weepinge’
Copy of stanzas 1-3, in a musical setting by Robert Hales.
This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 583-4.
Facsimile in The Turpyn Book of Lute Songs, ed. Richard Rastall (Leeds, 1973).
First published in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610), No. 3. Authorship unknown.