MS 2067
A quarto volume of 27 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, a title-page in another 17th-century hand inscribed ‘Thirre [i.e. These] poems belonginge to Jhon Don Transcribed by William Drummond’, 40 leaves, bound with an independent notebook of Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, 96 leaves in all, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1613?-33.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XV.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Hawthornden MS’: DnJ Δ 54. Drummond cites ‘Jhone Dones Lyriques’ in his autograph list of ‘Bookes red be me’ in ‘Anno 1613’ (National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 366r).
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• CwT 786: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)
Copy, here beginning ‘In your faire cheekes two Pitts their lye’, subscribed ‘B.R.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
ff. 6v-7r
• HoJ 176: John Hoskyns, ‘Loue is a foolish melancholie’
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. H.’
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).
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• DnJ 1110: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
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• DnJ 1046: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
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• DnJ 1022: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye funerall on the Death of Mrs Boulstrood’.
This MS collated in Grierson. 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.
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• DnJ 2845: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘SAT. 4 anno 1594’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
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• DnJ 2783: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyre 2.’, inscribed by Drummond ‘after C[hristopher]. B[rooke's]. coppy’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
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• DnJ 3082: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. 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. 25r-6v
• DnJ 566: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
ff. 27r-8v
• DnJ 3502: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. H. W.’
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
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• DnJ 3471: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy, headed ‘To M. H.W. 20 Jul. 1598 at Court’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
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• DnJ 2569: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
f. 32r-v
• DnJ 3634: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 32v
• DnJ 1303: John Donne, ‘Faustus keepes his sister and a whore’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Shawcross.
First published, and attributed to Donne, in John T. Shawcross, ‘John Donne and Drummond's Manuscripts’, AN&Q (March 1967), 104-5. Reprinted in Shawcross (1968), No. 102. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12.
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• DnJ 1746: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, headed ‘A beggar’, here beginning ‘I cannot stand, nor sitt this begger cries’.
Edited from this MS in Milgate, p. 198. Collated in Grierson, Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
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• DnJ 1237: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 35r-v
• HoJ 34: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. H.’
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
f. 36r
• DnJ 1484: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘Epigrammes’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
f. 36r
• DnJ 2659: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
f. 36r
• DnJ 2381: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
f. 36r
• DnJ 1281: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)
Copy, headed ‘Caso di muro’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).
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• DnJ 2884: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)
Copy, headed ‘A mistrisse’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.
f. 36r
• DnJ 1892: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy, headed ‘A Whorer’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
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• DnJ 163: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)
Copy, headed ‘Hammon’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.
f. 36v
• DnJ 2676: John Donne, Ralphius (‘Compassion in the world againe is bred’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
f. 36v
• DnJ 1725: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
f. 36v
• DnJ 2257: John Donne, Manliness (‘Thou call'st me effeminat, for I love womens joyes’)
Copy, headed ‘The Jughler’.
This MS collated in John T. Shawcross, ‘John Donne and Drummond's Manuscripts’, AN&Q (March 1967), 104-5, and in Milgate and in Shawcross (1968).
First published in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. Roger Bennet (Chicago, 1942). Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 101. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as ‘The Iughler’).
f. 36v
• DnJ 900: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)
Copy, headed ‘one disperited’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
f. 36v
• DnJ 2596: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
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• DnJ 1918: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.