Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end

MS 802

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 201 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark E. 1. 10.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 224-5 (No. 20).

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SiP 214: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) ‘A Letter Written by Sir Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching her marriage with Monsuer’. c.1625-30s.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 224 (No. 20.1) and p. 280 (No. 36).

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

ff. 11r-14v

SiP 180.95: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) ‘A Leetter written by Sir Phillipp Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile’, the final subscription ‘Your assured louing brother Phillipp Sidney’ possibly also in another hand. c.1625-30s. c.1625-30s.

A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

ff. 134r-60r

CtR 515: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Considerations for the repressing of the increase of Preists Jesuitts & recusants without drawing of blood written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett’. c.1625-30s.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

ff. 161r-8v

CtR 193: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr. Robert Cotton’. c.1625-30s.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

MS 806

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves. Inscribed (f. 141r) ‘John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke’, ‘Captaine Christo: Blounte’, and ‘Valentine LLawless’.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

ff. 142r-75v

HrJ 332: Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to ye Yeare 1608

Copy of about four-fifth of the work, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A Supply or Additiou to the Cataloge of Bishops to the yeare 1618: And ferste of Mr Docto Parker’, stained and imperfect, breaking off in the section on Dr Edwin Sandys. c.1620s.

First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

ff. 200r-6v.

CtR 380: Sir Robert Cotton, A Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amitie and Marriage before time, and of late, of the House of Austria and Spaine, with the Kinges of England, to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s.

Tract beginning ‘Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.

ff. 394r-7v

CtR 194: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed in another hand ‘Copia vera’, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

ff. 477r-9r

CtR 195: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, as ‘layd downe by Mr Cotton’. c.1628-30s.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

ff. 486r-v

RuB 81: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Beniamin Ruddyers speech 28th Ap 1628’. c.1628-30s.

Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

f. 487r

HlJ 29.3: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Exeter’.

See HlJ 17-30.

ff. 524v-6r

RuB 172: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Ruddiott his speech 1640’. c.1640s.

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.

ff. 538r

RaW 450: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy of a version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Lo: Straford his Pilgrymage’, here beginning ‘Gyue me my Cockell Shells of quiett’, 24 lines, imperfect and lacking the rest, among other poems on Strafford.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 141.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

f. 585v

DeJ 75.6: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford. c.1640s.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

f. 587r

ClJ 209: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford. c.1640s.

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).

MS 807

A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in several professional hands, 500 leaves. c.1620s-30s.

Old pressmark F. 1. 21.

ff. 248r-72r

BcF 746: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons / Written by the Right honble: ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chauncellor of England.

A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

ff. 365r-69v

CtR 99: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Collected by Sr Robert Cotton Esqr At the Comandment of her Maty Anno dni 1590’.

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].

MS 842

A folio volume of tracts and letters relating to Ireland, in several hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

Old pressmark F. 3. 16.

ff. 97r-111r

BaJ 30.5: John Bale, The Vocacyon of Ioha Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie in Ireläde

Extracts, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Booke called the Vocacon of John Ball to the Bishpricke of Ossory in Ireland, his psecucon in the same, and finall deliuerance’. c.1630s.

First published in ‘Rome’, 1533. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany (London, 1745), VI, 402-28 (1810 edition, VI, 437-64).

MS 843

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, in various hands, 545 pages, in vellum boards.

Old pressmark F. 3. 17.

pp. 191-218

CtR 516: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Consideracons for the repressinge of the increase of Preistes Jesuites and Recusantes without drawinge of blood’, stained. c.1620s.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

MS 845

A folio volume comprising two MSS of tracts and state letters, in secretary hands, 96 pages and 112 leaves respectively, in contemporary vellum boards.

The second item from the library formed principally by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, scholar. Old pressmark F. 3. 20.

item 2

DaJ 277: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, principally that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ (ff. 2r-39v, 64r-5v, 97r-112v), the title-page in flourished italic possibly in yet another hand, 112 leaves (plus two blanks). c.1625-30s.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 225 (No. 21).

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 853

A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 252 leaves, in old calf.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 2.

ff. 179r-80r

CmW 87: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Wm Camden’. c.1620s-30s.

A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

MS 857

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional hands, 184 leaves, in later calf. c.1640.

Old pressmark G. 1. 9.

ff. 46r-51r

CtR 370: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Ro: Cotten knight vppon command of Georg Duke of Buckingham 27 April (1624’.

Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

MS 858

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches from 1609 to 1628, in several professional secretary hands, c.414 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. Three interim title-pages for separate groups in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, namely ‘Divers Speeches and passages in Parliament viz:’, ‘Divers Passages and Speeches Off Parliamte viz:’, and ‘A: Collection Off such Thinges, As Robte Earle of Salisburye thought fitt to offer vnto his Matie: vppon the occasion of callinge a Parliamte: viz’.

One later section (‘A Booke of the last Parliament’, 44 leaves) inscribed ‘Tho: Becke’. Old pressmark G. 3. 4.

Unnumbered section, ff. 14r-16r

RuB 82: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamen Rudyards his Speech the 28 of Aprill 1628 in the house of Commons’. c.1630.

Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

Unnumbered section, ff. 70v-2v, 73v-81r, 83r-99v

BcF 515: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of all Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 and 30 April 1621, in a professional

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 860

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 708 pages (plus blanks).

Old pressmark G. 3. 15.

pp. 401-51r

BcF 412: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

MS 861

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 429 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 8.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 225-6 (No. 22).

ff. 133v-46v

RaW 1117: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with italic headings, untitled. c.1620s-30s.

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

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CtR 196: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a rounded hand, a title-page in another hand, as ‘By Sr Robert Cotton / Printed: 1628: & written 1639’. c.1639.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

ff. 239r-64v

RaW 670: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sr Walter Rawleigh...1602’. c.1625-30s.

A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

ff. 265r-305v

CtR 517: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Consideracons for the repressing of the encrease of priests Jesuits and Recusants, without drawing of blood written by Sr. Robt: Cotton Kt and Baronett’, a separate title-page supplied in another hand. c.1630s.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

ff. 306r-12v

CtR 31: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Copy of the second half of the treatise, with a title-page, ‘A: Shorte Discours, proveinge That princes extremityes haue been Beyound, the ease, of their Subts: by Reason of Warres Wrytten By. Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Barronett, &c’, here beginning ‘Haveinge: thus farre, wth as light a hand as I could drawe downe the many and mighty Burthens of the Common Wealth...’, principally in an unidentified professional secretary hand, the title-page (f. 306r), heading and first word of the main text (f. 307r) in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 226 (No. 22.2).

A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

MS 862

A folio volume of state tracts dating up to 1641, in various professional hands, 381 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1625-41.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 13.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 226-7 (No. 23).

ff. 152r-61r

RaW 986: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

ff. 306r-8r

CmW 88: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘An other Discourse of the Antiquity of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Cambden’.

A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

ff. 320r-59r

DaJ 237: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, headed ‘The Effects Off the Charge given to the Grand Jurie att yorcke by Sr John Dauis Knight...1620’.

Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

ff. 360r-5r

CtR 129: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘wrytten by Sir Robte Cotton to Sr: Edward Mountague, Anno Dni: 1621:’.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 227 (No. 23.7).

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

See also the Introduction.

ff. 372r-81r

CtR 459: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]

Copy, in two professional cursive secretary hands, headed ‘Sir Robert Cottons opinion Concerninge the Diminucon of Coyne’.

Speech beginning ‘My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (‘The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626’ and ‘Questions to be proposed’, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

MS 867

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1640 and other state papers, in several professional hands, 369 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1640s.

Old pressmark G. 3. 12.

ff. 54r-5v

RuB 183: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Rudyard his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliament 29o Decembris 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘The principal part of this business is money...’. Manning, pp. 166-7.

ff. 177v-87v

RuB 173: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Ridyards Speech in the Comons howse Novembr: 1640’.

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.

ff. 244r-55r

WaE 796: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Waller his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliamt novemb: Ano Dni 1640’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.

A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.

MS 875

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, entitled ‘Behemoth or an Epitome of ye Warrs In England By Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury’, 62 double-folio-size leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

HbT 12: Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

Bookplate of Thomas Cobbe: i.e. probably Colonel Thomas Cobbe (1733-c.1799), of Newbridge, Co. Dublin. Purchased from Mr Mercier December 1806. Old pressmark I. 1. 1.

First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

MS 876

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, headed ‘Behemoth or The Epitome of the civil warrs of England’, subscribed ‘1680’, with a list of books added at the end, vi + 116 folio leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1680.

HbT 13: Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark I. 1. 7.

First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

MS 877, [Part I]

A folio collection of verse containing 143 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single predominantly italic hand (except for two poems on f. 104r-v, added afterwards by two other italic and secretary hands), the main scribe also probably responsible for the ‘Puckering MS’ (DnJ Δ 13); this collection constituting ff. 13r-161v of a single folio volume containing also Part II, with an index on ff. 2r-11v (covering both Parts) in another hand, ii + 279 leaves in all, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1623-5.

Old pressmark MS G. 2. 21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (Part I): DnJ Δ 14.

ff. 13r-14v

DnJ 2731: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 14v-16r

DnJ 2794: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre 2’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 16r-20r

DnJ 2823: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 20r-1v

DnJ 2857: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’, inscribed in the margin ‘J: D’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 23v-5v

DnJ 2761: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 25v-7r

DnJ 367: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, inscribed in the margin J. D.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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.

ff. 27v-8v

DnJ 3057: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 28v-9v

DnJ 544: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 29v-30r

DnJ 43: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 30v-1r

DnJ 3282: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 31r-v

DnJ 3454: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed in a different hand in the margin ‘Jo: D: to H: W’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 31v-2r

DnJ 685: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 32v-3v

DnJ 2549: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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.

ff. 33v-4r

DnJ 619: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2, with a facsimile of f. 34v on p. 276. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 34r-v

DnJ 2331: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 34v in Variorum, 2, on p. 276.

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

ff. 34v-5r

DnJ 253: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 35v

DnJ 955: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 36r

DnJ 427: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

f. 36r-v

DnJ 3099: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sun Riseinge’, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 36v, 47r

DnJ 1796: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 37v

DnJ 1829: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 38r

DnJ 3616: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 38r-9r

DnJ 1062: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, 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. 39r-40v

DnJ 1006: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, 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.

f. 40v

DnJ 1445: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 41r

DnJ 485: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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.

f. 41v

DnJ 3651: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 42r-v

DnJ 2196: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 42v-3v

DnJ 1096: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, 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.

ff. 43v-4r

DnJ 3590: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie to the La: Bedford’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 44r-5r

BmF 26: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 45v

DnJ 819: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 46r

DnJ 1959: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 46v-7r

DnJ 582: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy of lines 1-33.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 47r-v

DnJ 3723: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 47v, 37r-v

DnJ 2443: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 48r-v

DnJ 1220: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy of lines 31-70, beginning ‘Or Nature, by whose strength the world endures’, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 48v

DnJ 2528: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

f. 49r-v

DnJ 2910: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 49v

DnJ 3982: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 49v-50r

DnJ 659: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 50r-v

DnJ 1353: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 50v-1v

DnJ 1253: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy, headed ‘Extasie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 52r

DnJ 1998: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 52v

DnJ 1394: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 53r-4v

DnJ 1166: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamium’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

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

ff. 54v-6r

DnJ 2132: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 56r-v

DnJ 344: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

Copy, headed ‘The Blossome’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

ff. 56v-7v

DnJ 3166: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

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

f. 57v

DnJ 177: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J: D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 58r-9r

DnJ 3483: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J: D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 59r-60r

CoR 77: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of the Lo: Effingham’, inscribed in the margin ‘R: Cor’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

f. 60r-v

DnJ 2610: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

ff. 60v-1r

DnJ 3313: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 61r-v

DnJ 3356: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

f. 61v

DnJ 3364: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross. See also DnJ 3338.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

ff. 61v-2r

DnJ 3338: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, immediately following on from ‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’ (see DnJ 3364).

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 62r

DnJ 3232: John Donne, To Mr C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

f. 62v

DnJ 3304: John Donne, To Mr S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

ff. 62v-3r

DnJ 3223: John Donne, To Mr B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

f. 63r-v

DnJ 3259: John Donne, To Mr R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

f. 63v

DnJ 3251: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

f. 64r

DnJ 3242: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

f. 64r-v

DnJ 3416: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sr. Henrie Wotton, at his going Ambassadour’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 65r-v

DnJ 3431: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sr H.G. moueing him to Trauell’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

ff. 65v-6v

DnJ 3399: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sr. E. H.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 66v-7v

DnJ 3377: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 67v-8r

DnJ 3524: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 68r-9r

DnJ 3509: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.

ff. 69r-70r

DnJ 3551: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

ff. 70v-1v

DnJ 3540: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B:’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

ff. 72r-3r

DnJ 3563: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B. at Newyeares tyde’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

ff. 73r-4r

DnJ 3568: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)

Copy, headed ‘To the C: of H.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.

ff. 74r-5v

DnJ 3582: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of S’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

ff. 75v-6v

DnJ 1866: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, headed ‘To the La: Co: of C:’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 76v-7v

DnJ 2712: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 78r

DnJ 1677: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 78v-9r

DnJ 2497: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 79r-v

DnJ 1526: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 79v-80v

DnJ 2386: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

f. 80v

DnJ 719: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 80v-1r

DnJ 910: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

f. 81r

DnJ 3951: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 81r-v

DnJ 1701: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

ff. 81v-2r

DnJ 2080: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 82r-v

DnJ 1316: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘ffever’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 82v-3r

DnJ 1638: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 83-4r

DnJ 3774: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 84v

DnJ 13: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 85r

DnJ 2102: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 85v

DnJ 924: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 86r

DnJ 2629: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy of stanzas 1-2.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 86r-v

DnJ 110: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 86v-7r

DnJ 856: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 87r-v

DnJ 2687: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

ff. 87v-8r

DnJ 2364: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

f. 88r

DnJ 3834: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 88v-9v

DnJ 3805: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 89v

DnJ 1192: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 89v-90r

DnJ 3695: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Platonique Love’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 90r-v

DnJ 741: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 90v-1r

DnJ 2284: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, the first poem under a general heading ‘Songs wch were made to certaine Aires wch were made before’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 91r

DnJ 2994: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy of stanzas 1-3, 5, untitled.

The fourth stanza written in a later hand on f. 274v, as stanza ‘5’, belongs to this text.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 91v

DnJ 295: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 92r

DnJ 1477: 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. 92r

DnJ 2651: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

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. 92r

DnJ 2376: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and 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. 92r

DnJ 525: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

f. 92r

DnJ 1274: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy.

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’).

f. 92r

DnJ 1733: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 92v

DnJ 1884: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and 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.

f. 92v

DnJ 150: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

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. 92v

DnJ 2262: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 92v

DnJ 2588: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and 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.

f. 92v

DnJ 2399: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

f. 92v

DnJ 1718: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated 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. 92v

DnJ 2667: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

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. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

ff. 93r-4r

DnJ 1148: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

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

ff. 94v-8r

DnJ 981: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’, headed ‘Eclogue Induceing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and 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.

ff. 98v-9v

DnJ 1118: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie Prince Henrie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

ff. 99v-103v

DnJ 2415: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie Lo: Harrington’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

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

f. 104r

DnJ 3339: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

This MS recorded in Milgate.

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

f. 104r

DnJ 1589: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, in a secretary hand.

This MS collated in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

ff. 106-15v

DnJ 1663: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

ff. 116r-17v

DnJ 765: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, under a general heading ‘Divine Poems’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 117v

DnJ 218: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘1.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 21. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

f. 118r

DnJ 2480: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘2.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 21. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

f. 118r

DnJ 3138: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘3.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 22. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

f. 118v

DnJ 233: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘4.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 22. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

f. 118v

DnJ 1619: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘5.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 23. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

f. 119r

DnJ 883: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘6.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 23. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

f. 119r

DnJ 3043: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘7.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 24. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

ff. 119v

DnJ 3881: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘8.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 24. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

f. 119v

DnJ 3869: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘9.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 25. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

f. 120r

DnJ 331: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘10.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 25. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

f. 120r

DnJ 3938: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘11.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 26. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

f. 120v

DnJ 1295: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy, untitled, numbered in the margin ‘12.’

‘12.’

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), p. 26. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

ff. 120v-7r

DnJ 1779: John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius (‘How sits this citie, late most populous’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 127v-31v

DnJ 1930: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy, headed ‘A Litanie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 131v-2r

DnJ 1417: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Good friday Made as I was Rideing westward that daye’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

ff. 132r-3r

DnJ 134: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy, headed Vppon the Annuntiation, when Good-friday fell vppon the same daye.

This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 133r-4r

DnJ 784: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Crosse’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 134r

DnJ 2704: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

f. 134v

DnJ 1553: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘A Hymne to Christ’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

f. 135r

DnJ 1572: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’.

Edited from this MS in Grierson, I, 370. Collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

ff. 136r-40v

OvT 25: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Beecher, p. 351.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

f. 141r-v

OvT 33: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Very Woman

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 48-50. Beecher, pp. 201-2.

ff. 141v-2r

OvT 36: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: Her next part

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 50-1. Beecher, pp. 202-3.

f. 142r-v

OvT 30: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Good Woman

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-8. Beecher, pp. 200-1.

f. 142v

OvT 7: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

ff. 144r-5r

BmF 114: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.

First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

ff. 145v-61v

DnJ 4071: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 17 Problems.

This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 416. Problems II, XII, and XVIII edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 24, 38, 47.

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

MS 877, [Part II]

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

f. 162r

ToA 66: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy.

This MS text collated in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

f. 162v

WoH 127: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Sr Henry Wottons verse of the Queene of Bohemya’.

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.

f. 164r

PeW 82: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, headed ‘Frendshipp’.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

f. 164r-v

BcF 50: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘How vaine a thing is Man’, subscribed ‘Visc: st Alb:’.

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

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. 164v-5v

HrG 70: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Vaineglorie’, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

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

ff. 165v-6r

WoH 47: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H Watton’.

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

f. 166r-v

HrE 73: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Lord Herbert’.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 307, this MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

f. 166v

StW 1335: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 166v-7r

StW 828: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Strood’.

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).

f. 167r-v

CwT 761: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

f. 167v

HeR 21.5: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, run on directly following ten lines headed ‘Vpon parting wth a deare frend’ beginning ‘As soules from bodies part, so part wee twoe’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

ff. 169v-70r

JnB 73: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epigram’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

f. 170r

JnB 81: Ben Jonson, An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in (‘Haile Mary, full of grace, it once was said’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram to ye Queens health’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.

ff. 170v-1r

DnJ 2467: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Bee not so coye’ and here beginning at line 11 (‘When my soule was in her owne bodie sheath'd’), subscribed ‘J Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 171r-2r

DnJ 605: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 172r-4r

HeR 327.6: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’

Copy, headed ‘Pure Simple Loue’, here beginning ‘Hide not thy Face and myne shal be’, the word ‘Face’ underlined and the word ‘Love’ written in the margin in another hand, the poem subscribed ‘Townesend’.

Edited from this MS in Chambers and in Brown.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

ff. 176r-7v

JnB 58: Ben Jonson, An Elegie On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion: of Winton (‘what gentle Ghost, besprent with April deaw’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.

f. 178r

JnB 482: Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)

Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

ff. 178r-80r

JnB 255: Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones (‘Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

f. 180r-v

JnB 496: Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

f. 181r

FeO 6: Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. (‘Come leave this saucy way’)

Copy, untitled.

A version first published, as ‘Against Ben: Johnson’, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

f. 184r-v

MoG 46: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘De Lamberto Carolo’.

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.

ff. 187v-8r

JnB 339: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

f. 188v

JnB 623: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘To the old, longe life and treasure’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 189r

JnB 621: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘The faery beame vppon you’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 189v

PeW 25: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, p. 55, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’.

f. 191v

HrE 43: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ‘Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow’

Copy, untitled.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 357; this MS collated in Smith, p. 128.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.

f. 192r

WoH 128: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, 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.

ff. 193r-5r

CoR 369: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, untitled, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

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

f. 196v

CwT 1064: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 196v-7r

PeW 198: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.

f. 197r-v

ToA 67: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS text collated in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

ff. 197v-8r

JnB 188: 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, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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).

ff. 200v-1r

DnJ 678: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 201r

DnJ 1468: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 201v-2r

DnJ 277: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 202v

DnJ 1854: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy of lines 9-24, untitled and here beginning ‘I heard me say tell her anone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 203r

DnJ 3996: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 203v-4r

HrJ 239: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

ff. 206r-7v

BmF 115: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Fr: Beaumont’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

ff. 207v-8

DnJ 871: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 208r-9r

ToA 37: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS text recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

ff. 209v-11r

EaJ 57: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of the Earle of Pembroke Lo: Steward of the Kings house who dyed 10mo: Apr: 1630’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

ff. 213v-14r

DaW 67: Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode (‘The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth’)

Copy, headed ‘To the King on Newyeares day. 1631’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

ff. 214r-15r

CwT 1034: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

f. 215r-v

CwT 1281.5: Thomas Carew, Of his Mistresse (‘I will not Saint my Coelia, for shee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘To Clarinda: On Her Perfection’, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda: In a Forrest of Fancies (1650?), sig. B1r-v. Dunlap (1949), p. 193.

ff. 215v-16r

GrJ 37.6: John Grange, ‘Blind beauty! If it be a loss’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed ‘Sonnet. P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.

ff. 216r-17v

RaW 176: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, untitled.

Formerly MS G.2.21, this MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

ff. 217v-18v

HoJ 83: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, untitled.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

f. 223r

AlW 210: William Alabaster, Ad Iacobvm regem in nativitatem primogeniti principis Palatini, qvæ incidit calendis Ianvarii (‘Dum novus antiquum Ianus decorticat annum’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Alablaster’.

This MS collated in Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-9 (No. XXVIII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).

ff. 223v-4r

CwT 93: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse on her perfections’.

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

f. 224v

HeR 22: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs adorned wth seuerall Jewells’, here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies which she wears?’.

Copy, headed On his Mrs adorned wth

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

ff. 224v-5r

StW 829: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mrs walking in a gentle Snow’, subscribed ‘William Stroude’.

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).

f. 225r-v

PeW 51: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘To his friend being disdayned by his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbet’. Followed (ff. 225v-6r) by ‘A reply in the behalf of the party disdayned’ (‘Tis love breeds loue in me, and cold disdaine’), subscribed ‘Sr Ben Ruddiard / Dr John Donne’.

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

f. 226r-v

StW 1112: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 1-24, headed ‘To his Mrs hauing black eyes’, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.

This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 32.

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. 227r-v

PoW 70: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On a Lady whom I will not name / Because you shall not know whom to blame’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.

This MS collated in Grierson.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

f. 228r-v

DnJ 1336: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs being sick of A burning feauer’ and subscribed ‘John Chudleigh’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 228v-9r

JnB 189: 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, untitled, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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).

f. 230r-v

StW 191: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs as shee sate playing on the Lute’, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 231r-v

StW 923: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs in the prayse of Musick’, subscribed ‘John Chudleigh’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

ff. 231v-2r

DnJ 312: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wotton’.

This MS recorded 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. 232r-v

WoH 156: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs proouing false to his affections’, subscribed ‘Robert Wisedom’.

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

ff. 232v-3r

PeW 260: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Of my Mrs her coynes in the Act of Loue’ and beginning ‘Nay pish, nay phew, nay faith but will you? fye’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

f. 234r-v

BmF 130: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Francis Beaumont’.

Printed from this MS in Grosart.

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

ff. 234v-5r

BmF 149: Francis Beaumont, ‘Why should not pilgrims to thy body come’

Copy, headed ‘On the death of a deboist young fellow’.

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

ff. 235v-6v

GrJ 65: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs: what he would haue her to be’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

f. 237r-v

SuJ 110: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy, headed ‘On the 2 first verses of the former Copye for the Lady Denham’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

ff. 237v-8r

CwT 950: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘To his disdainefull Mrs he being feruently in loue wth her’.

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

ff. 238v-9r

DnJ 2022: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, headed ‘On the same subiect [i.e. the God of Loue his Mistress] by Dr Donne’, subscribed ‘John Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 239r

ToA 38: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues immutabilitie’, subscribed in another hand ‘Aurelian Townsend’.

This MS text recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

f. 240r-v

MoG 101: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the crowne of a hatt drunke in for want of a Cupp’, subscribed ‘George Markeham’.

ff. 241r-2v

DnJ 1503: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of lines 1-94, headed ‘Vpon his Mrs her enforced departure’, imperfect, lacking the ending.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 243r

JnB 422: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Vnion betweene Scotland and England by King James’, subscribed ‘James Stuart K: of England’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

f. 243r-v

RnT 13: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, headed ‘To one thinking herselfe too young for the buisiness’, here beginning ‘Deare doe not your fayre beauties wrong’ and ascribed to ‘Humphrey Hide’.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

f. 243v

HeR 302: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)

Copy, headed ‘In imitation of the former’, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.

ff. 244r-5v

PeW 261: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs vsing the Art of painting’, subscribed ‘Dr John Donne’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

ff. 245v-6r

StW 1385: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs on her blushing and presently growing pale again’, subscribed ‘William Arundell’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 246r-v

DnJ 3678: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘The greife of Loue’, subscribed ‘Dr John Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 247r-v

HeR 327.8: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’

Copy of the six-stanza version, headed ‘To his Mrs entreating her to shunn the concealemt: of her affection’.

This MS recorded in Chambers and in Brown.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

ff. 249r-50r

PoW 96: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘[Walton] Poole’.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

ff. 251v-3r

CoR 78: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Fran: Beaumont’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

f. 253v

BrW 227: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of the Countesse of Pembrooke’, subscribed ‘William Browne’.

This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi, and in Herford & Simpson.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

f. 254r

BrW 140: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On one that dyde att the age of Six yeares’, subscribed ‘Will: Browne’.

This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

ff. 254v-7r

BmF 53: 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 ‘On the death of the Countess of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Francis Beaumont’.

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

f. 257r

ToC 1: Cyril Tourneur, On the death of a child but one year old (‘How can Heaven's voyage, long or hard appear?’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Cecill Turner’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in A. B. Grosart, ‘Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, Englische Studien, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 16-17).

f. 257r

JnB 136: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On the death of a most fayre and vertuous Lady’, subscribed ‘Sr Edw: Hastings’.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

ff. 258v-60r

DnJ 1084: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of the Lady Markheam’, subscribed ‘John Donne’.

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. 261v-2r

WoH 47.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘The prayse of a priuate life’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.

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

f. 262r

StW 409: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse as shee sate singing’, subscribed ‘Geo: Markham’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

f. 262v

StW 337: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Butcher that had married a Tanners daughter’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

f. 263v

CoA 27: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy, headed ‘An Apologie for drinking’, here beginning ‘The fruitfull earth doth drink the rain’ and ascribed to Robert Wisedome in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by John Donne.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

ff. 264r-6v

DnJ 3574: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington (‘That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime’)

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Aston to the Countesse of Huntington’ and subscribed ‘Sr Walter Aston’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 268v-9r

CwT 508: Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse (‘Stay coward blood, and doe not yield’)

Copy, headed ‘On the greene sicknes’.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

f. 269r

CwT 1079: Thomas Carew, To Mris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, headed ‘To the greene sicknes’.

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

ff. 269v-71v

JnB 380.5: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, followed by the first stanza of Randolph's answer (RnT 32) and two Latin versions (one StW 1414), all these verses then repeated, followed by the second stanza of Jonson's poem and the second stanza of Randolph's answer.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

ff. 269v, 270v, 271v

RnT 32: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)

Copy, headed ‘A Parody to Mr Johnsons Ode’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.

ff. 269v-270r

StW 1414: William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. (‘Scenam defere Musa nauseatam’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr Ben: Johnsons farewell to the stage’.

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

For Jonson's original ode, see JnB 367-381.

ff. 270r, 271r

RnT 419: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)

Copy, after a false start.

First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

See also RnT 20-32 and JnB 367-381.

f. 272r

JnB 467: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Drinke to me Cælia wth thine Eye’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

f. 272v

StW 830: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: Strode’.

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).

ff. 272v-4r

RnT 136: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gratulatory to Mr Ben: Johnson on his voluntary adoption of Tho: Randolph to be his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

ff. 274r-5v

MsP 2: Philip Massinger, The Copie of a Letter written vpon occasion to the Earle of Pembrooke Lo: Chamberlaine (‘Soe subiect to the worser fame’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Phill: Messinger’.

Edited from this MS in Edwards & Gibson, IV, 389-91.

First published in Poems consisting of Epistles & Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elegies [chiefly by John Eliot] (London, 1658).

ff. 275v-6v

MsP 6: Philip Massinger, A Newyeares Guift presented to my Lady and M:rs the then Lady Katherine Stanhop now Countesse of Chesterfeild (‘Before I ow'd to you the name’)

Copy, as ‘By Phill: Messinger’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Edwards & Gibson.

First published in A.B. Grosart, ‘Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 6-7). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 393-4.

MS 879

A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector. c.1720.

Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.

Vol. I, part I, pp. 63-4

DoC 326.2: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Distich (‘This was ye house yt was built by Harris’)

Copy of the second verse of the couplet (beginning ‘A Fart for the Louvre, a T--d for Paris’), at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich (‘Non Orbis Gentem, Non Urbem Gens habet ulla’) and its English translation (‘No Earth such Realm, No Realms such Town afford’) followed by ‘Thus Ironically by Ld. Buckhurst’ (‘Fraudibus, ac fastu, Levitate, Libidinis aestu’).

Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.

Vol. I, f. 97r

RoJ 129: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV (‘Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy’)

Copy, headed Thus English'd, here beginning ‘Lorain Thou stole, by Fraud Thou got Burgundy’, following two Latin distichs under the heading ‘On the French King’.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

Vol. I, ff. 118r-19r

DeJ 7: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’

Copy, headed ‘To Sr William D'Av'nant on his Gondibert’.

First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

Vol. I, ff. 145v-6v

DoC 82.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)

Copy, as ‘By Lord Buckhurst, after Earl of Dorset’.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

Vol. I, ff. 160r-2r

BuS 32: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy, headed ‘Dildoides A Burlesque Poem by Lemuel Butler Gent’.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

Vol. I, f. 194v

SeC 93: Sir Charles Sedley, By Sir Charles Sidley. Written Extempore (‘The Noble Man, why he's a thing’)

Copy.

First published in The Diverting Post (13-20 June 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 150.

Vol. I, f. 201r-v

DrJ 104: John Dryden, A New Song (‘Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song by Mr. Dryden’, followed (ff. 201v-2r) by a Latin verse translation.

First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond, II, 386-7.

Vol. II, f. 179v

StW 1285.5: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, together with translations, headed ‘The Jesuit's Double-Facd Creed, In Three Languages. 1679’.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Vol. III, f. 1r

DrJ 80.5: John Dryden, Lines on Milton (‘Three Poets, in three distant Ages born’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram on Milton by Mr Dryden’.

First published in John Milton, Paradise Lost, 4th edition (London, 1688). Kinsley, II, 540. California, III, 208. Hammond, III, 200.

Vol. III, ff. 5v-8v

DrJ 5: John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (‘'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won’)

Copy, as ‘by Mr. Dryden...Novem: 22d 1697’.

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.

Vol. III, f. 41r

SeC 69.5: Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloe (‘Leave off thy Paint, Perfumes, and youthful Dress’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram by Sr. Ch: Sedley / To Cloe’.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (November 1693), pp. 365-6. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 54.

MS 1045

A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various hands, 298 leaves (plus blanks), in old reversed calf.

Old pressmark N. 2. 12.

item 1

WiT 7: Thomas Wilson, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Wilson against Mary Queen of Scots, in a journal of proceedings in the Parliamentary session from 8 May 1572. c.1572.

npublished?.

ff. 136r-87r

NaR 34: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, with (f. 137r) a formal italic title-page, preceded (f. 136r) by a note in a cursive italic hand ‘This is written By Sr Robert Naunton secretary to King James’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

ff. 202r-43r

BcF 175: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the last section. c.1620s-30s.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

MS1644

Copy. c.1636.

KiT 19: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635

Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

MS 1724

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘A Sermon Preached to the University of Dublin by Jeremy Taylor, on John 7. 17’, twelve folio leaves, in boards. Early 18th century.

TaJ 33: Jeremy Taylor, Via intelligentiæ

First published in London, 1662.

MS 2630

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Ward, [from London], 26 November 1670. 1670.

*WtI 10: Izaak Walton, Letter(s)

Edited in [Anon], ‘Unpublished Letter of Izaak Walton’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 20 (17 May 1856), 385; in Waltoniana (1878); in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), pp. 155-7; and in Keynes (1929), pp. 591-2.

MS 2934

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, headed ‘A short View of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652’, subscribed ‘March. 5th. 1678’, 399 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped calf. 1678/9.

ClE 40: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

Purchased from Maggs Bros. 10 February 1908. Old pressmark O. 2. 31.

This MS recorded in Belford.

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).