CA 32
An exemplum of the edition of 1600 with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins. c.1600.
CmW 16.7: William Camden, Reges, reginae, nobiles & alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum 1600
Formerly in the library of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.
First published in London, 1600.
CA 49
One of Camden's printed books, Jean du Tillet, Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8), with MS pages bound in at the front and end.
[unnumbered pages]
• *CmW 121: William Camden, Du Tillet, Jean. Recueil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)
Nine pages of autograph pedigrees bound in at the front and end of the volume, including the dates 1598, 1605, and 1616.
[last page]
• *CmW 4: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Autograph draft pedigree, on one page, corresponding to Volume II, pp. 140-1, of the 1627 edition of the Annales.
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
CB 2 (6)
Autograph annotations.
*CmW 122: William Camden, Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. A Discourse of a Discouerie for a new Passage to Cataia (London, 1576)
CB 7 (14)
Calligraphic MS copy of unpublished Latin verses on the cities of Great Britain (some afterwards quoted in Britannia); eleven leaves (plus one blank leaf); with Camden's autograph annotations and deletions.
*CmW 127: William Camden, Jonstonus, Joannes. Britannia urbes [c.1600]
CB 22 (2)
Autograph note in Latin on ‘Eadgina vxor Athelstani’ on the last page.
*CmW 116: William Camden, Blackwell, George. Mr. George Blackwel, (Made by Pope Clement 8. Archpriest of England) his Answeres upon sundry his Examinations (London, 1607)
CB 25 (3)
Autograph annotations.
*CmW 125: William Camden, Hotman, François. Decretorum baccalaurei (n.p., 1575)
CB 28 (5)
Autograph annotations.
*CmW 120: William Camden, Crato, Joannes. Oratio funebris de Diuo Maxaemiliano II (Frankfurt, 1577)
CB 49a(2)
Autograph annotations in Latin and English and signature on the title-page ‘Gul Camdenij’.
*CmW 124: William Camden, Hayward, Sir John. The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England (London, 1613)
CB 67
Exemplum of the ‘Third’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1668) extensively annotated by Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, including his rewriting of many poems, a blank page at the beginning annotated in an unidentified hand; pages 49-51 with a note on the irregularities of Waller's verse; the last blank page with other notes on Waller by Atterbury (‘Waller commends no Poet of his times that was in any degree a Rival to him...’) and by an unidentified hand (?Neve). c.1721.
The volume briefly described in H.C. Beeching, Francis Atterbury (1909), pp. 227-31.
blank page facing p. 1
• RoJ 18.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
Quotation, lines 54-6 (here beginning Waller by nature for ye bays design'd), ascribed to ‘Roch’, in an unidentified hand.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
pp. 1-2
• WaE 619.5: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)
MS annotations and deletions to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.
See also WaE 765.
pp. 3-12
• WaE 263.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews (‘Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain’)
MS annotations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.
pp. 13-15
• WaE 200.5: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘So earnest with thy God! can no new care’)
Minor MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.
pp. 15-19
• WaE 642.5: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture (‘Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.
pp. 19-22
• WaE 684.5: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)
Some MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.
pp. 23-4
• WaE 56.5: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle (‘Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.
pp. 23-7
• WaE 50.5: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning (‘When from black clouds no part of sky is clear’)
MS alteration to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.
pp. 27-8
• WaE 99.5: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
pp. 29-30
• WaE 335.5: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.
pp. 30-3
• WaE 656.5: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck (‘Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves’)
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.
pp. 33-4
• WaE 274.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)
A few MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
pp. 34-6
• WaE 298.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
pp. 36-7
• WaE 193.5: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)
Minor MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.
pp. 37-8
• WaE 465.6: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.
pp. 39-40
• WaE 230.5: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)
A few MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
See also WaE 759.
pp. 40-4
• WaE 529.5: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)
A few MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.
pp. 44-5
• WaE 366.5: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)
MS alteration to the printed tex and deletions.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.
pp. 45-6
• WaE 499.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden (‘Sees not my love how time resumes’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.
pp. 48-9
• WaE 358.5: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.
pp. 51-2
• WaE 221.5: Edmund Waller, Of Loving at First Sight (‘Not caring to observe the wind’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, headed ‘The Reply on the Contrary’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to ‘Tho. Batt.’ in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.
pp. 52-3
• WaE 423.5: Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished (‘It is not that I love you less’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘The Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
pp. 53-5
• WaE 90.5: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
Cited in Beeching.
First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
pp. 72-5
• WaE 210.5: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
pp. 75-6
• WaE 602.5: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)
MS alteration to the printed text.
First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.
pp. 76-8
• WaE 595.5: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you’)
A few MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.
pp. 78-9
• WaE 741.5: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
p. 79-80
• WaE 454.5: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Stay, Phoebus! stay’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.
pp. 80-1
• WaE 520.5: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Amoret! the Milky Way’)
MS comment.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.
pp. 84-5
• WaE 243.5: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)
A few MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.
pp. 85-6
• WaE 505.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (‘Chloris! yourself you so excel’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To the same Lady singing the former Song’, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
pp. 86-7
• WaE 291.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs (‘Design, or chance, makes others wive’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.
pp. 90-1
• WaE 321.5: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
Cited in Beeching.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.
pp. 91-3
• WaE 16.5: Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep (‘My charge it is those breaches to repair’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.
pp. 93-6
• WaE 28.5: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘While in the park I sing, the listening deer’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.
pp. 96-7
• WaE 18.8: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made’)
MS annotations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.
pp. 98-100
• WaE 581.5: Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester (‘Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.
pp. 100-1
• WaE 515.5: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady (‘Why came I so untimely forth’)
MS annotation to the printed text.
First published, as ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.
pp. 101-3
• WaE 449.5: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find’)
Some MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.
pp. 103-4
• WaE 38.5: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song (‘Behold the brand of beauty tossed!’)
Title added in MS to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.
pp. 104-5
• WaE 343.5: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting (‘Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘On a patch'd up Madam’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.
pp. 106-7
• WaE 485.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen (‘Madam! intending to have tried’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.
pp. 107-8
• WaE 318.5: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.
pp. 108-11
• WaE 567.5: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady (‘To this great loss a sea of tears is due’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.
pp. 114-16
• WaE 6.5: Edmund Waller, À la Malade (‘Ah, lovely Amoret! the care’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.
pp. 116-20
• WaE 308.5: Edmund Waller, Of the Queen (‘The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build’)
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.
pp. 127-31
• WaE 629.5: Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair (‘Here Celia! for thy sake I part’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.
pp. 139-40
• WaE 40.5: Edmund Waller, The Bud (‘Lately on yonder swelling bush’)
MS alterations and deletions to the printed text.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 98. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
pp. 145-6
• WaE 673.8: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)
MS annotations to the printed text.
First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.
pp. 150-2
• WaE 477.5: Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves (‘Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.
pp. 152-4
• WaE 10.5: Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before (‘They that never had the use’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.
pp. 154-6
• WaE 659.5: Edmund Waller, To Zelinda (‘Fairest piece of well-formed earth!’)
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as ‘Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6’ in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.
pp. 156-7
• WaE 325.5: Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays (‘Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.
p. 158
• WaE 533.5: Edmund Waller, To Chloris (‘Chloris! since first our calm of peace’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘To Chloris uppon a favour receaved’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 112. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To a Lady, more affable since the war began’, in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
p. 158-66
• WaE 336.5: Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park, as lately improved by His Majesty (‘Of the first Paradise there's nothing found’)
MS alterations to two lines of the printed text.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 40-5.
pp. 178-81
• WaE 549.5: Edmund Waller, To My Lady Morton, on New-Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris (‘Madam! new years may well expect to find’)
MS annotations to the printed text.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.
pp. 192-8
• WaE 154.5: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)
MS annotations to the printed text.
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
See also WaE 765.
pp. 202-21
• WaE 105.5: Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (‘First draw the sea, that portion which between’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.
p. 228
• WaE 370.5: Edmund Waller, On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead (‘As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new’)
Annotations to the printed text.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.
pp. 229-30
• WaE 134.5: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
pp. 230-1
• WaE 488.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)
A MS alteration to the printed text in the last line.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
pp. 231-4
• WaE 134.8: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)
Minor MS alnnotations to the printed text.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
pp. 234-5
• WaE 171.5: Edmund Waller, Of English Verse (‘Poets may boast, as safely vain’)
MS comments added to the printed text.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69-70.
p. 233
• WaE 487.8: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
pp. 234-6
• WaE 124.5: Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark (‘Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms’)
MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.
pp. 308-9
• WaE 416.5: Edmund Waller, Puerperium (‘You gods that have the power’)
Copy, preceded by the note (on p. 307) ‘The following Poem is copied from a very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards — & many of Sir John Suckling & Thomas Carew — & in which each Piece is seperately & correctly distinguished by the name of its Author. This Poem has never yet been printed.’, and headed ‘A Song of Mr Waller — presented to the Queen — in 1638’, at the end of the volume.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.
p. 310
• WaE 779.5: Edmund Waller, When he was at Sea (‘Whilst I was free I wrote with high conceit’)
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller, when he was at Sea’, evidently made from Philip Neve's ‘antient MS’, at the end of Atterbury-Neve Volume.
First published in Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (London, 1789), pp. 70-1. Thorn-Drury, I, 75.
CB 95
Two pages of autograph notes at the end (giving the reasons for this book's suppression).
*CmW 119: William Camden, Cowell, John. The Interpreter (Cambridge, 1607)
CC 30
Autograph inscription ‘Sum Nicolai Vdalli 1537’ 1537.
*UdN 16: Nicholas Udall, Maius, Junianus. De priscorum proprietate verborum (Venice, 1490)
Owned in 1527 by John Dobyns, scholar at Oxford.
Juhász-Ormsby, No. 8.
Gal. G. 1. 20
A few autograph annotations.
*CmW 134: William Camden, Sainte-Marthe, Scévole & Louis de. Histoire genealogique de la maison de France (Paris, 1619)
M. 3. 29
A few autograph annotations. c.1616.
*CmW 136: William Camden, Twyne, Brian. Antiquitatis academiae Oxoniensis apologia (Oxford, 1608)
M. 3. 50
Autograph annotations.
*CmW 130: William Camden, Masson, Jean Papire. Annalium (Paris, 1578)
M. 5. 1
Two pages of autograph annotations at the front. Also, tipped in, a twelve-leaf booklet containing an autograph list in Latin of names and events relating to the years 1602-9 probably derived from Boutrays's book.
*CmW 118: William Camden, Boutrays, Raoul. De rebus in Gallia (Paris, 1610)
N. 6. 32
A few autograph annotations.
*CmW 114: William Camden, Aemilius, Paulus, Veronensis. De rebus gestis Francorum (Paris, 1555)
MS 41
An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
ff. 3r-9v
• CoR 289: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
f. 10r-v
• CoR 173: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
f. 10v
• CoR 255: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corb. against Prices Anniversary vpon Prince Henry’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.
f. 11r-v
• CoR 235: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
For related poems see CoR 247-78.
ff. 12v-13v
• CoR 349: 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.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
f. 14r-v
• DnJ 71: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, untitled.
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. 14v-15r
• DnJ 3191: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
ff. 15v-17v
• CoR 20: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
ff. 19r-20r, 25v
• CoR 136: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
f. 20r
• CoR 397: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Marquess’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
ff. 20v-1r
• PoW 73: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘In Pvella negram’.
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.
ff. 21r-2r
• DrW 117.55: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)
Copy, headed ‘5 Senses’.
Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
ff. 22v-4r
• CoR 212: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)
Copy, headed ‘A godly Exhortation...’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of Dr Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
f. 24r
• CoR 431: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)
Copy.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).
f. 24v
• CoR 410: Richard Corbett, On Christ-Church Play at Woodstock (‘If wee, at Woodstock, haue not pleased those’)
Copy, headed ‘In ye Person of Ch. Ch.’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.
f. 26r
• HoJ 19: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’
Copy, headed ‘on a locke smyth’.
Whitlock, p. 108.
f. 26r
• CoR 376: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)
Copy, headed ‘To a courtesan’ and here beginning ‘My prety lute when I am gon’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.
f. 26v
• CoR 588: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)
Copy, headed ‘Inuocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdom’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
f. 27r
• MoG 102: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)
Copy, as ‘By. G. M.’
ff. 27v-8v
• JnB 669: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)
Copy, headed ‘B. J. 5 senses’.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.
ff. 28v-9v
• JnB 650: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Copy, headed ‘Mr Johnson to the King’.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
ff. 29v-30r
• CoR 661: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mrs Mallet’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
ff. 30v-2r
• DnJ 396: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Lady whose chaine was lost by X’.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
f. 32r
• CwT 1269.2: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
f. 32r-v
• RaW 289: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘Mans Life’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
ff. 32v-3r
• DnJ 2573: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Perfumes’.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
f. 33v
• DnJ 198: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy, headed ‘Aeparition of a Louer’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
ff. 33v-4r
• MoG 77: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)
Copy, headed ‘The Nitingale. G. M.’
f. 34r-v
• JnB 190: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘The Body’.
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. 34v-5v
• JnB 224: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Copy, headed ‘The Minde’.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
ff. 43v-4r
• StW 906.5: William Strode, Song (‘When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Strode’.
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.
f. 47r
• StW 766: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentw. walking in the snow’.
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. 48r
• WoH 129: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. i6i.’
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. 48v-9r
• MoG 48: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of King Janmes’, subscribed ‘G: M’.
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.
f. 49r
• CoR 461: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)
Copy.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
f. 49r
• ShW 18: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)
Copy, headed ‘To one yt would dye a Mayd’.
Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
ff. 49v-50v
• HoJ 86: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, headed ‘The parliament fart’.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
f. 50v
• DaJ 215: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers to their beds do lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
ff. 51v-2r
• CoR 114: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)
Copy, ascribed to Corbet.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
f. 52v
• StW 851: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘A song. W. S.’
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
f. 53r
• CoR 695: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
f. 53r
• StW 316: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
f. 53v
• StW 373: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)
Copy, ascribed to ‘W. S.’
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
f. 54r
• StW 936: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
f. 54v
• CoR 481: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)
Copy.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
f. 55r
• StW 175: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
Copy, headed ‘Laus Musices’.
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. 55v
• StW 282: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
f. 55v
• StW 1229: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My strings can doe what no man could’.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
f. 56r-v
• StW 716: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
ff. 57r-8r
• StW 1198: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
ff. 58v-9v
• CwT 1132: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
ff. 59v-60r
• StW 31: William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)
Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘With a new white feather in his Cappe’.
Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.
f. 61r
• CoR 533: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
ff. 63r-5v
• JnB 246: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)
Copy, in two hands, untitled.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
ff. 66v-7r
• CoR 324: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
ff. 67v-8r
• DnJ 709: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, untitled.
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. 68v-9r
• DnJ 2354: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, untitled.
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.
f. 69r-v
• DnJ 3747: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘To his loue vpon his departure from her’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
f. 70r
• DnJ 2933: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
ff. 70v-2v
• DnJ 1183: 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.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
ff. 72v-3r
• DnJ 3120: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad solem’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
f. 73v
• DnJ 755: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
ff. 74r-5r
• DnJ 3504: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
ff. 75r-9v
• DnJ 2429: 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, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
ff. 85r-6r
• BmF 116: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)
Copy, headed ‘Fran: Beomont to Ben: Jonson’.
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. 86v-8r
• StW 953: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)
Copy, headed ‘Capps’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
f. 88v
• JnB 31: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Have yu seene the white lilly grow’; 1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS, including the parody, in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 178.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
ff. 91v-2r
• CwT 871: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
f. 93r
• HeR 398: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
f. 93r
• HeR 101: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘Answer’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
ff. 93v-5r
• EaJ 65: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Hortus Mertonensis (‘Hortus delitiae domus politae’)
Copy.
First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.
f. 95v
• StW 1303: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, headed ‘English’.
This text following a Latin version.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
ff. 96v-7r
• WaE 216: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
f. 97r-v
• WaE 576: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.
See also WaE 765.
W.A.M. 6640
Copy of a letter by Earles to the Lord Mayor of London Elect, in a cursive secretary hand, endorsed ‘The draught of a Lettr sent to my Lord Maior...’, from Westminster, 1660. 1660.
EaJ 100: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Letter(s)
Quoted in Darwin, p. 187.