CELM: Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (2024)

• WoH 219: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed‘Doctor Donn's valadiction to theworlde’.

This MS recorded in Hannah.

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

• BcF 2: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy headed ‘On mans Mortalite by [Doctor Donndeleted] S^r Fran: Bacon’.

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.

• KiH 416: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, headed ‘On hauing married anIll fauored Woman his frind wrighte thus tohymm’.

This MS recordedin Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

• StW 1306: 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.

• CwT 872: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Soules MistrisI.M.’.

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

• HeR 57: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy,headed ‘A forsaken Ladye that dyde forLoue’.

This MS collatedin Martin.

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).

• JnB 196: 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’)

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

• JnB 153: 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, here ascribed to ‘Geo:Ghapman’.

This MS collated inHerford & 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).

• CwT 157: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, headed ‘An Inuectiue Againsthis M^ris’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

• StW 770: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Isaw fayre Celia walke alone’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of ThomasCarew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p.49.

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).

• CwT 236: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘The Amourousefly’.

This MS recordedin Hazlitt, p. 48.

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

• ChG 1: George Chapman, Epicures Frugallitie (‘Frugallitie is no philosophie’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Ge. Chapman’.

Edited from this MS in Shepherd and inBartlett.

First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 373-4.

• RnT 503: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Th. Jay’.

Collated in Herford &Simpson.

• DnJ 1578: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’, subscribed ‘finis DDonn’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and inShawcross.

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).

• ChG 5: George Chapman, An Invective Wrighten by Mr. George Chapman against Mr. Ben: Johnson (‘Greate-Learned wittie-Ben: be pleasd to light’)

Edited from this MS inBartlett.

First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 347-8.

• MrJ 55: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy, ascribed to‘John Marston’.

• FeO 44: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Murder of the Ducke of Buck1628’.

Edited from this MS in Poems and Songs relatingto George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; and his Assassination by John Felton,August 23, 1628, ed. Frederick W. Fairholt (Percy Society, London,1850), pp. 54-5. The MS cited in Pebworth &Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

• RnT 337: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On A Gentlewoman that had A mostExcellent sweet Voyce; but A most Ouglye deformedface’.

This MS collatedin Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

• MrJ 56: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy, ascribed to‘John Marston’.

• CwT 673: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentle man that had a M^ris, andafter was constrayned to marry a nother, the first was a frayd that hee wouldreveale to his new wyfe thair secreet loues whereuppon hee wrights thus tohur’ and here beginning ‘Thynke not dear Loue thatIle reueale’.

This MSrecorded in Hazlitt, p. 12.

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

See also Introduction.

• PoW 2: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that thought hurselfe not fayre because hur hur [sic] heare and eyes weareblacke’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

• CwT 96: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of the excellent composure of hismistress’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

• CwT 1283: Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett (‘Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whor*’)

Copy, headed ‘On awhor*’ and here beginning ‘Hayle shamles modell ofa cursed whor*’.

Lines 1-12 printed from this MS in Powell, p. 295; collated inDunlap.

First published as ‘On one Grace C. an Insatiate whor*’ in a 24-line version beginning ‘Go shamefull Model of a Cursed whor*!’ in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

• WiG 24: George Wither, M^r George Withers, to the king when hee was Prince of wales (‘Thoughe to bee to Obsequious weare a Sinn’)

Copy of a verse appeal to Prince Charles, here ascribed to Wither andevidently written not long after his release from prison (after 15 March 1621/2and before 17 February 1622/3).

Edited from this MS in Pritchard.

First published in Allan Pritchard, ‘An Unpublished Poem by George Wither’, MP, 61 (1963-4), 120-1.

• ShJ 28: James Shirley, The Garden (‘This Garden does not take my eyes’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version headed‘Cardias Garden’ and beginning ‘Fainewould I haue A plott of Ground’.

This MS collated in Howarth and recorded inArmstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 16-17.

• DnJ 2848: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satire against the Court wrightenby Doctor Dunne. In Queene Elizabeths Raigne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and inShawcross.

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

• DnJ 846: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Comination wrigten byD. Donn’.

This MSrecorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

• BrW 233.5: William Browne of Tavistock, One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres (‘Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe’)

Copy, unascribed.

Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.

• BrW 235: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’

Copy, headed ‘The answer [to ‘He that would mymri^s know’] by him that wassuspected’.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.

• KiH 778: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)

This MS recorded inCrum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

• CoH 1: Henry Constable, A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. (‘Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Calculation vppon the birth of theLadye Riches Daughter borne Anno 1588, & on Afriday’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3^r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.

• CoH 142: Henry Constable, To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. (‘Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine’)

Copy, headed ‘To the two sisters MargarettCountess of Cumberland And Anne Countess of Warwicke’ andnumbered ‘3’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.

• CoH 13: Henry Constable, The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. (‘Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Fairest that hath bene1’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonetto primo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.

• CoH 9: Henry Constable, An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. (‘Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high’)

Copy, untitled, numbered‘2’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto terzo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.

• CoH 29: Henry Constable, Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. (‘A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue’)

Copy, headed‘3’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto settimo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.

• CoH 52: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. (‘Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare’)

Copy, headed‘2’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto decimo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.

• CoH 63: Henry Constable, Sonet 3. (‘Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed’)

Copy, headed‘5’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto sedeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.

• CoH 68: Henry Constable, Sonet 5. (‘Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught’)

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto vndeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.

• CoH 34: Henry Constable, Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. (‘Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte’)

Copy, headed‘7’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto nono’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.

• CoH 20: Henry Constable, The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. (‘Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move’)

Copy, headed ‘8’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto quindeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.

• CoH 56: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. (‘Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue’)

Copy, headed‘9’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.

• CoH 157: Henry Constable, To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. (‘Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote’)

Copy, headed‘10’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.

• CoH 73: Henry Constable, Sonet 6. (‘If true loue might true loues reward obtayne’)

Copy, headed‘11’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto ottauo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.

• CoH 66: Henry Constable, Sonet 4. (‘Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find’)

Copy, headed‘12’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.

• RnT 189: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Thomas RandallsExpostulation w^th his Credditors’.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

• ToA 80: Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)

Copy, headed‘To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r AlexanderGill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’,ascribed to ‘M^r. Souch Townlye’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

• RnT 264: Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse (‘Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.

• RaW 438: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses Made by S^r walter Raleigh thenight before hee was beheaded’.

This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.

• JnB 256: Ben Jonson, A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter (‘Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short’)

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 294.

• DnJ 3193: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recordedin Gardner and in Shawcross.

• CoR 598: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbettesverses on the Ladies of the New dress’.

• GrJ 14.5: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed‘Their Answere’.

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

• CoR 556: Richard Corbett, Replye to the Answere (‘Yff nought but love-charmes power have’)

Copy, subscribed ‘finis DD. Corbett’.

Edited from this MSin Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published in Gilchrist (1807), p. 234. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 91-2.

• RnT 76: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eglogueby M^r Tho: Randall’.

This MS collated (as ‘Ash’) in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

• JnB 411: Ben Jonson, On the Right Honourable, and vertuous Lord Weston, L. high Treasurer of England, Vpon the Day, Hee was made Earle of Portland, To the Envious (‘Looke up, thou seed of envie, and still bring’)

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250.

• StW 1079: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Carew tohis friend’.

Edited from this MS in Anthony Wood, AthenaeOxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), II,659, and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt([London], 1870), p. 164.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

• CwT 627: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

This MS recorded inHazlitt, p. 62.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

• FeO 1: Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. (‘Come leave this saucy way’)

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.

• JnB 525: Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie (‘This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre’)

Copy of lines 1-18.

This MScollated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.

• AlW 168: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy of the Englishtranslation by Holland, headed ‘In duos Reginaldas fratres interde relligione certantes et in Contrarice’,here beginning ‘Betwixt two brothers...’,subscribed ‘per Gulielmus Alablaster’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

• BmF 56: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘On his deseased M^risan InuictiueEligie’.

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

• DrM 50: Michael Drayton, These verses weare made by Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Laureatt the night before hee dyed (‘Soe well I love thee, as without thee I’)

Edited fromthis MS in Elton and in Hebel.

First published in Oliver Elton, Michael Drayton (London, 1905), p. 210. Hebel, I, 507.

• JnB 368: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Printed from this MS in The New Inn, ed. G.B. Tennant (NewYork, 1908); collated in Herford & Simpson, and in Tom Davis, ‘BenJohnson's Ode to Himself: An Early Version’, PQ, 51.i(1972), 410-21.

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.

• JnB 502: Ben Jonson, To my Detractor (‘My verses were commended, thou dar'st say’)

This MScollated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.

• HrJ 290: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Wemenor noble vertuos excellent’.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

• JnB 36: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, headed ‘On Begging A kiss of hisM^ris’.

ThisMS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

• HrJ 167: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

• HeR 308: Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman (‘Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses’)

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt;edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

• HeR 45: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick (‘Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise ofthe Country Life’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated inMartin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

• HeR 200: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hericke his charge tohis wife’ and here beginning ‘Goe: andwith...’.

Edited fromthis MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

• HeR 357: Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye (‘Ere I goe hence and bee noe more’)

Copy, headed‘M^r Hericke his daughter'sDowrye’.

Edited fromthis MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated inPatrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

• CwT 598: Thomas Carew, Psalme the first (‘Happie the man that dothe not walke’)

Edited from this MS inFry and in Dunlap.

First published in John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Dunlap. p. 135.

• CwT 599: Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 (‘Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.

• CwT 601: Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 (‘Good god vnlock thy Magazines’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.

• CwT 619: Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 (‘Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.

• CwT 621: Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 (‘When the seed of Jacob fledd’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.

• CwT 624: Thomas Carew, Psalme 137 (‘Sitting by the streames that Glide’)

Edited from this MS inDunlap.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).

• CwT 603: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.

• CwT 609: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

• HeR 336: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Apparell’and here ascribed to ‘S^r. Simon steward’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated inFarmer.

First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

• HeR 177: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Kinge Obrons Feast’and without the preliminary lines.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated inMartin.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

• HeR 190: Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace (‘Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red’)

Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.

Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70;collated in Martin.

First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning ‘After the Feast (my Shapcot) see’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

• JnB 471: Ben Jonson, A speach presented vnto king James at a tylting in the behalfe of the two noble Brothers s^r Robert & s^r Henrye Rich, now Earles of warwick and Hollande (‘Two noble knightes, whom true desire and zeale’)

Printed from this MS in Herford& Simpson.

First published (?) in Herford & Simpson, VIII (1947), 382-3.

• HeR 360: Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie (‘I have behelde two louers in a night’)

Edited from this MS inHazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

• HeR 128.5: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)

Copy of a version inwhich some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus achorus, headed ‘11^th Song’ and beginning ‘Comehether my Lads a while’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

• StW 1262: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

• JnB 257: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of a short version beginning ‘Our Royall king &Queene, God Bless’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

• WoH 64: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed‘the 13 songe’.

This MS recorded in Leishman.

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.

• CmT 28: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’

Copy of the first strophe.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

• ShJ 42: James Shirley, The Kisse (‘I could endure your Eie, although it shott’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe the19^th’.

ThisMS recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499. Armstrong, p. 34.

• DnJ 3751: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Song the21’ and beginning ‘As dying saints who sweetlypass away’, subscribed ‘S Butterris’.

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

• DrM 4: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘The 24^th’ and herebeginning ‘Dear frinds either for loue orhier’.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

• DrM 5: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Second, copy, headed ‘Songe the 27’ and alsobeginning ‘Dear frinds eyther for loue or hyer’,deleted.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

• BmF 150.91: Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack (‘Listen all I you pray’)

Anonymous.

Unpublished?

• MiT 24: Thomas Middleton, The Widow, III, i, 22-37. Song (‘I keep my horse, I keep my whor*’)

Copy of Latrocinio's song, headed ‘Thee Highe Lawyers Song inthe playe called the Widdowe’.

First published in London, 1652. Bullen, V, 117-235 (pp. 168-9). Edited by Robert T. Levine (Salzburg, 1975). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1078-1123 (pp. 1098-9).

• CmT 77: Thomas Campion, ‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’

Copy,here beginning ‘Silly boy 'tis new moonyet’.

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

• WoH 49: Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)

Copy,headed ‘A shorte Hymne by S Hen: Wotton In a nyght of his presentsicknes’.

This MScollated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

• MrJ 19: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, here ascribed to‘Mr [John] Heappe’.

• CwT 722: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘On In prayse of hisM^ris’.

thisMS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.

• KiH 510: Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)

Copy, deleted.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.

• KiH 511: Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)

Second copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.

• HeR 291: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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.

• CaE 1: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of both six-lineepitaph and 44-line elegy (here with two extra lines) as separate butsequential poems.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

• CoR 648: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.

• StW 1008: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey, p.334.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

• PeW 211: 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 versionheaded ‘A Mayds Denyall’ and beginning‘Nay pish, nay pue nay fayth, and will youfye’.

• CwT 791: Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris (‘If when the Sun at noone displayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7.

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

• RaW 454: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, subscribed ‘finis D:Donn’.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

• JnB 582: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy ofClerimont's song, headed ‘On a spruce Ladye’,subscribed ‘finis Ben John’.

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

• HeR 208: Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee (‘Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee’)

Copy,untitled and here beginning ‘Flye to my M^ris yealowefooted bee’

This MScollated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

• StW 1355: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

• CwT 44: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^ris Features’and here beginning ‘Fayrest, thy tresses are not hayres ofgould’.

This MSrecorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.

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

• RaW 226: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

This MS recorded in Latham, p.144.

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.

• JnB 425: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)

Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not toknowe this woman, she is worse’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson and inBeal.

First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

• CwT 1246: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

This MS collated inDunlap.

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.

• CwT 951: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt,p. 51.

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

• DnJ 1896: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram on a whor*m^r’.

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.

• RnT 271: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated inDavis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

• KiH 281: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

This MS recorded inCrum.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

• WiG 15: George Wither, An Epitaph, on A Child, Sonne to Sir W.H. Knight (‘Here lyes, within a Cabinet of stone’)

This MS collated inSidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 922-3. Sidgwick, II, 184.

• WiG 16: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Gentlewoman, who had fore-told the Time of her death (‘Her, who beneath this stone, consuming lyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Gentle woman that had far told the tymeof her death’.

This MScollated in Sidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 922. Sidgwick, II, 183.

• JnB 122: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on agentlewoman whose name was Elizabeth’.

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

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

• DaJ 163: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘on the vntymely death of a Child’and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to their bedd dolay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

• CoR 534: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

• BrW 181: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

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.

• HoJ 1: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon ASmith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

• HoJ 185: John Hoskyns, Of One y^t kepte runinge Horses (‘Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).

• JnB 143: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel (‘Weepe with me all you that read’)

Copy, headed‘Vppon Sal: Pauye a boy of 13 years of age and on of the Companyeof the Reuells to Queene Elizabeth’.

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.

• HoJ 147: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon an old man noted for nothingbutt his Age’ and here beginning ‘Here lieth onewas Borne and Cried’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

• DaJ 128: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed‘Vpon a bellows maker’ and here beginning‘Here lies Bounce A maker ofbellowes’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

• ShJ 118: James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban (‘This image of our frailty, painted Glass’)

Copy oflines 1-10, headed ‘Verses wrighten vnder A windowe In the AbbyChurch of S^t Alban whearin the Execution of that protomartire waspaynted; the Heads mans eyes falling out att the Martirdome’,here beginning ‘The Image of our frailtie, payntedglass’, and ascribed to ‘I.S.’.

Printed from this MS in Howarth; collated inArmstrong.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.

• ShJ 39: James Shirley, In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere S^ct Albions (‘Stay thy foot that passeth by’)

Edited from this MS in Howarth andin Armstrong.

First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.

• HoJ 154: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon on Sands’.

• DaJ 222: Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons (‘Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde’)

Copy, headed‘vppon on that was balde’ and here beginning‘Here lies John Baker Inrolled Inmould’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.

• WiG 21: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Right Vertuous Lady, the Lady Scott (‘Let none suppose this Relique of the Iust’)

Copy,headed ‘An Epitaph on the LadieScott’.

This MScollated in Sidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 914. Sidgwick, II, 177.

• WiG 17: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue (‘Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A mother and herChild buried In on graue’.

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 915. Sidgwick, II, 177.

• WiG 20: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Porter of a Prison (‘Here lye the bones of him, that was of late’)

Copy, headed ‘On the porter of aprison’.

This MScollated in Sidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 919-20. Sidgwick, II, 181-2.

• HeR 58: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Second copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe madeby A Gentelwoman att her Death, her louer prouingInconstant’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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).

• RaW 384: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Robert Dudley Earle of warwickeand Leicester’, and here beginning ‘Here lies thesouldier that neuer drewe his sword’.

This MS recorded in Latham.

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

• HoJ 251: John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth (‘Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor toQueen Elizabeth’, subscribed ‘Serg^tHoskins’.

Edited from this MS inOsborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).

• RnT 202: Thomas Randolph, On Mr parson(s) Organist of Westminster Abbye (‘Death passing by, and hearing parsons play’)

Edited from this MS inThorn-Drury.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 415. Thorn-Drury, pp. 147-8.

See also Introduction.

• RnT 490: Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Tho: Randall’.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

• MoG 1: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on king James’and here beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake andweep’.

• JnB 103: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A Virginew^ch liued and died att Courte’.

This MS collated in Herford &Simpson.

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

• ChG 2: George Chapman, Epitaph (‘Whom all the vast frame of the fixed Earth’)

Copy headed ‘On Prince Henrye’.

This MS recorded in Bartlett, p.477.

First published on the folded engraving in An Epicede or Funerall Song: On the most disastrous Death, of the High-borne Prince of Men, Henry Prince of Wales (London, 1612). Bartlett, p. 268.

• CoR 191: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

• RnT 113: Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph (‘With Diligence And Trvst Most Exemplary’)

Copy, headed ‘In the wall of the Cloister of westminster Abbyethis for w^m Lawrence’.

First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 197. Thorn-Drury, p. 147.

• CoA 82: Abraham Cowley, Epitaph [to The Tragicall Histoire of Pyramus and Thisbe] (‘Underneath this Marble Stone’)

Copy of stanzas 1 and 2, untitled.

First published in Poetical Blossomes (London, 1633). Waller, II, 39.

• RnT 498: Thomas Randolph, On Sir Hen: Leigh nere Salisburie and his Concubine pictured kneeling beside his tomb (‘Here old Sir Henry Lee doth lie’)

Copy of a variant version.

Unpublished?

• DaJ 164: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another of the same’ [on a child]and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe doelay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

• DnJ 1596: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe wrighten by Doctor Donne on the deathof Marqesse Hambleton’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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