The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (2024)

• DaJ 56: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Mistresse, from aCaptaine’ and here beginning ‘Faire Sweete, Icannot coorte thy sprightly eyes’.

This MS partly collated inKrueger.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

• DaJ 66: Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier (‘Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue’)

Copy, headed ‘A Liftennant to his Mistresse’ andhere beginning ‘In faith I loue thee, but I cannotsue’.

This MScollated in Krueger.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.

• PeW 196: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistres beeing toyonge’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

• HrJ 89: Sir John Harington, In Romam (‘Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epigram ofRome’.

First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

• CmT 81: Thomas Campion, ‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’

Copy, headed ‘An aduice to a yongelouer’.

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

• FoJ 10: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song (‘They that will learn to drink a health in hell’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epigram of Tobackoe’ and herebeginning ‘Hee that will learne to drink a helth inhell’.

Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

• RaW 539: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but notseen) in Gullans.

• JnB 29: 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, headed ‘On thy Lady Percy’and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the bright-Lillygrowe’.

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).

• BmF 128: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eppigram of an vgly creature, that desired tohaue a Sonnett wright of her’ and ascribed to ‘FrancisBeaumont’.

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

• HrJ 207: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On A PurytanMaide’ and here beginning ‘A vertuous maide (withone of her society)’.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

• CmT 190.5: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Counsell, not for men to beeconstant, a Songe’.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

• HrJ 157: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘A Knight to his Lady beeing in amuse’.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

• BrW 26: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name’

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs disdaine’ andhere ascribed to ‘John Donne’.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 24.

• BrW 56: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three’

Copy.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 131.

• CwT 433: Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)

Copy, headed ‘Aperswasion to a Maide’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

• DnJ 2940: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, headed ‘On faireCreatures’.

This MSrecorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

• DrM 31: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘A louers inquest after his heart’and here beginning ‘Some good folke for loue, orhire’.

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

• HeR 327.2: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’

Copy, headed‘To his loue’.

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

• HeR 301: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)

Copy, headed ‘To his loue’.

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.

• SuJ 109: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy, headed ‘The answer toit’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

• : Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)

Copy, headed ‘A wishto his discontented freinde’.

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

• DnJ 1380: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardnerand in Shawcross.

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

• DnJ 1549: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘(Beeing forced to trauell) hee gaue his loue hisPicture, and these lines’.

This MS recorded inShawcross.

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

• DnJ 209: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘His Aparition (after death) to his scornefullloue’.

This MS recordedin Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

• StW 1302: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘ASonnett’.

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

• DnJ 323: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^res onfishing’.

This MSrecorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

• WoH 123: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Queene of Bohemya’, herebeginning ‘Ye twinckling Starrrs, that in thenight’ and ascribed to ‘S^r JohnHarrington’.

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.

• RaW 282: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On life’ and here ascribed to‘John Donne’.

This MS recordedin Latham, pp. 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.

• PeW 118: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed‘To his coye loue’ and here beginning‘Twas loue bred loue in mee, and coldedisdaine’.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

• PeW 50: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed‘His rivalls answer’.

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

• : Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song (‘Turn, turn thy beauteous face away’)

Copy, headed ‘To hisloue’.

This MS collatedin Williams, p. 108.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

• CwT 1005: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs,nice in the busines’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

• CwT 103: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Hee tolde his M^rs what hee loued herfor’.

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

• CwT 1060: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy,headed ‘His answer to his M^rslines’.

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

• CwT 1005.5: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 37-48, headed ‘To his M^rsin a more careless fation’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

• CwT 927: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver (‘Now she burnes as well as I’)

Copy, headed ‘Shee yeeldes, and hee seemesconscious’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

• CwT 946: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)

Copy,headed ‘Hee beeing resolute his M^rs grewe kinde againe;and then gaue her these lines’.

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

• KiH 368: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy, headed ‘Her farewell toloue’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

See also B&F 121-2.

• StW 895: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

• DnJ 2320: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Shee continuing in her disdainefull behauior, heedesiers to bee released’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

• DnJ 466: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘At last they enioye one the other, but hisbusiness enforseth him to make an early hast, Her lines vponit’.

This MS recordedin Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

• DnJ 2980: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, headed ‘At the next enioymentshee quits his rizing with an erlyer. Hislines’.

This MScollated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

See also DnJ 428.

• PoW 69: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘In Comendation ofblack-eyes’ and subscribed ‘WalltonPoole’.

This MS collated in Wolf(as MS D).

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.

• StW 1098: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘In commendations ofblack-eyes’.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

• CoR 709: 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.

• StW 493: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

• CwT 1267.8: 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.

• ToA 36: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Louesimmutability’.

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

• BrW 21.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 463-92 (‘Love! when I met her first whose slave I am’)

Copy, headed ‘To the God ofloue’.

• MoG 76: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed‘Of a Nightingall’, subscribed ‘GeorgeMarckham’.

• MoG 99: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon three that dranke in the crouneof a Hatt, for want of a Cupp’, subscribed ‘GeorgeMorly’.

• BrW 71.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On a faire Lady, that songe admirably (‘Hee that to the voyce is neere’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Willyam Browne’.

Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.

• StW 388: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On thesame’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

• StW 850: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy,headed ‘On the same’.

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.

• CwT 566: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘An others fancy of thesame’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentlewhistling wind’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

• WoH 172: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, headed ‘To his freind onsolitarines’.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

• PeW 81: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, headed‘On friendeship’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

• StW 353: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Can anyshewe…’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

• StW 1369: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy,headed ‘To a Mistres. a Songe’.

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

• CwT 694: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To hisMistres’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not sweeteloue y^t Ile reveal’.

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.

• BrW 233.8: William Browne of Tavistock, One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres (‘Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r WillyamBrowne’.

Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.

• BrW 237: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’

Copy, headed ‘The answer to the ialous man’, hereascribed to ‘Willyam Stroude’.

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

• StW 372: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy, headed ‘The ialous mansreplye’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

• JnB 186: 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 ‘A Picture’.

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

Copy,headed ‘An Epitaph on a Flye, drounde in Caeliaseye’.

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

• CwT 1143: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy,headed ‘On Caeleas like-beauty’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

• DnJ 3762: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer intending totravell’.

This MSrecorded in Shawcross.

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

• StW 765: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘It snow'd as Cloriswalked’.

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).

• StW 173: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy.

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).

• StW 916: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On the samesubiect’.

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

• StW 1241: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Westwell greate-Elme, standing at good-manBerryesgate, at the Farme; within two miles of Burforde in Oxforde-shire;beeing the drinking-Tree at Whitsontide’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

• CwT 355.5: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)

Copy, headed ‘The description of hisloue’, here ascribed to ‘Henry Hammon’.

First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

• GrJ 42: John Grange, ‘Come you swarms of thoughts and bring’

Copy, headed ‘A discontented louer’,subscribed ‘John Done’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as ‘An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, subscribed ‘I. G.’ Listed in Krueger.

• FeO 63: Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling (‘When, dearest, I but think on thee’)

Copy, headed ‘To his loue’, herebeginning ‘When (deare) I doe but thinke onthie’, subscribed ‘John Done’.

Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

• HeR 188: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, headed‘The Pharyes Supper’ and without the preliminarylines.

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

Copy, headed ‘The Pharyesclothing’ and here ascribed to ‘S^r SimionSteward’.

This MS 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 98: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘A curse to a falceloue’.

This MS collatedin Patrick.

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).

• HeR 21: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a scornefull Ladyes dres of haire (withJewells) written by waye of aduice to a puny louer’ and herebeginning ‘Seest thou thoseRubyes...’.

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

• StW 280: 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.

• BrW 24: William Browne of Tavistock, Caelia. Sonnets, Sonnet 14 (‘Divinest Caelia, send no more to ask’)

Copy,headed ‘One that was sick, to a lady that sent to see howe heedid’.

Unpublished?

• RnT 523: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, subscribed‘S^r Thomas Jaye’.

• BrW 253: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Ye merry birds, leave of to sing’

Copy, headed‘His sorrowe in beeing forsaken’.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.