Add MS 36529

ff. 1r–82r: Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (d. 1547), Sir Thomas Wyatt (d. 1542), and others, collected by Sir John Harington of Stepney (c. 1517–1582) and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (d. 1612). On f. 29v are the names ‘Francis Haryngton’ and ‘Ellina Harrington’ (whose name is also repeated on f. 82r.) These are probably the signatures of Sir John’s two daughters, who died in 1636 and 1628 respectively. See F. J. Poynton, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, New Series, Vol. 4 (1884), pp. 191–93.

f. i: Two notes about owners of the manuscript (Reverend William Sayle, 1791, and Thomas Park, who purchased it from him in 1800).

f. 1r: Printed, pasted-on note about the manuscript.

f. 2r: Notes in different hands, including some Bible verses in Hebrew.

f. 3r: 'Liber Jacobi Tyrrell. 1663', with three biblical extracts in Hebrew; in the top right-hand corner is 'Park 1800.'

f. 4r: Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore's memoranda.

f. 4v: An alphabetical table of the poems.

ff. 5r–8v: ‘Helen to Paris’, translation of Ovid, Heroides, Ep. xvii., by Sir Thomas Chaloner (d. 1565). Begins, ‘Now that myn eyes thy pistle red alredy haue suffred stayn.’ Printed from this manuscript in Thomas Park, Nugae Antiquae (1804), ii. p. 372.

f. 9r–v: Later note about the manuscript.

ff. 10r–29v, 36r–43r: Translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Books I–III, by Thomas Phaer (d. 1560). Begins, ‘I that some time my slender flute, in verse was wonte to sounde.’ In the first edition of The seuen first bookes of the Eneidos of Virgill…(1558), Phaer states that these three books were finished 10 October 1555. The present text varies slightly from the printed editions, and perhaps represents an earlier draft.

ff. 30r–32v: Seven pieces by Sir Thomas Wyatt.ff. 30r–31r: ‘Myne owne J[ohn] P[oynz] sins you delite to knowe.’ f. 32r: Three poems, with the title ‘Pace non trouo’ (the opening words of Petrarch’s Rime 134.) ‘I finde no peace and all my war is done’; ‘Venemous thorns that be both sharpe and keene’, and ‘I am not dead although I had a fall.’ f. 32v: ‘Luckes my faire falcon and your followes all’; ‘A face that shuld content me wonders well’, and ‘The wandring gadling in the somer tyde.’

ff. 33r, 35v: Four pieces, printed in Nugae Antiquae (ed. 1779), iii. pp. 249–253, as Nos 8, 9, 6, 7 of ‘Sonnets by John Harington, Esq., and some others, 1547.’f. 33r: ‘Playn ye my neyes’, a translation of Petrarch, Sonnet 63. f. 33r: ‘I see my plaint.’

f. 33v: Mathematics homework; a latter addition to the manuscript.

f. 34v: Drawing of a triangle; a later addition to the manuscript.

f. 35v: ‘Vengaunce must fall on thee’ (Petrarch, Sonnet 105); ‘Spring of all woe’ (Sonnet 107).

ff. 36r–43r: Phaer’s translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book III.

f. 44r: ‘None can deame right who faythfull frends do rest’, Book 19, stanza 1 of Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso, first printed in 1591. ff. 44r–v: Two anonymous pieces, apparently unique to this manuscript. f. 44r: ‘You on whose necks the waight of rewll doth rest’, addressed to the English Judges or Privy Councillors.f. 44v: ‘Whear giltles men ar greuously opreste.’

ff. 45r–48r: Translations from Petrarch: f. 45r: ‘You that in rime’ (Sonnet 1); ‘Yf loue be not’ (Sonnet 102).f. 45v: ‘Some kind of creaturs’ (Sonnet 17); ‘Cesare what time the wise’ (Sonnet 81).f. 46r: ‘If stable mynd and hart’ (Sonnet 188); ‘Blest be the day’ (Sonnet 47). f. 46v: ‘From babells bowre’ (Sonnet 91); a deleted poem, and another which begins ‘Now hope, now feare, now ioye, now wofull cace.’ It may have been authored by Sir John or his father. The hand may belong to Sir John, in which case it is the only instance of his hand in the manuscript (compare Add MS 18920.)

f. 47r: ‘Haniball woon and after cold not sew’ (Sonnet 82); ‘The precius piller perisht is’ (Sonnet 229).f. 47v: ‘Now I bewayle’, a version of Sonnet 313.f. 48r: ‘The belye cheere’ (Sonnet 7); ‘I do bewepe’, another version of Sonnet 313.

f. 49v: Note in red ink by Percy, explaining that an asterisk has been added to the poems which were printed in the 1557 edition of Wyatt and Surrey’s songs and sonnets.ff. 50r–65v: ‘Severall Poems by the right Hon Henry, Earle of Surrey’ ff. 50r–v: ‘The sonne hath twyse.’ff. 51r–v: ‘So crewell prison.’ff. 52r–v: ‘London, hast thow accused me’ (ib. p. 53. First printed, from this MS by Park in Nugae Antiquae (1804), ii. p. 336). f. 53r: ‘Suche waywarde wais.’f. 53v: ‘As ofte as I behold.’f. 54r: ‘When youthe had ledd me.’f. 54v: ‘Marshall the thinges.’f. 55r: ‘From Tuscane came’; ‘When Windesor walles.’f. 55v: ‘I neuer saw youe’; ‘Love that doth raine.’ f. 56r: ‘In Cipres springes’; ‘The greate Macedon.’f. 56v: ‘In the rude age’; ‘Thassyryans king’; ‘Yf he that erst.’f. 57r: ‘Set me wheras the sonne’; ‘Dyvers thy death.’ At the end, in a later hand, ‘Here ends my L[or]d of Surreys Poems.’

f. 58v–62v: Surrey’s paraphrase of Ecclesiastes, chapters I–V. Begins, ‘I salamon dauids sonne.’ First printed by Park, from this manuscript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), ii. pp. 339–360.

ff. 63r–65v: Surrey’s paraphrases of Psalms 98, 73 and 55. Proem begins, ‘Wher reckeles youthe.’ Printed by Park, Nugae Antiquae (1804), ii. pp. 360–371.

ff. 66v, 67v–68r: Three poems, almost certainly authored by Sir John. f. 66v: ‘Who so can way, of eache atempt the end’; a couplet beginning ‘How soeuer the world shall wind.’ff. 67v–68r: ‘At lest withdraw your creweltie’ in 5 stanzas of 9 lines; not the same as Wyatt's poem, though in the same metre.

f. 69r: ‘Advice to his Wife’ [by John Harington, father of Sir John]. Begins, ‘If dutie wyf leade the to deeme.’

ff. 69v–78r: ‘Nascentis Ecclesiae generatio prima: hoc est, Catalogus Pontificum Romanorum Ceesarum patrum et rerum aliquot insignium post Christi servatoris ascensionem ad annum domini septuagesimum’ by Edmund Campion (d. 1581). An epic in Latin hexameters on the early Church, beginning ‘Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi.’ It is preceded by a prose dedication (f. 70r) addressed from Oxford to Anthony Browne, Viscount Montagu [1554–1592].

f. 79v: ‘Out of Thomas Aquinas’; an extract in English.

ff. 80r–81v: Four poems by Sir John Cheke (d. 1557).f. 80r: ‘What natures woorke is this in one wightes corps to hyde.’f. 80v: ‘I prai to god, who weldeth ai’; ‘The fainted shade of lif.’f. 81r: ‘vncertaine death free grindall.’f. 81v: Another poem, probably written by Cheke, ‘So luckie be your twistid holde of copled youthe.’

f. 82r: Deathbed speech of ‘Mr Diringe’ [Edward Dering the puritan, d. 1576].