Add MS 18647

Collection of 121 poems and epigrams, with the Paradoxes and Problems of John Donne (1572–1631), poet and Church of England clergyman. Known as the ‘Denbigh MS’. Copied from Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.3.12 (the ‘Puckering MS’). Including a copy of ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’ (f. 109v), elsewhere attributed to William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke (1580–1630), courtier and patron of the arts.

f. 1r-1v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Marry and love thy Flavia, for shee’.

f. 2r-2v: John Donne, ‘Letter to Rowland Woodward’, beginning ‘Like one who in her Third widdowhood doth professe’.

ff. 2v-3r: John Donne, ‘John Donne to Mr Henry Wotton’, beginning ‘Heere is noe more newes then vertue. I may as well’.

ff. 3v-4r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘As the sweete sweate of Roses in a still’.

ff. 4v-5v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Once an but once found in thy Company’.

f. 5v-6r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Although thy hand, and faith, and good works too’.

f. 6r-6v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’.

ff. 6v-7v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘No Springe nor Som[m]er beauty hath such grace’.

ff. 7v-8r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Image of her whom I love more then shee’.

f. 8r-8v: John Donne, ‘Breake of Daye’, beginning ‘Tis true tis daye what though it bee’.

ff. 8v-9r: John Donne, ‘Sunn Risinge’, beginning ‘Busie old foole unruly sunn’.

f. 9r-9v: John Donne, ‘Lecture upon the shaddowe’, beginning ‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’.

ff. 9v-10r: John Donne, ‘Valediction forbiddinge mourninge’, beginning ‘As vertuous men pass mildeley awaye’.

f. 10r-10v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Oh let me serve soe as those men serve’.

ff. 10v-11r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘When I dyed last (and deare I die’.

f. 11r-11v: John Donne, ‘The Triple Foole’, beginning ‘I am two Fooles I knowe’.

ff. 11v-12v: John Donne, ‘An Elegie uppon the death of the Ladie Marckham’, beginning ‘Man is the world and death the Ocean’.

ff. 12v-13v: John Donne, ‘An Elegie upon the death of Mistris Bulstrod’, beginning ‘Death I recant, and saye unsaid by mee’.

ff. 13v-14r: John Donne, ‘The good Morrowe’, beginning ‘I wonder by my truth, what thou and I’.

f. 14r-14v: John Donne, untitled poem beginning ‘He is starck mad whosoever sayes’.

ff. 14v-15r: John Donne, ‘Twittnam Garden’, beginning ‘Blased with sighes, and surrounded with teares’.

ff. 15r-16r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Till I have peace with thee warr other men’.

ff. 16r-17r: John Donne, ‘Elegie upon the death of Mistress Boulstred’, beginning ‘Language thou art to narrow, and to weake’.

f. 17r-17v: John Donne, ‘The Curse’, beginning ‘Who ever gesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’.

f. 17v: John Donne, ‘Mummy’, beginning ‘Some that have deeper digg’d Loves Mine then I’.

f. 18r-18v: John Donne, ‘The Canonization’, beginning ‘For Gods sake hould your tounge [sic], and let me love’.

ff. 18v-19r: John Donne, ‘Loves Dyett’, beginning ‘To what a Combersome unwildeness’.

ff. 19v-20r: John Donne, ‘Loves Legacies’, beginning ‘Before I sigh my last gaspe let me breath’.

f. 20r-20v: John Donne, untitled poem beginning ‘No Lover saith I love, nor any other’.

f. 20v: John Donne, ‘A Paradox’, beginning ‘Who so termes love a fire, maye like a Poett’.

f. 21r-21v: John Donne, ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Goe and Catch a fallinge starr’.

f. 22r: John Donne, ‘Woemans Constancie’, beginning ‘Now thou hast lov’d me once whole daye’.

f. 22v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Marke but this Flea and marke in this’.

ff. 23r-24r: John Donne, ‘Extasie’, beginning ‘Where like a pillow on a Bed’.

f. 24v: John Donne, ‘Loves Deitie’, beginning ‘I longe to talke with some old Lovers Ghost’.

f. 25r: John Donne, ‘The Funerall’, beginning ‘Who ever comes to shrowd me doe not harme’.

ff. 25v-27r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Who ever loves if he doe not purpose’.

f. 27r-27v: John Donne, ‘The Blossome’, beginning ‘Little think’st thou poore Flower’.

f. 28r-28v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Come Madam, Come, All rest my powers defie’.

f. 29r: John Donne, ‘An Apparition’, beginning ‘When by thy scorne, O murdress I am dead’.

ff. 29v-30v: John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wotton’, beginning ‘Sir more then kisses, letters mingle soules’.

f. 31r-31v: John Donne, ‘The Primrose’, beginning ‘Uppon this Primrose hill’.

ff. 31v-32r: John Donne, ‘To M:J:W:’, beginning ‘All haile sweete Poett; more full of more stronge fire’.

f. 32r-32v: John Donne, ‘To M.T.W.’, beginning ‘Hast thee harsh verse as fast as thy lame measure’.

ff. 32v-33r: John Donne, ‘To MTW’, beginning ‘Pregnant againe with th’old twines, Hope and Feare’.

f. 33r: John Donne, ‘To MCB’, beginning ‘Thy friend whom thy deserte to thee enchaine’.

f. 33v: John Donne, ‘To MSB’, beginning ‘O thou which to search out the secrett parte’.

ff. 33v-34r: John Donne, ‘To M.B.B.’, beginning ‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’.

f. 34r-34v: John Donne, ‘To Mr RW’, beginning ‘If as mine is thy life a slumber bee’.

f. 34v-35r: John Donne, ‘To MJL’, beginning ‘Of that short Roll of friends writt in my hart’.

f. 35r-35v: John Donne, ‘To MJL’, beginning ‘Blest are your North partes for all this longe tyme’.

ff. 35v-36r: John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassadour to Venice’, beginning ‘After those reverend papers whose soule is’.

ff. 36v-37r: John Donne, ‘To Sir H:G: movinge him to travell’, beginning ‘Who makes the past a patterne for next yeare’.

ff. 37v-38r: John Donne, ‘To Sir E:H:’, beginning ‘Man is a lumpe where all Beastes kneaded bee’.

ff. 38v-39r: John Donne, ‘To MMH’, beginning ‘Madd paper stay, and grudge not heere to burne’.

ff. 39v-40v: John Donne, ‘Sapho to Philoenis’, beginning ‘Where is that holy fire, which verse is saide’.

ff. 40v-41r: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Fond woeman which would’st have thy husband dye’.

ff. 41r-42r: Joh Donne, elegy, beginning ‘By our first strange, and fatall interveiwe [sic]’.

f. 42r-42v: John Donne, elegy, beginning ‘Heere take my picture though I bid farewell’.

ff. 42v-43v: John Donne, ‘A Nocturnall uppon St Lucies daye beinge the shortest night’, beginning ‘Tis the yeares Midnight and it is the dayes’.

f. 43v: John Donne, ‘The Computation’, beginning ‘For the first Twenty yeares since yesterdaye’.

ff. 43v-44r: John Donne, ‘The Dissolution’, beginning ‘Shees dead, and all which dye’.

f. 44v: John Donne, ‘Witchcrafte by A Picture’, beginning ‘I fix mine eye on thine, and there’.

ff. 44v-45r: John Donne, ‘A Jeate Ringe Sente’, beginning ‘Thou art not so black as my hart’.

ff. 45r-46r: John Donne, ‘Loves Exchange’, beginning ‘Love any divell else but you’.

f. 46r-46v: John Donne, ‘Fever’, beginning ‘O doe not die for I shall hate’.

ff. 46v-47r: John Donne, ‘The Indifferent’, beginning ‘I can love both faire and browne’.

ff. 47v-48v: John Donne, ‘Valediction of my name in the windowe’, beginning ‘My name engrav’d herein’.

ff. 48v-49r: John Donne, ‘Ayre and Angells’, beginning ‘Twice or thrise had I loved thee’.

f. 49v: John Donne, ‘Loves Growth’, beginning ‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’.

f. 50r-50v: John Donne, ‘The Dreame’, beginning ‘Deare love for nothinge less then thee’.

f. 50v: John Donne, ‘The Prohibition’, beginning ‘Take heede of lovinge mee’.

ff. 50v-51r: John Donne, ‘The Anniversarie’, beginning ‘All Kings, and all their Favourittes’.

f. 51v: John Donne, ‘The Dampe’, beginning ‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’.

f. 52r-52v: John Donne, ‘The Relique’, beginning ‘When my grave is broke up againe’.

f. 52v: John Donne, ‘Negative Love’, beginning ‘I never stoop’d soe low as they’.

f. 53r: John Donne, ‘Valediction of weepinge’, beginning ‘Lett me power forth’.

ff. 53v-54v: John Donne, ‘A valediction of this Booke’, beginning ‘Ile tell the now deare love what thou shalt doe’.

f. 55r: John Donne, ‘The Expiration’, beginning ‘Soe, soe, breake off this lust lamentinge kisse’.

f. 55r-55v: John Donne, ‘Platonique love’, beginning ‘I have done one braver thinge’.

f. 56r: John Donne, untitled poem beginning ‘Some man unworthy to be professor [possessor]’.

ff. 56v-57r: John Donne, ‘Songes which were made to certaine Ayres which were made before’. Two songs, beginning ‘Send home my longe stray’d eyes to mee’, and ‘Sweetest Love I doe not goe for weariness of thee’.

f. 57v: John Donne, song beginning ‘Come live with mee, and be my love’.

f. 58r: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Hero and Leander’, beginning ‘Both robb’d of aire, wee both lie on the grownd’.

f. 58r: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Piramis and Thisby’, beginning ‘Two by themselves, each other, Love and feare’.

f. 58r: John Donne, epigram titled ‘A burunt [burnt] Shippe’, beginning ‘Out of a fired Shipp which by noe waye’.

f. 58r: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Fall of a walle’, beginning ‘Under an underminde, and shott bruized wall’.

f. 58v: John Donne, epigram titled ‘A Lame Beggar’, beginning ‘I am unable yonder Beggar Cryes’.

f. 58v: John Donne, epigram titled ‘A Licentious person’, beginning ‘Thy skinns and hayre maye no man equall call’.

f. 58v: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Antiquarie’, beginning ‘If in his Study he have so much care’.

f. 58v: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Mercurius Gallo Belgicus’, beginning ‘Like Aesops fellow slaves, O Mercury’.

f. 58v: John Donne, epigram titled ‘Phrine’, beginning ‘Thy flatteringe picture, Phrine, is like thee’.

f. 59r: John Donne, epigram titled ‘An obscure writer’, beginning ‘Philo with twelve yeare study hath beene greiv’d’.

f. 59r: John Donne, untitled epigram beginning ‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne nere to come’.

ff. 59r-60v: John Donne, ‘Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inn’, beginning ‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’.

ff. 61r-65v: John Donne, ‘Eclogue Inducinge an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E[arl] of S[omerset, Robert Carr]’. Beginning ‘Allophanes findinge Idios in the Country’.

f. 66r-66v: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That all things kill themselves’.

ff. 66v-67r: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That woemen ought to paint themselves’.

ff. 67r-68r: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That olde men are more fantastique then younge’.

ff. 68r-69r: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That Nature is our worst Guide’.

f. 69r-69v: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That only Cowards dare dye’.

ff. 69v-70v: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That the guiftes of the body are better then the guiftes of the minde or fortune’.

ff. 71r-72r: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That a wise man is knowne by much laughinge’.

f. 72r-72v: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That Good is more com[m]on than evill’.

ff. 72v-73v: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That by discord things increase’.

ff. 73v-74r: John Donne, Paradox, ‘That it is possible to fine some vertue in some woemen’.

f. 74v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why are Courtiers sooner Atheistes then men of meaner Condition?’

ff. 74v-75r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why doth Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] wright the history of these tymes?’

f. 75r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why doe greate men choose of all dependantes to preferr their Baudes?’

f. 75r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why doth not gould soyle the Fingers?’

f. 75v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why dye none for love now?’

ff. 75v-76r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why do yonge layemen so much study divinity?’

f. 76r-76v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why hath the Com[m]on opinion afforded woemen soules?’

ff. 76v-77r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why are the fairest falsest?’

ff. 77r-78r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why have Bastards best fortunes?’

f. 78r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why Puritans make longest Sermons’.

ff. 78r-79r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why doth the Poxe soe much affect to undermine the Nose’.

f. 79r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why doe woemen delight soe much in Feathers’.

f. 79r-79v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why are Statesmen most incredulous’.

f. 80r-80v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why Venus Starr only doth cast a Shaddowe’.

ff. 80v-81r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why is venus Starr Multi-nominous called both Hesperus, and vesper’.

f. 81r-81v: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why are newe Officers least oppressinge?’

f. 82r: John Donne, Problem, ‘Why is there more varietie of Greene then of other Collours’.

ff. 83r-88r: John Donne, ‘A Letanie’, beginning ‘Father of Heaven, and him by whom’.

f. 88r-88v: John Donne, ‘Good Friday, Made as I was ridinge westward that daye’. Beginning ‘Let mans soule be a sp[h]ere, and then in this’.

ff. 89r-90r: John Donne, ‘Of the Crosse’, beginning ‘Since Christ embrac’d the Cross it selfe, dare I’.

f. 90r-90v: John Donne, ‘Resurrection’, with annotation ‘imperfect’. Beginning ‘Sleepe, sleepe, old Sunn, thou canst not have repast’.

ff. 90v-91r: John Donne, ‘A Hymne to: Christ’, beginning ‘In what torne shipp soever I embarck’.

f. 91v: John Donne, ‘To Christ’, beginning ‘Wilt thou forgive that sinn where I begann’.

f. 92r-92v: John Donne, ‘Infinitati Sacrum 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis Poema Satyricon Epistle’, beginning ‘Others, at the Porches, and entries of their buildings’.

ff. 93r-102r: John Donne, ‘First Songe’, beginning ‘I singe the Progresse of a deathless Soule’.

f. 102v: John Donne, ‘La Corona’, beginning ‘Deigne at my hand this Crowne of prayre, and praise’.

ff. 102v-103r: John Donne, ‘Annunciation’, beginning ‘Salvation to all that will is nigh’.

f. 103v: John Donne, ‘Nativitie’, beginning ‘Immensitie Cloystered in thy deare wombe’.

f. 103r-103v: John Donne, ‘Temple’, beginning ‘With this kinde mother who partakes thy woe’.

f. 103v: John Donne, ‘Crucifienge’, beginning ‘By Miracles exceedinge power of Man’.

ff. 103v-104r: John Donne, ‘Resurrection’, beginning ‘Moyst with one dropp of thy bloud my dry soule’.

f. 104r: John Donne, ‘Ascention’, beginning ‘Salute the last and everlastinge daye’.

f. 104r-104v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘As due by many titles I resigne’.

f. 104v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Oh my black soule, thou now art summoned’.

ff. 104v-105r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘This is my playes last scene, Here heav’ns appoynt’.

f. 105r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘At the round Earthes imagin’d Corners blowe’.

f. 105r-105v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘If poysonous Mineralls, and if that Tree’.

f. 105v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Death be not proud, though some hath called thee’.

ff. 105v-106r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Spitt in my face, yee Jewes, and peirce my side’.

f. 106r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Why are wee all Creatures waited on?’

f. 106r-106v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘What if this present were the worlds last night’.

f. 106v: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Batter my hart three person’d God for you’.

ff. 106v-107r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Wilt thou love God, as hee thee, then digest’.

f. 107r: John Donne, untitled poem, beginning ‘Father, part of his double Interest’.

f. 108r: John Donne, ‘Epistle’, beginning ‘Sir, I presume you rather trye what you can doe in mee’.

ff. 108v-109r: John Donne, ‘A Hymne to the Saincts, and to Marquis Hambleton’. Beginning ‘Whether that soule which now comes unto you’.

f. 109v: Poem beginning ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’, elsewhere attributed to William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke (1580–1630), courtier and patron of the arts (see Krueger). Attributed to ‘W:P:’.