Stowe MS 962

Collection of poetry, including works by John Donne, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, Francis Phillips, Richard Corbett, Henry King, Thomas Campion, George Morley, William Strode, John Grange, Michael Drayton, John Hoskyns, Walton Poole, Henry Constable, Sir John Davies, Henry Wotton, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and others. Includes an index of first lines.

With the paradoxes, problems and characters of John Donne, with a separate index.

ff. 1r-18v: John Donne, 10 paradoxes and 19 problems, titled ‘Parradoxes per John Done’.

f. 19r: John Donne, ‘A descriptione of a Scott at first sight’.

ff. 19v-21r: John Donne, character of ‘A Dunce’.

ff. 21r-29v: John Earle, 13 characters. From ‘Microcosmography’.

ff. 30r-31r: Index to the paradoxes, problems and characters above.

f. 31v: Copy of Henry Cuffe’s execution speech, titled ‘Cuffe his speech at the time of his Executione’.

f. 31v: Poem titled ‘O heavens woeman’, beginning ‘Catch me a starr that falling from the skye’.

f. 32r-32v: Sermon titled ‘A prechers Sermon beinge Compeld by some drunkerds to preach on Malt’.

ff. 32v-33r: Poem titled ‘Uppon the Kinge of Sweden. No. 1632’, beginning ‘Can Christendomes greate Champione sinke away’.

ff. 33r-34r: Sir Henry Wotton, ‘A Farewell to the Vanities of the World’. Titled ‘A farewell to the world, per Sir Kell Digby. 1635’, beginning ‘Farewell the gilded follies pleasinge troubles’.

ff. 34v-35r: Poem titled ‘Uppon the most Religious death of the generouse and truly noble Jo: Pulteney Esq.’, beginning ‘How sway my trobled thoughts tweene greefe and glee’. Attributed to ‘Jo: Crowther’.

ff. 35v-36r: Thomas Carew, ‘Upon a Ribbon’, beginning ‘Thou silken wreath that circles in myne arme’.

f. 36r: Thomas Carew, ‘To his Mistress in absence: a Shipp’, beginning ‘Tost in a troubled Sea of greefe I floate’.

f. 36v: Thomas Carew, ‘Secresie protested’, beginning ‘Feare not deare Love that Ile reveale’.

f. 36v: Untitled poem beginning ‘In […] of pleasure let your dayes be blest’.

ff. 37r-39v: Letter titled ‘To the kings most excelent Majesty’, attributed to ‘Fran: Phillips’.

f. 40r-40v: Poem titled ‘Uppon the Lords prayer’.

ff. 40v-42v: Francis Beaumont, ‘Uppon the death of the Countesse of Rutland’, beginning ‘I may forget to eate, to drinke, to sleepe’. Attributed to ‘Fr. Beamond’.

ff. 42v-44v: Poem titled ‘An Elegie on the death of the most learned Dr Fenton lecturer of Grayes Inn London’, beginning ‘But am I suer hee’s deade? When yet I soe’. Attributed to ‘W: Lewes Oxon’.

ff. 44v-45v: Poem titled ‘Jealousie’, beginning ‘When you sit musinge (Lady) all alone’.

ff. 45v-47r: Richard Corbett, ‘An Elegie on the death of the Lady Haddington, who died on the smale-pocks’, beginning ‘Deare losse, to tell the world I greave, were true’.

ff. 47r-48r: Poem titled ‘The Earle of Southampton prisoner, and condemned. to Queen Elizabeth’, beginning ‘Not to live more at ease (Deare Prime) of thee’.

ff. 48r-49r: John Donne, ‘Upon the death of the Lady Markham’, beginning ‘Man is the world and death the ocean’.

ff. 49r-50r: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘A paradox on a paynted face’, beginning ‘Not kisse? by Jove I must and make impression’. Attributed to ‘J:D: finis’.

f. 50v: John Hoskyns, ‘Love in absence’, beginning ‘Absence heare my protestation’.

ff. 50v-51v: Poem titled ‘Upon the pin that choaked Mistress Cotton’, beginning ‘Guddy pin, huswife, harlotrie, thinge, it’.

f. 52r-52v: Poem titled ‘A fayre womans parte’, beginning ‘A proper peate that bares sweet bewties prise’.

ff. 52v-55v: Poem titled ‘Upon the degradinge of Chancellor Bacon per parliament, Anno 1621’. Beginning ‘When you awake (dull Brittans) and behold’. Attributed to ‘Will Lewes Oriell Oxon’.

ff. 55v-56v: John Donne, ‘The Storme’. Titled ‘A storme from the Iland voyage with the Earle of Essex to his freinde Ben Johnson’. Beginning ‘Thou which Art I (tis nothinge to be soe)’. Attributed to ‘J.D.’

ff. 56v-57r: Edward Latworth, ‘Dr Latworth on his death bedd’, beginning ‘My god, I speake it from a full assurance’.

f. 57r :Epitaph beginning ‘To god; to prince; wife; kindred; friend; the poore’. Elsewhere attributed to Thomas Heywood.

ff. 57r-59v: Poem titled ‘The Country life’, beginning ‘Thrice blest (my dearest freind) art thou’.

ff. 59v-61v: John Alford, ‘A younge gentleman to his father beinge offended at his marriage she beinge poore’. Beginning ‘In thy weake flesh what art thou man’.

f. 61v: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘A Paradox, that Beauty lyes not in womens faces, but in their Lovers Eyes’. Copy titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Why should thy eies requite soe ill’.

f. 62r: Thomas Carew, ‘The Comparison’. Copy titled ‘In prayse of ons Mistress’, beginning ‘Dearest thy tresses are not threds of gould’. Attributed to ‘Fr: Beamont’.

ff. 62v-63v: Poem titled ‘An Elegie on the death of the famous actor Rich: Burbage, who died 13 martij Anno 1618’. Beginning ‘Some skilfull Limmer healp me, if not soe’. Attributed to ‘Jo: Fletcher’.

ff. 63v-64r: Poem titled ‘In the prayse of true love’, beginning ‘I aske not love, but I aske reason why’.

f. 64r-64v: Poem titled ‘Good Counsell for a younge mayde’, beginning ‘Each greedy hand doth catch to plucke the flower’. Elsewhere attributed to Josuah Sylvester.

ff. 64v-65r: Poem titled ‘Woman’, beginning ‘Oh heavenly powers why did you bringe to light’.

f. 65r-65v: John Donne, ‘Song’. Copy titled ‘A songe’, beginning ‘Goe and catch a fallinge starr’. Attributed to ‘J:D:’

f. 65v: Poem titled ‘Answere’, beginning ‘Whats a whore? she is a dammed thinge’.

f. 65v: Untitled poem beginning ‘This angrie patch her husband scratcht’.

ff. 66r-69r: John Hoskyns, ‘The censure of the Parliament Fart’, beginning ‘Downe came grave Ancient Sir John Crooke’. Attributed to ‘Jo Hoskines’.

ff. 69v-70r: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture’s excellence’. Copy titled ‘Uppon a fayre Complexion a blacke hayre and a blacke eye’.

ff. 70r-71v: Poem titled ‘The morrall of Chesse-play’, beginning ‘Two angrie kings wearie of lingringe peace’.

f. 71v: Poem titled ‘Upon the death of sir Wat Rawlidge’, beginning ‘Greate hart who taught thee thus to die?’

ff. 72r-75v: Richard Corbett, ‘To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North’. Copy titled ‘Doctor Corbet to the honerable Lord Mordant’, beginning ‘My lord I doe confesse at the first newes’.

ff. 75v-77r: Poem titled ‘In prayse of the letter O’, beginning ‘Runn round my lines whiles I as roundly shew’. Elsewhere attributed to Edward Lapworth.

ff. 77r-78r: Poem titled ‘Uppon strivinge for a kisse’, beginning ‘My deare pigeon, my prettie mopp’.

f. 78r: Poem beginning ‘To my ingenious frende the Satyrico’.

f. 78r-78v: Poem beginning ‘I know which to admier thy wiser choyce’.

ff. 78v-79r: William Basse, ‘On Mr Shakespeare’. Copy titled ‘Epitaphicum Guliemi Shakspeare’, beginning ‘Renouned Spenscer, a thought nearer lie’.

ff. 79r-80r: Poem beginning ‘Voyce emptie ayre, soone perishst sound’.

ff. 80r-81r: John Donne, ‘The Will’. Copy titled ‘Testamentum. Or Loves Legacie’, beginning ‘Before I sighe my last gaspe let me breath’.

f. 81r: Poem titled ‘Fragment’, beginning ‘Beleeve not him whome love hath left soe wise’.

ff. 81r-82v: Francis Beaumont, ‘On the death of the Lady Markham’. Beginning ‘As unthrifts greine in straw for theire pawned beddes’. Ascribed to ‘F. Beamont’.

ff. 82v-83r: John Donne, ‘To his Mistris Going to Bed’. Copy titled ‘An Elegie on undressinge of ons mistresse’, beginning ‘Come madame, come, all rest my powers defie’.

f. 83r: Sir John Davies, ‘On the Deputy of Ireland his child’. Copy titled ‘A Childs Epitaph’, beginning ‘As carefull mothers do to sleepinge lay’.

f. 83r-83v: Poem titled ‘On a Courtier’, beginning ‘He that at Court will thrive, must oft become’.

f. 83v: Untitled poem, beginning ‘Love, where is thy dwellinge place?’

f. 83v: Untitled poem, beginning ‘What can I farther be? What farther seeme?’

ff. 84r-85v: Poem titled ‘Uppon sir Walter Rayleigh Treason with Lord Gray St:’ Beginning ‘Watt, well I wott thy overweaninge witt’. Elsewhere attributed to Thomas Rogers.

f. 85v: Sir Walter Raleigh, ‘The Excuse’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Callinge to minde mine eye went longe about’. Attributed to ‘Sir Walter Rawlyegh’.

f. 86r: Poem titled ‘Papist and Puritane’, beginning ‘If it should soe come to passe’.

f. 86r-86v: Untitled poem beginning ‘There is no garden in princes bowers’.

f. 86v: Ben Jonson, ‘Song’, from ‘The Poetaster’, Act 2, scene 2, line 163-. Untitled copy, beginning ‘If I freely may discover’.

ff. 86r-87r: Poem titled ‘Of women. Janus’, beginning ‘The feminine is Counted ill’.

f. 87r: Poem titled ‘Of women’, beginning ‘All women by nature are called Eves’.

f. 87r-87v: John Donne, ‘Loves diet’. Copy titled ‘Amoris Dieta. Per J. Dun’, beginning ‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’.

ff. 87v-88r: John Donne, ‘The Expiration’. Copy titled ‘Valedictio Amoris’, beginning ‘Soe soe leave of this last lamentinge kisse’.

ff. 88r-89r: Francis Beaumont, ‘Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae’. Beginning ‘Maddam soe may my verses pleasinge be’, attributed to ‘F: B:’

f. 89r-89v: John Donne, ‘His Picture’. Copy titled ‘Elegy’, beginning ‘Heare take my picture though I bid farewell’.

ff. 89v-90r: John Donne, ‘The Canonization’. Copy titled ‘Canonizatio’, beginning ‘Forgods sake hold your tounge and let me love’.

f. 90v: Ben Jonson, ‘Upon the death of Mistress Boulstred’. Beginning ‘Stay view this stone, and if thou beest not such’.

f. 90r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Here doeth repose but in lamented wast’. Elsewhere attributed to Nicholas Hare.

ff. 90v-91r: John Donne, ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’. Copy titled ‘Uppon the partinge from his Mistresse’.

f. 91v: Ben Jonson, ‘Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.’ Copy titled ‘An Epitaph’, beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say’. Attributed to ‘Ben: Johnson’.

ff. 91v-92r: John Donne, ‘Twicknam garden’. Copy titled ‘Twitnam garden’, beginning ‘Blasted with sightes and surrounded with teares’.

ff. 92r-93r: John Donne, ‘An Elegie uppon the Death of Mistress Boulstred’. Beginning ‘Language thou art to narrow and too weake’.

ff. 93r-94r: John Donne, ‘Elegie on Mistress Bouldred’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Death I recant and say unsayd by me’.

ff. 95r-97r: John Donne, ‘Satyre II’. Copy titled ‘Satyre 1: Agaynst Poets and Lawyers. J.D:’ beginning ‘Sir though (I thanke god forit) I doe hate’.

ff. 97r-99r: John Donne, ‘Satyre I’. Copy titled ‘Satyre 2: On the Humorist’, beginning ‘Away thou changlinge motlie humorist’.

ff. 99r-100v: John Donne, ‘Satyre III’. Copy titled ‘Satyre. 3. Uppon Religion’, beginning ‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene, brave scorne forbids’.

ff. 100v-104v: John Donne, ‘Satyre IV’. Copy titled ‘Satyre 4. Of the Courte’, beginning ‘Well I may now receive and die, my sinn’.

ff. 105r-106v: John Donne, ‘Satyre V’. Copy titled ‘Satyre 5. Of the miserie of the poore suitors at Court’, beginning ‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe (muse) nor they’.

ff. 106r-107r: Poem titled ‘Satyre 6’, beginning ‘Men write that love and reason disagree’.

ff. 107r-109r: Poem titled ‘Satyre 7. To Sir Nich: Smyth. 1602’, beginning ‘Sleepe (next scotietie and true friendshipp’.

ff. 109r-110r: John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wotton’. Copy titled ‘A Letter’, beginning ‘Sir more then kisses letters mingle soules’.

f. 110v: John Donne, ‘The Message’. Copy titled ‘A Songe’, beginning ‘Send home my longe stray’d eyes to me’.

ff. 110v-111r: John Donne, ‘The flea’, beginning ‘Marke but this flea and marke in this’.

f. 111r-111v: John Donne, ‘Loves Deitie’, beginning ‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’.

ff. 111v-112r: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’. Copy titled ‘The Earle of Pembroke’, beginning ‘If her disdayne least chaynge in you could move’.

f. 112r: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘‘Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold disdain’. Copy titled ‘Answere’.

ff. 112r: Poem titled ‘Uppon an Infant’, beginning ‘Here in this tombe inclosed lies’.

ff. 112v-113r: John Donne, ‘The Autumnall’. Copy titled ‘An Elegie Autumnall’, beginning ‘No springe nor somer beautie hath such grace’.

f. 113r-113v: Poem titled ‘An Elegie to Mistress Boulstreed. 1602’, beginning ‘Shall I goe force an Elegie and abuse’. Elsewhere attributed to Sir John Roe.

f. 114r: Henry Constable, ‘To our blessed Lady’. Copy titled ‘Sonnet. On the blessed Virgine Marie’, beginning ‘In that o Queene of Queenes thy birth was free’.

ff. 114r-118v: John Donne, ‘The Litanie’. Copy titled ‘A Letanie. per J:D:’, beginning ‘Father of heaven and him by whom’.

ff. 118v-119v: John Donne, ‘The Crosse’. Copy titled ‘Of the Crosse’, beginning ‘Since Christ imbrac’d the Crosse it selfe, dare I’.

f. 119v: William Strode, ‘A Sonnet’. Copy titled ‘Playinge for kisses’, beginning ‘My love and I for kisses playd’.

f. 120r: John Donne, ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’. Copy titled ‘Shadowe’, beginning ‘Stand still and I will reade to thee’.

f. 120r: Couplet titled ‘Umbra’, beginning ‘In midst of life then least am I’.

f. 120v: John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of weeping’. Copy titled ‘A Valediction of teares’, beginning ‘Let me power forth’.

f. 121r: John Donne, ‘The Dreame’. Copy titled ‘Dreame’, beginning ‘Deare love for nothinge lesse then thee’.

f. 121v: John Donne, ‘The triple Foole’. Copy titled ‘Songe’, with ‘Triple foole’ added later. Beginning ‘I am two fooles I know’.

ff. 121v-122r: John Donne, ‘The Sunne Rising’. Copy titled ‘Songe ad Solem’, beginning ‘Busie old foole, unruly sonn’.

f. 122r-122v: John Donne, ‘The Legacie’. Copy titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘When I dyed last, and Deare, I dye’.

ff. 122v-124r: John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of my name, in the window’. Copy titled ‘A Valediction of his name, in the Windowe’, beginning ‘My name ingraved herein’.

f. 124r-124v: John Donne, ‘The broken heart’. Copy titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘He is starke madd who ever sayes’.

ff. 124v-125r: John Donne, ‘The Curse’, beginning ‘Who ever guesses thinkes or dreames he knowes’.

f. 125r-125v: John Donne, ‘A Fever’, beginning ‘Oh doe not die for I shall hate’.

ff. 125v-126r: John Donne, ‘The Apparition’. Copy titled ‘An Apparitione’, beginning ‘When by thy scorne oh murdresse I am deade’.

f. 126r-126v: John Donne, ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Sweetest love I doe not goe’.

ff. 126v-127r: John Donne, ‘Loves Alchymie’. Copy titled ‘Mummie’, beginning ‘Some that have deeper dig’d love’s mines then I’.

f. 127r-127v: John Donne, ‘The Funerall’, beginning ‘Who ever comes to shrowde me doe not harme’.

ff. 127v-128v: John Donne, ‘The Anagram’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Marry and love thy Flavia for she’.

ff. 128v-129v: John Donne, ‘The Perfume’. Copy titled ‘Ellegie’, beginning ‘Once and but once found in thy company’.

f. 129v: Untitled couplet, beginning ‘As poore as Jobe he is let noe man doubt him’.

f. 130r: John Donne, ‘The Baite’. Copy titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘Come live with me and be my love’.

f. 130v: John Donne, ‘Breake of day’. Copy titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what thout it be?’

ff. 130v-131v: John Donne, ‘The Comparison’. Copy titled ‘Ellegie’, beginning ‘As the sweete sweate of roses in a still’.

f. 131v: Poem titled ‘Ad Lertorem’, beginning ‘Reader I warne thee nowe the second time’.

f. 131v: John Donne. ‘Niobe’, beginning ‘By Childrens birth and death I am become’.

f. 131v: John Donne, ‘Hero and Leander’, beginning ‘Both rob’d of ayre we both lie in one grounde’.

f. 131v: Untitled couplet beginning ‘Age is deformed youth unkinde’.

f. 131v: John Donne, ‘Phryne’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Thy flatteringe picture Phriscus is like thee’.

f. 132r: Poem titled ‘A guift’, beginning ‘That your love to me may never alter’, with a ‘Replye’ beginning ‘The jest is old the rope is newe’.

f. 132r: Untitled poem beginning ‘She that is fayre they say shee’le doe’.

f. 132r: Sir Walter Raleigh, ‘On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died’. Copy titled ‘Rawleigh one a Candle snuffe’, beginning ‘Cowards feare to dye but Courage stout’.

f. 132v: Couplet titled ‘Posie of a ringe’, beginning ‘Not for this, but this for me esteeme’.

f. 132v: Untitled couplet beginning ‘He that is hott in wordes his wordes discover’.

f. 132v: Untitled couplet beginning ‘Let not thy sad sightes the bellowes be hereafter’.

ff. 132v-133r: Michael Drayton, ‘The Crier’, beginning ‘Good folke for gold or hier’.

ff. 133r-133v: John Donne, ‘Change’. Copy titled ‘Elligie’, beginning ‘All though thy hand and fayth and good workes too’.

ff. 133v-134r: John Donne, ‘Loves Warre’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Till I have peace with thee warr with other men’.

ff. 134v-135v: John Donne, ‘On his Mistris’. Copy titled ‘Ellegie’, beginning ‘By our first straynge and fatall enterveiwe’.

ff. 135v-137v: John Donne, ‘His parting from her’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Since she must goe and I must mourne come night’.

ff. 137v-139r: Francis Beaumont, ‘A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton’. Copy titled ‘An Ellegie on the fayre and vertuose Lady Penelope, late Lady Clyfton’. Beginning ‘Since thou art deade Clyfton the world may see’. Attributed to ‘Francis Beamont’.

ff. 139r-140v: Poem titled ‘The Usury of time to his Mistress’, beginning ‘Let natures fooles made out of sullen earth’.

f. 140v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Marriadge as old men note, hath likend bene’.

f. 141r-141v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Like to the damaske rose you see’.

ff. 141v-142v: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘A Song’. Copy titled ‘Clora’, beginning ‘Draw not to neare unlesse you dropp a toane’.

ff. 142v-143r: Poem titled ‘No. 1623’, beginning ‘Religion thow most sacred power on earth’.

f. 143v: Two poems ‘Upon the Death of Lodwicke Duke of Richmond &c who died soddenly that morning he was to goe with the kinge to Parliament 16 Febr: Anno 1623’. One beginning ‘Steward by name by office by Accompt’, one by Francis Bacon beginning ‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say?’

f. 144r: Ben Jonson, ‘Howerglasse’, beginning ‘Doe but Consider this small dust’.

f. 144r: Poem attributed to ‘Margaret Austen’, beginning ‘To live a mayde I have done what I cann’.

f. 144r: Untitled couplet beginning ‘An old man’s love unto a watch is like’.

f. 144v: Poem titled ‘A marie-gold’, beginning ‘Mary by name of all names is the best’.

ff. 144v-146r: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘For the Kinge’. Copy titled ‘The five Sences 1623’, beginning ‘From such a face whose excellence’.

f. 146r-146v: Poem titled ‘On a greate man’s fall: L: C: Lo: Tr: 1624’. Beginning ‘The base on which man’s greatnesse firmest stands’.

ff. 146v-147r: 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’. Copy titled ‘The boddy’, beginning ‘Sittinge and readdy to be drawne’.

ff. 147r-151r: Thomas Goodwyn, ‘The French Progresse’, beginning ‘I went from England into France’. Attribute to ‘Goodwine’.

f. 151r: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘On Mistress Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Nature in this smalle vollume was about’.

f. 151r: Untitled poem beginning ‘He that to woman’s fickle love doth trust’.

ff. 151v-155r: Poem titled ‘Verses made uppon the death of Henry Prince of Wales per Ar: Manneringe knight and sent to his deare freinde E: V: H:’ Beginning ‘To thee as knowinge best my hart’.

f. 155r: John Donne, ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, beginning ‘Two by themselves each other, love and feare’.

f. 155r: John Donne, ‘A lame begger’, beginning ‘I am unable yonder begger cries’.

f. 155v: John Donne, ‘A burnt shipp’, beginning ‘Out of a fired shipp which by noe way’.

f. 155v: John Donne, ‘Fall of a wall’, beginning ‘Under an undermin’de and shott bruised wall’.

f. 155v: John Donne, ‘Antiquarie’, beginning ‘If in his studdie he hath much Care’.

f. 155v: John Donne, ‘Raderus’, beginning ‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’.

f. 156r: John Donne, ‘Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus’, beginning ‘Like Esop’s fellow slaves, O Mercurie’.

ff. 156r-157r: John Donne, ‘The Calme’, beginning ‘Our storme is past: And that stormes Tyrannous rage’.

f. 157r-157v: Poem titled ‘The Paradox’, beginning ‘Who soe termes love a fire, may like a poett’.

ff. 157v-158r: John Donne, ‘The good morrow’, beginning ‘I wounder by my troth what thou, and I’.

f. 158r: John Donne, ‘The Paradox’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Noe lover sayth I love, nor any other’.

f. 158v: John Donne, ‘Communitie’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Good we must love, and must hate ill’.

f. 158v: Untitled poem beginning ‘To god. to prince. wife. kindred. freinde. the poore.’ Elsewhere attributed to Thomas Heywood.

f. 159r: John Donne, ‘Womans Constancie’, beginning ‘Now thou hast lov’d me on whole day’.

ff. 159r-160r: John Donne, ‘The blossome’, beginning ‘Little thinkst thou poore flower’.

f. 160r-160v: John Donne, ‘The Primrose’, beginning ‘Uppon this primrrose hill’.

f. 160v: John Donne, ‘The Computatione’, beginning ‘For the first twentie yeares since yeasterday’.

f. 161r: John Donne, ‘The Dissolution’, beginning ‘Shee’s dead; and all which die’.

f. 161v: John Donne, ‘Witchcraft by a picture’, beginning ‘I fix mine eye on thine, and there’.

ff. 161v-162r: John Donne, ‘A Jeat ringe sent’, beginning ‘Thou art not soe black as my hart’.

f. 162r-162v: John Donne, ‘The Indifferent’, beginning ‘I can love both fayre and browne’.

ff. 162v-163r: John Donne, ‘Love’s groathe’, beginning ‘I scarce beleeve my love to be soe pure’.

f. 163r: John Donne, ‘The Prohibition’, beginning ‘Take heed of lovinge me’.

ff. 163v-164r: John Donne, ‘The Anniversarie’, beginning ‘All kings and all theire favorites’.

f. 164r: John Donne, ‘To Mr T.W.’ Untitled copy beginning ‘Sir at once from hence my lines and I depart’. Attributed to ‘J:R:’

f. 164r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Aprill is in my mistresse face’.

f. 164v: Poem titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘I am a younge and harmelesse mayde’.

f. 165r-165v: George Morley, ‘An Epitaph upon King James’. Copy titled ‘On K: Ja: death’, beginning ‘Those that have eyes now wayle and weepe’. Attributed to ‘G: Morley’.

f. 165v: Prose titled ‘The Popes Paternoster’, beginning ‘Papapater qui es in Roma’.

f. 165v: Poem titled ‘On a lawe-mans horse’, beginning ‘Heare lies a horse that dyed, butt’.

f. 166r: Poem titled ‘Uppon K: James his death. Fragment’, beginning ‘Was never march so moyst, had heaven refrayned?’

f. 166r: Ben Jonson, ‘Of the union’, beginning ‘Never was Contract better driven of fate’.

f. 166v: Poem titled ‘Uppon one Munday’, beginning ‘The times are strangely chayng’d a pox of worldy pelfe’.

f. 166v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Woomen complayne they never are at ease’.

f. 166v: Untitled poem beginning ‘She that will kisse and doe noe more’.

ff. 166v-167r: Poem titled ‘In Niobem turn’d to a stone’, beginning ‘Here lies a Tombe and carcasse bothe togeather’.

f. 167r: Untitled poem beginning ‘If any aske why Fortune beinge blinde’.

f. 167r: Untitled poem beginning ‘A mayden fayre I dare not wedd’.

f. 167r-167v: Poem titled ‘Uppon Q: Eliz: death’, beginning ‘Weepe (greatest Ile) and for thy Mistress death’. Elsewhere attributed to Henry Holland.

f. 167v: Two poems, titled ‘Wife’ and ‘Answere’, beginning ‘The double W: is double wealthe’, and ‘The double W: is double woe’.

ff. 167v-168r: John Donne, ‘Sonnet. The Token’. Copy titled ‘To his mistresse’, beginning ‘Send me some token that my hart may live’.

f. 168r: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’ Copy titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Fier fier loe here I burne in such desier’.

f. 168v: William Strode, ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Thoughtes do not vex me whils’t I sleepe’.

ff. 168v-169r: Poem titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘Eyes gaze noe more as yet you may’.

f. 169r: Poem titled ‘Songe’, beginning ‘If when I dye to hells eternall shade’.

f. 169r-169v: Sir Francis Bacon, ‘The world’s a bubble and the life of man’. Copy titled ‘Of Mortalitie’.

f. 169v: Poem titled ‘Prison’, beginning ‘A prison is a place of Cares’. Elsewhere attributed to Thomas Wenman.

f. 170r: Sir Henry Wotton, ‘A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘O faythlesse world, and thy most faythlesse part’. Attributed to ‘H: W:’

f. 170v: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’. Untitled copy.

ff. 170v-171r: Untitled poem beginning ‘And wilt you goe and leave me heare’. Elsewhere attributed to Sir Robert Ayton.

f. 171r: Untitled poem beginning ‘To love’s to runn a maze of hopes and feares’.

f. 171r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Love or doe not say you doe’.

f. 171r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Such as the fayre dyamond you weare’.

f. 171r-171v: Poem titled ‘On his Mistress Wyatt’, beginning ‘Why doest thou deare soe dearely love thy vyall’.

ff. 171v-172r: Untitled poem beginning ‘O heavens and doe I see that longe absented sunn’.

f. 172r: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘Amintas’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Cloris sight and songe and wept’.

f. 172r-172v: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘Of Friendship’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Friendshipp on earth we may as easely finde’.

f. 172v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Distrust doth enter harts but not infects’.

ff. 172v-173r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Hence with passions, sighes and teares’.

f. 173r-173v: Untitled poem beginning ‘What is state if not attended’.

f. 173v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Love is a law a discord of such force’.

ff. 173v-174r: Poem titled ‘On a watch restored to its Mistress’, beginning ‘Goe and count her better howers’. Elsewhere attributed to William Lawes or Henry Strode.

f. 174r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Will you know my Mistress face’.

f. 174r-174v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Noe more vayne hopes or idle feares’.

ff. 174v-175r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Though my cairodge be carelesse’.

f. 175r-175v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Stay lovely wanton stay’.

f. 175v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Wee must not part as others doe’.

f. 175v: Untitled couplet beginning ‘The printe of love if it be stampt aright’.

f. 176r: Poem titled ‘Of Ancestry’, beginning ‘The world Created, god created man’.

f. 176r-176v: Sir Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’. Copy titled ‘Of a happie life’, beginning ‘How happie is he borne or taught’.

ff. 176v-177r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Sweete I am not come to soone’.

f. 177r-177v: Untitled poem beginning ‘I am a servant and defie’.

f. 177v: Untitled couplet beginning ‘Distrust doth enter harts but not infect’.

ff. 177v-179r: Ben Jonson, ‘Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind’. Copy titled ‘The minde’, beginning ‘Paynter ya’re come, but may be gone’.

f. 179r: William Strode, ‘Song’. Copy titled ‘On Cloris goinge in the snow’, beginning ‘When feathered rayne cam sofly downe’.

f. 179v: Ben Jonson, ‘A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph’. Untitled copy of lines 20-30, beginning ‘Have you seene the white lilly growe’.

f. 179v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Have you seene but a blacke little maggott’.

f. 179v: Poem titled ‘On a papist’, beginning ‘Some him a piller of the Church doe call’.

f. 180r: Untitled poem beginning ‘When I doe thinke and when I doe not thinke’.

f. 180r: Untitled couplet beginning ‘All prayses from a freinds penn, ill thine’.

f. 180r: Poem titled ‘On a Cobler’, beginning ‘Death with the Cobler was longe at a stand’.

f. 180r: Poem titled ‘On a passing bett’, beginning ‘The dolefull musicke of impartiall death’.

f. 180v: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ‘The Mad Lover’, Act 3, Scene 4, lines 49-63. Copy titled ‘The madd Lover that sent his hart to his Mistress’, beginning ‘Goe happie hart for thou shalt lye’.

f. 180v: Poem beginning ‘Droope not fayre looke made pale with care’.

f. 181r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Live wee in love still it behoves us’.

ff. 181r-182v: Poem titled ‘An Elegie on Mr John Washington who died in Spayne’, attributed to ‘J: Lewes’. Beginning ‘Hath he bene deade a monthe and can I bee’.

f. 183r: Poem titled ‘His Epitaph’, attributed to ‘J: L:’ Beginning ‘Knowest thou whose these ashes were’.

f. 183r-183v: Poem titled ‘Of weomen’, beginning ‘All you that weomen love and like that amorouse trade’.

ff. 183v-184r: Sir John Harington, ‘Epigrams’, book 4, 12. Copy titled ‘Games in request’, beginning ‘I herd on marke a prettie observatione’.

f. 184r-184v: Poem titled ‘The quenstione of the garland. ab ignoto’, beginning ‘Betwixt two suitors sate a Lady fayre’. With an ‘Answere’ beginning ‘In my conceipt she him would soonest have’.

f. 184v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Beauty in vice though much is but disgrace’.

f. 185r-185v: Walter Raleigh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’. Copy of stanzas 1-7 titled ‘The Lord Walden to the princesse Eliz:’, beginning ‘Wronge not deere mistresse of my hart’. Also elsewhere attributed to Robert Ayton.

f. 185v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Thou sentst to me a hart was sounde’.

f. 186r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Let dreade of payne for sinn in after time’.

f. 186r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Like to an arrow from the bowe’.

ff. 186v-187r: John Donne, ‘The Canonization’. Untitled copy beginning ‘For gods sake hold your peace and let me love’.

f. 187r-187v: John Donne, ‘The Dreame’. Untitled beginning ‘Image of her whom I love more then she’.

ff. 187v-188r: John Donne, ‘Lovers infinitenesse’. Untitled copy beginning ‘If yet I have not all your love’.

f. 188v: John Donne, ‘Aire and Angels’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’.

f. 189r-189v: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’. Untitled copy beginning Natures lay Ideote I taught the to love’.

ff. 189v-190r: John Donne, ‘The Relique’, beginning ‘When my grave is broken upp agayne’.

f. 190r-190v: Untitled poem beginning ‘To live devoyde of care, you must not allwayes shoote’.

ff. 190v-191r: John Donne, ‘Farewell to love’, beginning ‘Whilst yet to prove’.

ff. 191v-192r: Poem titled ‘Uppon an inhibicone of frequentinge a gentlewomans Chamber’.

f. 192r-192v: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Divide my times and rate my wretched hours’. Copy titled ‘A Dumpe by sir E: D:’ beginning ‘Devide my times and rate my wretched howers’.

ff. 192v-193r: Thomas Lodge, ‘A satyre sitting by the river side’. Untitled copy beginning ‘A Satyre sittinge by a rivers side’.

f. 193r: Poem titled ‘The kings verses on the queenes death’, beginning ‘Thee to invite to heaven god sent his starr’.

f. 193v: William Strode, ‘A Lover to his Mistress’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I’le tell you whence the rose did first grow redd’.

f. 193v: Thomas Carew, ‘A Lovers passion’. Copy titled ‘Uppon his Mistresse’, beginning ‘Is she not wondrous fayre? O but I see’.

ff. 194r-201v: Sir Thomas Overbury, ‘The Remedy of Love’. Untitled copy beginning ‘When Love did reade the title of my booke’.

f. 201v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Though the minde be the heaven where love doth sitt’.

f. 201v: Poem titled ‘On prince Henries death’, beginning ‘I have noe vayne in verse, but if I could’.

f. 201v: Poem titled ‘On Sands his death’, beginning ‘Unto our names we must not trust’.

f. 202r: Poem titled ‘On a Cobler’, beginning ‘Death and the Cobler were longe at a stande’.

f. 202r: Poem titled ‘Uppon a Swann’, beginning ‘The silent swann which liveinge had noe note’.

ff. 202r-203r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Deare love Continue nice and Chast’.

f. 203r-v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Fye that I for thy sweete sake’.

ff. 203v-204r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Greate and proude if she deride me’.

ff. 204r-206v: Sir George Radney, poem titled ‘Sir Jo: Rodney to the Co: of Herford’, beginning ‘From one that languisheth in discontent’.

f. 206v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Committ thy shipp unto the winde’.

f. 207r: Poem titled ‘A Lady to her Lover’, beginning ‘Though I seeme strange (sweete freinde) doe you not see’.

ff. 207v-208r: Ben Jonson, ‘The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue’. Copy titled ‘The operatione of Musicke’, beginning ‘Come with our voyces let us warr’.

f. 208r: Poem titled ‘Uppon a Shoemaker’, beginning ‘Come heitherwade my gentle freinde’.

f. 208r: John Donne, ‘Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford’. Copy titled ‘Epitaph’, beginning ‘That I might make your Cabinett my tombe’.

f. 208v: John Donne, ‘Loves Usury’. Untitled copy beginning ‘For every hower that thou wilt spare me now’.

f. 209r: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ‘Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne’. Untitled copy beginning Vengance will sitt above our fault, but till’.

ff. 209v-210r: John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wootton’. Copy titled ‘From the Court’, beginning ‘Heare is new more newes, then vertie: I may as well’.

f. 210r-210v: Poem titled ‘Ellegie to sir Tho: Roe. 1603’, beginning ‘Tell her if she to hired servants shew’.

ff. 210v-211r: John Donne, ‘The Apparition’. Stanzas to be placed before the copy on f. 125v, beginning ‘Cruell since thou doest not feare the Curse’

f. 211r-212r: John Donne, ‘Oh let mee not serve so, as those men serve’. Copy titled ‘Ellegie’, beginning ‘O let me not serve soe as those men serve’.

f. 212r: John Donne, ‘The Prohibition’. Final stanzas to be placed after the copy on f. 163r, beginning ‘Yet love and hate me too’.

f. 212v: John Donne, ‘Confined Love’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Some man unworthy to be possesser’.

ff. 212v-214r: John Donne, ‘The Expostulation’. Copy titled ‘Ellegie’, beginning ‘To make thy doubt Cleare that noe woemans true’.

f. 214r-214v: John Donne, ‘The Dampe’, beginning ‘When I am deade, and doctors know not why’.

ff. 214v-216v: John Donne, ‘The Bracelet’. Copy titled ‘To a Lady whose Chayne was lost’, beginning ‘Not that in couller it was like thy hayre’.

f. 217r-217v: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’. Copy of lines 21-64 and 73-78, titled ‘Fragment to his Mistress: when shee would have gone as his footboy’. Beginning ‘Now why should love a footboyes place despise’.

ff. 218r-219r: John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of the booke’, beginning ‘Ile tell thee now, deare love what thou shalt doe’.

f. 219r: John Hoskyns, ‘Epitaph of the parliament fart’, beginning ‘Reader I was borne and cride’.

f. 219v: Poem titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘I woo’d my mistris on a time’. Attributed to ‘E: W:’

f. 219v: Poem titled ‘Sonnette’, beginning ‘Behold a prodegie’. Attributed to ‘E:W:’

f. 219v: Poem titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘How often have you sworne that you did love me’.

f. 220r: Poem titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘Life of my soule why doe you talke of dijinge’.

f. 220r :Poem titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘Let every mayden shedd one teare for me’.

f. 220r-220v: John Donne, ‘A Hymne to God the Father’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Wilt thou forgive the sinne where I begunn’. Attributed to ‘J: D:’.

f. 220v: Poem titled ‘The prayse of a loveinge mistresse’, beginning ‘On yonder hill like morning sunn she sits’.

f. 221r: Untitled poem beginning ‘If I dye be this my will’.

f. 221r-221v: Thomas Carew, ‘A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye’. Copy titled ‘An Epitaph uppon a Fly’, beginning ‘When this fly liv’d, she us’d to play’.

ff. 221v-222r: Thomas Campion, ‘Dolus’. Copy titled ‘Satyre’, beginning ‘Thou shalt not love me, neither shall those eyes’.

f. 222r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Looke on me ever though thine eye’.

f. 222v: Poem titled ‘Of a Nymphe’, beginning ‘There dwelt a Nymphe which with her feature daunted’.

f. 222v: Thomas Carew, ‘Murtheringe beautie’, beginning ‘Ile gaze noe more on her bewitchinge face’.

f. 223r: Untitled poem beginning ‘What art thou life, a tale which told’.

f. 223r: Poem titled ‘Uppon a kisse sent his Mistress’, beginning ‘Tell her he that send for this’. Elsewhere attributed to Zouch Towneley.

f. 223r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Thinkest thou by thy flying’.

f. 223v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Singe Syren though thy notes bringe death’.

f. 223v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Love Chilld with cold, and missinge in the skyes’.

f. 224r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Goe restles thoughts, fly from your Mistress breast’.

f. 224r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Love and disdayne dwells in my Mistress eyes’.

f. 224r-224v: William Strode, ‘Upon the blush of a faire Ladie’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Stay lusty bloode, where canst thou seeke’.

f. 224v: Untitled poem beginning ‘A lover once I did espie’. Elsewhere attributed to John Grange.

f. 225r: Henry King, ‘Sonnet’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I preethee turne thy face away’.

f. 225r: Poem titled ‘One takinge a sadd leave of his Mistress’, beginning ‘Farewell my deerest, and devinest love’.

f. 225v: Ben Jonson, ‘The Dreame’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Or skorne or pittie on me take’.

f. 225v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Though you on seas in stormes have bene’.

f. 226r: George Herbert, ‘A Parodie’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Soules Joy, when I am gone’.

f. 226r-226v: Untitled poem beginning ‘O that his last farewell’.

f. 226v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Sweete death come visite my sicke hart’.

f. 227r: Untitled poem beginning ‘O woe is me, that all my joyes are fledd’.

f. 227r: Poem titled ‘Dialouge A’, beginning ‘Come heavie hart whose sighes thy patience show’.

f. 227v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Reade in my face a volume of dispayres’. Contains several lines from Samuel Daniel’s ‘Sonnet 47’.

f. 227v: Poem titled ‘Uppon a Deaths heade’, beginning ‘When winter snowes uppon thy hayres’.

f. 228r: Untitled poem beginning ‘If it be love to draw a breath’.

f. 228r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Rejoyce. Cupide shall have his eyes’.

f. 228r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Hold Crewell love O hold I yeeld’.

f. 228v-229v: Thomas Carew, ‘The Complement’. Untitled copy beginning ‘O my dearest I shall greeve thee’.

f. 229v: Josuah Sylvester, poem beginning ‘Beware fayre maide of Mustie Courtiers oathes’.

f. 229v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Can teares expulse thy Image? Surely noe’.

f. 230r-230v: Thomas Carew, ‘A Song’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘In your fayre eyes two pitts doe lye’.

f. 230v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Sweetest muskadine beinge turned’.

f. 231r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Harke. Twas the trump of death that blew’.

f. 231v: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘On Mounsiers departure’, beginning ‘I greeve and dare not shew my discontent’.

ff. 231v-232r: Untitled poem beginning ‘If still to gaze on sweete alluringe eyes’.

f. 232r: Untitled poem beginning ‘When I doe love I would not wish to speede’.

ff. 232v-233r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Though my mistresse seeme in showe’. Elsewhere attributed to Thomas Heywood.

ff. 233r-234r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Believe your glasse, and if it tell you (deare)’.

f. 234r: Untitled stanzas beginning ‘Those soe wise that non can winn them’, to be added to the poem on f. 203v beginning ‘Greate and proude if she deride me’.

f. 234v: Poem titled ‘Sonnett of a Flea’, beginning ‘That flea that crept betweene your breast’.

ff. 234v-235r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Might I a wife chuse and have to my mind’.

f. 235r: Ben Jonson, ‘Song. To Celia’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Drinke to me Celia with thine eyes’.

f. 235r-235v: Thomas Carew, ‘Ingratefull beauty theatned’. Copy titled ‘Ingratefull Love threatned’, beginning ‘Know Celia since thou art soe proude’.

ff. 235v-236r: Thomas Carew, ‘Mediocritie in love rejected. Song’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Give me more love or more disdayne’. Attributed to ‘T: C:’

f. 236r-236v: Thomas Carew, ‘To my Rivall’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Hence vayne intruder hast away’. Attributed to ‘T: C:’

f. 236v: Thomas Carew, ‘Red, and white Roses’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Reade in these Roses the sadd story’.

ff. 236v-237r: Thomas Carew, ‘A Looking-Glasse’. Untitled copy beginning ‘That flatteringe glasse whose smoothe face weaves’. Attributed to ‘T:C:’

f. 237r-237v: Thomas Carew, ‘Eternitie of love protested’, beginning ‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’. Attributed to ‘T: C:’

f. 237v: William Strode, ‘Jack on both Sides’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I hold as fayth, What Englandes Church allowes’.

ff. 238r-242r: Ben Jonson, ‘An Execration upon Vulcan’. Copy titled ‘An Execratione uppon Vulcan by Ben: Jonson occasioned by the burninge of his Deske of writinges’, beginning ‘And why to me this? Thou lame Lord of fire’.

f. 242v: George Morley, ‘To the Memorie of John Pulteney Esq. who died 15 May Anno 1637: and 27 of his age’, beginning ‘True to him selve, and others with whom both’.

f. 243r: Thomas Carew, ‘Secresie protested’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Feare not deare love if I’le reveale’.

ff. 244r-254r: Alphabetical index of first lines.