Harley MS 4955

Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993).

Contains poems and entertainments by Ben Jonson, poet and playwright (1572–1637), in three sections: a collection of poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572-1631); three collections of poems by Dr Richard Andrewes, physician and poet (bap. 1575, d. 1634); and miscellaneous groups of poems relating to the Cavendish family, their acquaintances, properties, and nearby locations.

f. v Set of accounts, July 1680-March 1681.

f. 1r King James I, ‘Verses made by King James at Burlye in the hill. Aug: 1621’. Beginning ‘The heavens that wept perpetuallie before’.

ff. 2r-30r Ben Jonson, ‘The Gypsies Metamorphosed’. Beginning ‘As manye blessinges as there be bones’.

ff. 31r-34r Ben Jonson, ‘An Epistle to a Friend. to perswade him to the Warres’. Copy titled ‘To a Friend’, beginning ‘Wake Friend, and finde thy self; awake, the Drum’.

ff. 34v-35r Ben Jonson, ‘A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 9. Her man described by her own Dictamen’. Copy titled ‘The Man’, beginning ‘Of your trouble, Bwn, to Ease Mee’.

f. 35v 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 Bodie’, beginning ‘Sitting? And readie to be drawne?’

ff. 36r-37r 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 y’are come, but may begone’.

ff. 37v-38v Ben Jonson, ‘The praises of a Countrie life’. Copy titled ‘The praises of a Cuntry life’, beginning ‘Happie is he that from all business cleere’.

f. 39r Ben Jonson, ‘An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle’. Copy titled ‘To the Right Honorable Earle of Newcastle &c’, beginning ‘They talke of fenceing, and the use of Armes’.

f. 40r Ben Jonson, ‘An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle’. Copy titled ‘To the Right Honorable William Viscount Mansfield: On his Horsemanship and Stable’, beginning ‘When first my Lord, I saw you backe your horse’.

ff. 40v-41v Ben Jonson, ‘The Vision of Delight’. Copy of the speeches of Phantasy (lines 57-125). Beginning ‘Bright Night, I obey thee, and am come at thy call’. With the anti-masque, beginning ‘Why this you will say was phantasticall now’.

f. 41v Poem titled ‘The Paynter to the Poet’, beginning ‘To paynt thy worth, if rightly I did know it’. Elsewhere attributed to Sir William Burlase.

f. 42r Ben Jonson, ‘My Answer. The Poet to the Painter’. Copy titled ‘The Poet to the Paynter’, beginning ‘Why? Though I seeme of a prodigious wast’.

f. 42v Ben Jonson, ‘Epistle. To my Lady Covell’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘you wan not verses, Madame, you wann me’.

ff. 43r-46r Ben Jonson, ‘An Execration upon Vulcan’. Copy titled ‘An Execration on vulcan’, beginning ‘And why to me this? thou lame Lord of fire’.

ff. 46v-47r Ben Jonson, ‘Christmas his Masque’. Copy of the Song of Christmas, beginning ‘Nowe god preserve, as you well deserve your Majesties all too theare’.

f. 47v Ben Jonson, ‘My Picture left in Scotland’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I nowe thinke love is rather deafe then blynde’.

f. 47v Poem titled ‘To Mr Ben Johnson in his Jorney by Mr Craven’, beginning ‘When witt, and learninge are so hardly sett’.

f. 47v Ben Jonson ‘This was Mr Ben: Johnsons Answer of the suddayne’. Copy beginning ‘Il may Ben Johnson slander so his feete’.

ff. 48r-52v Ben Jonson, ‘An Entertainment at the Blackfriars’. Copy beginning ‘Sir, y’are welcome to the Forrest, you have seene a battell’.

f. 52v Ben Jonson, ‘A Song of Welcome to King Charles’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Fresh as the Day, and new as are the Howres’.

ff. 53r-53v Ben Jonson, ‘A Song of the Moon’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘To the wonders of the peake’.

f. 54r Ben Jonson, ‘To the memorye of that most honoured Ladie Jane, eldest Daughter, to Cuthbert Lord Ogle: and Countesse of Shrewsbury’. Copy beginning ‘I could begin with that grave forme, Here lies’.

f. 54v Ben Jonson, ‘Charles Cauendish to his posteritie’. Copy beginning ‘Sonnes, seeke not me amonge these polish'd stones’.

f. 55r Ben Jonson, ‘Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle’. Copy, with a pencil design for a memorial structure. Beginning ‘T'is a Record in heaven, You, that were’.

f. 55v Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle, beginning ‘Pure devotion’. Attributed to ‘Mr Lukin’, April 18 1629.

f. 56r Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle, beginning ‘Katharine Lady Ogle was a woman whom’. Attributed to ‘Mr George Holme’.

ff. 56r-56v Poem titled ‘An Elegie upon the said Lady Ogles Death’, beginning ‘Let them write Swords, and Satyres, against Death’. Attributed to ‘Mr George Holme’.

ff. 57r-57v Richard Andrewes, ‘The Universall Sacrifice’. Copy beginning ‘If any in distresse desire to gather’.

f. 58r Richard Andrewes, ‘The knot of Prayer and Grace’. Copy beginning ‘Our Father give me leave, thy guifts to knowe’.

f. 58r Richard Andrewes, ‘Prayer and bllessing’. Copy beginning ‘Our father powre thy blessings downe from heaven’.

f. 58v Richard Andrewes, ‘The blessed Trinitie’. Copy beginning ‘Most pure, most good, and symple most’.

f. 58v Richard Andrewes, ‘Gloria’. Copy beginning ‘Let all good Christians with one hart togeather’.

f. 59r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘When Mars made love to Venus first’. Under the heading ‘Drolleries’.

f. 59r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘What doth olde Lais with a looking glasse’. Under the heading ‘Drolleries’.

f. 59r Richard Andrewes, untitled anagram beginning ‘Thais is discontented, and doth storme’. Under the heading ‘Drolleries’.

ff. 59r-59v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Though Mars, and Venus were unchast’. Under the heading ‘Drolleries’.

f. 59v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Corinna went away from me at night’.

f. 60r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Jove for Europa plaid the Bull’.

f. 60r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Rhodis when she was yonge, was proud enough’.

ff. 60r-60v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Cupid one day would rob an hive’.

ff. 61r-67r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘I tooke a Journey in the spring’.

f. 67v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Hardwicke for hugenes, Worsope for height’.

f. 68r Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘Those verses were spoken before the Countesse of Lecester: when Sir Jervas Clyfton was married to my Lady Penelope Rich: at Drayton Basset house’. Beginning ‘Burden of dutie doth my conscience clog’.

f. 68v Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘To the much honoured Beautie of Mistress Anne West’. Beginning ‘Fayre Nymphe, you cannot be exprest’.

f. 69r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Maddam, you have a noble soule, tis true’.

f. 69v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Though Ister have put downe the Rhene’.

f. 69*r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Charles woes the Spanish Lady but they say’.

f. 70r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Henrie the greate, great both in peace, and war’.

f. 70r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘When learned Bacon wrote Essaies’.

f. 70v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Paul why to Caesar dost thou thus appeale’.

f. 70v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘When Jove hymselfe from heaven powreth gold’.

f. 70v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Fayre _ ins face did me be _’.

f. 71r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘The Potent Judge of that Capatius Courte’.

ff. 71v-72r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Some men that are precise’.

ff. 72r-73r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘There was some policye I doe beleeve’.

ff. 74v-77v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Fayre maides if you have ever heard the storie’.

ff. 78r-79v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘You that can spare a teare from your owne Fates’.

ff. 80r-80v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Howe can wee looke for anie constant being’.

f. 80v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Fates neither feare the greate, nor spare the small’.

f. 81r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Where may a man his hopes and fortunes settle’.

f. 81r Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’. Unattributed, titled ‘I.C.U.R.’

f. 81v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘God (whoe doth all by number, measure, waight)’.

f. 81v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Two Bishopps were accus’d in Parliament’.

f. 82r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘In former times there was a Temple built’.

f. 82r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘My Lord, Within your brest, as in a Throne’.

f. 82r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘When Bolser Castle I doe name’.

f. 82v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Welbecke bid Welcome to thy Noble Lord’.

f. 82v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘My Lord, When you were in your infant age’.

f. 83r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Surelie that Man (my Lord) was verie deepe’.

f. 83r Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘C.D.E.F.G.’, beginning ‘Some busie heads would change the Christ-crosse rowe’.

f. 83r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘A learned Bishop of this land’.

f. 83v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Big Benjamin hath had a Cup of sacke’.

f. 83v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘The King wants money, and the people say’.

ff. 83v-84r Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘T’, beginning ‘T’were better that the T’.

f. 84r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Love is in progresse, and his giste doth lay’.

f. 84r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘See how the Frenchmen bragg’.

f. 84v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Was woman ere so strangely matched’.

f. 84v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘Madam, The danger of that fall is past’.

f. 85r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘The Crow is disannul’d’.

f. 85v Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘Epithalamium’, beginning ‘Goe Noble Finch, unto thy noble Love’.

f. 85v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem beginning ‘The Parliament of late hath oft been broken’.

f. 86r Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘An Epitaph on Viscount Camden’ beginning ‘Here sleepes Vicount Camden, who while hee did wake’.

f. 86r Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘A Proclamation’, beginning ‘Can any tell true tideinge’.

ff. 86v-87r Francisca Andrewes, copy of her poem sent to Lady Jane Cavendish, beginning ‘Sweet Lady Jane I must you thanke’. London, August 14 1629.

f. 87v Richard Andrewes, poem titled ‘A Character upon a Monsieur’, beginning ‘I would not flatter, neither would I erre’.

ff. 88r-89r John Donne, ‘Satyre I’. Copy beginning ‘Away Thou changeling motley Humorist’.

ff. 89r-90v John Donne, ‘Satyre II’. Copy beginning ‘Sir Though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate’.

ff. 90v-91v John Donne, ‘Satyre III’. Copy beginning ‘Kind Pitty choakes my spleene; Brave skorne forbids’.

ff. 91v-94v John Donne, ‘Satyre IV’. Copy beginning ‘Well; I may nowe receive, and Dye; my sinne’.

ff. 94v-95v John Donne, ‘The Bracelet’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Not that in colour it was like thy Hayre’.

ff. 95v-96r John Donne, ‘To his Mistris Going to Bed’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Come, Madame, come, All rest my Powers defye’.

ff. 96r-96v John Donne, ‘Jealosie’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Fond woman which wouldst have thy husband dye’.

ff. 96v-97r John Donne, ‘The Anagram’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Merry, and love thy Flavia, for shee’.

ff. 97r-97v John Donne, ‘Change’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Although thy hand, and fayth, and good workes too’.

ff. 97v-98v John Donne, ‘Perfume’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Once, and but once fownd in thy Companee’.

f. 98v John Donne, ‘His Picture’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Here take my Picture, though I bid farewell’.

ff. 98v-99r John Donne, ‘Elegie on the L.C.’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Sorrowe, who to this house, scarce knew the way’.

ff. 99r-99v John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Oh lett me not serve so, as those men serve’.

ff. 99v-110r John Donne, ‘Loves Warre’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Till I have Peace with Thee, warr other men’.

ff. 100r-100v John Donne, ‘On his Mistris’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘By our first strange, and fatall Interviewe’.

ff. 100v-101r John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’. Copy titled ‘Elegye’, beginning ‘Natures lay Ideott I taught thee to love’.

ff. 101r-102r John Donne, ‘Loves Progress’. Copy titled ‘Elegye On loves Progresse’, beginning ‘Who ever loves if he doe not propose’.

ff. 102r-103r John Donne, ‘The Storme’. Copy titled ‘The Storme’, beginning ‘Thou, which art I, (t’is nothing to be soe)’.

ff. 103r-103v John Donne, ‘The Calme’. Copy titled ‘The Calme’, beginning ‘Our storme is past, and that stormes tyrannous rage’.

ff. 103v-104v John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wotton’. Copy titled ‘To Sir Hen: Wotton:’, beginning ‘Sir More then kisses letters mingle soules’.

ff. 104v-105r John Donne, ‘The Crosse’. Copy titled ‘The Crosse’, beginning ‘Synce Christ embrac’d the Crosse it selfe, dare I’.

ff. 105r-105v John Donne, ‘Elegie on the Lady Marckham’. Copy titled ‘Elegye On the Ladye Marckhame’, beginning ‘Man is the world, and Death the Ocean’.

ff. 106r-106v John Donne, ‘Elegie on Mistress Boulstred’. Copy titled ‘Elegye on Mistress Boulstrod’, beginning ‘Death, I recant, and say, unsayd by mee’.

ff. 106v-107r John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Goodyere’. Copy titled ‘To Sir Henry Goodyere’, beginning ‘Who makes the Past, a Patterne for next yeare’.

f. 107v John Donne, ‘To Mr Rowland Woodward’. Copy titled ‘To Mr Rowland Woodward’, beginning ‘Like One who in her third widowhead doth professe’.

f. 108r John Donne, ‘To Sir Henry Wootton’. Copy titled ‘To Sir Henrye Wooton’, beginning ‘Here is no more newes then vertue, I may as well’.

ff. 108r-108v John Donne, ‘To the Countesse of Bedford’. Copy titled ‘To the Countesse of Bedford’, beginning ‘Maddam Reason is our scales left hand, Faith her right’.

ff. 108v-109v John Donne, ‘To the Countesse of Bedford’. Copy titled ‘To the Countesse of Bedford’, beginning ‘Madame, you have refin’d mee; And to worthyest thinges’.

ff. 109v-110r John Donne, ‘To Sir Edward Herbert, at Julyers’. Copy titled ‘To Sir Ed: Herbert at Julyers’, beginning ‘Man is a lumpe, where all Beasts kneaded bee’.

ff. 110r-110v John Donne, ‘The Annuntiation and Passion’. Copy titled ‘The Annuntiation’, beginning ‘Tamelye frayle Bodye, abstayne today; today’.

ff. 110v-111r John Donne, ‘Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward’. Copy titled ‘Goodfr[i]day. 1613. Riding to Sir Edward Har[bert] in wales’, beginning ‘Lett mans soule be a spheare, and then, in this’.

ff. 111r-111v John Donne, ‘The Message’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘Send home my long stray’d Eyes to Mee’.

f. 111v John Donne, ‘The Baite’, Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘Come live with mee, and be my love’.

f. 112r John Donne, ‘The Apparition’. Copy titled ‘The Apparition’, beginning ‘When by thy skorne, O murdres, I am dead’.

ff. 112r-v John Donne, ‘The broken heart’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘Hee is starke madd, who ever sayes’.

f. 112v John Donne, ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Stand still, and I will reade to Thee’.

ff. 112v-113v John Donne, ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’. Copy titled ‘A valediction’, beginning ‘As virtuous men passe mildlye away’.

ff. 113r-113v John Donne, ‘The good-morrow’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I’.

f. 113v John Donne, ‘Song’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘Goe, and catch a falling starr’.

f. 114r John Donne, ‘Womans constancy’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Nowe thou hast lov’d mee one whole day’.

f. 114r John Donne, ‘The Dreame’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Image of her, whom I love, more then shee’.

f. 114v John Donne, ‘The Sunne Rising’. Copy titled ‘Ad Solem’, beginning ‘Busy Old foole, unruly sunne’.

ff. 114v-115r John Donne, ‘The Indifferent’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘I can love both faire and browne’.

f. 115r John Donne, ‘Loves Usury’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘For everye hower that thou wilt spare mee nowe’.

ff. 115v-116r John Donne, ‘The Canonization’. Copy titled ‘The Canonization’, beginning ‘For Godsake hold your tounge, and lett mee love’.

f. 116r John Donne, ‘The triple Foole’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘I am two fooles, I knowe’.

ff. 116r-v John Donne ‘Lovers infinitenesse’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘If yett I have not all your love’.

ff. 116v-117r John Donne, ‘Song’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘Sweetest love I doe not goe, for wearynes of Thee’.

f. 117r John Donne, ‘The Legacie’. Copy titled ‘Song’, beginning ‘When I dyed last, And, Deare I dye’.

ff. 117r-117v John Donne, ‘A Feaver’. Copy titled ‘A Feaver’, beginning ‘Oh doe not dye, for I shall hate’.

ff. 117v-118r John Donne, ‘Aire and Angels’. Copy titled ‘Ayre and Angells’, beginning ‘Twice, or thrice had I lov’d Thee’.

f. 118r John Donne, ‘Breake of day’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Tis true, tis day, what though it bee?’

ff. 118r-v John Donne, ‘The Prohibiton’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Take heede of Loveing mee’.

f. 118v John Donne, ‘The Anniversarie’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘All Kings, and all theyre favorites’.

ff. 118v-119v John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of my name, in the window’. Copy titled ‘A valediction: of my name in the windowe’, beginning ‘My name engrav’d herein’.

ff. 119v-120r John Donne, ‘The Autumnall’. Copy titled ‘Elegye. Autumnall’, beginning ‘Noe springe, nor summer beauty, hath such grace’.

ff. 120r-120v John Donne, ‘Twicknam garden’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Blasted with sighes, and surrounded with Teares’.

f. 120v John Donne, ‘Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford’. Copy titled ‘Epitaph’, beginning ‘Madame. That I might, make your Cabinett my Tombe’.

ff. 120v-121v John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of the booke’. Copy titled ‘valediction of the booke’, beginning ‘Ile tell thee now; (Deare love) what thou shalt doe’.

f. 121v John Donne, ‘Communitie’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Good wee must love, and most hate ill’.

ff. 121v-122r John Donne, ‘Loves growth’. Copy titled ‘Spring’, beginning ‘I scare beleeve my love to be so pure’.

ff. 122r-122v John Donne, ‘Loves exchange’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Love, any Devill else but you’.

f. 122v John Donne, ‘Confined Love’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Some man unworthy to bee Possessor’.

ff. 122v-123r John Donne, ‘The Dreame’. Copy titled ‘The Dreame’, beginning ‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’.

ff. 123r-123v John Donne, ‘A Valediction: of weeping’. Copy titled ‘A valediction’, beginning ‘Lett mee power forth’.

f. 123v John Donne, ‘Loves Alchymie’. Copy titled ‘Mummye’, beginning ‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne, then I’.

f. 124r John Donne, ‘The Flea’. Copy titled ‘The Flea’, beginning ‘Marke but this Flea, and marke in this’.

ff. 124r-124v John Donne, ‘The Curse’. Copy titled ‘The Curse’, beginning ‘Who ever guesses, Thinckes, or dreames he knowes’.

ff. 124v-125v John Donne, ‘The Extasie’. Copy titled ‘The Extasye’, beginning ‘When like a Pillowe on a Bed’.

ff. 125v-126r John Donne, ‘The undertaking’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘I have done one braver thing’.

ff. 126r-126v John Donne, ‘Loves Deitie’. Copy titled ‘Loves Deitye’, beginning ‘I long to talke with some old lovers Ghost’.

f. 126v John Donne, ‘Loves diet’. Copy titled ‘Loves Dyett’, beginning ‘To what a Cumbersome unwieldines’.

ff. 127r-127v John Donne, ‘The Will’. Copy titled ‘The will’, beginning ‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, lett mee breath’.

f. 127v John Donne, ‘The Funerall’. Copy titled ‘The Funerall’, beginning ‘Who ever comes to shroude mee, doe not harme’.

ff. 127v-128v John Donne, ‘A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Rich. Amyens’. Copy beginning ‘Madame, Here where by All, All sayntes invoked are’.

ff. 128v-130r John Donne, ‘An Epithalamion, or Marriage song on the Lady Elisabeth, and Fredericke Count Palatine; beeing St Valentines Day’. Copy beginning ‘Hayle Bishop Valentine, whose Day this is’.

f. 130r John Donne, ‘To Mr T.W.’ Copy titled ‘An Old Letter’, beginning ‘At once from hence my lynes, and I depart’.

ff. 130r-130v John Donne, ‘The Blossoms’. Copy titled ‘The Blossome’, beginning ‘Litle thinckst thou, poore floure’.

ff. 130v-131r John Donne, ‘The Primrose’. Copy titled ‘The Primerose’, beginning ‘Upon this Prymerose hill’.

ff. 131r-131v John Donne, ‘The Relique’. Copy titled ‘The Relique’, beginning ‘When my Grave is broke up agayne’.

f. 131v John Donne, ‘The Dampe’. Copy titled ‘The Dampe’, beginning ‘When I ame Deade, and Doctors knowe not why’.

ff. 132r-135r John Donne, ‘Ecclogue. 1613. December 26’. Copy beginning ‘Unseasonable Man, statue of Ice’.

ff. 135r-138v John Donne, ‘The Litanie’. Copy titled ‘The Letanye’, beginning ‘Father of Heav’n, and Hym, by whome’.

ff. 138v-139v John Donne, ‘La Corona’. Copy beginning ‘Deigne at my handes thys Crowne of Prayer, and Prayse’.

f. 139v John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’. Copy titled ‘Sonnett’, beginning ‘As due by manye Tithes, I resigne’.

ff. 139v-140r John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Oh my blacke soule, now thou are sommoned’.

f.140r John Donne, ‘This is my Playes last sceane, here heavens appoynte’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘This is my Playes last sceane, here heavens appoynte’.

f. 140r John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘As the round Earths Imagind cornors, blowe’.

ff. 140r-140v John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘If Poysonous Mineralls, and if that Tree’.

f. 140v John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Death be not Proud, though some have called Thee’.

f. 140v John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Spitt in my face you Jewes, and peirce my side’.

ff. 140v-141r John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Why are wee by all Creatures wayted on?’

f. 141r John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘What if this Present, were the worlds last Night?’

f. 141r John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Batter my hart, three Person’d God; for you’.

ff. 141r-141v John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Wilt thou love God, as Hee, then digest’.

f. 141v John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘Father, Part of his double Interest’.

ff. 141v-142r John Donne, ‘To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614’. Copy titled ‘To the Countesse of Salisbury Aug: 1619’, beginning ‘Fayre, Greate, and Good, since seeing you, wee see’.

ff. 142v-144v John Donne, ‘Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford’. Copy titled ‘Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford’, beginning ‘Fayre soule, which wast not onelye, as all soules bee’.

f. 145r Richard Andrewes, ‘Speculum Amoris’. Poem beginning ‘Let her that lookes her Face, within this Glasse’.

ff. 145r-145v Richard Andrewes, ‘Phillis Inamorata’. Poem beginning ‘Come bee my Valentine’.

ff. 145v-146v Richard Andrewes, ‘Absentiae’. Poem beginning ‘Is Absence then so darke a night of Horror’.

ff. 146v-147r Richard Andrewes, ‘Loves Nomenclator’. Poem beginning ‘Howe shall I find some worthy name’.

ff. 147v-151r Richard Andrewes, ‘Dirae 1’. Poem beginning ‘Muses beare-witnes, for I doe protest’.

ff. 151v-157v Richard Andrewes, ‘Dirae 2’. Poem beginning ‘I am constrayn’d to make an other Sallie’.

ff. 158r-162r Richard Andrewes, untitled poem, beginning ‘God first created soules for woman kind’.

ff. 162v-163r Letter to William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, from ‘W.M.’

f. 163r Poem titled ‘To the Author’, beginning ‘I am not skil’d in Greeke and Latine’. Attributed to ‘H:O:’

f. 163v Poem titled ‘To the Reader’, beginning ‘Some have made Jorneys farre and neare’. Attributed to ‘C:P:’

ff. 164r-171v Richard Andrewes, untitled poem, beginning ‘Have you not heard of Derbyshire’.

f. 172r Richard Andrewes, ‘The Muse to Chattesworth’. Poem beginning ‘Long live the Genius of this Place’.

f. 173r Ben Jonson, ‘To the Right Honourable, my Lord Weston. Lord Treasurer. An Epigramme’. Poem beginning ‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’.

f. 173v Poem titled ‘Epigramme. To my kind freind Mr Ben Johnson upon his Epigram to the Lord Tresurer’, beginning ‘Your verses are commended, and t’is true’.

f. 173v Ben Jonson, ‘To my Detractor’. Copy beginning ‘My verses were commended, thou dar’st say’.

f. 174r Ben Jonson, ‘To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant’. Copy titled ‘To my Lord Weston, Lord Tresurer, A Letter’, beginning ‘My Lord, Poore wreatched States, prest by extremities’.

ff. 174v-175v Ben Jonson, ‘An Expostulacon with Inigo Jones’. Copy beginning ‘Mr Surveyour, you that first beganne’.

f. 176r Ben Jonson, ‘To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary’. Copy titled ‘To Inigo Marquesse would-bee A Corollarie’, beginning ‘But ‘cause thou hear’st, the Mighty K: of Spaine’.

f. 176r Ben Jonson, ‘To a Freind an Epigram Of him’. Copy titled ‘To a freind an Epigram of him’, beginning ‘Sir; Inigo doth feare it, as I heare’.

ff. 176v-179v Ben Jonson, ‘Epithalamion, or A Song, celebrating the Nuptialls of that Noble Gentleman Mr Hierome Weston, Sonne and heire of the Lord Weston Lord high Treasurer of England, with the Ladie Francis Stuart daughter Of Esme, D. of Lenox, deceased, and Sister of the surviveing D. of that Name’. Copy beginning ‘Though thou art past thy Sommer standing, Stay’.

ff. 180r-181v Ben Jonson, ‘To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison’. Copy titled ‘To Sir Lucius Carey, on the death of his Brother Morison’, beginning ‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’.

f. 182r Letter from Ben Jonson, to William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle. 4 February 1631/2.

ff. 182r-183v Lucius Carey, second Viscount Falkland, ‘Epistle. An Anniversary On Sir H.M. with an Apostrophe, to my Father Jonson’. Letter with poem beginning ‘This is Poetique furie! When the pen’.

ff. 184r-184v Lucius Carey, second Viscount Falkland, ‘Epistle To his Noble Father Mr Jonson’. Poem beginning ‘The Fox the Lions sight extreamelie fear’d’.

ff. 185r-185v Nicholas Oldisworth, ‘A Letter to Ben Jonson’. Poem beginning ‘Dye Jonson: crosse not our Religion soe’.

ff. 186r-187v Robert Goodwin, ‘Vindiciae Jonsonianae’. Poem beginning ‘Since, what past Ages onlie had begun’.

ff. 188r-188v Poem titled ‘On Bolsover Castle’, beginning ‘If men of old were soe respectfull found’. Attributed to ‘Mr Aglionby’.

f. 189r Richard Andrewes, ‘In praematuram vitam et mortem Infantis Regis’. Poem beginning ‘Quam brevia parcae spatia Principi Vitae’. Latin with English translation.

f. 189v Richard Andrewes, ‘Upon the Prince’s Birth’. Poem beginning ‘Welcome brave Babe, more welcome than the Rose’.

f. 189v Richard Andrewes, ‘A health to the Prince’. Poem beginning ‘Fathers vertues, Mothers beauties’.

ff. 190r-190v Richard Andrewes, ‘Upon the Prince’. Poem beginning ‘Nilus returne, and lett Euphrates fly’.

f. 192r Ben Jonson, ‘The Fortunate Isles, and their Union’, song. Copy titled ‘A Song at Court to invite the Ladies to Daunce’, beginning ‘Come noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’.

f. 192v Ben Jonson, ‘An Epigram. To our great and good King Charles On his Anniversary Day’. Copy titled ‘To the great and Gratious King Charles. On the Universary day of his Raigne 1629’, beginning ‘How happie were the Subject if hee knewe?’

f. 193r Ben Jonson, ‘An Epigram on the Princes birth’. Copy titled ‘Epigramme On the Princes Birth’, beginning ‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest bee thy birth’.

f. 193r Ben Jonson, ‘An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in’. Copy titled ‘An Epigramme To the Queen’s Health’, beginning ‘Haile Mary, full of Grace, it once was said’.

ff. 194r-198v Ben Jonson, ‘The King's Entertainment at Welbeck’. Copy dated 1633.

ff. 199r-202r Ben Jonson, ‘Love's Welcome at Bolsover’. Copy dated July 1634.

f. 202v Letter from Ben Jonson to William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle. Beginning ‘The faith of a fast friend’. Undated.

f. 203r Letter from Ben Jonson to William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle. Beginning ‘I send no borrowing Epistle’. Undated.

f. 203r Letter from Ben Jonson to William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle. Beginning ‘My best Patron. I have done your busines’. Undated.

ff. 203v-204r Letter from Ben Jonson to William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle. Beginning ‘I my selfe beeing no substance’. Westminster, 20 December 1631.

ff. 205r-205v Thomas Carew, ‘ To Ben Jonson upon occasion of his Ode’. Copy beginning ‘Tis true (Deare Ben) thy just chastizing hand’.

ff. 205v-206r Thomas Carew, ‘To the New-yeare, for the Countesse of Carlile’. Copy beginning ‘Give Lucinda pearle, nor stone’.

ff. 206r-206v Thomas Carew, ‘To the Queene’. Copy titled ‘The Preist’s, to the Queene’, beginning ‘Thou great Comandresse, that dost move’.

ff. 207r-207v Owen Felltham, poem on Ben Jonson. Copy beginning ‘Come leave this sawcy way’.

f. 208v Virgil, ‘The Aeneid’, book 12, lines 82-86. Beginning ‘Poscit equos gaudetque tuens anteora frementes’.

f. 208v Unattributed poem titled ‘In hippodochium Wellbechiense’. Beginning ‘Mansfeldienses incolunt istas equi’.

f. 208v Unattributed poem titled ‘In idem’, i.e. ‘In hippodochium Wellbechiense’. Beginning ‘Qui comptos et equos promptos et novit habere’.