Harley MS 6910

Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600.

Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; William Baldwin; Thomas Churchyard; William Hunnis; Anthony Munday; Josuah Sylvester; Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux; Sir Edward Dyer; Anne Vavasour; Thomas Watson; Chidiock Tichborne; Sir Philip Sidney; Samuel Daniel; William Warner; Pierre de Ronsard; Richard Edwards; Thomas Beard; Thomas Campion; Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset; William Smith; George Puttenham; and anonymous others.

f. 1*r: Pen trials, and pasted note ‘he that will not when he may as reason hath concluded’.

ff. 2*r-20r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbards Tale’. Dedicated to ‘the Ladie Compton and Mountegle’, i.e. Anne Sackville, Countess of Dorset (d. 1618).

ff. 20v-30r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘The teares of the Muses’. Dedicated to ‘the Ladie Strange’, i.e. Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (1559-1637), noblewoman.

ff. 30v-41r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘Virgils Gnat’. Dedicated to ‘The Earle of Leicester, late deceased’, i.e. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), courtier and magnate.

ff. 41v-48r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie’. Dedicated to ‘the Ladie Carey’, i.e. Elizabeth Carey, Lady Hunsdon (1552-1618), literary patron.

ff. 48v-59r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘The Ruins of Tyme’. Dedicated to ‘the Ladie Marie Countesse of Pembrooke’, i.e. Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621), writer and literary patron.

ff. 59v-66v: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘Ruines of Rome: by Bellay’.

ff. 67r-69v: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘Visions of the worlds vanitie’.

ff. 69v-72v: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘The Visions of Bellay’.

ff. 73r-74v: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘The Visions of Petrarch’. Subscribed ‘Finis, 1596’.

ff. 75r-91v: Copy of George Chapman, ‘The Shadow of Night’, titled ‘Hymnus in Noctem’ and ‘Hymnus in Cynthiam’. With a glossary.

ff. 92r-95r: Copy of an untitled poem attributed to William Warner. Beginning ‘Suppose (for so must be supposed) that Birdes and Beasts did speake’.

f. 95r: Copy of an untitled poem attributed to William Warner. Beginning ‘An Asse, an Old-man, and a Boy, did through a Cytie passe’.

f. 95r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Ten thousand children beautifull, of this my bodie bread’.

f. 95r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Hee that at one instant a brace of hares doth traile’.

f. 95v: Copy of a poem by Thomas Newton, beginning ‘As when an arming sword of proofe is made’.

f. 95v: Extract from an anonymous poem beginning ‘Now what avails, to strive against the tyde’.

ff. 95v-96r: Extract from an anonymous poem beginning ‘Then straight through all the world gan fame to flie’.

f. 96r-96v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Mens vayne delightes are wondrous to be hold’.

f. 96v: Extract from an anonymous poem beginning ‘Ther’s no man takes an enterprise in hand’.

ff. 96v-97r: Extract from an anonymous poem beginning ‘This Delphos is on mount Parnasus faire’.

f. 97r: Copy of a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘No place commendes the man unworthie praise’.

ff. 97v-98v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘An Earle there was that wedded, lov’d, was lov’d, and lived long’.

f. 98v: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Each man may crake of that which is his owne’.

ff. 98v-99r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Wee worldly folke accompt him verie wise’.

f. 99r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘But such as strive to fish before the net’.

f. 99r: Copy of a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘Glorie attain’d, the way to hold and keepe the same’.

f. 99r-99v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Some love to boast what fortune they have had’.

f. 99v: Copy of a poem beginning ‘Oh how wee blinded are when fortune smiles’.

ff. 99v-100r: Copy of a poem beginning ‘Thou fortune slye, what meansts thou this, these prankes to playe?’

f. 100r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Then What availleth paine or providence of man’.

f. 100r-100v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Now what shalvee shall bee: there is no choyse’.

f. 100v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Trust who so will the staffe of his estate’.

f. 100v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘What liquor first the earthen pot doth take’.

ff. 100v-101r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘On th’earth wee greeve the grounde for filthie gayne’.

f. 101r-101v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Who is more bolde then is the blind Bear’d?’

f. 101v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘How can he rule well in a common wealth’.

ff. 101v-102r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Behold my coate burnt with the sparkes of fyre’.

ff. 102r-104v: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Sackville, beginning ‘Midnight was come, when everie vitall thing’.

f. 104v: Copy of a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘Rude are the revells royaltie that rape’.

f. 104v: Copy of a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘What bootes it hautie hartes depend so muche’.

ff. 104v-105r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Each thing by nature tendeth to the same’.

f. 105r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘T’is mostely seene in all dissimulations’.

f. 105r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Alas what should we count the cause of wretches cares’.

f. 105r-105v: Copy of a poem attributed to George Ferrers, beginning ‘As highest hills with tempests been most touched’.

f. 105v: Extract of a poem by Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘The Eagles force, subdues ech bird that flies’.

ff. 105v-106r: Extract of a poem by Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘What steps of strife, belong to high estate?’

f. 106r-106v: Copy of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘How shall I doe? my harte is lost, and I am lesse in woe’.

f. 106v: Copy of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘It is a world, to wonder at, the wayes that men adore’.

ff. 106v-107r: Extract of a poem by Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘The fonde desire, that wee in glorie set’.

f. 107r: Poem titled ‘A Riddle’, attributed to Henry Peacham, beginning ‘Anatomie of wonder great I speake, and yet am dead’.

ff. 107r-113r: Copy of a poem by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, beginning ‘The Wrathfull winter proching on apace’.

f. 113r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘One man himselfe may much by wit foresee’.

f. 113r-113v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Like as diseases common cause of death’.

ff. 113v-114r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Oh what a number fynd wee now a day’.

f. 114r: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘It was at midnight when a Nonne, in travaile of a childe’.

f. 114r-114v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Oh wreatched and unhappie life, of thee what should I speake’.

f. 114v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘Unborne, to know what I should be to Gods my mother praid’.

ff. 114v-115v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘A proper Ladd there was, made Love unto a pretie Lasse’.

ff. 115v-116r: Extract of a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘If fortune was so firme as shee is fraile’.

f. 116r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Ambitious minde, a worlde of wealth would have’.

f. 116r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The mindes of men, with wiles are wrought like waxe’.

f. 116r-116v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Pride is a thinge, that God and man abhores’.

ff. 116v-117r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Yf all be bace, and of so smale accompts’.

f. 117r: Extract of Samuel Daniel, ‘History of the Civil War’, beginning ‘O doth th’Eternall in the course of thinges’.

ff. 117v-119r: Extract of Edmund Spenser, ‘A Hymne in Honour of Beautie’, beginning ‘What tyme this worlds great workmaster did cast’.

f. 119r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Hill, beginning ‘By tracte of type things most observe are manifested plaine’.

ff. 119r-122r: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘King Aganippus at his death did with his Lords decree’.

f. 122r Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Some men I thinke are borne unfortunate’.

f. 122r-122v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘O how can men at all assure themselves?’

f. 122v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Even as ech sommer once receaves an end’.

f. 122v: Extract from a poem attributed to John Higgins, beginning ‘But what endureth long that’s violent’.

f. 122v: Excerpt of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘About the desart parts of Greece there is a valley low’.

f. 123r: Copy of William Smith, Sonnet 39, beginning ‘The stately lion and the furious Beare’.

f. 123r: Extract of Samuel Daniel, ‘History of the Civil War’, beginning ‘O could the mightie but give bounds to pride’.

f. 123r: Extract of Sir John Harington, ‘The Metamorphosis of Ajax’, beginning ‘Concerning wives, take this a certaine rule’.

f. 123r-123v: Extract of Robert Southwell, ‘Saint Peters Complaint’, beginning ‘Ah Sinne, the nothing that doth all things fyle’.

f. 124r: Copy of Robert Southwell, ‘Time goe by turnes’, beginning ‘The lopped tree in tyme may grow againe’.

f. 124r-124v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘I tell now of a pleasant toy, of one that dream’d of late’.

ff. 124v-125v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Oh that our Church-Lords weare for zeale’.

f. 125v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Grounded advice, in danger seldome trips’.

f. 125v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Ill newes hath winges, and with the wynd doth goe’.

ff. 125v-126r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Vertue can beare what can on vertue fall’.

f. 126r: Extract of Robert Southwell, ‘Looke home’, beginning ‘Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights’.

f. 126r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘Well may a rich mans hearse want teares’.

f. 126r-126v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Warner, beginning ‘Somtyme the best, seems not the best’.

f. 126v: Extract of Robert Southwell, ‘Lewd Love is Losse’, beginning ‘So long the flie doth dally with the flame’.

ff. 126v-127r: Copy of Robert Southwell, ‘Scorne not the least’, beginning ‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountering strong’.

f. 127r: Extract of Robert Southwell, ‘Saint Peters Complaint’, beginning ‘O women, woe to men: traps for their falls’.

f. 127r: Extract of Robert Southwell, ‘Saint Peters Complaint’, beginning ‘Ah life, sweete drop, drownd in a sea of sowres’.

f. 127r-127v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Ambition with the Eagle loves to build’.

f. 127v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘When as our actions measure not regard’.

ff. 127v-130r: Copy of Edmund Spenser, ‘A Hymn of Heavenly Beauty’, beginning ‘Rapt with the rage of myne owne ravisht thought’.

ff. 130r-137r: Copy of Nicholas Breton, ‘A Solemn Passion’, beginning ‘Awake my Soule, out of the sleepe of sinne’.

ff. 137r-138r: Copy of Thomas Lodge, ‘Anthenors Item, to all young Gentlemen’, beginning ‘The retchlesse race of youths inconstant course’.

ff. 138r-139r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Beard, beginning ‘Along the verdant fields all richly dy’d’.

f. 139r: Copy of a poem attributed to William Hunnis, beginning ‘If thou delight in quietnes of life’.

f. 139r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘When hope and hap, when health and wealth is hyghest’.

f. 139r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Recall to mynd before all other things’.

f. 139v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The lucke, the life, the love’.

f. 139v: Copy of Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Like to a Hermite poore’, beginning ‘Like hermite poore, in pensive place obscure’.

f. 140r: Copy of Nicholas Breton, ‘Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon’, beginning ‘faire in a morne, the fairest morne, was never morne so faire’.

ff. 140r-140v: Extracts of Thomas Nashe, ‘Pierce Pennilesse’, beginning ‘Why when life is my true happinesse disease?

f. 140v: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees have topps, the ante her gall’, with the stanzas reversed, beginning ‘Where watters smoothest runne are deepest foords’.

f. 140v: Copy of Edward de Vere, ‘Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content’, beginning ‘Were I a king, I could commande content’.

f. 141r-141v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘It was a question late in heraldrie’.

f. 141v: Copy of Chidiock Tichborne, ‘Tichborne’s Lament’, titled ‘mr Tytchborns verses’, beginning ‘My prime of youth, is but a frost of cares’.

ff. 141v-142r: Copy of Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The Lie’, beginning ‘Goe soule thy bodies guest’.

f. 142v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Dame nature in her guifts, hath delt but ill with me’.

f. 142v: Copy of Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The Excuse’, beginning ‘Calling to mynd myne eye went long about’.

ff. 142v-143r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘When hap I sought by hope of future grace’.

f. 143r: Extract of a poem attributed to Thomas Baldwin, beginning ‘But as diseaeses common cause of death’.

f. 143r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Well may she scorne tymes sacriligious thefts’.

f. 143r-143v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘The lowring heaven had mask’d her in a cloud’.

f. 143v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘It’s sure our vice, nor vertues never dye’.

f. 143v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘There was some gallant ladies of the court’.

ff. 143v-144r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘The temper of my nobler mooving part’.

f. 144r-144v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Turmoyld with surges of unquiet seas’.

f. 145r: Copy of Edward de Vere, ‘When werte thow borne desyre?’, beginning ‘When were ye born desyre’.

f. 145r-145v: Copy of a poem attributed to Anne Vavasour, beginning ‘Though I seme strang my freend be thou not so’.

f. 145v: Extract of Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’, beginning ‘What lenght [sic] of vearse can serve brave Mopsas good to shew’.

ff. 145v-146r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Of late what tyme the Beare turned round’.

f. 146r-146v: Copy of a poem attributed to Anthony Munday, beginning ‘In paradice of late a Dame begune’. Subscribed ‘R.W.’

ff. 146v-147r: Copy of Nicholas Breton, ‘Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge’, beginning ‘Sitting late with sorrowe sleeping’. Subscribed ‘La: R’.

f. 147r-147v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Mee thought of late in sleepe I sawe a Dame’.

f. 147v-148r: Copy of Nicholas Breton, ‘Some men will saie, there is a kinde of muse’, beginning ‘Some men will say there is a kynd of Muse’.

f. 148r-148v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Short is my rest whose toyle is over long’.

f. 148v-149r: Copy of Nicholas Breton, ‘Quator elementa’, beginning ‘The Ayer with sweete my senses doth delight’.

f. 149r: Copy of Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 23’, beginning ‘Whoso hath fancye pleased’.

ff. 149v-150r: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I would it were not as it is’, beginning ‘I would it were not as it is’.

f. 150r-150v: Copy of Thomas Campion, ‘Dolus’, beginning ‘Thou shalt not love mee neither shall these eyes’. Subscribed ‘finis Tho: Camp:’

f. 150v: Copy of Thomas Campion, ‘Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre’, beginning ‘Thrice tosse those oaken ashes in the ayer’. Subscribed ‘finis Idem’.

ff. 150v-151r: Copy of Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’, titled ‘Beautie without Love deformitie’, beginning ‘Thou art not fayer for all thy red and white’.

f. 151r-151v: Copy of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, ‘Muses no more but mazes be your names’, beginning ‘Muses no more but Mazes be yor names’. Subscribed ‘finis. Comes Essex’.

ff. 151r-152v: Translation by Richard Edes, titled ‘Luigi Groto his New Philosophie Englished by Doctor Eedes’, beginning ‘New pointes of Arte who longs to heare’.

ff. 152v-153r: Copy of a poem beginning ‘Faire Christall eyes remayne still fierce and cruell’. Subscribed ‘H. Gray’.

f. 153r: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees have topps, the ante her gall’, beginning ‘The lowest trees have toppes the Cedars higher’.

f. 153r-153v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Breake heavie hart and ridd mee of this payne’.

f. 153v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘What thing is Love? A needlesse Idle thought’.

ff. 153v-154r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Watson, beginning ‘Sweete libertie restores my wonted joy’.

f. 154r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Disdayne that so doth fill thee, hath surely sworne to kill me’.

f. 154r-154v: Copy of Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Fayne would I but I dare not’, beginning ‘Fayne would I but I dare not, I dare and yet I may not’.

f. 154v: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Sonnet’, beginning ‘Prometheus when first from heaven hye’.

f. 154v: Extract from Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia’, beginning ‘Let not old age disgrace my high desyre’.

f. 155r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Witt winnes a worlde, and who hath hap & witt’.

f. 155r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘Faire beauties shew doth make the wise full fond’.

f. 155v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘What thinge ist may suffice unto the greedie man’.

f. 155v: Copy of a poem attributed to George Ferrers, beginning ‘Of ryot and excesse, groweth scarsitie and lacke’.

f. 155v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Much wealth breeds wrath, in such as wealth do want’.

f. 155v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘When fortune heares shee hurleth downe as fast’

f. 155v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Full seldome joye continueth trouble voyde’.

f. 156r: Extract from ‘The Passionate Pilgrim’, beginning ‘My flocke feeds not, my Ewes breede not, my Ramms speede not in their blis’.

f. 156r-156v: Extract of Thomas Nashe, ‘Verses from Astrophel and Stella’, beginning ‘Yf floods of teares could clense my follies past’.

f. 156v: Copy of Thomas Campion, ‘Canto Quinto’, beginning ‘A day a night an howre of sweet content’.

f. 156v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘O glorious golde, the gapeing after thee’.

f. 156v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘That man speeds ill, that world will nere advance’.

f. 156v: Extract of a poem attributed to Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘Thy natures gifts are cause of all my griefe’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Even as fire ill quenched will up at a start’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Oft tymes false flatterie abuseth wanton youth’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Selfe love breeds glorie, glorie maketh proud’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Sure pride is such, if it be kyndely caught’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Pride pricketh men to flatter for the pray’.

f. 157r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘With trouble, anguish, sorrowe, smarts, and shame’.

f. 157v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘By others harmes who listeth take no heede’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Who straines their stocke from auncient worthie men’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Oft prosperously doth fortune forward call’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘As droppes of raine engender mightie flouds’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Oh cursed goods, desyre of you have wrought’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘Seldome doth treason tyme so fittly fynd’.

f. 157v: Extract of a poem attributed to William Baldwin, beginning ‘What fooles bee wee to trust unto our strenght [sic]’.

f. 157v: Extract of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The cause ofte tymes, and not the casuall speed’.

f. 157v: Extract of an anonymous poem beginning ‘A vertuous life, free hart, and lowlye mynde’.

f. 158r: Extract of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, ‘Muses no more but mazes be your names’, beginning ‘Muses no more, but mazes bee yor names’.

f. 158r: Copy of a poem attributed to Humphrey Coningsby, beginning ‘When first of all dame Nature wrought’.

f. 158r-158v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘A man of late was put to death’.

ff. 158v-159r: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘A Fancy’, beginning ‘Hee that his mirth hath lost, whose comfort is dismayed’.

f. 159r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The harts ease that I had sowne’.

f. 159r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘O how our joyes are shadowes and deceive us’.

f. 159v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘A mischiefe seene may easely be prevented’.

ff. 159v-160r: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘The winds are husht, no litle breath doth blowe’.

ff. 160v-163v: Collection of two-line ‘Poesyes’.

f. 163v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘What griefe can be, but tyme doth make it lesse’.

f. 163v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘Fame never stoopes to things but meane and poore’.

f. 163v: Extract of a poem attributed to Michael Drayton, beginning ‘To shadow sinne, might can the most pretend’.

ff. 163v-164r: Extract of a poem attributed to Nicholas Breton, beginning ‘Amongst the groves, the woods, and thickes’.

f. 164r: Extract of a poem attributed to Robert Southwell, beginning ‘O loath that Love whose fynall ayme is Lust’.

f. 164r: Extract of a poem attributed to Robert Southwell, beginning ‘Sleepe, Deathes alye, oblivion of teares’.

ff. 164v-165r: Extract of Samuel Daniel, ‘The tragedy of Cleopatra’, beginning ‘Opinion, how dost thou molest’.

f. 165r: Extract of a poem attributed to Edmund Spenser, beginning ‘Who lyfe doth loath, and longs death to behold’.

ff. 165r-166r: Extract of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Dye dye desyre and bid delight Adieu’.

f. 166r: Extract of Josuah Sylvester’s translation of Jean du Nesme, beginning ‘Th’Unlookt-for working of all things allmost’.

f. 166r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Place Gyant stoute deepe in a dalle set dwarfe upon a hill’.

f. 166v: Extract of George Puttenham, ‘The Arte of English Poesie’, beginning ‘What life is the liefest? The needy is full of awe’. With an answer-poem.

ff. 166v-167r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Oh who is hee that from himselfe can turne’.

ff. 167r-168r: Copy of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, ‘A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary’, beginning ‘It was a tyme when sillie bees could speake’.

f. 168r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Churchyard, beginning ‘The thoughts of men do dayly chaunge’.

f. 168v: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux, beginning ‘How can The Tree but wast and wither away’.

f. 168v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The worldly doth now and then unconstantly desyre’.

f. 169r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘The Bull by Nature hath his Hornes’.

f. 169r-169v: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The Song in the Oak’, beginning ‘The man whose thoughts against him do conspire’.

f. 169v: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Watson, beginning ‘You mestive soules of blind fond Ciprians boat’.

ff. 169v-170r: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘In a field full fayer of flowers’.

f. 170r-170v: Extract of a poem attributed to Anthony Munday, beginning ‘I serve a Mistris whiter then the Snowe’.

f. 170v: Extract of a poem attributed to Anthony Munday, beginning ‘Ah Cursed Dames their Love is like a flame’

ff. 170v-171r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Watson, beginning ‘Love is a sower delight, a sugred griefe’.

f. 171r: Copy of an anonymous poem titled ‘Loves Horologie’, beginning ‘Tyme wrought by tyme Loves horologie in my brest’.

ff. 171r-172v: Copy of Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Astrophil and Stella, Song 8’, beginning ‘In a grove most riche of shade’.

f. 172v: Extract of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Fancy farwell, that fed my fond delight’, beginning ‘Cease Sorrowes now for thou hast don thy deed’.

f. 173r: Copy of Sir Edward Dyer, ‘As rare to heare as seldome to be seene’, beginning ‘As rare to heare as seldome to be seene’.

f. 173r: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Watson, beginning ‘What ayles poore venus now to sit allone’.

ff. 173v-175r: Copy of Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Third Eclogues, no. 64’, beginning ‘A Neighbour myne not Long ago there was’.

f. 175r-175v: Copy of a poem attributed to Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux, beginning ‘When Cupid scalled first the forte’.

f. 176r-176v: Two extracts of Pierre de Ronsard, ‘Les Oevres de P. de Ronsard’, titled ‘Ces vers suivans furent recitez sur le Theatre a la fin d’un Comedie’, beginning ‘Fey la Comedie apparoist un example’. French.

ff. 177r-189v: Copy of an anonymous poem titled ‘Verse upon the report of the death of the right Honorable the Lord of Essex’, beginning ‘Good God, what will at lenght [sic] become of us?’

f. 189v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘For 2 and 30tie yeares as man and wife, we lived togeather’.

f. 189v: Copy of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Here lyes a woeman, no man can denie itt’.

f. 190r: Fragment of an anonymous poem beginning ‘Here under this flore / lyes Sir Peter Vanlore’.

f. 191v: Fragment of prose: ‘Octavia indeed my mother this morning told mee that after to morrow I most marry philander and accordingly at home I moste see all thinges readey for the Ceremony my Chamber my bed my night Clothes every every body is busie in something aboute me and yet mee […] me joy fills me’.

f. 192r: Note: ‘Witnesses hereunto’.

f. 193r: Notes in Latin and Greek, with dates in 1624 and 1638.

f. 194v: Pasted slip: ‘Mr Richard Voth[?]’.