Add MS 47111

EGMONT PAPERS. Vol. CXCII (ff. i+169). Egmont MS. 255. Commonplace book of Sir John Perceval, 1st Bart., probably compiled while at Magdalene College, Cambridge; 1646-1649, n.d. The chief contents are poems, mostly with no indication of authorship, as listed below. In addition, at ff. 92-168 (reversing the volume) are exercises in Latin and Greek verse, including sacred epigrams, and in Latin prose, apparently composed by Perceval, etc. Also interspersed throughout the volume (ff. 46-88 passim, 137b, 138b) are copies of family and other correspondence, partly in Latin.

(1) Poems which are attributable, chiefly by reference to standard editions or to M. Crum, First-Line Index of English Poetry, 1500-1800, in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2 vols., 1969. Viz:-(a) William Browne, of Tavistock, 'On a woman lost in the snow', beg. 'Within a fleece of silent water drownd'. f. 10b;-(b) William Cartwright, beg. 'Come from the dungion to the throne'. f. 44b;-(c) The Hon. Thomas Cary, beg. 'Fairwell deare Saint may not the sea or wind'. f. 10b;-(d) Robert Chamberlain (apparently unpublished):-(i) 'A meditation in a garden', beg. 'Brave flowers, that I would gallant it like you'. f. 10;- (ii) 'On humaine frailty occasioned by the death of Mr Will Malnorer', beg. 'Like to the downy Swan that sings'. f. 13;-(iii)' Wishes to a friend', beg. 'May our desires be ever crownd'. f. 13b;-(iv) 'Description of sleepe', beg. 'Thou downy slumber that intoombs the light'. f. 13b;-(v) 'Epitaph on a friend and now engraven on his tombe in the new church in Coven gardene', beg. 'Stay reader stand and drop a teare'. f. 14;-(vi) 'The wandring of Aeneas' (mostly prose). ff. 31-38;-(vii) Beg. 'When like a nymph I lived in woods'. f. 39;-(e) Henry Cholmley (?), 'On [John] Felton hanging in chaines', beg. 'Heere uninterd suspends (though not to save)'. f. 4b;-(f) John Cleveland (with omissions):-(i) The Hecatomb. f. 15b;-(ii) 'On the death of Mr [Edward] King'. f. 16;-(g) Samuel Collins, Provost of King's College, Cambridge:-(i) Two poems (apparently unpublished) addressed to the Hon. Robert Boyle, the first entitled 'Sylva'; 30, 31 Jan. 164⁶/7. Lat. ff. 113b-114b (rev.);-(ii) On the death of Susanna, first wife of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (preceded by other poems on the same subject, ff. 92-95b (rev.)); 1649. Lat. f. 92 (rev.);-(h) Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford:-(i) On Great Tom at Christ Church. f. 5b;-(ii) On Daniel Price's anniversary sermon on the death of Prince Henry. f. 27;-(i) Abraham Cowley and Richard Crashaw, beg. 'Hope! whose weake beinge ruin'd is'. ff. 68-69;-(j) Sir William Davenant, 'On Endimion Porter's wife'. f. 15;-(k) Michael Drayton, beg. 'I prethee leave love me noe more'. f. 11;-(1) John Fletcher:-(i) 'On Malancholy', omitting the first stanza which beg. 'Hence all you vain delights'. f. 11;-(ii) Beg. 'Dearest doe not now delay me'. See N. Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 1950, p. 5. f. 24;-(m) Robert Herrick, beg. 'Come bringe your sampler & w^th art'. f. 25;-( n) Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel (?), 'On Prince Henries death', beg. 'In sad and ashie weeds'. f. 8b;-(o) Dr Henry Hughes, 'King Charles on the departure of his Queene into France, beg. 'Cloris now thou hast fled away'. f. 72b;-(p) William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 'On Prince Henries death', beg. 'Nature waxinge old began'. f. 21b;-(q) Henry King, Bishop of Chichester:-(i) Beg. 'Dry those faire those cristall eyes'. f. 21b;-(ii) Beg. 'O what is the existence of mans life'. f. 23;-(iii) Beg. 'Telle me noe more how faire shee is'. f. 23b;-(iv) Beg. 'A prison is in all things like a grave'. ff. 25b-26b;-(r) Richard Lovelace, To Althea. f. 7b;-(s) Adm. Sir John Mennes:-(i) 'On a leane tired horse carryinge a fatt man', beg. 'About the time'. f . 5;-(ii) 'Since last I writt I heare deere hunny'. f. 14b;-(t) George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, 'On a Nightingall …'. f. 4;-(u) Anthony Munday, beg. 'Beuty sate bathinge by a springe'. f. 27b;-(v) Lot Peere, of Audley End, poems exchanged with John Perceval. ff. 80b-81b, 82b;-(w) Thomas Philipot, beg. 'Faire Cloris standinge by the fier'. f. 24;-(x) Francis Quarles (?), 'On [Michael] Draytons monument', beg. 'Doe pious marble let thy readers know'. f . 11b;- (y) Richard Senhouse, Bishop of Carlisle (?), 'On Prince Henery death', beg. 'I have noe vaine for verse but if I could'. f. 27b;-(z) James Shirley, beg. 'What hath my pretty child misdon'. f. 21;-(aa) William Strode:-(i) 'In praise of gray eyes' (with omissions), beg. 'Se how the russet morne exceeds the night'. f. 4;-(ii) On King James's death (incomplete). f. 12;-(iii) Beg. 'I saw faire Cloris walke alone'. f. 12b;-(bb) Sir John Suckling, beg. 'Why soe pale & wan fond lover'. f. 22;-(cc) Sir Henry Wotton, On Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia. f. 7.

(2) Anonymous poems, other texts of which have been identified, mostly in the Department's collections or by reference to Crum, op. cit. Viz:-(a) 'On greate men', beg. 'The moone beinge clouded presently in mist'. Cf. Add. MS. 15227, f. 79b. f. 5;-(b) 'The good wifes Ale', beg. 'When shall wee meete againe and have a tast'. f. 6;-(c) 'On Queene Elyz.', beg. 'The Queene was brought by water to Whitehall'. f . 11b;-(d) 'ln worldly felicity' (incomplete), beg. 'Noe worldlinge no tis not thy gold'. Cf. Eg. MS. 923, f. 34b. f. 12;-(e) 'On womens unconstancy', beg. 'Commit thy ship unto the wind'. f. 12;-(f) Beg. 'I hate a lye and yet a ly did run'. f. 14;-(g) Beg. 'Deare leave thy home & come w^th me'. Cf. Harl. MS. 6917, f. 31. f. 17b;-(h) 'On the Marriage of Prince Arthure and Katherine of Spaine', beg. 'The day was turned to starr light & was run'. ff. 18-20b;-(i) Beg. 'Soe glides away the wanton brooke'. f. 21;-(j) 'A Welsh man to his M^ris', beg. 'Modest shentil woman when her see'. f. 22b;-(k) Beg. 'Ladies you yt seeme soe nice'. Printed in Witts Recreations, new edn., 1874, p. 316. f. 25;-(1) 'On the death of ye same Prince [Henry]', beg. 'A plant of the fairest growth yt ever stood'. Cf. Eg. MS. 2725, f. 59b, and Add. MS. 15226, f. 4. f. 27b;-(m) Beg. 'Still so obdurat! Hast thou vowed to live' Cf. Harl. MS. 6917, f. 75. f. 45;-(n) Beg. 'Be gon thou fatall fiery fever'. ff. 53-54b;-(o) 'Anti-Brownist', beg. Blesse us good Lords from yt dull sect who say'. f. 58-(p) 'On a Pint Pot', beg. 'Old Poets Hypocrene admire'. f. 59;-(q) Beg. 'Pox take yow M^ris Ile begon' (with omissions). Cf. Harl. MS. 3991, f. 41b, and Eg. MS. 2725, f. 166. f. 59b;-(r) 'Charing Crosse', beg. 'Undon Undon the Lawers are'. f. 66.

(3) Other poems, chiefly: -(a) 'Felton in prison', beg. 'Know I would have posterity to heare'. f. 4b;-(b) 'A description of a hot season', beg. 'In countries I have been'. f. 9;-(c) 'A Description of a greate raine', beg. 'Heaven did not weepe but in his swellinge eye'. f. 9;-(d) 'On weomen', beg. 'Goe with thy rod the seas divide'. f. 9b;-(e) 'A Hermits meditation', beg. 'Heere dwel noe hartlesse woes, noe palsie feares'. f. 10b;-(f) Beg. 'Though my mistris seeme in show'. f. 16;-(g) Series of poems entitled 'Gaudium', 'Doler', 'Timor', 'Spes', 'Ira', 'Amor'. ff. 29, 43;-(h) Beg. 'My sences faile me what is now I see'. f. 44;-(i) Beg. 'Come let us be merry and freindly agree'. f. 44;-(j) Beg. 'Sweare not at all, the swearer doth provoke'. f. 45b;-(k) Beg. 'All things now flourish and the plowman's glad'. f. 57;-(l) Beg. 'Why bastard beautie doe I still adore?'. f. 61;-(m) Beg. 'Beuties fair star: bright miror of the Earth'. f. 67;-(n) 'Cromwells Panegyricke', beg. 'Shall Presbiterian bells ringe Cromwels praise'. ff. 70-71;-(o) 'On the Nativity of Christ', beg. 'Come come yea chorists celebrate & singe'. f. 72;-(p) 'A Sophister', beg. 'The muses springs are Bacchus floods of wine'. f. 72;-(q) Beg. 'Sir. Why so silent? Will you live like one'. f. 84;-(r) 'The Spur', beg. 'At parting this you crav'd: my thoughts did stir'. f. 85;-(s) 'The Irish Trooper' beg. 'Sing out my muse aloud, sing high enough'. f. 86;-(t) Beg. 'Sick sick o desprate sick I was at heart'. f. 87b.

Commonplace Books: Sir J. Perceval: bef. 1665.: Engl., Lat. and Gr.

Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet 1661 d 1665: Commonplace book: n.d.: Engl., Lat. and Gr.

Poetry ENGLISH: Miscellaneous verses, copied by Sir J. Perceval, 1st Bart.: bef. 1665.

includes:

• f. 4 George Morley, Bishop of Winchester: Poem, 'The Nightingale',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 4b John Felton, Assassin of the Duke of Buckingham: Poems rel. to: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 4b Henry Cholmley: Poem attrib. to, on J. Felton,: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 4, 12, 12b William Strode, poet and dramatist: Poems attrib. to: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• ff. 5, 14b Admiral Sir John Mennes: Poems attrib. to: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• ff. 5b, 27 Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich: Poems: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 7 Sir Henry Wotton, diplomatist and poet: Poem on Elizabeth, Qu. of Bohemia,: circ. 1619.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 7b Richard Lovelace, poet: Poem, 'To Althea',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 8b Anne Howard, widow of Philip, 13th Earl of Arundel: Poem on Prince Henry's death, attrib. to,: circ. 1612.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 8b, 21b,27b Henry, Princes of Wales: Poems on his death: circ. 1612.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 10b Thomas Cary, Gentleman of the Bedchamber: Poem, 'On his mistress going to sea',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 10b William Browne, of Tavistock: Poems attrib. to: circ. 1621, n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• ff. 10, 13-14, 31-39b Robert Chamberlain, d 1660 poet: Poems by (?): 17th cent.: Copies, bef. 1665.
• f. 11b Francis Quarles, poet: Poem attrib. to, on M. Drayton's monument,: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f.11 Michael Drayton, poet: Poem, 'I prithee leave, love me no more',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff.11, 24 John Fletcher, dramatist: Poems attrib. to: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 15 Sir William Davenant, poet and dramatist: Poem on Olivia Porter: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 15b, 16 John Cleveland, Poet, Tutor of St John's College, Cambridge: Poems: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 21 James Shirley, poet and dramatist: Poem on a child sick of smallpox;: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 21b William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury: Poem on Prince Henry's death,: circ. 1612.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 21b, 23-24, 25b-26b Henry King, Bishop of Chichester: Poems: n.d.: Copies, 17th cent.
• f. 22 Sir John Suckling, poet; MP for Bramber: Poem,'Why so pale and wan, fond lover';: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 24 Thomas Philipot, author: Poem, 'Fair Chloris standing by the fire',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 25 Robert Herrick, poet: Poem, 'The Wounded Heart': n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 27b Anthony Munday, poet and dramatist: Poem, 'Beauty sat bathing by a spring',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 27b Richard Senhouse, Bishop of Carlisle: Poem by (?), on Prince Henry's death,: circ. 1612.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f. 44b William Cartwright, dramatist: 'The Priest's Song', from 'The Royal Slave',: 1636.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 68-69 Richard Crashaw, poet: Poem, 'On Hope',: 1646.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 68-69 Abraham Cowley, poet: Poem, 'On Hope',: 1646.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 70-71 Oliver Cromwell of England: Poem, 'Cromwell's Panegyricke',: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• f.72b Dr Henry Hughes: Poem attrib. to, on the departure of Qu. Henrietta Maria: n.d.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 80b-81b,82b Lot Peere, of Audley End: Poems exchanged with J. Perceval: bef. 1661.: Copies, 17th cent.
• ff. 92-95b (rev.) Susanna Howard, 1st wife of James, 3rd Earl of Suffolk: Poems rel. to: circ. 1649.: Lat.
• ff. 92 (rev.), 113b-114b (rev.) Samuel Collins, Provost of King's College, Cambridge: Poems: 1647, 1649.: Lat.: Copies, 17th cent.
• ff. 113b-114b (rev.) Hon Robert Boyle, scientist: Poems to, by Dr. S. Collins: 1647.: Lat.: Copies, 17th cent.