Sloane MS 1489

Sloane 1489

Paper, 12mo, ff. 59, XVII century.

A miscellaneous collection of jests, stories, reparties, etc., in prose and verse, written apparently in 1627, by someone who was connected with Cambridge. Among these the following may be specified:-

1. 'The triming of Tom Nashe,' f. 2,

Begin:-

'Harke, hark my maysters, and be still, and give good eare

And I will sing as merrye a jeast as you have hearde this yeare.'

2. 'The taming of a shrew.' f. 3,

Begin:-

'All you that are assembled here come listen to my song,

But first a pardon I must crave for feare of farther wrong.'

3. 'The loosing of his love.' f.4,

Begin:-

'In spring of yeare when weather waxed warme,

And birds began to sit on every tree,

I walkte abroad, thinking to take noe harme,

And looke what harme did happen unto me,

I saw a birde tho' blacke she was of hew,

Sing sweet me thought, oh that she had sung true!'

4. 'The horse race' between Corbet, Ellerton and Appleton,

from Severhill to Popleton ash. f. 4. b.

Begin:-

'You harde how Gatherlay race was run,

What horses lost, what horses wonne,

And al things ells that there was doone, That day.'

5. Invitation to purchase beauty, gentry, etc. f. 5.

Begin:-

'From the faire Lavenian shore

I your markets come to store.'

6. Description of an allegorical dance. f. 5.b.

Begin:-

'Last Christmas 'twas my chance

To be in Paris cytye,

Where I did see a dance,

In my conceite most wittye,

By the men of France.'

7. A song against marriage. f. 6.

Begin:-

'Wille to his mamme said he wold goe woo,

Fayne wold he wed, but he wist not how.'

8. An epigram upon the most proper epithet for a wife. f. 6.

Begin:-

'Some give their wyfes thes titles, Good, fayr, sweete,

As they finde beutye, love, or honestye.'

9. Tale of a Cambridge scholar and a lawyer, f. 6.

Begin:-

'A Cambridge scholler late to London went,

To see his friends, or some such like intent.'

10. Verses upon Ale. f. 6.b,

Begin:-

'Many have spoken and tolde a good a fayre tale

Mightye commending a pot of good ale.'

11. 'The Ave-Maria mad by a secular Masse Preist and given

to Mary, Queen Regent of France.' f. 7.b,

Begin:-

'When Judas with a Kisse his lord betrayde,

Ave Rabbi me al hayle he sayde.'

12. 'A Scotch song made by James the 5th King of Scotland,

in derision of their country meriments,' commonly called

Christ's Kirk in the Green. f. 8,

Printed amongst the 'Poetical Remains of James the First,

King of Scotland,' p. 165, Edinb. 1783, 8vo.

13. Williams the Jesuite, his first and last verses, with the answer. f. 9.

14. Verses against the rapacity of one Dr. Hall. f. 9.b.

Begin:-

'I live under Dr. Hall, miserere mei!

And under him undone be shall, ni rex fer[t] opem mei!'

15. Verses upon Bishop Bancroft's prayer for Prince Henry. f. 9.b,

Begin:-

'For Prince Henry England's heire,

Bishop Bancrofte made a prayre.'

16. Verses upon Robert Car, Earl of Somerset. f. 9.b.

Begin:-

'I. C. U. R. good mounseir Car, about to fall.'

17. A collection of epitaphs, in verse. f. 10.b.

18. An anagram upon Gondomore the Spanish Ambassador in England. f. 12.

19. Verses upon a disputation before King James I, supported by Mess.^rs Adam, Sandes, Young, Reid, and King. f. 14.b.

20. Verses upon the shortness of human life. f. 17.

Begin:-

'Like to the Damaske rose you see,

Or like the blossome on the tree.'

21. 'A roundelay in praise of the shepherdess Bellibone. f. 17. b.

Begin:-

D. 'It fel upon an holye eve

W. Hey ho holyday:

[D] When holye fathers went to shreve,

[W] Now begins our roundelay.'

22. A poetical altercation between a husband and wife,

entitled 'a Scotch brawle.' f. 18.

Begin:-

'Ga, my gude wyfe, don on your claize,

And to the market make you bonne.'

23. A satirical poem upon the Parliament in the time of King James I. f. 25.

Begin:-

'Downe came ancient Sir John Crooke,

And red his message in a booke.'

24. A poetical list of false assertions. f. 26.

Begin:-

'From Barwick to Dover ten thousand tymes over,

I trewlye have travelled ten tymes on a daye.'

25. A poem against those who pilfer church property. f. 27.

Begin:-

'Doth not the word of God goe to wrackibus,

When the church falls down for lackibus,

Off them that should cover his bare backibus?

Benedicatur Dominus!'

26. 'A true copye of a letter from [Peter Fryvlsey at] Millaine

to the Venetian Ambassador and by him delivered to the

King, translated verbatim out of Italian by a very good

translator.' Dat. 20 Aug. 1630. f. 29.b.

27. Letter from Thou R. to …. giving a description of the manners of the Scotch.

Dat. from Leeth neer Edenbrough, 26 June 1617 f. 31.

28. A collection entitled 'The jeasts of the Principall of

the howse' f. 36.

29. 'Notes taken out of a Treatise of Spectars, Strange sights and Apparitions.' ff. 54-58.

30. 'A few verses, etc., by William Lascelles. f. 60.

Poetry ENGLISH: Collection of miscellaneous verses by some one connected with Cambridge: 1627.

Fiction: Collection of jests and anecdotes by some one connected with Cambridge: 1627.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Miscellaneous collection of jests and stories in prose and verse, by some one belonging to: 1627.

includes:

• f. 8 James V of Scotland: Song called Christ's Kirk on the Green attributed to: 17th cent.
• f. 9 Williams, Jesuit: Verses: 17th cent.
• f. 9 b HENRY FREDERIC, Princes of Wales: Verses on Bishop Bancroft's prayer for: 17th cent.
• f. 9 b Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter (1627) and of Norwich (1641): Verses against his rapacity: 1627.
• f. 9 b Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset: Verse on: 1627.
• f. 9 b Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London (1597) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1604): Verses on his prayer for Prince Henry: 1627.
• f. 12 Diego Sarmiento d'Acuña, Count Gondomar; Spanish Ambassador in London: Anagram on: 1627.
• f. 14 b James I of England: Verses on a disputation before the King: 17th cent.
• f. 25 Admiral Sir John Mennes: Verses on the Parliament: temp. Jas. I.
• f. 29 b Pietro Trivulzio, of Milan: Letter to the Venetian Ambassador in London: 1630.: Copy.
• ff. 31-35 Thon. K-: Letter to his sweetheart, with a description of Scotch manners: 1617.