Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1600-ca. 1725.
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635.; Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601.; Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610.; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. Choice of valentines.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.; Shutleworth, Chas. (Charles), active 1691, former owner.
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Title
Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1600-ca. 1725.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1600-ca. 1725
Spine title
Commonplace verse and prose
Description
94 leaves.
Associated name
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635.
Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607.
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601.
Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
Shutleworth, Chas. (Charles), active 1691, former owner.
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635.
Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607.
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601.
Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
Shutleworth, Chas. (Charles), active 1691, former owner.
Scope and content
Contains amorous and religious poems, including several which have been attributed to Ludovick Lloyd, Raleigh, Campion, Dyer, Corbet, and Essex, and Nash's Dilldo [or Choice of valentines] (leaf 53v), epigrams of Sir John Davies, proverbs, maxims, riddles and 2 facetious sermons in Welsh English (leaf 5 and 5v). The phrase "shake the spear" occurs on leaf 31v. A number of poems ca. 1675-ca. 1725, a few attributed to Dryden and Pope, have been added. Contains the text of an early version of the ballad 'Wallsingham", which Ophelia alludes to in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Note
One sheet interleaved between leaf 68 and 69, and a portion of another between leaf 64 and 65. Gaps (including the first 7 leaves) and insertions in the original numbering system.
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
Spine title: Commonplace verse and prose.
One leaf of printed text (Memento mori = Remember to die) removed and cataloged separately as Folger shelfmark STC 1768165.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
Spine title: Commonplace verse and prose.
One leaf of printed text (Memento mori = Remember to die) removed and cataloged separately as Folger shelfmark STC 1768165.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
For an ascription of "My mind to me a kingdom is" on leaf 12 to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, see Review of English studies, new series, XXVI, no. 104 (Nov. 1975), 385.
Provenance
Chas. Shutleworth, 1691.
Formerly Folger MS Add 368.
Formerly Folger MS Add 368.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 25)
Includes
Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. Choice of valentines.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.399
Folger accession
MS Add 368