First-Line Index to O21
Eng. poet f.9, Bodleian Library, Oxford (Phillips ms.)
Compiled February 5, 2001, by JoAnna M. Klein
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) its Donne Variorum short form (noncan = noncanonical), (b) a siglum-plus-ordinal-position item tag, (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.), and (d) diplomatic transcriptions of its heading (HE) and first line. %X = element centered on the page.
prose O21.1 pp.3-5 HE %XA Letter to Rawlegh. B%+raue knowing; yet ignorant Rawleigh; knowing too much noncan O21.2 p.6 HE om Wronge not dear Empresse of my hart Christ O21.3 pp.6-7 HE When he went wth the Lo: Doncaster In what torne ship soeuer I embarke noncan O21.4 p.8 HE om Good folkes for gold or Hyer noncan O21.5 pp.8-9 HE om Loue bred of glaces twixt amourous eyes LovDiet O21.6 pp.9-10 HE %XLoues Diett: To wt a Cumbersome Vnwildnesse noncan O21.7 pp.10-11 HE %XWorthy Sr. Tis not a Coat of gray or sheapheards life noncan O21.8 pp.12-13 HE om Censure not sharply then but wee aduise LovAlch O21.9 pp.13-14 HE %XElegie Some that haue deeper dig'd loues myne than I noncan O21.10 p.14 HE om Who euer seekes my loue to know ElJeal O21.11 pp.14-15 HE om ffond woman wch woulds't haue thy husband dye noncan O21.12 p.16 HE om Thou send'st mee prose & rimes, thouI send for those Damp O21.13 p.17 HE %XThe Dampe. When I am dead and doctors know not why noncan O21.14 p.18 HE Nil refert loqui du%M vti lueat.| An English lad long woed a lasse of wales noncan O21.15 p.18 HE om Marcella now growne old, hath broke her glas noncan O21.16 p.19 HE om Stay oh sweete and doe not rise noncan O21.17 p.19 HE %XTo his mistresse. O loue whose pour & might noncan O21.18 pp.19-20 HE %XHer answere 1[LM] Yor letter I receaued noncan O21.19 pp.20-21 HE %XThe Mar: B: to ye Lady ffe: Her: Victorious beauty though your eyes ValWeep O21.20 pp.21-22 HE om Let me poure forth Ecst O21.21 pp.22-24 HE %XThe Extasy: Where like a pillow on a bed noncan O21.22 p.25 HE %XTo yonge gentlewomen at Court: Beware fair mayds of musky Courtiers oathes Pyr O21.23 p.26 HE %XPiramus & Thisbee Two by themselues each other loue and feare EpLin O21.24 pp.26-29 HE %XEpithal: of ye La: Eli: The sunn beames in the East ar spread Flea O21.25 pp.29-30 HE %XThe fflea: Marke but this flea and marke in this Fun O21.26 pp.30-31 HE %XThe ffunerall Who euer comes to shrow'd me doe not harme Will O21.27 pp.31-33 HE %The Will.| Before I sigh my last gasp: let me breath Appar O21.28 pp.33-34 HE %XApparition: When by thy scorne Oh murdresse I am deade. ConfL O21.29 p.34 HE To the woe: of al my lou my virtuous Mrs.| Some man vnworthy to be p%Pssessor Witch O21.30 pp.34-35 HE %XThe Picture I fix mine eye on thine and there TWHail O21.31 pp.35-36 HE %XTo Mr T: W. All haile sweet poet full of more strong fier. Antiq O21.32 p.36 HE %XAntiquary If in his study Haman haue such care Disinher O21.33 p.36 HE om [under heading for O21.32] Y' father all from thee by his last will Liar O21.34 p.36 HE om [under heading for O21.32] Thou in ye field walkest out thy supping howers Twick O21.35 p.37 HE %XTwittingham garden Blasted wth sighs and furrowed wth cares ElAut O21.36 pp.38-39 HE %XWiddow: No spring nor summer beauty hast such grace ValMourn O21.37 pp.39-41 HE %XAn Elegye: As virtuous men passe mildly away Storm O21.38 p.41 HE %XStorme...| [floral ornament] Thou wch art I, 'tis nothinge to bee soe [ll. 1-18 only. ll. 19-74 at O21.147] Broken O21.39 pp.42-43 HE %XElegye He is starke mad who euer sayes noncan O21.40 p.43 HE %XA poem: Absence heare my protestatio%M ElBrac O21.41 p.44 HE A curse for the taking away a gold: Chaine; [SS: drawing of hand with chain at wrist] May the next thing tho stoopest, to reach containe [ll. 99-114 only. ll. 1-98 at O21.146] SGo O21.42 pp.44-45 HE om Go catch a falling starre Token O21.43 pp.45-46 HE %XElegie Send mee some tokens that my hopes may liue ElServe O21.44 pp.46-47 HE %XElegie. Oh let mee not serue >%Vso< as those men serue Beggar O21.45 p.47 HE om I am vnable yonder begger cryes LovDeity O21.46 pp.47-48 HE %XElegye. I longe to ta >l< k wth some old louers ghost Ind O21.47 pp.48-49 HE %XSonnet. I can loue both fair and browne Mess O21.48 pp.49-50 HE %XSonnet Send home my long strayd eyes to mee noncan O21.49 p.50 HE om Ah silly John surpriz'd wth Joy HWNews O21.50 pp.50-51 HE %Xffrom Court Hee'rs no more newes then virtue; I may as well; HWKiss O21.51 pp.51-54 HE om Sr more then kisses Letters; mingle soules ElComp O21.52 pp.54-56 HE om As the sweet swett of roses in a still noncan O21.53 pp.56-58 HE %XElegie.| Come fates I feare you not; all whome I owe BedfShe O21.54 pp.58-60 HE %XAn Elegie to* the La: Bedforde You that are shee and you that are double shee BoulNar O21.55 pp.60-62 HE An Elegie on the death of Mrs Boulstred Language thou art too narrow and to weake ElChange O21.56 pp.62-63 HE om Although thy hand, and fayth; & good works too Leg O21.57 pp.63-64 HE om When I di'de last; (and deare I dye) ElBed O21.58 pp.64-66 HE %XSonnett. Come madam come; all rest my powers defy Dream O21.59 pp.66-67 HE %XA Dreame Deare loue for nothing lesse then thee Triple O21.60 pp.67-68 HE om I am two fooles I knowe. LovGrow O21.61 pp.68-69 HE %XThe springe I scarce beleeue my loue to bee so pure Prohib O21.62 pp.69-70 HE om Take heede of loving mee SunRis O21.63 pp.70-71 HE om Busy old foole; vnruly sunne Fever O21.64 p.72 HE %XThe ffeauer Oh doe not dye for I shall hate noncan O21.65 p.73 HE om Thou sends't mee prose, & rimes, I send for those SSweet O21.66 pp.73-74 HE %XSon%Met.| Sweetest loue I doe not goe LovUsury O21.67 pp.74-75 HE om ffor euery howre thou wilt spare mee now ElExpost O21.68 pp.75-77 HE %XElegie To make the doubt cleare that no woman's true Carey O21.69 pp.77-80 HE om Heere wherby all saints invoked are ElPict O21.70 pp.80-81 HE %XThe Picture.| Heere take my picture though I bidd farwell noncan O21.71 pp.81-82 HE om Vengeance will sett aboue or faults but till RWThird O21.72 pp.82-83 HE om Like one yt in her third widdowhood doth p%Pfesse ElPerf O21.73 pp.83-86 HE %XElegie Once, and but once found in thy Company noncan O21.74 pp.86-87 HE om True loue finds witt but hee whose witt doth moue Canon O21.75 pp.87-89 HE %XThe Cannonizitionne.| ffor gods sake hold yr tongue and lett mee loue ElProg O21.76 pp.89-92 HE om Who eur loues if hee doe not propose Bait O21.77 p.93 HE om Come liue wth mee and bee my loue ValBook O21.78 pp.93-96 HE %XThe Booke.| [CW:om] Ile tell thee deare, loue w:t thou shalt doe [p.94] ValName O21.79 pp.96-98 HE %XValediction on glasse My name engraued heerin Anniv O21.80 pp.99-100 HE om All kings and all their fauorites GoodM O21.81 p.100 HE om I wonder by my troth what thou & I LovExch O21.82 pp.101-102 HE om Loue; any Deuill else butt you Commun O21.83 pp.102-103 HE om Good wee must loue & must hate ill Lect O21.84 pp.103-104 HE %XThe Shadowe Stand still and I will read to thee Air O21.85 pp.104-105 HE %XAire an angells Twise or thrise had I loued thee WomCon O21.86 pp.105-106 HE om Now thou hast staru'd mee one whole day Expir O21.87 p.106 HE %XValedico; So so leaue off this last lamenting kisse Compu O21.88 pp.106-107 HE om [continuation of Expir] for my first twenty yeares since yesterday Under O21.89 pp.107-108 HE om I haue done one braue thinge EdHerb O21.90 pp.108-110 HE om Ma%M is a lumpe; where all beasts kneaded bee LovInf O21.91 pp.110-111 HE om 1[LM] If yet I haue not all thy loue Sappho O21.92 pp.111-113 HE Sappho to Philenes Where is that hot fire wch verse is sayd Image O21.93 pp.113-114 HE om Image of her wch I loue more then shee. MHPaper O21.94 pp.114-116 HE om Madd pap%P stay; and grudge not heer to burne ElAnag O21.95 pp.116-118 HE %XIn fflauiam Marry and loue thy fflauia, for shee Curse O21.96 pp.118-119 HE %XDirce.| Who euer ghesses; *thinks; or dreames he knows BoulRec O21.97 pp.119-122 HE An Elegie funerall on Mrs. /Boulstreds death. Death I recant; and say vnsayd by mee noncan O21.98 pp.122-124 HE om [continuation of BoulRec] Death bee not p%Pud, thy hand giues not his blow Mark O21.99 pp.124-126 HE %XAn Elegie ffunerall on /the La: Markham.| Man is this world and death the ocean ElFatal O21.100 pp.126-128 HE om By or first strange; and fatall interviewe EpEliz O21.101 pp.128-132 HE Vppon the mariage of the /Prince Palatine * and the Princes on /St. Valentines Day: Haile Bishop valentine whose day this is ElNat O21.102 pp.132-133 HE om Natures lay idiott I haue taught thee to loue noncan O21.102 pp.133-134 HE %XEarle of Pembroke; If her disdaine in yu least change can moue noncan O21.103 p.134 HE %XBen: Rudiar 'Tis loue breeds loue in mee; and cold disdaine Annun O21.104 pp.134-136 HE om Tamely frayle body; abstaine to day; to day noncan O21.105 pp.136-137 HE om Good madam ffowler doe not trouble mee noncan O21.106 pp.137-138 HE om Deare loue continue nice and chaste Sorrow O21.107 pp.138-139 HE om Sorrow of late to this house scarst know ye way noncan O21.108 pp.139-143 HE om I may forgett to eate; to drink; to sleepe; Sat2 O21.109 pp.143-147 HE %XLaw Satyre Sr; though (I thank god for't) I doe not hate prose O21.110 pp.147-148 HE %XThat women oft ought to paint; ffowlenes is loathsome; can yt be so that helps it? Who forbide prose O21.111 pp.148-149 HE %XParadoxes by J. Dunne[bottom of p. 148] /That althinges kill themselues To affect yea to effect their owne deaths all thinges are importun'd prose O21.112 pp.149-151 HE %XThat nature is or worst guide. Shall she be guide, to all creatures yt is her self one; If shee haue herself a prose O21.113 pp.151-152 HE %XThat onely cowards dare dye. Extreames are equally remoued from the meane; so that headlong prose O21.114 pp.152-154 HE %XThat the giftes of the body are better than /the giftes of the mind or ffortune|. I say againe yt ye body makes ye mind, not yt yt creates but formes prose O21.115 pp.154-155 HE %XThat Good is more Common then Euill.| I haue not beene so pittyfully tired wth any thing as wth silly prose O21.116 pp.155-157 HE %XThatt by discord thinges increase. So I asseuer this more boldly because while I maintaine it & prose O21.117 pp.157-159 HE %XThat old men are more Phantasticke than yonge/%XThat wise men are knowne by Laughing. Ride si sapis o puella ride; if thou beest wise laugh; for if prose O21.118 pp.159-160 HE %XThat old men are more Phantasticke y[n] yonge.| Who reades this Paradox thinkes mee more Phantasticke yn prose O21.119 pp.160-161 HE %XProblemes /Why courtieres are sooner Althiestes yn other men.| It is bec*se as Phisitians contemplating nature, & findinge prose O21.120 p.161 HE %XWhy Sr Walt: Rawley did write ye history of these /times.| Because being told att his arraignm:t yt a wittnesse accusing prose O21.121 pp.161-162 HE %XWhy great men of all their attendantes chuse /to preferre theire baudes, Is it because of all otheres they ar gott nearest their secrettes. prose O21.122 p.162 HE %XWhy gold doth not foyle[sic] ye fingers; Doth it direct all ye venome to ye hart, or is it because prose O21.123 p.162 HE %XWhy none dye of Loue now: Because women are become easier; or because these latter prose O21.124 pp.162-163 HE %XWhy yonge men doe so much study diuinity; It is because otheres tending busily church prefermt: neglect prose O21.125 pp.163-164 HE %XWhy Venus starr doth onely cast a shadowe:| Is itt because yt it is nearer ye earth? but they whose p[re]fession[n] prose O21.126 pp.164-165 HE %XWhy Venus starre is multonominus /caleld both Hesp[er]us & Vesperus.| The moone hath as many names but not as shee is a starr prose O21.127 pp.165-166 HE %XWhy wee say women[n] haue soules Itt is agreed; wee haue not so much from ym as any p[ar]t of or prose O21.128 pp.166-167 HE %XWhy there are more Varietyes of greenes yn othr Colours Is it because it is the figure of Youth, wherin nature could prose O21.129 pp.167-168 HE %XWhy new officeres are lease oppressinge. Must the old P[ro]uerbe; yt old doges bite soarest; bee true in all prose O21.130 pp.168-169 HE %XWhy are the fairest falsest. I mean not of false Alchemie beauty; for yn the questi[on] prose O21.131 pp.169-170 HE %XWhy bastardes haue best fortune.| Because ffortune her self is a whore; but such are not most prose O21.132 pp.170-171 HE %XWhy Puritanes make longe sermons It made not for spiruousnesse; for god knowes they art prose O21.133 pp.171-172 HE %XWhy yt pox so much affecteth to vndermine ye Nose. Paracelsus p[er]chance fayth true; yt euery disease hath his Sat1 O21.134 pp.172-176 HE %XSatyre ye first. Away thou changeling motly humorist Sat3 O21.135 pp.177-181 HE %XSatyre ye second; Kind pitty chocks my spleene, braue scorne forbidds Sat5 O21.136 pp.181-184 HE %XSatyre ye third.| Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe muse nor they Sat4 O21.137 pp.184-193 HE %XSatyre the ffourth; Well I may now receiue and dye my sinne noncan O21.138 pp.193-194 HE om Oh faythlesse world; and the most faythlesse yet HuntUn O21.139 pp.194-199 HE %XSr Wal: Ashton to ye Countesse /of Huntingtonne. That vnique side of earth; yt heauy clime noncan O21.140 pp.199-202 HE An Elegye on the Lady Markehams death. As vnthriftie greeue in straw for their pawn'd beds ElPart O21.141 pp.202-206 HE om Since she must goe and I must mourne; come night noncan O21.142 pp.206-207 HE om Why should not pilgrimes to thy body come noncan O21.143 p.207 HE %XOn Mrs. Boulstrood Mee thinskes death like one laughing lyes BedfCab O21.144 p.208 He %Xanother on the same. My fortunes, and my choyce this Custome breake Break O21.145 pp.208-209 HE om 'Tis true 'tis day what thought it bee ElBrac O21.146 pp.209-213 HE %XThe Chaine. [SS: drawing of hand with chain at wrist] Not that in Colour it was like thy haire [ll. 1-98 only. ll. 99-114 at O21.41] Storm O21.147 pp.213-215 HE [floral ornament] The Storme%M, looke the beginning of /it behind at this marke. Mildly it kist or sayles, & fresh and sweet [ll. 19-74 only. ll.1-18 at O21.38] Calm O21.148 pp.215-218 HE %XCalme [CW:om] Or storme is past and that stormes tyran%Mous rage [p.216] ElWar O21.149 pp.218-220 HE om Till I haue peace wth yee warre other men Cross O21.150 pp.220-222 HE %XThe Crosse Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse himselfe; dare I noncan O21.151 pp.222-223 HE om When this fly liu'd shee vs'd to play noncan pp.224-242 [end]