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Wright, Gillian (1998) a Commentary on and Edition of the Shorter Poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777 Wright, Gillian (1998) A commentary on and edition of the shorter poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3485/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] A Commentary on and Edition of the Shorter Poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777 Gillian Wright Ph.D University of Glasgow Department of English Literature July 1998 Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Abstract (1) Preface 1 (2) Introduction (i) Life and Works 5 (ii) Manuscript Poetry 25 (iii) Lansdowne 777 39 (iv) Other Manuscripts 58 (v) Textual Introduction 92 (3) Lansdowne 777: An Annotated Edition 1. An Ode: 'Awake, faire Muse, for I intend' ['Awake, faire Muse']. 123 2. 'Behold 6 God, INRIvers of my teares' ['Behold 6 God]. 129 3. The happy Life: '0 blessed man! who homely bredd'. 132 4. A Rounde: 'Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veynes' ['Now that the 136 Spring']. 5. Lidford Journey: 'I ofte haue heard of Lidford Lawe'. 139 6. Epigramme: 'It hapned lately at a Faire or Wake' ['It hapned lately']' 149 7. 'Loue! when I mett her first whose slaue I am' ['Loue! when I mett her 152 first']. 8. One afaire Ladyes yellow haire powdred with white, written in the 155 dissoluing ofa Snow: 'Say why on your hayre yet stayes' [One a faire Ladyes yellow haire]. 9. 'Not long agone a youthfull swayne' ['Not long agone']. 158 10. 'Loue who will for I'le loue none' ['Loue who will']. 159 11. 'Shall I loue againe, & try' ['Shall I loue againe']. 161 12. 'Deepe are the wounds which strike a vertuous name' ['Deepe are the 163 wounds']. 13. 'Tell me, Pyrrha, what fine youth' ['Tell me, Pyrrha']. 164 14. 'Yet one dayes rest, for all my cryes' ['Yet one dayes rest']. 166 15. 'Poore silly foole! thou striv'st in vaine to knowe' ['Poore silly foole!']. 168 16. An Epistle: 'Deare soule, the time is come & we must part' ['Deare soule, 171 the time is come']. 17. 'Wellcome, wellcome, doe I sing'. 173 18. 'Ye merry birds, leaue ofto sing' ['Ye merry birds']. 175 19. Caelia: Sonnets: 'Loe I the man that whilome lov'd & lost' [sonnets to 178 Caelia]. 20. Visions: 'Sitting one daye beside the bankes of Mole'. 193 21. An Epistle occasioned by the most intollerable iangling ofthe papists Bells 201 on All Saints night, th 'Eve ofAll Soules daye, being then vsed to be rung all night (and all as ifthe Towne were on fire) for the soules ofthose in Purgatorie. Writtenfrom Thouars to Saumur. to Mr Bryan Palmes: 'Palmes, and my friend, this nyght of Hollantyde' [epistle on the papists ' bells]. 22. 'Caelia is gone & now sit I' ['Caelia is gone']. 207 23. 'Give me three kisses, Phillis; if not three' ['Give me three kisses, Phillis']. 211 24. On the Countesse ofSomersets picture: 'The pitty'd Fortune most men 212 chiefly hate'. 25. An Epistle: 'Hasten, 0 Hasten, for my loues sake, haste' ['Hasten, 0 214 Hasten']. 26. On a dreame: 'Vaine dreames forbeare, ye but deceiuers be'. 218 27. A Sigh from Oxford: 'Goe, and if thou chance to finde'. 222 28. An Epistle throwne into a Riuer in a ball of Wax: 'Goe, gentle paper, happy 232 (happier farre' [An Epistle throwne into a Riuer]. 29. Fido: An Epistle to Fidelia: 'Sittyng one day beside a Siluer Brooke' [Fido]. 234 30. One Rome as it is Nowe: 'Thou who to looke for Rome to Rome art come'. 245 31. An Epiced on Mr Fishbourne: 'As some to farre inquisitiue would fayne'. 248 32. An Elegye on Mr Willm Hopton: 'When shall myne eyes be dry? I daily 254 See'. 33. A Pastorall Elegie on Mr Thomas Manwood: 'Vnder an aged Oake was 258 Willy laid' [A Pastorall Elegie]. 34. 'A haples Shepherd on a daye' ['A haples Shepherd']. 269 35. An Epitaph: 'Faire Canace this little Tombe doth hyde' ['Faire Canace']. 270 36. To Don Antonio King ofPortugall: 'Between thee & thy kingdome late with 272 force' [To Don Antonio]. 37. An Epitaph on Mr Wm Hopton: 'Reader, stay & read a Truth'. 273 38. On the Countesse Dowager ofPembroke: 'Vndemeath this sable Herse'. 274 39. An Elegie on the Countesse Dowager ofPembroke: 'Time hath a long 279 course run since thou wert claye'. 40. On the R. H Susan, Countesse ofMontgomerie: 'Though we trust the earth 289 with thee'. 41. On Mr John Deane ofNew Colledge: 'Let no man walke neere this 291 Toombe' [On Mr John Deane]. 42. An Elegye: 'Is Death so great a Gamester that he throwes' ['Is Death so 293 great a Gamester']' 43. On Mr Vaux the Phisitian: 'Stay! this Graue deserues a Teare'[On Mr 301 Vaux]. 44. On one drown'd in the Snowe: 'Within a fleece of Silent waters drown'd'. 302 45. On one borne blynde and soe dead: 'Who (but some one like thee) could 306 euer saye' [On one borne blynde]. 46. On an Infant vnborne & the Mother dyeing in Trauell: 'Within this Graue 307 there is a Graue Intomb'd' [On an Infant vnborne]. 47. An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde (Lieutenant Collonell to Sir Charles 311 Morgan) slayne at the Siege ofGroll & buryed at Zutphen. 1627: 'After a March of twenty yeares & more' [An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde]. 48. On the R: H: Charles, Lord Herbert ofCardiffe and Sherland: 'If there be a 313 Teare vnshedd' [On the R: H: Charles]. 49. An Epitaph on Mr John Smyth, chaplayne to the right honourable the Earle 316 ofPembrooke, 1624: 'Know thou that treadst on learned Smyth invm'd' [An Epitaph on Mr John Smyth]. 50. On Mr Turner ofSt Mary-Hall: 'I rose, and coming downe to dyne' [On Mr 317 Turner]. 51. An Elegye on Sir Thomas Overburye poisoned in the Towre ofLondon: 319 'Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd' [An Elegye on Sir Thomas Overburye ]. 52. On Mr Francis Lee ofthe Temple, gent: 'Nature, haueing seen the Fates' 324 [On Mr Francis Lee]. 53. 'Vnhappy Muse that nothing pleasest me'. 326 54. 'Vnhappy I, in whom no Joye appears'. 327 55. An Elegie On the vntimelye Death ofhis euer honor'd & as much beloued as 328 lamented Friend Mr Thomas Ayleworth ofthe Middle Temple slayne at Croyden & there buryed: 'Is goodnes shortest livId? Doth Nature bring' [An Elegie on ... Mr Thomas Ayleworth]. 56. An Epitaph on him: 'Heere withre'd lyes a fiowre, which blowne'. 334 57. In Obitum M S xO May 1614: 'May! be thou neuer grac'd with birds that 335 sing' [In Obitum MS]. 58. On goodman Hurst ofthe George at Horsham dyeing suddainely while the 336 E ofNottingham laye there 26 August 1637: 'See what we are: for though we often saye' [On goodman Hurst]. 59. On an Houre glasse: 'The truest houre glasse lyes, for you'le confes'. 337 60. On a Ropemaker hangd: 'Heere 1yes a Man much wrong'd in his hopes'. 338 61. On John Tooth: 'Heere lyeth in sooth'. 339 62. 'Heere lyes kind Tom'. 340 63. An Epitaph on Mrs EI: Y: 'Vndemeath this stone there lyes'. 341 64. On Mrs Anne Prideaux daughter ofMr Doctor Prideaux Regius Professor. 343 She dyde at the age of6 yeares: 'Nature in this small Volume was about' [On Mrs Anne Prideaux]. 65. 'Like to a Silkeworme of one yeare'. 346 66. My owne Epitaph: 'Loaden with earth, as earth by such as 1'. 348 67. On his Wife an Epitaph: 'Thou needst no Tombe (my wife) for thou hast 350 one'. 68. On a Twin at two yeares old dead ofa Consumption: 'Death, thou such a 352 one hast smit' [On a Twin]. Appendix: 'Behold 0 God INRIvers of my teares'. 354 Works Cited 365 Index 396 Illustrations (pp. 362-364) 1 'Behold 6 God IN RIvers of my teares'. London, British Library MS Lansdowne 777, fo1. 3 r (Original page size 190 x 147 mm). 2 The Latin pattern poem, 'In Gloriosissimam Passionem et Resurrectionem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi'. Folger Library MS V. a. 308, fo1s. 87v-88r (Original page size 202 x 160 mm). 3 The companion English poem 'On the Glorious Passion and Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'. Folger Library MS V. a. 308, fols. 87v-88r (Original page size 202 x 160 mm). Abbreviations BLR Bodleian Library Record BQR Bodleian Quarterly Record CCC Corpus Christi College DNB Dictionary of National Biography ELH English Literary History ELR English Literary Renaissance EMS English Manuscript Studies IELM Index of English Literary Manuscripts JWCI Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes L777 Lansdowne 777 MLR Modem Language Review N&Q Notes and Queries n.s. new senes OED Oxford English Dictionary PBSA Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America PMLA Publications of the Modem Language Society of America PQ Philological Quarterly P.R.O. Public Record Office RES Review of English Studies SB Studies in Bibliography SP Studies in Philology TCBS Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society UTQ University of Toronto Quarterly Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide an annotated edition of the manuscript poetry of William Browne of Tavistock.
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