The Donne Variorum
First-Line Index to O20
Dowden ms., Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. e. 99
Compiled by Ted-Larry Pebworth
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) its Donne Variorum short form, (b) a siglum-plus-ordinal-position item tag, (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.), and (d) diplomatic transcription of its first line.
Additional information: Superscript letters have been silently lowered to the line of print. The ms. contains two consecutive folios numbered 14 but emended, sequentially, to 14a and 14b.
This index last corrected 8-1-01.
Sat1 O20.1 ff. 1-2v Away Thou changeling motley Humorist Sat2 O20.2 ff. 2v-4v Sr. Though (I thancke God for yt) I doe hate Sat3 O20.3 ff. 4v-6v Kind pitty choakes my spleene; Braue skorne forbidds Sat4 O20.4 ff. 6v-lOv Well; I may now receaue and Dye; my Sinne Sat5 O20.5 ff. 10v-12 Thou shalt not laughe in thys leafe Muse, nor they f. 12v BLANK PAGE ElBrac O20.6 ff. 13-14b Not that in colour it was like thy Hayre ElBed O20.7 ff. 14b-15 Come, Madame, come, All rest my Powers defye ElJeal O20.8 f. 15r-v Fond woman wch wouldst haue thy husband Dye ElAnag O20.9 ff. 15v-16v Marry, and loue thy Flauia, for Shee ElChange O20.10 ff. 16v-17 Although thy hand, and fayth, and good workes too ElPerf O20.l1 ff. 17v-18v Once, and but once found in thy Companie ElPict O20.l2 ff. 18v-19 Here take my Picture, though I bid farewell Sorrow O20.l3 f. 19r-v Sorrow, who to thys house, scarce knew the way ElServe O20.14 ff. 19v-20 Ohe lett mee not serue so, as those men serue ElWar O20.l5 ff. 20v-21 Tyll I haue Peace wth Thee, warr other men ElFatal O20.16 ff. 21-22 By our first strange and fatall Interviewe ElNat O20.l7 f. 22r-v Natures lay Ideott, I taught Thee to loue ElProg O20.18 ff. 22v-24v Who euer loues, yf he doe not propose Mark O20.l9 ff. 24v-26 Man is the worlde, and death the'Ocean BoulRec O20.20 ff. 26-27v Death, I recant, and say, Vnsayd by mee O20.21 f. 27v TITLE ONLY: An Elegye on Prince Henry. f. 28 BLANK, BUT NUMBERED LEAF TWHence O20.22 f. 29 At Once from hence my lines, and I depart HWKiss O20.23 ff. 29-30v Sr. More then Kisses, letters mingle Soules Storm O20.24 ff. 30v-31v Thou wch art I, (t'is Nothing to bee soe) Calm O20.25 ff. 31v-32v Our storme is past, and that Stormes tyrannous rage RWThird O20.26 f. 33r-v Like One who in her third Widowhead doth professe HWNews O20.27 ff. 33v-34 Here is no More Newes then Vertu, I may as well HG O20.28 ff. 34-35 Who makes the Past, a Patterne for next yeare EdHerb O20.29 ff. 35-36 Man is a lumpe, where all Beasts kneaded bee BedfReas O20.30 ff. 36-37 Madame./Reason ys our Soules lefthand, Faythe her right BedfRef O20.31 ff. 37-38v Madame./You haue refind mee; And to worthyest thinges Carey O20.32 ff. 38v-40 Madame./Here where by All, all Saintes invoked are Sal O20.33 ff. 40-41 Fayre, Greate, and Good, since seeing you, wee see Cor1-7 O20.34 ff. 41v-43 Deigne at my handes thys Croune of Prayer and Prayse HSDue O20.35 f. 43r-v As due by many Tithes, [sic] I resigne HSBlack O20.36 f. 43v Oh my blacke Soule, now thou art summoned HSScene O20.37 f. 44 Thys is my Playes last Sceane, here heauens appointe HSRound O20.38 f. 44r-v As [sic] the round Earths Imagind Corners, blowe HSMin O20.39 f. 44v If Poysonous Mineralls, and if that Tree HSDeath O20.40 ff. 44v-45 Death bee not Proude, though some haue called Thee HSSpit O20.41 f. 45 Spitt in my face you Iewes, and pierce my Side HSWhy O20.42 f. 45r-v Why are wee by all Creatures wayted on? HSWhat O20.43 f. 45v What if thys Present, were the worlds last Night? HSBatter O20.44 ff. 45v-46 Batter my hart, three Person'd God; for you HSWilt O20.45 f. 46 Wilt thou'loue God, as Hee Thee, then digest HSPart O20.46 f. 46r-v ffather, Part of hys doble Interest Cross O20.47 ff. 46v-47v Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse itselfe, dare I Annun O20.48 ff. 47v-48v Tamely frayle Body, abstayne to day; to day Lit O20.49 ff. 48v-54 Father of Heaun, and Him by whom Goodf O20.50 f. 54r-v Lett Mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in thys ff. 55-59 BLANK, BUT NUMBERED LEAVES; on f. 59v (otherwise blank), this note in a later hand: "The paging [sic] goes from 59, to 100. Probably the copyist intended to clap the poems and bound without finding a sufficiency to fill up the intermediate numbers." Mess O20.51 f. 100 Send home my long stray'd Eyes to mee Bait O20.52 ff. 100v-01 Come liue wth mee, and bee my loue Appar O20.53 f. 101 When by thy skorne, O Murdres, I am dead Broken O20.54 ff. 101v-02 Hee is starke madd, who euer sayes Lect O20.55 f. 102r-v Stand still, and I will read to Thee ValMourn O20.56 ff. 102v-03 As Vertuous men passe mildly away GoodM O20.57 f. 103v I wonder, by my trothe, what Thou, and I SGo O20.58 ff. 103v-04 Goe and catch a falling Starr WomCon O20.59 f. 104v Now Thou hast lou'd mee one whole day Image O20.60 ff. 104v-05 Image of her, whom I loue, more then Shee SunRis O20.61 ff. 105-06 Busy Old foole, vnruly Sunne Ind O20.62 f. 106r-v I can love both fayre, and broune LovUsury O20.63 ff. 106v-07 ffor euery hower that thou wilt spare mee nowe Canon O20.64 ff. 107-08 ffor Godsake houlde your Toungue, and lett mee loue Triple O20.65 f. 10r-v I am two fooles, I knowe LovInf O20.66 ff. 108v-09 Yf I haue not all your love SSweet O20.67 f. 109r-v Sweetest loue I doe not goe, for wearines of Thee Leg O20.68 ff. 109v-10 When I dyed last; And Deare I dye Fever O20.69 f. 110r-v Oh doe not dye, for I shall hate Air O20.70 f. 111r-v Twice or thrice had I loued Thee Break O20.71 f. 111v Tis true, tis day, what though it bee? Prohib O20.72 f. 112 Take heede of louing Mee Anniv O20.73 ff. 112-13 All Kings, and all theyre fauorites ValName O20.74 ff. 113-114 My name engrau'd herein ElAut O20.75 ff. 114v-15 No Springe, nor Summer beauty, hath such Grace Twick O20.76 f. 115r-v Blasted wth Sighes, and surrounded with Teares BedfCab O20.77 ff. 115v-16 Madam. / That I might make your Cabinett my Tombe ValBook O20.78 ff. 116-17v Ile tell Thee now (Deare loue) what thou shat [sic] doe Commun O20.79 ff. 117v-18 Good wee must loue, and most hate ill LovGrow O20.80 f. 118r-v I scarce beleaue my loue to bee so pure LovExch O20.81 ff. 118v-19v Loue, Any Devill else but you ConfL O20.82 f. 119v Some man vnworthy to bee Possessor Dream O20.83 f. 120r-v Dear loue, for nothing lesse then Thee ValWeep O20.84 ff. 120v-21 Lett mee poore forth LovAlch O20.85 f. 121r-v Some that haue deeper digg'd loues Myne then I Flea O20.86 ff. 121v-22 Marke but thys flea, and marke in thys Curse O20.87 f. 122r-v Who euer guesses, thinckes, or dreames he knowes Ecst O20.88 ff. 122v-24v When like a Pillowe, on a Bed Under O20.89 ff. 124v-25 I haue done one brauer thinge LovDeity O20.90 f. 125r-v I long to talke wth some Old louers Ghost LovDiet O20.91 ff. 125v-26v To what a Cumbersome vnwieldines Will O20.92 ff. 126v-27v Before I sigh my last gaspe, lett mee breath Fun O20.93 ff. 127v-128 Who euer comes to shroude mee, doe not harme Blos O20.94 f. 128r-v Litle thinckst Thou poore floure Prim O20.95 f. 129r-v Vpon thys Primerose hyll Relic O20.96 ff. 129v-30 When my Graue is broke vp agayne Damp O20.97 f. 130r-v When I am dead, and Doctors know not why EpEliz O20.98 ff. 130v-33 Hayle Bishop Valentine, whose Day thys is Eclog O20.99 ff. 133-38v Vnseasonable Man, Statue of Ice Har O20.100 ff. 138v-42v Fayre Soule, wch was not only, as all Soules bee