Sequential Index to H5
MS Eng 966.4, Harvard University Library (Norton ms. 4506, The Dobell ms.)
Compiled January 19, 1993, by Ted Sherman
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) its Donne Variorum short form (nc = noncanonical; pr = prose), (b) a siglum-plus-ordinal-position item tag, and (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.). Noncanonical items are further identified by (d) diplomatic transcriptions of their headings (HE) and first lines.
This index was last corrected 4/2/02.
| [prose] | H5.1 |
ff. 2-8v |
HE Psalme 38 Lord all my desire is /before thee and my groninge is /not |s|ped from thee The whole psalme hath two parts |
| [ff. 9-55v either blank or covered with Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| [prose] | H5.2 | ff. 56-64v | HE Eccles. 12.2. /Remember nowe thy Creator in the dayes /of thy youth. We may consider two great vertues |
| [ff. 65-67v filled with Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| [prose] | H5.3 | ff. 68 | HE To the right hono:ble the /Countesse of Montgomery. Maddam, / Of my ability to doe your Lapp: |
| [f. 68v Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| [prose] | H5.4 | ff. 69-78v | HE Matth: 21.44 /Whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, he shalbe /broken; but on whomesoeuer it fhall fall, t’will /dash him in pieces. Almighty God made vs for his glory; and his glory |
| [ff. 79r-v blank] | |||
| Corona | H5.5 | ff. 80-81v | HE The Crowne. /1 Daigne at my handes this Crowne of prayse and prayer |
| HSMade | H5.6 | ff. 82 | HE Devine Meditations. /1 Thou hast made me, and shall thy worke decay? |
| HSDue | H5.7 | ff. 82 | HE 2 As due by many titles I resigne |
| HSSighs | H5.8 | ff. 82v | HE 3 O might those sighes and teares returne againe |
| HSPart | H5.9 | ff. 82v |
HE 4 |
| HSBlack | H5.10 | ff. 83 | HE 5 O my blacke Soule, nowe thou art sum[m]oned |
| HSScene | H5.11 | ff. 83 | HE 6 This is my Playes last scene, here heavn’s appoint |
| HSLittle | H5.12 | ff. 83v | HE 7 I am a litle World, made cunningly |
| HSRound | H5.13 | ff. 83v | HE 8 At the round Earths Imagind’ corners blowe |
| HSMin | H5.14 | ff. 84 | HE 9 yf poysonous Mineralls, or yf the Tree |
| HSSouls | H5.15 | ff. 84 | HE 10 yf faithfull Soules be alike glorify’d |
| HSDeath | H5.16 | ff. 84v | HE 11 Death be not proud, though some haue called thee |
| HSWilt | H5.17 | ff. 84v | HE 12 Wilt thou loue God, as he thee? then digest |
| Lit | H5.18 | ff. 85-89v | HE A Letany. /Father. ffather of Heaven, and him, by whome |
| Goodf | H5.19 | ff. 90r-v | HE A Meditation Vpon Good ffriday./ 1613. Let mans soule be a Spheare, and then in this |
| Annun | H5.20 | ff. 91r-v | HE Vpon the Annunciation and Passion falling /Vpon one day. 1608.| Tamely fraile flesh abstaine to day; to day |
| Cross | H5.21 | ff. 92r-v | HE Of the Crosse. Since Christ embra’ct the Crosse it selfe, dare I |
| Christ | H5.22 | ff. 93 | HE At his departure with my L: of Doncaster. /.i6i9. In what torne ship soeuer I embarke, |
| Tilman | H5.23 | ff. 93v-94 | HE To Mr Tilman after he had /taken orders[.] Thou, whose diviner soule hath causd’ thee nowe |
| Father | H5.24 | ff. 94v | HE To Christ. Wilt thou forgiue that sinne where I begune |
| [ff. 95-97v blank or filled w/Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| [prose] | H5.25 | ff. 98 | HE Paradoxes / That all things kill themselues 1 /To affect, yea to effect their owne deaths, all liue=are |
| [prose] | H5.26 | ff. 98v-99 | HE That Nature is our worst / Guide. 2 /Shall shee bee Guide to all Creatures wch is |
| [prose] | H5.27 | ff. 99r-v | HE That onely Cowards dare dye 3 /Extreames are equally remou’d from ye meane, |
| [prose] | H5.28 | ff. 99v-100 | HE That the Guiftes of the bodie are / better then the guifts of ye minde, /or of ffortune. 4 /I say againe that the bodie makes the minde, |
| [prose] | H5.29 | ff. 100v | HE That Good is more common / then euill. 5 /I haue not beene soe pittifully tyred wth |
| [prose] | H5.30 | ff. 101 | HE That by Discord things encrease 6 /So I asseuer this the more boldly because |
| [prose] | H5.31 | ff. 101v | HE That is->it is possible to finde /some vertue in some woemen. 7 /I am not of that sear’d impudency yt I dare |
| [prose] | H5.32 | ff. 101v-102r | HE That old men are more fantastique / then younge.| 8 /Whoe reades this Paradoxe but thincks mee more |
| [prose] | H5.33 | ff. 102r-v | HE That woemen ought to paint / themselues. 9 /ffowleness is loathsome, can that bee soe too wch helpes it? |
| [prose] | H5.34 | ff. 103r-v | HE That a wise man is knowne by / much laughinge 10 /Ride si sapis O puella ride. If thou beest |
| [prose] | H5.35 | ff. 104 | HE Problems 1 /Why are Courtiers sooner Atheists then |
| [prose] | H5.36 | ff. 104 | HE 2th: 2 /Why doth Sr W: R write the Historie |
| [prose] | H5.37 | ff. 104v | HE 3th. 3 /Why doe great men choose of all dependants |
| [prose] | H5.38 | ff. 104v | HE 4th.| 4 /Why doth not gold soile the fingers? Doth |
| [prose] | H5.39 | ff. 104v | HE 5th.| 5 /Why dye none for loue nowe? because woemen |
| [prose] | H5.40 | ff. 104v-105 | HE 6th.| 6 /Why doe young lay-men soe much studie diui= |
| [prose] | H5.41 | ff. 105 | HE 7th. 7 /Why hath the common opinion afforded woemen |
| [prose] | H5.42 | ff. 105v | HE 8th. /Why are the fairest falsest? 8 /I meane not of false Alcumy Beauty, for then |
| [prose] | H5.43 | ff. 105v-106 | HE 9th. /Why haue Bastards best fortunes? 9 /Because ffortune herself is a whore. But such are |
| [prose] | H5.44 | ff. 106 | HE 10th. /Why Puritans make longest Sermons 10 /It needs not for perspicuousnes, for God knowes |
| [prose] | H5.45 | ff. 106v | HE 11.:th /Why doth the Poxe soe much affect /to vndermine the nose? Paracelsus perchance sayes true, that euery Dis= |
| [prose] | H5.46 | ff. 107 | HE Why Venus starre only doth /cast a Shaddowe 12 /Is it because it is nearer the Earth? But they |
| [prose] | H5.47 | ff. 107v | HE Why is Venus Starr Multi-nominous /called both Hesperus, and Vesper? 13 /The Moone hath as many names, but not as shee is |
| [prose] | H5.48 | ff. 107v | HE Why is there more varietie of Greene /then of other Collours? 14 /It is because it is the figure of youth wherin |
| [prose] | H5.49 | ff. 108 | HE Why are newe Officers least /oppressinge? 15 /Must the old Prouerbe, That old Doggs bite sore= |
| [prose] | H5.50 | ff. 108r-v | HE 13. /Why are Statesmen moste /incredulous.| 16 /Are they all wise enough to follow their Ex= |
| [prose] | H5.51 | ff. 108v | HE Why doth Ioh: Salisburiensis writing danugis /Curialiū, Laudle ye p[ro]uidence and ōipotency of God? 17 /Though ye Stoickes change or aduersaries who put |
| [prose] | H5.52 | ff. 109 | HE Why doe woemen delight soe much /in feathers? 18 /They thinck that ffeathers imitate winges, soe |
| [prose] | H5.53 | ff. 109v | HE Why did the Deuill reserue Iesuits for these /latter-times? 19 /Did he knowe that our age would deny the Deuills |
| [prose] | H5.54 | ff. 110 | HE The description of a Scott att /first sight. At his first appearinge in the |
| [prose] | H5.55 | ff. 110-111 | HE A Dunce. Is a Soule drownd in a lumpe of flesh, or a peice of earth that |
| [ff. 111v-115v blank or filled w/Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| Sat1 | H5.56 | ff. 116-117v | HE Satyra Prima. Away, thou changlinge motley humorist, |
| Sat5 | H5.57 | ff. 118-119 | HE Satyra secunda. Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe (Muse) nor they |
| [nc] | H5.58 | ff. 119v-121 | HE Satyra tertia Sleepe, next Society and true frendship |
| Sat4 | H5.59 | ff. 122-125v | HE Satyra quarta. Well I may nowe receiue and dy, my sinne |
| Sat2 | H5.60 | ff. 126-127v | HE Satyra Quinta. Sir, though (I thanke God for it) I doe hate , |
| Sat3 | H5.61 | ff. 128-129v | HE Satyra Sexta. Kind pitty chokes my spleane, braue scorne forbids |
| [ff. 130-133v blank or filled w/Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| prose (Har ltr) | H5.62 | ff. 134 | HE To the Countesse of Bedford. Maddam, I haue learnt by those lawes, wherein I am a litle conuer= |
| Har | H5.63 | ff. 134-138 | HE Obsequies on the L: Harrington /bro: to ye La: Lucy Countese of Bedford. ffayre soule wch wast, not only, as all soules be |
| BoulRec | H5.64 | ff. 138v-139v | HE Elegyes /On Mrs Bulstrod. Death I recant, and say, vnsayd by me |
| Mark | H5.65 | ff. 140r-v | HE Elegyes /A funerall Elegy on the Death of ye / Lady Markham. Man is the World, and Death the Ocean, |
| ElAut | H5.66 | ff. 141r-v | HE Elegy Autumnall. Noe Springe or Summer beauty hath such grace, |
| ElFatal | H5.67 | ff. 142r-v | HE Elegy on his Mrs desire to be disguised, /and to goe like a Page with him.| By our first strange and fatall enter-viewe, |
| ElComp | H5.68 | ff. 143r-v | HE Elegy. As the sweete sweate of Roses in a still, |
| ElBed | H5.69 | ff. 144r-v | HE Elegy. Come Madam, come, all rest my powers defy, |
| ElAnag | H5.70 | ff. 145r-v | HE Elegy. Marry, and loue thy fflavia, for she |
| ElPerf | H5.71 | ff. 146-147 | HE Elegy. Once, and but once found in thy company, |
| ElChange | H5.72 | ff. 147r-v | HE Elegy. Although thy hand and fayth and good workes too |
| ElWar | H5.73 | ff. 148r-v | HE Elegy. Till I haue peace with thee, warre with other men, |
| ElServe | H5.74 | ff. 149r-v | HE Elegy. Oh let me not serue soe, as those men serue, |
| ElNat | H5.75 | ff. 150 | HE Elegy. Natures lay-Idiott, I taught thee to loue, |
| ElExpost | H5.76 | ff. 150v-151v | HE Elegy. To make the doubt cleere that no woman’s true, |
| EpEliz | H5.77 | ff. 152-153v | HE Vpon the marriage of the Prince /Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth on /St Valentines day. Hayle Byshop Valentine, whose day this is, |
| Eclog | H5.78 | ff. 154-158 | HE Eclogue. /Allophanes findinge Idios in the Countrey this Christmas, /rep[re]hends his absence frō Court at ye marriage of ye Earle /of Som[m]ersett. Idios giues an account of his purpose herein, /and his actions here. /Allophanes. Vnseasonable man, statue of Ice! |
| EpLin | H5.79 | ff. 158v-160 | HE Epithalamiū /on a Citizen. The sunne beames in the East are spred, |
| [ff. 160v-61v blank but for some scrawling] | |||
| ElBrac | H5.80 | ff. 162-163v | HE Armilla /To a Lady whose chaine was lost. Not that in colour it was like thy haire |
| BedfHon | H5.81 | ff. 164-165 | HE To the Countesse of Bedford. Honour is soe sublime perfection, |
| BedfCab | H5.82 | ff. 165 | HE To the Countesse of Bedford. Maddam, /That I might make your Cabinet my Tombe |
| BedfRef | H5.83 | ff. 165v-166v | HE To the Countesse of Bedford. Maddam, /you haue refin’d me; and to worthy’st thinges |
| BedfReas | H5.84 | ff. 167r-v | HE To the Countesse of Bedford. Maddam, /Reason is our soules left hand, Fayth, her right. |
| Carey | H5.85 | ff. 168-169 | HE To the Lady Carey. Maddam, /Heere where by all, all Saints invoked are |
| HWNews | H5.86 | ff. 169v | HE To Sr Henry Wotton. Heere is noe more newes, then Vertue: I may as well |
| HWKiss | H5.87 | ff. 170-171 | HE To Sr Henry Wotton. Sr, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules, |
| HG | H5.88 | ff. 171-172 | HE To Sr Henry Goodyeare. Who makes the past a patterne for next yeare, |
| Storm | H5.89 | ff. 172-173 | HE The storme. /To Mr Brooke from the Iland voyage /with the Earle of Essex. Thou wch art I, ’tis nothinge to be soe, |
| Calm | H5.90 | ff. 173v-174 | HE The Calme. Our storme is past, and that stormes tyrannous rage |
| RWThird | H5.91 | ff. 174v-175 | HE To Rowland Woodward. Like one, who in her third widdow-hood, doth professe |
| TWHail | H5.92 | ff. 175v | HE A lre. incog:- All haile, sweete Poet, more full of more stronge fire |
| EdHerb | H5.93 | ff. 176r-v | HE To Sr Edward Herbert Man is a Lumpe, where all beasts kneaded be, |
| TWHence | H5.94, | ff. 177 | HE A lre incog:- At once from hence my lines and I depart, |
| [nc] | H5.95 | ff. 177v | HE [om] True loue tinds witt; but he whose witt doth moue |
| ElJeal | H5.96 | ff. 178 | HE Elegy. ffond woman, wch wouldst haue thy husband dy, |
| [ff. 178v-181v blank or filled w/Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| Citizen | H5.97 | ff. 182-183 | HE A tale I singe no harme, good sooth to any wight |
| Witch | H5.98 | ff. 183 | HE Picture I fixe mine eye on thine, and there |
| Twick | H5.99 | ff. 183v | HE Twicknam Garden. Blasted with sighes and surrounded with teares, |
| ValName | H5.100 | ff. 184-185 | HE A Valediction of his name /in the windowe My name engrau’ed herein |
| ValBook | H5.101 | ff. 185v-186v | HE A Valediction of the /booke. I’le tell thee nowe (deare Loue) what thou shalt doe |
| ValMourn | H5.102 | ff. 186v-187 | HE Vpon the parting frō /his Mistresse. As vertuous men passe mildly away, |
| Expir | H5.103 | ff. 187v | HE Valedictio. Soe, soe leaue of this lust lamentinge kisse, |
| Ecst | H5.104 | ff. 188-189 | HE The Extasy Where, like a pillowe on a bed |
| Dream | H5.105 | ff. 189v | HE Dreame Deare Loue, for nothinge, lesse then thee |
| Appar | H5.106 | ff. 190 | HE An Apparition.- When by thy scorne, o Murdresse, I am dead |
| Will | H5.107 | ff. 190v-191 | HE >>The will<<[LM] Testamentum. Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath |
| Fun | H5.108 | ff. 191v | HE The ffunerall. Who euer comes to shrowd me doe noe harme |
| Lect | H5.109 | ff. 192 | HE Shaddowe. Stand still and I will reade to thee |
| LovDeity | H5.110 | ff. 192v | HE Loues Deity. I longe to talke with some old Louers ghost |
| LovDiet | H5.111 | ff. 193r-v | HE Amoris Dieta: To what a cumbersome vnwildines |
| [nc] | H5.112 | ff. 193v | HE Fragment Beleeue not him, whom Loue hath lefte so wise |
| LovGrow | H5.113 | ff. 194 | HE Springe. Loves Growth.| I scarce beleiue my loue to be soe pure |
| Blos | H5.114 | ff. 194v-195 | HE The Blossome Litle think’st thou, poore Flower |
| Prim | H5.115 | ff. 195v | HE The Primerose. Vpon this Primerose hill, |
| Relic | H5.116 | ff. 196 | HE The Relique. When my graue is broke vp againe |
| Damp | H5.117 | ff. 196v | HE The Dampe When I am dead, and Doctors knowe not why |
| Air | H5.118 | ff. 197 | HE Ayre and Angells. Twice or thrice had I lou’d thee |
| Canon | H5.119 | ff. 197v-198 | HE Canonizatio. ffor gods sake hold yor tongue, and let me loue, |
| LovAlch | H5.120 | ff. 198v | HE Mummy. >>Loves Alchymy<< Some that haue deeper dig’d loues Mynes then I |
| Flea | H5.121 | ff. 199 | HE The flea. Marke but this flea; and marke in this |
| Curse | H5.122 | ff. 199v | HE The curse. Whoeuer guesses, thinkes, or dreames he knowes |
| Fever | H5.123 | ff. 200 | HE A feuer. oh, doe not dy, for I shall hate |
| ValWeep | H5.124 | ff. 200v | HE A valediction of teares. Let me powre foorth |
| Under | H5.125 | ff. 201 | HE >>The Undertaking<< I haue done one braver thinge |
| Commun | H5.126 | ff. 201v | HE >>Com[m]unity<< Good we must loue, and must hate ill, |
| LovExch | H5.127 | ff. 202r-v | HE >>Loves Exchange<< Loue, any Deuill els, but you |
| [nc] | H5.128 | ff. 202v | HE A Songe. Loue bred of glaunces ‘twixt amorous eyes |
| SGo | H5.129 | ff. 203 | HE A songe. Goe and catch a fallinge starre, |
| Break | H5.130 | ff. 203v | HE Sonnett. T’is true, ’tis day, what though it be? |
| GoodM | H5.131 | ff. 204 | HE The Good Morrow I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I |
| SunRis | H5.132 | ff. 204v | HE Ad solem. A songe.. Busy old foole, vnruly sonne |
| Triple | H5.133 | ff. 205 | HE >>The Triple Fool<< I am two fooles I knowe, |
| ConfL | H5.134 | ff. 205v | HE A songe. >>Confined Love.<< Some man vn-worthy to be possessour |
| SSweet | H5.135 | ff. 206r-v | HE Songe. Sweetest Loue, I doe not goe |
| Compu | H5.136 | ff. 206v | HE >>The Computation<< for my first twenty yeares since yesterday |
| WomCon | H5.137 | ff. 207 | HE >>Womans Constancy<< Nowe thou hast loud’ me one whole day-, |
| Ind | H5.138 | ff. 207v | HE Songe. />>The Indifferent<< I can loue both faire and browne, |
| LovUsury | H5.139 | ff. 208 | HE >>Loues Usury<< for euery houre that thou wilt spare me nowe, |
| Broken | H5.140 | ff. 208v | HE Songe >>Th*e Broaken Heart<< He is stark mad, whoeuer sayes |
| Leg | H5.141 | ff. 209 | HE Songe.- >>The Legacy<< When I dy’de last, (and, deere, I dy |
| Image | H5.142 | ff. 209v | HE >>The Dream<< Image of her, whome I loue, more then shee, |
| LovInf | H5.143 | ff. 210 | HE Loves Infininitness yf yett I haue not al* your loue,- |
| Prohib | H5.144 | ff. 210v | HE >>The Prohibition<< Take heede of lovinge me-, |
| Anniv | H5.145 | ff. 211 | HE >>The Anniversary<< All kings, and all their favorits-, |
| [nc] | H5.146 | ff. 211v | HE [om] Vengeance will sitt aboue our faults, but till |
| [nc] | H5.147 | ff. 212 | HE [om] Absence heare my protestation |
| [nc] | H5.148 | ff. 212v-213 | HE To Liuia Deare Loue continewe nice, and Chaste |
| Mess | H5.149 | ff. 213v | HE Songe.- Send home my longe stray’d eyes to me, |
| MHPaper | H5.150 | ff. 214r-v | HE [om] Madde paper, stay, and grudge not here to burne |
| [ff. 215-16v blank save for Balam’s scrawl] | |||
| Antiq | H5.151 | ff. 217 | HE [om] yf in his study Ham[m]on hath such care |
| SelfAc | H5.152 | ff. 217 | HE [om] your Mistresse, that you followe whores, oft taxes you |
| Disinher | H5.153 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Thy ffather all from thee, by his last will |
| Phrine | H5.154 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Thy flatteringe picture, Phryne, is like thee |
| Philo | H5.155 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Philo with twelue yeares study hath byn greiud’ |
| Klock | H5.156 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Klockius soe deepely hath vow’d ne’re to come |
| Ralph | H5.157 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Compassion in the world againe is bred, |
| Beggar | H5.158 | ff. 217 | HE [om] I cannot goe, nor sitt, nor stand, the beggar cryes; |
| [nc] | H5.159 | ff. 217 | HE [om] Two fallinge out into a ditch they fell |
| Wall | H5.160 | ff. 217v | HE [om] Under an vndermin’d and shott-bruisd’ wall |
| Liar | H5.161 | ff. 217v | HE [om] Thou in the feilds walk’st out thy supping houres, |
| Merc | H5.162 | ff. 217v | HE Mercurius Gallo-belg: Like Æsops fellowe-slaues, O Mercury |
| Licent | H5.163 | ff. 217v | HE [om] Thy sinnes and haires may noe man equall call; |