Oh how it joys me that this quick brain'd Age can nere reach thee (Donn) though it should engage at once all its whole stock of witt to finde out of thy well plac'd words thy more pure minde. Noe, wee are bastard Aeglets all; our eyes could not endure the splendor that would rise from hence like rays from out a cloud. That Man who first found out the Perspective which can make starrs at midday plainly seen, did more then could the whole Chaos of Arte<s> before or since; If I might have my wish 't shuld bee That Man might be reviv'd againe to see If hee could such another frame, whereby the minde might bee made see as farr as th' eye. Then might we hope to finde thy sense, till then The Age of Ignorance I'le still condemn. IO. CA. Jun. 3. 1620. The manuscript is divided into three parts, the first containing the five _Satyres_, the _Litany_ and the _Storme_ and _Calme_. The second consists of _Elegies_ and _Epigrammes_ and the third of _Miscellanea, Poems, Elegies, Sonnets by the same Author_. The elegies in the second part are, as in _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, and _W_, thirteen in number. Their arrangement is that of _W_, and, like _W_, _JC_ gives _The Comparison_, which, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ do not, but drops _Loves Progress_, which the latter group contains. The text of these poems is generally that of _W_, but here and throughout _JC_ abounds in errors and emendations. It contains one or two poems which were published in the edition of 1650, and which I have found in no other manuscript except _O'F_. In these _JC_ supplies some obvious emendations. The poems in the third part are very irregularly arranged. This is the only manuscript, professing to be of Donne's poems, which contains the elegy, 'The heavens rejoice in motion,' which the younger Donne added to the edition of 1650. It is not a very correct, but is an interesting manuscript, with very few spurious poems. At the other end of the manuscript from Donne's, are poems by Corbet. What seems to be practically a duplicate of _JC_ is preserved in the Dyce Collection at the South Kensington Museum. It belonged originally to a certain 'Johannes Nedlam e Collegio Lincolniense' and is dated 1625. Cave's poem 'Upon Doctor Donne's Satyres' is inscribed and the contents and arrangement of the volume are identical with those of _JC_ except that one poem, _The Dampe_, is omitted, probably by an oversight, in the Dyce MS. After my experience of _JC_ I did not think it necessary to collate this manuscript. It was from it that Waldron printed some of the unpublished poems of Donne and Corbet in _A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry_ (1802).