_A25._ Additional MS. 25707, in the British Museum, is a large and interesting collection, written in several different hands, of early seventeenth-century poems, Jacobean and Caroline. It contains an _Elegie_ by Henry Skipwith on the death of King Charles I, but most of the poems are early Jacobean, and either the bulk of the collection was made before this and some other poems were inserted, or it is derived from older collections. Indeed, most of the poems by Donne were probably got from some older collection or collections not unlike some of those already described. They consist of twelve elegies arranged in the same order as in _JC_, _W_, and to some extent _O'F_, which is not the order of _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ and _1633_; a number of _Songs_ with some _Letters_ and _Obsequies_ following one another sometimes in batches, at times interspersed with poems by other writers; the five _Satyres_, separated from the other poems and showing some evidences in the text of deriving from a collection like _Q_ or its duplicate in the Dyce collection.[31] The only one of the _Divine Poems_ which _A25_ contains is _The Crosse_. No poem which can be proved to have been written later than 1610 is included. The poems by Donne in this manuscript are generally, but not always, initialled J. D., and are thus distinguished from others by F. B., H. K., N. H., H. W., Sr H. G., T. P., T. G., G. Lucy., No. B., &c. The care with which this has been done lends interest to those poems which are here ascribed to Donne but are not elsewhere assigned to him. _A25_ (with its partial duplicate _C_) is the only manuscript which attributes to 'J. D.' the Psalm, 'By Euphrates flowery side,' that was printed in _1633_ and all the subsequent editions.[32] _C._ A strange duplicate of certain parts of _A25_ is a small manuscript in the Cambridge University Library belonging to the Baumgartner collection. It is a thin folio, much damaged by damp, and scribbled over. A long poem, _In cladem Rheensen_ ('Verses upon the slaughter at the Isle of Rhees'), has been used by the cataloguer to date the manuscript, but as this has evidently been inserted when the whole was bound, the rest of the contents may be older or younger. The collection opens with three of the _Elegies_ contained in _A25_. It then omits eleven poems which are in _A25_, and continues with twenty _Songs_ and _Obsequies_, following the order of _A25_ but omitting the intervening poems. Some nine more poems are given, following the order of _A25_, but many are omitted in _C_ which are found in _A25_, and the poems in _C_ are often only fragments of the whole poems in _A25_. Evidently _C_ is a selection of poems either made directly from _A25_, or from the collection of Donne's poems (with one or two by Beaumont and others) which _A25_ itself drew from.