The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous ManuscriptsDonne, John
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The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts
Donne, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
[Footnote 32: The other poems here ascribed to J. D. are _To
my Lo: of Denbrook_ (_sic._, i.e. Pembroke), 'Fye, Fye, you
sonnes of Pallas', _A letter written by Sr H. G. and J.
D. alternis vicibus_ ('Since every tree'), 'Why shuld not
Pillgryms to thy bodie come', 'O frutefull Garden and yet
never till'd', _Of a Lady in the Black Masque_. See Appendix
C, pp. 433-7.]
[Footnote 33: 'The Heavens rejoice in motion', 'Tell her if
she to hired servants show', 'True love finds wit', 'Deare
Love continue nice and chaste', 'Shall I goe force an
Elegie?', 'Men write that Love and Reason disagree', 'Come
Fates: I feare you not', 'If her disdaine'. The authorship of
these is discussed later.
A note on the first page in a modern hand says, 'The pieces
which I have extracted for the "Specimens" are, Page 91, 211,
265.' What 'Specimens' are referred to I do not know: the
pieces are 'You nimble dreams', signed H. (i.e. John Hoskins);
'Upon his mistresses inconstancy' ('Thou art prettie but
inconstant'); and _Cupid and the Clowne_. The manuscript was
purchased at Bishop Heber's sale in 1836.]
[Footnote 34: I refer to it occasionally as _TCD_ (_II_),
and (once it has been made plain that this is the collection
referred to throughout) as simply _TCD_.]
[Footnote 35: Since Mr. Pearsall-Smith transcribed
these poems, which I subsequently collated, the house at
Burley-on-the-Hill has been burned down and the manuscript
volume has perished.]
[Footnote 36: _The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., Dean
of St. Paul's. For the First Time Fully Collected and Collated
With The Original and Early Editions And MSS. And Enlarged
With Hitherto Unprinted And Inedited Poems From MSS. &c....
By The Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, &c. The Fuller Worthies'
Library_, 1872-3. Dr. Grosart's favourite manuscript was the
Stephens (_S_). When that failed him he used Addl. MS. 18643
(_A18_), whose relation to the manuscripts in Trinity College,
Dublin and Cambridge (_TCD_, _TCC_) he did not suspect,
though he collated these. Some poems he printed from the
Hazlewood-Kingsburgh MS. or the Farmer-Chetham MS. The first
two are not good texts of Donne's poems, the last two are
miscellaneous collections. The three first _Satyres_ Dr.
Grosart printed from Harleian MS. 5110 (_H51_); and he used
other sources for the poems he ascribed to Donne. It cannot
be said that he always recorded accurately the readings of
the manuscript from which he printed. I have made no effort to
record all the differences between Grosart's text and my own.
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