Poetical miscellany

Folger bibliographic ID: 228893
Folger call number: V.a.399
Folger holdings ID: 260979
Accession Number: MS Add 368

Contains amorous and religious poems, including several which have been attributed to Ludovick Lloyd, Raleigh, Campion, Dyer, Corbet, and Essex, and Nash's Dilldo [or Choice of valentines] (leaf 53v), epigrams of Sir John Davies, proverbs, maxims, riddles and 2 facetious sermons in Welsh English (leaf 5 and 5v). The phrase "shake the spear" occurs on leaf 31v. A number of poems ca. 1675-ca. 1725, a few attributed to Dryden and Pope, have been added. Contains the text of an early version of the ballad 'Wallsingham", which Ophelia alludes to in Shakespeare's Hamlet

General notes

One sheet interleaved between leaf 68 and 69, and a portion of another between leaf 64 and 65. Gaps (including the first 7 leaves) and insertions in the original numbering system Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines Spine title: Commonplace verse and prose One leaf of printed text (Memento mori = Remember to die) removed and cataloged separately as Folger shelfmark STC 1768165 Portions also available as a digital reproduction Chas. Shutleworth, 1691 Formerly Folger MS Add 368 For an ascription of "My mind to me a kingdom is" on leaf 12 to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, see Review of English studies, new series, XXVI, no. 104 (Nov. 1975), 385 This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 25)

Extended title: Poetical miscellany ca. 1600-ca. 1725
Alternate titles: Commonplace book, ca. 1600-ca. 1725, Commonplace verse and prose

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
associated with: Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581
associated with: Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635
associated with: Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607
associated with: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
associated with: Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Dryden, John, 1631-1700
associated with: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626
former owner: Shutleworth, Chas. (Charles), active 1691