Described in Beal, IELM, as``a quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, owned in 1681 by Sir Samuel Danvers (d. 1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire; c. 1680s'. Fol 1r has `Samll Danvers. 1661' — a date that makes no sense. On the foreedges is written in an early hand `Coll | No 3 | Poetry' (not visible on film). The MS contains mostly 1670s and early '80s material, with a strong presence from the `Marvellian' group, including Latin poems, some court libertine verse and political material to circa 1682. The third last item (in a later hand) is dated 1687. This is not a personal compilation, but either a professional anthology originally entered by a single scribe, or the work of a clerk copying from separates held by Danvers. {DoC 227, 341} There is an earlier pagination, with #1 commencing on page 1.
<first Table of Contents ff. 2r-3v>
<The layout of the two TCs shows that one was copied from the other, though the contents are not identical. See in particular #42. The following blank recto and verso are not foliated>
If any do the author's name enquire BLa62*1 (ff. 4r-15v)
<The city painter. Second advice. To the reader>
Dread sovereign / With equal zeal loved and adored by all BLa62*1.1 (ff. 15v-16v)
<To the king [`Civicus'] [conclusion of previous; not listed separately in either TC]>
Now now the Tories all shall stoop BLa62*2 (f. 17r-v)
<A song [NB late date]>
[lost work: On Lord Fairfax Crom & Vane] BLa62*3
<[on lost page 27]>
[lost work: Epitaph on Lord Fairfax] BLa63*4
<[on lost pages 28-30]>
Pride lust ambition and the people's hate BLa62*5 (f. 18r)
<On Chancellor Hide>
Good people draw near / If a ballad you'd hear BLa62*6 (ff. 18v-19r)
<A ballad>
All in the town of London BLa62*7 (f. 19r-v)
<The man in the moon or Bum[m] for a bishop [not in either TC]>
When the plate was at pawn and the fob at low ebb BLa62*8 (ff. 20r-21r)
<The king's vows [f. 21v blank]>
At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head BLa62*9 (ff. 22r-25r)
<Tunbridge Wells [`her head' uncorr]>
Farewell fond love upon whose treacherous coast BLa62*10 (f. 25r-v)
<A farewell to love>
Cover le feau ye Huguenots BLa62*11 (f. 26r)
<A copy of a libel found in Westminster Hall the last day of Michaelmas Term 1666. by Mr Twaight's man a gentleman of Leeds [`Dat. quinto novembris anno salutis 1666. Anno restorationis Romanæ ecclesiæ. In Anglia primo. In hoc signo vinces XXX'] [`Covre' in TC2]>
No cover le feau ye Catesbyots BLa62*12 (f. 26v)
<Respond al Cover le feau>
The clergy now the good Calixtus hate BLa62*13 (f. 26v)
<Upon Pope Calixtus the second forbidding the [ ] [not in first TC]>
Old Priscian's rule henceforth must hold no more BLa62*14 (f. 27r)
<In idem [not in either TC]>
I that have robbed so oft am now bid stand BLa62*15 (f. 27r)
<Verses made by Clavel a knight's eldest son who was a great highway man>
Hic inhumanus / Humatur Vaughanus BLa62*16 (f. 27r)
<An epitaph on one Mr Vaughan [`Vaughani responsio / Flectere si nequeo superos Aceronte movebo']>
Here cruel Ned BLa62*16.1 (f. 27v)
<In English thus [`Answer / If Heaven saith me no / Then down to the deep I'll go'] [not listed separately in either TC]>
Hereafter Sir John BLa62*17 (f. 27v)
<Upon cutting Sir John Coventry's nose>
O pity poor England O pity I say BLa62*18 (ff. 28r-29r)
<A copy of a ballad December 1670 the printer fined 20 nobles the singer pilloried. Ireland's lamentation for England's great desolation. The tune is Limerick's lamentation [`Printed at Cork by William Smith']>
Poor poet why didst spin this thread BLa62*19 (ff. 29r-31r)
<A great cry and little wool or an answer to a copy of verses on the death of the Lord General Monke>
Charon O Charon hie and come away BLa62*20 (ff. 31v-32v)
<Monk and Charon [a dialogue] [`hey' uncorr]>
Another prorogation what's the reason BLa62*21 (ff. 33r-34v)
<On the prorogation October 1674. being the third session and a dissolution expected to follow>
Unto my aid I would some painter call BLa62*22 (f. 35r-v)
<Upon Mr Garraway>
Prorogued by prorogation damned rogues and whores BLa62*23 (ff. 36r-37v)
<Upon a prorogation of the parliament before the last prorogation was expired>
Here lies a thong of the old Hyde BLa62*24 (f. 37v)
<A epitaph on the Duchess of York [2 lines; the second: `A swine she lived and a swine she died']>
Here lies Monck BLa62*25 (f. 37v)
<Epitaph on Monck>
Within this house are rooms appointed BLa62*26 (f. 37v)
<Verses writ upon Nel Guin's house [not in either TC]>
Cambridge is dead and Kendall is riding post BLa62*27 (f. 37v)
<[no title] [not in either TC]>
We read in profane and sacred records BLa62*28 (ff. 38r-41r)
<A dialogue between the two horses 1675 [Introduction followed by The Dialogue, a two-line Chorus, and Conclusion] [`houses' in first TC]>
Bellipotens virgo septem regina trionum BLa62*29 (f. 41r)
<A copy of verses by Mr Andrew Marvell on the Protector's picture sent to Christina Queen of Sweden [f. 41v blank]>
What can be the mystery Charing Cross BLa62*30 (ff. 42r-43r)
<The statue at Charing Cross>
Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras BLa62*31 (f. 43r-v)
<Scævola Scoto-Brittannus. per Andrew Marvel [`scævas' in MS]>
When Hodge had numbered up how many score BLa62*32 (ff. 44r-46v)
<A country clown called Hodge went up to view / The pyramid pray mark what did ensue>
Close wrapped in Portsmouth's smock his senses are BLa62*33 (f. 47r)
<Acrostic [CHARLES STEWART RER (Regni Angliae Rex?)]>
A curse on such representatives BLa62*34 (f. 47v)
<Upon the rump or last long parliament [`Upon the inordinate length of the last long parliament' uncorr] [`Pump' in TC2]>
O heavens we have signs below BLa62*35 (ff. 48r-49v)
<The dissolution 1679>
The blood of the just London's firm doom shall fix BLa62*36 (f. 50r-v)
<An ancient prophecy written originally in French by Nosterdam, and now done into English 6 January 1671>
Delirat rex triumphat cunnus BLa62*37 (f. 51r)
<[no title; 2 lines]>
When the king's distracted BLa62*37.1 (f. 51r)
<[no title; 4-line translation of previous] [not listed separately in either TC]>
The law is at a stand BLa62*38 (f. 51r)
<[no title] [not in either TC]>
'Tis I 'tis I with my empty purse BLa62*39 (f. 51r)
<[no title; with corrections! Original to this source?'] [not in either TC]>
Bella fugis bellasque sequeris belloque repugnas BLa62*40 (f. 51r)
<In Carolum secundum]>
The camp you shun beauties abhor adore you do BLa62*40.1 (f. 51r)
[no title; translation of previous] [`adore, Abhorre' in MS] [not in either TC]>
Mysterious riddles of the state BLa62*41 (f. 51v)
<Upon Hide's ministry>
Before the end of September near BLa62*42 (f. 51v)
<Sir these are only to employ your thoughts think not your time tedious [listed against p. 97 (ie. f. 51r) in TC1 and TC2]>
We are a game at cards the cabal deal BLa62*43 (f. 52r)
<The game at cards>
Room for thund'ring Orange with his men of war BLa62*44 (f. 52r)
<Charleroy and Maestricht>
In no coffee house I dabble BLa62*45 (f. 52r)
<On the coffee houses [7 lines!] [not in TC1]>
There is no fear that you shall poets lack BLa62*46 (f. 52v)
<Dr Wild to the king>
White innocence that now liest spread BLa62*47 (f. 53r)
<On Celinda when she had the green-sickness>
I come like those that offer at a shrine BLa62*48 (f. 53r-v)
<To Celinda [also #56 below]>
Would you send Kate to Portugal BLa62*49 (f. 54r-v)
<On the Lord Chancellor's speech to the parliament: March 1678/9. This is the time>
Ud's life we're undone / A pox of your son BLa62*50 (ff. 55r-56r)
<A dialogue between king and duke 1678>
How our good king doth papists hate BLa62*51 (ff. 56v-57v)
<A satyr>
Room for the bedlam Commons hell and furies BLa62*52 (ff. 58r-60v)
<On the Pensionary House of Commons>
Timely wise Sir you did foresee our fate BLa62*53 (ff. 60v-62r)
<The little sister's complaint for want of breasts. To the Earl of Shaftsbury from Ireland [16]80>
Have at you sluggish drones who only live BLa62*54 (ff. 62r-63v)
<Upon idleness, or The sluggard [nos. #54-#58 may be a linked group]>
Enjoy yourselves sweet souls 'tis far below BLa62*54.1 (ff. 63v-64v)
<Pars opposita [answer to previous]>
Ah tyrant Love did ever I one hour BLa62*55 (ff. 64v-65r)
<On Celinda when I first saw her>
I come like those that offer at a shrine BLa62*56 (f. 65v)
<To Celinda [also #48 above]>
This life of man breathed forth at first with cries BLa62*57 (f. 66r-v)
<Of the miseries of man's life [`Digby']>
Tell me thou safest end of all our woe BLa62*58 (ff. 66v-67r)
<Upon death>
The world's a tennis court man's the ball BLa62*59 (f. 67r-v)
<Verses upon Strafford Laud Montrose and King Charles etc [`Stafford', `Montross' in TC1 and TC2]>
Holla ye pampered sires of Rome forebear BLa62*60 (f. 68r-v)
<Upon a young child that was born while its mother was burning and escaping the flames the merciless villains thrust it in again>
What means this silence Sirs what's here become BLa62*61 (ff. 68v-69v)
<An elegy on the death of Robert Blake esquire one of the right honourable generals at sea who departed August 7th 1657 on board the George near Plymouth Sound>
As in the days of yore was odds BLa62*62 (ff. 70r-71r)
<The royal busse. 1679>
Here's a house to be let for the steward hath swore BLa62*63 (f. 71r-v)
<Verses set upon the door of the Parliament House on the 26th of January [16]79/80 [`nemine contradicente']>
Kind Jesuits you have but justly done BLa62*64 (f. 71v)
<Upon the two fires at the temple>
Improba gens legis pereant numerosa superba BLa62*65 (f. 71v)
<[no title] [3 lines of Latin verse] [not in either TC]>
Dear painter it is hard for me to tell BLa62*66 (ff. 72r-73r)
<Advice to a painter. 1679 [f. 73v blank]>
Where are our clergy gone what damp hath killed BLa62*67 (ff. 74r-77v)
<Concio ad clerum. A sermon to the clergy [`Pax Dei custodiat cor vestrum']>
Muse bark no more satyr thy bristles couch BLa62*67.1 (f. 77v)
<Pars secunda [`altera desunt']>
Tired with the noisome follies of the age BLa62*68 (ff. 78r-81v)
<Rochester's farewell>
I love with all my heart / The independent part / The warring cavalier BLa62*69 (f. 82r)
<[no title] [`I love with all my heart' as title in TC1 and TC2]>
When Shakespeare Jonson Fletcher ruled the stage BLa62*70 (ff. 82r-83v)
<In defence of satyr [closing lines squeezed in so as all to fit on 83v]>
Well Sir 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes BLa62*71 (ff. 84r-85v)
<An allusion to Horace the 10th satyr. Nempe incomposito dixi pede &c [smaller writing again f. 85v]>
England by all thought Beauty's natural soil BLa62*72 (ff. 86r-87v)
<Tunbridge lampoon. 1680 [new ink colour and larger hand]>
How dull and how insensible a beast BLa62*73 (ff. 88r-92v)
<An essay upon satyr. 1680 [smaller writing f. 92r-v]>
Must I with patience ever silent sit BLa62*74 (f. 93r-v)
<A second part. Semper ego auditor tantum etc>
So have I seen a dean of Paul's BLa62*75 (f. 93v)
<On Dr St[ill] [`Still' in TC1, `Stil' in TC2]>
Amongst the writing race of modern wits BLa62*76 (ff. 94r-95r)
<A satyr. 1680>
Since Justice Scroggs Pepys and Dean did bail BLa62*77 (f. 95r-v)
<A satyr upon Sir W[illiam] Scroggs. C.J. the butcher's son [`Wm' in TC1]>
Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave BLa62*78 (f. 95v)
<In idem>
'Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known BLa62*79 (ff. 96r-97v)
<A satyr. In answer to a friend. 1680>
The blazing comet and the monstrous whale BLa62*80 (f. 97v)
<The six wonders>
But t'other day from exile not by force BLa62*81 (ff. 98r-99r)
<The city's advice. 1680 [`Citty' in TC1 and TC2]>
At bello audacis populi vexatus et armis BLa62*82 (f. 99v)
<The late King Charles pricking with a pin in Virgil happened on the ensuing lines>
By a bold people's stubborn arms oppressed BLa62*82.1 (f. 99v)
<Thus Englished by Mr Cowly [not listed separately in either TC]>
This rumour entering angry Titan's ears BLa62*83 (ff. 100r-103v)
<Translated out of a Greek fragment. 1680 [`Titania pubes. Fulmine dejecti fundo volvuntur in imo']>
There is a bawd renowned in Venus' wars BLa62*84 (ff. 104r-105v)
<Ovid Elegy the 8th. He curses a bawd for going about to debauch his mistress>
Fortuna sævo læta negotio et BLa62*85 (f. 106r)
<Part of an ode of Horace paraphrased by the Duke of Buckingham. 1680>
Fortune made up of toys and impudence BLa62*85.1 (f. 106r)
<[no title; not listed separately in either TC]>
By fools and knaves pursued ensnared and caught BLa62*86 (f. 106v)
<Upon one in affliction>
Here lies a priest who teaching from without BLa62*87 (f. 106v)
<Epitaph on a priest>
Nota mori vetus et justum est sed iniqua deorum BLa62*88 (f. 107r)
<Epitaph on the stillborn parliament [2 lines]>
Again prorogued to the seventeenth of May BLa62*89 (f. 107r)
<On the prorogation to the 17th of May 1680>
Gentlemen when you were here this house was to be let BLa62*90 (f. 107r-v)
<In idem [not in either TC] [13-syllable lines: stress on men, were, house, be]>
The bane of all pleasure and clog of man's life BLa62*91 (f. 107v)
<Upon marriage>
Of a tall stature and of sable hue BLa62*92 (ff. 108r-110v)
<An historical poem. 1680>
Disgraced undone forlorn made Fortune's sport BLa62*93 (ff. 110v-111r)
<Upon the Duke of Monmouth's banishment [f. 111v blank]>
Methinks I see you newly risen BLa62*94 (ff. 112r-113r)
<The looking glass. [16]80>
Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand BLa62*95 (f. 113r-v)
<On Rowly's fishing>
Not Rome in all its splendour could compare BLa62*96 (ff. 114r-115r)
<Nobilitas sola atque unica virtus. 1680>
Worthy Sir / Though weaned from all those scandalous delights BLa62*97 (f. 115r-v)
<A letter>
In a famous street near Whetstone's Park BLa62*98 (ff. 115v-116v)
<A ballad to the tune of An old man with a bedful of bones>
In this our saucy age we daily see BLa62*99 (ff. 116v-117r)
<Satyr>
Crane and Tuke are flanting flirts BLa62*100 (f. 117r-v)
<[no title] [not in either TC]>
Clarendon had some pedantic sense BLa62*101 (ff. 117v-118r)
<Upon the ministers [`Ministry' in TC1]>
There was a lass in Scotland Yard BLa62*102 (f. 118r)
<Upon Madam Fra[zier] [`Frasier' in TC1, `Frazier' in TC2]>
Have you heard of the knight that was sent to the Tower BLa62*103 (f. 118v)
<Upon Sir Ellis Layton>
Pacto uno binis thalamis belloque triformi BLa62*104 (f. 118v)
<Dominus cancellarius>
One compact two nuptials threeform war BLa62*104.1 (f. 118v)
<[no title; translation of above] [not in either TC]>
Though the duke take physic to make himself clean BLa62*105 (f. 119r)
<On the Duke of Y[ork] [`York' in TC1]>
When great men fall their fall makes weeping eyes BLa62*106 (f. 119r)
<On the Duke of B[uckingham's] fall [name complete in TC1]>
In vain for help from your old friends you call BLa62*107 (f. 119r)
<Verses found in the king's bedchamber>
By a false Scot a lying treasurer and a French whore BLa62*108 (f. 119r)
<In the presence-chamber found. 1675 [not in either TC]>
Here uninterred suspends though not to save BLa62*109 (f. 119v)
<An epitaph upon John Felton who was hanged in chains at Portsmouth for stabbing the Duke of Buckingham. Anno 1628>
From conscience the second and prerogative pudder BLa62*110 (ff. 120r-121r)
<A litany 1680>
Let Talmach preach to his dull simple crowd BLa62*111 (f. 121v)
<A satyr. by a Tory [The title of the next poem was entered first and then deleted] [`Talmuck' in MS]>
From kings that would sell us to pay their old scores BLa62*112 (ff. 122r-123r)
<The responses or litany for litany. 1680 [The previous poem had continued the title `Being an answer to one that was printed']>
The rabble hate the gentry fear BLa62*113 (f. 123v)
<The state of the nation [not in either TC]>
From the lawless dominion of the mitre and crown BLa62*114 (ff. 124r-125r)
<The litany. 1681>
In one thousand six hundred eighty and one BLa62*115 (f. 125r-v)
<The Oxford vision. April [16]81>
Whither O whither wander I forlorn BLa62*116 (ff. 126r-129r)
<Non ego sum vates, sed prisci conscius ævi. [16]81 [Dialogue between Oceana and Brittania] [f. 129v blank]>
Stamford's countess led the van BLa62*117 (ff. 130r-131v)
<The ladies' march February 10th 1681>
A scribbling puppy has of late designed BLa62*118 (ff. 132r-133r)
<A satyr [Discussed in Harold Love, `Charles, Viscount Mordaunt and `The Ladies' March'', Review of English Studies ?? (2004), 346–54.>
Ye townsmen of Oxford and scholars draw near BLa62*119 (ff. 133r-135v)
<A ballad upon the Duke of Monmouth's reception by the right worshipful the mayor and the worshipful the aldermen and bargemen of Oxford. To the tune of Packinton's pound>
My lords and gentlemen / I told you last meeting that winter was the only time BLa62*120 (ff. 136r-137v)
<The king's speech April 13th [16]75 [prose text]>
My lords and gentlemen / You will expect that I say something to you BLa62*121 (ff. 138r-139v)
<Oxford March 21 1680 [prose text]>
We your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the ladies of pleasure BLa62*122 (f. 140r-v)
<The humble address of the ladies of pleasure [prose text] [f. 141r blank]>
Since plotting's a trade BLa62*123 (ff. 141v, 142v, 143v, 144v)
<The loyal health. A court song to a delicate new tune called At the foot of a willow etc [This and the following are set out as parallel texts: versos headed `The song' and rectos headed `The answer']>
Since popery's the plot BLa62*124 (ff. 142r, 143r, 144r, 145r)
<The answer>
I who from drinking ne'er could spare an hour BLa62*125 (ff. 145v-149r)
<Quem natura negat [Contains couplet f. 147v: `Lost reputations shall forget to meet / To club for bawdy verse in Germin street']>
Most of our civil broils may date their spring BLa62*126 (ff. 149r-151v)
<The household >
Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind BLa62*127 (152r-153v)
<The true Englishman>
A session of lovers was held t'other day BLa62*128 (ff. 154r-162r)
<The lovers' sessions [16]87. In imitation of Sir John Suckling's Session of poets [second hand begins] [83 stanzas!]>
And can Theaner think the world to cheat BLa62*129 (ff. 162v-163r)
<To Theaner upon saying she would retire. by Mr Neal [not in either TC] [ff. 163v, 164r blank]>
[Well sir 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes BLa62*130 (f. 164v)
<[no title] [lines 67-68 of Rochester's `Allusion to Horace', beginning `Raise such a conflict kindle such a fire', following scribblings that include `Samuel Danvers his book'] [not in either TC]>
<second Table of Contents ff. 165r-166r)