DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum
First-Line Index to VA2
Cat. no. 18, ms. 25.F17, Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (The Nedham ms.)
Compiled May 2010
with assistance from Kelley Bradley, Dayoung Chung and M. Farrington
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) its Donne Variorum short form (nc = noncanonical), (b) a siglum-plus-ordinal-position item tag, (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.), and (d) diplom atic transcriptions of its heading (HE) and first line. %+ = preceding letter is a large cap. The brackets »...« indicate material inserted in a second hand. All other codes used are definied in the Donne Variorum Markup Tags list.
This index last corrected 6-7-12.
| Sat1 | VA2.1 | ff. 5r-6r | HE %XSatyre 1. A way thou changelinge motelye humoriste |
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| Sat2 | VA2.2 | ff.6v-7v | HE %XSatyra secunda. S%5r%6 though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate |
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| Sat3 | VA2.3 | ff. 8r-9r | HE %XSatyra tertia. Kinde pitty choakes my spleene, braue scorne forbids |
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| Sat4 | VA2.4 | ff. 9v-12r | HE %XSatyra quarta. Well I may now receiue, and die; my sinne |
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| Sat5 | VA2.5 | ff. 12v-13v | HE %X%1Satyra quinta%2. Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe Muse nor they |
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| Lit | VA2.6 | ff. 14-16v | HE %XTHE LETANIE. Father of heauen! and him by whom |
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| Storm | VA2.7 | ff.16v-17r | HE %XThe Storme. Thou which art I ('tis nothinge to be soe) |
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| Calm | VA2.8 | ff.17v-18r | HE %X%1THE CALME%2 Our storme is past and that stormes tyrannouse rage |
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| ElBrac | VA2.9 | ff.18v-19v | HE %XEleg: 1.%5ma%6 The Bracelett Not that in colour it was like thy hayre |
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| ElComp | VA2.10 | ff. 19v-20r | HE %XElegia secunda. El. 2%5ia%6 As the sweet swet of roses in a still, |
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| ElPerf | VA2.11 | ff. 20v-21r | HE %XElegia tertia. Once and but once found in thy company |
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| ElJeal | VA2.12 | ff. 21r-21v | HE %XElegia quarta. Fond woman that wouldst haue thy husband dye |
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| ElServe | VA2.13 | ff.21v-22r | HE %XElegia quinta. Oh let not me serue so as those men serue |
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| ElNat | VA2.14 | ff. 22r-v | HE %XElegia sexta. Natures lay ideote I taught thee to loue |
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| ElWar | VA2.15 | ff.22v-23r | HE %XElegia septima. Till I haue peace with thee warre other men |
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| ElBed | VA2.16 | ff.23r-23v | HE %XElegia octaua. Come Maddame come all rest my powers defie |
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| ElChange | VA2.17 | ff.24r | HE %XElegia nona. Although thy hand and fayth and good workes too |
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| ElAnag | VA2.18 | ff.24r-25r | HE %XElegia decima. Marry and loue thy Flauia, for shee |
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| ELFatal | VA2.19 | ff. 25v-25r | HE %XElegia vndecima. By our first strange and fatall enterveiwe, |
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| ElPict | VA2.20 | ff.25v | HE %XElegia duodecima. Here take my picture; though I bid farewell |
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| Sorrow | VA2.21 | f.26r | HE Elegia decima tertia. Sorrowe who to this herse scarce knew the way |
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| ValMourn | VA2.22 | f. 26v | HE %XTo his Loue vpon his departare fro%M hir As vertuose men passe mildly a way, |
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| Relic | VA2.23 | ff. 26v-27r | HE %XThe Relique. When my graue is broke vp againe |
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| Curse | VA2.24 | f. 27r-v | HE %XThe Curse. Who euer guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes |
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| Blos | VA2.25 | ff. 27v-28 | HE %XThe Blossome. Little thinkst thou poore flower |
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| ElProg | VA2.26 | ff.28r-29r | HE %XAn Elegie on Loues Progresse. Who euer loues if he do not propose |
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| LovInf | VA2.27 | f. 29r-v | HE om If yet I haue not all thy loue |
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| Broken | VA2.28 | ff. 29v-30 | HE om He is starke mad, who euer sayes |
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| Under | VA2.29 | f. 30r-v | HE om I haue done one brauer thinge |
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| Expir | VA2.30 | f. 30v | HE om So, so, breake of this last lamentinge kisse, |
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| Damp | VA2.31 | ff. 30v-31r | HE om When I am dead and Doctors knowe not why, |
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| Mess | VA2.32 | f. 31r | HE om Send home my longe strayd eyes to me |
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| Appar | VA2.33 | f. 31r-v | HE om When by thy scorne o Murdresse I am dead |
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| SSweet | VA2.34 | f. 31v | HE om Sweetest loue I do not goe |
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| Break | VA2.35 | ff. 31v-32 | HE om Tis true tis day what though it bee? |
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| SelfL | VA2.36 | f. 32 | HE om Hee y%5t%6 cannot, choose but loue |
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| Fever | VA2.37 | f. 32r-v | HE om Oh do not dy! for I shall hate |
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| SGo | VA2.38 | ff. 32v-33 | HE om Goe & catch a falling starre |
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| Canon | VA2.39 | f. 33r-v | HE om For Gods sake hold y%5r%6 tongue, & let me loue |
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| Twick | VA2.40 | ff. 33v-34 | HE om %X1/ Blasted w%5th%6 sighs & surrounded with cares |
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| non | VA2.41 | ff.34r-v | HE om Deare loue continue nice & chast |
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| LovGrow | VA2.42 | f. 34v | HE om I scarce belieue my loue to be so pure |
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| Image | VA2.43 | ff. 34v-35 | HE om Image of her whom I loue more then shee |
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| Anniv | VA2.44 | f. 35r-v | HE om All Kings & all their favourites |
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| Ind | VA2.45 | f. 35v | HE om I can loue both fair & browne |
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| Bait | VA2.46 | ff. 35v-36 | HE om Come liue with mee & bee my loue |
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| Will | VA2.47 | f. 36r-v | HE om Before I sigh my last gaspe let mee breath |
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| ValWeep | VA2.48 | ff. 36v-37 | HE om Let mee powre forthe |
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| Commun | VA2.49 | f. 37r | HE om Good we must loue & must hate ill |
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| LovExch | VA2.50 | f. 37r-v | HE om Loue any Devill else but thou |
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| EpEliz | VA2.51 | ff.37v-39r | HEAn Epithalamion on y%5e%6 Lady Eliz. & Count Palat: Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is |
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| Ecst | VA2.52 | ff. 39r-40v | HE %XExtasie Where like a pillow on a bed |
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| Witch | VA2.53 | f. 40 | HE om I fixe mine eye on thine & there |
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| ElAut | VA2.54 | f.40r-v | HEom No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace |
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| LovAlch | VA2.55 | ff. 40v-41 | HE %X%1Mummie%2 Some y%5t%6 haue deeper digg'd loues mines y%5n%6 I |
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| ValName | VA2.56 | ff. 41-42 | HE om My name engrav'%Ye%Zn[sic] herein |
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| SunRis | VA2.57 | f. 42 | HE om Busy old foole unruly Sun |
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| LovDeity | VA2.58 | f. 42v | HE om I long to talke with some old Louers ghost |
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| Lect | VA2.59 | ff. 42v-43 | HE om Stand still & I will read to thee |
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| Air | VA2.60 | f. 43r-v | HE %XAyre & Angels. Twice or thrise had I lou'd thee |
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| Triple | VA2.61 | f. 43v | HE om I am two fooles I know |
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| ValBook | VA2.62 | ff. 43v-44v | HE %XA valediction of a book left in a window I'le tell thee now Deare loue! what thou shalt doe |
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| RWThird | VA2.63 | ff. 44v-45 | HE %X%1A Letter.%2 Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess |
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| HWNews | VA2.64 | ff. 45r-v | HE %X%1Another Letter.%2 Here is no more news then vertue. I may as well |
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| noncan | VA2.65 | ff. 45v-46v | HE%Xelegia Is death so greate a gamster that he throwes |
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| ConfL | VA2.66 | f. 46v | HE om Some man vnworthy to be possessor |
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| HWKiss | VA2.67 | ff. 46v-47v | HE %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wooton. S%5r%6! more then kisses letters mingle soules |
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| GoodM | VA2.68 | ff. 47v-48 | HE om I wonder by my troth what you and I |
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| Prohib | VA2.69 | f. 48 | HE om Take heed of louinge me |
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| Mark | VA2.70 | f. 48r | HE%XAn Elegie on the Lady Markham. Man is the world and death the Ocean |
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| HarLett | VA2.71 | f. 48r | HE%XTo the Countesse/ of Bedford. I haue learnt by those lawes in which /I am not a little conuersant, |
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| Har | VA2.72 | ff. 49v-52v | HE Obsequies of the L. Harrington. Faire soule! which wast not only as all soules be |
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| Cross | VA2.73 | ff. 52v-53 | HE %XThe Crosse. Since Christ embracd the Crosse it selfe, dare I |
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| ElVar | VA2.74 | ff. 53-54 | HE%XElegia decima 7%5a%6. The Heauens reioyce in motion why should I |
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| Sappho | VA2.75 | f.54v | HE%XEleg: 18%5th%6. Where is that hot fyre which verse is sayd |
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| noncan | VA2.76 | f. 56r-62v | HE%XD%5r%6 Corbett his relation of his journey/ Northwarde from Oxforde. Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctors two, and two |
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| noncan | VA2.77 | f.62v | HE%Xmistris Malletts Character. A femall which hath beene longe suspected for a woman |
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| noncan | VA2.78 | f. 63r-63v | HE%XA letter from D%5r%6 Corbett to m.%5r%6 Ailesburie. My Brother and much more hadst thou beene mine |
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| noncan | VA2.79 | f. 63v-65r | HE%Xthe Countrey Life. D%5r%6 Corbett. Thrice and aboue blest (my souls halfe!) are thou |
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