DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum
First-Line Index to Y2
b 114, Yale University Library, James Osborn Collection (Raphael King ms.)
Compiled January 27, 1999, by J. Syd Conner
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) its Donne Variorum short form (noncan = noncanonical), (b) a siglum-plus-ordinal-position item tag, (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.), and (d) diplomatic transcriptions of its heading (HE) and first line. Italic om= omitted.
Correction(s) last made to this index on January 26, 2006.
Sat1 Y2.1 pp. 1-9 HE Satira prima.
Away thou changling motlie humorist
Sat2 Y2.2 pp. 9-16 HE Satyra Secunda.
Sr (though I thanke god for itt) I doe hate
Sat3 Y2.3 pp. 17-25 HE Satira Tertia.
Kind pitty choakes my spleene, braue scorne forbids
Sat4 Y2.4 pp. 25-42 HE Satyra Quarta.
Well now I may receiue, & die my sinne
Sat5 Y2.5 pp. 43-50 HE Satyra quinta.
Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe (Muse) nor they
noncan Y2.6 pp. 51-60 HE Satira Sexta. To Sr Nicolas Smyth.
Slepe next sosiety, & true frindship
noncan Y2.7 pp. 60-63 HE Satyra Septima.
Men writts, yt loue & reason disagree
EdHerb Y2.8 pp. 64-67 HE Satira Octava.
Man is a lumpe where all beast[sic] kneaded be
Merc Y2.9 p. 68 HE Vpon Mercurius Gallo belgicus.
Like AE%Lsopes fellowe slaue:[sic] oh Mercurie
ElBed Y2.10 pp. 69-71 HE The Eligies.[section] / Elegia prima [short horiz. line]
Come Madam, come, all rest my powers defie
ElJeal Y2.11 pp. 72-74 HE Elegia 2da
Fond woman wch wouldst haue thy husband die
Scribal pagination skips from 76 (a recto) to 78 (a verso); no om text.
ElChange Y2.12 pp. 75-78 HE Elegia Tercia.
Allthough thy hand & faith & good workes too
Scribal pagination skips from 81 (a recto) to 83 (a verso); no om text.
ElWar Y2.13 pp. 79-83 HE Elegia 4ta.
Till I haue peace, wth thee warre other men
ElPict Y2.14 pp. 83-84 HE Elegia quinta
Here take my picture, though I bid farwell
Sorrow Y2.15 pp. 85-86 HE Elegia Sexta.
Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew ye way
ElServe Y2.16 pp. 87-91 HE [om]
Oh lett me not serve so as thes men serve
ElNat Y2.17 pp. 91-93 HE Elegia octaua.
Natures lay Idiott I taught thee to loue
ElFatal Y2.18 pp. 93-97 HE Elegia Nona.
By or first strange & fatall Interveiw
ElBrac Y2.19 pp. 98-105 HE Supra Vna catena. Elegia Decima
Nott yt in coulor itt was like thy haire
ElProg Y2.20 pp. 106-13 HE Elegia Vndecima.
Who euer loues if he doe not propose
ElComp Y2.21 pp. 113-17 HE Elegia Duodecima.
As ye sweete sweate of Roses in a still
noncan Y2.22 pp. 118-20 HE Elegia Decima Tertia To Mrs Boulstreede.
SHall[sic?] I goe forc>e<, an Elegie, abuse
noncan Y2.23 pp. 121-23 HE Elegia 14.ta To Sr Thomas Roe.
Deare Tom / Tell her if she to hired servants shew
noncan Y2.24 pp. 123-25 HE Elegia 15ta.
True loue finds[sic] witt, but he whose witt doth moue
noncan Y2.25 pp. 125-29 HE Elegia 16ta
Come fates I feare you not, all whom I owe
Mark Y2.26 pp. 129-34 HE Elegia 17ta. / A Funerall Elegie Vpon ye Ladie Marcham.[sic]
Man is ye world & death ye Ocean
BoulRec Y2.27 pp. 134-39 HE Elegia i8.ua / A funerall Elegie on mrs Boulstrede.
Death I recant & say, vnsayd by me
BoulNar Y2.28 pp. 140-44 HE [om]
Language thou art to narrow & to weake
noncan Y2.29 pp. 144-46 HE An Epistle to mr Ben: Ihohnson
The state & mens affaires are ye best playes
noncan Y2.30 pp. 147-48 HE Epistola 2da to mr Ben Iohnson / No: 9o. i603.
If great men wronge me I will spare my selfe
Scribe numbers both p. 149 & p. 150 "149," but correctly numbers p. 151.
Annun Y2.31 pp. 149-52 HE Anuntiation & Passion
Family,[sic] fraile bodie abstaine to day, to day
Cor1 Y2.32 pp. 152-53 HE La Corona.
Daigne at my hands this Crowne of prayer & p[r]ayse
Cor2 Y2.33 pp. 153-54 HE 2d
[ind]Salvation to all yt will is nig[h]e
Cor3 Y2.34 pp. 154-55 HE 3d
[ind]Imo%Msitie,[sic] cloystred in thy deare wombe
Cor4 Y2.35 p. 156 HE 4th:
Wth his kind mother, who pertakes thy woe
Scribal pagination skips from 156 (a verso) to 158 (a recto) to 160 (a verso), after which
both of the next two pages are numbered 161.
Cor5 Y2.36 p. 158 HE 5th.
[ind]By miracles exceeding power of man
Cor6 Y2.37 p. 160 HE La Corona.
Moyste wth one drope of thy bloode my dry soule
Cor7 Y2.38 p. 161[1st] HE La Corona.
[ind]Salute ye last & euerlasting day
noncan Y2.39 pp. 161[2nd] HE A Sonnett / On ye blessed Virgin Marie
In yt oh Queene of Queenes thy birthe may free
Lit Y2.40 pp. 163-99 HE A Lettanie / The Father.
Father of him[sic] & him by whome
Will Y2.41 pp. 200-05 His last will & Testamt
Before I breath my last gaspe, lett me breathe
Items from Paradoxes are Donne prose.
Paradoxes Y2.42 p. 206 Section HE Problemes. / HE Why doe women delight so much / in feathers..
They thinke yt feathers imitate winges, & to show
Paradoxes Y2.43 p. 297 HE Why die none for loue now
Because women are become easier, or because thes
Paradoxes Y2.44 pp. 207-08 HE Why haue Bastards best fortune.
Because fortune herselfe is a whore, but such are
Paradoxes Y2.45 p. 209 HE Why doth not go>%Vl< d soyle ye fingers
Doth itt direct all ye venome to ye hart, or is itt
Paradoxes Y2.46 pp. 209-10 HE Why are Courtiers soner Atheists / then men of other condition.
It is because as Phisitians contemplating Nature
Paradoxes Y2.47 pp. 211-12 HE Why are states men most incredulous:
Are they all wise enough to follow their exelent part=/ner
TWHail Y2.48 pp. 213-15 HE A Sonnett to mr F.[sic] W: [running HE: A Song]
All haile sweet Poet more full of more strong fier
HWNews Y2.49 pp. 215-17 HE From ye Court.
Here is [sic]more news, then virtue, I may as well
RWThird Y2.50 pp. 217-20 HE [om; running HE: from ye Court. (p.217), Dalla Corte. (pp. 218-20)]
Like one who in her third widdowhoode doth profess
Storm Y2.51 pp. 221-26 HE A Storme. / To Sr Basill Brooke.
Thou wch art I (tis nothing to be soe)
Calm Y2.52 pp. 226-30 HE The Calme.
Our storme is past & yt stormes tyranous rage
noncan Y2.53 pp. 230-33 HE A Wonder.
Behold a wonder such as hath not beene
HWKiss Y2.54 pp. 233-38 HE To Sr Henry Wotton.
Sr more then kisses, letters mingle soules
Scribal pagination skips from 240 (a recto) to 250 (a verso); no om text.
ElAut Y2.55 pp. 238-51 HE Canzons. / Amourenses p%P le mesne Author.
No Spring nor Som%Mer beautie hath such grace
Compu Y2.56 pp. 251-52 HE Cansonetts. [becomes a section HE;
this & next 3 poems separated by same hatched ll. that separate sts]
For my first twentie yeares since yeserday
Ind Y2.57 pp. 252-54 HE [om]
[ind]I can loue both faire & browne
Commun Y2.58 pp. 254-55 HE [om]
[ind]God[sic] we must loue & must hate ill
ValBook Y2.59 pp. 255-57 HE [om; ll. 1-7 & 10-27 only]
Ile tell yee now (deare loue) what thou shalt doe
Twick Y2.60 pp. 258-59 HE Of: Twicknam Garden.
Blasted wth sighes & surroundred[sic] wth teares
LovUsury Y2.61 pp. 259-61 HE [om; appended to Twick as if one poem]
for euery hower yt thou wilt spare to me.[sic]
LovDeity Y2.62 pp. 262-63 HE Loues Dietie.[sic]
I long to talke wth some old louers ghost
LovDiet Y2.63 p. 264- HE Loues Dietie[sic] [HE continued from p. 262--scribe may have thought it
one poem; ll. 1-12 only]
[ind]To what a cumbersome vnwieldie guess
pp. 265-66 are missing; CW (If) on p. 264 is correct, but next page, numbered 267, begins
with LovAlch.]
LovAlch Y2.64 pp. 267-68 HE Monie.[sic]
Some yt haue deep%P digg'd loues mine then [I]
Under Y2.65 pp. 269-71 HE Canzone.
I haue done one brauer thing
ValName Y2.66 pp. 271-73 HE [om]
[l. 43] [ind]When thy inconsiderate hand
Air Y2.67 pp. 273-75 HE Aire & Angles.[as running HE at top of page--separated by
part of Under; on p. 274: Angles & Aire.]
[ind]Twice or thrice had I loud thee
GoodM Y2.68 pp. 276-77 HE Canzone.
I wonder by my troth what thou & I
Curse Y2.69 pp. 277-79 HE A Curse?
Who euer guesses, thinks or dreames, he knowes
LovInf Y2.70 pp. 280-81 HE Canzone.
Yet if I haue not all thy loue
Flea Y2.71 pp. 282-84 HE The Flea
Marke but this flea, & marke but this
Leg Y2.72 pp. 285-87 HE Canzone
When I died last, & deare I die
Scribal pagination skips from 287 (a recto) to 289 (a verso); no om text.
Lect Y2.73 pp. 287-[90] HE Shaddowe.
Stand still & I will reade to thee
ValBook Y2.74 pp. [290]-93 HE Canzone
[l. 28] Here loues deuine (since all devin%Mitie
LovGrow Y2.75 pp. 293-95 HE Spring
I scarce beleiue my loue to be so pure
ValName Y2.76 pp. 296-99 HE Diamond in glass. [Ll. 1-42 only, followed by: finis]
[ind]My name ingraud herein
Canon Y2.77 pp. 299-302 HE Canzone.
For gods sake b%>>h< olde your tongue & lett me loue
Broken Y2.78 pp. 303-05 HE [om; running HE is Ca>n< zone.]
[ind]He is starke made, who euer sayes
Triple Y2.79 pp. 305-07 HE [om; running HE is Canzone.]
[ind]I am two fooles I know
SSweet Y2.80 pp. 307-09 HE [om; running HE is Canzone.]
Sweete loue I dare not goe
noncan Y2.81 pp. 310-11 HE [om; running HE is Canzone.]
[ind]If I freely may discouer
Expir Y2.82 pp. 311-12 HE Valedictio Amoris
So so leaue of[sic] this last lamenting kiss
SunRis Y2.83 pp. 312-14 HE Ad Solem. A Song.
Busie old foole, vnrulie sunne
Mess Y2.84 pp. 314-16 HE A Song
Send home my long stayd[sic] eies to me
Y2.85 pp. 316-17 HE To ye Countess of Bedforde. [prose attributed to Donne]
Maddam / I haue learnt by thos lawes in wch I am
Har Y2.86 pp. 318-36 HE Obsequies on ye Lord Harrington / brother to ye Countesse / of / Bedford.
Faire soule wch was not only as all soules bee
[Ll. 1-248 only; ms. ends at bottom of p. 336 with correct CW for Har 249]