There are no images connected with these transcriptions, because I took the photos myself, and while the reading room was happy to let me do so, they also told me that they had to be for my personal use only. If you see me at an event somewhere, possibly a KWDMS, I will most likely have my 'chapbook' with me, which contains all of the images and all of the transcriptions - you can look at them in there. Or, of course, you could go to Harvard, and the Houghton library, and take a look at the manuscript itself!
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| First Page | |
|---|---|
| Verses on severall oc | |
| currenses; | |
| 1649 | This citation dates the dances and the poetry: The first poem below is about something that happened in 1645, so the date would seem to indicate when they were put in this book, not when the events happened. |
| To the Ladyes; | |
| Ladys that gild the glittering noone | |
| And by reflection mend his ray | |
| whose lustor makes the sprightfull sun | |
| to dance as upon Easter day | |
| wat are you since the queenes away? | |
| --&-- | |
| To the Cavaliers; | This is the first part of: |
| Courageous eagles that have whett | The General Eclipse, by John Cleveland |
| their eyes upon majestick light | (This version is slightly different from the one |
| (x?) And these derivde such martiall heat | found in "The Poems of John Cleveland", |
| That still your lookes maintayn the fight | Annotated and correctly printed for the first time |
| Wat are yousince that Kings goodnight | with Biographical and Historical Introductions |
| --&-- | By |
| To the Children | JOHN M. BERDAN, PH. D. |
| Royall Children whom nature teemes | NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| as a reserve for Englands throne | LONDON: HENRY FROWDE \ / it |
| whose honur forg'd sword redeems | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| The last age and adorn your owne | M CM X I |
| Wat are you since the Prince is | Copyright 1903, |
| gone | BY THE GRAFTON PRESS |
| --&-- | |
| http://www.archive.org/stream/poemsannotatedan00clevuoft/poemsannotatedan00clevuoft_djvu.txt | |
| Second Page | |
| As an obstructed fountains head | |
| cuts of the ontayle from the streams | |
| Soe brooks are disinherited | |
| Honour, and(@) beauty are but dreams | |
| since charles and Mary lost | |
| their beames; | |
| --&-- | |
| To the Army; | |
| Criminal valour that committ | |
| your galantry; what Pean brings | |
| A psalm of mercy after itt | |
| in this sad solstice of the King | |
| the victorys have mewed our wings | |
| --&-- | |
| See how the souldier wares his cage | |
| of iron, like the captive Turke | |
| And for a guerdon of their rage | |
| See how the glimering Peers go lur(e/k) | |
| or at the best worke joarny woork | |
| --&-- | |
| Thus tis a generall eclipse | This is the second part of: |
| The world is turnd all a mort | The General Eclipse, by John Cleveland |
| only the house of commons trips | (see above) |
| Third Page | |
| The stage in a tryumphant sort, | |
| may even Lilburne take 'm for't | The end of the second part |
| --&-- | The General Eclipse by John Cleveland (see previous) |
| *Note*: John Lilburne: "Freeborn John" - 1615-1657 | |
| Parlimentarian, Puritan, sided with Cromwell. One of the founders | |
| of the Levellers, a group of reformist who wanted to change the way | |
| things were done - vote for all, freedom of religion, reduce taxes, etc. | |
| The antiplatonicke | |
| ---------- | |
| for shame thou everlasting woor | |
| still saynig grace, and ne'r fall to her | |
| love that's in contemplation place | |
| is venus draft but to the wast | |
| Unlese your flame confesse your gender | |
| and your parly cause surrender | |
| Your Salamanders of a cold desire | |
| that hide untouch't amongst the hotest fire; | |
| wat though the be a dame of stone | |
| the widdow of pigmalean | |
| as hard, and unrelented shee | |
| as the new crusted niobe | |
| or wat doth more of stature carry | |
| a nimph of the Platonik quarry | |
| Lover melts the rigour, what the rokes have bred | |
| A flint with break upon a feather bed; | |
| Fourth Page | |
| for shame you pretty femall elves | |
| Cease for to candy up your selfes | |
| noe more you soctarys of the game | |
| noe more of your calcining flame | |
| woemen commence by cupids dart | |
| as a kings hunting dubs a heart | |
| loves votarys enthralls, each others soule | |
| till both of them live but upon paroule; | |
| beatues noe more in woemen kind | |
| but the greene sickness of the mind | |
| Philosophys therr new delight | |
| a kind of charcole appetite | |
| there is no sophistry prevayels | |
| when all-convincing love assayles | |
| but the disputing petacoate will warpe | |
| as skilfull foners are to seeke at sharpe | |
| the souldier that man of iron | |
| whome ribbs of horror do environ | |
| who's strung with wire instead of veins | |
| in whose embraces you're in chaines | "The Antiplatonic", by John Cleveland |
| lett a magnetick girle appeare | (Same reference as "The General Eclipse", same notes too) |
| Fifth Page | |
| Straite he'll be Cupids curiaseere | |
| love stormes his lips, and takes the fortresse in | |
| for all the brisled tarnepikes of his chinne | |
| Since loves artillery then checkes | |
| The breastworkes of the firmest sexe | |
| Come let us in affection ryot | |
| there sikly pleasures keepe a dyett | |
| give me a lover bold and free | |
| not eunched with formality | |
| like an embassador that beds a queene | End of "The Antiplatonick", by John Cleveland |
| with the nice caution of a sword betweene | (see previous citation) |
| --&-- | |
| You powers which rule loves silken thron | |
| and guid our passions by your owne | |
| send downe that powerfull dart | |
| that makes two lovers weare one heart | |
| solicite Venus that her doves | |
| which through their bills transport their loves | An invocation to Cupid (Song) |
| may teach my tender love, and I | (Author unknown?) |
| to kisse into a sympathy | |
| pray Cupid if it be noe sinne | http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1600s/1671_westminster_drollery/index.htm |
| Westminster-Drollery. Or, A Choice COLLECTION Of the Newest SONGS & POEMS BOTH AT Court and Theaters. | |
| BY A Person of Quality. | |
| With Additions. | |
| LONDON, Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in St. Paul Church Yard, near the West End. MDCLXXI. | |
| http://www.archive.org/stream/westminsterdroll00ebswuoft/westminsterdroll00ebswuoft_djvu.txt | |
| (First reprint, 1875) | |
| Sixth Page | |
| in nature for to make twine | |
| of our two soules, that the others eyes | |
| may see death couzned when one dys | |
| --&-- | The following lines complete the poem - they're not in the manuscript: |
| If oh you Powers you can implore | |
| Thus much from Love, know from your store | |
| Two Amorous Turtles shall be freed | |
| which yearly on your Altar bleed | |
| Official end of An Invocation of Cupid (see previous for attribution) | |
| A word for the greene sicknesse | |
| A: lady fayre of the greene sicknese late | |
| P: itty to see was troubled very sore | |
| R: esolving in her mind some cure to take | |
| I: n greate Apollos name she did implor | |
| C: ure for her greif the oracle assignes | http://www.parwichhistory.org/NewsQuarterly1-shortened_version.pdf |
| K: eepe the first letter of these | James Swindell used the above acrostic in a letter to his lover, (possibly Anne Boulton). |
| severall lines | |
| --&-- | He did not author the lines, as he lived in the 18th century, but he must have found |
| some source for them. The newsletter at the url above has some different words, but | |
| the sentiment is the same. | |
| Note: the "green sickness" is an affliction defined in Francis Grose' 1811 | |
| Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue defined "green sickness" as: "The disease of | |
| maids occasioned by celibacy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosis_(medicine)) | |
| "prick" as penis dates from the mid-16th century. | |
| In Librum vere Cabalisticum | |
| ?arturn a Gulielmo Stockes | |
| Hyppacho he in arte de= | |
| sultoria Hyppo= | |
| didascalo | |
| --&-- | |
| 1) Readers here is such a booke | |
| will make you leape before you look | |
| And shift without being throght a rooke, | http://www.archive.org/stream/lifepoemsofwilli00cartiala/lifepoemsofwilli00cartiala_djvu.txt |
| ------------------- | William Cartwright's lampoon of William Stokes' De Arte di Saliendi |
| the author's aery light, and thine | |
| (The art of jumping/vaulting) | |
| Printed/collected in 1651 | |
| The "title" in the manuscript is scrambled and reduced from the one presented in | |
| the OCR'd version at the url above. | |
| Seventh Page | |
| 2) whome noe man 'ere saw breake a shine | |
| or ever yet leape out of's skinne; | |
| ---------- | |
| When he the stags leape does youd sweare | |
| 3) the stag himselfe if he were there | |
| would like the unweildy oxe appeare; | |
| -------- | |
| When ere he straind at horse and bell | |
| -) Tom Charles himselfe that came to smell | |
| his faults, will swore, twas cleare, and well; | |
| -------- | |
| His trickes are here in figures dim | |
| 4) Each line is heavyer than his lim | |
| And shadowes weighty are to him; | |
| -------- | |
| Were Dere alive, or Billingsly | |
| 5) You shortly should each passage see | |
| Demonstrated by A.B. | |
| -------- | |
| Bee the horse A, and the man B: | |
| 6) Parts from the girdle upwards C: | |
| And from the dirdle downward D: | |
| -------- | big gap between 2 and 3 É |
| If the parts C: proportioned weigh | what is here part ? follows the last line of part 2 in the cited mms |
| 7) With the parts D: neither would sway | Between what is here 5 and 6, there's another 3-line set in the cited mms |
| But B: hang equall upon A: | In this 7, C and D are reversed from the cited mms |
| (Which is all to say that the version in the transcribed mms has large differences from the published version cited.) | |
| Eighth Page | |
| (something unreadable) | |
| 8) Their ponderations, and their Statickes | |
| To prove the art of Wills volatickes; | |
| -------- | |
| Andjustly too. For the Pomado | |
| 9) and the most intricate strappado | |
| he'll doe for nought in a Bravado; | |
| -------- | |
| The Herculean leape he can with slight | |
| 10) And that twice 50: times a night | |
| to please the ladyes, Will (Witt?) is right; | |
| -------- | |
| The --- leape nere puts him too 't | |
| 11) then for the Pegasus he'll doo 't | |
| And stricke a fountayne with his foote | |
| -------- | |
| He'll set his strength if you desire | |
| 12) just like his horse lower, or higher | |
| And twist his limbs like nealed wire; | |
| -------- | This part 8 was between the lines in this part 5 and 6 in the cited mms |
| Had you as I but seene him once | There are 3 more lines between this part 8 and 9 in the cited mms |
| 13) You'd sweare that nature for the nonce | After this 11 is where the "stag-leape" part goes in the cited mms |
| Had made his body without bones; | In this 11, "--- leape" is "Angelica" in the cited mms |
| -------- | This 12 starts right after the stag-leape lines in the cited mms |
| For arms sometime he'l lye on one | (i.e. more big differences.) |
| Ninth Page | |
| 14) Sometimes on both, sometimes on none | |
| And like a Meater (meteor) hang alone; | |
| -------- | |
| Let none henceforth your yeares (ears?) abuse | |
| 15) How Dedalus leap't the twining stewes | |
| Alas! That was but flying news; | |
| -------- | |
| He us'd wax plumes as Ovid sings, | |
| 16) Will (Witt?) scornes to tamper with such things | |
| He is a Dedalus without wings; | |
| -------- | |
| Good fayth the mews were best look too 't | |
| 17) Least it goe downe and Sheine to boot | |
| Will (Witt?) and his wooden horse will doo 't | |
| -------- | |
| The Trojane steede let souldiers scane, | |
| 18) And prayse that invention you that can | |
| Will (Witt?) puts them done, both horse, and man | |
| -------- | |
| At once 6: horses Theutobachus | |
| 19) leap't o're if Florus doe not mock us | |
| Tis well, but let him not provoke us | |
| -------- | |
| For were the matter to be tryd | |
| 20) Twere Gold or silver on Wills side | |
| Tenth (Last) Page | |
| Heed quell Theutobachus his pride; | |
| -------- | |
| I'll say but this to end the braull | |
| 21) Lett Theutobachus in the fall | |
| Cut Wills crose caper, and take all; | |
| -------- | |
| Then goe thy ways brave Will for one | |
| By Jove tis thou must leap, or none | |
| To Pull bright honour from the moone; | |
| --&-- | |
| Carton right; Philippus Stoicus | |
| Enhialtes, et in arte | |
| Dosultoria Hippodi= | |
| dalchalus | |
| --&-- | |
| Return to Index | |
Dafydd Cyhoeddwr, V3.0, Tuesday, March 4, 2014