# - Marvell, Andrew.

the collection comprises: 'Vpon the storme & death of O.P. ensuing the same. by Mr Waller' (p.1); 'The construction of Mr Wallers Poem by Mr [William] Godolphin of Ch[rist] Ch[urch]' (pp.2-3); 'A Panegyrick to O Cromwell by Mr Waller Anno 1655 [corrected to 1656]' ("While with a strong yet gentle hand...") (pp.3-8); 'Another panegyrick to Ol: Crom: by Tho: Spratt of Wadh[am] Coll[ege]' ("Tis true great name thou art secure...") (pp.9-20); 'On Chloris walking in the snow' ("I saw faire Chloris walke alone...") by William Strode (p.20); 'To the fairest Coelia' by Sir Charles Sedley (pp.20-21); 'On Man's mortality', a song ("The glories of our birth & state...") taken from James Shirley's The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles (p.21); 'On Chloris Weeping' ("Chloris when I those blub'red cheeks do view...") (p.22); 'On Camilla' ("Whilst other beauties like some common fires...") (pp.22-23); 'On the death of Dr [William] Creed Predend of Ch[rist] Ch[urch] & Regius Professor' ("And is it so, that after hydra's slaine...") dating from 1663 and by the prominent neo-Latin poet Corbet Owen (pp.23-24); 'The second advice to the Painter' probably by Andrew Marvell, with the envoy 'To the King' (pp.24-32); 'To her highness the Dutchess of Yorke upon the victory & her journey', by John Dryden and printed in the preface to Annus Mirabilis (pp.32-34); 'On the burning of London' ("If the earths gloryes needs must be...") attributed to "Sam: Dugard" (pp.35-44); prose speech apparently from an Oxford College entertainment, entitled "A musick speech spoke at the act." (pp.45-54); 'An anniversary on Oliver Protectour. 1655', i.e. Andrew Marvell's 'First Anniversary' here attributed to "Ed: Waller" (pp. 55-67); 'An elegy on Sir Horatio Veere, Generall of the English forces in the united Provinces, Baron of Tilbury', by "Rich: West.", perhaps the poet of that name (c.1569-1646) who wrote Newes from Bartholmew Fayre and other works (pp.67-72); a prose exercise in Latin entitled "An Alexander navigaret mare Judicum?", attributed to "Rob: South.", probably the clergyman and public orator for Oxford University (1634-1716) (pp.73-76); in total 76 pages, contemporary pagination on the versos, in a mid-seventeenth century mixed hand, marginal markings in different ink, 4to, [c.1660s], lacking covers, outer leaves frayed at edges, spotting and dust-staining

The names "Thomas Beesly", "Richard Dewe", and "Stephen Philips" are written on the front free endpapers. Men with all these names attended Oxford in the 1650s and 1660s (see Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), but these inscriptions may be of a later date.

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a significant unrecorded source of cromwellian and restoration poetry. The manuscript appears to have been an Oxford production judging by the presence of many Oxford poets, including an English piece by the important Latin poet Corbet Owen, and especially the inclusion of two University-related prose pieces (pp.45-54 and 73-76). Although the collection includes poems written as far back as the 1630s (e.g. the Strode poem and the elegy on Sir Horace Vere), most of the poems date from the 1650s-60s. The latest pieces are Dryden's verse epistle on the Battle of Lowestoft (3 June 1665) and Dugard's poem on the Fire of London in 1666. The miscellany was probably compiled not long after that date.

Four manuscript copies of Marvell's 'First Anniversary' are recorded,  two of them attribute the poem to Waller and one of those is associated with Oxford. Many of the poems in the miscellany enjoyed widespread circulation in manuscript, including the works by Shirley, Strode and Waller (14 manuscript examples of 'Upon the Storm' being followed by Godolphin's answer poem are recorded in the online database CELM, ed. P. Beal, forthcoming), as well as some lesser-known works such as Sprat's panegyric on Cromwell.

of particular significance is "sam: dugard"'s ten-page poem on the fire of london, which is perhaps unique (no copy is recorded in the standard poetry first-line indexes). The author is probably to be identified with the Samuel DuGard (1642/3-1697), a student at Trinity College, Oxford, who was ordained in the Church of England and in later years wrote a number of books on theological and other subjects.