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Possible draft for Bolton's 'Hypercritica': refers to Shakespeare by name

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Title: Notes of advice for writers of English history, being a "Second or finall Addresse" in fourteen paragraphs or sections; containing notes on the several periods into which the history may be divided, the methods in which it may be treated, the authors to be read for formation of style, the dangers to be avoided, and, finally, some short criticisms on a few English historians. 
Date: ca. 1616
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Rawl. D. 1, fols. 11r-v, 13v-15v

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Yet as Sir Henry Savils in the be=
fore said famous Epistle pronounceth
of those old Historians of England ;
Malmesbury, Huntington, Hoveden
and the other two more antient
Ethelwardus the noble, and
Ingulphus that howsoeuer rude
and homely for these, yet they
weere fide rerum interpretes, and
Camden affirmes of Honorable
Bede that hee was veri aman=
tissimus, Soe shall the on pre=
uidicated reader finde this to
be true that the old Historians of
our Country are brightest in
that Essentiall quallitie and not
to be convinced of any appa=
rent much lesse of any wilfull
falshood./

                                                             11

The Choise                     As for Example language, and
of English                       style (the apparell of matter) hee
                                       who would penn our affaires in
                                       English, and compose vnto vs an
                                                                                      entire

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Notes of advice for writers of English history, being a "Second or finall Addresse" in fourteen paragraphs or sections; containing notes on the several periods into which the history may be divided, the methods in which it may be treated,[...]
Item Date
ca. 1616
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Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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MS Rawl. D. 1, fol. 13v

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Shakespearean extracts included in an Oxford commonplace book

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Creator: [Samuel Radcliffe?]
Title: A common place book
Date: ca. 1622-1625
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Eng. misc. d.28, pp. 355, 359 & 375

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[col. 697]

Ribald. This was at the first Rabod
as yet in the Nertherlands it is asea, where
hence both (we and the french) hauing taken
the name haue sence that varyed it both
in . . graphy and sence. It was the proper
name of Rabod a heathen King of ffreis
land, who being instructed in the faith
of christ by the godly Bishop vltran faithfully
promised to be baptized, and appointed
the time and place, where being come
and standing in the water, he asked of the
Bishop where all his forefathers were that in
former ages were deceased? the Bishop answer=
ed, that dying without the true know=
ledge of God &c they werein hell: then the
Rabod  I hold it better and more praise-
worthy to go with the greater multitude
to hell, then with your few Christians to
heauen; and therewithall he went out of
the water unchristned; and returned both
to his wonted idolatry and to his euill life
notwithstanding the good admonitions of the
Bishop and an euident miracle which (through
the power of god) the said Bishop wrought. He
was afterward surprised with a sodaine and
unprovided death anno 720 and his very
name became so odius through, his wicked
nesse, that it grew to be a tale of reproch
and shame and hath so continued euer since

so do the Papists perswade that our ancestors relli=
gion is the truest

D[?]rabb in the old Teutonic language is the
lees filth and dreges remaining in the bot-
tome of vesells.

the tongues of dying men Inforce attention
like deep harmony where words are scarce
they are seldome spent in vaine for they
breath truth that breath their words in
vaine. He that no more must say, is listened more
then they whom youth and ease hath taught
to gloze, more are mens ends markt then
their liues before. The setting sunne and musick
at the close. As the last tast of sweets is
sweetest last writ in remembrance more
then things long past.  vff, vsbhfekz
bg 3.di5se vif tfdpoe. cz Tiblftgt
bsf 4o. page 68

morientis hominis loquela vinsinua

supplant the first Rebells their roughheaded
cernes which liue like venome where no
venome else But only they haue priuiledge
to liue.

[col. 698]

each substance of a griefe hath twenty
shoedowes, which shew like greife it self, but
are not so: For sorrowes eyes glazed with
bleeding tears Deuide one thing entire to
many obiects. 

great men imitate / unskillfull statuaries who
suppose In forging a Colos.. if they make him
stroddle enough, stroote, and look big and gape
their work is goodly, so our tympanous statists
(In their affected grauity of voice, sowerness of
countenace, manners cruelty, Authority, wealth,
and all the spawne of fortune) think they
beare all the kingdomes worth before them yet
differ not from their Colosick statues which
with heroique formes without orespread within
are nou[h]t but mortar flint and lead

man is a torch borne in the wind; a dreame
But of a shadow summ’d with all his substance

as great seamen using all their powers and
skills in the Neptunes deep invisible paths in tall
ships richly built and ribd with brasse. To put
a girdle round about the world, when they
haue done it, comming neere their Hauen Are
glad to give a warning peece, and call A poore
staid fisherman that neuer past  His countryes
sight to waft and guide them in: So when we
wander farthest through the waues of glassy
glory and the gulfes of state Topt with all
titles, spreading all our reaches As if each priuate
arme would spheare the world   We must to vertue
for her guide resort, Or we shall shipwrack in
our safest port  DWttz Eo BNCpRt CZ
H: DIB Gnbo: 4o page 70

god…... is that true guide

There is no second place in Numerous state
that hold more then a Cypher: In a King
All places are containd. his words and looks
Are like that flashes and the bolts of Ioue:
His deeds inimitable like the Sea
that shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tractes
Nor prints of president for poor mens factes

The French Court is a meere mirrour of confusion
the King and Subiect, Lord and euery slaue
Dance a continuall hay

that (like a Lawrell put in fire
sparkled, and spit, did much much more than scorne
that his wrong should incense him so like chaffe
To go so soone out; and like lighted paper
Approoue his spirit at once both fire and ashes

Item Creator
[Samuel Radcliffe?]
Item Title
A common place book
Item Date
ca. 1622-1625
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Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call Number
MS. Eng. misc. d.28, p. 355

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John Aubrey's notes on Shakespeare

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Creator: John Aubrey
Title: Brief Lives
Date: ca. 1679/1680
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Aubrey 8, fol. 50v

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Editorial note: This entire page has been crossed out.                

                        Iohn Fletchr.                                      
Invited [^]to go with a knight in to Norfolke, or Suffolke int the Plagu time 1625
stayd but to make himselfe a Suite of cloathes fell sick
of the Plague Dyed.
             Iohn Ogilby        
after he had built the Theater at Dublin,
            He was undon at the Irish Rebellion
he was wreck’t at Sea and came to London very
poor & went on foot to Cambridge.
The more to be admired q[uia] he was not a company keeper
lived in Shoreditch, would n[o]t be debauched, & if invited to
gout: he was in paine
                           W. Shakespere                                                
q[uaere] Mr Beeston who knows most of him from Mr. Lacy
he lives in Shore-ditch. neer Nort at Hoglane
within 6 dores - Norton - folgate.
q[uaere] etiam for B. Jonson.
                            B. Jonson.
one eye lower then tother, & bigger
q[uaere] his description of a Trooper in English verse^very good [This line relates to a line about Ogilby on the other side of this leaf.]
He tooke a Catalaloge[sic] from Mr Lacy of the Yorkshire
dialectword - his hint to a Tale of a Tub
for the Clownery.

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ca. 1679/80
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MS Aubrey 8, fol. 50v

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"Brief Lives" by John Aubrey: including "Mr. William Shakespeare."

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Creator: John Aubrey
Title: Brief lives.
Date: 1679/1680
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Aubrey 6, fol. 109r-v

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                                            Mr. William Shakespear.                        109            78              
                                         was borne at Stratford vpon Avon in the County of Warwic
                                         his father was a Butcher, & I haue been told heretofore by some
                                         of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his fathers-
                                         Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in a high style, &
                                         make a Speech. There was at that time another Butchers son in
                                         this Towne that was held not at all inferior to him for wi a naturall
                                         witt, his acquaintance & coetanean; but dyed young. This William
                                         being inclined naturally to Poetry and acting, came to London
                                         I guesse about 18: and was an Actor at one of the Play-houses
                                         and did acte exceedingly well: now Ben Iohnson was never
                                         a good Actor, but an excellent Instructor.  He began early to -
                                         make essayes at Dramatique Poetry, which at that time was very
                                         lowe; and his Playes tooke well: He was a handsome, well
                                         shap't man: very good company, and of a very readie and
                                         pleasant smooth Witt. The Humour of ……. the Constable
                                         in a Midsomersnight's Dreame, he happened to take at
*I thinke it was Mid-       *Grendon in Bucks which is the roade from London to Stratford
somer night that he-     
happened to lye there.     and there was living that Constable about 1642 when I
                                        first came to Avon. Mr Ios: Howe is of that parish and knew him.
                                        Ben Iohnson and he did gather Humours of men dayly
                                        where euer they came. One time as he was at the Tavern
                                        at Stratford super Avon, one Combes, an old rich Usurer
                                        was to be buryed. He makes there this extemporary Epitaph
                                                     Ten in the Hundred the Devill aIlowes
                                                     But Combes will haue twelue he sweares & vowes:
                                                     If any one askes who lies in this Tombe:
                                                     Hoh! quoth the Devill, 'Tis my Iohn o'Combe.
                                        He was wont to goe to his native Country once a yeare:
                                        I thinke I have been told that he left 2 or 300l per annum there
                                        and thereabout: to a sister. I have heard Sir William Dave-
V. his Epitaph                 -nant and Mr. Thomas Shadwell (who is counted the best Co-
in Dugdals Warw.           -moedian we have now) say that he had a most prodigious Witt,
                                        and did admire his naturall parts beyond all other Dramaticall
B. Iohnsons Vnder-         writers. He* was wont to say. That he never blotted out a line
- woods.                          in his life: sayd Beniamin Iohnson. I wish he had blotted out a thou-
                                        -sand. His Comoedies will be W repaire witt, as long as the English
                                        tongue is understood: where our for that he handles mores hominum: now
                                        our present writers reflect to much on particular persons, &
                                        coxcombeities,  that 20 yeares hence, they will not be understood.
                                        Though, as Ben Iohnson sayes of him. that he und had little Latine and
from Mr...Beeston.          lesse Greek; He understood Latine pretty well: for he had been in his younger
                                        yeares a Schoolmaster in the Countrey.

Item Creator
John Aubrey
Item Title
Brief lives.
Item Date
1679/80
Repository
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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MS. Aubrey 6, fol.109r

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The Passionate Pilgrim, third edition

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Title: The passionate pilgrime, or, Certaine amorous sonnets, betweene Venus and Adonis
Date: [London] : Printed by W. Iaggard, 1612
Repository:  Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: Arch. G g.1, title pages
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The passionate pilgrime, or, Certaine amorous sonnets, betweene Venus and Adonis
Item Date
[London] : Printed by W. Iaggard, 1612
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Arch. G g.1, first title page

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Manuscript promptbook of The Second Maiden’s Tragedy: misattributed to Shakespeare

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Title: folio.A Volume, formerly belonging to John Warburton, Esq. Somerset Herald, containing 5 plays
Date: 1558-1642
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Call number and opening: Lansdowne MS 807
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folio.A Volume, formerly belonging to John Warburton, Esq. Somerset Herald, containing 5 plays
Item Date
1558-1642
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The British Library, London, UK
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Lansdowne MS 807, fol. 29r

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Forman's account of seeing plays at the Globe: Macbeth, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale

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Creator: Simon Forman
Title: The Bocke of Plaies and Notes therof per forman for Common Pollicie
Date: 1611
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Ashmole 208, fol. 200-207v 

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[fol. 200r]

The Book of Plays and Notes thereof, per Forman's, for Common Policy

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[fol. 200]

The Bocke of Plaies and

Notes therof per formans /

for Common Pollicie

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Simon Forman
Item Title
The Bocke of Plaies and Notes therof per forman for Common Pollicie
Item Date
1611
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MS Ashmole 208, fol. 200r

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Shakespeare's arms defended: the Bodleian Library's copy of Garter and Clarenceux's reply to the York herald

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Title: "The answeres of Garter and Clarencieux Kings of arms, to the scrowle of arms exhibited by Raffe Brookesmouth caled York Herauld."
Date: 1602
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Ashmole 846, fol. 50r-v, and fol. 51v

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The answeres of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms to the
Scrowle of Arms exhibited by Raffe Brokesmouth called York Herauld

The exceptions in the Scrowle of xxiij Arms exhibited doth Concerne ether the Arms
or the personns that beare the same. (Whom he hathe so iniuriously defamed.) In bothe wee hope to
satisfie your honorable lordships in particuler. Yf with your favorable leave wee may present vnto your
Grave Considerations the ancyent and manifould proofes that the Blazon and gevinge
of Arms perteinethe vnto our offices. The Authorite wherof by Custome is confirmed
in those Ordinary Wordes Iuxta Antiquam consuetudinem. conteyned in the great Seale
of England. Whiche wee can prove have ben graunted and allowed by the most
prudent and famous Prynces Kinge Henry .7. and Kinge Henry .viijth vnder bothe theyre
handes and Seales. That Garter also shall have the Corection & allowance of All Arms
thoroughe all England and the kinges dominions And to graunt Arms & Enseignes and to
make his Lettres patentes therevppon accordinge to the ^Byle[?] of the Statutes and Ordonances of the most noble Order
of the Garter. The decrees of the Constables & England doe declare the same And the
Custome continewed for the tyme of Sir William Bruges first Garter. Sir Iohn and Sir Thomas
Wrythesley SiChristofer Barker. and late Sir Gilbert Detheck. knight as all suche as have ben
Clarencieux dothe manifest the same. As well to personns Spirituall advaunced to dign[i]tes As
personns Temporall for theyre services in Warrs or offices & degres of honor. Riches or possessions
hable to maynteyne the same. Relienge vppon the promisses & the Queenes Maiesties great
Seale of England. Wee doe conceave most inward grieffe. for the exceptions taken herein
for xxiij Arms more then for xxiij hundred late geven by others. And wheras vnder her
Maiesties most happie governement hathe breed. in lieu of many extincte.) many worthye
personns qualefied to beare Arms. ffrom whom no doubt great personns shall aryse that
must deduce theyre originall descentes from the memories of the places & seruices
whiche theyre Parentes held in tyme of her Maiesties Reigne. For it is said Qui
nunc Novj videntur erunt Vetustissimj

Norton: [Norton coat of arms in left margin]
Co. Marche: [Mortimer coat of arms and another similar coat in right margin]

nota. Segar procurat
This patent Recalled.

This Coate is not deduced from the Arms of Mortimer Earle of March. As
he informethe. But is different bothe in Coullors. nomber of Barrs
and the Cantons Gironnes  And be it remembred that in those tymes when
the Mortimers florished. Sir Symon De Burley and one Edosin and Hagelay
bare theyre Coates of Armes more lyke in shewe. Without contradiction:
Nether was there any Exception taken in those Ages when the honor of
Arms florished most for the resemblances of Arms. But for the Identitite
of Shields of Arms or the selfe same Arms to be borne by the towe of distinct
Names & families As in the memorable Contraversies betwene
Carmow and Grossvenor: Sir Theobald de Gorgs and Warbleton: Sitfilit
and Fakenham. Singleton and Baud. &c. & this maye suffice.

Lound: [coat of arms in left margin]
Echingham: [two coats of arms in right margin]

There is no more offence to be taken by the descendantes of Sir Peter Lound for
this Coate of Lound. Then in former tymes the familie of Sir William
Echingham. a Baron somoned to the Parliament tempore Ed. 2. And
theyre descendantes might have taken agaynst Sir Peter Lownd for bearing
theyre Arms with a playne Bordure Gould.
As for the Canton of Braye. beinge assigend [sic] a part By the consent of his
wyffe the Lady Harte one of the heyrs of the last Lord Bray: Lyke As
the heyre of Antony Lord Lucy. Assigned her Arms to be quartered within
the Arms of her husband. Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland. 

Hall [coat of arms in left margin]
Hall. [coat of arms in right margin]

Whereas Mr Hall by relation ^&landes of his parentes. proveth himselfe descended
of that name & Arms of Hall of Bradford in Wiltshire but beinge not
certeyne with what coullors or difference he might beare the same This
Shield in different Coullors wee assigned vnto him. And herein as
in many suche cases for Armes Wee do after our predecessors in theyre Actes &
Visitacions) Are to relye vppon the credit & relation of suche persons
being. worthy of Credit.

Clerk [coat of arms in left margin]

Mr Clerke. of Ardington. A man brought vp in the Studies of the Lawes.
hathe fayer landes and inheritances &c. He produced these Arms engraved
in an aunncyent SEale of Sylver from his Antecessors. And not knowing in
what coullors to vse & beare them. required of vs to have the Coullors and
A Cognizance assigned for him. Making good proofe that his Grandfather
maryed the daughter & heyre of Thomas Champeney. Wee did confirme
and exemplefie the same, as is lawfull for vs. to doe./

Shakespere [coat of arms in left margin]
Lo: Mauley
Harley
Ferers
[three coats of arms in right margin]

It maye as well be said That Harley who bearethe Gould a bend 2 Cotizes
sable. Or ferrers .&c. or any other that beare silver. or Gould a bend charged
in like manner. Vsurpe the Coate of the Lo. Mauley. As for the
Speare on the Bend. is a patible difference. And the man was
a Magestrat in Stratford vpon Avon. A Iustice of Peace he maryed
theA daughter and heyre of Ardern. and was of good substance and
habelite/

Peake: [coat of arms in left margin]

Mr Peake is no Grasier but he is a Gentleman of Grays=In well
qualefied in all good Studies and Learning. of A Competent lyving
He made good proofe That this shield of Armes was borne and
vsed by his Grandfather. Iohn Peake of Thurlangton in the
Comte of Leycestershire. Wee bothe allowed & did testefie the same but
without PatentWhereof by his Ignorance & malice he hathe made
a contrary report.

Item Title
"The answeres of Garter and Clarencieux Kings of arms, to the scrowle of arms exhibited by Raffe Brookesmouth caled York Herauld."
Item Date
1602
Repository
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call Number
MS. Ashmole 846, fol. 50r

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Commonplace book of Sir Nicholas Burghe: containing a description of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare together at a Tavern

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Creator: Nicholas Burghe
Title: "Mr. Ben Johnson and Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, being merrye att a Tavern, Mr. Jonson haveing begune this for his epitaph Here lies" etc. it was finished by Shakespeare.
Date: ca. 1650
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Ashmole 38, p. 181

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181                    Mr Beniamin Iohnson and Mr William: Shake-speare
                          Being Merrye att a Tauern, Mr Jonson hauing
    17    340          begune this for his Epitaph

  
87          Here lies Ben Iohnson that was once one
                     he giues ytt to Mr Shakspear to make vpp woh who presently wrightes
              Who while hee liv’de was a sloethings
              And now being dead is Nothinge
                                                    finis
              341   In Saint: Margottes att westminster vppon
                            on Iohn Flower
              Here lies Iohn Flower vnder his stone
              who serued god while hee was here, and now to him is gone
88          A Gentleman, and A Head Borrough a good man In his House
              who Maried was to Diuers wifes, & was to each of them a kind spouse
              In the yeare of our lord: god 1567 being whitson mundaye
                                                                            finis
              342a  On Mr Georg Heyward father to Sir
                          Rowland Heyward, lord: Maior of london
               Interred here George Heyward is and Margarett his wyfe
89           God blessed them with Children six, they led a vertuous life
               Sonns to, and Daughters forever, by name Gilbert & Sir Rowland
               A knight his Mothers Happie birth, yff Iustly all weare s..nd
               Alice, Katharine, Elianor, and Ann; In June hee dide
               The yeares of Christ the figurs show 1597, In tyme what widnotstide
               Although, hee was full 4 score yeares &, his wife allso
               In the yeare of our lord 1597 of her owne age 97 from vs to god did goe
                                                                                        finis
  342b      vppon Iudge Owen, and Iudge Richarson
                             bothe buried in westerminster neare on
                                 a nother
90            Here Lies Iudge Owen that never tooke bribe
                Here lies Iudge Richardson, that neuer denied
                                                                     finis; Ignoto
              343     On Sir Robert Dudley Earle of Warwicke
                            and Leicester
91            Here lies the souldier that neuer drewe his sword
                Here lies that Courtier that neuer kept his word:
                             vppon a gentlewoman whose Husbandes load
                  344          to her brooke hir harte
92            Thes lines which goulden letters I haue filde
                Here lies that wyfe ; whose Husbandes kindnes kyld
                 345 on a beggerly Gentellman
93            Here lies a man, A gentleman of note
                who all his life tyme ner’ Could change a groate
                      346   vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to
                               Queen Elizabeth
94            Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon her:
                on of hir majesties mayds of Honor
                she was younge slender and prettye
                and died a Mayde, mor’s the pittye
                                                                 seyd Hoskins

Item Creator
Nicholas Burghe
Item Title
"Mr. Ben Johnson and Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, being merrye att a Tavern, Mr. Jonson haveing begune this for his epitaph Here lies" etc. it was finished by Shakespeare.
Item Date
ca. 1650
Repository
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call Number
MS Ashmole 38, p. 181

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Commonplace book of Sir Nicholas Burghe: containing two epitaphs attributed to Shakespeare

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Creator: Nicholas Burghe
Title: "On John Combe, a covetous rich man, Mr. Wm. Shakspear wright this att his request while hee was yett liveing, for his epitaphe. Who lies in this tombe." (2.1) "But being dead, and making the poore his heiers, hee after wrightes this for his epitaph. How ere he lived." (6.1). 
Date: ca. 1650
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS Ashmole 38, p.180

Semi-diplomatic transcription

333        A folish gentleman, his Lords onlye sister                                               180
                   being dead hee wright this Epitaphe

                                                                                                                                   16

80   O Atropas, Aropas, what didst thou meane
       To take A way my Ladye Mistress and leaue my lord & Master sisterles Cleane
       but now she is dead and layde In the ground
       I dare say my Lord and Master would rather haue giuen a thousand pound
                                                                                          finis
       334   On Iohn Combe A Coueteous
                        rich man Mr William Shakspear wright
                        this att his request while hee was yett
                        liueing for his Epitaphe
      
81   Who lies In this Tombe
       hough; Quoth the Deuill, Tis my Son Iohn A Combe
                                                                          finis
                   but being dead, and making the poore
                   his heiers here after wrighte this for his
                                       Epitaph
       335  How ere he lived Iudge not
82           Iohn Combe shall neuer be forgott
               while poor, hath Memmorye, for hee did gather
               to make the poore his Issue ; hee their father
                   As record of his tilth and seede
                   Did Crowne him In his latter deede
                                                               finis William Shakespeare

       336  In Saint Marye Ouerys Church
               vppon on Mr Iarret a Grocer buried
                                  1626
               Some Cald him Garrett, but that was to highe
83           His name was Iarrett, that here doth lye
               who In his life was tost on manye a waue
               And now he lies Anchored In his owne graue
               The Church hee did frequent while hee had breath
               And desired to lye therin after his death
                    To heauen hee is gone, the way before
                    wheare of Grocers ther is manye more
                                                                      finis

        337 A Nother In the same Church

84           Here lies William Emerson
               who liued and died an honest man
                                                             finis
        338   On Habel Tash a Contentious Soliciter Hauing
                    A Great beard and A wart on his nose and affected
                             the word, Rationall,
85           Here lies the beard, the wart and all
               of Habell Tash the Rationall
               whether he’s gone I cannott tell
               to Heauen, I hope; but yff to hell
               Questionles, by this his Iurney
               Heele gaine to bee the Di'ells Atturney
               And then ffinds looke to'it for hee swears
               yee shall together all by’th eares
               And weare Hell richer than they fabell
               Beggard all should be by habell
                                                      finis GC:
        339
86           I left this Irkesome world withall my hart
               least worse then death, should happen to my parte
                                                                       finis

Item Creator
Nicholas Burghe
Item Title
"On John Combe, a covetous rich man, Mr. Wm. Shakspear wright this att his request while hee was yett liveing, for his epitaphe. Who lies in this tombe." (2.1) "But being dead, and making the poore his heiers, hee after wrightes this for his epitaph.[...]
Item Date
ca. 1650
Repository
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call Number
MS Ashmole 38, p. 180

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