Book of verses : seria mixta jocis.

Manuscript, on paper, in several mid-seventeenth-century cursive hands, containing a collection of poems mainly by sixteenth- and seventeeth-century English and Scottish authors, divided into six "Books of Verse." Thomas Carew is represented by 17 poems; John Donne by 5 poems; Ben Jonson by 3 poems; and John Cleveland by 2 poems. The volume also contains poems by other authors, including Francis Beaumont, Sir Edward Dyer, George Etherege, Thomas Lodge, Walter Raleigh, Philip Sidney, William Strode, Aurelian Townshend, and Edmund Waller. There are also many anonymous and unattributed poems, including epitaphs, lyrics, epigrams, and satires; ballads such as "Chevy Chase" and "Fair Rosamund"; the comic poem "Speech of a Fife Laird"; and an early version of "Auld Lang Syne."