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Notes
I am particularly indebted to Prof. D. M. Vieth who generously lent me his detailed description of PwV 40, thereby drawing my attention to the Marvell texts it contains. I am also indebted to Mrs. M. A. Welch for drawing my attention to MSS. PwV 299, 301-303, and for providing me with xerox copies of all the Portland Marvell texts. I am grateful to the Duke of Portland and Nottingham University Library for permission to publish readings from all these manuscripts.
The standard edition of the Poems is that edited by H. M. Margoliouth, 3rd ed., revised by P. Legouis (Oxford, 1971), cited as Margoliouth/Legouis. Variants are drawn from Poems on Affairs of State, Volume I: 1660-1678, ed. G. deF. Lord (New Haven, 1963), cited as Lord. In the case of "Last Instructions to a Painter" I have supplemented the readings in Lord by those in M. Gearin-Tosh, "Marvell's 'Last Instructions': Textual errors and their poetic significance," Studia Neophilologica, 42 (1970), 309.
See D. M. Vieth and B. Danielsson, eds., The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and other Restoration Authors (Stockholm, 1976), xiv. Elsewhere it is noted that: "The principal hand in the Portland MS. is just possibly the same as in the Gyldenstolpe MS. . . The Portland MS. is a rather casual transcription evidently intended for the copyist's use, so that it bears some resemblance to a commonplace book" (xxvi).
"The Statue in Stocks-Market" was probably composed by 29 October, 1674 (Margoliouth/Legouis, p. 394); "Nostradamus" between April 1673-spring 1675 (ibid., p. 380); "Upon the Statue at Charing Cross" probably by July 1675 (ibid., p. 408); and "Britannia and Rawleigh" in early 1675 (ibid., p. 401).
All the following line references are to Lord's text of Don. b. 8, pp. 99-139, as corrected by Gearin-Tosh (see n. 3), which is cited first: 97. began] begun; 158. know] knew; 175. Brouncker] Bronkard; 205. these] those; 225. choose] chose; 299. ready] equall; 357. 'gainst] to; 447. heart] Hearts; 462. grant] give; 469. come] came; 482. indeed] alas; 566. bullets] Bullet; 607. ill-defended] ill-deserted; 624. doth] dos; 712. be burn'd] should burn; 715. hole] Howle; 718. Wines from the south, and] From the South Perfumes; 739. Nor] Or; 771. beat] bet; 968. our] the. (This list is not exhaustive.)
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