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Indexes11
Archives1

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Brotherton Collection22
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse12
English Literature10

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separatists2
political satire, english2
manuscripts, aramaic (papyri)1
english poetry1
plants in literature1

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Cowley, Abraham26
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)14
Taylor, John3
Hausted, Peter (1645)3
Taylor, John (1580-1653)3
Mr Cowley2
Butler, Samuel2
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)2
Birkenhead, Sir John (1616-1679)2
Birkenhead, John2

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Cowlly

Date(s): 1647 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: In defence of inconstancy in love, or loving all women rather than just one.

Abridged.

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An Aramaic papyrus of the Ptolemaic age from Egypt

Sayce, A H (1845-1933); Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

[1907]

"Reprinted from the ̀Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology', November 1907", pp. 260-272.

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Anacreon

Anacreon; Gooden, Stephen (1892-1955); Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

1923

Limited edition of 725 copies, printed for sale.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: The poet Cowly ... in his Dialogue after enjoyment

Date(s): 1656 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 79

Contents: Included in a humorous, flattering "Longwinded Epistle, or a

Prevarication on the Tipp of a Neats Tongue sent by a faire Lady

from the Feather Tavern in Clarkenwell to exercise a wild

fancy", in prose, ff.121v-28v: an extract from Cowley's

"Dialogue" (fro

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Title: Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by Mr

Masters of New College in Oxford

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Cowley; [Greek]

Date(s): 1658 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 67

Contents: Religious poem on the passion and crucifixion of Christ, urging mankind to weep with sorrow. A version of an ode in Greek by Thomas Masters.

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Title: K. Charles I at Oxford being at a sport called Sortes

Virgilianae drew for his lot some part of the 4th Eneid about vers

615 and had six verses translated

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Mr Cowley [in] Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon printed for

Date(s): 1644 ?

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: A version of lines from Virgil's "Aeneid", purportedly chosen at random by Charles I in a fortune-telling game, prophecying his defeat in the Civil War and subsequent death. Followed by the original Latin lines.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Mr Cowley

Date(s): 1656 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Final lines of Abraham Cowley's 'Elegie upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a grape-stone', on the power of death; presented here as part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington,

Limerick'

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Mr Cowley

Date(s): 1656 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Final lines of the 9th canto of Abraham Cowley's 'The second olympique ode of Pindar', in which nature is given precedence over art; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington,

Limeric

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Anacreon by Cowley; [Greek]

Date(s): 1656 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 95

Contents: Argues that, just as nature provides a means of defence for all creatures, so man is protected by wit and wisdom; from Cowley's "Anacreontiques", III, 'Beauty'

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Title: Drinking

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Date(s): 1668 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 24

Contents: A translation of Anacreon, "Carmina", XVII, justifying drinking. Followed by

"The Answer", BCMSV 48.

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BC MS Lt 51, p. 1: The opening of
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The troubles of Joseph related in scripture translated into English verse in imitation of Mr Abraham Cowleys Davideis

1680

Extended paraphrase of the story of Joseph, from Genesis, with the elaboration that the Devil, out of resentment, first sends personified Discord to incite Joseph's brothers against him, and later sen...

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Title: On R. Crashaw, a convert

Author: Cowley, Abraham

Attribution: Cowly

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt 7

Contents: Two extracts from Cowley's "On the death of Mr Crashaw"

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