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Brotherton Collection	12
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Cowley, Abraham	12
Mr Cowley	2
Mr Cowley [In] Miscellany of Poems By Charles Gildon Printed For	1
Cowly	1
The Poet Cowly ... In His Dialogue After Enjoyment	1
Cowlly	1
Anacreon By Cowley; [Greek]	1
Cowley; [Greek]	1

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/1875

[unknown]

1647 (published)

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

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2492

[unknown]

1656 (published)

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

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2697

Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by Mr Masters of New College in Oxford

1658 (published)

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.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2742

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

1644 ?

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.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3429

[unknown]

1656 (published)

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,

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3430

[unknown]

1656 (published)

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,

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/4534

[unknown]

1656 (published)

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'

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/47

Drinking

1668 (published)

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

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 51

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...

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/597

On R. Crashaw, a convert

1649 ?

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

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6506

[unknown]

165- or 166-?

A translation of Anacreon, "Carmina", XVII, justifying drinking. An altered shorter version of Cowley's usual text

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/84

[unknown]

1668 (published)

Religious poem, translating preceding four lines of Latin