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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.
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
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.
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.
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'
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
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'
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.
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"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Cowley, Abraham
Date(s): 165- or 166-?
Manuscript: Lt 114
Contents: A translation of Anacreon, "Carmina", XVII, justifying drinking. An altered shorter version of Cowley's usual text
Title: [unknown]
Author: Cowley, Abraham
Date(s): 1668 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, translating preceding four lines of Latin