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Cotton, Charles	4
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Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 122

Manuscript verse by various hands and a masque by Thomas Cooke, inserted in a copy of 'Poems on several occasions', by Charles Cotton.

c.1720-1750

The pages of manuscript contain: (1) A short verse miscellany, including 'A satyr against woman' (16 pp), 'The batchelors lettany' (3 pp), Alexander Pope's 'How much egregious Moore/ Are we deceive'd ...

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/3696

[unknown]

1689 (published)

On the perils and sufferings of being married to a woman; variant extracts from Cotton's 'The joys of marriage'

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6739

Contentation

1689 (published)

In praise of the contented, innnocent life as the source of true happiness.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6740

How few see the errors of life till tis almost too late to amend.

1689 (published)

Meditation on the wastefulness and vanity of youth, and inconveniences of old age; musing on the good that could be done if 'youth' had the experience and wisdom of old age.