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Total number of records: 11

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Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	11

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Cowley, Abraham	11
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

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INDEX/BCMSV/1875

[unknown]

1647 (published)

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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,

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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

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