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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.
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...
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