The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley [Parts II and III] [ESTC R21164]

DMI number:

1717

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Second and third parts of the works of Cowley

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Publication Date:

1689

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

R21164

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http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12616098

Shelfmark:

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Full Title:

THE | [g]Second and Third Parts[/g] | OF THE | WORKS | OF | Mr Abraham Cowley, | The SECOND containing | What was Written and Published by himself in | his younger Years: Now Reprinted together. | [rule] | [i]The Sixth Edition.[/i] | [rule] | The THIRD containing | [g]His Six Books of Plants:[/g] | [2 columns] [column 1] Viz [/column 1] | [column 2] The [i]First[/i] and [i]Second[/i] of HERBS. | The [i]Third[/i] and [i]Fourth[/i] of FLOWERS. | The [i]Fifth[/i] and [i]Sixth[/i] of TREES. [/column 2] | [i]Now Made English by several Hands.[/i] | With necessary TABLES to both Parts, and several POEMS | in Praise of the Author. | [rule] | [g]Licensed and Entered.[/g] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]Charles Harper,[/i] at the [i]Flower-de-luce[/i] over | against S. [i]Dunstan's[/i] Church in [i]Fleet-street.[/i] 1689.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet, Collection including prose, and Collection including drama

Format:

Folio

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page: The Second Part | OF THE | WORKS | OF | Mr. Abraham Cowley. | [i]Being what was Written and Published by himself in his | YOUNGER YEARS[/i] | [rule] | And now Reprinted together. | [rule] | [g]The Sixth Edition[/g] | [rule] | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by [i]Mary Clark,[/i] for [i]Charles Harper,[/i] at the [i]Flower-de-luce[/i] | in [i]Fleet-street.[/i] MDCLXXXIX. Separate title page: [g]The Third Part[/g] | OF THE | WORKS | OF | Mr Abraham Cowley, | BEING | [g]His Six Books of Plants,[/g] | Never before Printed in English: | [2 columns] [column 1] Viz. [/column 1] | [column 2] The [i]First[/i] and [i]Second[/i] of HERBS. | The [i]Third[/i] and [i]Fourth[/i] of FLOWERS. | The [i]Fifth[/i] and [i]Sixth[/i] of TREES. [/column 2] | [i]Now made[/i] English [i]by several Hands.[/i] | [rule] | [i]With a Necessary[/i] INDEX. | [rule] | [g]Licensed and Entered.[/g] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]Charles Harper,[/i] at the [i]Flower-de-luce[/i] over | against S. [i]Dunstan's[/i] Church in [i]Fleet-street.[/i] 1689.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Some plays in English and Latin. Miscellany split into different section with own title pages and own pagination: second part and third part. Some individual title pages for sections of poems or individual plays.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter Second Part: 1) 'To the Memory of the Incomparable Mr Cowley'. pp. a-av. 2) 'To the Memory of the Author'. pp. a2-a2v. 3) 'On Mr. Cowleys Juvenile Poems, and the Translation of his Plantarum'. pp. a2v-a3v. 4) 'The Contents' p. a4. 5) 'The Booksellers to the Reader.' p. A. 6) 'To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and Dean of Westminster'. p. Av. 7)Prose 'To the Reader' p. A2. 8) Poetry 'To the Reader' p. A2v. Third part 1) 'To his Grace Charles Duke of Somerset' pp. A2-a. 2) 'To the Reader' pp. a2-a4. 3) 'The Author's Preface' b-b3v. End matter: 1) Index pp. X4-X4v.

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Title:

The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley [Parts II and III] [ESTC R21164]

Publication Date:

1689

ESTC No:

R21164

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Now made English by several hands (Vol. I). [R2177]

Publication Date:

1700

ESTC No:

R2177

Volume:

1 of 2

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Another Edition of

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Title:

The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Now made English by several hands (Vol. II). [EEBO] [R2177]

Publication Date:

1700

ESTC No:

R2177

Volume:

2 of 2

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Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The third and last volume of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley [T133360]

Publication Date:

1708

ESTC No:

T133360

Volume:

3 of 3

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Another Edition of

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Title:

The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley [T133363]

Publication Date:

1721

ESTC No:

T133363

Volume:

1 of 1

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Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley [Parts II and III] [ESTC R21164]

Publication Date:

1689

ESTC No:

R21164

Volume:

2 of 2

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Another Edition of

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Related People

Author:

Abraham Cowley

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Printer:

Mary Clark

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

Charles Harper

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

To fertile wits and plants of fruitful kind

Page No:

pp. a2r-a2v

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Author.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With artless hand and much disordered mind

Page No:

pp. ar-av.

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Incomparable Mr Cowley.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

When young Alcides in his cradle lay

Page No:

pp. a2v-a3v.

Poem Title:

On Mr. Cowley's Juvenile Poems, and the Translation of his Plantarum. A Pindarique.

Attribution:

S. Westley.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

I called the buskined muse Melpomene

Page No:

p. A2v.

Poem Title:

To the Reader

Attribution:

Abraham Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

I sing two constant lovers various fate

Page No:

pp. 1-19.

Poem Title:

Constantia and Philetus.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Sir | My childish muse is in her spring and yet

Page No:

p. 23

Poem Title:

To the Right Worshipful, my very loving Master, Mr. Lambert Osbolston, Chief School-Master of Westminster School.

Attribution:

Abr. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

When Babylon's high walls erected were

Page No:

pp. 25-32.

Poem Title:

The Tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Underneath this marble stone

Page No:

p. 32

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

The infernal sisters did a council call

Page No:

p. 35

Poem Title:

An Elegy on The Death of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, late Principal Secretary of State.

Attribution:

Abr. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

It was decreed by stedfast destiny

Page No:

p. 36

Poem Title:

An Elegy on The Death of my Loving Friend and Cousin, Mr. Richard Clarke, late of Lincolns-Inn. Gent.

Attribution:

A.C.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Phoebus expelled by the approaching night

Page No:

pp. 37-9

Poem Title:

Sylva: Or, Divers Copies of Verses made upon sundry Occasions. A Dream of Elysium.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Great Charles there stop you trumpeters of fame

Page No:

pp. 39-40

Poem Title:

On His Majesties return out of Scotland.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Hence clouded looks hence briny tears

Page No:

p. 41

Poem Title:

A Song on the same.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Lest the misjudging world should chance to say

Page No:

pp. 41-3

Poem Title:

A Vote.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Westminster Hall a friend and I agreed

Page No:

pp. 44-5

Poem Title:

A Poetical Revenge.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

I love for that upon the wings of fame

Page No:

pp. 45-6

Poem Title:

To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. A. B.

Attribution:

Compiled under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

If I should say that in your face were seen

Page No:

pp. 45-6

Poem Title:

To the Dutchess of Buckingham.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

And must these waters smile again and play

Page No:

pp. 46-7

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esquire, Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who was drowned leaping into the Water to save his younger Brother.

Attribution:

Compiled under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Once thou rejoicedst and rejoice for ever

Page No:

pp. 48-9

Poem Title:

A Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Virgin, Written in Latin by the Right Worshipful Dr. A.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Tis not a pyramid of marble stone

Page No:

pp. 49-50

Poem Title:

Ode I. On the praise of Poetry.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Why oh doth gaudy Tagus ravish thee

Page No:

pp. 50-1

Poem Title:

Ode II. That a pleasant Poverty is to be preferred before discontented Riches.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Tyrian dye why do you wear

Page No:

p. 52

Poem Title:

Ode III. To his Mistris.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Cursed be that wretch death's factor sure who brought

Page No:

pp. 53-4

Poem Title:

Ode V. In Commendation of the time we live under the Reign of our Gracious King Charles.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Leave off unfit complaints and clear

Page No:

p. 53

Poem Title:

Ode. IV. On the uncertainty of Fortune. A Translation.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Mark that swift arrow how it cuts the air

Page No:

p. 55

Poem Title:

Ode VI. Upon the shortness of Mans Life.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Nichols my better self forbear

Page No:

pp. 55-6

Poem Title:

An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

This latter age the lees of time has known

Page No:

p. 59

Poem Title:

To the truly Worthy and Noble, Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight.

Attribution:

A. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

The author bid me tell you --- faith I have

Page No:

p. 121

Poem Title:

Epilogue | Spoken by Alupis.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

More poetry you'll cry dost thou return

Page No:

pp. b3r-v

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While through the world thy labours shine

Page No:

p. b4r

Poem Title:

The Epitaph in the Frontispiece of this Book transcribed from the Author's Tomb in Westminster-Abbey, attempted in English. Here under lies Abraham Cowley, The Pindar, Horace, and the Virgil of the English Nation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here passenger beneath this shed

Page No:

p. b3v.

Poem Title:

The Author's Epitaph upon himself, yet alive, but withdrawn from the busie World to a Country-Life; to be supposed written on his House.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Life's lowest but far greatest sphere I sing

Page No:

pp. 1-2

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book I.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To know my virtues briefly you in vain

Page No:

pp. 2-4

Poem Title:

Betony.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I being the chief of all the hairy state

Page No:

pp. 4-5

Poem Title:

Maiden-Hair, or Venus-Hair.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sage who by many virtues gainest renown

Page No:

pp. 6-7

Poem Title:

Sage.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence cares my constant troublesome company

Page No:

pp. 7-8

Poem Title:

Baum.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A malady there is that runs through all

Page No:

pp. 8-9

Poem Title:

Scurvy-Grass.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou neither leaf nor stalk nor root can'st show

Page No:

pp. 9-10

Poem Title:

Dodder.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among children I a baneful weed am thought

Page No:

pp. 11-13

Poem Title:

Wormwood.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

D'ye slight me cause a bog my belly feeds

Page No:

pp. 13-15

Poem Title:

Water-Lilly.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Me cruel nature when she made me gave

Page No:

pp. 15-16

Poem Title:

Spleenwort or Miltwast.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some think your commendation you deserve

Page No:

pp. 16-17

Poem Title:

Lettuce.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Eat me with bread and oil you'll never repine

Page No:

p. 17

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Enter sweet stranger to my eyes reveal

Page No:

pp. 17-19

Poem Title:

Eye-Bright.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I stand musing as I often do

Page No:

pp. 19-20

Poem Title:

Winter-Cherries.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To say the truth nature's too kind to thee

Page No:

pp. 20-1

Poem Title:

Sundew or Lustwort.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The dropping bloody nose you gently bind

Page No:

p. 21

Poem Title:

Sow-Bread.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy conquered ivy Bacchus now throw down

Page No:

p. 21

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In my fire that false gold the jaundice I

Page No:

pp. 22-3

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My virtue dries all ulcerous running sores

Page No:

p. 22

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See how with pride the groveling pot herb swells

Page No:

p. 22

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A lusty frog a duck swears is such meat

Page No:

p. 23

Poem Title:

Ducks-Meat.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Daunian Arachne who spinst all the day

Page No:

pp. 24-5

Poem Title:

Rosemary. Touching the bite of the Tarantula.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Take my advice men and no riddles use

Page No:

pp. 25-8

Poem Title:

Mint.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome thrice welcome sacred mistletoe

Page No:

pp. 28-9

Poem Title:

Misseltoe.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See how the yellow gall the deluged eyes

Page No:

pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

Celandine.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ten thousand blessings may the gods bestow

Page No:

pp. 30-31

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You who in sacred wedlock coupled are

Page No:

pp. 31-2

Poem Title:

Rocket.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cybele's holy mysteries now begin

Page No:

pp. 33-6

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book II.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

After long cold grave matrons in this place

Page No:

p. 36

Poem Title:

Mugwort [the President, begins.]

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

First Penny Royal to advance her fame

Page No:

pp. 37-8

Poem Title:

Penny-Royall.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dittany though cold winds her lips did close

Page No:

pp. 38-40

Poem Title:

Dittany.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Next way-bred rose propped by her seven nerves

Page No:

pp. 40-1

Poem Title:

Plantain, or, Way-Bred.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You Cretan dittany who such poisons mix

Page No:

pp. 41-3

Poem Title:

The Rose.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That fate which frequently attends on all

Page No:

pp. 43-6

Poem Title:

Laurel

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Green berries I and seed and flowers bear

Page No:

pp. 46-9

Poem Title:

Birth-Wort.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Then Chian Mastick thus began said she

Page No:

pp. 49-50

Poem Title:

The Mastick-Tree.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou wretched shrub in passionate tones said she

Page No:

pp. 50-3

Poem Title:

Savin.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If the green nation sister banish thee

Page No:

pp. 53-4

Poem Title:

Mugwort [the President]

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At last when myrrh had wiped her odorous tears

Page No:

pp. 55-9

Poem Title:

Myrrh.

Attribution:

By J.O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now muse if ever now look brisk and gay

Page No:

pp. 60-4

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book III. Flora.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

I mean not now my beauty to oppose

Page No:

pp. 65-70

Poem Title:

Helleborus Niger, or Christmas Flower.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

The ram now ope the golden portal throws

Page No:

pp. 70-1

Poem Title:

The Violet.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

Great queen of flowers why is thy snowy breast

Page No:

pp. 71-2

Poem Title:

Auricula Ursi. Bears-Ear.

Attribution:

By C.Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

What once I was a boy not ripened to a man

Page No:

pp. 72-3

Poem Title:

The Daffadil.--Narcissus.

Attribution:

By. C.Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

Thou gentle zephyr who didst flora wed

Page No:

pp. 73-4

Poem Title:

Anemone, or Emonies.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

With furious heats and unbecoming rage

Page No:

pp. 74-5

Poem Title:

The Imperial Crown.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

Somewhere in Horace if I don't forget

Page No:

pp. 75-6

Poem Title:

The Tulip.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

If empire is to beauty due

Page No:

pp. 77-8

Poem Title:

Iris, or the Flower-De-Luce.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

If the fond tulip swelled with pride

Page No:

pp. 78-80

Poem Title:

Paeonia. The Peony.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

And who can doubt my race says she

Page No:

pp. 80-2

Poem Title:

The Rose.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

Happy the man whom from ambition freed

Page No:

pp. 83-92

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book IV.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

To find a name for me the gods took care

Page No:

pp. 92-3

Poem Title:

Molly.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Homer I will not vain or careless call

Page No:

pp. 93-5

Poem Title:

Flora.

Attribution:

By N.Tate

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Such as the lovely swan appears

Page No:

pp. 96-7

Poem Title:

White--Lily.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

O sleep the gentle ease of grief

Page No:

pp. 97-9

Poem Title:

Poppy.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

If by the rules of nature we proceed

Page No:

pp. 99-100

Poem Title:

Sun-Flower.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

How this pretender for no medicine good

Page No:

pp. 100-1

Poem Title:

Gilly-Flower.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

While others boast their proud original

Page No:

pp. 101-2

Poem Title:

Saffron.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Amongst the miracles of ancient Rome

Page No:

pp. 103-4

Poem Title:

Flora.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

What can the puling rose or violet say

Page No:

pp. 103.0

Poem Title:

Amaranth, Flower-Gentle.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Let now my muse more lofty numbers bring

Page No:

pp. 105-30

Poem Title:

Of Plants Book V. Pomona.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Cease oh my muse the soft delights to sing

Page No:

pp. 131-66

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book VI. Sylvia.

Attribution:

By Mrs A. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn