The second and third parts of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Now made English by several hands (Vol. I). [R2177]
- DMI number:
- 322
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- R2177
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- EEBO - Wing / 709:23
- Shelfmark:
- BL 631.l.220
- 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 Seventh Edition, with Additions.[/i] | [rule] | The THIRD containing | [g]his Six Books of Plants[/g][i]:[/i] | [two columns] [col. 1][i]Viz[/i].[/col. 1] [col. 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.[/col. 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 Entred.[/g] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for [i]Charles Harper[/i], at the [i]Flower-de-luce[/i] over | against S. [i]Dunstan[/i]'s Church in [i]Fleet-street[/i]. 1700.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellany dominated by poet
- Format:
- Folio
- Pagination:
- [16], 1-57, [5], 62-[164]
- Bibliographic details:
- Second title page for volume: 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 Seventh Edition, With Additions.[/g] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [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]. MDCC. Several items have separate title pages.
- Comments:
- Contents: Play text of 'Love's Riddle' pp. 59-123; play text of 'Naufragium Joculare: Comeoedia' pp. 125-164. query: note that the two parts of this (part 2 and part 3) have in this instance been indexed separately though the title page indicates that they were sold as a unit. This volume is dominated by Cowley. PLATES: Frontispiece. PAGINATION: p.17 is misnumbered '3'.
- Other matter:
- Commendatory poems on Cowley (sig. (a)r-(a3)v); 'The Booksellers to the Readers (sig. Ar); dedication to John, Bishop of Lincoln signed by Cowley (sig. Av); prose 'To the Reader' signed by Cowley(sig.A2r); verse 'To the Reader' signed by Cowley(sig.A2v); The Contents [1p].
- 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. II). [EEBO] [R2177]
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- ESTC No:
- R2177
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- 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
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley [T133363]
- Publication Date:
- 1721
- ESTC No:
- T133363
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley [T133364]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- T133364
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- John Williams
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedicated to 'John Ld Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster'.
- Printer:
- Mary Clark
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by Mary Clark, for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce in Fleet-street' (title page to 'The Second Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley'.)
- Publisher:
- Charles Harper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce over against S. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street. 1700.'
- First Line:
- To fertile wits and plants of fruitful kind
- Page No:
- [2pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of the Author.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With artless hand and much disordered mind
- Page No:
- [2pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of the Incomparable Mr. Cowley.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Flatman
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Flatman
- First Line:
- When young Alcides in his cradle lay
- Page No:
- [3pp.]
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Cowley's Juvenile Poems, and the Translation of his Plantarum. A Pindarique.
- Attribution:
- S. Wesley
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Wesley
- First Line:
- I called the buskined muse Melpomene
- Page No:
- [1pp.]
- 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:
- 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 steadfast 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:
- Collected under Cowley's name and signed 'A. C.'
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Phoebus expelled by the approaching night
- Page No:
- pp.37-39
- Poem Title:
- A Dream of Elysium.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Cowley's name and signed 'A. C.'
- 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.41-43
- 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.44-45
- 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.45-46
- Poem Title:
- To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. A. B.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Cowley's name
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- If I should say that in your face were seen
- Page No:
- p.45
- 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.46-47
- 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:
- Collected under Cowley's name
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Once thou rejoicedst and rejoice for ever
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- 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.50-51
- 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.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Ode V. In Commendation of the Time we live in, under the Reign of our Gracious King Charles II.
- 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 Man's Life.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Cowley's name
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Nichols my better self forbear
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Cowley's name
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Come poetry and with you bring along
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Ode VIII. To a Lady who desired a Song of Mr. Cowley, he presented this following.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Cowley's name
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- This latter age the lees of time hath known
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- To the truly Worthy and Noble Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt.
- Attribution:
- A. Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The author bid me tell you --- faith I have
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue, Spoken by Alupis.
- Attribution:
- By A. Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
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