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

DMI number:

367

Aliases

Second and third parts of the works of Cowley.

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Publication Date:

1721

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T133363

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CW111993616

Shelfmark:

BOD - Harding c 896 (2799 f.20)

Full Title:

The [i]Third[/i] and [i]Last[/i] VOLUME | OF THE | WORKS | OF | Mr. [i]Abraham Cowley[/i]: | BEING | The [i]Second[/i] and [i]Third[/i] PARTS thereof. | [rule] | PART II. | What was Written and Publish'd by Him- | self; now Reprinted together. | [rule] | [g]The[/g] Tenth [g]Edition[/g] | [rule] | PART III. | His SIX BOOKS of PLANTS, | 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. | [rule] | Made [i]English[/i] by several Celebrated HANDS. | [rule] | With necessary TABLES, and divers POEMS of eminent | Persons, in praise of the Author: and other conside- | rable Additions and Improvements. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] Printed by BENJ. MOTTE: for B. TOOKE, | G. STRAHAN, W. MEARS, W. CHETWOOD, and | T. JAUNCY. 1721.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet and Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

pp. [i-xiv], [1]-470, [6].

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page for Part III: The THIRD PART | OF THE | WORKS | OF | Mr. [i]Abraham Cowley[/i]: | Being his SIX BOOKS of | PLANTS, | 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. | [rule] | Made [i]English[/i] by several Celebrated HANDS. | [rule] | With a Necessary INDEX. | [rule] | [g]The[/g] Fifth [g]Edition[/g] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year M DCC XXI. Plates: Frontispiece.

Comments:

Contents: Loves Riddle pp. 53-134; Naufragium Joculare pp. [135]-216.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Part II: 'The Booksellers to the Reader' [2pp.]; 'To the Reader' signed Cowley [1p.]; Prefatory poems [7pp.]; 'The Contents' [2pp.] Part III: 'To the Reader' signed N. Tate pp.[219]-[224]; 'The Author's Preface' pp.[225]-235. Back matter: Index [6pp].

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Title:

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

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1700

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R2177

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1 of 2

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

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1700

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R2177

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2 of 2

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

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1689

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R21164

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2 of 2

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

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1708

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T133360

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3 of 3

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Title:

The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley [T133364]

Publication Date:

1711

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T133364

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3 of 3

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Editor:

Nahum Tate

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Address to the reader in part III signed by Tate.

Printer:

Benjamin Motte

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed by BENJ. MOTTE: for B. TOOKE, G. STRAHAN, W. MEARS, W. CHETWOOD, and T. JAUNCY.'

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Content/Publication

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:

[4pp]

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:

p.1

Poem Title:

Constantia And Philetus. To the Reader.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

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.20

Poem Title:

Piramus And Thisbe. To the Right Worshipful, my very Loving Master, Mr. Lambert Osbolston, Chief Master of Westminster-School.

Attribution:

Abr. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

When Babylon's high walls erected were

Page No:

pp.20-27

Poem Title:

Piramus And Thisbe.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Phoebus expelled by the approaching night

Page No:

pp.28-30

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 ye trumpeters of fame

Page No:

pp.30-32

Poem Title:

On His Majesty's 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.32

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.33-35

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Westminster Hall a friend and I agreed

Page No:

pp.35-37

Poem Title:

A Poetical Revenge.

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.37

Poem Title:

To the Dutchess of Buckingham.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

I love for that upon the wings of fame

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

And must these waters smile again and play

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esq; Son and Heir of 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:

The infernal sisters did a council call

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, late Secretary of State.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

It was decreed by stedfast destiny

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

On the Death of my Loving Friend and Cousin, Mr. Rich. Clarke, late of Lincolns-Inn, Gent.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Once thou rejoicedst and rejoice for ever

Page No:

pp.43-45

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.45-46

Poem Title:

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.46-47

Poem Title:

That a Pleasant Poverty is to be prefer'd before Discontented Riches.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Tyrian dye why do you wear

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

To his Mistress.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Leave off unfit complaints and clear

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A Translation.

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.49-50

Poem Title:

In Commendation of the Time we live in, under the Reign of our Gracious King Charles I.

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Mark that swift arrow how it cuts the air

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

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:

p.51

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.52

Poem Title:

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 has known

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Loves Riddle, &c. To the truly Worthy and Noble Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt.

Attribution:

A. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

With Cowley's youthful work we entertain

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

Prologue

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

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

Page No:

p.134

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.234-235

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Collected under Cowley's name

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Here passenger beneath this shed

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

'The Author's Epitaph [i.e. Cowley] upon himself'

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

While through the world thy labours shine

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

The Epitaph on the Author's Tomb in Westminster Abby, attempted in English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Life's lowest but far greatest sphere I sing

Page No:

pp.239-241

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book I.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To know my virtues briefly if you can

Page No:

p.241-244

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.244-246

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.246-248

Poem Title:

Sage.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence cares my constant troublesome company

Page No:

pp.248-249

Poem Title:

Baum.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A malady there is that runs through all

Page No:

pp.249-252

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:

p.252-253

Poem Title:

Dodder.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among children I a baneful weed am thought

Page No:

pp.253-257

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.257-259

Poem Title:

Water-Lily.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Me cruel nature when she made me gave

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

Spleenwort or Miltwast.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some think your commendation you deserve

Page No:

pp.261-262

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.262

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.263-265

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.265-267

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.267-268

Poem Title:

Sundew or Lustwort.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy conquered ivy Bacchus now throw down

Page No:

pp.268-269

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.269

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The dropping bloody nose you gently bind

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

Sow-Bread.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In my fire that false gold the jaundice I

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

Upon the same.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My virtue dries all ulcerous running sores

Page No:

p.270

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.271

Poem Title:

Ducks-Meat.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Daunian Arachne who spinst all the day

Page No:

pp.272-274

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.274-277

Poem Title:

Mint.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome thrice welcome sacred mistletoe

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

Misseltoe.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See how the yellow gall the deluged eyes

Page No:

pp.280

Poem Title:

Celandine.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ten thousand blessing may the gods bestow

Page No:

pp.281-282

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.282-284

Poem Title:

Rocket.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cybele's holy mysteries now begin

Page No:

pp.285-289

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:

pp.289-290

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.290-292

Poem Title:

Penny-Royal.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dittany though cold winds her lips did close

Page No:

pp.292-294

Poem Title:

Dittany.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Next way-bred rose propped by her seven nerves

Page No:

pp.294-296

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.297-299

Poem Title:

The Rose.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That fate which frequently attends on all

Page No:

pp.300-303

Poem Title:

Laurel.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Green berries I and seed and flowers bear

Page No:

pp.304-307

Poem Title:

Birth-Wort.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Then Chian Mastick thus began said she

Page No:

pp.307-309

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.309-313

Poem Title:

Savin.

Attribution:

By J. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If the green nation sister banish thee

Page No:

pp.313-315

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.315-321

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.322-328

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.328-335

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.335-337

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.337-338

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.338-339

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.339-341

Poem Title:

Enemone, or Wind-Flower.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

With furious heats and unbecoming rage

Page No:

pp.341-343

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.343-344

Poem Title:

The Tulip.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

If empire is to beauty due

Page No:

pp.344-347

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.347-349

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.349-353

Poem Title:

The Rose.

Attribution:

By C. Cleve.

Attributed To:

C. Cleve

First Line:

Happy the man whom from ambition freed

Page No:

pp.354-368

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book IV. Flora, of Flowers.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

To find a name for me the gods took care

Page No:

pp.368-369

Poem Title:

Moly.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Homer I will not vain or careless call

Page No:

pp.369-372

Poem Title:

Flora.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Such as the lovely swan appears

Page No:

pp.373-375

Poem Title:

White Lily.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

O sleep the gentle ease of grief

Page No:

pp.375-378

Poem Title:

Poppy.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

If by the rules of nature we proceed

Page No:

pp.378-379

Poem Title:

Sun-flower.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

How this pretender for no medicine good

Page No:

pp.379-380

Poem Title:

July-Flower.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

While others boast their high original

Page No:

pp.381-383

Poem Title:

Saffron.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

What can the puling rose or violet say

Page No:

pp.383-384

Poem Title:

Amaranth, Flower-Gentle.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Amongst the miracles of ancient Rome

Page No:

pp.384-385

Poem Title:

Flora.

Attribution:

N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let now my muse more lofty numbers bring

Page No:

pp.386-422

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book V. Pomona; Goddess of Fruit: bearing Trees.

Attribution:

By N. Tate.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Cease oh my muse the soft delights to sing

Page No:

pp.423-470

Poem Title:

Of Plants. Book VI. Sylva.

Attribution:

By Mrs. A. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn