To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from the Northern

Expedition against the Scots

31

On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton

33

On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master at Westminster

School

34

.....

On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland

36

....

On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyke, the famous Painter 39

To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlargement from the

Page

dibert, finished before his Voyage to America

To Sir William Davenant, upon his two first Books of Gon-

An Answer to a Copy of Verses sent me to Jersey

62

63

The Tree of Knowledge, that there is no Knowledge. Against

the Dogmatists

Reason, the Use of it in divine Matters.

On the Death of Mr. Crashaw

ANACREONTIQUES; OR, SOME COPIES OF VERSES, TRANS-

LATED PARAPHRASTICALLY OUT OF ANACREON.

Elegy upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a grape-stone..

72

73

74

75

76

ib.

78

79

ib.

81

82

83

VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

Christ's Passion, taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr.

Masters of New college in Oxford

Ode upon Occasion of a Copy of Verses of my Lord Broghill's 97

Ode. Mr. Cowley's Book presenting itself to the University

Library of Oxford

101

Ode. Sitting and drinking in the Chair made out of the Re-

Page

On Colonel Tuke's Tragi-Comedy, "The Adventures of Five

Hours"

142

Upon the Chair made out of Sir Francis Drake's Ship, pre-

sented to the University Library of Oxford, by John Davis

of Deptford, Esquire

Prologue to "The Cutter of Colman-street”

158

ib.

LIFE

OF

COWL E Y.

THE Life of COWLEY, notwithstanding the penury of English biography, has been written by Dr. Sprat, an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature; but his zeal of friendship, or ambition of eloquence, has produced a funeral oration rather than a history: he has given the character, not the life, of Cowley; for he writes with so little detail, that scarcely any thing is distinctly known, but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick.

ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen. His father was a grocer, whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen; and, what would probably not have been less carefully

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