THE WORKS OF TUE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. THE ADDITIONAL LIVES BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F.S. A, IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES. VOL. VII. COWLEY, UDENHAM, :|| MILTON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON: J. NICHOLS AND SON ; B. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON; LEIGH AND SOTHEBY; R. FAULDER AND SON; G. NICOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND 1910. CONTENTS. Page 65 Elegia Dedicatoria ad Illustrissimam Aca- 11. That a Pleasant Poverty is to be pre- demiam Cantabrigiensem 41 ferred before Discontented Riches... ib. III. To his Mistress ib. 42 IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. A The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition 48 V. In Commendation of the Time we live Dedication ib. under, the Reign of our gracious The Author's Preface to bis Juvenile Poems.. 49 ib. VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... ib. The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe 56 SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON De felici partu, Reginæ Mariæ ... 59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from In felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem 60 the Northern Expedition against the Scots.. 68 Upon the happie Birth of the Duke ib. On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton......... ib. An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honour- On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master ib. ib. On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland 62 Friendship in Absence ib. ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge- 63 | To a Lady who made Posies for Rings.......... 71 ib. Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince ib. To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue .... ib. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey An Elegy on the Death of Jobn Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. 73 Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who In Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L. V. Ep. was drowned leaping into the Water to save 64 The Chronicle. A Ballad ....... ........ ib, A Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir- To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two First gin, written in Latin by the Right Worship- Books of Gondibert, finished before his .... ib. ib. An Answer to a Copy of Verses sent me to Clad all in White 105 74 Leaving me, and then loving many The Tree of Knowledge. That there is no My Heart discovered 106 ib. Reason, the Use of it in divine Matters........ ib. The vain Love. Loving one first because she 76 could love Nobody, afterwards loving her The Puritan and the Papist. A Satire......... 81 The Character of an Holy Sister ANACREONTIQUES : OR, SOME COPIES OF VERSES TRANS- LATED PARAPHRASTICALLY OUT OF ANACREON. Elegy upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a The given Heart . ib. ib. VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Christ's Passion, taken out of a Greek Ode, The Heart fed again ib. ib. Ode upon Occasion of a copy of Verses of my The rich Rival Ode. Mr. Cowley's Book presenting itself to For Hope.... the University Library of Oxford Ode.-Sitting and drinking in the Chair made ont of the Relics of Sir Francis Drake's Coldness Upon the Death of the Earl of Balcarres...... ib. Sleep Ode, from Catullus. Acme, and Septimius 92 The Parting. ib. 116 On the Queen's repairing Somerset House 96 | The Monopoly On Colonel Tuke's Tragi-comedy, The Adven- The Increase ib. On the Death of Mrs. Katharine Philips ib: | Looking on, and discoursing with, his Mis- Upon the Chair made out of Sir Francis Drake's Ship, presented to the University The Heart-breaking Library of Oxford, by John Davis, of Debt- The Usurpation 101 Maidenhead................... Prologue to the Cutter of Colman Street ...... ib. Impossibilities turn ...... ib. ib, Silence.... 119 The Dissembler ib, THE MISTRESS, OR SEVERAL COPIES OF LOVE-VERSES. The loconstant The Request 102 | The Constant The Thraldom...... ib. Her Name 120 The given Love 103 Weeping The Spring ib. Discretion Written in Juice of Lemon 104 The Waiting-Maid Inconstancy... ib. 1 Counsel 121 Not fair ib. The Cure..... Platonic Love ib. ..................... 105 The Separation The Change......... ib. | The Tree ....... ib. ib. ib. jb. ib. ib. ib. AND MANNER OF THE ODES OF PINDAR. ........ 199 121 SEVERAL DISCOURSES, BY WAY OF ESSAYS, IX VERSE AND The innocent III 190 123 Martial, Lib. II. Ep. lui.......... ib. Martial, Lib. II. Ep. Ixviii... The Force of Lore. Preserved from an Old III. Of Obscurity ib. Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act II. Chor. Epigram, on the Power of Love.................. 125 A Translation out of Virgil, Georg. Lib. PINDARIC ODES, WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF THE STYLE The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon The Second Olympic Ode of Pindar A Paraphrase upon the 10th Epistle of The First Nemæan Ode of Pindar... the First Book of Horace. Horace to The Praise of Pindar. In Imitation of Horace's The Country Life. Lib. IV. Plantarum. 201 The Muse .... ................................ 150 .......................... 132 Paraphrase on Horace, B. III. Od.xvi ... 208 To Dr. Scarborough ib. VIII. The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Claudian's Old Man of Verona .......... 211 IX. The Shortness of Life, and Uncertainty The XXXIVth Chapter of the Prophet Isaiah. ib. X. The Danger of Procrastination. A DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID, Martial, Lib. II, Ep. XC .......... ib. 140 Martial, Lib. X. Ep. xlvii. 148 Martial, Lib. X. Ep. xcvi... IV. 164 A Proposition for the Advancement of Experi- ib. Government of Oliver Cromwell ............. 173 ........ 212 his Majesty by the decimation of his Scottish The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson........ 223 subjects there 231 On Mr. Tho. Killegrew's return from Venice, 235 and Mr. William Murrey's from Scotland .. ib. The Destruction of Troy. An Essay on the To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais 245 238 | Natura Naturata......... On the Earl of Stafford's Trial and Death 243 Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the Twelfth ib. Elegy on the Death of Henry Lord Has. Friendship and Single Life, against Love and On my Lord Croft's and my Journey into Po- On Mr. Abraham Cowley's Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets....... 947 |