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Small poems of Divers sorts

Written by Sir Aston Cokain

Cokain, Aston (1608-1684)

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TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND Sir ASTON COKAIN on his Poetical composures.

A Remedy for Love.

The first Eglogue. Why Strephon, art thou melancholy grown

The second Eglogue. Why art thou sad (fair Shepherdess)

Funeral Elegies.

Letters to divers Persons.

Encomiastick verses on several Books.

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A MASQUE Presented at Bretbie in Darbyshire On Twelfth-Night. 1639.

The Antimasque.

An Epithalamium, design'd for the Nuptials of Sir Andrew Knyvegston my Wives Brother, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stanhope of Elveston my Cousin-german; Their Marriage prevented by her death.

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35. To my Cousin Mr. Charles Cotton.

Pardon my boldness (Cousin) that defames
Your name among my trivial Epigrams:

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Yet I before have sometimes us'd you thus;
For in my Eclogues you are Tityrus.