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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)

A Satyre.

Love Elegies.

Funeral Elegies.

Letters to divers Persons.

1. To the Right Honourable John Lord Mohun Baron of Okehampton, my Uncle in Law.

2. To my friend and Kinsman Mr. George Giffard, who cal'd his Mistress the Green Bird of France.

3. To the right honourable Ferdinand Earl of Huntingdon, &c.

4. To a Lady that was so like another that I cal'd her Picture.

5. To my Mistress.

6. To the Lady M.

7. To my Cousin Mr. Charles Cotton.

8. To my Son Mr. Thomas Cokaine.

Encomiastick verses on several Books.

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

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.

EPIGRAMS

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70. An Epitaph on an old Bawde.

Here lies an old Bawde whom the grave should have gotten
Fourty years since, for then she was rotten:
Now here she doth lie for all People to piss on,
(For fear of Doomes-day) in a stinking Condition.
But enough of this business; for well we may think
The more we stir in it the more it will stink.