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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

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The Expostulation.

Taking leave of Chloris.

Resolution in four Sonnets, of a Poetical Question put to me by a Friend, concerning four Rural Sisters.

On my pretty Marten.

The Joys of Marriage.

Writ in Calista's Prayer-Book.

ODE. To Chloris.

To John Bradshaw, Esq

On Rutt: the Judge.

On Sim and Simon.

La Illustrissima.

Chanson a Boire.

The Angler's Ballad.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost.

To my dear and most worthy Friend, Mr. Isaac Walton.

To the Countess of Chesterfield, on the Birth of her first Son.

Old Tityrus to Eugenia.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq;

The Retirement.

Stanzes de Monsieur Bertaud.

The eighth Psalm paraphrased.

Amoret in Masquerade.

Epigramme de Monsieur des-Portes.

Epigramme de Monsieur Cotin.

Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.

A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque.

Εις το δουιν πινειν

On Christmas-day.

The Morning Quatrains.

Noon Quatrains.

Ode de Monsieur Racan.

Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.

Epistle to the Earl of ---

Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.

On the Death of the Most Noble Thomas Earl of Ossory.

Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, then sitting in Parliament.

Stances de Monsieur Bertaud.

Forbidden Fruit.

On One, who said, He drank to clear his Eyes.

The Separation.

Another of the same.

On the great Eater of Grays-Inn.

An Epitaph on my Dear Aunt, Mrs. Ann Stanhope.

An Epitaph on M. H.

Song. Montross.

A Journey into the Peak.

Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port.

Sir William Davenant

To Sir William Davenant.

To my Friend Mr. John Anderson.

Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper.

On the Lamented Death Of my Dear Uncle, Mr. Radcliff Stanhope.

On the Lord Derby.

To Cælia's Ague.

Love's Triumph.

A Rogue.

To my friend Mr. Lely, on his Picture of the Excellently Virtuous Lady, the Lady Isabella Thynn.

Taking Leave of Chloris.

An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady.

In Amorem Medicum.

The Legend of the Famous, Furious, Expert, and Valiant Gittar-Masters, Caveliero Comer, and Don Hill.

On Annel-seed Robin, the Hermophrodite.

ODE. To Chloris from France.

An Invitation to Phillis.

The Entertainment to Phillis.

To some Great Ones.

To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace.

An Epitaph on Robert Port, Esq; design'd for a Monument:

To Cupid, a foolish Poet, occasion'd by as foolish a Poem of his to a bona Roba.

Philoxipes and Policrite.

To Mr. Alexander Brome.

Laura Sleeping.

To Sir Aston Cockayne, on Captain Hanniball.

In imitation of a Song in the Play of Rollo.

To Sir Aston Cockayne, on his Tragedy of Ovid.

De Die Martis, & Die Veneris.

TRANSLATIONS Out of several POETS.

An ELEGY upon the Lord Hastings.

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A Rogue.

Reader , read this Man, than whom
Is none more vile in Christendom:
Thou may'st know him, wheresoe're
Thou meet'st him, by his Character,
And, to begin first with his Face,
It is the worst that ever was,
So Crab-like, wrinkled, and so foul,
His Mother shit him sure at stool.

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To that, his Limbs are such, thou'dst swear
No two of them could make a pair:
His Hands! Man never saw such clutches,
Nor such Feet walk without crutches;
The bulk to these fair branches is
A Chaos of confounded Vice:
A trunk of Tumours, and Diseases,
Which a thousand Ulcers eases,
With a stink that would infect us,
Did not kinder Heaven protect us.

Now how this hide of his is lin'd!
To this shape he has a mind
Of so damn'd a leprous taint
As the Devil himself would Saint.
Bloody, revengeful, trecherous:
A hellish Lyar, covetous;
A cursed Sycophanting Slave,
A Fool, a Coward, and a Knave:
Lewdly debaucht (the Devil take him!)
As Drabs, and Dice, and Drink can make him:
Loudly profane 'bove Blasphemy,
The abstract of all Villany;

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Ignorant of all things, but evil:
And now y' 'ave warning of a Devil.