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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.

1. On the Death of my very good Friend Mr. Michael Drayton.

2. On my dear Sister Mrs. Isabella Cokaine, who who died at Ashbourne about the 18th yeer of her Age, and lyes there buried.

3. On the death of Henry Lord Hastings, Son to the right Honourable Ferdinand Earl of Huntingdon, & c.

4. On the death of my dear Cousin Germane Mrs. Olive Cotton, who deceased at Berisford the 38th year of her Age, and lyes buried at Bently by Ashbourne, &c.

5. A funeral Elegie on my Dear Cousin Mistress Elizabeth Reppington, who deceased at Ammington about the eighteenth year of her age, and lyes buried at Tamworth.

6. A Funeral Elegie upon the Death of Mr. Thomas Pilkington, one of the Queens Musicians, Who deceased at Wolverhampton about the 35. year of his Age, and lies there buried.

Letters to divers Persons.

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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93. An Epitaph on my most honour'd Kinsman Colonel Ralph Sneyd, who dy'd in the Isle of Man about the 40th year of his Age.

Here lyes a body that gave Lodging to
A Soul as noble as the world did know;
It was well-organ'd, handsome, manly, and
Of equal structure to the best o'th Land:
Yet was unworthy of the Soul was given,
And therefore dy'd cause that fled back to Heaven,
Here Colonel Ralph Sneyd doth lie; In brief
The joy of mankind living, now the grief.