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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.
Encomiastick verses on several Books.
A MASQUE Presented at Bretbie in Darbyshire On Twelfth-Night. 1639.
The Prologue
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First Song.
The Antimasque.
Second song.
Third song.
Fourth song.
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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Small poems of Divers sorts
94.
Of Slander.
To speak too well of thousands safer is
Then of one single Person once amiss;
Happy is he therefore whose wary tongue
Wisely refrains to do another wrong.
Small poems of Divers sorts