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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.

Third 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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Third song.

1

Come Ladyes rise, and let us know
Now you have seen, what you can do;
Harke how the Musick doth invite
All you to Solemnize this Night:
Then let the Sounds that you do hear
Order your feet unto your ear.
O rise! rise altogether,
And let us meet:
Musick's Divine, and well may joyn
Our motions rude unto a sweet.

2

The Figures of the Magick Art
We'l equall in a better part:
Judicial Astrologie
Cannot cast such an one as we:
Adde but your skill (as we desire)
And wee'l keep time to Phœbus Lyre.
O rise! rise altogether,
And let us meet:
Musick's Divine, and well may joyn
Our Motions rude unto a sweet.

Here all the Company dance what they please, and while they please; when they leave, the Lar, or one of the Masquers, sings this to the spectator Ladyes, as they go from them.