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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

Taking leave of Chloris.

Song.

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

On my pretty Marten.

The New-year.

The Joys of Marriage.

Writ in Calista's Prayer-Book.

Song.

ODE. To Chloris.

ODE.

To John Bradshaw, Esq

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Anacreontick.

Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost.

Clepsydra.

Eclogue.

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

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

To Chloris.

Old Tityrus to Eugenia.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq;

Stanzes de Monsieur Bertaud.

The eighth Psalm paraphrased.

Advice.

Lyrick.

Amoret in Masquerade.

Estreines.

Epigramme de Monsieur des-Portes.

Epigramme de Monsieur Cotin.

Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.

A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque.

Saphick Ode.

The Morning Quatrains.

Ode de Monsieur Racan.

Contentation.

Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.

Melancholy.

Hope.

Epistle to the Earl of ---

Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.

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

Ode Bachique.

Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, then sitting in Parliament.

Stances de Monsieur Bertaud.

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.

A Journey into the Peak.

New Prison.

Her Name.

Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port.

SONG.

Sir William Davenant

To Sir William Davenant.

To my Friend Mr. John Anderson.

Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper.

Cælia's Fall.

Eclogue.

Her Sigh.

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

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

To Chloris.

Taking Leave of Chloris.

ODE.

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 Chloe.

ODE. To Chloris from France.

An Invitation to Phillis.

The Entertainment to Phillis.

To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace.

To Poet E. W.

DIALOGUE.

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.

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.

ALIUD.

ODE To Love.

TRANSLATIONS Out of several POETS.

WINTER.

An ELEGY upon the Lord Hastings.

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Saphick Ode.

How easie is his Life, and free,
Who, urg'd by no necessity,
Eats chearfull Bread, and over night does pay
For's next day's Crapula.

No suitor such a mean estate
Invites to be importunate,
No supple flatt'rer, robbing Villain, or
Obstreperous Creditor.

This man does need no Bolts nor Locks,
Nor needs he start when any knocks,
But may on careless Pillow lie and snoar,
With a wide open door.

Trouble and Danger Wealth attend,
An usefull but a dang'rous Friend,
Who makes us pay, e'er we can be releas'd,
Quadruple Interest.

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Let's live to day then for to morrow,
The Fool's too provident will borrow
A thing, which through Chance or Infirmity,
'Tis odds he ne'er may see.

Spend all then e'er you go to Heaven,
So with the World you will make even;
And men discharge by dying Nature's score,
Which done we owe no more.