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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.

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.

1. To the Gentry of Darbyshire.

2. To the Readers.

3. To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Baron of Shelford, &c.

4. An Epitaph on Elizabeth the Lady Reppington, who deceased at Ammington, about the 50. year of of her age, and lies buried at Tamworth.

[5]. An Epitaph on my honoured Cousin Mr. John Reppington, who deceased at Ammington about the 25 year of his age, and lies buried at Tamworth.

6. To Mr. Charles Hutchinson my Cousin German.

7. To Mr. Francis Fitzherbert of Lincolnes Inne, my kinsman.

8. To Mr. Will. Stanhope the younger my Cousin German.

9. Of Quintilla.

10.

10. To my mother Mrs Anne Cokain.

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10. To Mr. John Honyman.

On hopefull youth, and let thy happy strain
Redeem the Glory of the Stage again:
Lessen the Loss of Shakespeares death by thy
Successful Pen, and fortunate phantasie.
He did not onely write but act; And so
Thou dost not onely act, but writest too:

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Between you there no difference appears
But what may be made up with equal years.
This is my Suffrage, and I scorn my Pen
Should crown the heads of undeserving men.