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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

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The Expostulation.

Taking leave of Chloris.

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

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IV.

On my pretty Marten.

The Joys of Marriage.

Writ in Calista's Prayer-Book.

ODE. To Chloris.

ODE.

To John Bradshaw, Esq

On Rutt: the Judge.

On Sim and Simon.

La Illustrissima.

Chanson a Boire.

The Angler's Ballad.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost.

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

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

Old Tityrus to Eugenia.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq;

The Retirement.

Stanzes de Monsieur Bertaud.

The eighth Psalm paraphrased.

Amoret in Masquerade.

Epigramme de Monsieur des-Portes.

Epigramme de Monsieur Cotin.

Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.

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A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque.

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Εις το δουιν πινειν

On Christmas-day.

The Morning Quatrains.

Noon Quatrains.

Ode de Monsieur Racan.

Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.

Epistle to the Earl of ---

Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.

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

Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, then sitting in Parliament.

Stances de Monsieur Bertaud.

Forbidden Fruit.

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.

An Epitaph on M. H.

Song. Montross.

A Journey into the Peak.

Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port.

Sir William Davenant

To Sir William Davenant.

To my Friend Mr. John Anderson.

Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper.

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

On the Lord Derby.

To Cælia's Ague.

Love's Triumph.

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

Taking Leave of Chloris.

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 Chloris from France.

An Invitation to Phillis.

The Entertainment to Phillis.

To some Great Ones.

To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace.

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.

Laura Sleeping.

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.

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TRANSLATIONS Out of several POETS.

Horace his second Epod Translated.

Horat. Ode IX. Lib. III.

Martial, Epig. Lib. I. Ep. XX.

Stances de Monsieur Theophile.

Her Heart and Mine.

To Charinus, an ugly Womans Husband.

An Ode of Johannes Secundus Translated.

EPIG. Translated out of Hieron; Amaltheus.

Martial, Ep. 84. Lib. 10.

Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11.

Id. Ep. 58. Lib. 1.

Id. Ep. 48. Lib. 1.

Id. Lib. Ep. 65.

Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 3.

Id. Lib. 2. Ep. 88.

Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 9.

Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 28.

Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 26.

Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 32.

Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 52.

Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 78.

Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 86.

Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 46.

Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 44.

Id. Lib. 17. Ep. 32.

Id. Lib. 10. Ep. 47.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 3.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 19.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep 23.

Id. Lib. Ep. 47.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 21.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 35.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 53.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 59.

Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 100.

Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 41.

Id. Lib. II. Ep. 103.

Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 7.

Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 20.

Horat. Lib 1. Carmin. Ode 8.

De Fortuna: an sit cæca.

Tria Mala ex eodem.

Id. Lib. Ep. 15.

ODE De Theophile.

Elegy de Theophile.

Stanzes upon the Death of Cleon.

Song of the inconstant Hylas.

An Essay upon Buchanan's First Book de Sphæra. Never perfected.

Cn. Cornelii Galli; vel potius Maximiani Elegia 1. Trans.

Ad Furium, Ep. 23.

De Catella Publ. Mart. Ep. 110. Lib. 1.

Eccho ad Pictorem Ausonii Epig.

De Myrone & Laide Ausonii.

Q. Cicero de Mulierum levitate.

Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.

Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.

Epig. writ in Calistas Prayer Book. By Monsieur Malherbe.

ODE Bacchique de Monsieur Racau.

De luxu, & libidine.

Id. in Digamos.

Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.

Epitaph Monsieur Maynard.

On Cation a Dwarf.

Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.

Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.

Epig. de Monsieur Corneille.

Epig. de Monsieur Cotin.

Epig. de Mons. de Bensaurade.

Madrigal on Queen Dido.

Foco di sdegno.

Risposta. del Tasto.

An ELEGY upon the Lord Hastings.

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To his Honor'd Friend, the Author of this Excellent POEM.

THE BATTAIL OF YVRY.

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ODE.

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Was ever man of Nature's framing
So given o'er to roving,
Who have been twenty years a taming
By ways that are not worth the naming,
And now must die of loving?

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II

Hell take me if she been't so winning
That now I love her mainly,
And though in jeast at the beginning,
Yet now I'd wond'rous sain be sinning,
And so have told her plainly.

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At which she cries I doe not love her,
And tells me of her Honor;
Then have I no way to disprove her,
And my true passion to discover,
But streight to fall upon her.

IV

Which done, forsooth, she talks of wedding,
But what will that avail her?
For though I am old Dog at Bedding,
I'm yet a man of so much reading,
That there I sure shall fail her.

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V

No, hang me if I ever marry,
Till Womankind grow stancher,
I do delight delights to vary,
And love not in one Hulk to tarry,
But only Trim and Launch her.