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Item genre: Epigram |
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Hertfordshire
Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.1 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48r] To Maxima By Sir Charles Sedley Ovid who bid the ladies laugh ... And laugh not above once a year 16 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.2 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48r] To Septimus For want of judgment through servile flattery thou dost all commend ... Who cares to please? Where no man can offend 2 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.3 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48v] To Classicus When thou art asked to sup abroad ... Does not a supper but a reckoning hate 14 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.4 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[48v] To Posthumus That thou dost cashou breath and foreign gums ... He that smells always sweet, does never so. 6 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.5 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49r] To Sextus What business? or what hope brings thee to town ... None but has killed his man or writ a play. 16 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.6 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49r] To Cloe Leave off thy paint perfumes, and youthful dress ... Plain downright ugliness would less offend. 4 linesTo Madam Hall [The final rubric appears to have been added later, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.] Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.7 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49v] To Canidius Thou strut'st as if thou wert the only lord ... Were they alive they'd be ashamed of thee 8 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.8 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[49v] To Flavius Thou quibblest well hast craft and industry ... And so thou darest not thrive upon thy trade 7 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.9 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50r] To Candidus All things are common amongst friends thou sayest ... Nothing so common, as to use them so 15 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.10 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50v] To Gaurus That thou dost shorten thy long nights with wine ... But that thou'rt whipped, is thy peculiar shame 8 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.11 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[50v] To Thraso Whilst thou sitt'st drinking up thy loyalty ... In a rich coat thou'rt but a ranting slave 6 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.12 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[51r] To Maximus Would'st thou be free, I fear thou art in jest ... Thy mind thou'rt freer than the Persian king 18 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.18 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[55v] To Coscus O times o manners! Cicero cried out ... Blame not our manners then, but mend thy own 14 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 7.23 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[59r] To Milo One month a lawyer, thou the next will be ... Thou'lt end in nothing if thou grasp'st at all. 10 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 9 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[59v] Charles Sedley (Author) To Sabinus Surly and sour thou dislikest mankind ... But for thy misery thou'rt an atheist too 11 linesHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36 Miscellany (1670-1710) (Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper Item 11 (Verse, Epigram), fol.[60r] To Corrinna sick Sr C.S: L W Apollo whose kind influences produce ... He feels more torment in his own despair 22 lines |