THE OF TUE INCLUDING THE 17:1-1 Writing FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; SERIES EDITED, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: ADDITIONAL LIVES HY!!!!!!!!!!! WITH AND THE VOL. VII. COWLEY, I DENHAM, I MILTON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON: J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN ; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON; LEIGH AND SOTHEBY; R. FAULDER AND SON; G. NICOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND 1870. CONTENTS. VOL. VII. Page 3 Ode I. On the Praise of Poetry Elegia Dedicatoria ad Illustrissimam Aca- 11. That a Pleasant Poverty is to be pre- 41 ferred before Discontented Riches... ib. IN. To his Mistress ib. 42 IV On the Uncertainty of Fortune. А The Bookseller's Advertisement to the Edition 48 V. In Commendation of the Time we live Dedication ib. under, the Reign of our gracious The Author's Preface to his Juvenile Poems.. 49 VI. On the Shortness of Man's Life An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge...... ib. Constantia and Philetus.......... ib. .. SYLVA: OR DIVERS COPIES OF VERSES, MADE UPON The Motto 67 59 To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from la felicissimam Reginæ Mariæ Fertilitatem the Northern Expedition against the Scots., 68 Upon the happie Birth of the Duke ib. On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton...... ih, An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honour On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master ib. On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyck, the ib. On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland 62 Friendship in Absence ib. Song, on the same ................ ib. To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlarge- 63 To a Lady who made Pusies for Rings. ib. Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince jo, To his very much honoured Godfather, Mr. The Epilogue ib. On the Death of Mr. William Hervey An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Esq. Ode in Imitation of Horace's Ode V. Book I.. 75 Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Littleton, who la Imitation of Martial's Epigram, L, V. Ep. was drowned leaping into the Water to save A Translation of Verses upon the Blessed Vir- To Sir William Davenant, upon his 'Two First gin, written in Latin by the Right Worship- Books of Gondibert, finished before his 74 XX. |