which had appeared in the 1663 volume, were incorporated in the 1668 folio in 'Several Discourses by way of Essays in Verse and Prose' and will be included in the companion volume mentioned below. At the end of this book will be found the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text with the folic of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of 'The Mistress which had appeared in 1647. The course adopted in the case of misprints is the same as that followed in the other texts in this series; square brackets in the poems indicate where errors have been noticed, and these are explained in the Notes : but a conservative attitude has been deliberately adopted in deciding what are, and what are not, misprints, both in spelling and in punctuation. A few accents only, italic for roman signs, etc., have been silently altered. A companion volume to the present is in the press. It will contain the miscellaneous prose contents of the 1668 folio, including the 'Several Discourses by way of Essays in Verse and Prose,' Cowley's juvenile writings, not collected by him, and his English plays. The two volumes will thus contain the whole of Cowley's English writings it is not intended to reprint his Latin works in this edition. CAMBRIDGE, I June, 1905. A. R. WALLER. Those which he Design'd for the Press, Now Published out of the Authors ORIGINAL COPIES. LONDON, Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Exchange, 1668. ELEGIA DEDICATORIA, ad ILLUSTRISSIMAM Academiam CANTABRIGIENSEM. Oc tibi de Nato ditissima Mater egeno Tu Speculum poteris hic reperire tuum? Hunc mihi in Infantis supposuêre loco? Si mihi de doctâ licuisset pleniùs undâ Non ego degeneri dubitabilis ore redirem, Nec legeres Nomen fusa rubore meum. Nec pede adhuc firmo, nec firmo dente, negati Et vi victa cadunt; Arbor & ipsa gemit. Quas recreant Avium Pieridumq; chori! Ah mihi si vestræ reddat bona gaudia sedis, Ille quidem immerito, sed tibi gratus erat. Dignatum est totum verba referre nemus. Quid mihi Sequanâ opus, Tamesisve aut Thybridis unda? |