Several copies of verses on the death of Mr. Abraham Cowley and his burial in Westminster Abbey Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B27914 of text R226345 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B29662 Wing S2758 ocm 17199409

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 eng Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667 -- Poetry. eebo Several copies of verses on the death of Mr. Abraham Cowley and his burial in Westminster Abbey n/a 1667 5 716 1 0 0 0 0 0 13.97 C The rate of 13.97 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
SEVERAL COPIES OF VERSES ON THE DEATH OF Mr. ABRAHAM COWLEY And his Burial in WESTMINSTER ABBEY . OUR wit , till Cowley did its lustre raise , May be resembled to the first three daies , In which did shine only such streaks of light As serv'd but to distinguish Day from Night : But wit breaks forth , in all that he has done , Like Light when 't was united in the Sun. The Poets formerly did lye in wait To rifle those whom they would imitate : We Watcht to rob all strangers when they writ , And learnt their Language but to steal their Wit . He from that need his Country does redeem , Since those who want may be supply'd from him ; And Forreign Nations now may borrow more From Cowley than we could from them before : Who though he condescended to admit The Greeks and Romans for his Guides in Wit Yet he those ancient Poets does pursue But as the Spaniards great Columbus do ; He taught them first to the New World to steer , But they possess all that is precious there . When first his spring of wit began to flow , It rais'd in some , wonder and sorrow too , That God had so much wit and knowledge lent , And that they were not in his praises spent . But those who in his Davideis look , Find they his Blossoms for his Fruit mistook : In diff'ring Ages diff'rent Muses shin'd , His Green did charm the Sense , his Ripe the Mind . Writing for Heaven he was inspir'd from thence , And from his Theam deriv'd his influence . The Scripture will no more the wicked fright ; His Muse does make Religion a delight . Oh how severely Man is us'd by Fate ! The covetous toil long for an Estate ; And having got more than their life can spend , They may bequeath it to a Son or Friend : But Learning ( in which none can have a share , Unless they climb to it by time and care , Learning , the truest wealth which man can have ) Does , with his Body , perish in his Grave : To Tenements of Clay it is confin'd , Though 't is the noblest purchase of the mind : Oh why can we thus leave our friends possest Of all our acquisitions but the best ? Still when we study Cowley we lament , That to the world he was no longer lent ; Who , like a Lightning , to our eyes was shown , So bright he shin'd and was so quickly gone . Sure he rejoic'd to see his flame expire , Since he himself could not have rais'd it higher ; For when wise Poets can no higher flie , They would , like Saints , in their perfection die . Though beauty some affection in him bred , Yet only sacred Learning he would wed ; By which th' illustrious off-spring of his brain Shall over Wits great Empire ever reign : His works shall live , when Pyramids of Pride Shrink to such ashes as they long did hide . That sacrilegious Fire ( which did last year Level those Pil●s which Piety did rear ) Dreaded neer that majestick Church to flye Where English Kings and English Poets lye : It at an awful distance did expire , Such pow'r had sacred Ashes o're that Fire ; Such as it durst not neer that Structure come Which Fate had order'd to be Cowley's Tomb ; And 't will be still preserv'd , by being so , From what the rage of future Flames can do . Material Fire dares not that place infest Where he who had immortal flame does rest . There let his Urn remain ; for it was fit Amongst our Kings to lay the King of wit : By which the Structure more renown'd will prove For that part bury'd than for all above . ORRERY . FINIS .

London , Printed for H. Herringman , at the Blew Anchor in the Lower-walk of the New Exchange . 1667.