The second and third parts of the works. Of Mr. Abraham Cowley. The second containing what was written and published by himself in his younger years ; now reprinted together ; the third containing his six books of plants ... / [Abraham Cowley].

Abraham Cowley

Date:: 1689

Credit: The second and third parts of the works. Of Mr. Abraham Cowley. The second containing what was written and published by himself in his younger years ; now reprinted together ; the third containing his six books of plants ... / [Abraham Cowley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Port, cower Wier Of PLANTS. Boox VI. His Poifon thro’ thy Veins? thou bleed‘ft all o’er, Art all one Wound, one univerfal Gore. Unhappy Newberry, T thy fatal Field, ( Covered with mighty Slaughters, thrice beheld. ) In horrors thou Phi/ippi’s Fieldsoutvi'd Which twice the Civil Gore of Romanus did. Long mutual Lofs, and. the alternate Weight Of equal Slaughters, pois'd each others Fate. Uncertain Ruin waver'd to and fro, And knew not where to fix the deadly Blow 5 At laft in Northern Fields like Lightening broke And Najeby doubl'd every fatal-Stroke. But, Oh ye Gods} permit me not to tell The Woes, thatiafter this, the Land befel: | Oh, keep ’em to your felves, left they fhou'd make - Humanity your Rites, and:Shrines forfake: To future Ages letjemnot' be known, NY For wretched Exgland's Credit, and your own. » And take from me, ye Gods, Encucityy And let my Oracles-all filentlye, ~. Rather than bymy Voice.they:fhou’d declaiet The dire Events of England's ‘Civil War. And yet my Sight.aiconfusd, Profped fills, A Chaos all deform’d, a‘Heap of Illss | - Such as no mortal; Eyes coud .e’r behold; Such as no human Languagecan unfold., But now — The Conquering evil Genius of, the Wars, The impious Victor all before him bears 5 And oh, — behold the Sacred Vanquith’d: flies, And tho in a Plebean’s mean Difguile, |i I know his Godsike Face.; the | pereaepie! fure Did ne'er diffemble till this fatal hour. But ob he flies, diftreft, forlora he Bice, | And feeks his fafety.’mong his Enemies...) His Kingdoms all:he finds hoftile to be,:>: No place td-th’ vanquith’d proves.a Sandu vy Thus Royal Charles-——2+-~ From his own Peéople;cou’d no fafety gain, Alas, the King! (rheirGuelt). ‘implores in vain.” The Pilot thus the bursing Vefichleaves, *:; : And trufts what moft he fears,-the. chreathing Waves.: ” But ob the cruel] Flood: with rude Difdain » 2's Throws him all iftruggling to the Flames again : So did the Scots, alas, what fhou’d they do, That Prize of War\-( the Soldiers Intereftnow.) By Prayers and Threatnings back they ftrive to hana: ie | But the wile Scot will yield'to no fuch thing 5_ N$