item: #1 of 24 id: A19479 author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. title: Love's Riddle date: 1638.0 words: 289789 flesch: -151 summary: pos=n-ab xml:id=A19479-020-a-2440>Flo. O stay a little ! but two words : she gone , Gone like the glorious Sun , which being sette Night creepes behind and covers all ; some way I must seeke out to win her , or what easier ( And the blind man himselfe without a guide May find ) some way to dye ; would I had beene Borne a poore shepheard in these shady woods . Nature is cruell in her benefits And when she gives us honey , mingles gall . She said that if she married , the woods Should find a husband for her . I will wooe her In Sylvan habit , then perhaps she love me But yet I will not , that in vaine ; I will too , It cannot hurt to try . pos=n-ab xml:id=A19479-044-a-2460>Pa. With farre more joy Then I would doe the wealth of both the Indyes , Thou art above a father to me , Aegon . 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What , is any nye ( Quoth she ) at which , she quickly vtters , I. Is 't Eccho answeres , tell me then thy will , I will , shee said ? What shall I get ( quoth hee ) keywords: constantia; death; doe; doth; eyes; fate; hath; heart; hee; loue; love; philetvs; philocrates; sayd; shee; soone; soule; teares; thee; theyr; thisbe; thou; wee cache: A19481.xml plain text: A19481.txt item: #3 of 24 id: A25322 author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. title: Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek date: 1683.0 words: 14140 flesch: 83 summary: IF all the sorcerie of Gold , That which can all things els●… wi●…hold , Could but prorogue the fatal day , Or cou●…t one fleeting minutes stay ▪ No doubt I should a Miser be , And hugg the Ore as much as he . Now after Cleobulus was past his Infancy , he ●…ecame so strangely beautiful , that Nature seem●…d extravagant in bestowing all her charms upon ●…ne face ; and the Gods being mindful of the ●…urse's request inflicted upon Anacreon the sweet●…evenge ●…evenge of Love , as appears in some of his mai●…ed pieces , where he draws up this Petition to ● keywords: anacreon; cup; dance; day; delight; draw; drink; english; fill; god; gold; heart; kind; life; love; mind; mirth; play; self; strait; thee; thou; venus; wine cache: A25322.xml plain text: A25322.txt item: #4 of 24 id: A33714 author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. title: The prologve and epilogve to a comedie presented at the entertainment of the Prince, His Highnesse, by the schollars of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge in March last, 1641 / by Francis Cole. date: 1642.0 words: 974 flesch: 82 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A33714 of text R27611 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5022). 47 D The rate of 47 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: epilogve; prince; text cache: A33714.xml plain text: A33714.txt item: #5 of 24 id: A34817 author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. title: Cutter of Coleman-Street a comedy : the scene London, in the year 1658 / written by Abraham Cowley. date: 1663.0 words: 353551 flesch: -45 summary: xml:id=A34817-016-a-2740>Cut.

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Is true , Aurelia , the Story they all agree in ; was nothing but a simple Plot o' the two Lovers to put me in fear o' death , in hope to work then upon my good Nature , or my Conscience , and Quack conspired with them out o' revenge