Excerpt from The Poems of Mr. Abraham Cowley, Vol. 1 From this which has happened to myfelf, I began to reflect on the fortune of almol't all writers, and efpe cially poets, whofe works (commonly printed after their deaths) we find ltufl'ed out, either with counter feit pieces, like falfe money put In to fill up the bag, though it add nothing to the fum; or with fuch, which, though of their own coin, they would have called in themfelves, for the bafenefs of the allay whe ther this proceed from the indiferetion of their friends.

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