Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley, Vol. 1 of 4 This, Sir, you can teflify to have been the inno cent omafion of thefe words, on which (0 much cla mour was raifed yet feeing his good intentions were fo ill interpreted, he told me, the lafi time that ever lfaw him, that he would have them omitted in the next impreiiion, of which his friend Mr. Cook is a witncfs. However, if we lhould take them in the worfl fenfe of which they are capable, yet, methinks, for his main taining one falli tenet in the political philofophy he made a fufiicient atonement, by acontinual fervice of twenty years, by the perpetual loyalty of his dif courre, and bv many of his 0' her uniting.

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