Cowley

Blot

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

Bombast

Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.

Burly

It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense.

Chap

His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.

Collet

How full the collet with his jewel is!

Comfit

The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last.

Comportment

A graceful comportment of their bodies.

Condition

And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?

Contemporary

A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees.

Cover

His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round.

Debauch

Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.

Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick.

Deep

Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.

Differ

But something 'ts that differs thee and me.

Enliven

Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move.

Find

In woods and forests thou art found.

The torrid zone is now found habitable.

For

We take a falling meteor for a star.

Fortune

You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.

Fuel

Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame.

Humble

Thy humble nest built on the ground.

Impossibility

Impossibilities! O, no, there's none.

Loathe

Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.

Love

Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved.

Mount

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.

Now

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last.

Pindarical

Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose.

Pinnacle

The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate.

Pledge

Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise.

Racy

Rich, racy verses, in which we The soil from which they come, taste, smell, and see.

Rare

Rare work, all filled with terror and delight.

Recover

I do hope to recover my late hurt.

Sacred

Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.

Scald

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

Scurrile

The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter.

Slippery

The slippery tops of human state.

Sprightful

Steeds sprightful as the light.

State

And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?

Strive

Was for this his ambition strove To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?

Tenant

The hhappy tenant of your shade.

Too

His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn.

Whit

It does not me a whit displease.

Why

If her chill heart I can not move, Why, I'll enjoy the very love.