COWEY, poem inscribed, "The Request."
His whole poem, inscribed, My picture, is a jargon
of the same kind.
—'Tis he, they cry, by whom
Not men, but war itself is overcome.
Indian Queen.
Such empty expressions are finely ridiculed in the
Rehearsal.
Was't not unjust to ravish hence her breath,
And in life's stead to leave us nought but death?
All 4. sc. 1.