COWLEY, 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.

Such empty expressions are finely ridiculed in the Re-
hearsal.

Was't not unjust to ravish hence her breath,
And in life's stead to leave us nought but death?