Cowley, who tells the Story of Agla¸s with so much Pleasure, was no Stranger to Courts, nor insensible of Praise.

Cowley was a reader of Varro, as his pleasant and sane essay Of Agriculture shows.]

Cowley was a royalist, and followed the exiled court to France.

I know not where else it can be found, but here, and in Ward, that Cowley was doctor in physick.

The elegy on Lord Hastings, the lines prefixed to "Sion and Parnassus," and some complimentary stanzas which occur in a letter to his cousin Honor Driden, would have been enough to assure us, even without his own testimony, that Cowley was the darling of his youth; and that he imitated his points of wit, and quirks of epigram, with a similar contempt for the propriety of their application.

Cowley, the poet, was the son of a grocer, who lived in Fleet-street, near the end of Chancery-lane.