Cover-title: Cowley essays.

Editor's introduction.--The preface to the poems, 1656.--Preface to the Pindarique odes.--A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy.--A vision concerning Oliver Cromwell.--Preface to 'Cutter of Coleman street.'--Several discourses by way of essays, in verse and prose: 1. Of liberty. 2. Of solitude. 3. Of obscurity. 4. Of agriculture. 5. The garden. 6. Of greatness. 7. Of avarice. 8. The dangers of an honest man in much company. 9. The shortness of life and uncertainty of riches. 10. The danger of procrastination. 11. Of my self.--Editor's notes.--Index.