Note 58 — THE COMPLAINT58.
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This is one of the prettiest of Mr. Cowley’s smaller Poems. The plan of it is highly poetical: and, though the numbers be not the most pleasing, the expression is almost every where natural and beautiful. But its principal charm is that air of melancholy, thrown over the whole, so expressive of the poet’s character.
The address of the writer is seen in conveying his just reproaches on the Court, under a pretended vindication of it against the Muse.