1657;" but that, I imagine, is an error.] "Ah! that my author had been tied, like me, To such a place and such a company, Instead of several countries, several men, And business which the Muses hate!"[1] [Footnote 1: Wood's Fasti, II.

209-213; Johnson's Lives of the Poets, with Cunningham's Notes (1854), I.7-12.

Cowley did receive the M.D.
degree at Oxford, Dec.

2, 1657, and did remain in England through the rest of Cromwell's Protectorate; and, though the Royalists welcomed him back after Cromwell's death, his compliance was to be remembered against him.] As the Muses were returning to England in full number, and ceasing to be so Stuartist as they had been, it was natural that there should be express celebrations of the Protectorate in their name.

There had been dedications of books to Cromwell, and applauses of him in prose and verse, from the time of his first great successes as a Parliamentary General; and such things had been increasing since, till they defied enumeration.