Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker.

To the Reader.

IF here you meet with any worthless Line, Humanum est errare Stamps it mine, But if you find here any Worthy Line, It from a Fountain flows that's more Divine. So Read, as to commit to Memory, All Sentences worthy that Treasury. And so remember all, as that you may, In season practice them; and so display Their Influence, as Honour may redound To GOD, and you may be with profit crown'd.

AGAIN,

SOme in compendious Epigrams shew forth, With charming Artifice, their Wit and Worth. Some with rich Lines and Emblems, well design'd, At once affect the Readers Eye and Mind. Some, in Soul-pleasing Pastorals do prove How Coridon did Amarillis love. Some high flown Brains in lofty Strains indite The amazing terrours of some horrid Fight. Some with Satyrick lashes of the Pen, Anatomize the vicious Lives of men. Some with Historick Lines their Readers please: Relating Feats and Fights, on Land and Seas. Some with high Raptures, fitted to the Lyre, Ingenious Readers well-pleas'd Souls inspire. Some with Heroick Strains of noblest kinds, And choicest Theams, inflame their Readers Minds. Some, which beyond the rest, deserve the Bays, Wisely exalt their great Creators Praise. With many more, whose varions, rare Inventions, Delight their own and others Apprehensions. But I, the last and least, strive to teach Youths Good Manners, and inrich their Minds with truths.

Edward Cocker.