With hope into the lists: Cowley on the eve of civil war

Featuring a previously unpublished poem probably by Abraham Cowley

One of my favourite things to find in a manuscript is a good list: I’ve seen lists of nobility, types of wine, women writers, medicinal recipes, irregular verbs, armour, and children. Adrian Schoell, a well-travelled man in the 1560s, interrupts his notebook, containing almost entirely Latin verse of his own composition, with a detailed list of European…