Cowley
ABRAHAM, an English poet and essayist; born in London in 1618. Well educated and high in royal favor, he was a fashionable and fortunate poet till the Civil War made havoc of royal favorites. His volumes, "The Mistress," "Poems," various Vergilian elegies and anacreontic love songs, and his essays, were set in the first rank by contemporaries. The first collection of his works, in one volume, appeared in 1668.
He died in Chertsey, Surrey, July 28, 1667.
COWSLIP COW PARSNIP (so called because the plant is good fodder for cows), Heracleum sphondylium, or any other species of the genus.
COW PEA (Trifolium medium), called also cow-grass, etc., but is neither a pea nor a grass; it is a trefoil or clover.