Item Description: | Also issued as part of his 'Thyrsis & Chloe'. - English Short Title Catalog, T93920. - Foxon, B334. - Originally published in 1684 in single-sheet format, with music, as "The old man's wish". It was subsequently expanded with parallel passages from Latin, Italian and Dutch authors, with translations and annotations. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The second part contains the third edition of Bourne's translation of Rowe's 'Colin's complaint', with the English text, and having a separate titlepage bearing the imprint "Sumptibus B. Barker, apud quem prostant; & apud J. Roberts, 1726"; pp. [15]-19 contain "In obitum Roussæi", 1726. - The second part was apparently also issued separately. - Translated by Vincent Bourne |