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For more on Cowley and his Plantarum Libri Sex [Six Books of Plants], see the webessay entitled FYI: Conversations about a Wiser Use of Our Health Care Dollars and Resources at the subdomain known as Roses.

For more on Aphra Behn, see the editor’s introduction to Thomas Tryon’s The Planter’s Speech to his Neighbours & Country-Men of Pennsylvania, East & West-Jersey ... (1684) at the subdomain known as Roses.

For a different feminist take on the legend of Daphne and the bay tree, cf. Lucy Hutchinson’s deployment of laurel symbolism in her portrait painting, as discussed in the Editor’s Introduction for the She-philosopher.com Library publication: Lib. Cat. No. HUTCH1675.

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LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. BEHN1689 > “Book VI. Of Trees, by Mrs. A. Behn.” In The third part of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley, being his Six books of plants, never before printed in English: viz. The first and second of herbs. The third and fourth of flowers. The fifth and sixth of trees. Now made English by several hands. With a necessary index. Licensed and entered. London: Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce over against S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street, 1689. 6.131–66.

First Published: March 2013
Revised (substantive): 9 May 2021

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17th-century head-piece showing six boys with farm tools, by Wenceslaus Hollar

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Book VI of Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Sex integrated a political allegory enlarging “on the History of our late Troubles, the King’s Affliction and Return, and the beginning of the Dutch Wars” with its botany, and was much sought after by English readers. Behn’s translation added a feminist edge to Cowley’s politically charged verse.

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