ABSTRACT
Sir Aston Cockayne (1608-84) was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court. Of antiquarian leanings, he was a friend of Dugdale. The praise of Spenser in the pieces below can be only conventional: the appearance of Mr Humphrey C.'s Loves Hawking Bag moved Sir Aston to dismiss to oblivion all the luminaries of earlier English poetry, including Spenser.
