William Bosworth

[2] In 1651 an admiring friend (R. C.) issued The Chast and Lost Lovers Lively shadowed in the persona of Arcadius and Sepha .... To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to Avrora.

It contained Bosworth's poetry, with a dedication to John Finch, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Five copies of verses signed respectively L. B., F. L. (Francis Lovelace), E. G. (Edmund Gayton), S. P., and L. C., lament Bosworth's death.

[2] The major poem of the volume is the Historie of Arcadius and Sepha in two books.

[2] It was a romance in the style of Sir Philip Sidney, and non-political, making it unusual for its period.

William Bosworth, engraving by George Glover , as identified in 1811 by Francis Allison. [ 1 ]