Stanford.
_Coke and Cowper_ (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 76. 93. 244. 300.).--However
affected it may appear, these words have been more generally pronounced
_Cook_ and _Cooper_.
J. H. L. (Vol. iv., p. 76.) adduces the instance of _Cowper_ being made
to rhime to _Trooper_. And I have just stumbled upon a passage in
_Cowley_ where _Coke_ is the answering word to _Took_.
"May he
Be by his father in his study _took_
At Shakspear's plays instead of my Lord _Coke_."
"Sylva; a Poetical Revenge," p. 44.,
_Works_, Part II., London, 1700, fol.