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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple

Browne, William (1590- ca. 1645)

1, 2.

THE FIRST VOLUME, THE SECOND VOLUME.

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To Mr. Browne.

Were there a thought so strange as to deny
That happy Bayes doe some mens Births adorne,
Thy worke alone might serue to iustifie,
That Poets are not made so, but so borne.

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How could thy plumes thus soone haue soar'd thus hie
Hadst thou not Lawrell in thy Cradle worne?
Thy Birth o'er tooke thy Youth: And it doth make
Thy youth (herein) thine elders ouer-take.

W. B.