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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)

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THE FIRST VOLUME, THE SECOND VOLUME.
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Britannia's PASTORALS.
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The first Booke.
  
TO THE NO LESSE ENOBLED BY VERTVE, THEN ANCIENT In Nobilitie, the Right Honorable Edvvard Lord Zouch, Saint-Maure, and Cantelupe, and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Privie Covncell.
  
To the Reader.
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[Commendatory Verses.]
  
By the Same.
  
To his Friend the Avthor.
  
To his Ingenious and worthy Friend the Avthor.
  
On him; a Pastorall Ode to his fairest Shepheardesse.
  
To his Friend the Avthor vpon his Poem.
  
To his Friend the Author.
  
To the Avthor.
  
To the Avthor.
  
[Euterpe to her deerest Darling W. B.
  
Carmina amo, mihi Wille placet tua fistula: fælix! En re sonant laudes illa, vel illa tuas.
  
On the Author of Britannias Peerlesse Pastoralls.
  
On the Same.
  
On the Author of Britannias Peerlesse Pastoralls.
  
Uppon the occasion of Readinge this compleet Poem.
  
To the now unparelleled Sydney of his time, W. B., the ingenuous Author of Brittannia's Pastorals.
  
An Ode entreating him to proceed in the continuation of his Brittannias Pastorals.
  
To the Authour, W. B.
  
On the Author, W. B.
  
To the unparalleled Author of the sequent Poems, W. B.
  
Idem ad Eundem.
  
On the Author of Brittanias Matchlesse (though unfinisht) Pastorals.
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The First Song.
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The Second Song.
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The Third Song.
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The Fovrth Song.
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The Fifth Song.
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The second Booke.
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The third Booke.
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THE SHEPHEARDS PIPE.
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THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

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To his Friend the Author.

On (Iolly Lad) and hye thee to the Field
Among the best Swains that the Vallies yeeld;
Goe boldly, and in presence of them all,
Proceed a Shepheard with this Pastorall.
Let Pan, and all his rurall Traine attending,
From stately Mountaines to the Plaines descending,
Salute this Pastor with their kinde embraces;
And entertaine him to their holy places.
Let all the Nymphes of Hills and Dales together
Kisse him for earnest of his welcome thither:
Crowne him with Garlands of the choicest flowres,
And make him euer dwell within their Bowres:
For well I wote in all the Plaines around,
There are but few such Shepheards to be found,
That can such learned Layes and Ditties frame,
Or aptly fit their tunes vnto the same.
And let them all (if this young Swaine should die)
Tune all their Reeds to sing his Memorie.
Tho. Gardiner, è So. Int. Templ.
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