The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton For the First Time Collected and Edited: With Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, Facsimilies, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In Two Volumes |
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 | The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton |  |
A Conceited Fancy.
Pvre colours can abide no staine;
The Sunne can neuer lose his light;
And Vertue hath a heauenly vaine,
That well may claime a queenely right:
So giue my mistresse but her due,
Who tolde mee all these tales of you.
The Sunne can neuer lose his light;
And Vertue hath a heauenly vaine,
That well may claime a queenely right:
So giue my mistresse but her due,
Who tolde mee all these tales of you.
From heauen on earth the Sunne doth shine,
From Vertue comes Discretions loue;
They both are in themselues diuine,
Yet worke for weaker hearts behoue:
So would my mistresse had her due,
To tell mee still these tales of you.
From Vertue comes Discretions loue;
They both are in themselues diuine,
Yet worke for weaker hearts behoue:
So would my mistresse had her due,
To tell mee still these tales of you.
But, Oh, the Sunne is in a clowde,
And Vertue liues in sweetes vnseene;
The earth with heauen is not allow'd;
A begger must not loue a Queene:
So must my mistresse haue her due,
To tell mee still these tales of you.
And Vertue liues in sweetes vnseene;
The earth with heauen is not allow'd;
A begger must not loue a Queene:
So must my mistresse haue her due,
To tell mee still these tales of you.
Then shine, faire Sunne, when clouds are gon;
Liue, Vertue, in thy queenely loue:
Choose some such place to shine vpon,
As may thy Paradise approue:
That when my mistresse hath her due,
I may heare all this heauen in you.
Liue, Vertue, in thy queenely loue:
Choose some such place to shine vpon,
As may thy Paradise approue:
That when my mistresse hath her due,
I may heare all this heauen in you.
| The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton | |