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 |  |
An Epitaph vpon Poet Spencer.
Movrnfull Muses, Sorrowe minions
Dwelling in Despaires opinions;
Yee, that neuer thought inuented
How a heart may be contented;
(But in torments all distressed,
Hopelesse how to be redressed,
All with howling and with crying,
Liue in a continuall dying,)
Sing a dirge on Spencers death,
Till your soules be out of breath.
Dwelling in Despaires opinions;
Yee, that neuer thought inuented
How a heart may be contented;
(But in torments all distressed,
Hopelesse how to be redressed,
All with howling and with crying,
Liue in a continuall dying,)
Sing a dirge on Spencers death,
Till your soules be out of breath.
Bidde the dunces keepe their dennes,
And the poets breake their pennes;
Bidde the sheepheards shed their teares,
And the nymphes goe teare their haires;
Bidde the schollers leaue their reeding,
And prepare their hearts to bleeding;
Bidde the valiant and the wise
Full of sorrowes fill their eyes;
All for griefe that he is gone,
Who did grace them euery one.
And the poets breake their pennes;
Bidde the sheepheards shed their teares,
And the nymphes goe teare their haires;
Bidde the schollers leaue their reeding,
And prepare their hearts to bleeding;
Bidde the valiant and the wise
Full of sorrowes fill their eyes;
All for griefe that he is gone,
Who did grace them euery one.
Fairy Queene shew fairest Queene,
How her faire in thee is seene:
Sheepeheards Calendar set downe,
How to figure best a clowne,
As for Mother Hubberts Tale,
Cracke the nut, and take the shale:
And for other workes of worth,
(All too good to wander forth,)
Grieue that euer you were wrot,
And your Author be forgot.
How her faire in thee is seene:
Sheepeheards Calendar set downe,
How to figure best a clowne,
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Cracke the nut, and take the shale:
And for other workes of worth,
(All too good to wander forth,)
Grieue that euer you were wrot,
And your Author be forgot.
Farewell Arte of Poetry,
Scorning idle foolery:
Farewell true conceited Reason,
Where was neuer thought of treason:
Farewell Judgement, with inuention,
To describe a hearts intention:
Farewel Wit, whose sound and sense
Shewe a poets excellence.
Farewell, all in one togither,
And with Spencers garland, wither.
Scorning idle foolery:
Farewell true conceited Reason,
Where was neuer thought of treason:
Farewell Judgement, with inuention,
To describe a hearts intention:
Farewel Wit, whose sound and sense
Shewe a poets excellence.
Farewell, all in one togither,
And with Spencers garland, wither.
And if any Graces liue
That will vertue honour giue;
Let them shewe their true affection
In the depth of Griefes perfection,
In describing forth her glory,
When she is most deepely sory;
That they all may wish to heere
Such a song, and such a quier,
As, with all the woes they haue,
Follow Spencer to his graue.
That will vertue honour giue;
Let them shewe their true affection
In the depth of Griefes perfection,
In describing forth her glory,
When she is most deepely sory;
That they all may wish to heere
Such a song, and such a quier,
As, with all the woes they haue,
Follow Spencer to his graue.
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