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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 SHEPHEARDS PIPE.
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THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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I. Love Poems.
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II. Odes, Songs, and Sonnets.
  
An Ode.
  
A ROUNDE.
  
[Vnhappy Muse, that nothing pleasest me]
  
THIRSIS' PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESSE.
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CŒLIA.
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III. Epistles.
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IV. Elegies.
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V. Visions.
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VI. Epigrams.
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VII. Epitaphs.
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VIII. Paraphrases, &c.
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IX. Miscellaneous Pieces.
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X. Commendatory Verses.

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Neere this the curious Pencell did expresse
A large and solitary wildernesse,
Whose high well limmed Oakes in growing show'd
As they would ease strong Atlas of his load:
Here vnderneath a tree in heauy plight
(Her bread and pot of water wasted quite)
Ægyptian Hagar (nipt with hunger fell)
Sate rob'd of hope: her Infant Ishmael.
(Farre from her being laid) full sadly seem'd
To cry for meat, his cry she nought esteem'd,
But kept her still, and turn'd her face away,
Knowing all meanes were bootlesse to assay
In such a Desert: and since now they must
Sleepe their eternall sleepe, and cleaue to dust,
She chose (apart) to graspe one death alone,
Rather then by her babe a million.
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