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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

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Then in a straine beyond an Oaten Quill
The learned

M. Chapman

Shepherd of faire Hitching hill

Sung the heroicke deeds of Greece and Troy,
In lines so worthy life, that I imploy

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My Reed in vaine to ouertake his fame.
All praiseful tongues doe wait vpon that name.