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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 Argument.

Vertue is Wisedomes light, Wisedome her loue,
And Constancie her only lifes delight:
Which Patience in Humility doth proue,
Humility the eye of Vertues sight:
That sees the Graces branches of the Tree,
Which figures God, in whom their Glories be.