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 Answere.
This field is fauor, Grace the ground,
Whence springs the flowre of curtesie,
Soone growne and gone, though somtime found,
Not dead, but hid, from flattrers eie,
That pickthanks may not plucke the same:
Thus haue I red your riddle Dame.
Whence springs the flowre of curtesie,
Soone growne and gone, though somtime found,
Not dead, but hid, from flattrers eie,
That pickthanks may not plucke the same:
Thus haue I red your riddle Dame.
| The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton | |