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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
Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?)

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A Floorish vpon Fancie.
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THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARADISE,
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The Arbor of Amorous Deuices.
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PASQVILS Mad-cappe,
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PASQVILS FOOLES-CAP
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PASQVILS Passe, and passeth not
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MELANCHOLIKE HUMOURS,
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A Solemne PASSION OF THE SOVLES Love
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A Diuine Poeme, diuided into two Partes:
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AN EXCELLENT POEME, Vpon the Longing of a Blessed Heart:
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The Soules Harmony.
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THE MOTHERS blessing.
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THE PASSIONATE SHEPHEARD,
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THE Soules immortall crowne consisting of seauen glorious graces.
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A TRVE DESCRIPTION of vnthankfulnesse.
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THE HONOVR OF VALOVR.
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An Invective Against Treason
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Daffodils and Primroses.
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I.—From ‘The Phœnix Nest:’
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II.—From ‘England's Helicon:’
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Daffodils and Primroses.
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1. [Elizabeth Regina.]
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2. [In Sadness.]
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3. [Love Rejected.]
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4. [My Lady-Love.]
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5. [Breton's Resolution.]
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6. [Faith Disdained.]
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7. [The Rose the Queene.]
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8. [Let Love kill me.]
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9. [Mine only Princesse.]
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10. Choridon's Dreame.
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11. Sr Ph. Sydney's Epitaph.
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12. [Love Dead.]
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13. [Faithful unto death.]
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14. [Transitoriness.]
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15. [The Nightingale and Phillis.]
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16. [Heart-Pain.]
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17. [Olden Love-making.]
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18. Quatuor elementa.
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19. A Sonett vpon this worde in truth spoken by a Lady to her Servaunte.
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20. Againe vpon the same subiect.
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21. [Despondency.]
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22. [Melancholia.]
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23. [Aspiration.]
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24. [Dead Hopes.]
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25. [Sweete Penelope.]
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26. [Beauty.]
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27. [Love-Rapture.]
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28. [Love almost Slaine.]
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29. [Phillis in Sorrow.]
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30. [Fascination.]
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31. [Of Sir Philip Sidney.]
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32. [‘Perfection’ dead: Sidney.]
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33. [Choridon unhappy.]
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From the Tanner MSS., Bodleian, Oxford.
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1. From ‘The Scvller, Rowing from Tiber to Thames with his Boat laden,’ &c., 1612, by John Taylor the Water Poet.
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AMORIS LACHRIMÆ
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GLEANINGS.

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7. [The Rose the Queene.]

The feildes are grene, the springe growes on a-pace,
And nature's arte beginns to take the ayre;
Each herb her sent, ech flowre doth shewe her grace,
And beawtie braggeth of her bravest fayre.
The lambes and Rabbottes sweetely runne at base,
The fowles do plume, and fishes fall to playe;
The muses all haue chose a settinge-place
To singe and play the sheppherdes rundeley.
Poore Choridon the onlie sillye swaine,
That only liues and doth but onlie liue;
Ys now become, to finde the heavnely vaine,
Where happie hope dothe highest comfort gyve.
The little wren that neuer sunge a note
Is peepinge nowe to proue how she can singe;
The nightingale hath sett in tune her throte,
And all the woodes with little Robins ringe.
Loue is abroade as naked as my nayle,
And litle byrdes doe flycker from their nestes;
Diana sweete hath sett aside her vaile,
And Phillis shewes the beawtie of her brestes.
Oh blessèd brestes, the beawtie of the Springe!
Oh blessèd Springe that suche a beawtie showes!
Of highest trees the hollye is the Kinge,
And of all flowres faire fall the Quene the Rose.
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