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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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26. [Beauty.]

All my sences stand amazèd,
While mine eies to longe haue gazèd
On a faire and heavnlie creature,
Half an angell for her feature;
Little Cupids onely darlinge,
All to good for suche a warlinge:
What although a god he bee,
Loue is blind and cannot see.
Blind! alas it is no wounder,
Beawtie breakes the sight asunder;
Neuer hart that once dyd eye her,
But was fearfull to come nye her;
Only Loue a heavnly powre,
Thought to trie a happie howre;
Lookt so longe and starde so sore,
That at laste he sawe no more.
But is beawtie so vnkind then
With her shining beames to blind men?
Are their eyesightes all depriuèd
That haue Beawties eies arrivèd?
If it be so, god preserve her,
Loue himselfe is gladd to serue her!
And lett simple men beware
Howe they doe on beawtye stare.
I of late but as it chauncèd
Stoode but wheras beawtie glauncèd;
As mine eies aside I turnèd,
Oh with what a flame they burnèd!
Lett not loue therfore be blamèd
That with beawtie is enflamèd;
Looke who list [and] loue who dare,
Blinde that doe on beawtie stare.
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