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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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29. [Phillis in Sorrow.]

Pawse awhile my prittie muse,
Let me rest for I am werie;
All the musicke thou canst vse
Cannot make thy master merry;
For what hart can hold vp head
When the joye of lif is dead?
See how Phillis faire and bright,
Beawties pride and Vertues pleasure;
Halfe depriuèd of her light
Sittes and sorrows out of measure;
And when she is woe begon,
Well a waie poore Choridon!
Bid my Phillis once but cease
Euer mourning, neuer endinge;
Reason shall my greife release,
Which ells, hopes of no amendinge;
For while shee doth hange the head
Coridon can be but dead.
And therfore let this suffize:
But in vaine thou doest devize.
While thow seest my Phillis sadd
How my comfort maie be hadd;
For but in her ioye or greif
Lives my death or my relief;
In her sorrow is my hell,
Bidd her laughe and I am well.
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