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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple
Browne, William (1590- ca. 1645)

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THE FIRST VOLUME, THE SECOND VOLUME.
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Britannia's PASTORALS.
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THE SHEPHEARDS PIPE.
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THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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I. Love Poems.
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II. Odes, Songs, and Sonnets.
  
An Ode.
  
A ROUNDE.
  
[Vnhappy Muse, that nothing pleasest me]
  
THIRSIS' PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESSE.
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CŒLIA.
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III. Epistles.
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IV. Elegies.
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V. Visions.
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VI. Epigrams.
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VII. Epitaphs.
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VIII. Paraphrases, &c.
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IX. Miscellaneous Pieces.
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X. Commendatory Verses.

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[As oft as I meet one that comes from you]

As oft as I meet one that comes from you,
And aske your health, not as the usual fashion,
Before he speakes, I doubt there will insue,
As oft there doth, the com̄on commendacōn:
Alas, thinke I, did he but know my minde
(Though for the world I would not haue if soe)
He would relate it in another kinde,
Discourse of it at large, and yet but slowe;
He should th' occasion tell, & with it too
Add how you charg'd him he should not forget;
For this you might, as sure some louers doe,
Though such a Messenger I haue not mett:
Nor doe I care, since 'twill not further moue me,
Love me alone, and say, alone you love me.
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