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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

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ON THE COUNTESSE OF SOMERSETS PICTURE.

The pitty'd fortune most men chiefly hate;
And rather thinke the envyde fortunate:
Yet I, if Miserie did looke as She,
Should quicklie fall in loue with Miserie.