University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
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)

collapse section1, 2. 
THE FIRST VOLUME, THE SECOND VOLUME.
expand section 
Britannia's PASTORALS.
expand section 
THE SHEPHEARDS PIPE.
expand section 
THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE.
collapse section 
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
expand sectionI. 
I. Love Poems.
expand sectionII. 
II. Odes, Songs, and Sonnets.
expand sectionIII. 
III. Epistles.
expand sectionIV. 
IV. Elegies.
collapse sectionV. 
V. Visions.
 1. 
1.
 3. 
3.
 4. 
4.
 5. 
5.
 6. 
6.
 7. 
7.
expand section 
VI. Epigrams.
expand sectionVII. 
VII. Epitaphs.
expand sectionVIII. 
VIII. Paraphrases, &c.
expand sectionIX. 
IX. Miscellaneous Pieces.
expand sectionX. 
X. Commendatory Verses.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The Whole Works of William Browne
next section
336

ON A ROPE-MAKER HANG'D.

Heere lyes a man, much wrong'd in his hopes,
Who got his wealth backwards by making of Ropes;
It was his hard chance in his fortunes to falter,
For he liv'd by the Rope, & dyde by the halter.
previous section The Whole Works of William Browne
next section