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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 first Booke.
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The second Booke.
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The third Booke.
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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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[Tell me, Pyrrha, what fine youth]

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Tell me, Pyrrha, what fine youth,
All pfum'd and crown'd with Roses,
To thy chamber thee pursu'th,
And thy wanton Arme incloses?

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What is he thou now hast got,
Whose more long & golden Tresses
Into many a curious knott
Thy more curious fingers dresses?

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How much will he wayle his trust,
And (forsooke) begin to wonder,
When black wyndos shall billowes thrust,
And breake all his hopes in sunder?
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Ficklenes of wyndes he knows
Very little that doth loue thee;
Miserable are all those,
That affect thee ere they proue thee.

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I as one from shipwrack freed
To the Oceans mighty Ranger,
Consecrate my dropping weed,
And in freedome thinke of danger.
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