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 |
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 | The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton |  |
A Louers Complaint.
The restles race that I haue run,
the peril and the paine
That I from time to time haue past,
and dayly doe sustaine,
Doth make me dreme, that when I first
this light began to see,
The starrie skie no planet had,
that happy was for me.
the peril and the paine
That I from time to time haue past,
and dayly doe sustaine,
Doth make me dreme, that when I first
this light began to see,
The starrie skie no planet had,
that happy was for me.
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The chattering Pie, the Jay, and eke the Quaile,
The Thrustle-Cock that was so blacke of hewe.
The Thrustle-Cock that was so blacke of hewe.
All these did sing the prayse of her true heart,
And mournd her death with dolefull musick sound:
Each one digged earth, and plyed so their part,
Till that she was close closed vnder ground.
And mournd her death with dolefull musick sound:
Each one digged earth, and plyed so their part,
Till that she was close closed vnder ground.
Finis.
| The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton | |