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 Poeme.
The time was once that I haue liued free,
And wandred heere, and where me liketh best,
But in my wandring I did chance to see
A Damsel faire which caus'd in me small rest:
For at her sight mine heart was wounded sore,
That liued free and voyd of loue before.
And wandred heere, and where me liketh best,
But in my wandring I did chance to see
A Damsel faire which caus'd in me small rest:
For at her sight mine heart was wounded sore,
That liued free and voyd of loue before.
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Which when I felt, I got me to my bed,
Thinking to rest my heauie heart: but then
There came strange thoughts into my troubled hed,
Which made me thinke vpon my thoughts agen:
And thus in thinking on my thoughts did sleep,
And dreamed that another did her keepe.
Thinking to rest my heauie heart: but then
There came strange thoughts into my troubled hed,
Which made me thinke vpon my thoughts agen:
And thus in thinking on my thoughts did sleep,
And dreamed that another did her keepe.
With this same dreame I sudainly awoke,
And orderly did marke it euery poynt:
And with the same so great a griefe I tooke,
That as one scard, I quaked euery ioynt:
Yet at the last supposd it but a dreame,
My troubled spirits did reuiue againe.
And orderly did marke it euery poynt:
And with the same so great a griefe I tooke,
That as one scard, I quaked euery ioynt:
Yet at the last supposd it but a dreame,
My troubled spirits did reuiue againe.
Finis.
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