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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

Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?)

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A Floorish vpon Fancie.

THE SCHOOLE OF FANCIE.

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THE FORTE OF FANCIE.

In Dispight of Fancie.

The Lamentacion of Fancie.

A FAREWELL To Fancie.

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The Toyes of an Idle head:

A pretty Dittie in despight of Fantasie.

A dolorous Discourse,

[Now Christmas draweth near, & most mē make good cheare]

[The Christmas now is past, and I haue kept my fast]

[What griping greefes, what pinching pangues of payne?]

A pretty gyrd, giuen by a Gentlewoman to her servaunt whereupon these Verses were made as followeth.

[My freend, I saye, if thou be wise]

[To play at Dice is but good sporte]

[That I would not perswaded be]

[Amid my ioyes, such greefe I fynde]

[What, shall I write some prety toy?]

[When Flatterie falles to play the fleeryng knaue]

[Oh! what a spight it is vnto a noble harte]

[This little Toye to thee]

[I sigh to see thee sigh]

[If thou canst reade, then marke what heere I write]

[When first I saw thee clad]

A comparison betweene a slippery stone and a trustlesse friend.

A Dolorous discourse.

A Letter sent by a Gentlewoman, in verse, to her Husband, being ouer sea.

[My hand here houering stands]

A dolorous verse, written by him, that in deede was in no small dumpes, when he wrote them.

[Though yesterday I brake my word]

[Some pleasaunt heads, delight in prety toyes]

A prety Epigram, vpon Welth and Will.

[By countenaunce of face, a man may fynde]

[Ah, be not angrie so]

A prety toye written upon Time.

A PRETY DISCOVRSE OF A HVNTED Harte, written by a Gentleman unto his Mistresse.

A straunge Dreame.

A prety Toye written vpon this Theame:

Another Toye written in the praise of a Gilliflower, at the request of Gentlewomen: and one, aboue the rest, who loued that Flower.

A pretty toye wrytten in the praise of a straunge Springe in Suffolke.

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[A prety Tale of late I heard]

A little Preface before the Tale.

The Tale followeth in this manner.

TWO OR THREE PRETY TOYES giuen to a Gentilman, to set about his Counting-house.

[Pitie, oh Lord thy Servaunts heavy heart]

[Plant Lorde, in me the tree of godly lyfe]

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A pretty toye, written vpon a Ladyes propounding of a Riddle to her friende.

[First, to thy seemely selfe]

A Riddle propounded by a Gentleman to a Gentilwoman whom he loued, but was a suter, but secretly.

Her aunswer, as prety.

[Perhaps you thinke, that all for spight]

A prety Toye in rime.

[Needs must I write, & know not what]

Verses made upon this Theame:

A solempne and repentant Prayer, for former life mispent.

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THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARADISE,

[Some scoffe at all that write, write not at all]

THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARADISE.

THE COVNTESSE OF PENBROOKES loue.

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The Countesse of Penbrook's Passion.

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The Arbor of Amorous Deuices.

A Lovers Farwel

A Louers Complaint.

The counsell of a friend to one in loue.

A Ladies complaint for the losse of her Loue.

The lamentable complaint of a Louer.

A Poeme both pithie and pleasant.

The complaint of one being in love.

A Louers resolution.

A Louers complaint.

A sweet lullabie.

A prettie Poeme.

A Louer in despaire.

A Dreame of the arraignement of Desire.

Brittons Diuinitie.

A Louers complaint.

Of his Mistresse loue.

Of a discontented minde.

Of his Mistresse Beautie.

A pastorell of Phillis and Coridon.

The complaint of a forsaken Louer.

A pretie fancie.

An epitaph on the death of a noble Gentleman.

The sum of the former in foure lines.

In the praise of his Mistresse.

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PASQVILS Mad-cappe,

An Inuectiue against the Wicked of the Worlde.

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PASQVILS FOOLES-CAP

Morphorius to the Reader, in the behalfe of his friende Pasquill.

PASQVILS Fooles-Cap.

Pasquils passion for the worlds waiwardnesse.

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PASQVILS Passe, and passeth not

PASQVILS Passe.

PASQVILS Precession.

PASQVILS Prognostication.

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MELANCHOLIKE HUMOURS,

See and Say Nothing.

A Dolefull Passion.

A Testament vpon the Passion.

A Fantasticke Solemne Humour.

A Briefe of Sorrowe.

A Solemne Fancy.

A Solemne Sonnet.

An Extreame Passion.

A Solemne Farewell to the World.

A Solemne Conceipt.

A Straunge A, B, C.

A Farewell to Loue.

A Jeasting Curse.

A Solemne Toie.

A Displeasure against Loue.

A Farewell to Conceipt.

An Unhappy, Solemne, Jeasting Curse.

A Quarrell with Loue.

A Wish in vaine.

A Conceipt vpon an Eagle, and a Phœnix.

A Conceited Fancy.

A Smile Misconstrued.

An Odde Humour.

An Odde Conceipt.

A Dolefull Fancy.

An Epitaph vpon Poet Spencer.

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A Solemne PASSION OF THE SOVLES Love

A Solemne Passion of the Sovles Loue.

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A Diuine Poeme, diuided into two Partes:

The Rauisht Soule.

The Blessed Weeper.

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AN EXCELLENT POEME, Vpon the Longing of a Blessed Heart:

[Two hopeful twinnes ioynt issues of one braine]

Breton's Longing.

Solus in toto laudandus Deus.

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The Soules Harmony.

The Soules Harmony.

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THE MOTHERS blessing.

The Mothers blessing.

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THE PASSIONATE SHEPHEARD,

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Pastorall Verses written by the Shepheard Bonerto, to his beloued Shepheardesse Aglaia.

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A Solemne long enduring Passion.

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Sundry sweet Sonnets and Passionated Poems.

1.

A farewell to the world and the pleasures thereof.

2.

The description and praise of his fairest Loue.

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8.

Declaration, Admiration.

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11.

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THE Soules immortall crowne consisting of seauen glorious graces.

1.

A Poem vpon the praise of vertue.

2.

Vpon the praise of Wisedome.

3.

THE PRAISE OF Loue.

4.

THE PRAISE OF Constancie.

5.

THE PRAISE OF Patience.

6.

THE PRAISE OF Humilitie.

7.

Of the infinite praise to the infinite glory of the infinite goodnes of the infinite God.

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A TRVE DESCRIPTION of vnthankfulnesse.

[M More worth then vertue can no creature know]

INGRATIS SERUIRE NEFAS.

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THE HONOVR OF VALOVR.

The Honor of Valovr.

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An Invective Against Treason

An Invective against Treason

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I WOVLD AND would not.

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1.

Daffodils and Primroses.

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I.

I.—From ‘The Phœnix Nest:’

The Preamble to N. B. His Garden Plot.

A Strange Description of a Rare Garden Plot. Written by N. B. Gent.

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An Excellent Dreame of Ladies and their Riddles: By N. B. Gent.

The First Riddle.

The Second Riddle.

The Third Riddle.

The Fourth Riddle.

The Chesse Play. Very aptly deuised By N. B. Gent.

A Most Excellent Passion. Set Downe By N. B. Gent.

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II.—From ‘England's Helicon:’

Phillida and Coridon.

A Pastorall of Phillis and Coridon.

A sweete Pastorall.

Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon.

Coridons supplication to Phillis.

A Sheepheards dreame.

A Report Song in a dreame, betweene a Sheepheard and his Nimph.

Another of the Same.

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Daffodils and Primroses.

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1. [Elizabeth Regina.]

2.

2. [In Sadness.]

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3. [Love Rejected.]

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4. [My Lady-Love.]

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5. [Breton's Resolution.]

6.

6. [Faith Disdained.]

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7. [The Rose the Queene.]

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8. [Let Love kill me.]

9.

9. [Mine only Princesse.]

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10. Choridon's Dreame.

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11. Sr Ph. Sydney's Epitaph.

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12. [Love Dead.]

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13. [Faithful unto death.]

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14. [Transitoriness.]

15.

15. [The Nightingale and Phillis.]

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16. [Heart-Pain.]

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17. [Olden Love-making.]

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18. Quatuor elementa.

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19. A Sonett vpon this worde in truth spoken by a Lady to her Servaunte.

20.

20. Againe vpon the same subiect.

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21. [Despondency.]

22.

22. [Melancholia.]

23.

23. [Aspiration.]

24.

24. [Dead Hopes.]

25.

25. [Sweete Penelope.]

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27.

27. [Love-Rapture.]

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28. [Love almost Slaine.]

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29. [Phillis in Sorrow.]

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30. [Fascination.]

31.

31. [Of Sir Philip Sidney.]

32.

32. [‘Perfection’ dead: Sidney.]

33.

33. [Choridon unhappy.]

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From the Tanner MSS., Bodleian, Oxford.

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1. Mr. Britton 1st Junii 1616.

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5. A passionate Son̄ett made by the Kinge of Scots uppon difficulties ariseing to crosse his proceedinge in love & marriage with his moste worthie to be esteemed Queene.

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1. From ‘The Scvller, Rowing from Tiber to Thames with his Boat laden,’ &c., 1612, by John Taylor the Water Poet.

In laudem Authoris.

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AMORIS LACHRIMÆ

AMORIS LACHRIMÆ:

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I. A FAREWELL TO TOWN.

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III. A Sweet contention between Love, his Mistress, and Beauty.

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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

Nicholas Breton

1545?-1626?

[Printed for Private Circulation by T. and A. Constable]

Blackburn

1879