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Title: Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton,
Selected Poetry by George Wither, and
Pastoral Poetry by William
Browne (of Tavistock)
Author: Nicholas Breton, George Wither, and William Browne (of
Tavistock)
Editor: J. R. Tutin
Release Date: July 6, 2007 [EBook #22001]
Language: English
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The Pembroke Booklets
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Nicholas Breton
Pastoral Poems

George Wither
Selected Poetry
William Browne
(of Tavistock)
Pastoral Poetry
[Small Ornamental Illustration]
J. R. Tutin
Hull
1906
_Large Paper Edition, limited to 250 copies_
_Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh._
Nicholas Breton
(1558-1626)
_Thou that wouldst find the habit of true passion,
And see a mind
attired in perfect strains ...
Look here on Breton's work._--BEN
JONSON.
George Wither
(1588-1667)
_The praises of poetry have been often sung in ancient and in modern
times; strange powers have been ascribed to it of influence over
animate and inanimate auditors; its force over fascinated crowds has
been acknowledged; but before Wither, no one ever celebrated its
power at home, the wealth and the strength which this divine gift
confers upon its possessor. Fame, and that too after death, was all
which hitherto the poets had promised themselves from this art. It
seems to have been left to Wither to discover that poetry was a present
possession, as well as a rich reversion, and that the Muse has a promise
of both lives,--of this, and of that which was to come._--CHARLES
LAMB.
William Browne
(1591-? 1645)
_I feel an envious touch,
And tell thee Swain: that at thy fame I
grutch,
Wishing the Art that makes this Poem shine,
And this thy
Work (wert not thou wrongèd) mine._

GEORGE WITHER: _To the Author_
[_of Britannia's Pastorals_].
Contents
PAGE
PREFATORY NOTE 5
NICHOLAS BRETON
A Sweet Pastoral
7
Aglaia: a Pastoral
8
Phyllida and Corydon
10
Astrophel's Song of Phyllida and Corydon
11
A Pastoral of Phyllis and Corydon
13
Corydon's Supplication to Phyllis
14
A Report Song in a Dream, between a shepherd and his
nymph 15
Another of the Same
16
A Shepherd's Dream