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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
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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The Pembroke Booklets?(First Series)?III
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 wrong��d) 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 16
A Quarrel with Love