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Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne
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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, William Browne (of Tavistock)

Editor: J. R. Tutin

Release Date: July 6, 2007 [EBook #22001]

Language: English

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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,