The Works of William Browne: Containing Britannia's Pastorals:

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T. Davies, in Russell-Street, Covent-Garden., 1772 - 166 páginas
 

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Página 62 - The shephearriesses all will give To store him, part of theirs. Or I would lend him some, But that the store I have Will all be spent before I pay The debt I owe his grave, " O what is left can make me leave to mone ! Or what remains but doth increase it more ? Looke on his shecpe: alas!
Página 40 - While they danced in a round, Mickle solace would they make him, And at midnight often wake him And convey him from his roome, To a field of yellow broome ; Or into the medowes, where Mints perfume the gentle aire, And where Flora spends her treasure, There they would begin their measure.
Página 165 - Never durst look upon his country's foe, Nor durst attempt that action which might get Him fame with men: or higher might him set Then the base begger (rightly if compar'd) This drone yet never brave attempt that dar'd, Yet dares be knighted, and from thence dares grow To any title empire can bestow...
Página 158 - When I beheld it, Lord ! thought I, What justice and what clemency Hath Lydford, when I saw all ! I know none gladly there would stay; But rather hang out of the way, Then tarry for a tryal. The prince an hundred pound hath sent, To mend the leads and planchens...
Página 65 - That so few yeeres should make thee so much blest, And gave such wings to reach eternitie. Is this to die ? No : as a ship Well built, with...
Página 101 - Gainst all the best-tried ruffians in the land ? Didst thou not then in doleful Sonnets moan, When the beloved of great Pan was gone, And at the *wedding of fair Thame and Rhine, Sing of their glories to thy Valentine...
Página 108 - Let them disdain and fret till they are weary ! We in ourselves have that shall make us merry ; Which he that wants and had the power to know it, Would give his life that he might die a poet.
Página 63 - My greatest losse of thee. Cypresse may fade, the countenance be changed, A garment rot, an elegie forgotten, A herse 'mongst irreligious rites be ranged, A tombe pluckt down, or els through age be rotten. All things th...
Página 38 - And to her him dresseth to done hii cure. (pure mortal!, »ay to her sepulture. He thought rue she should, and fore-thinke That she her had unto him misbore : And of that water her he gave to drinke, Which that his flesh from his bones before Had twined, where through he was almost lore Nad he relieved been, as ye above Han heard, and this he did eke for her love. Of the fruit of the tree he gave her etc, Which that him made into the leper...
Página 132 - Tond stands a hill, &c.' a traverse was drawn at the lower end of the hall, and gave way for the discovery of an artificial wood...

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