Brittons bovvre of delights Contayning many, most delectable and fine deuices, of rare epitaphes, pleasant poems, pastorals and sonets by N.B. Gent.

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Title: Brittons bovvre of delights Contayning many, most delectable and fine deuices, of rare epitaphes, pleasant poems, pastorals and sonets by N.B. Gent.
Author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Richard Ihones, at the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge,; 1591.
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A Poem.

PErfection •…•…eereles, Uertue without pride,
Honor and learning linckt with highest Loue,
Ioy of the thought in true discretion tride,
Loue of the life that highest honors proue.
In Angels armes with heauenly hands embraced▪
Paradice pleased, and all the world disgraced.

Seeke all the world, oh seeke and neuer finde,
In earthly mould the mount of such a minde:
Diuinest gifts that God on man bestoweth,
No glory such as of such glory groweth.
End of the ioyes that hath all griefe begun,
Yet let me weepe when all the world is done.