A Metaphor.
A Little fire doth make the faggot burne,
When blowing much will put the fire out:
Silence but s•…•…ld doth serue the lo•…•…re turne,
And too much su•…•…e, for fauour hath a flouce.
Brittons bovvre of delights Contayning many, most delectable and fine deuices, of rare epitaphes, pleasant poems, pastorals and sonets by N.B. Gent.
About this Item
- 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.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16731.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"Brittons bovvre of delights Contayning many, most delectable and fine deuices, of rare epitaphes, pleasant poems, pastorals and sonets by N.B. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Pages
Page [unnumbered]
Then let thus much suffice for my desire,
The smallest blowing make the greatest fire.
Concei•…•…e is quicke, would so were sweete content,
Eyes hath a glaunce of too too great a grace:
Spirits do speake in silence of intent,
And thoughts are spirites of a setret place.
In silence then let heart in sunder breake,
Eyes shall behold, but spirites shall not speake.