Britannia's pastorals. The first booke
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- Title
- Britannia's pastorals. The first booke
- Author
- Browne, William, 1590-ca. 1645.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Iohn Hauiland,
- 1625.
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"Britannia's pastorals. The first booke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17042.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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TO THE TRVLY NOBLE AND LEAR∣NED WILLIAM EARLE OF PEMBROKE, LORD CHAM∣BERLAINE TO HIS MAIESTIE, &c.
NOT that the gift (Great Lord) deserues your hand, (Held euer worth the rarest workes of men) Offer I this; but since in all our Land None can more rightly claime a Poet's Pen: That Noble Bloud and Vertue truly knowne, Which circular in you vnited run, Makes you each good, & euery good your owne, If it can hold in what my Muse hath done.Page [unnumbered]
But weake and lowly are these tuned Layes,
Yet though but weake to win faire Memorie,
You may improue them, and your gracing raise;
For things are priz'd as their possessours be.
If for such fauour they haue worthlesse striuen,
Since Loue the cause was, be that Loue forgiuen!
Your Honours, W. BROWNE.