Nicholas Breton Biography

Sylvan Muses, can ye sing
Of the beauty of the Spring?
Have ye seen on earth that sun
That a heavenly course hath run?
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A silly shepherd lately sat
Among a flock of sheep;
Where musing long on this and that,
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Lovely kind, and kindly loving,
Such a mind were worth the moving;
Truly fair, and fairly true-
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Pretty twinkling starry eyes!
How did Nature first devise
Such a sparkling in your sight
As to give Love such delight
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The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold
A kind of heaven in his authorities;
The wealthy miser, in his mass of gold,
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