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Quotes from Britannia's Pastorals — William Browne

1590–1645 England

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Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

For those sacred powers
Tread on oblivion; no desert odours
Can be entombed in their celestial breasts.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

A rose as fair as ever saw the North,
Grew in a little garden all alone:
A sweeter flower did Nature ne’er put forth,
Nor fairer garden yet was never known.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

I saw a mushroom stand in haughty pride,
As if the lilies grew to be his slaves.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

And all the former causes of her moan
Did therewith bury in oblivion.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

A heavenly bevy of sweet English dames.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Browne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.