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A heavenly bevy of sweet English dames.

— William Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

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Compare: Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. xi, l. 582

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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.

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

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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.

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

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