9 quotes by Nicholas Breton (-), English (Poet)

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Nicholas Breton

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Nicholas Breton

Good wares make good markets.

Nicholas Breton

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay.

Nicholas Breton

Who can live in heart so glad
As the merry country lad?

Nicholas Breton

We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.

Nicholas Breton

Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
Never heart could ever miss
Comfort, where true meaning is.

Nicholas Breton

Much ado there was, God wot;
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, "Never man was trewe;"
He sayes, "None was false to you."

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Biography

Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (1545–1626), English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex.

Related Authors

W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Congreve, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth

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