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COMMENDATORY VERSES TO WILLIAM BROWNE'S 'BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS' by WILLIAM BASSE

First Line: WERE THERE A THOUGHT SO STRANGE AS TO DENY
Last Line: THY YOUTH (HEREIN) THINE ELDERS OUER-TAKE.
Subject(s): BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591-1645); POETRY & POETS;
WERE there a thought so strange as to deny
That happy @3Bayes@1 doe some mens @3Births@1 adorne,
Thy work alone might serue to iustifie
That @3Poets@1 are not made so, but so borne.
How could thy plumes thus soone haue soard thus hie
Hadst thou not @3Lawrell@1 in thy Cradle worne?
Thy Birth o'er-took thy Youth: and it doth make
Thy youth (herein) thine elders ouer-take.



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