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See also:BRETON, See also:BRITTON Or BRITTAINE, See also:NICHOLAS (1545?-1626),
See also:English poet, belonged to an old See also:family settled at Layer-Breton, See also:Essex. His See also:father, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Breton, who had made a considerable See also:fortune by See also:trade, died in 1559, and the widow (nee See also:Elizabeth See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon) married the poet See also:George See also:Gascoigne before her sons had attained their See also:majority. Nicholas Breton was probably See also:born at the " capitall See also:mansion See also:house " in Red See also:Cross See also:Street, in the See also:parish of St See also:Giles without Cripplegate, mentioned in his father's will. There is no See also:official See also:record of his See also:residence at the university, but the See also:diary of the Rev. See also:Richard Madox tells us that he was at See also:Antwerp in 1583 and was " once of See also:Oriel See also:College." He married See also:Ann See also:Sutton in 1593, and had a family. He is supposed to have died shortly after the publication of his last See also:work, Fantastickes (1626). Breton found a See also:patron in See also:Mary, countess of See also:Pembroke, and wrote much in her See also:honour until 16o1, when she seems to have withdrawn her favour. It is probably safe to supplement the meagre record of his See also:life by accepting as autobiographical some of the letters signed N.B. in A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters (1603, enlarged 1637); the 19th See also:letter of the second See also:part contains a See also:general complaint of many griefs, and proceeds as follows: " See also:bath another been wounded in the warres, fared hard, lain in a See also:cold See also:bed many a See also:bitter storme, and beene at many a hard banquet? all these have I; another imprisoned? so have I; another See also:long been sicke? so have I; another plagued with an unquiet life? so have I; another indebted to his See also:hearts griefe, and fame would pay and cannot? so am I." Breton was a facile writer, popular with his contemporaries, and for-gotten by the next See also:generation. His work consists of religious and See also:pastoral poems, satires, and a number of See also:miscellaneous See also:prose tracts. His religious poems are sometimes wearisome by their excess of fluency and sweetness, but they are evidently the expression of a devout and See also:earnest mind. His praise of the Virgin and his reference's to Mary Magdalene have suggested that he was a See also:Catholic, but his prose writings abundantly prove that he was an ardent See also:Protestant. Breton had little See also:gift for See also:satire, and his best work is to be found in his pastoral See also:poetry.
His Passionate Shepheard (1604) is full of See also:sunshine and fresh See also:air, and of unaffected gaiety. The third pastoral in this book—" Who can live in See also:heart so glad As the merrie See also:country lad "—is well known; with some other of Breton's daintiest poems, among them the See also:lullaby, " Come little babe, come See also:silly soule," 1—it is incorporated in A. H. Bullen's Lyrics from Elizabethan Romances (189o). His keen observation of country life appears also in his prose idyll, Wits Trenchmour, " a See also:conference betwixt a scholler and an See also:angler," and in his Fantastickes, a See also:series of See also:short prose pictures of the months, the See also:Christian festivals and the See also:hours, which throw much See also:light on the customs of the times. Most of Breton's books are very rare and have See also:great See also:bibliographical value. His See also:works, with the exception of some belonging to private owners, were collected by Dr A. B. See also:Grosart in the
1 This poem, however, comes from The Arbor of Amorous Devises, which is only in part Breton's work.
See also:Chertsey Worthies Library in 1879, with an elaborate introduction quoting the documents for the poet's See also:history.
Breton's poetical works, the titles of which are here somewhat abbreviated, include The Workes of a See also:Young Wit (1577) ; A Floorish upon Fancie (1577); The See also:Pilgrimage to See also:Paradise (1592); The Countess of Penbrook's See also:Passion (MS.), first printed by J. O.
Halliwell Phillipps in 1853; Pasquil's Fooles cappe, entered at Stationers' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall in 1600; Pasquil's Mistresse (1600); Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not (1600); Melancholike Humours (1600); See also:Marie Magdalen's Love: a Solemne Passion of the Soules Love (1595), the first part of which, a prose See also:treatise, is probably by another See also:hand; the second part, a poem in six-lined See also:stanza, is certainly by Breton; A Divine Poem, including " The Ravisht Soul " and " The Blessed Weeper " (1601) ; An Excellent Poem, upon the Longing of a Blessed Heart (1601); The Soules Heavenly Exercise (160,); The Sondes See also:Harmony (1602); Olde Madcappe newe Gally mawfrey (1602); The See also:Mother's Blessing (16o2); A True Description of Unthankfulnesse (16o2); The Passionate Shepheard (16o4); The Soules Immortall See also:Crowne (1605); The Honour of Valour (1605); An Invective against See also:Treason; I would and I would not (1614); Bryton's Bowre of Delights (1591), edited by Dr Grosart in 1893, an unauthorized publication which contained some poems disclaimed by Breton; The Arbor of Amorous Devises (entered at Stationers' Hall, 1594), only in part Breton's; and contributions to See also:England's See also:Helicon and othermiscellanies of See also:verse. Of his twenty-two prose tracts may be mentioned Wit's Trenchmour (1597), The Wil of Wit (1599), A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters (1603). See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney's Ourania by N. B. (1606); Mary Magdalen's See also:Lamentations (1604), and The Passion of a Discontented Mind (1601), are sometimes, but erroneously, ascribed to Breton.
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