Nicholas Breton Quotes

• Good wares make good markets.

  Nicholas Breton

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• If the shoe fits, wear it.

  Nicholas Breton

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Nicholas Breton

  Wish, Want, Purses

  'A Farewell to Town' (1577)

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• To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

  Nicholas Breton

  Bed, Larks, Lambs

  'The Court and Country' (1618) para. 8

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

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  Heart, Kissing, Missing

  Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”

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

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  Happiness, Country, Heart

  Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”

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• 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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  Life, Men, Old Love

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

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  Friends, Assurance, Foe

  Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”

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

  Nicholas Breton

  Play, Dancing, Dancer

  Nicholas Breton (1927). “Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals”

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