Nicholas Breton
Who is Nicholas Breton
Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (c. 1545/53 – c. 1625/6) was a poet and prose writer of the English Renaissance.
Life
Nicholas belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex. His father, William Breton, a London merchant who had made a considerable fortune, died in 1559, and his widow Elizabeth (née Bacon) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority. Nicholas was probably born at the "capitall mansion house" in Red Cross Street, in the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate, mentioned in his father's will.There is no official record of his residence at the university, but the diary of the Rev. Richard Madox tells us that he was at Antwerp in 1583 and was "once of Oriel College." He may have been the poet na...
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Nicholas Breton Poems
- A Sweet Contention Between Love, His Mistress, And Beauty
Love and my mistress were at strife
Who had the greatest power on me:
Betwixt them both, oh, what a life!
Nay, what a death is this to be!
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- A Report Song In A Dream
A Report Song in a Dream, between a shepherd and his nymph
Shall we go dance the hay? The hay?
Never pipe could ever play
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- Phyllida And Corydon
In the merry month of May,
In a morn by break of day,
With a troop of damsels playing
Forth I rode, forsooth, a-maying,
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- A Sweet Pastoral
Good Muse, rock me asleep
With some sweet harmony;
The weary eye is not to keep
Thy wary company.
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- A Sweet Lullaby
Come, little babe; come, silly soul,
Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Born, as I doubt, to all our dole
And to thyself unhappy chief:
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- Ahistoryinart: in the early 1890s roderic o’conor painted many portraits of breton women involved in domestic tasks. here he has deliberately exaggerated colour inspired by the paintings of his friend gauguin and used a striping method inspired by van gogh.
- Mark_truesdale: yet for all her critics, the cross-dressing maid marian clearly remained a carnival staple. nicholas breton wrote in a letter that, 'maid marrian of late was got with child in her sleepe, and the hobby-horse was halfe mad, that the fool should be the father of it.'
- Themoneyghost: what i adore most about nicholas breton is his capaciousness, his vision of society that cuts across city and countryside, men and women, rich and poor, well and sick, happy and sad ❤️ from nursing mothers to itinerant beggars to lawyers to mice
- Cie1947: conflict over new indigenous lobster fishery continues to smoulder amid some progress
"gear is still being cut by non-natives and dfo is still seizing traps," said hubert nicholas, fisheries director with the membertou first nation in cape breton
- Colemanridge: in brief, i thus conclude it: i hold it a memory of the heaven’s love and the world’s peace, the mirth of the honest, and the meeting of the friendly. farewell.”
-- nicholas breton in his fantasticks, 1626
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