12) 8253. Breton, Nicholas. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:8253 QUOTATION:Who can live in heart so gladAs the merry country lad? ATTRIBUTION:Nicholas Breton (1542-1626), British poet. The Passionate Shepherd (l. 43-48)....

13) 8254. Breton, Nicholas. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...with a baited hook,See the fishes leap and playIn a blessed sunny day: ATTRIBUTION:Nicholas Breton (1542-1626), British poet. The Passionate Shepherd (l. 43-48)....

14) 74. A Cradle Song. Nicholas Breton (?) The Oxford Book of English Verse
...Poor soul that thinks no creature harm. Thou little think'st and less dost know The cause of this thy mother's moan; Thou want'st the wit to wail her woe, And I myself...

15) 41. Phillida and Coridon. Nicholas Breton. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...Much ado there was, God wot! He would love and she would not. She said, Never man was true; He said, None was false to you. 10 He said, He had loved her long; She...

16) 73. Phillida and Coridon. Nicholas Breton. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...Much ado there was, God wot! He would love and she would not. She said, Never man was true; He said, None was false to you. 10 He said, He had loved her long; She...

17) §5. "England s Helicon;" Ignoto . VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Sidney, Edmund Spenser, E[dmund] B[olton], Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Shepherd Tony, George Peele, John Dickenson, Henry Howard...

18) XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet: Bibliography. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...s Helicon. Printed by I. R. for John Flasket, 1600. Edited by Bullen, A. H. 1887. Breton, Nicholas. The Passionate Shepheard with many excellent Sonnets . 1604. Rptd....

19) §14. Letter writing. XVI. The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...1586, Angell Day had produced a manual of letter writing, 72 while other writers, including Nicholas Breton 73 and Joseph Hall, 74 had appealed in this form to the...

20) VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies: Bibliography. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Chiefly Lyrical, from Romances and Prose-Tracts of the Elizabethan Age: With Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton. 1890. Carpenter, F. I. English Lyric Poetry, 1500–1700....