Nicholas Breton

  • I Would I were an excellent divine,
      That had the Bible at my fingers’ ends;
    That men might hear out of this mouth of mine
      How God doth make his enemies his friends;
    Rather than with a thundering and long prayer
    Be led into presumption, or despair....

  • 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,

    When anon by a woodside,
    Where as May was in his pride,
    I espièd, all alone,
    Phillida and Corydon.

    Much ado...