If I had been warned, then would I have tarried;
But now all too lately I feel and cry,
That wedding and hanging is destiny.
He wrote also two Comedies, The Tryal of Chivalry, and The longer thou livest, the more Fool thou art.
NICHOLAS BRETON.
Nicholas Breton, a writer of Pastoral Sonnets, Canzons, and Madrigals, in which kind of writing he keeps company with several other contemporary Emulators of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney, in a publish'd Collection of several Odes of the chief Sonneters of that Age. He wrote also several other Books, whereof two I have by me, Wits Private Wealth, and another called The Courtier and the Country-man, in which last, speaking of Vertue, he hath these Verses:
There is a Secret few do know,
And doth in special places grow,
A rich mans praise, a poor mans wealth,