Author:Nicholas Breton

Nicholas Breton
(1545–1626)

Works

• A Sweet Pastoral
• Aglaia: a Pastoral
• Phyllida and Corydon
• Astrophel's Song of Phyllida and Corydon
• A Pastoral of Phyllis and Corydon
• Corydon's Supplication to Phyllis
• A Report Song in a Dream, between a shepherd and his nymph
• Another of the Same
• A Shepherd's Dream
• A Quarrel with Love
• A Sweet Contention between Love, his Mistress, and Beauty
• Love
• "Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart"
• Sonnet: "The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold"
• A Sweet Lullaby
• The Wil of Wit (1589) in Elizabethan & Jacobean Pamphlets

Plays

• An Old Man's Lesson and a Young Man's Love (1605) [attribution doubtful]

Works about Breton

• "Nicholas Breton," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 12), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Breton, Nicholas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Breton, Nicholas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Breton, Nicholas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)