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...
Read Full Biography of Nicholas Breton


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! ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • A Sweet Pastoral
    Good Muse, rock me asleep
    With some sweet harmony;
    The weary eye is not to keep
    Thy wary company. ...
  • 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: ...
Read All Poems


Top 10 most used topics by Nicholas Breton

I Love You 20 Love 20 Sweet 16 Heart 11 True 11 Face 10 Play 9 Never 9 Away 8 Thought 8


Nicholas Breton Quotes

Read All Quotes


Comments about Nicholas Breton

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
Read All Comments


Write your comment about Nicholas Breton


Poem of the day

Edgar Albert Guest Poem
The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
...

Read complete poem

Popular Poets