Nicholas Breton — a remark

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“We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.”

Praising the simple, natural rhythm of rural life · The Court and Country, 1618

About Nicholas Breton

Nicholas Breton

c. 1554–c. 1625

In the shadowed corridors of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, where the towering figures of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson stride with immortal grace, there walks a quieter, more elusive figure — Nicholas Breton. Born around 1554 and vanishing from historical record by approximately 1625, Breton was a prolific…

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