William Browne

William Browne (1590?–1645?) was an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, educated at Oxford, after which he entered the Inner Temple.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

 * Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
 * Book i. Song 2. Compare: "Who then to frail mortality shall trust/ But limns on water, or but writes in dust", Francis Bacon, The World.


 * Did therewith bury in oblivion.
 * Book ii. Song 2.


 * Well-languaged Daniel.
 * Book ii. Song 2.