William Browne

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

Quotes

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.