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NICHOLAS BRETON was a prolific writer of small pieces of poetry and prose in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Very little is known of this ingenious author: the few notices, that have been collected of him, may be found in Percy's Ballads, Ellis's Specimens, the new edition of Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum, and the reprint of England's Helicon. One of his poems was last year reprinted at the Lee Priory press; and another, The Melancholike Humours, is announced from that press.

The two prose tracts here reprinted, are not perhaps of any peculiar intrinsic interest; but they form part of a series of specimens of the popular literature of the period when they first appeared, and on that account have been selected as valuable matter towards filling up the design which the ARCHAICA proposes to complete.

The pedantry and quaintness of these epigrammatic delineations are, it must be confessed, little suited to the Editor's taste.

February 23, 1815.

CHARACTERS

UPON

ESSAYS, MORAL AND DIVINE,

WRITTEN FOR

Those good Spirits

THAT

WILL TAKE THEM IN GOOD PART,

AND

MAKE USE OF THEM TO GOOD PURPOSE.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY EDW. GRIFFIN, FOR JOHN GWILLIM; AND ARE TO BE SOLD AT HIS SHOP IN BRITAINES-BURSE.

1615.

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