ABSTRACT
William Browne (1591-1643?) left Exeter College, Oxford, without a degree and finished his education in the Inner Temple. The first part of Britannia's Pastorals is a youthful production, written before the poet was twenty. It was published along with commendatory pieces, mainly by his Exeter friends who announce him, to use the phrase of one of them (Heyward) as the 'second Colin Clout'. Browne is unquestionably the pleasantest of the new Spenserians.
