Occupation: Poet Birth: 1563 Death: December 23, 1631
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get u….
It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny..
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars..
The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather..
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and be….
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain..
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay..
Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil..
When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray..
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to l….
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain..
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part..
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own..
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can..
O blessed bounty, giving ail content! The only fautress of all noble arts That lend'st success to every good intent. A grace that rests in the most g….
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cle….
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor..