Occupation: Poet Birth: August 24, 1591 Death: October 15, 1674
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent..
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love..
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!.
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace..
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment..
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all..
Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead..
O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine.
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day..
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse..
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart..
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green.
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me th….
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings..
Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs Show me those fleshy principalities; Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit, Having a living….
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence..
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes..
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses..
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun..
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight..
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of br….