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George Peele
7 quotes
“What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!”
George Peele (1556–1596) first seen 1591 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hunting of Cupid (1591)
“O Gentle Love, ungentle for thy deede, Thou makest my hart, A bloodie marke, With piercing shot to bleede.Shoote soft sweete Love, for feare thou shoote amisse, For feare too keene, Thy arrowes beene: And hit the hart, where my belovèd is.Too faire that fortune were, nor never I Shall be so blest, Among the rest: That love shall ceaze on her by simpathy.Then since with Love my prayers beare no boote, This doth remaine, To cease my paine, I take the wound, and die at Venus foote.”
George Peele (1556–1596) said by 1596 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthologised in England’s Helicon (1600); cp. Latin O Crudelis Amor
“Villain, a horse-- Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly.”
George Peele (1556–1596) first seen 1588 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, line 104. Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.
“His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.”
George Peele (1556–1596) first seen 1590 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Polyhymnia (1590)
“His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers’ songs be turned to holy psalms; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age’s alms.”
George Peele (1556–1596) first seen 1590 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Polyhymnia (1590); also attributed to Henry Lee of Ditchley
“My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid’s curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!”
George Peele (1556–1596) said by 1596 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.”
George Peele (1556–1596) said by 1596 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source