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Richard Brathwait
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“A wily wench there was (as I have read) Who us’d to capricorn her husband’s head.”
Richard Brathwait (1588–1673) first seen 1615 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Cuckold with a Witnesse", A Strappado for the Devil (1615)
“Skin more pure than Ida’s snow, Whiter far than Moorish milk, Sweeter than ambrosia too, Softer than the Paphian silk, Indian plumes or thistle-down, Or May-blossoms newly blown, Is my mistress rosy-pale, Adding beauty to her veil.”
Richard Brathwait (1588–1673) first seen 1631 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mounting Hyperboles", The English Gentlewoman (1631)
“To Banbury came I, O profane one! Where I saw a Puritane-one Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sunday.”
Richard Brathwait (1588–1673) first seen 1638 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal (1638, under the pseudonym "Corymbæus") pt. 1
“I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.”
Richard Brathwait (1588–1673) first seen 1637 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The English Gentelman and Gentelwoman (1640), in a supplemental tract, The Turtle's Triumph. Phrase "lead apes in hell" found in his Drunken Barnaby's Journal...Bessy Bell (ed. 1716). Massinger, The City Madam, Act II, …