George Peele Quotes

• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• Live or die, sink or swim.

  George Peele

  Swim, Sink Or Swim, Dies

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• Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
  To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

  George Peele

  Honor, Mind, Spurs

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421

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• Parish me no parishes.

  George Peele

  Parish

  George Peele, Patricia Binnie (1980). “The Old Wives Tale”, p.64, Manchester University Press

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• 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

  Life, Old Love, Praying

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

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• Fair maid, white and red,
  Comb me smooth, and stroke my head;
  And every hair a sheave shall be,
  And every sheave a golden tree.

  George Peele

  Beauty, Hair, White

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• 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 increasing.

  George Peele

  Time, Age, Locks

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

  George Peele

  God, Wind, Tree

  George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

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