George Gascoigne Quotes

• In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

  George Gascoigne

  Eye, Hands, Ballet

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• How sweet war is to such as know it not.

  George Gascoigne

  Sweet, War, Knows

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• Full many wanton babes have I,
  Which must be stilled with lullaby.

  George Gascoigne

  Babe, Lullaby, Wanton

  George Gascoigne, Roger Pooley (1982). “The green knight: selected poetry and prose”, Carcanet Pr

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• The Raynbowe bending in the skye,Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,Is lyke the seate of God on hye,And seemes to tell these newes:That as thereby he promised,To drowne the worlde no more,So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,He will oure health restore.

  George Gascoigne

  Bending, Skye

  George Gascoigne, Edward De Vere Oxford (Earl of), Sir Christopher Hatton (1926). “A Hundredth sundrie flowres: from the original edition”

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• I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.

  George Gascoigne

  Smell, Use, May

  George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.468, Cambridge University Press

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• Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

  George Gascoigne

  Babe, Womanly

  George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.
  [The more the merrier.]

  George Gascoigne

  More The Merrier, Merriment

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• Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

  George Gascoigne

  Bullets, Lighting

  George Gascoigne (1969). “The Complete Works: To the reverende divines”

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