Richard Barnfield Quotes

• Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
  Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

  Richard Barnfield

  Love, Pain, Fire

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• If it be sin to love a lovely lad
  Oh there sin I.

  Richard Barnfield

  Lovely, Sin, Lad

  "The affectionate shepherd". Book by Richard Barnfield, 1594.

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• Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

  Richard Barnfield

  Queens, Fighting, Soldier

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• All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

  Richard Barnfield

  Heart, Love Is, Dying

  'England's Helicon' (1600) 'The Unknown Shepherd's Complaint' (renying ?reneging)

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• He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

  Richard Barnfield

  Best Friend, Grief, Heart

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• As it fell upon a day
  In the merry month of May,
  Sitting in a pleasant shade
  Which a grove of myrtles made.

  Richard Barnfield

  Myrtle, Sitting, May

  'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'

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• Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

  Richard Barnfield

  Friendship, Wind, Faithful

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

  Richard Barnfield

  Gold, Persuading, Orators

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• Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Richard Barnfield

  Fortune, Certain, Constant

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