Thomas Flatman Quotes

• How happy a thing were a wedding,
  And a bedding,
  If a man might purchase a wife
  For a twelvemonth and a day

  Thomas Flatman

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Thomas Flatman (1682). “Poems and songs”, p.99

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• Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

  Thomas Flatman

  Death, Fall, Play

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.131

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• Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

  Thomas Flatman

  Fate, Rays, Depth

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.66

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