15 John Suckling Quotes

John Suckling quotes

1. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale?

2. Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?

3. Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move: This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her!

4. If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

5. 'Tis now since I sat down before That foolish fort, a heart, (Time strangely spent) a year, and more, And still I did my part:

6. Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know Whether the nobler chaplets wear Those that their mistress' scorn did bear, Or those that were used kindly.

7. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

8. Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,- Some bee had stung it newly.

9. 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

10. She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

11. Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,-

12. But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own,

13. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

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14. Nick of time.

15. 'High characters,' cries one, and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.