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Gil Vicente Quotes

d. 1536 Portugal

Gil Vicente (c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal, he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights.

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Who himself cannot control
Why should he o'er others rule?

The pursuit of love
is like falconry.

The rose looks out in the valley,
And thither will I go,
To the rosy vale, where the nightingale
Sings his song of woe.

I saw the rose-grove blushing in pride,
I gather'd the blushing rose—and sigh'd—
I come from the rose-grove, mother,
I come from the grove of roses.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gil Vicente (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.