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John Cleveland Quotes

d. 1658 England

John Cleveland (16 June 1613 – 29 April 1658) was an English Cavalier poet. He was best known for political satire.

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He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.

Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.

The Antiplatonic (1653)

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom;
Not made him wander, but continued him home.

The Rebel Scot (1647)

The marigold, whose courtier's face
Echoes the sun, and doth unlace
Her at his rise, at his full stop
Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.

Never Mark Antony
Dallied more wantonly
With the fair Egyptian Queen.

Now to the melting Kiss that sips
The Jellyed Philtre of her Lips

Attribution

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