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Quotes from Fragmenta Aurea — John Suckling

1609–1642 England

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They who know all the wealth they have, are poor;
He's only rich that cannot tell his store.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Sure Beauty's empires, like to greater states,
Have certain periods set, and hidden fates.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

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

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Love is the fart
Of every heart;
It pains a man when 'tis kept close,
And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

I thought to undermine the heart
By whispering in the ear.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Her lips were red; and one was thin,
Compar'd to that was next her chin
(Some bee had stung it newly).

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Women enjoy'd (whate'er before th' have been)
Are like romances read, or sights once seen:
Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more
Than if one read or knew the plot before.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

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

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
No daisy makes comparison
(Who sees them is undone);
For streaks of red were mingled there,
Such as are on a Catherine pear
(The side that's next the sun).

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

The maid—and thereby hangs a tale;
For such a maid no Whitson-ale
Could ever yet produce:
No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be
So round, so plump, so soft as she,
Nor half so full of juice.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

'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.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Attribution

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