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Thomas Flatman Quotes

1635–1688

Thomas Flatman (21 February 1635 – 8 December 1688) was an English poet and miniature painter.

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Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

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

There’s an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There’s Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep’st thy crown,
Th’usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;
But to live with her all a man’s life,
For ever and for aye,
Till she grow grey as a cat,
Good faith, Mr. Parson, I thank you for that!

Attribution

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