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"Every white will have its blacke, And every sweet its soure."
Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Sir Cauline.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi' the auld moon in hir arme."
Sir Patrick Spens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He that had neyther been kith nor kin Might have seen a full fayre sight."
Guy of Gisborne.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Have you not heard these many years ago Jeptha was judge of Israel? He had one only daughter and no mo, The which he loved passing well; And as by lott, God wot, It so came to pass, As God's will was."
Jepthah, Judge of Israel.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A Robyn, Jolly Robyn, Tell me how thy leman does."
A Robyn, Jolly Robyn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where gripinge grefes the hart wounde, And dolefulle dumps the mynde oppresse, There music with her silver sound With spede is wont to send redresse."
A Song to the Lute in Musicke.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The blinded boy that shootes so trim, From heaven downe did hie."
King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""What is thy name, faire maid?" quoth he. "Penelophon, O King!" quoth she."
King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And how should I know your true love From many another one? Oh, by his cockle hat and staff, And by his sandal shoone."
The Friar of Orders Gray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O Lady, he is dead and gone! Lady, he 's dead and gone! And at his head a green grass turfe, And at his heels a stone."
The Friar of Orders Gray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never."
The Friar of Orders Gray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine; For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow againe."
The Friar of Orders Gray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He that would not when he might, He shall not when he wolda."
The Friar of Orders Gray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We 'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we 'll be good."
Winifreda (1720).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys."
Winifreda (1720).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree; Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee."
Take thy old Cloak about Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; Oh willow, willow, willow! With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, Oh willow, willow, willow!"
Willow, willow, willow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When Arthur first in court began, And was approved king."
Sir Launcelot du Lake.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Shall I bid her goe? What if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no! I dare not."
Corydon's Farewell to Phillis.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But in vayne shee did conjure him To depart her presence soe; Having a thousand tongues to allure him, And but one to bid him goe."
Dulcina.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain