Familiar Quotations Part 36

1554-1624.

_Mustapha_. Act v. Sc. 4.

O wearisome condition of humanity!

Sonnet LVI.

And out of minde as soon as out of sight.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.

1565-1593.

_Hero and Leander_.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight.

_The Pa.s.sionate Shepherd to his Love_.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, and hills, and folds, Woods, or steepy mountains, yield.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

1552-1618.

_The Nymph's Reply to the Pa.s.sionate Shepherd_.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

_The Silent Lover_.

Silence in love betrays more love Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

JOSHUA SYLVESTER 1563-1618.

_The Soul's Errand_[3]

Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand!

Fear not to touch the best: The truth shall be thy warrant.

Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.

[Note 3: Sylvester is now generally regarded as the author of "The Soul's Errand," long attributed to Raleigh.]

RICHARD BARNFIELD.

_Address to the Nightingale_.[4]

As it fell upon a day, In the merry mouth of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

[Note 4: This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now confidently a.s.signed to Barnfield, and it is found in his collection of Poems, published between 1594 and 1598.]

EDMUND SPENSER.

1553-1597.

_Faerie Queene_.

Book i. Canto i. St. 35.

The n.o.blest mind the best contentment has.

Book 1. Canto iii. St. 4.

Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.