Top 8 Quotes by George Gascoigne

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

George Gascoigne

Eye, Hands, Ballet

How sweet war is to such as know it not.

George Gascoigne

Sweet, War, Knows

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.

George Gascoigne

Babe, Lullaby, Wanton

George Gascoigne, Roger Pooley (1982). “The green knight: selected poetry and prose”, Carcanet Pr

The Raynbowe bending in the skye,Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,Is lyke the seate of God on hye,And seemes to tell these newes:That as thereby he promised,To drowne the worlde no more,So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,He will oure health restore.

George Gascoigne

Bending, Skye

George Gascoigne, Edward De Vere Oxford (Earl of), Sir Christopher Hatton (1926). “A Hundredth sundrie flowres: from the original edition”

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.

George Gascoigne

Smell, Use, May

George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.468, Cambridge University Press