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George Peele Quotes

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

George Peele
Flower, Roots, Fading
'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

Live or die, sink or swim.

George Peele
Swim, Sink Or Swim, Dies

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

George Peele
Honor, Mind, Spurs
Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

George Peele
Life, Old Love, Praying
Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

Parish me no parishes.

George Peele
Parish
George Peele, Patricia Binnie (1980). “The Old Wives Tale”, p.64, Manchester University Press

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

George Peele
Beauty, Hair, White

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

George Peele
Time, Age, Locks
'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

George Peele
God, Wind, Tree
George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

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