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Richard Barnfield Quotes

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Richard Barnfield
Love, Pain, Fire

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

Richard Barnfield
Lovely, Sin, Lad
"The affectionate shepherd". Book by Richard Barnfield, 1594.

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Richard Barnfield
Friendship, Wind, Faithful
Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield
Queens, Fighting, Soldier

He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

Richard Barnfield
Best Friend, Grief, Heart
Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Richard Barnfield
Heart, Love Is, Dying
'England's Helicon' (1600) 'The Unknown Shepherd's Complaint' (renying ?reneging)

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

Richard Barnfield
Myrtle, Sitting, May
'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Richard Barnfield
Gold, Persuading, Orators

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Richard Barnfield
Fortune, Certain, Constant

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