The Works of Sir John Suckling in Prose and Verse

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G. Routledge & sons, limited, 1910 - 424 páginas
 

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Página 31 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. Her mouth so small, when she does speak Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit.
Página 31 - Now hats fly off; and youths carouse: Healths first go round, and then the house. The bride's came thick and thick. And when 'twas named another's health, Perhaps he made it hers by stealth. (And who could help it, Dick?) O' th' sudden, up they rise and dance: Then sit again and sigh and glance, Then dance again and kiss.
Página 46 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Página 30 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 33 - Was one wavering thought, if thy flame Were not still even, still the same ; Know this, Thou lov'st amiss, And, to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew. If, when she appears i...
Página 30 - twould undo him Should he go still so drest. At Course-a-park, without all doubt, He should have first been taken out By all the maids i' th' town: Though lusty Roger there had been, Or little George upon the green, Or Vincent of the Crown. But wot you what? The youth was going To make an end of all his wooing; The parson for him...
Página 30 - Her lips were red, and one was thin ; Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly ; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Página 30 - Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft, as she, Nor half so full of juice.
Página 10 - The first that broke silence was good old Ben, Prepared before with Canary wine, ! And he told them plainly he deserved the bays, For his were called Works, where others were but Plays.
Página 11 - He loved not the muses so well as his sport, And prized black eyes, or a lucky hit At bowls above all the trophies of wit; But Apollo was angry, and publicly said, 'Twere fit that a fine were set upon 's head.

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