Michael Drayton Quotations

Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.