Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English dramatist George Peele.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
George Peele was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus. Many anonymous Elizabethan plays have been attributed to him, but his reputation rests mainly on Edward I, The Old Wives' Tale, The Battle of Alcazar, The Arraignment of Paris, and David and Bethsabe. The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, the immediate source for Shakespeare's King John, has been published under his name.
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.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
Parish me no parishes.
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
Live or die, sink or swim.
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.
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair.