Gascoigne

Cited as Gascoigne. — 15 quotations

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit.

O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed!

To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers.

A copatain hat made on a Flemish block.

The drums cry bud-a-dub.

The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats.

And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.

I strive all in vain to load the cart.

In charts, in maps, and eke in models made.

For whom I sighed have so oftensith.

They [landlords] rack their rents an ace too high.

The smolder stops our nose with stench.

Although I be well soused in this shower.