Thomas Middleton ( 10 of 22 )
Anything for a quiet life.
Anything for a quiet life.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, read more
How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.
And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
Who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
