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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Robert Herrick. (1591–1674) (continued)

2269

You say to me-wards your affection ’s strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long. 1

Love me Little, Love me Long.

2270

    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
  Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles to-day
  To-morrow will be dying. 2

To the Virgins to make much of Time.

2271

    Fall on me like a silent dew,
  Or like those maiden showers
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
  A baptism o’er the flowers.

To Music, to becalm his Fever.

2272

    Fair daffadills, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
As yet the early rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

To Daffadills.

2273

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 3

Sorrows Succeed.

2274

    Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
  A little out, and then, 4
As if they played at bo-peep,
  Did soon draw in again.

To Mistress Susanna Southwell.

2275

    Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting-stars attend thee;
  And the elves also,
  Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

The Night Piece to Julia.

Note 1.
See Marlowe, Quotation 10. [back]

Note 2.
Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.—Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.

Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time.—Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. [back]

Note 3.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 196. [back]

Note 4.
Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out.
Sir John Suckling: Ballad upon a Wedding. [back]

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