My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid’s curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!
George Peele
English poet and dramatist (1556-1596)
3 pieces
- Lived
- 1556–1596
- Born
- London
- Died
- London
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Known as
- actor, writer, poet, playwright
- Era
- Renaissance
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Works (3)
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 encreasing.
What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!