Quote#Children
Why com'st thou like a girl with blubber'd eyes
Quote byJohn Ogilby · 1600–1676
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Homer His Iliads Translated (1660), Book XVI.
English (original)
Why com'st thou like a girl with blubber'd eyes, Who running by her busie mother cries To be ta'en up, and by her garments holds, Till she the fondling in her arms infolds.
— John Ogilby
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