Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy

Quote byStephen Gosson · 1554–1624

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Ephemerides of Phialo (1579) p. 66.

English (original)

Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy.

— Stephen Gosson

The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes.

The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack.

After-wittes are ever best.

He is forced to go whom the devil drives.

Poets are the whetstones of wit.

Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe.