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George Peele

1552 AD — 1598 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Sonnet
Cupid's Curse
Page 163 · printed citation: George Peele · subject: DAVID
Printed page 378 · quotation 18 · George Peele · Battle of Alcazar
Quote1846 · printed citation: GEORGE PEELE: Sonnet, Polyhymnia

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01c. 1575 AD

His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.

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02c. 1575 AD

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms.

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03c. 1575 AD

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

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04Undated

Beauteous and bright is he among the tribes; As when the sun attired in glistering robe Comes dancing from his oriental gate, And, bridegroom-like, hurls through the gloomy air His radiant beams: such doth King David show, Crowned with the honour of his enemies’ town, Shining in riches like the firmament, The starry vault that overhangs the earth: So looketh David, King of Israel.

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05Undated

Villain, a horse—Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly.

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06Undated

His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!

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07Undated

Westward Ho!

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