Fulke Greville Quotes

October 3, 1554 – 30 September 1628

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke (3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was a minor Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman.

Now rime, the son of rage, which art no kin to skill, And endless grief, which deads my life, yet knows not how to kill, Go seek that hapless tomb, which if ye hap to find, Salute the stones that keep the bones that held so good a mind.

"Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney" (1593).

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Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound,And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight,Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.

 Fulke Greville
— "Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney" (1593).

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If Nature did not take delight in blood,She would have made more easy ways to good.We that are bound by vows and by promotion,With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,To teach belief in good and still devotion,To preach of heaven's wonders and delights —Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,He finds the God there far unlike his books.

 Fulke Greville
— Chorus of Priests.

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Love is no true-made looking-glassWhich perfect yields the shape we bring;It ugly shows us all that was,And flatters every future thing.

 Fulke Greville
— LXI

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In night when colours all to black are cast,Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;The eye — a watch to inward senses placed,Not seeing, yet still having power of sight —Gives vain alarums to the inward sense.

 Fulke Greville
— CI

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Three things there be in man's opinion dear,Fame, many friends, and fortune's dignities:False visions all, which in our sense appear,To sanctify desire's idolatry.

 Fulke Greville
— CVI

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