John Cleveland Quotes

   1613 - 1658

English  poet,  a  satirical  propagandist  for  the  Royalists  in  the Civil War,  and for  a  time  a political prisoner. Two  collections  of his  poems  were  published during  his  lifetime,  one  in 1651 and the other in1653.

Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.

The  Antiplatonic (1653)

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The marigold, whose courtier's face Echoes the sun, and doth unlace Her at his rise, at his full stop Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.

John Cleveland
— John Cleveland, On Phillis Walking Before Sunrise.

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Had CainbeenScot,Godwould have changedhisdoom Nor forced him wander, but confined him home.

John Cleveland
— 1647  'The Rebel Scot'.

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Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.

John Cleveland
— "The  Antiplatonic" (1653)

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Give me a lover bold and free, Not eunuched with formality.

John Cleveland
— 1653  'The  Antiplatonic'.

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Mystical grammar of amorous glances, Feeling of pulses the physic of love, Rhetorical courtings, and musical dances; Numbering of kisses arithmetic prove.

John Cleveland
— 1651  'Mark  Antony'.

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