Sir John Davies Quotes

   1569 - 1626

English  poet  and  civil  servant.  He  held  high  office  in  Ireland where   he   supported   severe   repressive   measures   and   was nominated  Chief Justice  (1626).  His  poems  include Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and Hymns to Astrea (1599).

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in And they that are within would fain go out.

1608  'A Contention Betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid for Precedence', l.193-6.

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Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

Sir John Davies
— 1596  Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza16.

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This wondrous miracle did Love devise,
For dancing is love's proper exercise.

Sir John Davies
— Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza 18 (1596)

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Learn then to dance, you that are princes born, And lawful lords of earthly creatures all; Imitate them, and thereof take no scorn, (For this new art to them is natural) And imitate the stars celestial. For when pale death your vital twist shall sever, Your better parts must dance with them forever.

Sir John Davies
— 1596  Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza 60.

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Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, We learn so little and forget so much.

Sir John Davies
— 1599  Nosce Teipsum, stanza19.

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I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked in every thing; And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

Sir John Davies
— 1599  Nosce Teipsum, stanza 45.

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