George Gascoigne Professions : Poet Born : 1535 Died : October 7, 1577 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by George Gascoigne In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. George Gascoigne ballet eye hands And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. George Gascoigne merriment more-the-merrier How sweet war is to such as know it not. George Gascoigne knows sweet war Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place. George Gascoigne lighting bullets I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. George Gascoigne smell use may Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best. George Gascoigne babe womanly The Raynbowe bending in the skye,Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,Is lyke the seate of God on hye,And seemes to tell these newes:That as thereby he promised,To drowne the worlde no more,So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,He will oure health restore. George Gascoigne skye bending Full many wanton babes have I, George Gascoigne wanton babe lullaby Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
