1.
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
George Peele
2.
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
George Peele
3.
Live or die, sink or swim.
George Peele
4.
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
George Peele
5.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
George Peele
6.
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
George Peele
7.
Fair maid, white and red,
Comb me smooth, and stroke my head;
And every hair a sheave shall be,
And every sheave a golden tree.
George Peele
8.
Parish me no parishes.
George Peele