1.
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Richard Barnfield
2.
Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
Richard Barnfield
3.
As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made.
Richard Barnfield
4.
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
Richard Barnfield
5.
If it be sin to love a lovely lad
Oh there sin I.
Richard Barnfield
6.
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield
7.
He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.
Richard Barnfield
8.
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
Richard Barnfield
9.
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
Richard Barnfield