30 Quotes by Michael Drayton

Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, / And when we meet at any time again, / Be it not seen in either of our brows, / That we one jot of former love retain.

Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Fair stood the wind for France, / When we our sails advance, / Nor now to prove our chance, / Longer will tarry.

It is too early to put a final loss figure on the event, but the combined insured losses from winds and flooding could reach 500 million pounds.

I pray thee leave, love me no more, / Call home the heart you gave me, / I but in vain the saint adore, / That can, but will not, save me.

For that fine madness still he did retain / Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.