Clergyman's

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
- George Wither

Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.
- George Wither

I loved a lass, a fair one,
As fair as e'er was seen;
She was indeed a rare one,
Another Sheba queen:
But, fool as then I was,
I thought she loved me too:
But now, alas! she's left me,
Falero, lero, loo!
- George Wither

I loved a lass, a fair one,
As fair as e'er was seen;
She was indeed a rare one,
Another Sheba queen:
But, fool as then I was,
I thought she loved me too:
But now, alas! she's left me,
Falero, lero, loo!
- George Wither

Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
- George Wither

And I oft have heard defended,—
Little said is soonest mended.
- George Wither

Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman’s fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
’Cause another’s rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
- George Wither

Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman’s fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
’Cause another’s rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
- George Wither

And he that gives us in these days
New Lords may give us new laws.
- George Wither