Richard Barnfield Quotes & Sayings

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

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. — Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator. — Richard Barnfield

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy. — Richard Barnfield

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield

Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man
Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;)
To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can,
(Whereby great profit vnto thee ensuth;)
Reade Bookes, hate Ignorance; (the Foe to Art,
The Damme of Errour, Enuy of the hart). — Richard Barnfield

If it be sin to love a lovely lad
Oh there sin I. — Richard Barnfield

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell — Richard Barnfield