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Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilld with lullabie.

George Gascoigne

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.

George Gascoigne

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.

George Gascoigne

Sing lullabie, as women do,
Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;
And lullabie can I sing to,
As womanly as can the best.

George Gascoigne

The Raynbowe bending in the skye,
Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,
Is lyke the seate of God on hye,
And seemes to tell these newes:
That as thereby he promised,
To drowne the worlde no more,
So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,
He will oure health restore.

George Gascoigne

As busy brains must beat on tickle toys,
As rash invention breeds a raw device,
So sudden falls do hinder hasty joys;
And as swift baits do fleetest fish entice,
So haste makes waste.

George Gascoigne

The carrion crow, that loathsome beast,
Which cries against the rain.

George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne

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Born: 1525

Died: October 7, 1577 (aged 52)

Bio: George Gascoigne was an English poet, soldier and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to the emergence of Philip Sidney.

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