 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...young sinner? Prithee, why so mute ? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't ? Prithee, why so mute ? Quit, quit for shame! This...not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her. Tony Connor APOLOGUE Having a fine new suit, and no invitations, I slept in my new suit hoping to induce... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?...for shame! This will not move; This cannot take her. John Suckling, 1609-42 The first two verses fall forward from the lips — the speaker mocking his... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642) Aglaura \ Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? 2 Will, when u v 3 Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move. This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love,... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...ill prevail? / Prithee, why so pale?" By poem's end, the singer unleashes the full force of derision: Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move, This cannot take her. If of her self she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! The poem combines a high degree... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?...not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! COMPOSED BY 1637; PUBLISHED 1638. Like "Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun" and "When Icicles Hang by... | |
 | William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move. This cannot...not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her. America. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) expressed as follows her indifference to those who did not like... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die. SUCKLING Sir John 1609-1642 4097 Aglaura 'Song' If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding" Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...saints have trod, Waste of Glory, waste of God, War! SUCKLING Sir John 1609-1642 1 1269 Aglaura 'Song' is property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When 1 1270 :-! Ballad upon a Wedding' Her feet beneath her petticoat. Like little mice, stole in and out,... | |
 | Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire - Art - 2001 - 294 pages
...melancholy. We tried to console him with some lines written 200 years ago, and offered them as a specific. Quit, Quit, for shame; this will not move This cannot take her If of herself she will not love Nothing will make her; — The devil take her! Now ordinarily, he was fond of both poetry and music, witness... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? . . . Quit, quit for shame, this will not move; This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her. The Devil take her! Charles L. Squier, in Sir John Suckling (1978),... | |
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Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? 
