Thomas Bastard
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Title: Reverend Thomas Bastard
Birthdate: 1566
Birthplace: Blandford, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: April 19, 1618
Occupation: Clergyman and Epigrammatist
Profile: Best known for
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams, published in 1598.
Website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-bastard
Number of Quotes: 13
A black sheep is a biting beast.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Content feeds not one glory, nor one pelf,
Content can be contented with herself.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
He that is taught by his own art, By others' errors mends his part.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Marriage is a desperate thing: The frogs in Aesop are extreme, they needs must marry, though they in the water dwell.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
My little book: who will thou please, tell me?
All which shall read thee? No that cannot be.
Whom then, the best? But few of these are known.
How shall thou know to please, thou know’st not whom?
The meaner sort commend not poetry;
And sure the worst should please themselves for thee:
But let them pass, and set by most no store,
Please thou one well, thou shall not need please more.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Neighbours I marvel much to see your strife,
Since ye are so well matched, so like of life,
A most vile husband, a most wicked wife.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Our fathers did but use the world before,
And having used did leave the same to us.
We spill whatever resteth to their store.
What can our heirs inherit but our curse?
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Sextus, upon a spleen, did rashly swear,
That no new fashion he would ever wear,
He was forsworn for see what did ensue,
He wore the old, till the old was the new.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
The sea hath fish for every man, And what would you have more?
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble; Women and care, and care and women, and women and care and trouble.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
They that govern the most make the least noise.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span; I conceive it is duty to be honest to man.
Chrestoleros: Seven Bookes of Epigrams (1598)
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