The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Whose flame creeps in at every hole.
‘The Hunting of Cupid’ (c.1591)
When as the rye reach to the chin,
And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within,
Strawberries swimming in the cream,
And schoolboys playing in the stream,
Then O, then O, then O, my true love said,
Till that time come again,
She could not live a maid.
‘The Old Wive’s Tale’ (1595) l. 75 ‘Song’
His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned
But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing:
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
And, lovers’ sonnets turned to holy psalms,
A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,
And feed on prayers, which are age his alms:
But though from court to cottage he depart,
His saint is sure of his unspotted heart...
Goddess, allow this aged man his right,
To be your beadsman now that was your knight.
‘Polyhymnia’ (1590) ad fin. ‘Sonnet’
4.34 Charles Pèguy 1873-1914
Qui ne gueule pas la vèritè, quand il sait la vèritè, se fait le complice des menteurs et des
faussaires.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of
liars and forgers.
‘Lettre du Provincial’ 21 December 1899, in ‘Basic Verities’ (1943) p. 46
La tyrannie est toujours mieux organisèe que la libertè.
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.
‘Basic Verities’ (1943) ‘War and Peace’.
4.35 1st Earl of Pembroke c.1501-70
Out ye whores, to work, to work, ye whores, go spin.
In Andrew Clark (ed.) ‘Brief Lives’...by John Aubrey (1898) vol. 1 ‘William Herbert, 1st earl of
Pembroke’ (commonly quoted as ‘Go spin, you jades, go spin’).