Barnabe Googe
And lets them live, and takes the wise away.
Barnabe Googe (also spelt Goche and Goodge; 11 June 1540 – 7 February 1594) was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets.
Quotes
[edit]- Give money me, take friendship whoso list
For friends are gone come once adversity,
When money yet remaineth safe in chest,
That quickly can thee bring from misery.
Fair face show friends when riches do abound;
Come time of proof, farewell, they must away.
Believe me well, they are not to be found
If God but send thee once a lowering day.
Gold never starts aside, but in distress,
Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness.- "Of Money", as quoted in Yvor Winters, "The 16th Century Lyric in England: Part I", Poetry, vol. 53, no. 5 (February 1939) p. 264
Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (1563)
[edit]- A thousand doltish geese we might have spared,
A thousand witless heads death might have found,
A taken them for whom no man had cared,
And laid them low in deep oblivious ground:
But fortune favors fool, as old men say,
And lets them live, and takes the wise away.- "An Epitaph of the Death of Nicholas Grimald", l. 21.
- The oftener seen, the more I lust,
The more I lust, the more I smart,
The more I smart, the more I trust,
The more I trust, the heavier heart,
The heavy heart breeds mine unrest;
Thy absence, therefore, like I best.- "Oculi Augent Dolorum. Out of Sight, Out of Mind", st. 1
