Elizabeth Grimston

Elizabeth Grimston (also Grymeston or Grimeston; c. 1563 – c. 1603) was an English poet.

Quotes

Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives

Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives (London: Melch. Bradwood for William Aspley, 1640)

• Crush the serpent in the head,
  Break ill egs yer they be hatched.
  Kill bad chickens in the tread,
  Fledge[d] they hardly can be catched.
  In the rising stifle ill,
  Lest it grow against thy will.
  • Epistle

• Our best life is to die well: for living here we enjoy nothing: things past are dead and gone: things present are alwayes ending: things future alwayes beginning: while we live we die; and we leave dying, when we leave living.
  • Ch. 4

• There be foure good mothers have foure bad daughters: Trueth hath Hatred; Prosperity hath Pride; Security hath Perill; and Familiarity hath Contempt.
  • Ch. 20

• A faire woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatorye to the purse, and a hell to the soule.
  • Ch. 20