John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts

John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts (1661 – 25 January 1707) was an English Army officer, author, politician and peer.

Quotes

• Only tell her that I love:
    Leave the rest to her and Fate:
  Some kind planet from above
  May perhaps her pity move:
    Lovers on their stars must wait.—
  Only tell her that I love!
  Why, O why should I despair!
    Mercy’s pictured in her eye:
  If she once vouchsafe to hear,
  Welcome Hope and farewell Fear!
    She’s too good to let me die.—
  Why, O why should I despair?
  • "A Song, set by Mr. King, &c." S. S. Swartley, The Life and Poetry of John Cutts (1917), pp. xlix, 25