Stephen Gosson

Stephen Gosson (April 1554 – 13 February 1624) was an English satirist. Quotes He is forced to go whom the devil drives. The Ephemerides of Phialo (1579) p. 2 Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy. The Ephemerides of Phialo (1579) p. 66 The Schoole of Abuse (1579) After-wittes are ever best. "To the Reader" Poets are the whetstones of wit. Par. 3 The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack. Par. 3 The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes. Par. 3 Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe. Par. 3 The Woolf jettes in Weathers felles. Par. 3 He that readeth good writers, and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose, is lyke a foole. "Loyterers" A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all. "Players compared to Lucinius" He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch. "Qualities allowed in women" The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it. "Dicers and Carders" Translations Cedant arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ. Let gunns to gouns, and bucklers yeeld to bookes. "Souldiers" (Tully, [De Officiis, bk. 1, sec. 77]) External links Category:1554 births Category:1624 deaths Category:Playwrights from England Category:Poets from England Category:Satirists from England Category:University of Oxford alumni