Thomas Jordan (poet)

Thomas Jordan (c. 1612–1685) was an English poet, playwright and actor Quotes thumb|upright=1.3|Dame Venus, love's lady, Was born of the sea. We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea,      Dame Venus, love's lady,      Was born of the sea. "Drinking Song", st. 2 Your most beautiful bride who with garlands is crown'd And kills with each glance as she treads on the ground... Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense, Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence. "Drinking Song", st. 3 Let's eat, drink, and play till the worms do corrupt us,      'Tis certain, Post mortem      Nulla voluptas. "Drinking Song", st. 4 See also Wisdom 2:8 (Vulgate) Sardanapalus External links John Playford, Choice Ayres, Songs, & Dialogues (1676), p. 95 Thomas d'Urfey, Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive, vol. 3 (1719), p. 177 Arthur Quiller-Couch (ed.) The Oxford Book of English Verse, 2nd ed. (1939) no. 344 Category:1685 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Playwrights from England Category:Actors from England