Richard Brathwait

thumb| Richard Brathwait (or Brathwaite, Braithwaite; 1588 – 4 May 1673) was an English poet. Quotes A wily wench there was (as I have read)Who us’d to capricorn her husband’s head. "A Cuckold with a Witnesse", A Strappado for the Devil (1615) Skin more pure than Ida’s snow,Whiter far than Moorish milk,Sweeter than ambrosia too,Softer than the Paphian silk,Indian plumes or thistle-down,Or May-blossoms newly blown,Is my mistress rosy-pale,Adding beauty to her veil. "Mounting Hyperboles", The English Gentlewoman (1631) To Banbury came I, O profane one!Where I saw a Puritane-oneHanging of his cat on Monday,For killing of a mouse on Sunday. Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal (1638, under the pseudonym "Corymbæus") pt. 1 I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in HellThan wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. The English Gentelman and Gentelwoman (1640), in a supplemental tract, The Turtle's Triumph. Phrase "lead apes in hell" found in his Drunken Barnaby's Journal...Bessy Bell (ed. 1716). Massinger, The City Madam, Act II, Sc. 2 · Shirley, The School of Compliments (1637) · Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Sc 1 External links