John Cleveland

John Cleveland (16 June 1613 – 29 April 1658) was an English Cavalier poet. He was best known for political satire.

Quotes

• Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom;
  Not made him wander, but continued him home.
  • The Rebel Scot (1647)
  • Variant: "confined" for "continued"

• Never Mark Antony
  Dallied more wantonly
  With the fair Egyptian Queen.
  • Mark Antony (1647, '87)

• Like an ambassador that beds a queen
  With the nice caution of a sword between.
  • The Antiplatonic (1653)

• He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
  From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.
  • The Times

• The marigold, whose courtier's face
  Echoes the sun, and doth unlace
  Her at his rise, at his full stop
  Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.
  • On Phillis, Walking before Sunrise

External links

• The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (1687) — full text online at Google Books