Richard Brathwait

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-one
    Hanging 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 Hell
    Than 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
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