10 Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Professions:
No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Bribery
Quotes, by Sir Walter Raleigh , Source: Love the Only Price of Love
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If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
Chastity
Quotes, by Sir Walter Raleigh , Source: written the night before his death, see Bayley's "Life of Raleigh"
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But in vain she did conjure him,
To depart her presence so,
Having a thousand tongues t' allure him
And but one to bid him go.
When lips invite,
And eyes delight,
And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,
Persuade delay,--
What boots to say
Forego me now, come to me soon.
Parting
Quotes, by Sir Walter Raleigh , Source: Dulcina, see Cayley's "Life of Raleigh", vol. I, ch. III attributed to Brydges, who edited Raleigh's
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Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.
Doubt
Quotes, by Sir Walter Raleigh , Source: A Lover's Verses
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