Edward Sherburne
English translator and poet (1618-1702)
Sir Edward Sherburne (18 September 1618 – 4 November 1702) was an English poet and translator and a staunch royalist.
Quotes
edit- There's no dallying with love
Though he be a child and blind;
Then let none the danger prove,
Who would to himself be kind:
Smile he does when thou dost play,
But his smiles to death betray.Lately with the Boy I sported;
Love I did not, yet love feigned;
Had not mistress, yet I courted;
Sighed I did, yet was not pained;
Till at last this love in jest,
Proved in earnest my unrest.When I saw my fair one first,
In a feigned fire I burned;
But true love my poor heart pierced,
When her eyes on mine she turned:
So a real wound I took,
For my counterfeited look.Slighted Love, his skill to show,
Struck me with a mortal dart;
Then I learnt that 'gainst his bow,
Vain are the weak helps of art;
And thus captived, found that true
Doth dissembled love pursue.- "The Surprisal" in Witt's Recreations (1663) and Venus Looking-glass (1669)