Nicholas Amhurst

Nicholas Amhurst (16 October 1697 – 27 April 1742) was an English poet and political writer.

Quotes

• CLOE, dear JACK, that once victorious Name,
  CLOE, the Object of my raging Flame,
  Whom I did more than Life or Friendship prize,
  In Fleetstreet now a common strumpet plies,
  Turns up to ev’ry Puppy in the Town,
  And claps the Temple Rake for half a Crown.
  • "Catullus Imitated", in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd ed. (1723), p. 35, adapting ep. 58

• CLOE, as soon as she has plaid the Whore,
  Repents the Deed, and vows to do’t no more;
  With the next Man she meets, to cure her Pain,
  She breaks her Vow, repents, and vows again;
  Breaks it again, so yielding is the Dame,
  And does the next Day and the next the same;
  Or keep thy Vows, frail Nymph, or vow no more,
  Cease to repent, or cease to play the Whore.
  Plain Fornication is a venial Evil,
  But Perjury leads headlong to the Devil.
  • "On the Same"; ibid.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Nicholas Amhurst on Wikipedia