George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
purses bargains picks
A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]
giving given expected
A gift much expected is paid, not given.
fighting belly wells
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
throat flatterer
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
house fats keepers
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
whole-life honour whole
A faire death honours the whole life.
mother winter fairs
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
purses bottles drunkards
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
men
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
A disarmed peace is weake.
masters scholar paid
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]
bees
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
cows horns
A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]
cities half
A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]