Quote #10

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.

More from William Shenstone

  1. My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
  2. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.
  3. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
  4. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
  5. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.
  6. Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
  7. Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
  8. A fool and his words are soon parted.

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