Elizabeth Grimston

Elizabeth Grimston (also Grymeston or Grimeston; c. 1563 – c. 1603) was an English poet.

Quotes

Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives

Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives (London: Melch. Bradwood for William Aspley, 1640)
  • Crush the serpent in the head,
    Break ill egs yer they be hatched.
    Kill bad chickens in the tread,
    Fledge[d] they hardly can be catched.
    In the rising stifle ill,
    Lest it grow against thy will.
    • Epistle
  • Our best life is to die well: for living here we enjoy nothing: things past are dead and gone: things present are alwayes ending: things future alwayes beginning: while we live we die; and we leave dying, when we leave living.
    • Ch. 4
  • There be foure good mothers have foure bad daughters: Trueth hath Hatred; Prosperity hath Pride; Security hath Perill; and Familiarity hath Contempt.
    • Ch. 20
  • A faire woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatorye to the purse, and a hell to the soule.
    • Ch. 20
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