Robert Wever Quotes

Robert Wever was an English poet and dramatist of the sixteenth century about whom little biographical information seems to have survived. His name is often given as Richard Wever or simply R. Wever. An Enterlude called lusty Juventus, an interlude, attributed to him, was published in 1565. The poem In Youth is Pleasure , is a popular and remembered anthology piece, and has been several times set to music. Wikipedia

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Robert Wever Quotes

“In a herber green, asleep where I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the mids of the day;
I dreamed fast of mirth and play.
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.”

Lusty Juventus http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/juventus.txt (1557)

“The Prologue of the Messenger.
For as much as man is naturally prone
To evil from his youth, as Scripture doth recite,
It is necessary that he be speedily withdrawn
From concupiscence of sin, his natural appetite:
An order to bring up youth Ecclesiasticus doth write,
An untamed horse will be hard, saith he,
And a wanton child wilful will be.”

Lusty Juventus http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/juventus.txt (1557)

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