Thomas Jordan (poet) Quotes

We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, </br> Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: </br> Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea, </br> Dame Venus, love's lady, </br> Was born of the sea.

Let's eat, drink, and play till the worms do corrupt us, </br> 'Tis certain, Post mortem </br> Nulla voluptas.

Your most beautiful bride who with garlands is crown'd </br> And kills with each glance as she treads on the ground... </br> Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense, </br> Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence.