The Soldier’s Stand (Quotations)

This is (I hope) a complete list of all the quotations in The Soldier’s Stand. Longer quotations I have only given the opening, or the first two lines of a song or poem. The quotations are listed in order of appearance.

The quotations in this book come from many sources of the period and earlier. Please note, unless otherwise stated, all Biblical quotations are taken from the King James Version.

Any mistakes in my attributions or missing quotations, please do let me know.

Whoever behaves with respect will receive respect. Whoever brings sweetness will be served almond cake.
From Emptiness by Jalaluddin Rumi.

Thou shouldst rather be moved with pity to see a silly innocent hare murdered of a dog, the weak of the stronger, the fearful of the fierce, the innocent of the cruel and unmerciful.
From Utopia by Sir Thomas More

For true and righteous are his judgments: he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Revelation 19:2

All flaxen was his hair; But now he is dead, And laid in his bed, And never will come again.
Eastward Ho! by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston Act Three Scene Two, based on Ophelia’s song from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act Four, Scene Five

When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white…
Spring a poem from Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare, Act Five, Scene Two..

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not..
Jeremiah 5:21

Care-charmer Sleepe, sonne of the sable night,
Brother to death, in silent darknes borne…
From Delia Sonnet 45 by Samuel Daniel.

Howbeit the fancie
Of your blindnes comth not of ignorancie…
From The Proverbs of John Heywood by John Heywood

The firsten steed that he drew out,
He was the penny-gray;
He wad hae ridden oer meel or mor
A Leve-lang summer’s day…
From Hugh Spencer’s Feats in France, The Child Ballads: 158.

Par ung seul clou perd on ung bon cheval.
Because of a single nail a good horse is lost. One of the proverbs in Faictz et Dictz by Jean Molinet

From glutton feastes, to souldiars fare a change.
From Of Sardanapalus dishonorable life, and miserable death by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in Tottel’s Miscellany.

Patience is old in being always young,
Not having right, nor ever offering wrong…
From The Wisdome of Solomon paraphrased, by Thomas Middleton, Chapter XV.

Es geht wohl gegen der sommerzeit
Der Winter Fahrt dahin…
A German folk song from the Thirty Years War. Translated for me by a very kind German friend.

Set me in heaven, in earth, or yet in hell;
In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood…
From Sonnet 8 by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

To aduenture as becommeth men, to obtaine an habitation in those remote lands, in which Nature very prodigally doth minister unto mens endeuours, and for art to worke upon.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583 by Edward Haies.

Ye noble Captaines of the Land
and Sea men of such brave command…
From Gallants to Bohemia, an English Broadside Ballad.