Fic help, please!

[juliacarmen.livejournal.com]

You know how there are things you suspect  Jeeves would use a quotation to say? Things like: 'cheer up, bad things happen to everyone' are usually said with a quote from Marcus Aurelius, for e.g.
There are a few quotations in my fic. But not being very well-read or particularly good at Googling, I haven't managed to find the quotes to meet the words I need Jeeves to say.

There are three quotes I'm missing:

1. What quote would Jeeves use to get Bertie out of bed? I was hoping for a quote about the day getting on, sun rising in the sky, etc. I thought I'd find a good quote from Shakespeare, but all I found was some gaff about oily lids.

2. I need an equivalent for "the grass is always greener on the other side." Something about men never being happy with their lot.

3. ...Well, I promised no spoilers. But I have already spoiled for this bit. I need a quotation that would be Jeeves way of saying "hot damn, this feels good!" The word ecstasy would probably figure into it somewhere...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

1. Depending on how relations stand, there's Pope:

'Awake, my love, disclose thy radiant eyes :
Arise, my wife, my beauteous lady, rise !
Hear how the doves with pensive notes complain,
And in soft murmurs tell the trees their pain ;
The winter's past ; the clouds and tempests fly ;
The sun adorns the fields, and brightens all the sky

Obvs. you'd want to get rid of the wife bit. ;)

The Shakespeare you were thinking of might've been this from Venus & Adonis:

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.

2. You could just have him say it in Latin? Fertilior seges est alieno semper in arvo is the Erasmus version.

3. Maybe try Ovid or Goethe? I've sadly run out of time to dig around any further, but I hope this is some help!

[juliacarmen.livejournal.com]

That Shakespeare quote is perfect, thank you!!!

2. This is actually Bertie quoting Jeeves. But I do have Bertie mangling Latin somewhere else in the fic, so maybe... "Fertil segues et alien simper in arbor"?