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“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”

Thomas Dekker

Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

“And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.”

Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus

Old Fortunatus (1599).

“BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me?”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“To add to golden numbers golden numbers.”

Thomas Dekker

Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

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“ALANZO: Wrongs, like great whirlwinds,
Shake highest battlements. Few for heaven would care,
Should they be ever happy.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out,
And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands
About the bride-chamber.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“ONAELIA:You are like common beadles, apt to lash
Almost to death poor wretches not worth striking,
But fawn with slavish flattery on damned vices
So great men act them. You clap hands at those,
Where the true poet indeed doth scorn to gild
A gaudy tomb with glory of his verse,
Which coffins stinking carrion.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.

“KING: I am full of thoughts,
A thousand wheels toss my incertain fears,
There is a storm in my hot boiling brains,
Which rises without wind. A horrid one.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd?
O punishment!”

Thomas Dekker

Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html

“A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.”

Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus

Old Fortunatus (1599).

“ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“The best of men
That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act i. Sc. 12. Compare: "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne", Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry.

“We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.

“ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).

“Turn over a new leaf.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.