Thomas Nashe Quotes

Thomas Nashe is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers. He was a playwright, poet, and satirist. He is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller.

✵ 1567 – 1601
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Famous Thomas Nashe Quotes

“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”

Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.

“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo!”

Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 161-164.

“Brightness falls from the air,
Queens have died young and fair,
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
I am sick, I must die:
Lord, have mercy on us.”

Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1590-1594.

“Blest is that government where no art thrives.”

Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1425.

“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”

Thomas Nashe

Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.

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