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Thomas Dekker: Citations en anglais
“And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.”
Thomas Dekker
Old Fortunatus
Old Fortunatus (1599).
“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.
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“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)
“ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.”
Thomas Dekker
The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
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.
“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).
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.
