Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
Act iv. Sc. 3. Compare: "Spick and span new", Ford, The Lover’s Melancholy, act i. sc. 1. George Farquhar, Preface to his Works.
The Family of Love (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1602-7)
“As they use to say, spick and span new.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
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