“Nose, nose, jolly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;
And they gave me this jolly red nose.”
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 4.
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British dramatist 1584–1616Related quotes

1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1960s

“Hold their noses to the grindstone.”
Blurt, Master-Constable (c.1601), Act iii. Sc. 3. Attributed to Middleton, but possibly written or edited by Thomas Dekker. http://www.tech.org/~cleary/blurt.html#NOTES. Compare: "Hold their noses to grinstone", John Heywood, Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.

“Plain as the nose in a man's face.”
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)