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Old Fortunatus

The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus is a play in a mixture of prose and verse by Thomas Dekker, based on the German legend of Fortunatus and his magic inexhaustible purse. Though the play is not easy to categorise, it has been called "the only example of an interlude inspired by the fully developed genius of the Renaissance".

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

Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus

Old Fortunatus (1599).

“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).