The Honest Man's Fortune is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Nathan Field, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger. It was apparently the earliest of the works produced by this trio of writers, the others being The Queen of Corinth and The Knight of Malta.
“That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.”
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
Epilogue. Compare: "Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.”
Act V, scene 3, line 170.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
Act III, scene 3.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”
Act IV, scene 1.
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“All things that are
Made for our general uses are at war,—
Even we among ourselves.”
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
