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The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier is a Jacobean play written by English author Thomas Dekker.

“ALANZO: Wrongs, like great whirlwinds,
Shake highest battlements. Few for heaven would care,
Should they be ever happy.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out,
And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands
About the bride-chamber.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“ONAELIA:You are like common beadles, apt to lash
Almost to death poor wretches not worth striking,
But fawn with slavish flattery on damned vices
So great men act them. You clap hands at those,
Where the true poet indeed doth scorn to gild
A gaudy tomb with glory of his verse,
Which coffins stinking carrion.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“KING: I am full of thoughts,
A thousand wheels toss my incertain fears,
There is a storm in my hot boiling brains,
Which rises without wind. A horrid one.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“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: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me?”

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)

“ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

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