Thomas Nashe Quotes

• He that is a traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat all what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing; and if this be not the highest step of thraldom, there is no liberty or freedom.

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath close’d Helen’s eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!

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• From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

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• Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav’st to appear.

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• Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

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• Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot’s friendship!

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• I will confer with thee somewhat gravely, although thou beest a goosecap and hast no judgement.

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• Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

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• ‘New herrings, new!’ we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

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• Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

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• Blest is that government where no art thrives.

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Thomas Nashe (11)

Birth:	November, 1567
Death:	1601
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Poet, Satirist

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