Thomas Nashe Quotes

• 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 what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

  Thomas Nashe

  Dog, Travel, Tails

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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.

  Thomas Nashe

  Learning, Fruit, Study

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• Shape your coat according to your cloth.

  Thomas Nashe

  Coats, Shapes, Vietnamese

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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.

  Thomas Nashe

  Flower, Angel, Phrases

  1592 Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetr y'.

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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!
  
  The palm and may make country houses gay,
  Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
  And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
  Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
  In every street these tunes our ears do greet-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  Spring, the sweet Spring!

  Thomas Nashe

  Country, Sweet, Kings

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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

  Thomas Nashe

  Idiot, Fame, Frailty

  1592 Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

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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 closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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• Blest is that government where no art thrives.

  Thomas Nashe

  Art, Government, Thrive

  Thomas Nashe (2006). “The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works”, p.209, Penguin UK

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

  Thomas Nashe

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

  Thomas Nashe

  Heart, Sun, Wells

  "Christ's Tears over Jerusalem". Book by Thomas Nashe, 1593.

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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.

  Thomas Nashe

  Summer, Men, Years

  1592 Summer's Last Will and Testament,'Song'.

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

  Thomas Nashe

  Winter, Pestilence, Lord

  Songs from 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (performed c.1592, published 1600)

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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.

  Thomas Nashe

  Titles, Cry, Hundred

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