Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger
Philip Massingerwas an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth2 May 1908
cannot desperate driven middle steer
I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.
last love violent
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
govern
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
dares valiant
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
ignorant learned pray worse
Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans
call majesty mean remarkable
And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,/ Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.
glued mine takes undone widow wronged
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,/ And takes away the use of it; 1 and my sword,/ Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,/ Will not be drawn.
death doors shall thousand
Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
summer adversity autumn
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
greatness challenges vices
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
suicide lying bears
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.
kings slavery study
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.
hands feet sorrow
Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.
sleep night quiet
Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.