Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nasheis considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers.:5 He was a playwright, poet, and satirist. He is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller...
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appear fruits learning ought private public
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
beauty
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
titles cry hundred
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.
beauty beautiful queens
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.
summer men years
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.