Thomas Nashe

Sourced

• Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.
  • Four Letters 1592

• 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.
  • Christ's Tears over Jerusalem 1593

Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600)

• 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 wee, to witta woo!
  • lines 161-164

• Blest is that government where no art thrives.
  • line 1425

• Beauty is but a flower
  Which wrinkles will devour.
  • lines 1588-1589

• Brightness falls from the air,
  Queens have died young and fair,
  Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
  I am sick, I must die:
  Lord, have mercy on us.
  • lines 1590-1594

• From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.
  • line 1878

Attributed

• Many will it claim.
  It makes your life disdain.

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