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\u201cHonest labour bears a lovely face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Dekker<\/strong>, English playwright<\/p>\n

With co-authors Henry Chettle<\/strong><\/span> & William Haughton<\/span><\/strong>, Patient Grissel: A <\/em>Comedy<\/em> (1599) Act I, Scene I, \u2018reprint from the black-letter edition of 1603,\u2019 London: Shakespeare Society, 1841, p. 9; online via Oxford University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Play, Character \u2018Babulo,\u2019 \u201cThe Song\u201d \u2013 to \u2018Janiculo\u2019 & \u2018Grissil\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWork apace, apace, apace, apace;<\/p>\n

Honest labour bears a lovely face<\/span>;<\/p>\n

Then hey noney, noney, hey noney, noney.\u201d (p. 9)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Patient Grissel: A Comedy <\/em>(1599|1841 reprint of 1603 edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KaINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Patient+Grissel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjopLnn6a_YAhWCh1QKHabACfUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=honest&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThis age thinks better of a gilded fool<\/p>\n

Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom\u2019s school.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Dekker<\/strong>, English playwright<\/p>\n

Old Fortunatus <\/em>(November 1599) Act I, Scene I, ed. Oliphant Smeaton, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, lines 278-279, p. 18; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:[Play, character \u2018Fortunatus\u2019]\n

\u201cOh, whither am I rapt beyond myself?<\/p>\n

More violent conflicts fight in every thought,<\/p>\n

Than his whose fatal choice Troy\u2019s downfall wrought.<\/p>\n

Shall I contract myself to wisdom\u2019s love?<\/p>\n

Then I lose riches: and a wise man poor,<\/p>\n

Is like a sacred book that\u2019s never read, –<\/p>\n

To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.<\/p>\n

This age thinks better of a gilded fool<\/span><\/p>\n

Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom\u2019s school<\/span>.\u201d (lines 271-279, p. 18)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Old Fortunatus <\/em>(November 1599|1904 J.M. Dent ed.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=JKssAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Old+Fortunatus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwioo7mA9K_YAhVoi1QKHRcGCvUQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=wise%20man%20poor&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWe are ne\u2019er like angels till our passion dies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Dekker<\/strong>, English playwright*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Honest Whore<\/em> (Part Second) (c.1608) Part II, Act I, scene iii, in The <\/em>Works of Thomas Middleton<\/em>, Vol. III, ed. Alexander Dyce, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, p.143; online via National Library of the Netherlands & Google Books, books.google.com\u00a0[*<\/span><\/strong>Possible co-author: Thomas Middleton. Please see ‘Context’ tab for additional details.]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:[Character \u2018Hippolito\u2019 to \u2018Orlando Friscobaldo\u2019]\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad you\u2019re wax, not marble; you are made<\/p>\n

Of man\u2019s best temper; there are now good hopes<\/p>\n

That all those heaps of ice about your heart,<\/p>\n

By which a father\u2019s love was frozen up,<\/p>\n

Are thaw\u2019d in these sweet showers fetch\u2019d from your eyes:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re ne\u2019er like angels till our passion dies<\/span>.\u201d (pp. 142-143)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Part I<\/u> of the play The Honest Whore<\/em> was written by Thomas Dekker<\/strong><\/span> and co-author Thomas Middleton<\/strong><\/span>, and was initially presented sometime between 1602-1603. Part II<\/u> of The Honest Whore<\/em> – the portion of the play cited here – was licensed by Sir George Bucke, 29th April, 1608.<\/p>\n

According to The Works of Thomas Middleton <\/em>editor Alexander Dyce, the earliest known surviving copies of Part II credited only Thomas Dekker for the work. Although Dyce speculates that \u201cas Middleton certainly wrote a portion of the First Part of this play\u2026there is every reason to believe that he was concerned in the composition of the Second Part\u201d (p. 125), most sources credit Dekker alone for the \u201cPart Second\u201d publication.<\/p>\n

[Source note source<\/em>: The Works of Thomas Middleton<\/em>, Vol. III, ed. Alexander Dyce, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, p. 125; online via Harvard University & Google Books, books.google.com]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5f1ab-1563″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: The Works of Thomas Middleton <\/em>(1840) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=TfNTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA143&dq<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Source note]<\/span>: The Works of Thomas Middleton <\/em>(1840) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=h0QwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=as+Middleton+certainly+wrote+a+portion+of+the+First+Part\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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