“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
Thomas Dekker è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo inglese prolifico e versatile dell'Età elisabettiana, che ha svolto attività di scrittore di testi per il teatro e di libelli in prosa. La sua carriera si è svolta nell'arco di molti decenni durante i quali è stato in contatto con molti dei più famosi drammaturghi dell'epoca. Wikipedia

“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
“And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.”
Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus
Old Fortunatus (1599).
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.”
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
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“To add to golden numbers golden numbers.”
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
“BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.”
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.”
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.”
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act i. Sc. 12. Compare: "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne", Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry.
“We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.”
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.
Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.