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"All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.
Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"A soul as white as heaven."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"But they that are above Have ends in everything."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Maid's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Maid's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour."
Beaumont and Fletcher / A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3.
A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"There is a method in man's wickedness,-- It grows up by degrees."
Beaumont and Fletcher / A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4.
A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"As cold as cucumbers."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.
Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Calamity is man's true touchstone."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1.
Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Kiss till the cow comes home."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"It would talk,-- Lord! how it talked!"
Beaumont and Fletcher / Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1.
Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Beggars must be no choosers."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 3.
Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"No better than you should be."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Coxcomb. Act iv. Sc. 3.
The Coxcomb. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"One foot in the grave."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Go to grass."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There is no jesting with edge tools."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
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"Though I say it that should not say it."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"I name no parties."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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"Whistle, and she'll come to you."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4.
Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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"The fit 's upon me now! Come quickly, gentle lady; The fit 's upon me now."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4.
Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He comes not in my books."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Death hath so many doors to let out life."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"What 's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink."
Beaumont and Fletcher / Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger."
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people!"
Beaumont and Fletcher / The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain