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John Marston
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“Foul canker of fair virtuous action, Vile blaster of the freshest blooms on earth, Envys abhorrèd child, Detraction, I here expose, to thy all-tainting breath, The issue of my brain: snarl, rail, bark, bite, Know that my spirit scorns Detraction's spite.”
John Marston (1576–1634) first seen 1598 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Detraction I Present My Poesy", line 1, from The Scourge of Villainy (1598-99).
“Who winks and shuts his apprehension up.”
John Marston (1576–1634) first seen 1600 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Antonio's Revenge, Prologue, line 17. (1600)
“For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs, And chase it through the sky.”
John Marston (1576–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.”
John Marston (1576–1634) first seen 1603 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Malcontent, Act III, sc. iv. (1603-04)
“Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.”
John Marston (1576–1634) first seen 1606 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba, Act II, sc. ii. (1606)
“Marston is a writer of great merit, who rose to tragedy from the ground of comedy, and whose forte was not sympathy, either with the stronger or softer emotions, but an impatient scorn and bitter indignation against the vices and follies of men, which vented itself either in comic irony or in lofty invective. He was properly a satirist.”
John Marston (1576–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Hazlitt Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ([1820] 1845) Lecture 3, p. 57.