Thomas Nashe

“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”

“Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.”

“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.”

“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King,Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo!”

“Blest is that government where no art thrives.”

“Beauty is but a flowerWhich wrinkles will devour.”

“Brightness falls from the air,Lord, have mercy on us.”

“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”