Francis Beaumont The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act II, scene 5.
Francis Beaumont foi um poeta e dramaturgo renascentista inglês, famoso sobretudo por suas colaborações com John Fletcher. Ele está enterrado na Abadia de Westminster. Wikipedia

Francis Beaumont The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act II, scene 5.
“She's private to herself and best of knowledge
Whom she'll make so happy as to sigh for.”
Francis Beaumont The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 1.
Letter to Ben Jonson (1605), verses prefacing Jonson’s Volpone, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey http://www.englishverse.com/poems/on_the_tombs_in_westminster_abbey
Francis Beaumont The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 4.