“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
Thomas Dekker foi um dramaturgo inglês.
A primeira notícia sobre o escritor data de 1598, quando aparece no Jornal de Philip Henslowe; na tal data se achava ao serviço da companhia teatral do Lord Almirante, para a qual escreveu dez dramas e colaborou em trinta entre 1598 e 1602. Apesar de sua abundante produção cênica, viveu una existência precária e esteve na prisão por dívidas entre 1613 e 1618. Em uma polêmica literária surgida entre John Marston e Ben Jonson se manifestou partidário do primeiro, e o ataque que o adversário lhe dirigiu com Poestaster lhe fez escrever sua réplica Satiromastix ; mas se reconciliaram e chegaram, inclusive, a escrever algumas peças juntos, como The King's Entertainment . 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.