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date: 13 June 2025

Thomas Nashe 1567–1601
English pamphleteer and dramatist 

  1. O, tis a precious apothegmatical Pedant, who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an English-man.
    Have with you to Saffron-walden (1596); see Shakespeare
  2. Beauty is but a flower
    Which wrinkles will devour.
     
    Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) l. 1588
  3. Brightness falls from the air;
    Queens have died young and fair;
    Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
    I am sick, I must die.
    Lord have mercy on us.
     
    Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) l. 1590
  4. From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!
     
    Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) l. 1878