Extended excerpt [Play, Character ‘Babulo,’ “The Song” – to ‘Janiculo’ & ‘Grissil’]:

“Work apace, apace, apace, apace;

Honest labour bears a lovely face;

Then hey noney, noney, hey noney, noney.” (p. 9)

Source link: Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599|1841 reprint of 1603 edition) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=KaINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Patient+Grissel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjopLnn6a_YAhWCh1QKHabACfUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=honest&f=false

Extended excerpt:[Play, character ‘Fortunatus’]

“Oh, whither am I rapt beyond myself?

More violent conflicts fight in every thought,

Than his whose fatal choice Troy’s downfall wrought.

Shall I contract myself to wisdom’s love?

Then I lose riches: and a wise man poor,

Is like a sacred book that’s never read, –

To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool

Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.” (lines 271-279, p. 18)

Source link: Old Fortunatus (November 1599|1904 J.M. Dent ed.) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=JKssAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Old+Fortunatus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwioo7mA9K_YAhVoi1QKHRcGCvUQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=wise%20man%20poor&f=false

Extended excerpt:[Character ‘Hippolito’ to ‘Orlando Friscobaldo’]

“I’m glad you’re wax, not marble; you are made

Of man’s best temper; there are now good hopes

That all those heaps of ice about your heart,

By which a father’s love was frozen up,

Are thaw’d in these sweet showers fetch’d from your eyes:

We’re ne’er like angels till our passion dies.” (pp. 142-143)

Source note: Part I of the play The Honest Whore was written by Thomas Dekker and co-author Thomas Middleton, and was initially presented sometime between 1602-1603. Part II of The Honest Whore – the portion of the play cited here – was licensed by Sir George Bucke, 29th April, 1608.

According to The Works of Thomas Middleton editor Alexander Dyce, the earliest known surviving copies of Part II credited only Thomas Dekker for the work. Although Dyce speculates that “as Middleton certainly wrote a portion of the First Part of this play…there is every reason to believe that he was concerned in the composition of the Second Part” (p. 125), most sources credit Dekker alone for the “Part Second” publication.

[Source note source: The Works of Thomas Middleton, Vol. III, ed. Alexander Dyce, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, p. 125; online via Harvard University & Google Books, books.google.com]

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Source link [Source note]: The Works of Thomas Middleton (1840) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=h0QwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=as+Middleton+certainly+wrote+a+portion+of+the+First+Part