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“The better day, the better deed.”
Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "The better day, the worse deed", Mathew Henry, Commentaries, Genesis iii.
The Phœnix (1603-4)
“Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.”
Thomas Middleton
The Witch
The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. "I ’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round", Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 1.
“My nearest
And dearest enemy.”
Thomas Middleton
Anything for a Quiet Life
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, Or ever I had seen that day", Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2.
“A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.”
Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So wise so young, they say, do never live long", William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Phœnix (1603-4)
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.
“Hold their noses to the grindstone.”
Blurt, Master-Constable (c.1601), Act iii. Sc. 3. Attributed to Middleton, but possibly written or edited by Thomas Dekker. http://www.tech.org/~cleary/blurt.html#NOTES. Compare: "Hold their noses to grinstone", John Heywood, Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
“Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.”
Act iv. Sc. 3. Compare: "For drames always go by contraries", Samuel Lover, The Angel’s Whisper.
The Family of Love (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1602-7)
“Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.”
Thomas Middleton
Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term (1602), Act iv. Sc. 1. Compare: "It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize", Alexander Pope, The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.
Blurt, Master-Constable (c. 1601), Act iii. Sc. 3. Compare: "I smell a rat", Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3; Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281; "I begin to smell a rat", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. chap. x.
“There is no hate lost between us.”
Thomas Middleton
The Witch
The Witch (1616), Act iv. Sc. 3. Compare: "There is no love lost between us", Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. chap. xxiii.; Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act iv.; David Garrick, Correspondence, 1759; Henry Fielding, The Grub Street Opera, act i. sc. 4.
“That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.”
Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So for a good old gentlemanly vice,/I think I must take up with avarice", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.
“From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.”
A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), Act i. Sc. 2. Compare: "Some undone widow sits upon mine arm", Philip Massinger, A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.
“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.; "The world ’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill", Thomas Heywood, Apology for Actors (1612).
“Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.”
Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1.
“How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!”
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 1.
“Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.”
A Trick to catch the Old One (1605).
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.
“A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.”
Act v. Sc. 3. Compare: "Plain as a pike-staff", Terence in English (1641); Buckingham, Speech in the House of Lords, 1675; Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation), book xii. chap. viii. John Byrom, Epistle to a Friend.
The Family of Love (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1602-7)
“The worst comes to the worst.”
Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Worst comes to the worst", Cervantes, Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. v.; Marston, The Dutch Courtezan, act iii. sc. 1.
The Phœnix (1603-4)
“All is not gold that glisteneth.”
Thomas Middleton
A Fair Quarrel
A Fair Quarrel (1616), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "But all thing which that shineth as the gold, Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told", Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Chanones Yemannes Tale", Line 16430.
“Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?”
Act v. Sc. 3.
The Family of Love (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1602-7)
“This was a good week’s labour.”
Thomas Middleton
Anything for a Quiet Life
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act v. Sc. 3.
“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”
More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act i. Sc. 4.
“Justice may wink a while, but see at last.”
Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough (1621).
“Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.”
Thomas Middleton
The Witch
The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. Compare: Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one"; Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare"; Dyce says, "There seems to be little doubt that ‘Macbeth’ is of an earlier date than ‘The Witch’".
Thomas Middleton
Anything for a Quiet Life
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, part ii, Act i. sc. 2.
