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Beaumont And Fletcher

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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Philaster
The Maid's Tragedy
A King and No King
Cupid's Revenge
Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour
Scornful Lady
The Coxcomb
The Honest Man's Fortune
The Little French Lawyer
Wit at Several Weapons
Wit Without Money
The Widow
The Customs of the Country
The Knight of Malta
The False One
Love's Cure
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Death · anthology attribution: Beaumont and Fletcher
Discretion · anthology attribution: Beaumont and Fletcher
Friendship · anthology attribution: Beaumont and Fletcher
Happiness · anthology attribution: Beaumont and Fletcher
Opportunity · anthology attribution: Beaumont and Fletcher
Printed citation: Beaumont and Fletcher
Number 403 · printed citation: Beaumont and Fletcher
Page 161 · printed citation: Beaumont and Fletcher · subject: DANGER
Page 182 · printed citation: Beaumont and Fletcher · subject: DESTRUCTION
Page 537 · printed citation: Beaumont and Fletcher · subject: SHORTNESS
Printed page 6 · quotation 12 · Beaumont and Fletcher · The Captain
Printed page 642 · quotation 23 · Beaumont and Fletcher · Love's Cure
Printed page 712 · quotation 18 · Beaumont and Fletcher · Bloody Brother

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01Undated

All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

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02Undated

Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth.

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03Undated

A soul as white as heaven.

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04Undated

But they that are above Have ends in everything.

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05Undated

It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour.

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06Undated

There is a method in man's wickedness,— It grows up by degrees.

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07Undated

As cold as cucumbers.

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08Undated

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

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09Undated

Kiss till the cow comes home.

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10Undated

It would talk,— Lord! how it talked!

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11Undated

Beggars must be no choosers.

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12Undated

No better than you should be.

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13Undated

From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot.

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14Undated

One foot in the grave.

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15Undated

Go to grass.

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16Undated

There is no jesting with edge tools.

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17Undated

Though I say it that should not say it.

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18Undated

I name no parties.

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19Undated

Whistle, and she'll come to you.

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20Undated

The fit 's upon me now! Come quickly, gentle lady; The fit 's upon me now.

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21Undated

He comes not in my books.

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22Undated

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

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23Undated

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest.

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24Undated

Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,— To which I leave him.

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