John Marston Quotes

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Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute,
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.

John Marston

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

John Marston

This earth is only the grave and Golgotha wherein all things that live must rot.

John Marston

For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky.

John Marston

'My kingdom for a horse' – look thee I speak play scraps.

John Marston

Foul canker of fair virtuous action,
Vile blaster of the freshest blooms on earth,
Envys abhorrèd child, Detraction,
I here expose, to thy all-tainting breath,
The issue of my brain: snarl, rail, bark, bite,
Know that my spirit scorns Detraction's spite.

John Marston