Thomas Middleton Quote

That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.


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.


That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.