Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
John Ford
English Caroline dramatist and poet
31 pieces
- Lived
- 1586–1639
- Born
- Ilsington
- Died
- London
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Known as
- actor, writer, poet, playwright
- Era
- Renaissance
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Works (31)
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend.
A bachelor May thrive by observation, on a little. A single life's no burden: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.