Quote#Nature
The best of men
Quote byThomas Dekker · 1572–1632
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act i. Sc. 12. Compare: "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne", Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry..
English (original)
The best of men That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
— Thomas Dekker
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