Quote#Poetry
ONAELIA: You are like common beadles, apt to lash
Quote byThomas Dekker · 1572–1632
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622).
English (original)
ONAELIA: You are like common beadles, apt to lash Almost to death poor wretches not worth striking, But fawn with slavish flattery on damned vices So great men act them. You clap hands at those, Where the true poet indeed doth scorn to gild A gaudy tomb with glory of his verse, Which coffins stinking carrion.
— Thomas Dekker
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