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BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be…
Quote byThomas Dekker · 1572–1632
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622).
English (original)
BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me?
— Thomas Dekker
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