Quote#Wisdom
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff
Quote byThomas Middleton · 1580–1627
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Family of Love (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1602-7), Act v. Sc. 3. Compare: "Plain as a pike-staff", Terence in English (1641); Buckingham, Speech in the House of Lords, 1675; Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation), book xii. chap. viii. John Byrom, Epistle to a Friend..
English (original)
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.
— Thomas Middleton
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