Thomas Heywood Quotes (1570-1641)

“I askt the seas and all the deeps below My God to know, I askt the reptiles, and whatever is In the abyss; Even from the shrimps to the leviathan Enquiry ran; But in those deserts that no line can sound The God I sought for was not to be found.”

“Agincourt, Agincourt! know ye not Agincourt?   Where the English slew and hurt     All the French foemen?   With our guns and bills brown,   O, the French were beat down,     Morris-pikes and bowmen!”

“Marlowe, renown’d for his rare art and wit, Could ne’er attain beyond the name of Kit; Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Commanded mirth or passion, was but Will; And famous Jonson, though his learned pen Be dipped in Castaly, is still but Ben. Fletcher and Webster, of that learned pack None of the meanest, was but Jack; Dekker but Tom, nor May, nor Middleton, And he’s but now Jack Ford that once was John.”