Shackerley Marmion

Shackerley Marmion (January 1603 – 1639) was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy. He was also a friend and perhaps a protégé of Thomas Heywood.

Quotes

Which of the nymphs or muses is his joy?
Who has inveigled the ingenious boy?

• Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
  • Holland's Leaguer (1632) act 5, sc. 1

• Which of the nymphs or muses is his joy?
  Who has inveigled the ingenious boy?
  • The Legend of Cupid and Psyche (1637)

The Antiquary (1641)

• Oh! that I were a veil upon that face,
  To hide it from the world! Methinks I could
  Envy the very sun for gazing on you!
  • Aurelio to Lucretia, act 2

    Compare: Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

• Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entail'd upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in every thing; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
  • Antiquary to Duke, act 2
  • Slightly altered in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) p. 171, note: "What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, — in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree."

    Compare: Bacon, Apophthegms, no. 97

External links

• James Maidment and W. H. Logan (eds.) The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875)