Talk:John Fletcher

Draft

• Best while you have it use your breath,
  There is no drinking after death.
  • The Bloody Brother, or Rollo Duke of Normandy (with Jonson, performed c. 1616), act 2, sc. 2, "Song"

• And he that will go to bed sober,
  Falls with the leaf still in October.
  • The Bloody Brother, act 2, sc. 2, "Song"

• Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
  And three merry boys are we,
  As ever did sing in a hempen string
  Under the Gallows-Tree.
  • The Bloody Brother, act 3, sc. 2

• Come, we are stark naught all, bad’s the best of us.
  • The Bloody Brother, act 4, sc. 2

• Death hath so many doors to let out life.
  • The Custom of the Country (with Massinger), act 2, sc. 2

• Orpheus with his lute made trees,
  And the mountain tops that freeze,
  Bow themselves when he did sing.
  • Henry VIII (with Shakespeare, performed 1613), act 3, sc. 1, "Song"

• In sweet music is such art
  Killing care and grief of heart
  Fall asleep, or hearing die.
  • Henry VIII, act 3, sc. 1, "Song"

• Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
  Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
  • The Honest Man’s Fortune, epilogue

• Nothing’s so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy.
  • The Nice Valour (with Middleton), act 3, sc. 3, "Song"

• Are you at ease now? Is your heart at rest?
  Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella
  To keep the scorching world’s opinion
  From your fair credit.
  • Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (performed 1624), act 3, sc. 1

• Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
  And sweet thyme true,
  Primrose first born child of Ver,
  Merry Springtime’s Harbinger.
  • The Two Noble Kinsmen (with Shakespeare), act 1, sc. 1

• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
  Brother to Death.
  • Valentinian (performed c. 1610–14), act 5, sc. 7, "Song"

• Come sing now, sing; for I know ye sing well,
  I see ye have a singing face.
  • The Wild-Goose Chase (performed 1621), act 2, sc. 2

• Whistle and she’ll come to you.
  • Wit Without Money, act 4, sc. 4

• Charity and beating begins at home.
  • Wit Without Money, act 5, sc. 2

• See also Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher