Thomas Nashe

Quotes

• “What is Logicke but the highe waie to wrangling, contayning in it a world of bibble babble. Neede we anie of your Greeke, Latine, Hebrue, or anie such gibbrige, when wee have the word of God in English?”
• “Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.”
• “The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”
• “O, 'tis a precious apophthegmatical pedant who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of “Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.””
• “Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure.”
• “A dream is nothing else but the echo of our conceits in the day.”

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Key facts

Born

Baptised 30 November 1567, Lowestoft , Suffolk, England

Died

c. 1601 (aged 33–34)

Occupation

Playwright, poet, satirist

Nationality

English

Alma mater

St John's College, Cambridge

Period

c. 1589–1599

Notable works

Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592)

Relatives

William Nashe, father Margaret Nashe (née Witchingham), mother

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