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d. 1627 England
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.
Also known as: Middleton, Thomas
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As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.
More Dissemblers besides Women (1614)
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.
The Family of Love (1602)
There is no hate lost between us.
The Witch (1616)
The better day, the better deed.
The Phœnix (1603)
There's no hate lost between us.
The Witch (1616)
He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.
The Phœnix (1603)
My nearest And dearest enemy.
The worst comes to the worst.
The Phœnix (1603)
By many a happy accident.
This was a good week’s labour.
Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing: Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing.
Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So wise so young, they say, do never live long", William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Phœnix (1603)
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