Francis Beaumont

thumb|right|Plot me no plots. The Knight of the Burning Pestle, one of Beaumont's early plays.|thumb|right|200px Francis Beaumont (1584 – March 6 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, best remembered for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Quotes She's private to herself and best of knowledgeWhom she'll make so happy as to sigh for. The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 1. Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose. The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 4. Plot me no plots. The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act II, scene 5. What things have we seenDone at the Mermaid! heard words that have beenSo nimble and so full of subtile flameAs if that every one from whence they cameHad meant to put his whole wit in a jest,And resolved to live a fool the restOf his dull life. Letter to Ben Jonson (1605), verses prefacing Jonson’s Volpone, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Mortality, behold and fear!What a change of flesh is here!Think how many royal bonesSleep within this heap of stones:Here they lie, had realms and lands,Who now want strength to stir their hands On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey About Beaumont He that hath such acuteness, and such wit,As would aske ten good heads to husband it;He that can write so well that no man dareRefuse it for the best, let him beware:BEAUMONT is dead, by whose sole death appeares,Wit’s a Disease consumes men in few yeares. Richard Corbet, "On Mr. Francis Beaumont" (then newly dead), Beaumont and Fletcher, First Folio (1647) See also Beaumont and Fletcher External links Author:Francis Beaumont Francis Beaumont Francis_Beaumont Francis Beaumont Category:1584 births Category:1616 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Playwrights from England