“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.
То́мас Нэш — ведущий английский прозаик елизаветинской эпохи, один из предшественников литературы барокко. Также выступал как публицист и драматург. Wikipedia

“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 161-164.
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1590-1594.
“Blest is that government where no art thrives.”
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1425.
“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”
Источник: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.