“Did she give thee this gold? O glorious glittering gold! She’s thine own, ’tis thy wife, and she loves thee; for, I’ll stand to’t, there’s no woman will give gold to any man but she thinks better of him than she thinks of them she gives silver to.”

—Thomas Dekker, from The Shoemaker’s Holiday, first performed at the Rose Theatre, London, in 1599. Edited by Anthony Parr, 1975.