Patient Grissel is a play by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton. It was mentioned in Henslowe's diary in the entry for December 1599. It was first printed in 1603.
The plot is a variant of the medieval tale of patient Griselda, as told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The play contains Dekker's poem "Golden Slumbers" (which was adapted by Paul McCartney for the song of the same name on The Beatles' Abbey Road album):
- Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
- Smiles awake you when you rise;
- Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
- And I will sing a lullaby,
- Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
- Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
- You are care, and care must keep you;
- Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
- And I will sing a lullaby,
- Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Famous quotes containing the word patient:
“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)