Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

His first work Salmacis and Hermaphroditus appeared in 1602. 1612–13?; revised 1622?; 1647)
Love's Cure comedy (c. Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu near Thringstone in Leicestershire a justice of the common pleas.

He was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College Oxford) at age thirteen. The play received a lukewarm reception.