I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men doo play their personage.
guillaume de salluste du bartas
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes. Dialogue Between Heraclitus and Democritus. "The world is a stage; each plays his part, and receives his portion." Found in Winschooten's Seeman (1681). Bohn's Collection, 1857. Juvenal, Satires, III. 100. (Natio comœda est.); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
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