“From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.”
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,If England to itself do rest but true", William Shakespeare, King John, Act v. Sc. 7.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
First Week, First Day. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)