The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
Apology for Actors, (1612). Compare: "The world's a stage on which all parts are played",Thomas Middleton,A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1.; "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare,As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
History of Women (ed. 1624), p. 286. Compare: "He ruleth all the roste",John Skelton,Why Come ye not to Courte (published c. 1550), Line 198; "Rule the rost",John Heywood,Proverbs (1546) part i. chap. v.; "Rules the roast",Ben Jonson,George Chapman,Marston: Eastward Ho, act ii. sc. 1.;William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1.
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635).
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him",Robert Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.
Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day! With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft To give my Love good-morrow! Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow: Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!
