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)

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes

I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.