AIR II.
[THE world's a stage, as Authors say]
[I]
THE world's a stage, as Authors say,
This world's a stage, and life a play;
Some play by rote, and some by rule,
Some act the knave, some play the fool.
II
At childish fairs the round-abouts,
The ups and downs, the ins and outs,
The trumpet's sound, and trump'ry gay things,
Are emblems o'th' passion's play-things.
III
The world's a fair of shew and noise,
And traps for o'ergrown girls or boys;
The juggler, Hope, deceives the senses,
But bubble, Life, must pay expences.
