〈Life a Play.〉
WHAT is or life? a play of passion.
or mirth? the musick of diuision.
Or mothers wombs the tyring houses bee
Where we are drest for liues short comedy.
5The earth the stage, heauen ye spectator is,
Who still doth note who ere do act amisse.
Or graues that hyde vs, frõ the all-seeing suñ,
Are but drawne curtaynes whẽ the play is done.