When we are born, we cry that we are come

To this great stage of fools.—King Lear, IV. 6.

Tum porro puer,——

Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut æquum est

Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.

Lucretius: De Rer. Nat.


The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns.—Hamlet, Act III.

Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum