Help our brethren, worn with age—Shakespeare was of truth a sayer

“All the world is but a stage,” you and I alike—a player.

E. L. Blanchard.

From The Royal Dramatic College Annual, July, 1866.


Life at Oxford.

——Oxford is a stage,

And all the men in residence are players:

They have their exeats and examinations;

And one man in his time plays many parts.