"The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde."
It will be seen that this line, a very remarkable one, has been cleverly condensed from the following passage in Pope's Windsor Forest:—
"But as the world, harmoniously confused,
Where order in variety we see;
And where, tho' all things differ, all agree."
This sentiment has been repeated by other modern writers. Pope himself has it in the Essay on Man, in this form,—
"The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife
Gives all the strength and colour of our life."
It occurs in one of Pascal's Pensées:
"J'écrirai ici mes pensées sans ordre, et non pas peut-être dans une confusion sans dessein: C'est le véritable ordre, et qui marquera toujours mon objet par le désordre même."