"As You Like It."—Believing that whatever illustrates, even to a trifling extent, the great dramatic poet of England will interest the readers of "N. & Q.," I solicit their attention to the resemblance between the two following passages:
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."
"Si rectè aspicias, vita hæc est fabula quædam.
Scena autem, mundus versatilis: histrio et actor
Quilibet est hominum—mortales nam propriè cuncti
Sunt personati, et falsâ sub imagine, vulgi
Præstringunt oculos: ita Diis, risumque jocumque,
Stultitiis, nugisque suis per sæcula præbent.
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