Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywoodwas a prominent English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre...
ruled
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
cities roof seven shroud
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
theatre world earth
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
death long heaven
Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]
time glasses turns
That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.
husband past wife
Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.