“The world's a stage, on which all men are players: they have their exits and their entrances; and each man in his time plays many parts.”

A memorable meditation on the roles people assume throughout life, often associated with but predating Shakespeare's similar formulation · Essay, An Apology for Actors

• Identity
• Life
• Theatre

“True it is that my plays are not exposed unto the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others).”

A modest refusal to package plays as monumental collected Works · Address to the Reader, The English Traveller

• Books
• Modesty
• Writers

“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, who living had no roof to shroud his head.”

On posthumous honour that arrives too late for the living poet · The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, 1635

• Fame
• Poets
• Poverty