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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Actors.=

A strutting player,--whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage.
27
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
28
THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Apology for Actors._


=Adaptability.=

All things are ready, if our minds be so.
29
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.


=Address.=

And the tear that is wiped with a little address
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
30
COWPER: _The Rose._


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