Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various;Michel de Montaigne
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And if the worst happen, the distribution and varietie of all the acts of my comedie, is performed in one yeare. If you have observed the course of my foure seasons; they containe the infancie, the youth, the viriltie, and the old age of the world. He hath plaied his part: he knowes no other wilinesse belonging to it, but to begin againe, it will ever be the same, and no other. Versamur ibidem, atque insumus usque, [Footnote: Lucret. 1. iii. 123.] We still in one place turne about, Still there we are, now in, now out. Atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus. [Footnote: Virg. Georg. 1. ii. 403.] The yeare into it selfe is cast By those same steps, that it hath past. I am not purposed to devise you other new sports. Nam tibi praterea quod machiner, inveniamque Quod placeat nihil est; eadem suni omnia semper. [Footnote: Lucret. 1. ii. 978.] Else nothing, that I can devise or frame, Can please thee, for all things are still the same. Make roome for others, as others have done for you. Equalitie is the |
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