s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.