Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
If all the earth were paper white And all the sea were ink 'Twere not enough for me to write As my poor heart doth think.
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.