All The World's A State

The idea embalmed in this line ap pears to have been widely used in Shakespeare's time, nofc the least curicras instanoe being lts employrnent by Sir George Moore in the house of commons, Jan. 21, 1005 6, he doscribing the gnpowder plot as a "conspiracy the like whereof never came upon the stage of the world. ' ' Commous Journal, tune 1, page 257.-