Note 5 — GEORGE BRANDES (continued 14)

And, like 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, Such to be pitied and o'er-wrested seeming He acts thy greatness in."

And the passage previously quoted from Macbeth:

"Life's but . . . . . a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more."

Also the 110th Sonnet.