"In paper, many a poet now survives"

"Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)"

": Works, vol. ii, p. 85 (1630). Compare the 1735 Poor Richard's Almanack."

"'Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes / I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes."

": Wanderings to See the Wonders of the West, 1649; reported in Esther Moir, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tou…"

":* The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may indicate allusion to and/or acknowledgement of Nicholas Breton's 1603…"

":** The play A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton, published in 1608, is recorded as being performed in 1605."

":* The veteran BBC journalist John Simpson used "A Mad World, My Masters" as the title for memoirs published in 1999/…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"