The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, / Which God and nature do with actors fill.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Many hands make light work. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low

Haste makes waste.