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  • This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

    Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Edward Young, Nathaniel Lee (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. REVENGE. By Dr. Young. RIVAL QUEENS. By Mr. Lee. THEODOSIUS, or the FORCE of LOVE. By Mr. Lee. VENICE PRESERVED. By Mr. Otway. ZARA. By A. Hill. Esq”, p.51