* The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may indicate all… - John Taylor

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* The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may indicate allusion to and/or acknowledgement of Nicholas Breton's 1603 tract "A Mad World, my Masters".

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John Taylor, self-styled as "The Water Poet", was an English poet.

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Pen Names: Water Poet • Swan of the Thames

Alternative Names: The Water Poet

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** 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 1999/2000.

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

* The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may indicate allusion to and/or acknowledgement of Nicholas Breton's 1603 tract "A Mad World, my Masters". - John Taylor

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