Barton Booth

Barton Booth (1681 – May 10, 1733) was one of the most famous dramatic actors of the first part of the 18th century.

Quotes

 * True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
 * Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin’d upon", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part iii, Canto ii, line 175.