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This image of an old commemorative plaque, formerly on the wall of the Barclay Perkins Brewery, has been condemned as actually being of The Rose, of the wrong shape, and mounted in the wrong place.[1] Later research may have shown this to be too harsh a judgment, but nonetheless I've removed it from the article.
The information I could find very strongly favours John of Salisbury as the source of the motto, IF it was indeed the motto. The only verifiable link I could find between "quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem" and Petronius is in fact in Policraticus. Going by the book European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (the relevant part, Metaphorics/Theatrical metaphors is not in the preview, but snippet search is available): the exact quote is "quod fere totus mundus iuxta Petronium exerceat histrionem", which could be taken as him quoting Petronius. BUT from the way it's presented it the book, the starting point of his concept of 'theatrum mundi' appears to have been an actual Petronius quote earlier in the text:
"Grex agit in scaena mimum: pater ille vocatur,
filius hic, nomen divitis ille tenet.
Mox ubi ridendas inclusit pagina partes,
vera redit facies, dissimulata perit"
Which makes it far more likely (and the author himself suggests so) that Salisbury is at that point summarising the original Petronius quote in his own words.
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