Stanza XLIX is more well known in its incarnation in the first edition::'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days:Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays::Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,:And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Стих LXIX более известен в том виде, в котором представлен в первом издании:Пятое издание менее формально: «But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays/Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days».