To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendant world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts
Imagine howling: ’tis too horrible!
Measure for Measure
The style lends itself to the serenely ecstatic reverie of the sage:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,