Beyond his own more brute desires.

Scott, Marmion [Canto II.].

Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd

Came to my tent, and every one did threat——

Shakspeare. Richard III. [Act V. Sc. 3, vv. 204-5].

The times have been,

That, when the brains were out, the man would die,

And there an end; but now they rise again,

With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,

And push us from our stools.