Were not so rich a jewel.”
“Coriolanus,” Act 1, Sc. 4.
Iachimo, the soothsayer, (Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5) tells that—
“He, true knight,
No lesser of her honour confident
Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring:
And would so, had it been a carbuncle
Of Phoebus’ wheel, and might so safely, had it
Been all the worth of’s car.”
Hamlet speaks to the Players (Act 2, Scene 2) of Pyrrhus: