which will not show without knocking.”
(Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Sc. 3.)
Demetrius: “But be your heart to them
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.”
(Titus Andronicus, Act II, Sc. 3.)
Marcus: “My heart is not compact of flint nor steel.”
(Titus Andronicus, Act V, Sc. 3.)
Gower: “Make raging battery upon shores of flint.”
(Pericles, Act IV, Sc. 4.)
Poet: “The fire i’ the flint shows not till it be struck.”