Of this hard world.”
(Richard 2, Act V, Sc. 5.)
King Henry: “He hath a tear for pity and a hand
Open as day for melting charity:
Yet notwithstanding, being incens’d, he’s flint.”
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Sc. 4.)
Othello: “The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.”
(Othello, Act I, Sc. 3.)