I cannot suffer and partake your burdens?

Alas! I suffer more by not partaking.

Cleom. My wife! my mother! O, I'm so divided,

That I grieve most for both, and love both most!

Two twining vines about this elm, whose fall

Must shortly—very shortly, crush you both.

And yet I will not go to ground,

Without a noble ruin round my trunk:

The forest shall be shaken when I sink,

And all the neighbouring trees