Shallow. Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living yet.
Silence. Dead, Sir.
Shallow. Dead! see, see; he drew a good bow: and dead? He shot a fine shoot. How a score of ewes now?
Silence. Thereafter as they be. A score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds.
Shallow. And is old Double dead?
Second Part Henry IV. act 3. sc. 3.
Describing a jealous husband:
Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places, and goes to them by his note. There is no hiding you in the house.
Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4. sc. 3.
Congreve has an inimitable stroke of this kind in his comedy of Love for Love: