But it was fam’d with more than with one man?
When could they say, till now, that talk’d of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O! you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, I. ii.