Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both,
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
Does unmake you.
—Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7.
... it becomes
The thronèd MONARCH better than his CROWN.
—The Merchant of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.
Why is “better” not the most significant word?
Lives of great men all remind us