Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war;

That this foul deed shall smell above the earth

With carrion men groaning for burial.

Julius Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 1.

Cassius. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,

As well as I do know your outward favor.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.—

I cannot tell what you and other men

Think of this life; but for my single self,

I had as lief not be, as live to be