[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
Historie of the World. Preface.
O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, [[27]]thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!
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Historie of the World. Book v. Part 1.
Footnotes
[25:1] Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).—Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
[26:1] Methought I saw my late espoused saint.—Milton: Sonnet xxiii.
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.—Wordsworth: Sonnet.