Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
Was ever woman in this humor won?—Richard III., I. 2.
Though Shakspeare has drawn freely from others, he is himself a mine from which many builders have quarried their materials,—a Coliseum
“from whose mass
Walls, palaces, half cities, have been reared.”
Honor and shame from no condition rise:
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.—Pope: Essay on Man.
This is only a new rendering of the thought thus expressed by Shakspeare:—
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,