The following occurs in the play of King John, where the King is pausing in his wish to incite Hubert to murder Arthur:—

Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet;

But thou shalt have; and creep time ne’er so slow,

Yet it shall come, for me to do thee good.

I had a thing to say.—But let it go.—Act III. Sc. 3.

But who I was, or where, or from what cause,

Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake

——Thou sun, said I, fair light,

And thou enlightened earth, so fresh and gay,

Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains,