In Shakspeare's Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 4., the Prince exclaims, beholding Percy's corpse,—
"When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough!"
In Ovid we find the following parallel:—
"... jacet ecce Tibullus,
Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit."
A second one appears in the pretended lines on the sepulchre of Scipio Africanus:—
"Cui non Europa, non obstitit Africa unquam,