The pendant world; or to be worse than worst

Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts

Imagine howling!—’tis too horrible!

The weariest and most loathed worldly life,

That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment

Can lay on nature, is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

Isabella. Alas! alas!

Claudio. Sweet sister, let me live:

What sin you do to save a brother’s life,