Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.
‘Go to, Sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale.’
Measure for Measure, Act IV. Scene 2.
‘The weight of a hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois.’
2 Henry IV., Act III. Scene 4.
‘Chear’d up himself with ends of verse,
And sayings of philosophers.’
Hudibras, Part I. Canto iii.
‘Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music.’