‘Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,

Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.’

Horace, Odes, I. 1. 35–36.

‘She’s gone; I am abused, and my relief

Must be to loathe her.’

Othello, Act III. Scene 3.

‘I do mistake my person all this while:

Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,

Myself to be a marvellous proper man.’

Richard III, Act. I. Scene 2.