‘Sedet, aeternumque sedebit,
Infelix Theseus.’
Virgil, Aeneid, VI. 617–18.
‘And all the hinder partes, that few could spie,
Were ruinous and old, but painted cunningly.’
Ibid. Book I., Canto iv. Stanza 5.
‘There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.’
Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.
‘Let not the virgin’s cheek