20I have not known when his affections sway'd[12]
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,[13]
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward[14][15] turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
25He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees[16]
By which he did ascend. So Cæsar may;
Then, lest[17] he may, prevent.[18] And, since the quarrel[19]