Or else you famish; that’s a threefold death.
This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
[♦] If case some one of you would fly from us,
[35] That there’s no hoped-for mercy with the brothers
More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
’Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
Prince. Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
40 Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,
Infuse his breast with magnanimity