'And at his heels,
Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire,
Crouch for employment.'
Compare Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. scene iv.:
'Where thou slew'st, Hirtus and Pausa, consuls, at thy heel
Did famine follow.'
2. Macbeth, Act V. scene vii.:
'They have tied me to a stake: I cannot fly,
But, bear-like, I must fight the course';
and Lear, Act III. scene vii.:
'I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.'
Conciseness verging on obscurity, p. 13. Macbeth, Act I. scene iii.:
'Present fears are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man, that function
Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.'
Act I. scene vii.: