'If it were done when 'tis done,' etc.
Act V. scene vii.:
'Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands:
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;
Those he commands, move only in command,
Nothing in love.'
Coriolanus, Act IV. scene vii.:
'Whether 'twas pride,
Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man; whether defect of judgement,
To fail in the disposing of those chances
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
Not to be other than one thing, not moving
From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace,
Even with the same austerity and garb,
As he controlled the war; but one of these
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him,—made him feared,
So hated, and so banished.'
Metaphors crowded with ideas, p. 17. Julius Cæsar, Act II. scene i. l. 81-4.
'Seek none, conspiracy.
Hide it thy visage in smiles and affability;
For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Not Erebus itself were dim enough to hide thee from prevention.'
Macbeth, Act V. scene vii.:
'Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
And with him pour we in our country's purge,
Each drop of us. Or so much as it needs
To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.'