•  From “Macbeth,” Act II. Sc. 1.
      
      [MACBETH, before the murder of Duncan, meditating alone, sees the image of a dagger in the air, and thus soliloquizes:]

      IS this a dagger which I see before me,
    The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:—
    I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To...

  • From “Hudibras,” Part I.
      HIS puissant sword unto his side
    Near his undaunted heart was tied,
    With basket hilt that would hold broth,
    And serve for fight and dinner both.
    In it he melted lead for bullets
    To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets,
    To whom he bore so fell a grutch
    He ne’er gave quarter to any such.
    The...