Essay 15

“Subtle as the fox for prey:Like warlike as the wolf, for what they eat.”

“The way of woman’s will is hard to find,Harder to hit.

Say, I had lay'd a body in the sun!Well! in a month there swarm forth from the corseA thousand, nay, ten thousand sentient beingsIn place of that one man. Say I had kill'd him!Yet who shall tell me, that each one and allOf these ten thousand lives is not as happyAs that one life, which being push'd aside,Made room for these unnumber'd.—Act ii. sc. ii.

“As much again to govern it.”