“And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,In corporal sufferance finds a pang as greatAs when a giant dies.”

“One woe doth tread upon another's heel. So fast they follow.”

“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.”

“Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.”

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

“It is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant”

“O, it is excellentTo have a giant's strenght, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”