Gloucester: Yet So Much Is My Poverty

Ah, What A Sign It Is Of Evil Life, Where Death's Approach Is Seen So Terrible!

O, This Life Is Nobler Than Attending For A Check, Richer Than Doing Nothing For A Robe, Prouder Than Rustling In Unpaid-for Silk: Such Pain The Cap Of Him That Makes Him Fine Yet Keeps His Book Uncrossed.

To Show Our Simple Skill, That Is The True Beginning Of Our End.

An Earnest Conjuration From The King, As England Was His Faithful Tributary, As Love Between Them Like The Palm Might Flourish, As Peace Should Still Her Wheaten Garland Wear And Stand A Comma 'tween Their Amities, And Many Such-like As's Of Great Charge, That, On The View And Knowing Of These Contents, Without Debatement Further, More Or Less, He Should The Bearers Put To Sudden Death, Not Shriving Time Allow'd.

It Is The Witness Still Of Excellency To Put A Strange Face On His Own Perfection.