Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’
‘I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’
‘If we should fail?’
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail’
‘I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know’