“He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.”
King John. ACT II Scene 1.
“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.”
King John. ACT III Scene 1.
“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
King John. ACT IV Scene 2.