William Shakespeare,
The Tempest — Act V
(1926)
“ Him that you term’d, sir, “The good old lord, Gonzalo;”His tears run down his beard, like winter’s dropsFrom eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works ’emThat if you now beheld them, your affectionsWould become tender. Prospero. You said our work should cease. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ariel. Mine would, sir, were I human. Prospero. Mine would, sir, were I human. And mine shall,Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feelingOf their afflictions, and shall not myself,One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? ”
