- Antipholus of Syracruse:
- O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
- To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
- Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
- Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
- And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,
- And in that glorious supposition think
- He gains by death that hath such means to die;
- Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!
Comedy of Errors -excerpt-