Measure for Measure

horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?

If you but knew how you the purpose cherish Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it, You more invest it!

None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.