(..) No offence in the world. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna Gonzago is the duke's name, his wife Baptista You shall see anon, 'tis a knavish piece of work. But what of that? Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not - What means this, my lord? (..)

(..) But as we often see before a storm a silence in the heavens... The clouds stand still, the bold winds speechless and the orb below as hush as death... Anon the dreadful thunder doth rend the region So after Pyrrhus' pause a mused vengeance set him new a-work (..)