Note 158 — THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation
Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, sc. 2:
That blood, which own'd the breadth of all this isle, Three foot of it doth hold.
King Henry IV. part I. Act 5, sc. 5:
Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.