Caesar. The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack. The round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony
Is not a single doom, in the name lay
A moi'ty of the world.

(Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, V.1.14-18.)

External link: the complete play.

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