Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

Historical plays: King Lear. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pt. I-II. King Henry V (ed. 1743)