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What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather...

Aischulou Agamemnōn. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, a new ed. of the text, with ... - Page 142
by Aeschylus - 1844
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 ...

William Butler Yeats, Catherine E. Paul, Margaret Mills Harper - Literary Collections - 2008 - 384 pages

...56. In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and speaking of the prospect of dishonor, Brutus says, "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon / Than such a Roman" (4.3.27-28). 57. A. Norman Jeffares (A Commentary on the Collected Poems of WB Yeats, 109-10) has noted...

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