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Dover Cliffs: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes below! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy, Almost too small for sight: The murm'ring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.— K. L. iv. 6.