...noyance; but much more That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest The lives of many. The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser...

...but much more That spirìt upon whose weal depends and rests The lives of many. The cess of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; or 'tis a massy wheel Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, nl.2-3 Silenzio. Da mia madre, ora....

...much more That spirit upon whose [weal] depends and rests The lives of many. The cease of majesty 15 Dies not alone, but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it. It is a massy wheel, Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser...

...sycophantic speech to Claudius from the third act can be heard in voiceover: "The cess of majesty / Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw / What's near it with it" (3.3.15). According to Be.mice Kliman, this speech on the Fall of Kings juxtaposed to the two thrones...

...but much more That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests The lives of many. The cess of majesty Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it. O, 'tis a massy wheel Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser...

...speak, is set in the epigraph to Part 1, a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet: The cease of majesty Dies not alone but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser...