My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
ATTRIBUTION:
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4, l. 81-3.
Desperately trying, against his companions’ persuasion, to follow his father’s ghost; “Nemean lion”Mslain by Hercules as one of his twelve labors; “nerve” means sinew.
