Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Priam’s Curtain
Such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night.
Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part II. Act I. Scene 1.