Had I a dozen sons, - each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, - I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. (Coriolanus)

Had I a dozen sons, - each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, - I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

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