. . .

KING JOHN dies

SALISBURY 

     You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
     My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.

PRINCE HENRY 

     Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
     What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
     When this was now a king, and now is clay?
	
King John
Act V, Scene 7
Shakespeare