Here lies your brother,
No better than the earth he lies upon,
If he were that which now he’s like, that’s dead;
Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
To the perpetual wink for aye might put
This ancient morsel.
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1. There are three metaphors in Antonio’s temptation speech in which he talks of murdering his brother Alonso with his sword and Sebastian killing Gonzalo. He speaks of the "obedient steel" of his sword, death as a "perpetual wink" and Gonzalo as an "ancient morsel."