• The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

    William Shakespeare: The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [230]