In _The Taming of the Shrew, _ Act IV Scene I, Petruchio says, "Why, man, I know she is;
And wherefore gaze this goodly company,
As if they saw some wondrous monument,
Some comet or unusual prodigy?
But wherefore thee? what, hast thou killed a man?
Why, then, let's home to-morrow, sir,
And thank the gods that you have made us men."
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare says, "Compare thou thyself to summer's day;
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."