Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look,

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV
-- Act i, Sc. 1