Why, I hold fate
Clasped in my fist, and could command the course
Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been
One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
Source: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc. 4, 1633.
-- John Ford, (Feb 1 1586-1640), English dramatist; His melancholy plays include Broken Heart, 1633.