In the play Rosencrantz says: "The cease of Majesty, Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw What's near with it: it is a massy wheel Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortised and adjoined; which, when it falls, Each small Annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin."
"Montaigne and Shakspere"
John M. Robertson