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"There lies your way, you see the door."
Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, 1625, Act II, Scene 4, line 76 [Pennyboy].

Nelly Furtado — Maneater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLolag3YSYU

"Few persons can tolerate the praise of others for so long as they believe themselves capable of such actions;
when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it disbelief.... I too must follow the custom and attempt as
far as possible to satisfy the individual wishes and expectations of each of you."
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Chapter 35 [Pericles].

"Above the rest, as chief of all the band, Was Picus plac’d, a buckler in his hand; His other wav’d a long divining wand."
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VII, trans. John Dryden, 1697.

"Each grooved and dovetail'd like a box; Thy muse is tuckt up and succinct; In chains thy syllables are linkt;
Thy words together tied in small hanks, Close as the Macedonian phalanx; Or like the umbo of the Romans,
Which fiercest foes could break by no means. The critic, to his grief will find, How firmly these indentures bind."
Jonathan Swift, George, Dan, Dean, and Nim answer Sheridan's Letter, July 15, 1721, at night.

Pride retired from struggle, Envy was given leeway to enter fray. But Cassandra's buckler can bash the locked doors.