[…] in her eye I findA wonder, or a wondrous miracle,The shadow of myself form’d in her eye:Which being but the shadow of your son,Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:I do protest I never loved myselfTill now infixed I beheld myselfDrawn in the flattering table of her eye.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]