Tuesday, April 20
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa Major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous." Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
Edmund, "King Lear" Act I, Scene ii
Edmund, "King Lear" Act I, Scene ii
