 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...offence honest. Strange, strange! [Exit] 95 EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spiritual predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers 100 by an enforced obedience... | |
 | Pat Duffy Hutcheon - Social Science - 1996 - 521 pages
...Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) This is an excellent foppery of the world that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. — William Shakespeare, King Lear Erasmus... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilson - Science - 2003 - 320 pages
...will be made to it, and the author defers to Shakespeare: This excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune often the surfeit of our...behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the Sun, Moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,... | |
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion... 
