...state. lts presence proves our feet upon the path. Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that...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...

...Lear, there was the sinister Edmund's notorious critique of his father's hypocritical use of the word: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains...

...carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished; his offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. [he goes EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we...

...express his scorn (most powerfully felt in the images) in the same rhetorical symmetries as Gloucester: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disaster the sun, the moon, the stars, as if we...

...characters are evil by choice, not out of necessity. They are entirely responsible for what they do: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if...

...christological symbolism by dressing Tom in a loin cloth ind putting a crown of thorns on his head. & This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, the stars, as...

...the state, on "these late eclipses in the sun and moon." Edmund overhears this remark and scoffs at the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we...

...reassuring determinism or the strengthening of prejudice — against bastards, in his case. Edmund says it is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...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...

...noble and true-hearted Kent banished! His offense, no honesty! 'Tis strange. EXIT GLOUCESTER Edmund This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits96 of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as...

...for example, lago: '"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus" (Othello, 1.3); and Edmund in Lear. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune— often the surfeits of our own behavior— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars" (1.2)....