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Viser kontekstSkuespill: Lear, ACT I, SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle.EDMUND: 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. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar-- And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi. Skuespill: Lear, ACT I, SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle. EDGAR: How now, brother Edmund! what serious contemplation are you in? Skuespill: Lear, ACT I, SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle. EDMUND: I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses. |