Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE VIII.
Manet Edmund.
Edm.
3 note
This is the excellent foppery of the world,
that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeits
-- 25 --
of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters,
the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were
-- 26 --
villains on necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion;
knaves, thieves, and treacherous, by spherical predominance;
drunkards, lyars, and adulterers, by an inforc'd
obedience of planetary influence; and all that
we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. 4 noteAn admirable
evasion of whore-master Man, to lay his goatish
disposition on 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. I should have been what
I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled
on my bastardizing.
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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