George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE VIII.
Bast.
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 were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,
knaves, thieves, and treacherousby 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. An 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.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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