...the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! {Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villians by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, J by spherical...

...destiny," returned the steward. " ' This is the excellent foppery of the world! that when we are sick of fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary...

...world, let us ask first what Shakespeare considered the cause of sin. Listen to Edmund in K ing Lear : ' This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of...

...capable and determined scoundrel, like Edmund the bastard in Lear, who is made to sing the same tune : This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that...

...not do otherwise. The following pronouncement, taken from King Lear, illustrates this point: Edmund: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;...

...outsider in many ways, not least in his rejection of popular Elizabethan belief in astrology in which we "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of...

...extraordinarios del macrocosmos y los desórdenes de la conducta humana: Edmund. This is the excellent floppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, —...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by enforced obedience of planetary...

...And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished, his offence honest. Strange, strange! [Exit] 95 EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spiritual predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers 100 by an enforced obedience...

...Pioneers of Modern Social Science Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) This is an excellent foppery of the world that, when we are sick...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. — William Shakespeare, King Lear Erasmus...

...no contribution. No further reference will be made to it, and the author defers to Shakespeare: This excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are...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,...