Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Glou. seene the best of our time. Machinations, hollownesse,
Glou. treacherie, and all ruinous disorders follow vs disquietly
Glou. to our Graues. Find out this Villain, Edmond, it shall lose
Glou. thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble & true‐harted
Glou. Kent banish'd; his offence, honesty. 'Tis strange.
Glou. Exit
Bast. Bast.
Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that
Bast. when we are sicke in fortune, often the surfets of our own
Bast. behauiour, we make guilty of our disasters, the Sun, the
Bast. Moone, and Starres, as if we were villaines on necessitie,
Bast. Fooles by heauenly compulsion, Knaues, Theeues, and
Bast. Treachers by Sphericall predominance. Drunkards, Lyars,
Bast. and Adulterers by an inforc'd obedience of Planatary
Bast. influence; and all that we are euill in, by a diuine thrusting
Bast. on. An admirable euasion of Whore‐master‐man,
Bast. to lay his Goatish disposition on the charge of a Starre,
Bast. My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons
Bast. taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so
Bast. that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. I should