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- From: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: Troilus and Cressida
- Message-ID: <BARB.92Jul23213115@chamarti.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 01:31:15 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.144655@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: graham@sees.bangor.ac.uk's message of 23 Jul 92 13:46:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.144655@sees.bangor.ac.uk> graham@sees.bangor.ac.uk (The Land of Confusion) writes:
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- > I recently came across the following quotation:
- >
- > Take but degree away, untune that string,
- > And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets
- > In mere oppugnancy
-
- > -- Troilus and Cressida
-
- > Can anyone supply a more complete reference for the source of this?
-
- Is this a quiz? William Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_, Act I,
- scene iii, lines 109-111.
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- This is from a famous speech by Ulysses which is often quoted to
- illustrate the Elizabethan world-picture in which "The heavens
- themselves, the planets, and this centre [this centre being the
- earth]/Observe degree, priority, and place,/Insisture, course,
- proportion, season, form,/Office and custom, in all line of order;"
- where every element of nature has its most noble and most humble
- representative (some examples of the most noble items being the sun,
- among planets, the rose, among flowers, the king, among men), and all
- levels in between, and if this rightful order of things is disturbed,
- all sorts of problems result for society and for nature.
-
- Barb Miller
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