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...relationships he holds so dear. But it is, says Edmund, "an admirable evasion of whoremaster man," to "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and...villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion" (I, ii). In any case, by the time of the storm scene, both Lear and Gloucester have lost their faith...

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...EDMOND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when \ve 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 treachers...

...EDMUND 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 treachers...

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...universal culprit. WS tells it as it is. Cosmic influences When we are sick infortune, Oft' the surfeits of our own behaviour, We make guilty of our disasters, The sun, the moon and stars; As if we were villains of necessity; Fools by heavenly compulsion; Knaves, thieves and treachers,...