Edmund's speech

This is the excellent foppery of the world,

that, when we are sick in fortune,

-- often the surfeitof our own behavior, --

we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars;

as if we were villains by necessity;

fools by heavenly compulsion;

knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;

drunkards, liars, and adulterers,

by an enforced obedience of planetary influence;

and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on:

an admirable evasion of whoremaster man,

to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!