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“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 by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence;”