Reading The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida — William Shakespeare

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And the rude Sonne should strike his Father dead:

Force should be right, or rather, right and wrong,

(Betweene whose endlesse iarre, Iustice recides)

Should loose her names, and so should Iustice too.

Then euery thing includes it selfe in Power,

Power into Will, Will into Appetite,

And Appetite (an vniuersall Wolfe,

So doubly seconded with Will, and Power)

Must make perforce an vniuersall prey,

And last, eate vp himselfe.

Great Agamemnon:

This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate,

Followes the choaking:

And this neglection of Degree, is it

That by a pace goes backward in a purpose

It hath to climbe. The Generall's disdain'd

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