This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion. β¨ William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, p.229
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