On silly mildness and raging madness
William Shakespeare (1593) • 1 December 1593
❦ ‘The strongest body shall it make most weak,
Strike the wise dumb and teach the fool to speak...
It shall be raging mad and silly mild,
Make the young old, the old become a child.’
From Venus and Adonis.
(Accessed 2 Dec 2023.)
© 1593 William Shakespeare. ➲
Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis, by Benjamin West. 13 December 1771.
