Shakespeare Words
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If Shakespeare wrote it, we've Shmooped it.
Addiction
Invented in Henry V“ | The air, a chartered libertine, is still, | |
| And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears | ||
| To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences; | ||
| So that the art and practic part of life | ||
| Must be the mistress to this theoric; | ||
| Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it, | ||
| Since his addiction was to courses vain, | ||
| His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow, | ||
| His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports, | ||
| And never noted in him any study, | ||
| Any retirement, any sequestration | ” |
As it turns out, Dr. Drew owes a lot to Shakespeare. But to be fair, addiction first meant a "tendency" or "inclination"—it didn't take on its modern, more serious connotation until the 1900s. |
Tag: Henry V