...stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers...all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." His "necessity," "heavenly compulsion," and "divine thrusting on" sound like references to religious...

...stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star. My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity...

...stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers...influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrustingon. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...

...ohedience of planetary influence: and all thai sve are evil in. hy a divine thrusting on: an admirahle evasion of whoremaster man. to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded w ith my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa Major; so that it follows....

...stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, theives, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers...his goatish disposition to the charge of a star... Expanding on the rejection of custom and appeal to nature in his first soliloquy, Edmund addresses...

...necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; 130 drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father 135 compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity...

...stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edmund uses only a part of the reference. The other part is acknowledgement by denial, of the existence...

...spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary 120 influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine...under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Put, I should have been that I am, had the...

...as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star. (I.ii.izS-jS) Human society in Edmund's view is debased. The mind to Edmund is an independent entity...

...stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity...