You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government.

Shakespeare’s Lear, having first entered in Act I a berobed, besceptered, and crowned King, now stands, halfway through the play, in solitude in the midst of a relentless storm on an uncharted heath “unbonneted,” having given his crown away, and naked, having stripped himself of his “sophisticated lendings.”

His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day.

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