...and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic own, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain ; That by a pace goes backward, withf a purpose It hath to climb. The general's disdnin'd By him one...

...away, untune that string. And hark what discord follows. Each thing meets OAEL-1 POETRY QUOTATIONS 172 haken out dead from tree and hill: I had walked on...for the wind was still. (1. 1—4) 10 Among those (I, iii) 173 Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized...

...shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes / Would feed on one another.' Compare also Tro. 1.3.121-4: 'And appetite, an universal wolf / (So doubly seconded...perforce an universal prey, / And last eat up himself The concept was widespread and can be traced back to l lesiod, Horks and Days, 1.434-7, and Theodoretus;...

...Ulysses in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida described such a state, in which "everything includes itself in power, /Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, /And last eat up himself." Troy, he concludes, "in our weakness stands, not in her strength." By late 1992, Somalia had become...

...whose endless jar justice resides. Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power. Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (1.3.116) In the absence of secure positive absolutes, architects of social control set up a threat...

...faculties, which, in turn, collapse, until what is left is the universal wolf: Then everything include itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite,...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (I.iii.119-24) The vision is essentially one of the self as a set of dominoes, the self with the will...

...whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd By him one step...

...whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey And last eat up himself. (I, iii, 109-124) It reads like a summary and analysis of the front page of any metro daily newspaper...

...whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power , Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself" Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, I 3 ( Waverley Ed.). CHAPTER VI CONGESTION AND PROLETARIANISATION...

...endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too! Then everything include itself in power Power into will, will into appetite,...perforce an universal prey And last eat up himself. Shakespeare's sixteenth-century audience understood the natural law of degree. Bestial humanity, only...