“ Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. ”
William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1623). copy citation
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1623
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English
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Written between 1598 and 1599