Forgive all vices,
for everyone goes along --
with God and the stars?
Vergeef ondeugden,	Vergib Laster, denn
de mensen schikken zich, naar --	die Menschen passen sich Gott --
God en de sterren?	und den Sternen an?

Poem S1769
Amsterdam, 2023-05-20
The Tragedie of King Lear (William Shakespeare) - 1606
Theatre play, 1^st act, 2^nd scene, Edmund, son of the Earl of Gloucester:
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeits of our own behaviour, - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."
Collection: Rasping ants
Keyword: Ethics: vices 
Tribute to: Shakespeare, William