Chapter MAD to MAGISTRATES of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Polonius to Kent.)

There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad,
Which none but madmen know.

Dryden.—Spanish Friar, Act II. Scene 1.

MAGISTRATES.—Let discipline employ her wholesome arts;
Let magistrates alert perform their parts,
Not skulk or put on a prudential mask,
As if their duty were a desperate task;
Let active laws apply the needful curb,
To guard the peace that riot would disturb,
And liberty, preserved from wild excess,
Shall raise no feuds for armies to suppress.

Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 311.