gallowses

Updated: June 24, 2025

Not admonition, not preaching and scolding, and not books only, but institutions, laws, customs, habit, education in its more limited sense, 'association, emulation, praise, blame, all the agencies 'from which the mind suffereth, which have power to change it, in skilfully compounded recipes and regimen scientifically adapted to cases, and not prescribed only, but enforced, these make the state machinery these are the engines that are going to 'prevent the fiend, and educate the 'one mind, the one mind good, which is the sovereign of the common-WEAL, 'my wish hath a preferment in it, the one only man who will make when he is crowned, not Rome, but room enough for us all, who will make when he is crowned such desolation of gallowses and gaolers.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded