simpliciora

Updated: June 22, 2025

Simpliciora militares decent. But as he appears, after all, to have had no military weapon with which to sustain that straight-forwardness of speech which is becoming in a military power, and no dagger to pursue his points with, some artifice, though he professes not to like it, may be necessary, and the rule which he here specifies is, on the whole, perhaps, not altogether amiss.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded