undrenched

Updated: May 14, 2025

Even here, on this sad and tragic ground of a subdued and debased common-weal, he will not cramp its utterance he will give it leave to speak, in all its tenderness and beauty, in its own sweet native dialect, all its poetic wildness, its mad verities, its sober impossibilities, even at the moment in which he asks in statesmanship for the rational motive, undrenched in humours and affections for the motive of the weal that is common, and not for the motive of that which is private and exclusive.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded