...commitment to law, order, and hierarchy.17 But in Ulysses's speech he makes his preference clear: . . . But when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander,...the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds . . . TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (1.3, 94-98) Everything in the world has its place, its "degree." And "when...

...and earth. The wind and sea references bear close resemblance to others that I have quoted : . . . but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander,...the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds! (i. iii. 94) Again, Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each...

...others whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil And posts like the commandement of a king, Sans check, to good and bad. But when the...wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny . . . O, when degree is shak'd Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick . ....

...all line of order; And therefore is the glorious planet Sol Admidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts,...unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick!...

...And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad; but when the planets Injevil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues and what...unity and married calm of states, Quite from their fixture? O, when Degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick!...

...Yet when its balance becomes disturbed, 'when the planets in evil mixture to disorder wander', then: 'What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What...deracinate The unity and married calm of states.' When human affairs thus become disintegrated, nothing reflects this more clearly than the way in which...

...evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the seas, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds! Frights,...unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! Troilus and Cressida (Act 1, Scene iii) In contrast, Lorenzo's speech in The Merchant of Venice...

...glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other, whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts,...unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder of all high designs, The enterprise is sick!...

...enthroned and sphered Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the influence of evil planets, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check...unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure?" Die widernatürlichen Vorzeichen sind also zugleich sichtbare Zeichen der gestörten Sympathiekorrespondenz...

...place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order. . . . But when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander,...unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! Oh, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick!...