...exempted from her power." f It was in the spirit of this doctrine that Shakspere himself wrote — " The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order." J Dugdalc's ' Origines ' was published six years after the Restoration. He speaks of the solemn revels...

...Expectation. * Rights of supreme authority. ' Masked. Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture,1 course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom,...line of order ; And therefore is the glorious planet, Scl, In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose medicinable eye Corrects the...

...idiot boys and mad mothers, and after them " owls and night-ravens flew." — They scorned " degrees, priority, and place, insisture, course, proportion,...season, form, office, and custom, in all line of order :" — the distinctions of birth, the vicissitudes of fortune, did not enter into their abstracted,...

...say, the world was conceived as a hierarchy of beings. As Shakespeare said, in a well-known speech: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order . . .: How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities Peaceful commerce from...

...for each created thing to keep."2 As Hooker's contemporary, the playwright William Shakespeare wrote, The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,...proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order3 All created things, from the lowest worms to higher animals, to people, and above people to...

...and hierarchy in his famous speech on "degree": The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course,...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. (1.3.85-88) While critics have sometimes regarded Ulysses' magnificent, long speech as the definitive...

...他以天 體為喻， 甚言degree 或order 之必要， 否則體系崩塌， 萬物互毀 Ulyss. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the influence of evil planets, And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad. But...

...fellow bardolators search their brains for the source of his trope, "'the planets, and this center / Observe degree, priority, and place. / Insisture,...form, / Office, and custom, in all line of order.'" He aimed the words at Wheeler himself, and ignored the roars of appreciation over their general aptness...

...plates, dropt from their pockets" [quoted from Antony and Cleopatra]. . . . They scorned "degrees, priority, and place, insisture. course, proportion,...season, form, office, and custom in all line of order" [quoted from Troihts and Cressida]. . . . Their poetry . . . has "no figures nor no fantasies" [quoted...

...Ulysses, a Greek commander in Troilus and Cressida, these words, from a speech we have examined before: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the influence of evil planets . . . TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (1.3, 85-92) 235 This is straightforward commitment...