Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Polonius to Kent.)
There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad,
Which none but madmen know.
Dryden.—Spanish Friar, Act II. Scene 1.
MAGISTRATES.—Let discipline employ her wholesome arts;
Let magistrates alert perform their parts,
Not
skulk or put on a prudential mask,
As if their duty were a desperate task;
Let active laws apply the needful
curb,
To guard the peace that riot would disturb,
And liberty, preserved from wild excess,
Shall raise no
feuds for armies to suppress.
Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 311.