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Quotation from As You Like It by William Shakespeare
“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do”
As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1523)
Rosalind offers to cure Orlando of love, invoking the period's treatment of the mad in darkness and with the whip.
Citation: "Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do" — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1523). (id as-you-like-it-q6)
Portrait: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies or The First Folio, William Shakespeare, Public domain.
