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Quotation from Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
“we are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it”
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1518, modern spelling)
The Archbishop justifies armed rebellion to Westmoreland as a physician's bloodletting of a sick body politic.
Citation: "we are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it" — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1518, modern spelling). (id henry-iv-part-2-q9)
