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Quotation from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred, And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?”
The Comedy of Errors, Act 5, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1504)
Part of the Abbess's diagnosis, tracing madness through disturbed food, sleep and recreation to fever and melancholy.
Citation: "Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred, And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?" — William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act 5, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1504). (id the-comedy-of-errors-q7)
Portrait: Robson Crane Comedy of Errors, Metropolitan Litho. Studio, Public domain.
