“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) English poet
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627).
“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”
No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
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