“Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;
Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.”

—  John Dryden , Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. II, line 413.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

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