...Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antiuue fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen,...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:' One sees more devils than vast...

...Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antic s. Pro. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast...

...鬼鬼怪怪， 我是寧可信其無一他表現出一副成熟理性的態度一不 過， 接著他說: T 拋 Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cold reason ever comprehend. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One...

...my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THE. More strange than true. I never may believe These antic fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, ' Anthony Brian Taylor, 'Golding's Ovid, Shakespeare's "Small Latin" and the Real Object of Mockery...

...exper1enced in the night forest. Theseus' speech points out how internal conditions can distort perception: I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. (5.1.2-6) Though to Theseus 'cool reason' is a safe measure for judging and dismissing the lovers'...

...ambivalent relations between 'reason' and 'fantasy', articulated in Theseus's famous speech THESEUS I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast...

...ambivalent relations between 'reason' and 'fantasy', articulated in Theseus's famous speech THESEUS I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast...

...Theseus, that these lovers ±. speak of. THESEUS. More strange than true: I never may believe These antick sonably die, and never rise To do him wrong, or any way impeach What then The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: — One sees more devils than...

...mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts. (Troths and CressiJa, v! x. 28) Now Theseus continues: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, vi 4) Again, Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but...

...— or rather, redraws a connection operative since antiquity — between fantasy and imagination: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact [.] (Vi4-8) Schlegel's translation...