My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.


King Lear (1605–6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [144]

William Shakespeare Quotes

My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous....

My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous....

My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous....

My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous....