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Hamlet, being charged with " coinage of the brain" answers: "It is not madness

That I have uttered; bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from."

Madness, then, varies and fluctuates: it cannot "re-word"—if the poet's observation be well founded; and though the Court would not at all rely upon it as an authority, yet it knows from the information of a most eminent physician that this test of madness, suggested by this passage, was found, by experiment in a recent case, to be strictly applicable, and discovered the lurking disease.


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