They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee (1653 – 1692) was a playwright known for his blank verse works such as The Rival Queens and Caesar Borgia, and for offending King Charles II in 1681 with Lucius Junius Brutus. This statement is his summary of how he got sent to Bedlam in 1683.
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