brainsick

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Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!

From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas