Note to As You Like It, 2.7.6: "We shall have shortly discord in the spheres"


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We shall have shortly discord in the spheres: i.e., pretty soon the whole universe will fly apart. —In the Geocentric model of the universe, which was universally accepted in Shakespeare's time, everything was held together by the concord (the opposite of "discord") of the spheres.

An illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric system
by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho
1568 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)

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