SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORD "DELIGHTED"

If the passage from *Measure for Measure*, which has been the subject of much controversy in your recent numbers, be read in its natural sense—there is surely nothing unintelligible in the word "delighted" as there used. The object of the poet was to show how instinctively the mind shudders at the change produced by death—both on body and soul; and how repulsive it must be to an active and sentient being. He therefore places in frightful contrast the condition of *each* before and after that awful change. The BODY, *now* endowed with "sensible warm motion," to become in death "a kneaded clod,"…