Shakespear and the palsy:
The duke of York in " Richard the Second," who would have chastis'd Bolingbroke had his arm not been " prisoner to the palsy; " and again Lord Say, when brought before Jack Cade, when accused of trembling, denied it, saying " the palsy and not fear provoketh me."
In the "Tempest" we find, "the nerves are in their infancy again, and have no vigor in them,"; and in "Macbeth" we have, "Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble."