Careful Words

compulsion (n.)

  Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

  As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act i. Sc. 2.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton (1608-1674): Arcades. Line 68.