1.07.2010

I am ambitious for a motley coat


















Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more,
Than two tens to a score.

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"I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:  they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace."

(King Lear 1.4.108-117, 164-167)

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