Mark Antony:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
-copied from here.
David Falkayn:
"'I come to curry Caesarism, not to raze it.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Trouble Twisters" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 77-208 AT p. 155.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
-copied from here.
" 'Uneasy hies tha head what caeres for clowns.' "
-copied from here.
If that's not clever, it'll do till the real clever comes along.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The parodying of the famous saying about heads and crowns from A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST has always amused me!
Sean
And besides the literal meaning, "clown" was 17th-century slang for "rustic, peasant".
Dear Mr. Stirling,
And that meaning of "clown" was recently discussed here, by you, I think. And William Fairweather literally was a rustic!
Sean
Paul:
I found a drawing on the 'Net, depicting a cute little girl humming with evident pleasure as she nibbles on a pastry. Saving it to my computer, I gave it the title, "If Music Be the Love of Food..." as my Spooneristic take on a line from, if I remember correctly, Twelfth Night.
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