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March 14, 2008

Lear is the Real King of Camino Royal

from King Lear:

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Fool: Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie.

Lear: An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.

Fool: 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. I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool; and yet, I would not be thee, nuncle.

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-- DL

Posted by on March 14, 2008 at 12:11 AM in Spontaneous Aphorisms |

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