"The butterfly courtier, that pageant of state, That mouse-trap of honour, and may-game of fate; For all his ambition, his freaks and his tricks, He must die like a bumpkin, and fall into Styx: His plot against death’s but a slender pretence, Who’d take his place from him a hundred years hence!"
Courtiers

January 1, 1970

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