Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The Final Words of Lear's Fool



"I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:

When priests are more in word than matter;

When brewers mar their malt with water;

When nobles are their tailor's tutors;

No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;

When every case in law is right;

No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;

When slanders do not live in tongues;

Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;

When usurers tell their gold i' the field;

And bawds and whores do churches build;

Then shall the realm of Albion
Come to great confusion:
The comes the time, who lives to see't,
That going shall be made with feet.
This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live
before his time." [Exit.

~The Fool; King Lear, Act III, Scene II

1 comment:

Dain Q Gore said...

Although prophecy and stock-trading do have something in common; that being perhaps the anomalies inherent in statistical probabilities and gambling of a sort, I would surmise rather that the above attempt is one of solicitation rather than the impartation of insight or wise edification of the topic-at-hand.

So, then, begone with your whorish, scripted rant about the virtues of a company that has nothing to do with King Lear or any of his Fool's wisdom!

Sincerely,

Dain "Numberless Nomenclature" Gore