[Vision2020] Lott/Law

[Melynda Huskey]

Doug wishes Trent Lott had read a Shakespearean sonnet, and I think I've got 
just the ticket for him.

CXXI.
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling but by others' seeing:
For why should others false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown;
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad, and in their badness reign.

Now for that old reprobate Strom Thurmond, I think I'd select another, which 
begins, "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame/is lust in action . . ."


Melynda Huskey

"It's so elegant, so intelligent . . ." T. S. Eliot


"The things that make us happy make us wise."  John Crowley



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