‘The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.’ ~ Shakespeare. #BookWormSat

Caitlin wanted to escape to the country. Now she’s fighting to escape from the country. #booksky #bookwormsat #writing #ebooks #writesky #novel

www.jonlymonauthor.com/the-wronged

"Wisdom makes men weak and apprehensive, and consequently you'll generality find the wise associated with poverty... Fools, on the other hand, are rolling in money and are put in charge of affairs of state."

—In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus

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"What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield."

—Paradise Lost, John Milton

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"If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

—The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

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"'Till now,' said then the knight, 'I weened well,
That great Cleopolis, where I have been,
In which that fairest Faerie Queen doth dwell,
The fairest city was that might be seen;
And that bright tower all built of crystal clean.'"
- Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queen"
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"By this the dreadful Beast drew nigh to hand,
Half flying and half footing in his haste,
That with his largeness measured much land,
And made wide shadow under his huge waist,
As mountain doth the valley overcast."
- Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queen"

🎨Trina Schart Hyman
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I am young and fain to sing
In this happy tide of spring
Of love and many a gentle thing,
I wander through green meadows dight
With blossoms gold and red and white;

Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian, 1313 – 1375

Henry A. Payne #BookWormSat

‘The people reverence Pan (that is to say, the nature of things), a man who is half-goat, a god who is half-man.’ — Andreas Alciato, ‘The Book of Emblems’ (1531) #BookWormSat

‘Now look, your grace,’ said Sancho, ‘what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.’
‘Obviously,’ replied Don Quijote, ‘you don't know much about adventures.’ ~ Cervantes. #BookWormSat

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Sir David Lyndsay’s masterpiece of #Renaissance #theatre 𝘈𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘌𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 was first performed for James V in 1540, & is “probably the most dramatically & politically radical piece of theatre produced in 16th-century Britain”
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doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/08/12/d...

"I was ill/so I sought a doctor.
Now I've been poked/prodded/jabbed/grabbed,
By scalding/icy/pointy/heavy/forcefull fingers.
And feel worse than before."

Neo-latin "Epistles" by Ludvig Holberg.
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🎨 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562)

How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Francesco Petrarch, Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

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"The circumference of the city (Vijayanagar) is sixty miles; its walls are carried up to the mountains... The king is more powerful than any other king in India."

"The travels of Nicolò Conti in the East in the early part of the fifteenth century".

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