6.1.07
Feliz Dia de Reis...
"So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
(...)
Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
(...)
Therefore, thou gaudy gold, I will none of you;
Nor none of you, thou pale and common drudge
'Tween man and man: but you, ´o meagre lead,
Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,
Your paleness moves me more than eloquence;
Here choose I; joy be the consequence!"
(William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
(...)
Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
(...)
Therefore, thou gaudy gold, I will none of you;
Nor none of you, thou pale and common drudge
'Tween man and man: but you, ´o meagre lead,
Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,
Your paleness moves me more than eloquence;
Here choose I; joy be the consequence!"
(William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)
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