Monday 14 January 2008

Crop Rotation

CHREMYLOS: There is too much of everything.
                          Of love,
KARION:                           Bread,
CHREMYLOS:                               Songs,
KARION:                                                     And candy.
CHREMYLOS:Of honour,
KARION:                           Cakes,
CHREMYLOS:                               Courage,
KARION:                                                     And Figs.
CHREMYLOS:Of ambition,
KARION:                          Barley bread,
CHREMYLOS:                                High office,
KARION:                                                      And pease-porridge.

Cf. Aristohanes, Plutus, vv. 189ff.







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