[lit-ideas] Re: "Honesty Is The Best Policy"
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:46:25 -0700
Getting back to the negative implications of "policy" in the
seventeenth century, here is the second stanza of "The World" by Bishop
Henry Vaughn (1622-95):
The darksome Statesman hung with weights and woe,
Like a thick midnight fog, moved there so slow
He did nor stay nor go;
Condemning thoughts, like sad eclipses, scowl
Upon his soul,
And clouds of crying witnesses without
Pursued him with one shout.
Yet digged the mole, and, lest his ways be found,
Worked under ground,
Where he did clutch his prey; but One did see
That policy.
Churches and altars fed him, perjuries
Were gnats and flies;
It rained about him blood and tears, but he
Drank them as free.
Harold Hungerford
On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:10 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
I wrote:
But iff 'Sandy' uttered or
printed the expression in 1599, he's ahead of Cervantes and wins the
best policy
prize: Volume I of DQ was published in 1605.
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Philosophers and logicians will see the force of this.
Robert Paul
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