18/29 How true, and yet how false the jest, or prophecy." "How can anything be both true and false, Prince ?" "That I could prove to you very easily, but it would take an hour or more, so it shall be for another time. This scarab is a poor thing, give it back to me and you shall have a better. Or would you choose this signet? But I will not take the ring because it is----" "-- --useless to me, and you would not have that which is without value to the giver. |