hedge-twigs

Updated: May 17, 2025

Time the chamberlain, and scareth to his hiding-place the lizard on the wall. Think soberly, O ye kings! how your crowns are but yellow metal, and your purple robes the food of moths, and the sceptres of your power no better than hedge-twigs for the driving of rats.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay