Upon My Head They Placed A Fruitless Crown,
And Put A Barren Sceptre In My Gripe,
Thence To Be Wrench'd With An Unlineal Hand,
No Son Of Mine Succeeding.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth
-- Act iii, Sc. 1
