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• Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book viii, Line 1...
• With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 37...
• The following is a recommendation from the business manager of Monarch Books.
  "Monarch Books should open a caf. in its store to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened a caf....
• Anne Boleyn: Heads are going to f%*king roll -- Famous people swearing...
• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
  They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." -- A. Lincol...
• Henry VIII's servants first served tennis-balls.
• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
  It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes....
• A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. -- Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- On the King
• LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox
  The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades....