Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?


Hamlet: Words, words, words.


Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2



Friday, March 4, 2011

Demesne

demesne: [dĭ-mān] noun possession of land as one's own; the land attached to a mansion.


Friend, in my mountain-side demesne,
My plain-beholding, rosy, green
And linnet-haunted garden-ground,
Let still the esculents abound.

----Robert Louis Stevenson
To A Gardener

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