And thou, a lunaticke Leane-witted foole, Presuming on an Agues priuiledge, Dar'st with thy frozen admonition Make pale our cheeke, chasing the Royall blood With fury, from his natiue residence?
"Richard-II"
Shakespeare, William
If the spokes of the same be straight they wil soone breake: for that the wheele leaning, the spokes come also to Leane, and not to sustaine the paise by the straightnesse of them, and so when the carte goeth even, and when they are least burdened, they come to bee strongest: when the Carte goeth awrye, and that they come to have moste paise, they bee weakest.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
Right across the valley opens the Gap of Dunloe, with the rugged Reeks on one side and the green clad Purple Mountain on the other; below is the narrow, island-dotted, hill-encircled upper lake; farther away is Muckross Lake, and far in the distance stretch the blue waters of Lough Leane, the largest of them all.
"The Charm of Ireland"
Burton Egbert Stevenson
