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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt index 3025bc7959..12bb8f1667 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt @@ -683,6 +683,17 @@ jelly A splotch, a blotch..." -Burt Bacharach, "Beware of the Blob" %%%% +Menkaure + +"Ye men of Egypt, ye have heard your king! + I go, and I return not. But the will + Of the great Gods is plain; and ye must bring + Ill deeds, ill passions, zealous to fulfil + Their pleasure, to their feet; and reap their praise, + The praise of Gods, rich boon! and length of days." + -Matthew Arnold, _Mycerinus_ + +%%%% manticore "Ctesias writeth, that in Aethiopia likewise there is a beast which he calleth Mantichora, having three rankes of teeth, which when they meet togither are let in one within another like the teeth of combes: with the face and eares of a man, with red eyes; of colour sanguine, bodied like a lyon, and having a taile armed with a sting like a scorpion: his voice resembleth the noise of a flute and trumpet sounded together: very swift he is, and mans flesh of all others hee most desireth." |