English Courtier

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“We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)