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"Were things but only call'd by their right name, Caesar himself would be ashamed of fame."
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 14, Stanza 102, 1823.

The Four Tops — Reach Out, I'll Be There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnih1-VX74M

"As for men, they may live and be slaves."
Tacitus, Annals, Book XIV, Chapter 35 [The Twinned Fourteenth Legion (Legio Quarta Decima Gemina) conquered Britain.]

"Well, master had hit the right nail on the head this time: thanx to luck—the crooked one, to be sure, but then it had the GOOLD NOBB,
which was the part Deuceace most valued, as well he should; being a connyshure as to the relletiff valyou of pretious metals, and
much preferring virging goold like this to poor old battered iron like my Lady Griffin.
What can mortial man want more? Vishns of ambishn now occupied his soal. Shooting boxes, oppra boxes, money boxes always full;
hunters at Melton; a seat in the house of Commins: heaven knows what! and not a poar footman, who only describes what he's seen,
and can't, in cors, pennytrate into the idears and the busms of men."
W. Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, Chapter V. The Griffin's Claws, 1837.

Duke Gaspard should rule Orlais & Ursia Quarta would feed Cullen's jealousy against Cremisius & Solas, also Sera & Harding.

Calpurnia — Where Is My Mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSZcFF6V3hs

"Thy neck is as the tower of David built for defense: a thousand shields hang therein, and all the targets of the strong men."
Song of Solomon, IV:4, Geneva Bible, 1599.

"The Commander-in-Chief is proud thus publicly to declare his high sense of the gallantry of Lieutenant Gahagan, of the — Cavalry.
In the storming of the fortress, although unprovided with a single ladder, and accompanied but by a few brave men, Lieutenant
Gahagan succeeded in escalading the inner and fourteenth wall of the place. Fourteen ditches lined with sword-blades and poisoned
chevaux-de-frise, fourteen walls bristling with innumerable artillery and as smooth as looking-glasses, were in turn triumphantly passed
by that enterprising officer. His course was to be traced by the heaps of slaughtered enemies lying thick upon the platforms; and alas!
by the corpses of most of the gallant men who followed him! When at length he effected his lodgment, and the dastardly enemy, who
dared not to confront him with arms, let loose upon him the tigers and lions of Scindiah's menagerie, this meritorious officer destroyed,
with his own hand, four of the largest and most ferocious animals, and the rest, awed by the indomitable majesty of BRITISH VALOUR,
shrank back to their dens. Thomas Higgory, a private, and Runty Goss, havildar, were the only two who remained out of the nine hundred
who followed Lieutenant Gahagan. Honour to them! Honour and tears for the brave men who perished on that awful day!"
I have copied this, word for word, from the Bengal Hurkaru of September 24, 1803: and anybody who has the slightest doubt as to the statement,
may refer to the paper itself."
W. M. Thackeray, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan, Chapter II: Allyghur and Laswaree, 1855. [Truth is strange. Stranger than fiction.]

Ursia Quarta answers the dam lovers: My lips are sealed.

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave. 
With a prince this is an intolerable position which cannot last."
Balthasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, CCXXXVII Never Share the Secrets of your Superiors, 1647.

Iron Bull [Jupiter] stood reluctant about blood grooves & Ursia Quarta has chosen Blackwall [Saturn] to be her very first planet.

Enya — Epona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXpEvpPGa0

"And I shall take a much more serious air
Than I have yet done, in this epic satire.
It is not clear that Adeline [Cassandra] and Juan [Cullen]
Will fall; but if they do, 't will be their ruin...
You 'll never guess, I 'll bet you millions, milliards—
It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards...
'T is strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!"
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 14, Stanza 102, 1823 [table billiards uses two cue balls [bald] & one red ball].

"And the consequence is, that, like all potentates [Empress Celene] who follow the same policy, they never really taste 
the sweets of peace—they are in a constant state of invasion by their own troops. I am rather a bold man at table, and 
set form very much at defiance, so that, if a salad happens to be within my reach, I make no scruple to take it to me ; 
but the moment I am espied, it is nipped up from the most convenient to the most inconvenient position."
Abraham Hayward, The art of dining; or, Gastronomy and gastronomers, Rules for Comfort, 1852, p. 87 [salad: Cole slaw].

Sera: Right. Something stinks besides fish... and fish.

"Antony: Octavius, lead your battle softly on, Upon the left hand of the even field.
Octavius: Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.
Antony: Why do you cross me in this exigent?
Octavius: I do not cross you; but I will do so."
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V, Scene 1: The plains of Philippi, l. 16-20 [And something to be done immediately.]

At a desultory price of dubious Tevinter subordinates, Dorian allocated the Redcliffe mages to his boss Corypheus.
Yet Tevinter opposition to elven ranting allows commitment on magic left wing; Ursia Quarta handles warrior right. 

"A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops."
Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, Unwin, 1890, p. 24.

The bull-leaping fresco, Knossos palace, Crete, Greece, 1450 BCE.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Bull_leaping_minoan_fresco_archmus_Heraklion.jpg

Ursia Quarta plans a tricky allocation of Charity to Cremisius Aclassi, Hope to Iron bull, & Faith in Andraste to herself.