Nur, während ich auf Henry warte, ein Shakespeare-Zitat...
(Aus Henry IV; es spricht der König über Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, der soeben eine Schlacht gewonnen hat und wichtige Gefangene genommen, und deswegen gerade in absentia gelobt wurde):
"Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin
In envy that my Lord Northumberland
Should be the father to so blest a son;
A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,
Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride;
Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,
See riot and dishonour stain the brow
Of my young Harry. O that it could be prov'd
That some night-tripping fairy had exchang'd
In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,
And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!"