commoncrofts: for the coterie

nec dignitas nec superbia neque aut rubor coram vobis--neither dignity nor pride, nor shame either, before you--my motto to the coterie. If you are reading this, you're in the coterie.

Fantastic. Thanks for being here.

THC III

Let us begin and carry up this corpse,

Singing together.

Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes

Each in its tether

Sleeping safe

on the bosom of the plain

Robert Browning: 'The Grammarian's funeral'