Potter, painter, candlestick maker

   I will not deny

   a complete iden-

   tification with

   the socks. I am

   not unknown for

   gray sweatsocks

   and I'll not al-

   low that renown

   to be marred by

   imitators, how-

   ever versatile.

   Smeared, I sup-

   pose; molded in

   all likelihood,

   but not disfig-

   ured, actually.

                         Too hot, too hot!

                         To mingle friend-

                         ship far is mingl-

                         ing bloods .. 

William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale
  I, ii, 108 - 109
1611
The Arden Shakespeare
J.H.P. Pafford, editor
Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1963©