June 5, 2009

Still Waters Run Deep

Silent and quiet conspirators or traitors are most dangerous;
barking dogs never bite; the fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep:
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb;
No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.

Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., III. f.