""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""

""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)

""And let slip the dogs of war.""

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death.

King Lear