“Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, "I quickly moved on to…the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really."”
Vidal, Palimpsest, 206
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He shook his Head. He didn't continue.
"It's your Mate," Doctor Isaac assur'd him, "It's what happens when your Mate dies."
Mason & Dixon (1997)
Source: Medieval castles (2005), Ch. 1 : The Great Tower : Norman and Early Plantagenet Castles

2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A
“A king without instruction is like a donkey crowned.”
Il Re senza lettere era come un Asino coronato.
Della Prudenza et Dottrina del Re. p. 25.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 320.

“There are moments in our lives when we all are kings of some place, some time. Some tomb.”
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