Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer
Source: Prince on a White Horse (1982), Chapter 4 “The Dragon of Brass” (p. 207)
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous —
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
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