“A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.”

—  Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

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