Mar 01, 2006

Soothsayer

One who claims to be able to foretell events or predict the future; a seer.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.

--Shakespear, Antony and Cleopatra

homage

1. Ceremonial acknowledgment by a vassal of allegiance to his lord under feudal law.

2. Special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly. See Synonyms at honor.

Let me be married
to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:
let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry
may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius
Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.
--same as above

cuckold

A man married to an unfaithful wife.

Opposite of love is not hate, but silence.
-- Nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel