The Book of Lies

48

ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ

MOME RATHS[1]

1

The early bird catches the worm and the twelve-year-old prostitute attracts the ambassador.

2

Neglect not the dawn-meditation!

3

The first plovers' eggs fetch the highest prices; the flower of virginity is esteemed by the pandar.

4

Neglect not the dawn-meditation!

5

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise:
But late to watch and early to pray
Brings him across The Abyss, they say.

6

Neglect not the dawn-meditation!

COMMENTARY (ΜΗ)

This chapter is perfectly simple, and needs no comment whatsoever.

NOTE

[1] The môme raths outgrabe" — Lewis Carroll.

But "môme" is Parisian slang for a young girl, and "rathe" O.E. for early. "The rathe primrose" — Milton.

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