Gilded Court

Gilded Court
What does this quote mean?

No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too-
Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out-
And take upon ‘s the mystery of things,
As if we were God’s spies; and we’ll wear out,
In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by th’ moon.

a part of that quote is tattooed on Megan Fox’s back. It’s a William Shakespeare quote but what does it mean?

–King Lear, Act V, Scene 3 lines 7 – 18

King Lear and his beloved daughter Cordelia are being led away to prison. By this time, he is blind and realizes his other two daughters Regan and Goneriel have lied to him and betrayed him for the sake of his fortune. Only Cordelia is loyal to him and only she was honest to him in the beginning – even though at the time her answer angered him. He is talking about life in the court and how they shall spend their days listening to gossip of the court and laughing at their extravagance – like gilded butterflies. It is Lear’s hope to live a simple life and come to enjoy the company of his beautiful and loving daughter Cordelia.

A gilded butterfly cannot fly – it is just as much a prisoner as he is. He realizes that in the beginning, his question to his three daughters and his wealth meant nothing to him – there are no gilded butterflies that can replace a daughter’s loyalty and love.

The Gilded Court – October 2009

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