Quotation by Shakespeare

O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
To melt myself away in water drops!
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. King Richard, in Richard II, act 4, sc. 1, l. 260.

Humiliated in front of the whole court.
Surprise me with a
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