Quotation by Shakespeare

The skipping King, he ambled up and down,
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
Mingled his royalty with cap'ring fools.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 2, l. 60-3.

Speaking to his son of Richard II; "bavin" means brushwood; "carded his state" means weakened his power.
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