Bucco, it looks like your antagonist is attempting to wax poetic ..... although I believe the line was actually, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Whatever. I enjoy a well turned phrase or verse....especially if it used to make a point.

I always liked Kipling. These few lines seem relevent and appropriate at this moment.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,.......

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.

Keedy.......sometimes YOU scare me.