“Some thought to raise themselves to high degree
By riches and unrighteous reward,
Some by close shouldring, some by flateree;
Others through friendes, others for base regard;
And all by wrong waies for themselves prepared.
Those that were up themselves, kept others low,
Those that were low themselves, kept others hard,
Ne suffred them to ryse or greater grow,
But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.”
From “The Faerie Queen”, Book II, Canto VII
by Edmund Spenser
Written over four hundred years ago, it could have
been written yesterday. Islander