Rumour and truth -- (They're mine, all mine!)

The title of this string made me think that someone had discovered the
characters TRUTH and RUMOUR in my play, DARK SOVEREIGN. No such luck. O well...
These female twins dress identically in the play, except that RUMOUR's costume is covered
with reflective sequins. Hence TRUTH's reference to her twin as "gaudy" and to herself as
"plain." Here, TRUTH and RUMOUR decribe themselves in lines from DARK SOVEREIGN:

TRUTH: We are twins. She [is] my sister, Rumour.
I am Truth. Where she is gaudy, I am plain.
Where she would put impediment to history,
I, without dissembly, answer truly,
when the course gives me to understand. [DS. 1.2]

RUMOUR: Rumour's task is but to trumpet that I hear
till grey-beards write me down in learnéd books,
where I am taken for a gospel that is – [curtsies] – History!
Whereinsoever the presumption in me has no bounds.
Know, that seeks for truth, I thwart wi' thee,
charming, with such Siren-sounds
as they should set thee to blind rocks.
Be ware, lest zeal-blind,
thou not run upon the stony shoal of falsehood. [DS. Ind. 1]

Text from Dark Sovereign Copyright Robert Fripp