Putting out fires

I seem to have chosen a poor moment to tune into the Forum's
offerings
after being a few weeks away. I returned to find a lengthy note
expressing upset in a message called Help! from Eileen, and an
appropriate message in a timely intervention by moderator Neil Trump.

I know nothing of the original slight, nor choose to. Enough said.

Returning to the toils of Richard III, members of this Forum will
recall
that a timely intervention by Lord Hastings reduced the risk of
civil
strife after Richard's seizure of the boy-king, and their entry to
London. Hastings, calming a crowd, calls:

All you which have great heart to this affair,
I urge you eschew bitterness, to seek forth truth&
Heat but engenders ire, the which, consuming up,
Doth render good with ill, nobility of soul with base,
and so an end. Deny t'incline to baseness; pluck it out&
And look how far you are the body of the weal,
So far the common weal is you.
(Dark Sovereign" Act 3, scene 7)

So let's all relax and get on with it! And may the god of Internet
formatting be kind to transmission of the above.

Robert Fripp