Epigraph: Volume I: On fortune's cap we arenot the very button ... Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favour? ... 'Faith, her privates we (Shakespeare's Hamlet). Epigraph Vol.2 : I Have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered; there's not three hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for the town's end, to beg during life. (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I.)