Of Children in Swaddling Clothes by Leonardo da Vinci

'Of Children in Swaddling Clothes

O cities of the sea, I behold in you your citizens, women
as well as men tightly bound with stout bonds around
their arms and Iegs by folk who will not understand
your language; and you will only be able to give
vent to your griefs and sense of loss of liberty
by making tearful complaints, and sighs, and
lamentations one to another; for those who
bind you will not understand your
language nor will you understand them.'