Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Of course everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. You want -REAL- gold? Go mine for it and stop looking in the jewelery store on the corner. EVERYBODY knows what gets sold on the corner.

A gold downgraded to a brass is more precious than an iron upgraded to a brass.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the wailers heap! / O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! / God strikes a silence through you all, / And giveth his beloved, sleep.

Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.