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Gold-painted Lily (OCD Crest)

Trying to create a crest for OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and perfectionism for a project I (apparently) mis-remembered Shakespeares line as "to gild the lily".
Obviously gilding would have been done with gold leaf (or today in a galvanic process), not with liquid gold.
But then again, the original quote reads "to gild refined gold, to paint the lily".
So in the end, I outdid myself, representing both the original and the modern version of the quote with golden paint drops.
Five points to me. Foor sheer dumb luck!
(And yes, the quote was intended against excess at court, not perfectionism. But let's not destroy the happy end.)
The 3 drops could be seen as blood, sweat and tears. (But that's just an interpretation that occurred to me afterwards. The 3 drops just looked cool).