Chapter_1609

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’Tis granted; and the valet mounts the dickey⁠—

That gentleman of Lords and Gentlemen;

Also my Lady’s gentlewoman, tricky,

Tricked out, but modest more than poet’s pen

Can paint⁠—“Cosi viaggino i Ricchi!”

(Excuse a foreign slipslop now and then,

If but to show I’ve travelled: and what’s Travel,

Unless it teaches one to quote and cavil?)