From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 22:08:37 BST
Dear all,
A bit of fun...
DUKE. I am a courtier grave and serious
Who is about to kiss your hand:
Try to combine a pose imperious
With a demeanour nobly bland.
MAR. and Let us combine a pose imperious
GIU. With a demeanour nobly bland.
DUKE. That's, if anything, too unbending--
Too aggressively stiff and grand;
Now to the other extreme you're tending--
Don't be so deucedly condescending!
DUCH. and Now to the other extreme you're tending--
CAS. Don't be so dreadfully condescending!
MAR. and Oh, hard to please some noblemen seem!
GIU. At first, if anything, too unbending;
Off we go to the other extreme--
Too confoundedly condescending!
DUKE. Now a gavotte perform sedately--
Offer your hand with conscious pride;
Take an attitude not too stately,
Still sufficiently dignified.
MAR. and Now for an attitude not too stately,
GIU. Still sufficiently dignified.
DUKE Bow impressively ere you glide.
Capital both, capital both--you've caught it nicely!
That is the style of thing precisely!
DUCH. and Capital both, capital both--they've caught it nicely!
CAS. That is the style of thing precisely!
MAR. and Oh, sweet to earn a nobleman's praise!
GIU. Capital both, capital both--we've caught it nicely!
Supposing he's right in what he says,
This is the style of thing precisely!
That's the way to do it!
All the best,
Mark ;)
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