Con Brio
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iserly, is the best description of that poor foolWho holds Lancelot to have been a morose fellow,Dolefully brooding over the events which had naturally to followThe high time of his deed with Guinevere.He has a sick historical sight, if I judge rightly,To believe any such thing as that ever occurred.But, by the god of blood, what else is it that has deterredUs all from an out and out defiance of fearBut this same perdamnable miserliness,Which cries about our necks how we shall have less and lessThan we have now if we spend too wantonly? Bah, this sort of slither is below contempt! In the same vein we should have apple trees exemptFrom bearing anything but pink blossoms all the year,Fixed permanent lest their bellies wax unseemly, and the dearInnocent days of them be wasted quite.
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