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1     I|       Excellency! I am composing verses on him who eats it."~ ~"
2     I| declaiming d - d bad Alexandrine verses on the spur of the moment;
3   VII|          this moment writing the verses for it, and the chief cantor
4   VII|          show him beforehand the verses he was to recite at table,
5   VII|       and recited congratulatory verses in his master's honour,
6   VII|         now recited the selfsame verses nine years running.[Pg 172]~ ~"
7   VII|         what reception the pious verses he had just recited might
8    IX|       feet and declaim their own verses; two or three newspaper
9    XV|          of scented billet-doux, verses, musical notes, and other