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AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER.
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Receive the rejoinder that suits me!
Confutation of vassal for prince meet—
Wherein all the powers that convince meet,
And mash my opponent to mincemeat!"

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So, off from his head flies the bonnet,
His hip loses hand planted on it,
While t' other hand, frequent in gesture,
Slinks modestly back beneath vesture,
As,—hop, skip and jump,—he 's along with
Those weak ones he late proved so strong with!
Pope, Emperor, lo he 's beside them,
Friendly now, who late could not abide them,