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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Ragueneau
[overcome].
You do me too great honour…
Lignière.
Nay, hold your peace, Mæcenas that you are!
Ragueneau.
True, these gentlemen employ me…
Lignière.
True, these gentlemen employ me… On credit
He is himself a poet of a pretty talent…
Ragueneau.
So they tell me.
Lignière.
—Mad after poetry!
Ragueneau.
'Tis true that, for a little ode…
Lignière.
You give a tart…
Ragueneau.
Oh!—a tartlet!
Lignière.
Brave fellow! he would fain excuse himself!
—And for a triolet, now, did you not give in exchange…
