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“Still, spite of all their English-Greek,
The Capitani “chewed their leek!”
In vain our very best haranguers,
Still by their hams reposed their hangers:
The blunderbuss still graced the hooks,
Malgrè the Constitution cooks.
Though Bentham sent the sense of ages
Boil'd down into his half-score pages;
The weightiest matter ever shipp'd
Since law first lodged in manuscript;
Though the fierce Colonel on them flung
Conviction in his mother-tongue.”
The Capitani “chewed their leek!”
In vain our very best haranguers,
Still by their hams reposed their hangers:
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Malgrè the Constitution cooks.
Though Bentham sent the sense of ages
Boil'd down into his half-score pages;
The weightiest matter ever shipp'd
Since law first lodged in manuscript;
Though the fierce Colonel on them flung
Conviction in his mother-tongue.”
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