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FROM THE FRENCH.
Said Bassompierre, “When I in Spain abode,Sire, on a mule in cavalcade I rode:”
The King to his Ambassador replied,
“An ass then sat upon a mule astride;”
“Sire!” he retorted, “what you say is true,
When at Madrid I represented you.”
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