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THE GASCON.
A Gascon one day when a Cardinal's guest,Great boast of his river the Garonne exprest;
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The world to that river no rival could show.
Said his host, “Then, compared to that wonderful stream,
You the Tiber at Rome but a rivulet deem?”
“The Tiber forsooth!” he indignantly said;
“Let it hide underground its diminutive head;
Should it dare, Sir, to flow by my old castle wall,
In the course of one hour I would bottle it all.”
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