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MASTER HUGUES
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Well then, speak up, never flinch!
QUick, ere my candle's a snuff
-Burnt, do you see? to its uttermost inch­
"I believe in you, but that's not enough.
GIVe my conviction a clinch 1
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First you deliver your phrase
"-Nothing propound, that I see,
Fit in itself for much blame or much praise­
Answered no less, where no answer needs be :
On start the Two on their ways 1
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Straight must a Third interpose,
Volunteer needlessly help-
In strikes a Fourth, a Fifth thrusts in bis nose,
So the cry's open, the kennel's a-yelp,
Argument's hot to the close 1
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One dissertates, he is candid-
Two must discept,-has distinguished!
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Three helps the couple, if ever yet man did:
Four protests, Five makes a dart at the thing
wished-
Back to One, goes the case bandied I
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One says his say with a difference­
More of expounding, explaining!
AU now is wrangle, abuse, and vociferance-
"Now there's a truce, all's subdued, self-restraining­
FIVe, though, stands out all the stiffer bence.
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One Is inciSive, corrosive-
Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant­
Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive-
F" Four overbears them all, strident and strepitantlVe
•.• 0 Danaides, 0 Sieve 1
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