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EPIGRAM by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "SAID BASSOMPIERRE, 'WHEN I IN SPAIN ABODE"
Last Line: WHEN AT MADRID I REPRESENTED YOU'
Subject(s): COURTS & COURTIERS;RUDENESS;SPAIN; BAD MANNERS;
SAID Bassompierre, "When I in Spain abode,
Sire, on a mule in cavalcade I rode:"
The King to his Ambassador replied,
"An ass then fat upon a mule astride;"
"Sire!" he retorted, "what you say is true,
When at Madrid I represented you."



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