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OF Lordly acquaintance you boast, And the Dukes that you dined wi’ yestreen, Yet an insect’s an insect at most, Tho’ it crawl on the curl of a Queen!
Epigram - The Toad-eater
354Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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