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PEER
- I share the honour with my cash,
- with cook and steward-
MR. COTTON
- Very well;
- let's pledge a toast to all the four!
MONSIEUR BALLON
- Monsieur, you have a gout, a ton
- that nowadays is seldom met with
- among men living en garcon,-
- a certain-what's the word-?
VON EBERKOPF
- A dash,
- a tinge of free soul-contemplation,
- and cosmopolitanisation,
- an outlook through the cloudy rifts
- by narrow prejudice unhemmed,
- a stamp of high illumination,
- an Ur-Natur, with lore of life,
- to crown the trilogy, united.
- Nicht wahr, Monsieur, 'twas that you meant?
MONSIEUR BALLON
- Yes, very possibly; not quite
- so loftily it sounds in French.
VON EBERKOPF
- Ei was! That language is so stiff.-
