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In days of yore as Ancient Stories tell	A
A King in love with a great Princess fell	A
Long at her feet submiss the Monarch sigh'd	B
While she with stern repulse his suit denied	B
Yet was he form'd by birth to please the fair	C
Dress'd danc'd and courted with a Monarch's air	C
But Magic Spells her frozen breast had steel'd	B
With stubborn pride that knew not how to yield	B
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This to the King a courteous Fairy told	B
And bade the Monarch in his suit be bold	B
For he that would the charming Princess wed	B
Had only on her cat's black tail to tread	B
When straight the Spell would vanish into air	C
And he enjoy for life the yielding fair	C
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He thank'd the Fairy for her kind advice	D
Thought he 'If this be all I'll not be nice	D
Rather than in my courtship I will fail	E
I will to mince meat tread Minon's black tail '	-
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To the Princess's court repairing strait	B
He sought the cat that must decide his fate	B
But when he found her how the creature stared	B
How her back bristled and her great eyes glared	B
That tail which he so fondly hop'd his prize	F
Was swell'd by wrath to twice its usual size	F
And all her cattish gestures plainly spoke	G
She thought the affair he came upon no joke	G
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With wary step the cautious King draws near	H
And slyly means to attack her in her rear	H
But when he thinks upon her tail to pounce	I
Whisk off she skips three yards upon a bounce	I
Again he tries again his efforts fail	E
Minon's a witch the deuce is in her tail	E
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The anxious chase for weeks the Monarch tried	B
Till courage fail'd and hope within him died	B
A desperate suit 'twas useless to prefer	J
Or hope to catch a tail of quicksilver	J
When on a day beyond his hopes he found	B
Minon his foe asleep upon the ground	B
Her ample tail hehind her lay outspread	B
Full to the eye and tempting to the tread	B
The King with rapture the occasion bless'd	B
And with quick foot the fatal part he press'd	B
Loud squalls were heard like howlings of a storm	K
And sad he gazed on Minon's altered form	K
No more a cat but chang'd into a man	L
Of giant size who frown'd and thus began	L
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'Rash King that dared with impious design	M
To violate that tail that once was mine	M
What tho' the spell be broke and burst the charms	N
That kept the Princess from thy longing arms	N
Not unrevenged shalt thou my fury dare	C
For by that violated tail I swear	C
From your unhappy nuptials shall be born	O
A Prince whose Nose shall be thy subjects' scorn	O
Bless'd in his love thy son shall never be	P
Till he his foul deformity shall see	P
Till he with tears his blemish shall confess	Q
Discern its odious length and wish it less '	-
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This said he vanish'd and the King awhile	R
Mused at his words then answer'd with a smile	R
'Give me a child in happy wedlock born	O
And let his Nose be made like a French horn	O
His knowledge of the fact I ne'er can doubt	B
If he have eyes or hands he'll find it out '	-
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So spake the King self flatter'd in his thought	B
Then with impatient step the Princess sought	B
His urgent suit no longer she withstands	S
But links with him in Hymen's knot her hands	S
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Almost as soon a widow as a bride	B
Within a year the King her husband died	B
And shortly after he was dead and gone	T
She was deliver'd of a little son	U
The prettiest babe with lips as red as rose	V
And eyes like little stars but such a nose	V
The tender Mother fondly took the boy	W
Into her arms and would have kiss'd her joy	W
His luckless nose forbade the fond embrace	X
He thrust the hideous feature in her face	X
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Then all her Maids of Honour tried in turn	Y
And for a Prince's kiss in envy burn	Y
By sad experience taught their hopes they miss'd	B
And mourn'd a Prince that never could be kiss'd	B
In silent tears the Queen confess'd her grief	Z
Till kindest Flattery came to her relief	Z
Her maids as each one takes him in her arms	N
Expatiate freely o'er his world of charms	N
His eyes lips mouth his forehead was divine	M
And for the nose they call'd it Aquiline	M
Declared that C sar who the world subdued	B
Had such a one just of that longitude	B
That Kings like him compell'd folks to adore them	A2
And drove the short nos'd sons of men before them	A2
That length of nose portended length of days	B2
And was a great advantage many ways	B2
To mourn the gifts of Providence was wrong	C2
Besides the Nose was not so very long	C2
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These arguments in part her grief redrest	B
A mother's partial fondness did the rest	B
And Time that all things reconciles by use	D2
Did in her notions such a change produce	D2
That as she views her babe with favour blind	B
She thinks him handsomest of human kind	B
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Meantime in spite of his disfigured face	X
Dorus for so he's call'd grew up a pace	X
In fair proportion all his features rose	V
Save that most prominent of all his Nose	V
That Nose which in the infant could annoy	M
Was grown a perfect nuisance in the boy	M
Whene'er he walk'd his Handle went before	E2
Long as the snout of Ferret or Wild Boar	E2
Or like the Staff with which on holy day	B
The solemn Parish Beadle clears the way	B
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But from their cradle to their latest year	H
How seldom Truth can reach a Prince's ear	F2
To keep the unwelcome knowledge out of view	G2
His lesson well each flattering Courtier knew	G2
The hoary Tutor and the wily Page	H2
Unmeet confederates dupe his tender age	H2
They taught him that whate'er vain mortals boast	B
Strength Courage Wisdom all they value most	B
Whate'er on human life distinction throws	V
Was all comprized in what a length of nose	V
Ev'n Virtue's self by some suppos'd chief merit	B
In short nosed folks was only want of spirit	B
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While doctrines such as these his guides instill'd	B
His Palace was with long nosed people fill'd	B
At Court whoever ventured to appear	H
With a short nose was treated with a sneer	H
Each courtier's wife that with a babe is blest	B
Moulds its young nose betimes and does her best	B
By pulls and hauls and twists and lugs and pinches	V
To stretch it to the standard of the Prince's	V
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Dup'd by these arts Dorus to manhood rose	V
Nor dream'd of ought more comely than his Nose	V
Till Love whose power ev'n Princes have confest	B
Claim'd the soft empire o'er his youthful breast	B
Fair Claribel was she who caus'd his care	C
A neighb'ring Monarch's daughter and sole heir	C
For beauteous Claribel his bosom burn'd	B
The beauteous Claribel his flame return'd	B
Deign'd with kind words his passion to approve	I2
Met his soft vows and yielded love for love	J2
If in her mind some female pangs arose	V
At sight and who can blame her of his Nose	V
Affection made her willing to be blind	B
She loved him for the beauties of his mind	B
And in his lustre and his royal race	V
Contented sunk one feature of his face	V
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Blooming to sight and lovely to behold	B
Herself was cast in Beauty's richest mould	B
Sweet female majesty her person deck'd	B
Her face an angel's save for one defect	B
Wise Nature who to Dorus over kind	B
A length of nose too liberal had assign'd	B
As if with us poor mortals to make sport	B
Had given to Claribel a nose too short	B
But turn'd up with a sort of modest grace	V
It took not much of beauty from her face	V
And subtle Courtiers who their Prince's mind	B
Still watch'd and turn'd about with every wind	B
Assur'd the Prince that though man's beauty owes	V
Its charms to a majestic length of nose	V
The excellence of Woman softer creature	J
Consisted in the shortness of that feature	J
Few arguments were wanted to convince	V
The already more than half persuaded Prince	V
Truths which we hate with slowness we receive	K2
But what we wish to credit soon believe	K2
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The Princess's affections being gain'd	B
What but her Sire's approval now remain'd	B
Ambassadors with solemn pomp are sent	B
To win the aged Monarch to consent	B
Seeing their States already were allied	B
That Dorus might have Claribel to bride	B
Her Royal Sire who wisely understood	B
The match propos'd was for both kingdoms' good	B
Gave his cons	V