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# Defer! Defer!
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# To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord
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# To the Lord High Executioner
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# Taken from the county jail
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# By a set of curious chances
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# Liberated then on bail
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# On my own recognisances
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# Wafted by a favouring gale
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# As one sometimes is in trances
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# To a height that few can scale
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# Save by long and weary dances
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# Surely never had a male
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# Under suchlike circumstances
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# So adventurous a tale
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# Which may rank with most romances
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# Taken from the county jail
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# By a set of curious chances
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# Surely never had a male
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# So adventurous a tale
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"The Mikado, or the town of Titipu."
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"Act One."
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"Scene: Courtyard of
Ko-Ko's palace in Titipu."
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"Japanese nobles discovered
standing and sitting...
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...in attitudes suggested
by native drawings."
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"Chorus: 'If you want to know who we are
We're gentlemen of Japan.'"
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"'On many a vase and jar,
on many a screen and fan
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we figure in lively paint,
our attitudes queer and quaint.'"
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"'You're wrong if you think it ain't.'"
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"'If you think we are worked by strings
like a Japanese marionette,
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you don't understand these things -
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it's simply Court etiquette.'"
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"'Perhaps you suppose this throng
can't keep it up all day long.'"
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"'If that's your idea, you're wrong.'"
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"Enter Nanki-Poo, in great excitement."
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"He carries a native guitar on his back
and a bundle of ballads in his hand."