WHAT various ways in which a thing is told
Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold;
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last;
I can't resist, whatever may have passed,
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd,
In Italy young Arthur laurels gained,
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,
The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;
The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise,
That most forgot from which true bliss would rise
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,
That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;--
A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;
Sauna und Beischlaf
Am besten fickt man erst und badet dann.
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