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50 Poet!…

Ay, poet, Sir! In proof of which, While we fence, presto! all extempore I will compose a ballade.

A ballade?

Belike you know not what a ballade is.

But…

Know then that the ballade should contain

Three eight-versed couplets…

Oh!

And an envoi

Of four lines…

You…

I'll make one while we fight,

And touch you at the final line.