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Rh Forty, no less, not counting ladies.

Count!

Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche,

The Viscount, Baro, the Academy…

Enough! I am o'erjoyed!

But these strange ways, Where will they lead you, at the end? Explain Your system—come!

I in a labyrinth Was lost—too many different paths to choose; I took…

Which?

Oh! by far the simplest path…

Decided to be admirable in all!

So be it! But the motive of your hate

To Montfleury—come, tell me!