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Bah, I disdain to give a thought to it!

I'll dash it from his hands in half a minute.

[He racks his memory.

Well, quote another;—and beware of oil-cans.

"Great Cadmus long ago, Agenor's son,

From Sidon racing, "

Found his oil-can gone!

Oh, this is awful! Buy the thing outright,

Before it messes every blessed prologue!

I buy him off?

I strongly recommend it.

No; I have many prologues yet to cite

Where he can't find a chink to pour his oil,

"As rapid wheels to Pisa bore him on,

Tantalian Pelops "

Found his oil-can gone!