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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390946" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Marcus Varro</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Marcus Varro went up and down<br>The places where old books were sold;<br>He ransacked all the shops in town<br>For pictures new and pictures old.<br>He gave the folk of earth no peace;<br>Snooping around by day and night,<br>He plied the trade in Rome and Greece<br>Of an insatiate Grangerite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Pictures!' was evermore his cry --<br>'Pictures of old or recent date,'<br>And pictures only would he buy <br>Wherewith to 'extra-illustrate.'<br>Full many a tome of ancient type<br>And many a manuscript he took,<br>For nary purpose but to swipe<br>Their pictures for some other book.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While Marcus Varro plied his fad<br>There was not in the shops of Greece<br>A book or pamphlet to be had<br>That was not minus frontispiece.<br>Nor did he hesitate to ply<br>His baleful practices at home;<br>It was not possible to buy<br>A perfect book in all of Rome! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What must the other folk have done --<br>Who, glancing o'er the books they bought,<br>Came soon and suddenly upon<br>The vandalism Varro wrought! <br>How must their cheeks have flamed with red --<br>How did their hearts with choler beat!<br>We can imagine what they said -- <br>We can imagine, not repeat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are the books that Varro made --<br>The pride of dilettante Rome --<br>With divers portraitures inlaid<br>Swiped from so many another tome?<br>The worms devoured them long ago --<br>O wretched worms! ye should have fed<br>Not on the books 'extended' so,<br>But on old Varro's flesh instead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, that Marcus Varro lives<br>And is a potent factor yet!<br>Alas, that still his practice gives<br>Good men occasion for regret!<br>To yonder bookstall, pri'thee, go,<br>And by the 'missing' prints and plates<br>And frontispieces you shall know<br>He lives, and 'extra-illustrates'!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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The places where old books were sold;
He ransacked all the shops in town
For pictures new and pictures old.
He gave the folk of earth no peace;
Snooping around by day and night,
He plied the trade in Rome and Greece
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