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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Damon vs. Pythias</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two better friends you wouldn't pass<br>Throughout a summer's day,<br>Than DAMON and his PYTHIAS, -<br>Two merchant princes they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At school together they contrived<br>All sorts of boyish larks;<br>And, later on, together thrived<br>As merry merchants' clerks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, when many years had flown,<br>They rose together till<br>They bought a business of their own -<br>And they conduct it still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They loved each other all their lives,<br>Dissent they never knew,<br>And, stranger still, their very wives<br>Were rather friendly too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps you think, to serve my ends,<br>These statements I refute,<br>When I admit that these dear friends<br>Were parties to a suit?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But 'twas a friendly action, for<br>Good PYTHIAS, as you see,<br>Fought merely as executor,<br>And DAMON as trustee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They laughed to think, as through the throng<br>Of suitors sad they passed,<br>That they, who'd lived and loved so long,<br>Should go to law at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The junior briefs they kindly let<br>Two sucking counsel hold;<br>These learned persons never yet<br>Had fingered suitors' gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But though the happy suitors two<br>Were friendly as could be,<br>Not so the junior counsel who<br>Were earning maiden fee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They too, till then, were friends. At school<br>They'd done each other's sums,<br>And under Oxford's gentle rule<br>Had been the closest chums.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now they met with scowl and grin<br>In every public place,<br>And often snapped their fingers in<br>Each other's learned face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It almost ended in a fight<br>When they on path or stair<br>Met face to face. They made it quite<br>A personal affair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when at length the case was called<br>(It came on rather late),<br>Spectators really were appalled<br>To see their deadly hate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One junior rose - with eyeballs tense,<br>And swollen frontal veins:<br>To all his powers of eloquence<br>He gave the fullest reins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His argument was novel - for<br>A verdict he relied<br>On blackening the junior<br>Upon the other side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh,&quot; said the Judge, in robe and fur,<br>&quot;The matter in dispute<br>To arbitration pray refer -<br>This is a friendly suit.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And PYTHIAS, in merry mood,<br>Digged DAMON in the side;<br>And DAMON, tickled with the feud,<br>With other digs replied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh! those deadly counsel twain,<br>Who were such friends before,<br>Were never reconciled again -<br>They quarrelled more and more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length it happened that they met<br>On Alpine heights one day,<br>And thus they paid each one his debt,<br>Their fury had its way -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They seized each other in a trice,<br>With scorn and hatred filled,<br>And, falling from a precipice,<br>They, both of them, were killed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Throughout a summer's day,
Than DAMON and his PYTHIAS, -
Two merchant princes they.

At school together they contrived
All sorts of boyish larks;
And, later on, together thrived
As merry merchants' clerks.

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