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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lorenzo De Lardy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DALILAH DE DARDY adored<br>The very correctest of cards,<br>LORENZO DE LARDY, a lord -<br>He was one of Her Majesty's Guards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DALILAH DE DARDY was fat,<br>DALILAH DE DARDY was old -<br>(No doubt in the world about that)<br>But DALILAH DE DARDY had gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LORENZO DE LARDY was tall,<br>The flower of maidenly pets,<br>Young ladies would love at his call,<br>But LORENZO DE LARDY had debts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His money-position was queer,<br>And one of his favourite freaks<br>Was to hide himself three times a year,<br>In Paris, for several weeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many days didn't pass him before<br>He fanned himself into a flame,<br>For a beautiful &quot;DAM DU COMPTWORE,&quot;<br>And this was her singular name:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALICE EULALIE CORALINE<br>EUPHROSINE COLOMBINA THERESE<br>JULIETTE STEPHANIE CELESTINE<br>CHARLOTTE RUSSE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She booked all the orders and tin,<br>Accoutred in showy fal-lal,<br>At a two-fifty Restaurant, in<br>The glittering Palais Royal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd gaze in her orbit of blue,<br>Her hand he would tenderly squeeze,<br>But the words of her tongue that he knew<br>Were limited strictly to these:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;CORALINE CELESTINE EULALIE,<br>Houp le! Je vous aime, oui, mossoo,<br>Combien donnez moi aujourd'hui<br>Bonjour, Mademoiselle, parlez voo.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MADEMOISELLE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE<br>Was a witty and beautiful miss,<br>Extremely correct in her ways,<br>But her English consisted of this:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh my! pretty man, if you please,<br>Blom boodin, biftek, currie lamb,<br>Bouldogue, two franc half, quite ze cheese,<br>Rosbif, me spik Angleesh, godam.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A waiter, for seasons before,<br>Had basked in her beautiful gaze,<br>And burnt to dismember MILOR,<br>HE LOVED DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said to her, &quot;Mechante THERESE,<br>Avec desespoir tu m'accables.<br>Penses-tu, DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE,<br>Ses intentions sont honorables?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Flirtez toujours, ma belle, si tu oses -<br>Je me vengerai ainsi, ma chere,<br>JE LUI DIRAI DE QUOI L'ON COMPOSE<br>VOL AU VENT E LA FINANCIERE!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LORD LARDY knew nothing of this -<br>The waiter's devotion ignored,<br>But he gazed on the beautiful miss,<br>And never seemed weary or bored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waiter would screw up his nerve,<br>His fingers he'd snap and he'd dance -<br>And LORD LARDY would smile and observe,<br>&quot;How strange are the customs of France!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, after delaying a space,<br>His tradesmen no longer would wait:<br>Returning to England apace,<br>He yielded himself to his fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LORD LARDY espoused, with a groan,<br>MISS DARDY'S developing charms,<br>And agreed to tag on to his own,<br>Her name and her newly-found arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waiter he knelt at the toes<br>Of an ugly and thin coryphee,<br>Who danced in the hindermost rows<br>At the Theatre des Varietes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MADEMOISELLE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE<br>Didn't yield to a gnawing despair<br>But married a soldier, and plays<br>As a pretty and pert Vivandiere.</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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The very correctest of cards,
LORENZO DE LARDY, a lord -
He was one of Her Majesty's Guards.

DALILAH DE DARDY was fat,
DALILAH DE DARDY was old -
(No doubt in the world about that)
But DALILAH DE DARDY had gold.

LORENZO D..."></div>
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