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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539017" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Haughty Actor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN actor - GIBBS, of Drury Lane -<br>Of very decent station,<br>Once happened in a part to gain<br>Excessive approbation:<br>It sometimes turns a fellow's brain<br>And makes him singularly vain<br>When he believes that he receives<br>Tremendous approbation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His great success half drove him mad,<br>But no one seemed to mind him;<br>Well, in another piece he had<br>Another part assigned him.<br>This part was smaller, by a bit,<br>Than that in which he made a hit.<br>So, much ill-used, he straight refused<br>To play the part assigned him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">THAT NIGHT THAT ACTOR SLEPT, AND I'LL ATTEMPT<br>TO TELL YOU OF THE VIVID DREAM HE DREAMT.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>THE DREAM.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In fighting with a robber band<br>(A thing he loved sincerely)<br>A sword struck GIBBS upon the hand,<br>And wounded it severely.<br>At first he didn't heed it much,<br>He thought it was a simple touch,<br>But soon he found the weapon's bound<br>Had wounded him severely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Surgeon COBB he made a trip,<br>Who'd just effected featly<br>An amputation at the hip<br>Particularly neatly.<br>A rising man was Surgeon COBB<br>But this extremely ticklish job<br>He had achieved (as he believed)<br>Particularly neatly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The actor rang the surgeon's bell.<br>&quot;Observe my wounded finger,<br>Be good enough to strap it well,<br>And prithee do not linger.<br>That I, dear sir, may fill again<br>The Theatre Royal Drury Lane:<br>This very night I have to fight -<br>So prithee do not linger.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I don't strap fingers up for doles,&quot;<br>Replied the haughty surgeon;<br>&quot;To use your cant, I don't play ROLES<br>Utility that verge on.<br>First amputation - nothing less -<br>That is my line of business:<br>We surgeon nobs despise all jobs<br>Utility that verge on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;When in your hip there lurks disease&quot;<br>(So dreamt this lively dreamer),<br>&quot;Or devastating CARIES<br>In HUMERUS or FEMUR,<br>If you can pay a handsome fee,<br>Oh, then you may remember me -<br>With joy elate I'll amputate<br>Your HUMERUS or FEMUR.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The disconcerted actor ceased<br>The haughty leech to pester,<br>But when the wound in size increased,<br>And then began to fester,<br>He sought a learned Counsel's lair,<br>And told that Counsel, then and there,<br>How COBB'S neglect of his defect<br>Had made his finger fester.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, bring my action, if you please,<br>The case I pray you urge on,<br>And win me thumping damages<br>From COBB, that haughty surgeon.<br>He culpably neglected me<br>Although I proffered him his fee,<br>So pray come down, in wig and gown,<br>On COBB, that haughty surgeon!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That Counsel learned in the laws,<br>With passion almost trembled.<br>He just had gained a mighty cause<br>Before the Peers assembled!<br>Said he, &quot;How dare you have the face<br>To come with Common Jury case<br>To one who wings rhetoric flings<br>Before the Peers assembled?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dispirited became our friend -<br>Depressed his moral pecker -<br>&quot;But stay! a thought! - I'll gain my end,<br>And save my poor exchequer.<br>I won't be placed upon the shelf,<br>I'll take it into Court myself,<br>And legal lore display before<br>The Court of the Exchequer.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He found a Baron - one of those<br>Who with our laws supply us -<br>In wig and silken gown and hose,<br>As if at NISI PRIUS.<br>But he'd just given, off the reel,<br>A famous judgment on Appeal:<br>It scarce became his heightened fame<br>To sit at NISI PRIUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our friend began, with easy wit,<br>That half concealed his terror:<br>&quot;Pooh!&quot; said the Judge, &quot;I only sit<br>In BANCO or in Error.<br>Can you suppose, my man, that I'd<br>O'er NISI PRIUS Courts preside,<br>Or condescend my time to spend<br>On anything but Error?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Too bad,&quot; said GIBBS, &quot;my case to shirk!<br>You must be bad innately,<br>To save your skill for mighty work<br>Because it's valued greatly!&quot;<br>But here he woke, with sudden start.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wrote to say he'd play the part.<br>I've but to tell he played it well -<br>The author's words - his native wit<br>Combined, achieved a perfect &quot;hit&quot; -<br>The papers praised him greatly.</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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Of very decent station,
Once happened in a part to gain
Excessive approbation:
It sometimes turns a fellow's brain
And makes him singularly vain
When he believes that he receives
Tremendous approbation.

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