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SUCTION: The trumpeter shat in his hat . . . TRA LA!
SIPSOP: . . . And clapt it on his head. TRA LA!!
GIMBLET: Ha, Ha, Ha.
QUID: [scornfully] I'll begin again. 

Little Phebus came strutting in 
With his fat belly & his round chin, 
What is it you would please to have? 
Ho! Ho! 
I won't let it go at only so & so.

[GIMBLET thinks they mean her; TILLY LALLY laughs]
   
         ARADOBO: [to QUID] Who was Phebus, sir?
   
OBTUSE ANGLE: He was the God of physic, painting, perspective, geometry, geography, astronomy, cookery, chemistry, mechanics, tactics, pathology, phraseology, theology, mythology, astrology, osteology, somatology -- in short, every art and science adorned him as beads around his neck.
ARADOBO: Did he understand engraving?
OBTUSE ANGLE: Indeed he did.
ARADOBO: Well, he was as great as Chatterton.
TILLY LALLY: [to OBTUSE ANGLE] Who was as great as Chatterton?
OBTUSE ANGLE: Hey! How should I know? Who was it, Aradobo?
ARADOBO: Why sir, the gentleman that the song was about.

 

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