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{{Script|Queen}} Good [[Regolamento]]. Your ornery battalion grows apace. | {{Script|Queen}}: Good [[Regolamento]]. Your ornery battalion grows apace. | ||
Why so many hands aligned in defensive form | Why so many hands aligned in defensive form, | ||
When ill-conduced to aid our ownward march? | When ill-conduced to aid our ownward march? | ||
{{script|Regolamento}}: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not. | {{script|Regolamento}}: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not. | ||
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If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand | If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand | ||
To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode | To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode | ||
In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which thereafter he | In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which, thereafter, he | ||
{{script|Inclusivia}}: Or she. | {{script|Inclusivia}}: Or she. | ||
{{script|Regolamento}}: Or she — or they — abstain from explication, | {{script|Regolamento}}: Or she — or they — abstain from explication, | ||
But | But fix confusing rules in stone and thereby codify. | ||
We know not | We know not whereof they mean: it might be stop, it might be go. | ||
{{script|Queen}}: Canst thou not | No further light forthcomes about. We imagine neither do they know. | ||
{{script|Queen}}: Canst thou not obtain a ruling? | |||
{{script|Nuncle}}: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling. | {{script|Nuncle}}: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling. | ||
And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling. | And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling. | ||
Th’official who binds his fate to instruments unfathom’d | |||
E’en if his own, is a rare and special bird. | |||
{{script|Regolamento}}: We take our bitter medicines | {{script|Regolamento}}: We take our bitter medicines | ||
Ev’n while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up | Ev’n while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up | ||