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{{script|Complicatio}}: In sooth, I know not why it is so hard:<br> | {{script|Complicatio}}: In sooth, I know not why it is so hard:<br> | ||
These cursed rules confront our peaceable comportment.<br> | These cursed rules confront our peaceable comportment.<br> | ||
But wherefore | But wherefore didst our meddling legislators promulgate such wordsome bluster? <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: We can only wonder.<br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: We can only wonder.<br> | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: What manner of man comprehends this spidery realm? <br> | {{script|Complicatio}}: What manner of man comprehends this spidery realm? <br> | ||
“Shall be [[obligated]] to [[effect]] this”, “[[in the event of]] that ”<br> | “Shall be [[obligated]] to [[effect]] this”, “[[in the event of]] that ”<br> | ||
“and, as the case may without limitation be, or the other” — <br> | “and, [[as the case may be|as the case may]] [[without limitation]] be, or, the other” — <br> | ||
What lacks from “must” and “if” and “or” | Yegads! What lacks from “must” and “if” and “or” and simple fare alike? <br> | ||
{{script|Regolamento}}: Let salving such bewilderment be | {{script|Regolamento}}: Let salving such bewilderment be mine Earthly quest. <br> | ||
Pray, friend: toss your troubled load upon my empty lot <br> | Pray, friend: toss your troubled load upon my empty lot <br> | ||
Whereupon shall I guide that weight — <br> | Whereupon shall I guide that weight — <br> | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: — and clip thy shabby ticket as you go —<br> | {{Script|Nuncle}}: — and clip thy shabby ticket as you go —<br> | ||
{{script|Regolamento}}: — o’er | {{script|Regolamento}}: — o’er your sea of angry incongruity. <br> | ||
Aye, these are beastly rules, beset with bastard expectations <br> | Aye, these are beastly rules, beset with bastard expectations <br> | ||
Which o’erpeer the machinations of thy scattered petty staff.<br> | Which o’erpeer the machinations of thy scattered petty staff.<br> | ||
Let handling this be Complicatio’s meat and drink.<br> | Let handling this be Complicatio’s meat and drink.<br> | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: And drink | {{Script|Nuncle}}: And deeply drink thy countless charges will, <br> | ||
In obedient curtsy to this web of wonkish recipe.<br> | In obedient curtsy to this web of wonkish recipe.<br> | ||
{{script|Inclusivia}}: Slavish compliance would all be good and well. <br> | {{script|Inclusivia}}: Slavish compliance would all be good and well. <br> | ||
Had not the predating force of contrary commerce moored its fleet<br> | |||
In easy pelting distance | In easy pelting distance of our present comfy realm. <br> | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: How now? Who goes there? Which boats? <Br> | {{script|Complicatio}}: How now? Who goes there? Which boats? <Br> | ||
Mean you not the | Mean you not the mewling [[flannel]] peddlers of Luxembourg and France? <br> | ||
Fie upon thy windy malconfidence! We shall have their lunch-adoring breeches.<br> | Fie upon thy windy malconfidence! We shall have them for their lunch-adoring breeches.<br> | ||
{{script|Inclusivia}}: The lowmen, aye, | {{script|Inclusivia}}: The lowmen, aye, but fiercer yet the foes who eye our patch <br> | ||
New worldsmen | From ’cross the ditch. New-worldsmen make landfall beyond the city gates. <br> | ||
As do those doughty wizards of the tigerish Eastern lands <br> | |||
O’er whom short years ago this storied house had dominion <br> | |||
Form up their aquatic configurations. | Form up their aquatic configurations. That is my hunch. | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: They learned our tricks and ate our lunch. <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: They learned our tricks and ate our lunch. <br> | ||
''Enter ''{{Script|Provocatoria}}<br> | |||
{{Script|Provocatoria}}: How now, [[Complicatio]]. How fares thy P and L?<br> | |||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Flat, my lady. | |||