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Each a different dismal one, his language apt to smother. | Each a different dismal one, his language apt to smother. | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: We understand them not. Nor do they one other. | {{Script|Nuncle}}: We understand them not. Nor do they one other. | ||
{{Script|Queen}} ''His''? | |||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Yea, this is our strife: this bewild’ring ’scape | {{script|Complicatio}}: Yea, this is our strife: this bewild’ring ’scape | ||
Of contraptions yoked and tethered as a measur’d beast — | Of contraptions yoked and tethered as a measur’d beast — | ||
Upon whose | Upon whose discombobulating backs our common fate depends. | ||
And, O! Dilemma! The very men who work these chainèd cranks — | And, O! Dilemma! The very men who work these chainèd cranks — | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: Men? Just men? | {{Script|Queen}}: Men? Just men? | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: | {{script|Complicatio}}: Oh! and women — and those unsure, or curious, or as yet unaligned— | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: The heavens doth anoint! | {{Script|Queen}}: The heavens doth anoint! | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Milady? | {{script|Complicatio}}: Milady? |