"A monarch weak and also cunning, A fop gone bald, toil’s arrant foe. Whom fame had, by strange chance, been sunning. Was then our ruler, as you know. He looked more crestfallen than regal When all the foreign cooks were bent On plucking the two-headed eagle Not far from Bonaparte’s tent."
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