Deportmental ditties : and other verses . 61 No. XIII.—FORMS OF ADDRESS What symptoms of panic the bourgeois evinces On being presented to Bishops and Princes!His throat seems afflicted with curious dryness,As, murmuring vaguely Your Grace or Your Highness, His knees knock together, he shows the white feather, And talks in an agonised way of the oh! how he wishes in youth he had studiedThe question of how to address the blueblooded !.

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