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Verses and Sonnets

by Hilaire Belloc

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Epigrams

On Perkins — An Actor

Perkins’ Duchesses have marked a great
Improvement in his coster scene of late.
He gives the oath, the drunken lurch, the roar,
As even Perkins never did before.
And yet, the model is not far to seek—
Perkins was visiting at home last week.

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