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' The fox replied, 'Your Majesty will please Excuse'--and here he took good care to sneeze;-- 'Afflicted with a dreadful cold, Your majesty need not be told: My sense of smell is mostly gone. ' From danger thus withdrawn, He teaches us the while, That one, to gain the smile Of kings, must hold the middle place 'Twixt blunt rebuke and fulsome praise; And sometimes use with easy grace, The language of the Norman race. [11] [10] Phaedrus. IV. 13. [11] The Normans are proverbial among the French fo...r the oracular noncommittal of their responses. --_Un Normand_, says the proverb, _a son dit et son d
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