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In the theatre, as in storytelling, he was not unready to work to ���dzܳٲ�-������é��.

When I was tired of this specialized thinking, then the best relief, I found, was some quite trivial occupation—playing poker, yelling in the chorus of some interminable song one of the men would sing, or coining South African Limericks or playing burlesque ���dzܳٲ�-������é�� with Fred Maxim, who was then my second in command....

A collection of wretched ���dzܳٲ�-������é�� and burlesque doggrel, written at Florence in a house which Mme. d'Albany could not enter, and in the company of women whom Mme. d'Albany could not receive, and among which is a sonnet in which Alfieri explains his condescension in joining in these poetical exercises of the demi-monde by an allusion to Hercules and Omphale, shows that Alfieri frequented in Florence other society besides that which crowded round his lady in Casa Gianfigliazzi.

I find the origin of Bouts-�������, or "Rhyming Ends," in Goujet's Bib.

"They were blank sonnets," he replied; and explained the mystery by describing his Bouts-�������.