Better submit; try again; what's the clef?

'Faith, 'tis no trifle for pipe and for tabor—

Four flats, the minor in F.

Friend, your fugue taxes the finger:

Learning it once, who would lose it?

Yet all the while a misgiving will linger,

Truth's golden o'er us although we refuse it—

Nature, through cobwebs we string her.

Hugues! I advise meâ pœnâ

(Counterpoint glares like a Gorgon)