I’m told that it has, by my betters!

A Triolet’s scarcely the thing—

Unless you would carol in fetters!

THE RONDEAU.

(In a Rage.)

Pray tell me why we can’t agree

To bid the merry Muse run free?

Pray tell me why we should incline

To see her in a Rondeau pine,

Or sigh in shackled minstrelsy?