Ere long you called me your "little brother,"
Or else—your knowledge of Court to show—
(What one Russian "High Excellence" styles another)
"Vuisókoprevoskhodítelstvo."
You wanted to learn how to greet an acquaintance
In English; I said, to be comme il faut,
That "God save the Queen" was the proper sentence—
I own that my hoax was a trifle low.
A large percentage, my gay izvostchik,
I failed of your jokes to understand;