Hugues! I advise _Me Pn_
  (Counterpoint glares like a Gorgon)
Bid One, Two, Three, Four, Five, clear the arena!
  Say the word, straight I unstop the full-organ,
Blare out the _mode Palestrina._<*8>

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While in the roof, if I'm right there,
  ... Lo you, the wick in the socket!
Hallo, you sacristan, show us a light there!
  Down it dips, gone like a rocket.
What, you want, do you, to come unawares,
Sweeping the church up for first morning-prayers,
And find a poor devil has ended his cares
At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs?
  Do I carry the moon in my pocket?

* 1  A fugue is a short melody.
* 2  Keyboard of organ.
* 3  A note in music.
* 4  The daughters of Danaus, condemned to pour water
*    into a sieve.
* 5  The Spanish casuist, so severely mauled by Pascal.
* 6  A quick return in fencing.
* 7  A closely woven fabric.
* 8  _Giovanni P. da Palestrina_, celebrated musician (1524-1594).

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