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" Vous fiers Aiiglois, 

 Barbares que vous etes, 

 Coupez la tete aux rois 

 Et la queue a vos betes ; 

 Mais les Francois, 

 Polls et droits, 

 Aimant les lois, 

 Laissent la queue aux betes 

 Et la tete aleurs rois." 

 This may be roughly translated thus : — 

 You English are not only haughty, 

 But also barbarous and naughty, 

 For head of king and tail of horse. 

 You amputate without remorse. 

 The French are, au contraire, polite, 

 Abide the law, and love the right. 

 Keep horses' tails as they have grown- 

 And leave their Monarchs' heads alone. 

 Afterwards the French followed our 

 example by committing both of the 

 sins condemned by Voltaire, but if we 

 desire to be in the van of civilization we 

 should try to reclaim those whom we have 

 led astray, and our first step must be to 

 abandon our evil ways with shame and 

 contrition. 



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