Minnie

Friends, Saudis, countrymen, lend me your ankles;

I come to frustrate Minnie, not to replace her.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their feet;

So let it be with Minnie. The sinister Barb

Hath told you Minnie was freakish:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Minnie answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Barb and the rest–

For Barb is an amiable woman;

So are they all, all amiable women–

Come I to speak in Minnie’s funeral.

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