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The Swashbuckler

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Squat-nosed and broad, of big and pompous port;     A tavern visage, apoplexy haunts,     All pimple-puffed: the Falstaff-like resort     Of fat debauchery, whose veined cheek flaunts     A flabby purple: rusty-spurred he stands     In rakehell boots and belt, and hanger that     Claps when, with greasy gauntlets on his hands,     He swaggers past in cloak and slouch-plumed hat.     Aggression marches armies in his words;     And in his oaths great deeds ride cap--pie;     His looks, his gestures breathe the breath of swords;     And in his carriage camp all wars to be:     With him, of battles there shall be no lack     While buxom wenches are and stoops of sack.

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