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You promised to paint me a picture, / Dear Mat, / And I was to pay you in rhyme.
Although I am loth to inflict your / Most easy of consciences, I'm / Of opinion that fibbing is awful, / And breaking a contract unlawful, / Indictable, too, as a crime, / A slight and all that.