Edmond Rostand. Cyrano de Bergerac (№ 342881)

- Your nose... Uh, well... big...
Yes. It is larger than your eloquence,
And I would about this, mind you,
Of the outstanding subject
One-liners would win the whole volume,
Changing gestures and tone...
Here, for example, is not particularly sharp -
The tone of the narrative - so jokes are a beginner:
What do you call this Peninsula,
Which grew up between your cheeks?
Cheeky tone in which island friends:
You from a Cup you can't drink -
Beat your nose our dishes!
Let me offer you a bowl?
Or respectful-touching;
You this tower family
Has long owned? Naive: the far places
You this monument was transported to Metropolitan ladies?
Dear: Sir loves birds?
He made them a roomy perch!
Snide: what's that? Hook for hats? Comfortable!
No need to pay in the dressing room!
The tone is tender: my God! From rain and wind
You ordered zontick him?
The tone surprised: Sorry, it's -
You alone?
Friendly: In the heat of life's storms,
Having suffered a fiasco in any question,
It's hard to hang a nose,
But it is easy to hang on the nose!
Sarcastic, slightly to the side and askew:
But, sir, you are strongly lucky:
Not seeing beyond their own noses,
You can see a wide horizon!
Practical: to Advise you dare
For your nose to make a lottery;
I'll tell you with her soul,
Received thing this
Would win big,
Having a small joy.
So wisecrack could you at random,
When would knowledge had or the mind.
But y you no mind and so little knowledge
What you don't know yet, you fool.
And being smart, you would not have said, -
I myself am only on yourself you can laugh like that!