“If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
Take all the remarkable people in history,
Rattle them off to a popular tune!”

—  W. S. Gilbert

Patience (1881)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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