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Original Text:
TÉLÉMAQUE RAVAGÉ PAR L'AMOUR.
En dépit de Mentor qui le grognait sans cesse
Il butinait chaque matin
Les plus brillantes fleurs pour sa tendre maîtresse,
Fleurs dont la piquante drolesse
Ornait sa gorge de satin.

(Cigarette par Mr. Alfred de Musset).

Translation:
TELEMACHUS RAVAGED BY LOVE.
In spite of Mentor who grumbled without zealing
he only bothered about his feeling
he gathered each morning flowers in a chest
to ornament his mistresses breast .

(Cigarette by Mr. Alfred de Musset)