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General. Yes, I am a Major-General !
All. You are! Hurrah for the Major-General !
General. And it is a glorious thing to be a Major-General I
All. It is! Hurrah for the Major-General !
Song — Major General.
I am the very pattern of a modern major-general : I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral; I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical ; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical ; I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical ; About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news — (Bothered for next rhyme.) Lot o' news — lot o' news — (Struck with an idea.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;
(Joyfully.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
All.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
General.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus ; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous ; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern major-gineral
All.
In short in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral He is the very model of a modern major-gineral !
General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics; I've a pretty taste for paradox — I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus; In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies;I know the croaking chorus from the "Frogs of Aristophanes;" Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore — (Bothered for next rhyme.) Din afor-e? din afore? din afore? — (Struck with am idea.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore, (Joyously.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense. Pinafore.