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Chapter 42 - 42: Byronia

Lame-legged Devil waddling through the ballroom doors. 

How your May Gray scars summon that polymorphous side of you

In the way you linger on the young ladies and lords,

and that fancy you feel when gazing at your half-blood sister.

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A clubfoot brand sears in every limp in your step

marking the place where paternal pacts had sealed your fate

Bound in hereditary Devilish sin, dear Lord

What an ugly wretch you are indeed!

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We knew it well when we saw your father,

What a scandal of a rakish man he was 

Handsome so to bed our finest women

But foolish as to gamble away mother's fortune!

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What's the matter, don't like our loose tongues

What will you do then, cut them off your demon!

Just wait until the newspapers hear of this,

and every crier in the town is yelling your name.

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All of us know when we see that congenital taint

revealed through your shambling gait

A permanent proof of your foul birth

Predisposed of hedonist stain 

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Just like Mad Jack back in the day

When he married Oseborne, and tainted her purity

But as they say, "sins of the father,"

What can we expect when seeing that lame wobble?

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An ever-present sign of Asmodeus' contract

Evidence yet of your familial disease.

We know you, Byron, and we know your Byronia

Fell baron of foul deeds!

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