Word: envoi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Argue what is this about? L'ENVOI...
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...boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste as was her "Mr. A." By better luck than judgment she keeps her perch until the entries end with: "Stupendous Discovery! Mr. A. is in Venice." There, an envoi assures us, she eloped at last, later mollifying her parent and bearing Mr. A. a round dozen of lusty offspring...
There is, to be sure, one "Ballade of the South Seas" which in its initial stanzas gives every promise of being a chaming and polished poem, and whose envoi turns out to be the epitome of quintessential vulgarity. It is as though the author had originally written the poem for his own pleasure and had later altered it to suit the demands of a comie supplement. Why the Lampoon editors should insists that verses be "humorous" rather than possible and well-turned is more than we can understand...