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Without mention of mine, be dumb, thou thin accompanier of her thinner warble!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Nevertheless Mademoiselle Lupot essays her ballad; but she can never manage to overtake her accompanier, who, instead of following the singer, seems determined to make no alteration in the movement of his head and feet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various