Vulgar words in How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. - Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art (Page 1)
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Such a picture satisfied the tastes of the public of his time, and that public found nothing incongruous in a return to the scene immediately afterward of all the characters save the reprobate, who had gone to his reward, to hear a description of the catastrophe from the buffoon under the table, and platitudinously to moralize that the perfidious wretch, having been stored away safely in the realm of Pluto and Proserpine, nothing remained for them to do except to raise their voices in the words of the "old song," _"Questo è il fin di chi fa mal: E dei perfidi la morte Alla vita è sempre ugual.