Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

Chapter Four
XXVIII

You have, of course, seen more than once the alof a provincial miss, by all her girl friends [bum scrawled over from the end, 4 from the beginning, and around. Here, in defiance of orthography, lines without meter, [passed on] by tradition, in token of faithful friendship are entered, 8 diminished, lengthened. On the first leaf you are confronted with: Qu?ecrirez-vous sur ces tablettes? signed: toute a vous Annette-^ 12 and on the last one you will read: "Whoever more than I loves you, let him write farther than I do."