from the Opera 'Rigoletto"
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
English version by Sigmund Spaeth
1913
Origin : https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/auislandora:39502#page/1/mode/1up
[...]; while just behind him two waiters had halted in order to thrash out one of those voluble arguments in which waiters love to indulge.
[...]
'Batti, batti! I presto ravioli hollandaise', cried one of the disputing waiters at his back–or to Bruce Carmyle's prejudiced hearing it sounded like that.
'La Donna è mobile spaghetti napoli Tettrazina', rejoined the second waiter with spirit.
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