As Vivien explains, this rhyme Is like the fair pearl-necklace of the Queen, That burst in dancing, and the pearls were spilt; […]

...I clap him into my anus again, embugger Emma, and sweetest ecstasy crowns our pleasure anew... - from the English translation of the Marquis de Sade's Juliette by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver

The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.

At that time, nothing was heard of but sinister events, and a country smoking around: