counterparting

Reason #2 was he was playing as musical counterpart to the artist Nemo's painting, and I went as advance research for when we do the same musical counterparting this Thursday: I wanted to see where Nemo set up relative to the stage, and how much he would be directly involved with the music.

Bickett's birthday, cloisonne magicians, and watching Nemo badger 2003

From this, what you will perhaps call whimsical way of counterparting, this honest stealing, and original mode of plagiarism, much yet, I think, remains to be sucked.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805