Looking for a better version of this. But the lyrics relate to ideas of artifice, the avant-garde, faking the fake, with a love of all things Japanese. Of course, Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Mikado' was pure Japonism/Japonisme, even although they seem to be sneering at the fad here. The character singing is called Bunthorne and is a bit of a sham homosexualist...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(opera)
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