Bigamy

There once was an old man of Lyme.
Who married three wives at a time:
    When asked, "Why a third?"
    He replied, "One's absurd!
And bigamy, sir, is a crime."

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Courtship

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXI. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXCIX. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXVII. Love And Matrimony.

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Plea For Trigamy, A

I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal,
    And find that my tastes are so far from concise
That, to marry completely, no fewer than three'll
                    Suffice

I've subjected my views to severe atmospheric
    Compression, but still, in defiance of force,
They distinctly fall under three heads, like a cleric
                    Discourse.

My first must be fashion's own fancy-bred daughter,
    Proud, peerless, and perfect in fact, comme il faut;
A waltzer and wit of the very first water
                    For show.

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    Once face them alone in the family cot,
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There was an old person of Minety,
Who purchased five hundred and ninety
Large apples and pears,
Which he threw unawares
At the heads of the people of Minety.

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Thomson Green And Harriet Hale

(To be sung to the Air of "An 'Orrible Tale.")

Oh list to this incredible tale
Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE;
Its truth in one remark you'll sum
"Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!"

Oh, THOMSON GREEN was an auctioneer,
And made three hundred pounds a year;
And HARRIET HALE, most strange to say,
Gave pianoforte lessons at a sovereign a day.

Oh, THOMSON GREEN, I may remark,
Met HARRIET HALE in Regent's Park,
Where he, in a casual kind of way,
Spoke of the extraordinary beauty of the day.

They met again, and strange, though true,
He courted her for a month or two,
Then to her pa he said, says he,
"Old man, I love your daughter and your daughter worships me!"

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