Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 138
y word Was plainly overheardBy two more Elizabethans standing round. They were rustic country yokels, were these two; They had neither wealth nor title, but they knewWhere to find a feathered creatureWith Lord Big-wigs form and feature, And for it to a market-stall they flew. THE FOOLISH… … Now that is what Elizabethan folksConsidered just the wittiest sort of jokes!There s an unauthentic rumorThat they had a sense of humor,But I beheve the statement is a hoax. THE PENCIL BEWITCHED.
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